Visions of the Tallgrass: Prairie Photographs by Harvey Payne, Hardcover - James P. Ronda

Reducere. In centuries long past, a vast swath of grassland swept down the center of North America, from Canada's Prairie Provinces to central Texas. This on...

Reducere. This classic of midwestern natural history is back in print with a new format and new photographs. Originally published in 1989, Wildflowers of the...

Reducere. Between the Nebraska border and Osage County, Oklahoma, are the Flint Hills of Kansas, and growing on those hills the last of the tallgrass prairie...

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Reducere. It is hard to love the high, cold plains of the American West. They are vast and harsh and demanding. And perhaps because they are so hard to love,...

Examines both the art-historical framework of Tomma Abts's painting as well as its deep philosophical and psychological dimensions With a rigorous ...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the foremost historians of Lewis and Clark, Ronda grounds Finding the West in the insights and reflections he has gleaned from so...

Reducere. DescriptionLegendary mountain man James P. Beckwourth was an icon of his time, and an inspiration to generations of wilderness explorers and advent...

During the early 20th century, Grand Island was a unique and diverse community. No one captured this better than Julius Leschinsky. As Grand Island...

- Photographs of Michael Caine from the camera of Terry O'Neill CBE- Captures Caine across several celebrated roles, from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels t...

Reducere. DescriptionIn June 1964, Neshoba County, Mississippi, provided the setting for one of the most notorious crimes of the civil rights era: the Klan-o...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Ernest Hemingway won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, presenters called him "one of this epoch's great molders of style, " prai...

Reducere. Spur AwardsOnce President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, which granted 160 acres of free land to anyone with the grit to farm it for fiv...

Reducere. An elegant, large-format homage to the Yamamoto lookThis volume celebrates the creative power and style of the great Japanese designer Yohji Yamamo...

James P. Allen provides a translation of the oldest corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts from the six royal pyramids of the Fifth and Sixth D...

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DescriptionLaunching a new education and conservation project that connects people from different cultures, this dazzling series by renowned photog...

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From the pages of Look, the magazine that defined the fifties, comes a photographic portrayal of the dynamic era that sparked a transformation in A...

Reducere. If you were a fuzzy caterpillar crawling through the tall, tall grass on a sunny afternoon, what would you see?To find out, just follow the tiny to...

DescriptionMatt Weber has been shooting the streets of New York for the past 40 years, many of his images taken while running fares in his New York...

Reducere. Legendary mountain man James P. Beckwourth was an icon of his time, and an inspiration to generations of wilderness explorers and adventurers. A ch...

Reducere. In Warring Visions, Thy Phu explores photography from dispersed communities throughout Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora, both during and after t...

Reducere. In their second adventure to reach the US market, Chirri & Chirra become very small, and so are able to explore the magical world hidden away in a ...

Suits that pop with loud colors and dazzling patterns, complete with a nearly ubiquitous bowtie, define the style of the new "dandy." Described as ...

Reducere. Valuing food quality as much as quality service, Harvey Houses changed the culture of western railroad towns. After Fred Harvey's death in 1901, so...

Reducere. In the wake of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt called for the largest arms buildup in our nation's history. A shortage of steel, however, quickly...

Description- A long overdue retrospective of Wyndham Payne's work- Explores the full breadth of Wyndham Payne's career, as illustrator, printmaker,...

DescriptionAlthough we remember John James Audubon's years in Louisiana primarily for the art he produced there, his writings reflect the profound ...

Description- Attractively-priced gift book edition with more than 150 top celebrities photographed by Oscar Abolafia- Includes portraits of Frank S...

Reducere. The Devil and Dr. Fauci is an unsparing critique of what author James Driscoll calls the "Drug Testing, Licensing, and Marketing Complex, " or DTLM...

Reducere. DescriptionPrimitive Money of Africa entertwines the culture, history, and traditions of the African people through the uses of objects such as bea...

Photographer Rankin presents a publication of nude photography featuring supermodel Heidi Klum. Compelling, erotic and personal, Heidi Klum by Rank...

Evocative shots of Bob Dylan from the photographer and filmmaker Jerry Schatzberg, widely recognised as the foremost body of images of the American...

Reducere. Swiss photographer DANIEL BAUER showcases his photographic work with the beautiful young women of the magic city of Barcelona. Often provocative, a...

The world was in ruin at the end of World War II: from the Blitz in London to the aftermath of the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A ...

Reducere. With this stunning collection of images of the Southern Appalachians, James Valentine presents an enduring portrait of the region's unique natural ...

Robin St. James and the Secrets of the Chosen, a young adult literary fiction, follows the plight of a teenage girl, who uncovers a dark family leg...

Reducere. My ntonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her "prairie tril...

Reducere. The Free State of Kansas and the slave state of Missouri are the backdrop of this tale of heroic deeds and fatal mistakes. David Hann takes the rea...

Reducere. Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers of the civil rights era. During the course of his work, he took thou...

DescriptionA tribute to the final building in Berlin's "Museum Island, " designed by David Chipperfield and photographed by Thomas StruthBritish ar...

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DescriptionRonnie Scott's in London is one of the world's most celebrated jazz clubs. Freddy Warren began photographing Ronnie Scott's when it was ...

Moses is renowned as a great lawgiver, prophet, friend of God, and deliverer of his people. The events of his life, spanning four books of the Bibl...

DescriptionPoetic spaces, surreal structures and dramatic visions. The extraordinary career of Ricardo Bofill is collected in this monograph, which...