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Features full colour photographs by a Iona Community member and
photographer David Coleman, and Anja Grosse-Uhlmann, who lives on
the isle of Iona, with accompanying reflections, prayers, poems and
stories by Community writers.
Rucksack Magazine presents Deserted: In Pursuit of Drylands.
Featuring stunning photography and essays about the world's most
amazing deserts, including the Moab, the Atacama, Mojave, and the
Namib deserts. In these pages we are introduced to landscapes so
vast that time and space are rendered meaningless. The desert lies
bare - sparse and silent in the heavy stillness of the day - a
wilderness that retains a veil of mystery despite contemplation and
obsession. This book explores the gentle fragility of these ancient
landscapes, places that somehow manage to be both remote and yet
strangely intimate.
In April 1834, the Green-Bay Intelligencer newspaper reported that
a sawmill was being erected in a new settlement on the Milwaukee
River. Less than one year later, the paper reported that "Milwaukey
[sic], which 10 months ago, had only a single trading house, has
now some 20 or 30 houses, and two or three saw mills." Yankee
settlers and land speculators had moved in and were here to stay.
The steady growth of Milwaukee was never wholly due to the influx
of ambitious Easterners though. In ever-expanding numbers,
Europeans also made their way here, not merely as settlers, but
frequently as hard-working business owners, skilled laborers, and
artists. They were determined to make Milwaukee their home, and in
this new homeland they surrounded themselves (and influenced the
entire community) with their old traditions and languages. Thirty
years after its first newspaper write-up, Milwaukee was a
well-established city brimming with potential.
Southern Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts is a magical
place. Some call it "paradise," while others quietly claim it to be
the center of the universe. The special synergy that exists here
between people and place has inspired remarkable residents for
centuries. Towns nestled among the majestic hills and scenic
valleys are beautiful, fascinating, and filled with history. Much
has changed here over the past 150 years--the period covered
photographically in this book. The classic beauty of the Southern
Berkshires has drawn photographers since the camera was first
invented. Vibrant villages have evolved over the decades, even as
the surrounding scenery remains breathtaking. Once thriving textile
mills have been replaced by innovative tech enterprises. The
important paper industry has struggled but survived here. Year
round recreational and educational opportunities have blossomed.
Once bustling boomtowns have grown quieter, but now nurture
entrepreneurial inventiveness and a magnificent menagerie of
historic homes, prosperous farms, and top-notch cultural venues.
The images and interesting narrative inside this book offer a rare
glimpse of the Southern Berkshires through time. By looking at the
whole picture, the connections between our past and present will
become apparent.
Photoscapes and the Egg is an intimate book to be savoured and kept
nearby, perhaps on a coffee table because of its sheer beauty.
Inside its robin egg blue cloth cover are improvised photos of
objects, nature, and art, each matched with a photo of an egg
inside a cosmic circle - eggs with personalities from the calm
ethereal to the hot aggressive. In full, there are more than 100
stunning colour photos, all taken with an iPhone. The match of
phenomena and eggs alludes to the dance of the material world with
the invisible "birthing source" represented by the egg.
Accompanying text and poems bring stories to the dance. The
juxtapositions evoke surprise, insight, emotions, hope, and
refreshment. They make wry jokes and touch on realities beyond the
obvious. This book contains unabashed gentleness and spiritual
toughness without pretence. Photoscapes and the Egg sprang from the
mind of Patricia Z. Smith, a 79-year-old photographer and writer
with extensive life experience and a pull since childhood to meld
the physical with the esoteric. The design by Louis Brody is modern
and serene. The book is a gift to the reader and her or his
friends. It is a resource for these times and our future.
Lost Detroit is the latest in the series from Anova Books that
traces the cherished places in a city that time, progress and
fashion have swept aside before concerned citizens or the National
Register of Historic Places could save them from the wrecker's
ball. Organised chronologically, starting with the earliest losses
and ending with the latest, the book features much-loved Detroit
insitutions that failed to stand the test of time. Long before
there was a motor industry, the city lost the Central Market
(1889), the Belle Isle swimming pool and the Capitol Building
(1893). Grand buildings erected in the Victorian era that were too
costly to be refurbished, or movie theaters that the age of
television made redundant are featured. Alongside the city's iconic
and much-missed buildings, Lost Detroit also looks at the
industries that have declined or left town. Sites include: Detroit
Boat Club, Belle Isle Casino, Pontchartrain Hotel, Hotel Cadillac,
Electric Park, Detroit House of Corrections, Federal Building,
Temple Theatre, the Tashmoo, Hammond Building, Packard Car Company,
Detroit Museum of Art, Waterworks Park, City Hall, Hudson Motor Co,
Ford Rotunda, the Opera House, Kerns department store, Union
Station, Grace Hospital, Dodge factory, Convention Hall, Olympia
Stadium, Michigan Central Railroad, the Tuller Hotel and many more.
This tiny yet majestic volume introduces us to some 250 queens who
ruled in their own right - who were crowned as the sovereigns of
their countries or, in some cases, decided to crown themselves. It
begins with queens of the ancient world and ends with those ruling
today, encompassing along the way both household names, like
Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great, and those who deserve to be
better known, like Margaret I of Denmark and Ranavalona I of
Madagascar. Each queen is represented by her portrait - painted,
carved, engraved, or photographed - and an interesting fact about
her reign. This Tiny Folio will be the perfect gift for the
powerful women in your life.
50 Ways to Cycle the World is the kind of book you'd give to a
friend or family member who's considering cycling somewhere in the
world but feels that there are too many obstacles to overcome. 50
Ways encapsulates 50 unique cycling projects accomplished by 75
cyclists from 23 countries. It serves as the ultimate visual guide
and encyclopedia to travelling by bicycle no matter what your
personal situation is. You'll find impressive, powerful, emotional
and incredibly fun stories on almost every page, accompanied by the
beautiful and inspiring photography shot all over our planet by the
many cyclists who've shared their cycling stories. Want to know
what it's like to cycle alone, with a dog or a cat, with kids, or
with strangers you meet on the road? Or how to travel by tandem,
folding bicycle, e-bike or on a bamboo frame? Or maybe you're
simply in need of that last little push over the doorstep, inspired
by those who've seen the world by bike. Featuring over 400
revealing questions and answers, we're sure 50 Ways to Cycle the
World will tell you exactly what you need to know in order to
overcome whatever is holding you back from starting out on your big
adventure.
Zen Buddhist priest Shunmyo Masuno understands that today's busy
world leaves little time or space for self-reflection, but that a
garden--even in the most urban of spaces--can provide some respite.
In his words, "The garden is a special spiritual place where the
mind dwells." With this in mind, Masuno has designed scores of
spectacular Japanese gardens and landscapes with the aim of helping
people achieve a balanced life in the 21st century. This book
explores Masuno's design process and ideas, which are integral to
his daily Zen training and teachings. It features 15 unique gardens
and contemplative landscapes completed in six countries over as
many years--all thoughtfully described and documented in full-color
photos and drawings. Readers will also find insights on Masuno's
philosophy of garden design and a conversation between the designer
and famed architect Terunobu Fujimori. Zen Garden Design provides
an in-depth examination of Masuno's gardens and landscapes--not
just as beautiful spaces, but as places for meditation and
contemplation.
A photographic exploration of mathematicians' chalkboards "A
mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns,"
wrote the British mathematician G. H. Hardy. In Do Not Erase,
photographer Jessica Wynne presents remarkable examples of this
idea through images of mathematicians' chalkboards. While other
fields have replaced chalkboards with whiteboards and digital
presentations, mathematicians remain loyal to chalk for puzzling
out their ideas and communicating their research. Wynne offers more
than one hundred stunning photographs of these chalkboards,
gathered from a diverse group of mathematicians around the world.
The photographs are accompanied by essays from each mathematician,
reflecting on their work and processes. Together, pictures and
words provide an illuminating meditation on the unique
relationships among mathematics, art, and creativity. The
mathematicians featured in this collection comprise exciting new
voices alongside established figures, including Sun-Yung Alice
Chang, Alain Connes, Misha Gromov, Andre Neves, Kasso Okoudjou,
Peter Shor, Christina Sormani, Terence Tao, Claire Voisin, and many
others. The companion essays give insights into how the chalkboard
serves as a special medium for mathematical expression. The volume
also includes an introduction by the author, an afterword by New
Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson, and biographical information for each
contributor. Do Not Erase is a testament to the myriad ways that
mathematicians use their chalkboards to reveal the conceptual and
visual beauty of their discipline-shapes, figures, formulas, and
conjectures created through imagination, argument, and speculation.
Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest
standards. Each volume contains full-page reproductions printed in
superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full
bibliography. Now back in print, the series was awarded the first
annual prize for distinguished photographic books by the
International Center of Photography. Elliott Erwitt (b. 1928), an
American by adoption, has a humorous outlook that is reflected in
his always elegant work. His photographs take advantage of the
sudden coincidence, the fortuitous conjunction of objects and
events, to reveal the ridiculous or comical sides of everyday life.
Dogs are a favorite subject for Erwitt, often serving as a witty
metaphor for human foibles.
If the termite were a human, its structures would be twice as high
as Mount Etna in Sicily... Our world is full of wonders and they
are all waiting to be discovered! Nature's many different habitats
are home to countless animal and plant species records -
superlatives which at times we only become aware of when we compare
them with human achievements. In the air, we follow the flight of
the largest, fastest and most resilient birds, while in the seas,
we encounter huge whales and fish - and it can all be recorded in
numbers and statistics, yet the true achievements of the sea giants
and why they don't sink are easier to understand if we take a close
look at the technical data for ships and submarines...
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Entertain Me! features the most popular influencers and celebrities
from Schoen! magazine, a biannual English language publication and
online platform with a cutting-edge aesthetic. This book presents a
visual explosion of talent in film, music, TV, fashion and art from
its debut as an online forum in 2009 to 2020. Stunning photographs
from the worlds of culture, fashion, and beauty showcase the
biggest names and rising stars who entertain and lead the world in
high-octane creativity. It will appeal to the visionary, the
collector, and the fashion-conscious, and is intended not only for
the magazine's established and loyal readership, but also for a
broader demographic of readers around the globe who monitor the
pulse of the latest in creative talent.
It started in 1978 with an ordinary coffee shop near Kyoto. Word
spread that the waitresses wore no panties under their miniskirts.
Similar establishments popped up across the country. Men waited in
line outside to pay three times the usual coffee price just to be
served by a panty-free young woman. Within a few years, a new craze
took hold: the no-panties "massage" parlor. Increasingly bizarre
services followed, from fondling clients through holes in coffins
to commuter-train fetishists. One particularly popular destination
was a Tokyo club called "Lucky Hole" where clients stood on one
side of a plywood partition, a hostess on the other. In between
them was a hole big enough for a certain part of the male anatomy.
Taking the Lucky Hole as his title, Nobuyoshi Araki captures
Japan's sex industry in full flower, documenting in more than 800
photos the pleasure-seekers and providers of Tokyo's Shinjuku
neighborhood before the February 1985 New Amusement Business
Control and Improvement Act put a stop to many of the country's sex
locales. Through mirrored walls, bed sheets, the bondage and the
orgies, this is the last word on an age of bacchanalia, infused
with moments of humor, precise poetry, and questioning
interjections. About the series Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact
cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe!
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