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“benjamin swett”

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  • The Picture Not Taken

    On Life and Photography

    by Benjamin Swett ...
    An ecologically minded collection of essays in the vein of Rebecca Solnit and Susan Sontag, covering everything from the equipment of photography to the difficulties of perception itself.In The Picture Not Taken, the photographer and writer Benjamin Swett considers the intersections between photography, memory, the natural world, and the course of life in essays on subjects that include family ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Trees of New York City

    by Benjamin Swett ...
    Experience the ancient roots and enduring natural beauty of New York as never before.New York City, once a lush and verdant group of forested islands, is still home to a rich collection of diverse tree species, each with a story to tell about the city’s past. This gorgeous book by naturalist and photographer Benjamin Swett offers stunning color photographs, personal narratives, and fascinating ... Read more

    $15.69 USD

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  • Far and Near

    On Days Like These

    by Neil Peart ...
    Whether navigating the backroads of Louisiana or Thuringia, exploring the snowy Quebec woods, or performing onstage at Rush concerts, Neil Peart has stories to tell. His first volume in this series, Far and Away, combined words and images to form an intimate, insightful narrative that won many readers.Now Far and Near brings together reflections from another three years of an artist’s life as he ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Off to the Side

    A Memoir

    by Jim Harrison ...
    A New York Times Notable Book: A memoir of the writing life of Jim Harrison, from hardscrabble years to high-profile Hollywood friendships, " as engaging as it is eccentric" ( The Washington Post Book World).In this "sprawling, impressionistic memoir", which was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Jim Harrison chronicles his coming-of-age, from a boy drunk with books to a young ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of Places

    by Henry Carroll ...
    Series series Read This
    From the author of the bestselling Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs series, this jargon-free introduction covers all aspects of photographing places, including landscapes, cityscapes, architecture, and interiors.Whatever your camera, whatever your interest, whatever your level, this indispensible guide gives you all the essential techniques and demystifies the work of acclaimed ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Multiplication Made Easy: Rhyming Visuals to Quickly Learn Multiplication Tables for Kids!

    by Blair Kasfeldt ...
    Here is a fast, fun and easy way for kids to learn the multiplication table beginning with number 2 and running through 9.Learning the multiplication table can be frustrating for kids learning it and the adults teaching it. Progress in memorization of multiplication usually comes slowly. The challenge for children is that numbers are abstracts, which means they are not easily visualized. In turn, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pop Song

    Adventures in Art & Intimacy

    by Larissa Pham ...
    "A warm and expansive portrait of a woman’s mind that feels at once singular and universal," this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life, feminism, art, and sex with the author's own experiences of obsession, heartbreak, and vulnerability (BuzzFeed).Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Thoughts on Landscape: Collected Writings and Interviews

    by Frank Gohlke ...
    Frank Gohlke has been a leading figure in American landscape photography for over thirty years. He has photographed grain silos in Minnesota, the aftermath of a tornado in Texas, the destruction and rebirth of the land after the Mount St. Helens eruption in Washington, and a river's quiet course in Massachusetts. His is a career of deep, unbroken contemplation of the enduring landscape and of our ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Roads to Quoz

    An American Mosey

    by William Least Heat-Moon ...
    About a quarter century ago, a previously unknown writer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote a book called Blue Highways. Acclaimed as a classic, it was a travel book like no other. Quirky, discursive, endlessly curious, Heat-Moon had embarked on an American journey off the beaten path. Sticking to the small places via the small roads -- those colored blue on maps -- he uncovered a nation deep in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Design Disasters

    Great Designers, Fabulous Failure, and Lessons Learned

    by Steven Heller ...
    The thrill of victory…the agony of defeat. We're not talking about just any failure. Design failure. So public. So humiliating. How do designers who are really, really good (we swear!) turn a disaster into a triumph? Read this book and find out, as dozens of top names reveal the heartbreaking-and sometimes hilarious-mistakes they have made and talk about how they were able to grow from the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Lichtenberg Figures

    by Ben Lerner ...
    Series series Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets
    The Lichtenberg Figures, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, is an unconventional sonnet sequence that interrogates the relationship between language and memory, violence and form. “Lichtenberg figures” are fern-like electrical patterns that can appear on (and quickly fade from) the bodies of people struck by lightning.Throughout this playful and elegiac debut—with its flashes of autobiography, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • I Fought the Law

    Photographs by Olivia Locher of the Strangest Laws from Each of the 50 States

    by Olivia Locher, Eric Shiner ...
    Strange, outdated laws from each of the 50 U.S. states—some overturned, some still on the books, and some merely the stuff of legends—are depicted with sly wit by Olivia Locher. Incisive, ironic, and gorgeous, these images will appeal to art buffs and trivia fans alike. A foreword from American poet Kenneth Goldsmith and an interview with the artist by Eric Shiner, former director of the Andy ... Read more

    $10.79 USD