This is a book with all the color and rhythm of the seasons of New England. Timeless and yet personal, universal and yet so local you recognize your neighbors, can count the logs in their woodpile, smell the smoke from chimneys on a sunny cold autumn day and savor the taste of last summer’s raspberries.
Lavishly illustrated, fact-filled, in a new enhanced paperback edition, The Cherry Blossom Festival: Sakura Celebration commemorates the gift of the trees from Japan to our Nation’s capital in 1912, one hundred years ago. Extensive photographs and illustrations complement intriguing stories of how the Japanese cherry blossom trees came to be planted around the tidal basin and the eventual development of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.
The New York paintings and pastels of Yvonne Jacquette, one of America’s most distinguished contemporary painters, and the New York photographs of her late husband Rudy Burckhardt, whose unconventional art has spawned a large and devoted following, are the subjects of this intriguing look at a slice of the New York art world from the 1930s to the present.
This wonderful book is a moving photographic record and memoir of a mother-daughter relationship in the light of an enduring disability from birth through adolescence.
As a musician and fine arts photographer Diane Asséo Griliches has observed the many distinctive and dynamic ways in which music teachers interact with their students.
Romeo: The Story of an Alaskan Wolf is the true and heartwarming account of an urban legend. Orphaned and alone, Romeo has made the Mendenhal Glacier outside Juneau his territory for the past decade, subsisting on a diet of small mammals and fish.
One hundred stunning color and black and white photographs in Rancher document the steps of a journey that spanned five years. While there are pictures of the land, the book is a testament to the proud people who worked it ó American people, whose lives exemplify and define what was and resolutely continues to be the American West.
Outer Beauty Inner Joy is a spiritual book about beauty in which the author has gathered the wisdom of Renaissance writers and artists into a contemplative modern-day book of hours.
Neon Mesa: Wonders of the Southwest is a stunning photographic record of the vernacular landscape of the American Southwest – the roadside landscape littered with the signs and relics, sights and debris, of countless anonymous road trips.
A bibliophile and library lover’s dream gift book of gorgeous photographs of the world’s treasure houses of books, from the great reading room of the Bibliotheque Nationale and the now vanished library in Sarajevo.
A stunning documentary history of aviation and space flight in the last 100 years that highlights the achievements of both the famous and the everyday people involved in the endeavor as well as every major type of aircraft.
This lavish and unusual portrait of Los Angeles celebrates, in formal portraits, the city’s heroic trees – poised like so many talismans in the often surreal landscapes of concrete and tarmac.
Eyes of the Nation is a magnificent one-volume pictorial and narrative history of the United States with more than five hundred exceptional illustrations, many reproduced here for the first time.
In his richly illustrated documentary tribute to the American animal and other foreign nationals in flight, the author introduces an all star cast, from the Montgolfier brothers first balloon-borne menagerie (a sheep, a rooster and a duck) to Kiddo and more.