Celebrity Vineyards
From Napa to Tuscany in Search of Great Wine
Text by Nick Wise
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $35.00
Authors Nick Wise and editor Linda Sunshine travel the US and Europe to profile and photograph world-famous vineyards, their famous owners, and their famous wines.
From the hills of Napa to the mountain slopes of Tuscany, author Nick Wise went in search of great wine and famous people who are also winemakers...
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Living Shrines of Uyghur China
Photographs by Lisa Ross
Written by Lisa Ross
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $35.00
Lisa Ross's ethereal photographs of Islamic holy sites were created over the course of a decade on journeys to China's Xinjiang region in Central Asia, historically a cultural crossroads but an area to which artists and researchers have generally been denied access since its annexation in 1949. These monumental images show...
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Cherry Blossoms
The Official Book of the National Cherry Blossom Festival
Written by Ann McClellan
Photographed by Ron Blunt
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $30.00
The book will feature approximately 15,000 words of text outlining the origins and the history of the Cherry Blossom Festival and will be illustrated with some historical photography showing the festival's evolution over the years. The majority of photographs will come from award-winning photographer Ron Blunt, whose work can be viewed...
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Pastry Paris
In Paris, Everything Looks Like Dessert
Written by Susan Hochbaum
Photographed by Susan Hochbaum
Format: Hardcover, 140 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $19.95
Pastry Paris is a collection of photographs of the world’s most enticing pastries set against the background of one of the world’s most iconic cities. The confections are taken out of their display cases and photographed “on location” at Paris’ best-known sights and everyday streetscapes, illuminating the visual and cultural connections...
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Cuba TV
Dos Canales
Written by Simone Lueck
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Price: $34.95
During broadcast hours, all TVs in Cuba are on, no matter if they are being watch or just serving as background noise. The actual television sets are outdated relics imported from America or Russia close to twenty years ago. Convulsing static pictures in off-color hues, the sets are jury-rigged with computer...
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Portrait of Long Island
The North Fork and the Hamptons
Photographed by Jake Rajs
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $25.00
At Riverhead Long Island splits into two narrow strips of land, each about forty miles long and each with a distinct character and topography. The South Fork stretches east into the Atlantic Ocean from the Shinnecock Canal to the majestic bluffs at Montauk Point. Dotting the coastline are the stylish Hamptons—Southampton...
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Buddha
Photographed by Jon Ortner
Introduction by Jack Kornfield
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Price: $29.95
In the twenty-five centuries since the Buddha's death, his profound teachings and path have guided and enlightened millions of lives. The Buddha also has inspired some of the most beautiful and magnificent artistic creations ever produced by humanity. Jon Ortner's photographs of over 150 of these extraordinary works of art grace...
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Revealing Mexico
Text by Susanne Steines
Contribution by Carlos Fuentes
Photographed by John Mack
Introduction by Teresa del Conde
Format: Hardcover, 296 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Price: $75.00
In 2010, Mexico observes two important anniversaries: the bicentennial of its independence from Spain and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution. These two milestones offer the country’s 111 million citizens and 30 million Mexican Americans an unprecedented opportunity to rediscover and celebrate their shared heritage.
Revealing Mexico by John Mack and...
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Hidden Napa Valley, Revised and Expanded Edition
Edited by Peter Beren
Photographed by Wes Walker
Introduction by Linda Reiff
Format: Hardcover, 172 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $19.95
Here is a unique portrait of California's beloved wine country. From its stunning landscape to its culture and gourmet sophistication, these striking images of the valley, captured throughout the seasons, illustrate the unique treasures of California's prized vineyards. Chronicled in color photographs by gifted local photographer Wes Walker, this portrait of...
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Cuba
Photographs by Jeffrey Milstein
Written by Jeffrey Milstein
Introduction by Nilo Cruz
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $25.00
The images contained in this book do more than mirror reality in Cuba. They offer an orientation to its complexities. They present glimpses that are factual, realistic, honest, mixed with a breath of lyricism and quotidian simplicity, capturing our attention and allowing us to see the unseen. They get us in...
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California the Beautiful
Edited by Peter Beren
Photographed by Galen Rowell
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $19.95
As America stands to the rest of the world, so stands California to America - a shining promise of endless possibility. This exquisite celebration of the Golden State has been updated with a new introduction, new cover design, and an enlarged size to suit the grandeur of its subject.
California the...
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Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town
Written by Douglas Gayeton
Preface by Carlo Petrini
Introduction by Alice Waters
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $50.00
SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town is an unprecedented photographic personal journey into the heart of hidden Tuscany that celebrates the principles that define the Slow Food movement and pays tribute to the region’s kaleidoscope of vibrant characters, whose shared culture revolves around the everyday pleasure of growing, preparing, and eating...
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Beyond the Dunes
A Portrait of the Hamptons
Photographed by Jake Rajs
Introduction by Paul Goldberger
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $60.00
The South Fork of Long Island extends only forty miles, stretching east into the Atlantic Ocean from the Shinnecock Canal to the majestic bluffs at Montauk Point. Dotting the coastline are the stylish Hamptons—Southampton, East Hampton, Westhampton Beach, and Bridgehampton—and villages of Sag Harbor, Amagansett, Watermill, and Sagaponack.
The landscape in...
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Inside China
Written by National Geographic
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $50.00
China's emergence as an economic and cultural giant reigns as a key international story of our time. In an unprecedented visual tour de force, National Geographic chronicles this astonishing ascent through some of the most eye-opening, evocative, and extraordinary pictures ever recorded of the enigmatic nation, past and present.
Exotic China...
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Through The Eyes Of The Condor
An Aerial Vision of Latin America
Written by Robert B. Haas
Introduction by Marie Arana
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $50.00
Step aboard a private plane for a breathtaking tour of the immense and varied wilderness of Latin Americalush lands and scenic waterways nearly impossible to experience any other way. Your guide to this remarkable vision is Robert B. Haas, award-winning environmentalist and one of the world's foremost artists in aerial photography...
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Wild at Heart
Man and Beast in Southern Africa
Text by Peter Godwin
Photographed by Chris Johns
Introduction by Nelson Mandela
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $65.00
Reprising the years-long, in-depth collaboration that produced much of
National Geographic magazine's coverage of southern Africa, award-winning photographer Chris Johns and veteran foreign correspondent Peter Godwin present this important critical exploration of the region's myriad facets and its collisions between tradition and modernity, conservation and development, and people and animals.
In...
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New York
City of Islands
Contribution by Pete Hamill
Photographed by Jake Rajs
Format: Hardcover, 234 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2007
Price: $25.00
The islands that form New York City are far more subtle and varied than the five that can be seen from the air. In this spectacular portrait of the great metropolis, renowned photographer Jake Rajs juxtaposes iconic views—the Empire State Building, the Hudson River skyline, the Brooklyn Bridge—with unheralded neighborhoods and...
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Wondrous Cold
An Antartic Journey
Written by Joan Myers
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2006
Price: $35.00
For centuries Antarctica has captured the imagination of explorers, scientists, and armchair travelers. Its starkly beautiful landscape, extraordinary wildlife, and harsh climate only begin to suggest the wonders of the world's least understood continent.
Intrigued by a part of the planet vividly described in the journals of explorers Robert Falcon Scott and...
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Hidden Sonoma
Photographed by Wes Walker
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $17.95
Hidden Sonoma is our newest book inspired by the California wine country, and follows in the enormous success over the past three years of the 2004
Hidden Napa Valley book and the immensely popular
Hidden Sonoma and
Hidden Napa Valley Wall Calendars, all photographed beautifully by Wes Walker. Along with Napa...
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