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  • Geography with John Berger

    Questions of Space and Practice

    by Dr. Leila Dawney, Dr. Joe Gerlach, Dr. Thomas Jellis, Dr. Agata Lulkowska, Tom Overton ...
    Exploring John Berger's political and creative praxis for scholarship on space, place, landscape and spatial experience, Ben Garlick and Dubravka Sekulic critically engage with his work as a writer, critic, collaborator, playwright, filmmaker and artist.The contributors connect Berger's work to cultural geography, including through a photo essay that articulates personal encounters with place, as ... Read more

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  • About Looking

    by John Berger, Tom Overton ...
    One of the writer and art critic’s finest essay collections, which includes his influential essay on animal ethics, “Why Look at Animals?”; a critique of the “bourgeois sexual morality” of Rodin’s sculptures; and an unlikely work of criticism linking Francis Bacon and Walt Disney.As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger was a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • John Berger

    From Life

    by Tom Overton ...
    A magisterial biography of novelist and critic John Berger, whose work—including Ways of Seeing and the Booker-prize winning G.—revolutionized the critical tradition in the twentieth centuryThe Storyteller began with conversations between the author and subject while Overton catalogued Berger’s archive at the British Library. Overton then, naturally, drew in the perspectives of friends, family, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Portraits

    by John Berger ...
    “A rich and lovely exploration of art history” from the world-renowned art critic behind Ways of Seeing (Slate)!A diverse cast of artists comes to life in this jargon-free study Zadie Smith hails as “among the greatest books on art I’ve ever read.”One of the world’s most celebrated art writers takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Landscapes

    John Berger on Art

    by John Berger ...
    “Essential reading”—n+1Creative and political art criticism on landscape works from the Renaissance to the present from a “master” storyteller (Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things)In this brilliant collection of diverse pieces—essays, short stories, poems, translations—which spans a lifetime’s engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his own unique way of seeing. He ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Story of Contemporary Art

    by Tony Godfrey ...
    An introduction to the rich and diverse history of contemporary art over the past 60 years—from Modernism and minimalism to artists like Andy Warhol and Marina Abramović.Featuring lavish illustrations, this is the perfect gift for art history fans and anyone looking for a more inclusive perspective on ‘the old boys’ club.’Encountering a work of contemporary art, a viewer might ask, "What does it ... Read more

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  • Year-Round Edible Gardening

    Growing Vegetables and Herbs, Inside or Outside, in Every Season

    by Lena Israelsson ...
    Want to get home-grown spices in the middle of winter? Eat fresh vegetables in the spring? Sow in the summer to harvest in the fall?Lena Israelsson's book, Year-Round Edible Gardening, is a practical guide for those who want to extend their growing season. And double, perhaps triple, their harvest. Growing year-round is possible, and this book can teach you the best methods to do it the right way ... Read more

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  • John Quincy Adams

    A Man for the Whole People

    by Randall Woods ...
    A magisterial journey through the epic life and transformative times of John Quincy AdamsIn this masterful biography, historian Randall B. Woods peels back the many layers of John Quincy’s long life, exposing a rich and complicated family saga and a political legacy that transformed the American Republic.Born the first son of John and Abigail Adams, he was pressured to follow in his father’s ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Beauty of Chemistry

    Art, Wonder, and Science

    by Philip Ball ...
    A “visual tour through the under-appreciated chemical beauty that surrounds us”—with astonishing photographs of the scientific processes that create snowflakes, bubbles, flames, and other natural wonders (WIRED)Chemistry is not just about microscopic atoms doing inscrutable things; it is the process that makes flowers and galaxies. We rely on it for bread-baking, vegetable-growing, and producing ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Essential Skills of Wilderness Survival

    A Guide to Shelter, Water, Fire, Food, Navigation, and Survival Kits

    by Jason Knight ...
    Wondering how to stay alive and safe in the outdoors?The Essential Skills of Wilderness Survival is a systematic approach to wilderness survival designed to increase your confidence in the outdoors and teach you exactly what to do, and in what order, if you find yourself in a survival situation.You will learn how to:build shelter from natural materials that keep you warm and protected from the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Walker

    On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City

    by Matthew Beaumont ...
    From Charles Dickens’ London to today’s megacities, a fascinating exploration of what urban walking tells us about modern life—for fans of Rebecca Solnit, Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City, and literary history.“A labyrinthine journey into the literature of walking and thinking,” as seen in the lives and works of Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Ray Bradbury, and other literary greats (Guardian) ... Read more

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  • Accidental Gods

    On Race, Empire, and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine

    by Anna Della Subin ...
    NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE, THE IRISH TIMES AND THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT**SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZEA provocative history of men who were worshipped as gods that illuminates the connection between power and religion and the role of divinity in a secular age**Ever since 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall in the New World and was hailed as a heavenly ... Read more

    $14.99 USD