Photo Essays category: 258 books
Bhutan
Land of the Thunder Dragon
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2005
Regarded as the "crown jewel of the Himalayas," the Kingdom of Bhutan is the last remaining independent country to support Buddhism as the official state religion. Photographed over the course of three years, Bhutan: Land of the Thunder Dragon transports us to colorful festivals and religious traditions,...
Maryland in Black and White
Documentary Photography from the Great Depression and World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Between 1935 and 1943, the United States government commissioned forty-four photographers to capture American faces, along with living and working conditions, across the country. Nearly 180,000 photographs were taken—4,000 in Maryland—and they are now preserved in the Prints and Photographs Division...
UFOs Caught on Film
Amazing Evidence of Alien Visitors to Earth
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
A stunning collection of UFO photographs from one of the world’s leading experts on paranormal phenomena.
UFOs Caught on Film is an extraordinary collection of photographs which brings together the finest visual evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial life. The amazing images have been...
Maine Nursing
Interviews and History on Caring and Competence
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Maine nurses have served tirelessly as caregivers and partners in healing at home and abroad, from hospitals to battlefields. The Division of Public Health Nursing and Child Hygiene was established in 1920 to combat high rates of infant mortality in Washington and Aroostook Counties. During the Vietnam...
A Bridge from Darkness to Light
Thirteen Young Photographers Explore Their Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In 2006, Texas historian and photographer Bill Wright traveled to Afghanistan to teach a course—sponsored by the Afghan NGO ASCHIANA, which seeks to support working children and their families—on digital photography to young Afghans living in Kabul. In this illuminating, visually captivating book,...
Shalom Y'All
Images of Jewish Life in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2002
The kitchen of Henrietta Levine in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where chopped liver is sautTing. Ben and Betty Lee Lamensdorf's farmland in Cary, Mississippi, where cotton, wheat, and pecans are harvested. The New Americans Social Club, a group of Holocaust survivors that meet regularly in New Orleans. The...
by Joyce A. Hanson, Suzie Earp, Erin Shanks
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
Dr. William Henry Mills, fellow in the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians in London, arrived in San Bernardino, California in February 1903. Recruited by Dr. George Rowell as a medical partner, Dr. Mills quickly realized that surgical facilities in San Bernardino were woefully...
by Big Book of Photos
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality amazing images produced by a series of today's professional photographers.
by Karen Shadd-Evelyn
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1996
When current and former residents of Buxton gather for Homecoming, they share memories of fishing for smelt, practising for the North Buxton Maple Leaf Band, building the local museums; of Sunday School picnics and grandma's pumpkin pies.
Buxton residents also share more painful memories. Memories...
This Place, These People
Life and Shadow on the Great Plains
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The numbers of farms and farmers on the Great Plains are dwindling. Disappearing even faster are the farm places—the houses, barns, and outbuildings that made the rural landscape a place of habitation. Nancy Warner's photographs tell the stories of buildings that were once loved yet have now been...
by David Middleton, Brenda Berry
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
A whole world comes to life in vibrant color and sharp detail.
On May 18, 1605, George Waymouth, captain of the English ship Archangel, anchored in the lee of Monhegan Island, finding shelter from a three-day storm. Putting ashore, the crew found fresh water to drink, wood to burn, and lobsters...
iPhone Art in My Life
Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Dewitt Jones is not only a master photographer, he is a philosopher as well. This book combines fifty of his best iPhone photographs with his insights about art in his daily life. It's a joy for the eye and a delight for the mind and heart. Join Dewitt as he turns everyday occurrences into extraordinary visions.
by Paul Atterbury
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
From the Edwardian golden age of steam to the present, the railway has captured the hearts and imaginations of the British people like no other mode of travel. In wartime and peace, along major routes and minor, steam, diesel and electric trains have carried commuters to work, families to holiday...
by Ann Cleeves
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Ann Cleeves' bestselling series of crime novels, featuring Detective Jimmy Perez, now also adapted for a major BBC television series, draw their inspiration from the place in which they take place: Shetland. In this gloriously illustrated companion to her novels, Ann Cleeves takes readers through...