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The Aerofilms Book of Britain from the Airby Bernard Stonehouse, Aerofilms LimitedISBN 0297781219 (0-297-78121-9)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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African Visions: The Diary of an African Photographerby Mirella RicciardiISBN 0304354015 (0-304-35401-5)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Against Interpretation: And Other Essaysby Susan SontagISBN 0312280866 (0-312-28086-6)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against Interpretation: And Other Essays'Book summary:First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in America and abroad on thinking about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay and the famous "Notes on Camp," Against Interpretation includes original and provocative discussions of Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thinking. This edition features a new afterword by Sontag.[via]More editions of Against Interpretation: And Other Essays:
- Against Interpretation, and Other Essays: ISBN 0374520402 (0-374-52040-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus Giroux - Against Interpretation: And Other Essays: ISBN 0374975140 (0-374-97514-0)
Hardcover, Octagon Books - Against Interpretation: And Other Essays: ISBN 0312280866 (0-312-28086-6)
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Among Womenby Tom BianchiISBN 0312134258 (0-312-13425-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Andy Warhol: The Factory Years, 1964-1967by Nat FinkelsteinISBN 0312028571 (0-312-02857-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Anthropology and Photography, 1860-1920by Elizabeth EdwardsISBN 0300051689 (0-300-05168-9)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Autobiography of Redby Anne CarsonISBN 037570129X (0-375-70129-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography of Red'Book summary:Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red is a novel in verse, the author's first. A classicist by profession as well as a poet, Carson has drawn on antiquity for her cast, updating the myth of Geryon and Herakles. In the original version, of course, Herakles killed the red-skinned, winged Geryon. In Carson's very contemporary retelling, he merely inspires, but does not return, the monster's passion. By choosing Geryon as her central character, Carson can bring up the questions of existence as if they hadn't been asked before. After all, the monster's instincts have not been numbed by civilization. Fires twist through him. We feel the pain of learning the most elementary things, and then the volcanic intensity that comes with that more advanced thing, love. Yet Carson doesn't so much tell the story of Geryon's love as mediate his very being through semiological surfaces: cafes, video stores, lipstick, a library where he shelves government documents with a "forlorn austerity, / tall and hushed in their ranges as veterans of a forgotten war." Carson seldom satisfies herself with an image of the world. Instead she atomizes the world, leaving it broken down, refracted, and glinting. At times her verbal pyrotechnics manage to render pure energy:
A little button at the end of each range activated the fluorescent track above it.
No novelist could have gotten away with that last line. Yet it's very much to the point: Carson's Geryon is, among other things, a camera freak who doesn't understand that an observer must inevitably alter the nature of the thing observed. Here is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, cheek-by-jowl with the ancients! And indeed, Carson's achievement is to interweave the archaic and the modern so seamlessly that by the time we finish reading Autobiography of Red, the entire landscape looks inside out. --Mark Rudman [via]
A yellowing 5 x 7 index card
Scotch-taped below each button said EXTINGUISH LIGHT WHEN NOT IN USE.
Geryon went flickering
through the ranges like a bit of mercury flipping the switches on and off.
The librarians thought him
a talented boy with a shadow side.
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Barn - A Vanishing Landmark in North Americaby Eric Ross ArthurISBN 0316081205 (0-316-08120-5)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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The Best Part of Meby Wendy EwaldISBN 0316703060 (0-316-70306-0)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Bob & Rodby Tom BianchiISBN 0312114710 (0-312-11471-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bob & Rod'Book summary:A collection of inspiring and ground-breaking photographs eloquently captures the love and joy shared by two men married to each other, portraying the relationship between former Mr. Universe, Bob Paris, and his mate, Rod Jackson. [via]
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Cats and Their Womenby Barbara Cohen, Louise TaylorISBN 0316150460 (0-316-15046-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Cecil Beaton: A Biographyby Hugo VickersISBN 0297784056 (0-297-78405-6)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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The Clash: Before & after Photographsby Pennie SmithISBN 0316801690 (0-316-80169-0)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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Cobainby Rolling Stone (San Francisco, Calif.), Fred WoodwardISBN 0316880159 (0-316-88015-9)
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Cowboys: A Vanishing Worldby Jon NicholsonISBN 0333902084 (0-333-90208-4)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translationby David L. Hall, Roger T. AmesISBN 0345444191 (0-345-44419-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation'Book summary:In 1993, archaeologists unearthed a set of ancient bamboo scrolls that contained the earliest known version of the Dao de jing. Composed more than two thousand years ago, this life-changing document offers a regimen of self-cultivation to attain personal excellence and revitalize moral behavior. Now in this luminous new translation, renowned China scholars Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall bring the timeless wisdom of the Dao de jing into our contemporary world.
In this elegant volume, Ames and Hall feature the original Chinese texts of the Dao de jing and translate them into crisp, chiseled English that reads like poetry. Each of the eighty-one brief chapters is followed by clear, thought-provoking commentary exploring the layers of meaning in the text. This new version of one of the worlds most influential documents will stand as both a compelling introduction to Daoist thought and as the classic modern English translation. [via]More editions of Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation:
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Dao de Jing : A Philosophical Translationby Roger T. Ames, David L. HallISBN 0345444159 (0-345-44415-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dao de Jing : A Philosophical Translation'Book summary:Composed more than 2,000 years ago during a turbulent period of Chinese history, the Dao de jing set forth an alternative vision of reality in a world torn apart by violence and betrayal. Daoism, as this subtle but enduring philosophy came to be known, offers a comprehensive view of experience grounded in a full understanding of the wonders hidden in the ordinary. Now in this luminous new translation, based on the recently discovered ancient bamboo scrolls, China scholars Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall bring the timeless wisdom of the Dao de jing into our contemporary world.
Though attributed to Laozi, the Old Master, the Dao de jing is, in fact, of unknown authorship and may well have originated in an oral tradition four hundred years before the time of Christ. Eschewing philosophical dogma, the Dao de jing set forth a series of maxims that outlined a new perspective on reality and invited readers to embark on a regimen of self-cultivation. In the Daoist world view, each particular element in our experience sends out an endless series of ripples throughout the cosmos. The unstated goal of the Dao de jing is self-transformationthe attainment of personal excellence that flows from the world and back into it. Responding to the teachings of Confucius, the Dao de jing revitalizes moral behavior by recommending a spontaneity made possible by the cultivated habits of the individual.
In this elegant volume, Ames and Hall feature the original Chinese texts of the Dao de jing and translate them into crisp, chiseled English that reads like poetry. Each of the eighty-one brief chapters is followed by clear, thought-provoking commentary exploring the layers of meaning in the text. The books extensive introduction is a model of accessible scholarship in which Ames and Hall consider the origin of the text, place the emergence of Daoist philosophy in its historical and political context, and outline its central tenets.
The Dao de jing is a work of timeless wisdom and beauty, as vital today as it was in ancient China. This new version will stand as both a compelling introduction to the complexities of Daoist thought and as the classic modern English translation. [via]More editions of Dao de Jing : A Philosophical Translation:
Dialogue With Photographyby Thomas Cooper, Paul HillISBN 0374138931 (0-374-13893-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Dorothea Langeby Jan ArrowISBN 0356108538 (0-356-10853-8)
Softcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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Dorothea Langeby Milton MeltzerISBN 0374519102 (0-374-51910-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Dreaming in Black and White: Photography at the Julien Levy Galleryby Katherine Ware, Peter BarberieISBN 0300116438 (0-300-11643-8)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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English Country Churchesby Derry Brabbs, Nigel NicolsonISBN 0297789112 (0-297-78911-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The English Lakesby Rob Talbot, Robin WhitemanISBN 0297795651 (0-297-79565-1)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Essential Darkroom Techniquesby Jonathan EastlandISBN 0304350869 (0-304-35086-9)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Faces of Science Fictionby Mark Bingham, Patti PerretISBN 031294148X (0-312-94148-X)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Faces of Science Fiction: Photographsby Patti PerretISBN 0312941471 (0-312-94147-1)
Softcover, Bluejay Books
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The First World Warby John KeeganISBN 0375700455 (0-375-70045-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First World War'Book summary:Despite the avalanche of books written about the First World War in recent years, there have been comparatively few books that have concentrated on delivering the big picture--a comprehensive account of the war and its campaigns from start to finish--and this book fills the gap superbly. As readers familiar with John Keegan's previous books, such as the The Face Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, and The Second World War, will know, Keegan is a historian of the old school. He has no earth-shattering new theories to challenge the status quo, no first-person accounts to tug on the emotions; what he does have, though, is the gift for talking the lay person through the twists and turns of a complex narrative in a way that is never less than accessible or engaging. Keegan never tries to ram his learning down your throat. Where other authors have struggled to explain how Britain could ever allow itself to be dragged into such a war in 1914, Keegan keeps it practical. The level of communications that we enjoy today just didn't exist then, and so it was much harder to keep track of what was going on. By the time a message had finally reached the person in question, the situation may have changed out of all recognition. Keegan applies this same "cock-up" theory of history to the rest of the war, principally the three great disasters at Gallipoli, the Somme, and Passchendaele. The generals didn't send all those troops to their death deliberately; they did so out of incompetence, ineptitude, and because they had no idea of what was actually going on at the front. Whether deliberate or not, though, the end result was nearly one million dead British and Commonwealth soldiers. The First World War is not afraid to point the finger at those generals who deserve it, but even Keegan has to admit he doesn't have all the answers. If it all seems so obviously futile and such a massive waste of life now, he asks, how could it have seemed worthwhile back then? Why did so many people carry on, knowing they would die? Why indeed. --John Crace [via]
Game Face : What Does a Female Athlete Look Like?by Jane Gottesman, Penny MarshallISBN 0375506020 (0-375-50602-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Ground Beneath Her Feetby Salman RushdieISBN 0312254997 (0-312-25499-7)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet'Book summary:The ground shifts repeatedly beneath the reader's feet during the course of Salman Rushdie's sixth novel, a riff on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set in the high-octane world of rock & roll. Readers get their first clues early on that the universe Rushdie is creating here is not quite the one we know: Jesse Aron Parker, for example, wrote "Heartbreak Hotel"; Carly Simon and Guinevere Garfunkel sang "Bridge over Troubled Water"; and Shirley Jones and Gordon McRae starred in "South Pacific." And as the novel progresses, Rushdie adds unmistakable elements of science fiction to his already patented magical realism, with occasionally uneven results.
Rushdie's cunning musician is Ormus Cana, the Bombay-born founder of the most popular group in the world. Ormus's Eurydice (and lead singer) is Vina Apsara, the daughter of a Greek American woman and an Indian father who abandoned the family. What these two share, besides amazing musical talent, is a decidedly twisted family life: Ormus's twin brother died at birth and communicates to him from "the other side"; his older brothers, also twins, are, respectively, brain-damaged and a serial killer. Vina, on the other hand, grew up in rural West Virginia where she returned home one day to find her stepfather and sisters shot to death and her mother hanging from a rafter in the barn. No wonder these two believe they were made for each other.
Narrated by Rai Merchant, a childhood friend of both Vina and Ormus, The Ground Beneath Her Feet begins with a terrible earthquake in 1989 that swallows Vina whole, then moves back in time to chronicle the tangled histories of all the main characters and a host of minor ones as well. Rushdie's canvas is huge, stretching from India to London to New York and beyond--and there's plenty of room for him to punctuate this epic tale with pointed commentary on his own situation: Muslim-born Rai, for example, remarks that "my parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear.... You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again." Despite earthquakes, heartbreaks, and a rip in the time-space continuum, The Ground Beneath Her Feet may be the most optimistic, accessible novel Rushdie has yet written. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Haunting of L.by Howard NormanISBN 0312421664 (0-312-42166-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Horses: Photographsby Michael EastmanISBN 0375414681 (0-375-41468-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Horses: Photographs'Book summary:More than a hundred extraordinary portraitslush, rich, textured, sculpturalthat reveal the spirit and nobility of the horse. Portraits of horses gazing at the camera, standing in the golden light, stamping away flies, galloping, bucking, rolling in the dust.
They are the work of Michael Eastman, a self-taught photographer influenced by Edward Weston, Walker Evans, and Henry Moore, who spent thirty years capturing the essential nature of subjects that range from Cuban life to landscapes to architecture in many places. Now he turns his refined eye to the magnificent horse.
Eastman has caught the animals complexity and power, fear and courage, goodness, masculinity, femininity, uniqueness.
All animals are wonderful, says Eastman, but horses are truly mythic. [via]More editions of Horses: Photographs:
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House of Leavesby Mark Z. DanielewskiISBN 0375703764 (0-375-70376-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of Leaves'Book summary:Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example, are measurably larger than the outer ones.) In addition to this Russian-doll layering of narrators, Danielewski packs in poems, scientific lists, collages, Polaroids, appendices of fake correspondence and "various quotes," single lines of prose placed any which way on the page, crossed-out passages, and so on.
Now that we've reached the post-postmodern era, presumably there's nobody left who needs liberating from the strictures of conventional fiction. So apart from its narrative high jinks, what does House of Leaves have to offer? According to Johnny Truant, the tattoo-shop apprentice who discovers Zampanò's work, once you read The Navidson Record,
For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.
We'll have to take his word for it, however. As it's presented here, the description of the spooky film isn't continuous enough to have much scare power. Instead, we're pulled back into Johnny Truant's world through his footnotes, which he uses to discharge everything in his head, including the discovery of the manuscript, his encounters with people who knew Zampanò, and his own battles with drugs, sex, ennui, and a vague evil force. If The Navidson Record is a mad professor lecturing on the supernatural with rational-seeming conviction, Truant's footnotes are the manic student in the back of the auditorium, wigged out and furiously scribbling whoa-dude notes about life.Despite his flaws, Truant is an appealingly earnest amateur editor--finding translators, tracking down sources, pointing out incongruities. Danielewski takes an academic's--or ex-academic's--glee in footnotes (the similarity to David Foster Wallace is almost too obvious to mention), as well as other bogus ivory-tower trappings such as interviews with celebrity scholars like Camille Paglia and Harold Bloom. And he stuffs highbrow and pop-culture references (and parodies) into the novel with the enthusiasm of an anarchist filling a pipe bomb with bits of junk metal. House of Leaves may not be the prettiest or most coherent collection, but if you're trying to blow stuff up, who cares? --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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Softcover, Random House Inc - House of Leaves : A Novel: ISBN 0375410341 (0-375-41034-1)
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The Illusion of Orderly Progressby Barbara P. Norfleet, Edward O. WilsonISBN 0375405585 (0-375-40558-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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An Illustrated History of the First World Warby John KeeganISBN 037541259X (0-375-41259-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Illustrated History of the First World War'Book summary:John Keegan's The First World War was everywhere praised, and became the definitive account of the war that created the modern world. The New York Times Book Review acclaimed Keegan as "the best military historian of our day," and the Washington Post called the book "a grand narrative history [and] a pleasure to read."
Now Keegan gives us a lavishly illustrated history of the war, brilliantly interweaving his narrative--some of it derived from his classic work and some of it new--with a brilliant selection of photograps, paintings, cartoons and posters drawn from archives across Europe and America, some published here for the first time. These images take us into the heart of battles that have become legend: Ypres, Gallipoli, Verdun, the Somme. They show us the generals' war and the privates' war--young soldiers, away from home for the first time, coming of age under fire.
We see how a civilization at the height of its power and influence crippled itself as the faith in progress, rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment was shattered. We see how four empires--the German, the Russian, the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman--collapsed, and how the seeds for the Second World War were planted. Keegan tells how ambition, mistrust and failures of diplomacy and communication all played a part in allowing this conflict to set ablaze what was then the world's most prosperous society. And he describes how the effects of this war lasted long after it ended; its ghosts still haunt Europe today.
An Illustrated History of the First World War carries us across the Europe of nearly a century ago, revealing the devastation, camaraderie, political machinations and battlefield maneuverings that changed the world. It presents the essential cast of that cataclysmic drama, from the decision makers at the top--Haig, Joffre, Hindenberg, Pershing--to the troops in the trenches. Through its unique amalgam of pictorial and narrative brilliance, the book illuminates the war as no other work has done. [via]More editions of An Illustrated History of the First World War:
Images of Irelandby Le CarfmeurISBN 0316888613 (0-316-88861-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Islandsby John FowlesISBN 0316289604 (0-316-28960-4)
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Italia: The Art of Living Italian Styleby Oliver Benn, Edmund HowardISBN 0312148119 (0-312-14811-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Jazz Peopleby Dan Morgenstern, Ole BraskISBN 0306805278 (0-306-80527-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Kenny Roger's Americaby Kenny RogersISBN 0316754196 (0-316-75419-6)
Hardcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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Lao Tzu: Te-Tao Ching A New Translation Based on the Recently Discovered Ma-Wang-Tui Textsby Robert G. HendricksISBN 0345370996 (0-345-37099-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Lao-Tzu: Te-Tao Ching a New Translation Based on the Recently Discovered Ma-Wang-Tui Textsby Lao-Tzu, Robert G. HenricksISBN 0345347900 (0-345-34790-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lao-Tzu: Te-Tao Ching a New Translation Based on the Recently Discovered Ma-Wang-Tui Texts'Book summary:Lao-tzu's "Te-Tao Ching" has been treasured for thousands of years for its poetic statement of life's most profound and elusive truths. This new translation, based on the 1973 discovery of two copies of the manuscript more than five centuries older than any others known, corrects many defects of the later versions. In his extensive commentary, Professor Henricks reevaluates traditional interpretations.
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Life: The First Fifty Years 1936-1986by Life Magazine EditorsISBN 0316526134 (0-316-52613-4)
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Life & Love: A Book of Embracesby LifeISBN 0316526452 (0-316-52645-2)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life & Love: A Book of Embraces'Book summary:In this Valentine's Day classic, 85 timeless photos capture the essence of love from around the world. 85 photos, 15 in color. [via]
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The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earthby David AttenboroughISBN 0316057495 (0-316-05749-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth'Book summary:Attenborough looks here at continuing evolution and the adaptation of plants and animals to specific and differing environments. For example, he finds that the coral reef is the marine equivalent of the tropical rain forest, that modern cities, with their masonry and concrete, are the counterparts of the ash fields and lava flows of volcanoes. PW lauded this book, maintaining that it deserves as much attention as its predecessor, Life on Earth. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. [via]
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Many Are Calledby Walker Evans, Rosenheim, Jeff L. (AFT), Luc Sante, James AgeeISBN 0300106173 (0-300-10617-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Many Are Called'Book summary:[via]Between 1936 and 1941 Walker Evans and James Agee collaborated on one of the most provocative books in American literature, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). While at work on this book, the two also conceived another less well-known but equally important book project entitled Many Are Called. This three-year photographic study of subway passengers made with a hidden camera was first published in 1966, with an introduction written by Agee in 1940. Long out of print, Many Are Called is now being reissued with a new foreword and afterword and with exquisitely reproduced images from newly prepared digital scans.
Many Are Called came to fruition at a slow pace. In 1938, Walker Evans began surreptitiously photographing people on the New York City subway. With his camera hidden in his coatthe lens peeking through a buttonholehe captured the faces of riders hurtling through the dark tunnels, wrapped in their own private thoughts. By 1940-41, Evans had made over six hundred photographs and had begun to edit the series. The book remained unpublished until 1966 when The Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition of Evanss subway portraits.
This beautiful new editionpublished in the centenary year of the NYC subwayis an essential book for all admirers of Evanss unparalleled photographs, Agees elegant prose, and the great City of New York.
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Marilyn Mon Amour: The Private Album of Andre De Dienes, Her Preferred Photographerby Andre De DienesISBN 0312515049 (0-312-51504-9)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marilyn Mon Amour: The Private Album of Andre De Dienes, Her Preferred Photographer'Book summary:The photographs taken by De Dienes between 1945 and 1953, reveal a metamorphoses - a beauty turning into a star, who is possibly the most potent sex symbol of our time. This is the story told by a man who remained Marilyn's accomplice, friend and favourite photographer to the end of her life. [via]
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Masters of Starlight: Photographers in Hollywoodby David Fahey, Linda G. RichISBN 0345355091 (0-345-35509-1)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Masters of Starlight: Photographers in Hollywood'Book summary:Large 288 page hard cover book. Dust jacket has a little rubbing and a little wear on top edge. Stated First Trade Edition - 10 90 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 . Printed and bound in Japan. [via]
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The Milk Mustache Book: A Behind-The-Scenes Look at America's Favorite Advertising Campaignby Jay Schulberg, Bernie Hogya, Sal TaibiISBN 0345427297 (0-345-42729-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Inside this book you'll find the complete collection of Milk Mustache ads that won the hearts of millions worldwide--and some new ones revealed for the first time. You'll see the spoofs, the rip-offs, the bits from Leno and Letterman. You'll learn the inside story of how this captivating series came to be, go behind-the-scenes to the photo shoots, and discover the secrets of those famous moustaches--plus see never-before-published photos of your favorite celebrities.
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Morning, Noon and Nightby Spalding GrayISBN 0374299854 (0-374-29985-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Morning, Noon and Night'Book summary:The hilarious new monologue about fatherhood, by the author of It's a Slippery Slope[via]
In Morning, Noon and Night that master of the confessional, Spalding Gray, tells the event-filled, emotionally charged and outrageously funny story of one day of his life in October 1997, after the birth of his son Theo. Horrified by the prospect of having another son, considering what he and his two brothers did to their father, and ambivalent about the idea of living in a small, quaint town on eastern Long Island that seems an odd detour for a man destined for California, Spalding comes to feel, of course, a profound affinity for his baby boy, born with the looks of "a wet, blue beaver." But this is not merely a father's account of an infant son; it's the story of his new life with his girlfriend Kathie; his regally precocious eleven-year-old stepdaughter, Marissa ("Please don't let me die a virgin!"); and his older son, Forrest, who stymies Spalding time and again with his metaphysical inquisitiveness: "Daddy, what's behind the stars?" "How do flies celebrate?" Cosmic questions that for Gray are reinforced by the view from his bedroom window-a seventeenth-century graveyard-a cold reminder to the author of the impermanence of things, the transient nature of his life, the strange calling of his profession, which brilliantly confirms Wordsworth's dictum that the child is father to the man.
A richly comic work about parenthood , about adults who don't grow up and children who do, that stands as Spalding Gray's most mature work to date.More editions of Morning, Noon and Night:
Nadarby Maria Morris HambourgISBN 0300086407 (0-300-08640-7)
Hardcover, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Night & Low-Light Photography: A Complete Guideby Bob Gibbons, Peter WilsonISBN 0304343315 (0-304-34331-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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One Nation : America Remembers September 11, 2001by Life Magazine EditorsISBN 0316525405 (0-316-52540-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Nation : America Remembers September 11, 2001'Book summary:During our nation's most trying times, it has been LIFE that has provided the images that help us understand, remember, and in the process, renew. Now the editors of LIFE have assembled a moving, brilliantly illustrated account of tragedy and triumph. This is about firemen going in amidst the rubble, but it is also about a Frenchman in Paris holding up a sign that says, "We are all Americans." This is about our leaders taking charge, but it is also about schoolchildren in Iowa hanging an American flag on a tree in their backyard. Beginning with the history of lower Manhattan, the book explains what happened on September 11, profiles many of the heroes, victims and rescuers (fireman, police, doctors, and rescue dogs among them), and paints an inspiring portrait if a nation and world coming together in sadness, pride and resolve.The book is more than photographs. Explanatory text runs throughout, and the book also includes a selection of original essays about America and September 11, written by such notables as Maya Angelou, Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List), Stephen Ambrose, Melissa Fay Greene (The Temple Bombing), AndreiCodrescu, Gordon Parks, Doug Stanton (In Harm's Way), Bob Greene (Duty), James Bradley (Flags of Our Fathers), and others. All profits from the sales of this book will be donated to American Red Cross, September 11th Fund, International Association of Fire Fighters, New York Fraternal Order of Police WTC Fund, The National Organization for Victim Assistance, and The Twin Towers Fund. When Americans think of photographic journalism at its finest, they think of LIFE magazine. This book will draw upon the best photographers employed by TIME, LIFE, PEOPLE and other magazines. Many of the photographers have had their own collections published in book form. [via]
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Paul Strand: Circa 1916by Maria Morris HambourgISBN 0300086504 (0-300-08650-4)
Hardcover, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Photoshop Classic Effectsby Scott KelbyISBN 0321272250 (0-321-27225-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Photoshop Cs2: Up to Speedby Ben WillmoreISBN 0321330501 (0-321-33050-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Photoshop Cs2: Up to Speed'Book summary:As the first major Photoshop update since Adobe revamped its product line in 2003, this is the release you've been waiting for-and this is the guide that will get you up to speed on it fastest! Rather than sift through hundreds of pages detailing every last Photoshop feature and function, you can go directly to the new features that interest you most and get the explanations you desire in classic Ben Willmore style-intuitive, crystal clear, and in-depth. By focusing on a single topic-what's new in this version-the award-winning author provides precisely what experienced Photoshop users like yourself have been clamoring for, in exactly the depth you demand. Including just enough information about older features to make the new ones understandable, Ben shows you not only which buttons to push but why.
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Photoshop Finishing Touchesby Dave CrossISBN 0321441664 (0-321-44166-4)
Softcover, Pearson Technology Group Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Photoshop Finishing Touches'Book summary:If you're primarily interested in finishing touches--the million creative ways you can use your favorite software to improve, polish, and add pizzazz to your images--this is the book for you! The first book devoted exclusively to the topic, Finishing Touches for Photoshop CS2 offers a treasure chest of creative finishing techniques. With chapters on frames and border effects, color and artistic effects, presentation, sharpening, and printing, this full-color guide covers everything from creative cropping to dramatic lighting, stock photos, collage ideas, combining black-and-white and color, selective blurring, storybook layouts, PDF presentation, and more. Each technique is a stand-alone tutorial, so you can jump in at any point without weeding through a lot of info that's not relevant to the task at hand. Even better, author Dave Cross' two-column format--with simple instructions in one column and lavish, full-color photos and artwork running alongside--makes the techniques instantly accessible. You'll also find several variations for most techniques as well as instructions for creating reusable templates.
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Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Timeby Michael S. Reynolds, Frederick Voss, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)ISBN 0300079265 (0-300-07926-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Pine Barrensby Bill Curtsinger, John A. McPheeISBN 0374233624 (0-374-23362-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Pine Barrensby John A. McPheeISBN 0374514429 (0-374-51442-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pine Barrens'Book summary:Contrary to popular opinion, the whole of New Jersey is not a continuous Superfund site enlivened solely by poorly labeled Turnpike exits and skanky diners. In fact, the largest essentially untouched wilderness east of the Mississippi comprises nearly half the state: the New Jersey Pine Barrens. This more than 1,000-square-mile region has only a few thousand inhabitants--the Pineys, whose way of life has remained essentially unchanged since the 17th century. McPhee--one of the finest American essayists of the 20th century--has written an extraordinarily compelling, informative, and insightful book about the botanical, cultural, hydrological, and historical peculiarities of this region. He also details the efforts to save it from the creeping urbanization of nearby Philadelphia and New York City. Very Highly Recommended. [via]
Playing in the Band: An Oral and Visual Portrait of the Grateful Deadby David Gans, Peter SimonISBN 0312143915 (0-312-14391-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Portrait of the Art World: A Century of Artnews Photographsby Pete Hamill, William F. Stapp, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Milton Esterow, Tracey L. AvantISBN 0300097522 (0-300-09752-2)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Portraitsby Harold Rosenberg, Richard AvedonISBN 0374236380 (0-374-23638-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Private World of Tasha Tudorby Tasha Tudor, Richard BrownISBN 0316112925 (0-316-11292-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Private World of Tasha Tudor'Book summary:Tasha Tudor has written and illustrated more than seventy-five beloved children's books since her first, Pumpkin Moonshine, in 1938. Now seventy-seven years old, she lives on a farm in southern Vermont, where she has recreated an early Victorian world. To capture this intimate portrait of Tasha Tudor, photographer Richard Brown followed her throughout a year on her farm. By interweaving Tudor's own words and more than 100 color photographs, Brown has evoked the essence of Tudor's uniquely appealing personality and way of life. The inspiration for Tudor's art is evident in her delightful surroundings. Foremost is the magnificent garden she designed and rightfully calls "Paradise on earth." A lively menagerie is always underfoot, indoors and out, including her trademark corgies, the Nubian goats she milks twice a day, the one-eyed cat Minou, the chickens, fantail doves, and the cockatiels, canaries, exotic finches, and parrots that inhabit a virtual village of antique cages. We watch Tudor at work in a corner of her winter kitchen, her "chipmunk's nest, " on the delicate watercolors and drawings that illustrate the books and calendars that have charmed three generations. Examples of her work are scattered throughout the book, including many drawings from her sketchbook and vignettes never previously published. Her enchanting three-story dollhouse is featured in detail as are her handmade dolls and marionettes as well as the candlelit tree that is the centerpiece of Tasha Tudor's old-fashioned New England Christmas. Born in 1914 into Boston society (she sat on Oliver Wendell Holmes's knee as a child; Mark Twain and Albert Einstein were also her parents' friends), Tudor felt from an earlyage that she had lived before, in the 1830s. She says, "Everything comes so easily to me from that period, of that time: threading a loom, growing flax, spinning, milking a cow." Dressed in antique clothing, spinning and weaving her own linen, cooking on a woodstove with nineteenth [via]
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The Private World of the Last Tsar: In the Photographs and Notes of General Count Alexander Grabbeby Paul Grabbe, Beatrice GrabbeISBN 0316322717 (0-316-32271-7)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Quotable Felineby Jim Dratfield, Paul CoughlinISBN 0375702148 (0-375-70214-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Real World Scanning and Halftonesby David Blatner, Glenn Fleishman, Steve Roth, Conrad ChavezISBN 0321241320 (0-321-24132-0)
Softcover, Pearson Technology Group Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Real World Scanning and Halftones'Book summary:This highly useful, detailed guide helps desktop-publishing and other design professionals produce the best possible scans and halftones from their images. The first section focuses on scanning, first featuring explanations of such terms as spi (samples per inch), bit depth, optical and interpolated resolution, and dynamic range. The authors even advise you on buying and cleaning scanners. Next they detail the elements of good scans and how to fix less-than-perfect ones, helping you figure out what sort of file formats and resolutions to use in your work, how to do tonal and color corrections, and how to sharpen and compress images. Finally, the discussion turns to Web and printer output and to OCR technology and PhotoCD images.
The section on halftones teaches you how to produce decent halftone images, first by explaining how halftones work and then by explaining such issues as frequency, gray levels, spot variation, spot gain, spot shapes, and the role of printers and software in creating halftones. There's also a discussion of stochastic screening and how to create blends and reduce moiré and other patterns. The last chapters here help you fine-tune your halftone settings and learn a bit about PostScript operators for halftones and scanning.
The third and last section focuses on using image applications to work with scans, tonal and color corrections, and halftones. This discussion includes Adobe Photoshop, Micrografx Picture Publisher, Corel Photo-Paint, Ulead PhotoImpact, Equilibrium's DeBabelizer, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia FreeHand, CorelDRAW, Adobe PageMaker, and QuarkXPress. The authors also look at a few scanning applications and offer tips on using them.
Throughout the book the authors provide plenty of images and screen shots to illustrate their points, and a full-color section helps bring some of these examples to life. There's lots of technical discussion, but since each chapter builds on the previous ones and the basic terminology is put forth clearly, you can leave off wherever you wish and still have a lot of new knowledge to apply to your scans and halftones. --Kathleen Caster [via]
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Rolling Stone Images of Rock & Rollby Rolling Stone Editors, Anthony Decurtis, Fred WoodwardISBN 0316754684 (0-316-75468-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Royal Russia : The Private Albums of the Russian Imperial Familyby James B. Lovell, Carol TownendISBN 0312179367 (0-312-17936-7)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Sacred Architectureby Caroline Humphrey, Piers VitebskyISBN 0316381225 (0-316-38122-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sacred Architecture'Book summary:With authoritative texts and hundreds of full-color illustrations, these two latest volumes continue Living Wisdom's tradition of excellence.
The Goddess taps into Americans' growing interest in female deities and ancient rites. As New York Newsday noted, "Goddess worship, no longer thought of as esoteric, if not blasphemous, is going mainstream". This provocative book brings to life the rituals, symbolism, and significance of the Goddess from ancient to modern times, touching on fertility, motherhood, feminism, Wicca, and much more.
Sacred Architecture explores humankind's quest for spiritual retreats and gateways to the divine. From Egyptian pyramids to Baroque cathedrals, this beautiful book stops off at a wide range of sacred sites while exploring such subjects as feng shui, celestial alignments, temple design and construction, and activities of worship and sacrifice. [via]
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Shipwreckby John FowlesISBN 0316290912 (0-316-29091-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Sleeping Beautiesby Ken HaakISBN 0312060157 (0-312-06015-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sleeping Beauties'Book summary:Ken Haak, top fashion photographer whose masterful lens captures that most sensual of seasons in his book Summer Souvenirs, turns his artistry on some of the world's most handsome men at their most disarming. These are images of astounding beauty and intimacy, men sweetly unconscious on satin sheets, men curled up like kittens or sprawled out like tired puppies, men asleep on couches or snuggled in the sand, men of great beauty caught in the sensuality of sleep. --- from book's dustjacket [via]
Snowdon: Stills, 1984-1987by Antony Armstrong-Jones SnowdonISBN 0297791850 (0-297-79185-0)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Start with a Digital Cameraby John OdamISBN 0321219007 (0-321-21900-7)
Softcover, Pearson Technology Group Canada
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Start With a Digital Camera: The Indispensable Guide to Getting the Most Out of Your Digital Cameraby John OdamISBN 0321130111 (0-321-13011-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Taking Measures Across the American Landscapeby Alex S. MacLean, James S. CornerISBN 0300065663 (0-300-06566-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Taking Measures Across the American Landscapeby James S. Corner, Alex S. MacLeanISBN 0300086962 (0-300-08696-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Taking Measures Across the American Landscape'Book summary:This book combines breathtaking aerial photographs and exquisite map-drawings of the American landscape with thoughtful essays that explore how various cultures have forged the landscapes in different regions of the country and what the possibilities are for future landscape design. [via]
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The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzuby Brian Browne WalkerISBN 0312147449 (0-312-14744-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu'Book summary:The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu is one of the most widely read and deeply cherished books in the world, a work many consider the wisest book ever written. In his introduction, translator Brian Browne Walker says, "It is less a book than a living, breathing angel."[via]
In his new translation, Walker stays close to the direct literal accuracy of the Chinese characters while producing a modern, exceptionally clear version that has the ring and voice of Lao Tzu, a man who may or may not have been a single individual. "I have come to think of Lao Tzu less as a man who once lived," Walker writes, "and more as a song that plays, eternal and abiding."More editions of The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu:
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The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu: A New Translationby Lao Tzu, Brian Browne WalkerISBN 0312131909 (0-312-13190-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu: A New Translation'Book summary:A new translation of the classic "Book of the Way" provides a manual on the art of living. [via]
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Tattooby Dale DurfeeISBN 0312267843 (0-312-26784-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tattoo'Book summary:Tattooing-- once thought of as barbaric and the preserve of the lower classes-- is now mainstream. Tattoos are worn today not only by celebrities and leading media folk, but also by an increasing number of people in the street. Displayed proudly or hidden discreetly, tattoos are a permanent expression of individuality, and tattooing has finally emerged from the backstreet parlour to become high fashion.[via]
TATTOO contains over 65 superb color and black-and-white photographs specially taken for this book. Award-winning photographer Dale Durfee has persuaded a variety of people from every walk of life to show their tattoos. Here she presents the very best examples, some in high-detail close-up and others covering the whole body in spectacular style. Every aspect and type of tattoo is included, from delicate and beautiful flowers and rock 'n' roll icons, to Buddhist prayer symbols and interwoven Celtic designs of great simplicity and power.
All the models share a refreshing open attitude and display their tattoos for the camera with warmth and spontaneity. Some have described the significance of their designs, why they were chosen and what the tattoo means to them.
With amazing designs, remarkable people and some practical guidance on getting your first design, TATTOO is an inspiring and entertaining collection of body art-- the ultimate celebration of one of the world's oldest forms of body decoration.More editions of Tattoo:
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Thomas Struth 1977-2002by Thomas Struth, Ann Goldstein, Charles Wylie, Maria Morris Hambourg, Douglas Eklund, Dallas Museum of ArtISBN 0300093608 (0-300-09360-8)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thomas Struth 1977-2002'Book summary:Coming to prominence in his native Germany in the 1970s, photographer Thomas Struth captured the atmospheric power of the contemporary urban landscape in his early black-and-white works. With an intent gaze and exacting lens, Struth expanded his range to include colour portraits, bringing a unique psychological precision to the tradition of portraiture. Perhaps Struth's best-known works are his majestic, large-scaled museum photographs depicting visitors to some of the world's great museums and buildings, including The Art Institute of Chicago, the Musee du Louvre in Paris, the Accademia in Venice, and the Pantheon in Rome. These captivating photographs not only transport us to the place depicted, they also provide a chance to re-examine our own selves looking at art. Continuing his interest in series, Struth has created expansive works based on the natural world, often training his camera on a particular contemporary melding of nature with technology and architecture. This volume presents an exploration of the photographs of Thomas Struth and accompanies a major retrospective exhibition organized by the Dallas Museum of Art. It features essays by well-known photography and art experts who chronicle Struth's career and situate his work in the context of the history of photography and its rise in contemporary art. [via]
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A Vanished Worldby Roman Vishniac, Elie WieselISBN 0374282471 (0-374-28247-1)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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The Villageby WeegeeISBN 0306803747 (0-306-80374-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Visions of Heaven : The Mysteries of the Universe Revealed by the Hubble Space Telescopeby Mark Rosselli, Tom WilkieISBN 0340717343 (0-340-71734-3)
Hardcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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Visions of Heaven: The Mysteries of the Universe Revealed by the Hubble Space Telescopeby Tom Wilkie, Mark RosselliISBN 0340717351 (0-340-71735-1)
Softcover, Hodder & Stoughton Canada
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William Wegman: Funney/ Strangeby Joan SimonISBN 0300114443 (0-300-11444-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Wegman: Funney/ Strange'Book summary:This fascinating book reveals the full range of William Wegmans art. Beloved by the general public for signature photographs of his troupe of Weimaraners, Wegman is also an immensely important figure in the contemporary art world.A pioneer video-maker, conceptualist, performer, photographer, painter, draftsman, and writer, Wegman moves fluidly among various media: from conceptual works to commissioned magazine shots; from videos shown in museums to television segments made for Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live; from artists books parodying nineteenth-century naturalist studies to childrens books revealing tongue-in-cheek portraits of town and country life; from photographic landscapes employing his canine muses to his most recent cycle of landscapes combining found scenic souvenir postcards with drawing, collage, and painting. Underlying all his creations is the light humor of funny mediating the darker human comedy of strange. Speaking to the absurdities of daily life, Wegmans work is universally appealing.William Wegman: FunneyStrange is illustrated with some 250 images. It is the first retrospective volume to consider the artists entire career from the 1960s to the 2000s and is an essential book for any fan of Wegmans work.[via]More editions of William Wegman: Funney/ Strange:
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The Wisdom of Laotseby Lao-Tzu, Yutang Lin, Chuang-Tz+UISBN 0313211647 (0-313-21164-7)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wisdom of Laotse'Book summary:A cycle of short poems, this is a work of world literature and has the significance of the Bible for more than a quarter of humanity. Written in two halves, the "Tao" ("way") and the "Te" ("virtue"), it is treasured for its poetic statements about life's most profound and elusive truths. [via]
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