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  • Kirk Whalum: The Gospel According to Jazz, Chapter IV

    • ASIN: B01DQ5O0FG

  • The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America

    • ASIN: B000FC0ZIA
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Molandra Products got Urbanity? - White 20oz Stainless Steel Water Bottle with Carabiner

    • ASIN: B0741MHG73
    • Brand: Molandra Products
    • Manufacturer: Molandra Products

    When you are feeling saucy and you need something to say it without saying it, grab this water bottle and fill it with your favorite liquid. It should be alcohol but if that is not your fancy, do as you please.

  • got urbanity? - White 14oz Ceramic Statesman Coffee Mug Cup

    • ASIN: B0742RFW51
    • Brand: Molandra Products
    • Size: 14 ounce
    • Manufacturer: Molandra Products

    When you are feeling saucy and you need something to say it without saying it, grab this mug and fill it with your favorite liquid. It should be alcohol but if that is not your fancy, do as you please.

  • One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Italy (Rizzoli Classics)

    • ASIN: 0847842940
    • ISBN: 9780847842940
    • Brand: Rizzoli International Publications
    • Manufacturer: Rizzoli

    The perfect guide for those who can't resist succumbing to Italy's charms again and again, now in a popular pocket-sized format. Who hasn't dreamt of being whisked away to a sweet little Italian town buried deep in the countryside? The small towns sprinkled throughout this expansive book are not only rich with beauty but also saturated with as much... [Read More]

  • The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy

    • ASIN: 1250125146
    • ISBN: 1250125146
    • Manufacturer: Metropolitan Books

  • Paris: A Journey Through Time

    • ASIN: 1582436223
    • ISBN: 1582436223
    • Brand: Brand: Counterpoint
    • Manufacturer: Counterpoint

    How would Paris look if images from its glorious past were placed side-by-side with photographs of the city today? In Paris: A Journey Through Time, Leonard Pitt does just this.With a stunning array of archival and contemporary photos he peels away the many layers of old Paris to document the city's transformation with events such as the demolition... [Read More]

  • Permanent Error

    • ASIN: 3791345206
    • ISBN: 3791345206
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Prestel

    The most recent publication from the award-winning photographer Pieter Hugo reveals the devastating consequences of toxic waste on one community in Africa. In his previous well-received volumes of photographs, Hugo offers unflinching yet striking portraits of humans, animals, societies, and landscapes that shock and disturb, but also demand our att... [Read More]

  • got urbanity? - White 15oz Ceramic Coffee Mug Cup

    • ASIN: B074278BHF
    • Brand: Molandra Products
    • Size: 15 ounce
    • Manufacturer: Molandra Products

    When you are feeling saucy and you need something to say it without saying it, grab this mug and fill it with your favorite liquid. It should be alcohol but if that is not your fancy, do as you please.

  • Designing Healthy Communities

    • ASIN: 1118033663
    • ISBN: 1118033663
    • Brand: Brand: Jossey-Bass
    • Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass

  • Memory Remains: 9/11 Artifacts at Hangar 17

    • ASIN: 1426208332
    • ISBN: 1426208332
    • Brand: Brand: National Geographic
    • Manufacturer: National Geographic

    This large landscape-format book, exquisitely designed and produced, features the remarkable photography created by Spanish artist Francesc Torres, who was granted special access to visit JFK International Airport's Hangar 17 after it became the repository for all significant non-human materials salvaged from the site of the World Trade Center afte... [Read More]

  • Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface

    • ASIN: 3037780460
    • ISBN: 3037780460
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Lars Muller

    Helvetica is a sans-serif typeface. It is simple and clean, and commonly seen in advertising, signage, and literature. The R has a curved leg, and the i and j have square dots. The Q has a straight angled tail, and the counterforms inside the O, Q, and C are oval. It is an all-purpose type design that can deliver practically any message clearly and... [Read More]

  • Frank Thiel: A Berlin Decade 1995-2005

    • ASIN: 3775718648
    • ISBN: 3775718648
    • Brand: Brand: Hatje Cantz
    • Manufacturer: Hatje Cantz

    Frank Thiel's photographs are unique reflections upon the urban landscape of Berlin, that twentieth-century patchwork of architecture and intellect. Thiel, born in 1966 in Kleinmachnow, near Berlin, describes a type of architecture in transition, the formation of a new political space within urban structures, but his real subject matter is the inco... [Read More]

  • The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated Record of the City's Historic Buildings

    • ASIN: 1580931545
    • ISBN: 1580931545
    • Brand: Brand: The Monacelli Press
    • Manufacturer: The Monacelli Press

    The Landmarks of New York is a definitive resource on the architectural history of the city, documenting and illustrating more than 1,100 buildings that have been accorded landmark status over the past forty years. Organized chronologically, the book presents a panorama of styles and building types -- simple colonial farmhouses, churches, Gilded Ag... [Read More]

  • Joel Sternfeld: Sweet Earth- Experimental Utopias in America

    • ASIN: 3865211240
    • ISBN: 3865211240
    • Brand: Brand: Steidl
    • Manufacturer: Steidl

    It is a dream we have all cherished at least fleetingly: the hope of finding a place in this world in which to live more simply, surrounded by beauty and like-minded people. Photographer Joel Sternfeld's new book Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America explores the past and present of these idealized communities across the United States. Stern... [Read More]

  • Living in Tuscany

    • ASIN: 2080105531
    • ISBN: 2080105531
    • Brand: Brand: Flammarion
    • Manufacturer: Flammarion

    Vineyards and rolling hillsFrom the Maremma coastline to the countryside around Siena, from the vineyards of Chianti to the famous beaches of Viareggio, not forgetting the ancient cities of Florence, Siena, Lucca, Arezzo, Cortona . . . the ever-changing scenery of Tuscany is a source of infinite delight.Gardens of TuscanyFamous for its sumptuous vi... [Read More]

  • Glass House

    • ASIN: 0271024631
    • ISBN: 0271024631
    • Manufacturer: Penn State University Press

    Penn State Press interview with Margaret Morton, March 2004.Your books—The Tunnel; Fragile Dwelling; Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives; and now Glass House—always use a place in their titles and often present photographs of sites throughout New York City. Why these titles? Why so many photographs of the places where the homeless gather to find... [Read More]

  • Learning From Hangzhou

    • ASIN: 9881803365
    • ISBN: 9881803365
    • Brand: Brand: Timezone 8
    • Manufacturer: Blue Kingfisher

    Over the last ten years, the ancient city of Hangzhou, China, has tripled in size and added over a million people to its population. Learning from Hangzhou is an extended photoessay that situates Hangzhou within the physically and culturally transformative pressures of China's unbridled economic expansion. Between 2003 and 2008, more than 3,000 ima... [Read More]

  • Havana

    • ASIN: 2845760280
    • ISBN: 2845760280
    • Brand: Brand: Vilo Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Vilo Publishing

    Since i freed itself in 1898 from the Spanish domination, Havana never ceased to expand throughout the continuous creation of districts away from the old city: El Cerrom El Vedado, Miramar, Marianao, La Vibora, Cubanacan, and last but not least, on the other side of the stunning bay, La Havana del Este.

  • New York: City of Islands

    • ASIN: 1580930093
    • ISBN: 1580930093
    • Brand: Brand: The Monacelli Press
    • Manufacturer: The Monacelli Press

    Photographs of the five boroughs of New York City includes, busy streets and avenues, parks and botanical gardens, bridges, skyscrapers, churches, historic homes, and island geography

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