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Along the Divide: Photographs of the Dan Ryan Expressway (Book)

Jay Wolke

ISBN:9781930066281

Cutting across Chicago's South Side in a broad swath of concrete, steel, and overpasses, the Dan Ryan Expressway is one of America's busiest...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:96

USD $58.54

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Articles of Faith: African-American Community Churches in Chicago (Book)

Dave Jordano

ISBN:9781930066977

In this era of suburban mega-churches and televised Sunday morning services, it is easy to forget that many Americans worship in small, community churches whose sanctuaries are often repurposed commercial spaces. In "Articles of Faith...more details
Format:Hardback Pages:93

USD $61.46

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At City's Edge: Photographs of the Chicago Lakefront (Book)

Bob Thall

ISBN:9781930066380

An iron-gray slate on a cold and blustery day, a respite from the summer heat, the engine of the city's notorious blizzards: Lake Michigan is an integral part of the landscape of Chicago. Bob Thall has been photographing the skyline and streets of Chicago for over thirty years...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:95

USD $58.49

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At Home (Book)

William Frederking;Brandy Savarese

ISBN:9781930066304

"William Frederking's most effective photographs approach the everyday as still life, avoiding artful arrangement or self-conscious design. They are rich...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:72

USD $38.98

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Between Cultures: Children of Immigrants in America (Book)

Gina J Grillo

ISBN:9781930066168

As the grandchild of Italian immigrants, photographer Gina J. Grillo has a personal impetus in her photographic studies of ethnic and immigrant life in the United States. In "Between Cultures...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:136

USD $47.56

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Carrara (Book)

William Wylie

ISBN:9781930066984

The legendary Cava di Gioia quarry in Carrara, Italy, was the source of the luminous white marble used by Michelangelo, Bernini, Henry Moore...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:83

USD $81.95

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Changing Mines in America (Book)

Peter Goin;C Elizabeth Raymond ElizabethRaymond

ISBN:9781930066120

Most Americans today view mines as little more than ugly scars on the landscape, places with no connection to an American way of life. This creative new work will force many to rethink that impression: after an introduction to the history of mining in America...more details
Format:Paperback Pages:240

USD $41.71

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Chicago: A Geography of the City and Its Region (Book)

John C Hudson

ISBN:9780226358062

The geography of Chicago is central to its history and to its success as the nation's now third largest metropolitan area. The first geography of the Windy City in more than fifty years...more details
Format:Hardback Pages:260

USD $61.46

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Chris Drury: Mushrooms]clouds (Book)

Ann M Wolfe

ISBN:9781935195047

British conceptual and landscape artist Chris Drury has been lauded for his many installations and site-specific works that investigate themes related to the environment and emphasize cycles of destruction and regeneration in nature and the ways that humans affect these processes. In Mushrooms]Clouds...more details
Format:Paperback Pages:87

USD $37.02

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City of Memory: New Orleans, Before and After Katrina (Book)

John Woodin

ISBN:9781935195184

One year before Hurricane Katrina flooded his childhood home, photographer John Woodin returned to the city that shaped his life. Led by intuition and fading memories...more details
Format:Hardback Pages:69

USD $78.00

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City Spaces: Photographs of Chicago Alleys (Book)

Bob Thall;Timothy J Todish

ISBN:9781930066076

In 1996, photographer Bob Thall--walking to his car after completing some work in downtown Chicago--was stopped by something. "I noticed this strange view down an alley...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:96

USD $44.88

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Commonplace (Book)

Christine Welch

ISBN:9781930066212

The drama of life rarely unfolds in majestic settings. Instead, nondescript spaces are more often the stage upon which one's life is lived. What Christine Welch sees as these "sometimes modest...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:96

USD $47.80

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Dreaming Gardens: Landscape Architecture and the Making of Modern Israel (Book)

Kenneth I Helphand

ISBN:9781930066069

Israeli landscape architects have been integral to their country's development, designing places that have become symbolic icons of the nation. The Valley of the Destroyed Communities at Yad Vashem...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:320

USD $70.73

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Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905-2005 (Book)

Kim Stringfellow

ISBN:9781930066335

The Salton Sea is a man-made catastrophe, redolent with the smell of algae and decomposing fish. Nevertheless, the lake's vast, placid expanses continue to attract birdwatchers...more details
Format:Hardback Pages:144

USD $35.07

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Housing Washington: Two Centuries of Residential Development and Planning in the National Capital Area (Book)

Richard Longstreth

ISBN:9781935195078

Since the early nineteenth century, an unusually rich and varied array of housing stock has been created in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Washington has harbored numerous private-sector initiatives to develop model housing projects...more details
Format:Hardback Pages:394

USD $65.37

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Industrial Perspective: Photographs of the Gulf Coast (Book)

Andrew Boroweic;Andrew Borowiec

ISBN:9781930066342

The world of factories and industry is a crucial yet oft-forgotten fact that undergirds the bustling prosperity of contemporary American life. Photographer Andrew Borowiec has spent his career exploring the industrial fields of middle America...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:128

USD $73.17

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Institutional, Limited Edition: Photographs of Jails, Schools, and Other Chicago Buildings (Book)

Scott Fortino;Judith Russi Kirschner Judith RussiKirshner

ISBN:9781930066434

They are places we fear to tread, monuments to the principles of our forebears, awe-inspiring towers of achievement: public institutions that sustain and support our lives are all around us. Scott Fortino investigates these enduring pillars of public life in "Institutional...more details
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Institutional: Photographs of Jails, Schools, and Other Chicago Buildings (Book)

Scott Fortino;Judith Russi Kirshner

ISBN:9781930066397

USD $52.63

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Like No Other Place: The Sandhills of Nebraska (Book)

David A Owen

ISBN:9781930066922

Covering nearly 20,000 square miles, the Nebraska Sandhills are the largest sand dune formation in America. Consisting primarily of grass and wetland...more details
Format:Hardback Pages:147

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Living Large in Nature: A Writer's Idea of Creationism (Book)

Reg Saner

ISBN:9781935195085

In "Living Large in Nature," Reg Saner--regarded as one of America's greatest nature writers--employs his lucid and unpretentious style to offer his unique take on the fundamentalist advocates of creationism and intelligent design. Rather than combat fundamentalists with the latest research in evolutionary biology and cutting-edge astronomy...more details
Format:Hardback Pages:160

USD $32.15

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Local Treasures: Geocaching Across America (Book)

Margot Anne Kelley;Frank Gohlke

ISBN:9781930066366

In the spring of 2000, a man in Oregon hid a box of toys in the woods, posted the geographic coordinates of its location on a Web site, and issued a challenge for others to find it. People used their GPS receivers to find his treasure...more details
Format:Hardback Pages:186

USD $43.85

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Look and Leave: Photographs and Stories from New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward (Book)

Jane Fulton Alt

ISBN:9781930066915

As a participant in New Orleans's "Look and Leave" program, Jane Fulton Alt accompanied Lower Ninth Ward residents back to their homes for the first time since fleeing Hurricane Katrina...more details
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:84

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Motoring: The Highway Experience in America (Book)

John A Jakle

ISBN:9780820334158

"Motoring" unmasks the forces that shape the American driving experience--commercial, aesthetic, cultural, mechanical--as it takes a timely look back at our historically unconditional love of motor travel. Focusing on recreational travel between 1900 and 1960...more details
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:274

USD $48.73

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On City Streets: Chicago, 1964-2004 (Book)

Gary Stochl;Bob Thall

ISBN:9781930066373

City streets are perhaps the most paradoxically anonymous and personal of all public spaces in the city: people blindly collide in their rush to reach their destinations...more details
Format:Paperback Pages:80

USD $34.10

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Primal Images: 100 Lumen Prints of Amazonia Flora (Book)

Jerry Burchfield

ISBN:9781930066229

With its fragile beauty and dark power, the Amazon has fascinated people throughout the centuries. Enthralled by its exotic and impenetrable mystery on his first visit to the region in 1998...more details
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USD $54.63

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Private Places, Limited Edition: Photographs of Chicago Gardens (Book)

Brad Temkin;Rod Slemmons

ISBN:9781930066427

"A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:96

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Private Places: Photographs of Chicago Gardens (Book)

Brad Temkin;Rod Slemmons

ISBN:9781930066410

USD $52.63

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Recycled Realities (Book)

John Willis;Martha A Young TomSandweiss

ISBN:9781930066489

Near the homes of photographers John Willis and Tom Young is a paper mill that sits in the otherwise pristine and picturesque climes of western Massachusetts. For Willis and Young...more details
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Regarding Emma: Photographs of American Women and Girls (Book)

Melissa Ann Pinney;Ann Patchett

ISBN:9781930066144

For more than fifteen years, Melissa Ann Pinney has been making photographs of girls and women, from infancy to old age, to portray how feminine identity is constructed...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:106

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Religion: From Place to Placelessness (Book)

Yi-Fu Tuan

ISBN:9781930066946

What does it mean to be religious in the modern world? This is the question posed by well-known human geographer, Yi-Fu Tuan in "Religion: From Place to Placelessness." In this...more details
Format:Hardback Pages:165

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Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway (Book)

Arthur Krim;Denis Wood

ISBN:9781930066359

Route 66 was the iconic highway of twentieth-century America, stretching from Chicago and Chicago and the Mississippi River basin to Los Angeles and the Pacific coast...more details
Format:Hardback Pages:220

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Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl (Book)

Ann M Wolfe;Lucy R Lippard

ISBN:9781930066533

Suburbia has occupied a conflicted place in American life since the end of World War II, when the edges of cities across the nation began rapidly transforming into small metropolises of their own. California was at the heart of that boom...more details
Format:Hardback Pages:132

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The City in a Garden: A Photographic History of Chicago's Parks (Book)

Julie Sniderman Bachrach;Julia Sniderman Bachrach JBachrach

ISBN:9781930066021

Most people, specialists or not, typically think of New York City or Boston when considering the early development of parks and open spaces in American cities. Despite the size and importance of the Chicago park system...more details
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The Dawn Collector: On My Way to the Natural World (Book)

Reg Saner

ISBN:9781930066311

Award-winning writer Reg Saner recollects, "Years ago I said that if I had a dozen lives to live, I'd live every one of them in Colorado." Saner first saw the Rocky Mountains in 1962...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:288

USD $43.83

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The Gardener's Cottage in Riverside, Illinois: Living in a "Small Masterpiece" by Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Jens Jensen (Book)

Cathy Jean Maloney

ISBN:9781930066892

Riverside, Illinois, was designed in 1869 by renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and his architect partner Calvert Vaux. Their unique design...more details
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The Mississippi River in 1953: A Photographic Journey from the Headwaters to the Delta (Book)

Charles Dee Sharp

ISBN:9781930066267

The Mississippi River flows through American history and culture as a mythic waterway brimming with tragedy and hope, and awash in passionate ambitions and harsh realities. In 1953...more details
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The Mississippi River in 1953: A Photographic Journey from the Headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico (Book)

Charles Dee Sharp;John O Anfinson

ISBN:9781930066274

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The New Road: I-26 and the Footprints of Progress (Book)

Rob Amberg

ISBN:9781930066670

Rob Amberg's examination of the construction of a nine-mile section of Interstate 26 is a moving study of the effect of road building on landscape and culture. In 1994...more details
Format:Hardback Pages:187

USD $78.00

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The Rockabillies (Book)

Jennifer Greenburg

ISBN:9781930066991

Elvis Presley. Pompadours. Black-and-white creeper shoes. Cuffed jeans. And a little bit of James Dean rebellion. These are just some of the ingredients of the modern Rockabilly style. Despite being generations removed from the original Rockabillies of the 1950s...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:98

USD $63.41

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The Upland South: The Making of an American Folk Region and Landscape (Book)

Terry G Jordan-Bychkov

ISBN:9781930066083

Americans have long been fascinated by the Upland South, a regional band of great natural beauty and a rich, archaic cultural landscape that runs from Virginia and North Carolina west through Kentucky...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:122

USD $42.44

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True Tales of the Mojave: From Talking Rocks to Yucca Man (Book)

Wild;Peter Wild

ISBN:9781930066205

Burnished copper mesas, pricked cacti, and hunched Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert stand as timeless witnesses to the evolution of the Western landscape...more details
Format:Paperback Pages:250

USD $36.05

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Venice, California: A Centennial Commemorative in Postcards, 1905-2005 (Book)

Delores Hanney

ISBN:9781930066403

As more than a few of its citizens would claim, Venice, California, has gone through numerous reincarnations. In the 1970s, it was the roller-skating capital of the world. In the 1930s...more details
Format:Paperback Pages:70

USD $24.34

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Western Rider: Views from a Car Window (Book)

Chuck Forsman;Gregory Kittredge WilliamConniff

ISBN:9781930066137

For this book, Chuck Forsman--a landscape painter held in the highest regard--undertook a fascinating project: while traveling the American West in search of places to paint...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:104

USD $36.47

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Where We Find Ourselves (Book)

Justin Kimball;Richard B Woodward

ISBN:9781930066465

Clambering down slippery rocks to a swimming hole. Ducking the plume of smoke from a barbecue grill. Wishing for a breeze in a too-small dome tent. Scanning the sky for rain from a postage-stamp backyard. It is in these small moments of action--and inaction--that Justin Kimball captures our everyday attempts to relax. Indeed...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:88