One photographer. One complete picture. We present 24 hours in the life of one of the world's most iconic cities. From sunrise to after sunset, from famous landmarks to lesser-known neighbourhoods, this celebration of New York is packed with local insights and visual stories to showcase what makes the city truly great. As a chronological day-in-the-life story, this photobook captures the city's early risers to late-night clubbers, its chaotic, busy streets and oases of calm, striking architect...
teNeues announces a full colour version of the best-selling Photopocket series focusing on popular tourist destinations In this stunning collection of colour images, noted photographer Rainer Kiedrowski presents Tuscany as it has never been seen before. Whether evocative rural landscapes or medieval towns, the verdant hills of Chianti or the great art centres of Florence, Pisa, and Siena, these pictures reveal the wondrous variety of a region unsurpassed in its natural beauty.
Envisioning New Jersey (Rivergate Regionals Collection)
by Maxine N. Lurie and Richard F. Veit
See New Jersey history as you read about it! Envisioning New Jersey brings together 650 spectacular images that illuminate the course of the state's history, from prehistoric times to the present. Readers may think they know New Jersey's history - the state's increasing diversity, industrialization, and suburbanization - but the visual record presented here dramatically deepens and enriches that knowledge. Maxine N. Lurie and Richard F. Veit, two leading authorities on New Jersey history, prese...
In this book the author attempts to clarify the complicated political situation in Afghanistan and provide a clearer understanding of its people, tribal codes, customs and its future. George Arney was the BBC's correspondent in Pakistan and Afghanistan between June 1986 and November 1988. He has spent a considerable amount of time with the Mujahedin forces and was the first foreign journalist to be allowed to visit Kabul. The book is published to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Soviet...
Streets and Characters of West Hampstead and Cricklewood
by Dick Weindling and Marianne Colloms
More Necropolises of New Orleans (Book II) (Travel Photo, #3)
by Laine Cunningham
New Zealand's North and South Islands are remarkable for the diversity of their landscapes and culture. The essence of the South lies in its wild and unspoiled mountains, glaciers, forests, rivers, lakes and fiords. The North, a place more modified by human hands, still surprises with the beauty of its kauri forests, steaming vents and volcanoes, and the strength of its Maori cultural traditions. Landscape photographer Craig Potton has selected 144 images from journeys around (and over) the isla...
Essentially Israel (Essentially)
by Carole Stewart and Chris Stewart
A view of Israel and the occupied territories, where, in the eyes of the authors, nothing is typical except the contradictions. The traveller will find impossibly dry and harsh deserts (with tracts coaxed to fertility by the Israelis), valleys, mountains, ravines and canyons, flat coastal plains, golden beaches, lakes, oases, lush hills and pastures, orange and olive groves and vineyards, and the lowest point on earth where the Dead Sea lies. Scattered over this varied landscape are the remains...
