1,000 Places to See Before You Die Calendar 2010 (Picture-A-Day Wall Calendars)

1,000 Places to See Before You Die Calendar 2010 (Picture-A-Day Wall Calendars) Overview

1,000 Places to See Before You Die presents a fabulous itinerary-in-pictures for every month. By the author of the publishing phenom 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, it's daily inspiration for adventurers and armchair travelers. Glimpse medieval Japan on the rustic Nakasendo Trail. Visit the vineyards of Bordeaux's Route du Vin. Discover the astonishing landscapes and abundant wildlife of Botswana. Each full-color spread features one large photo at the top of the page, a map, description, and list of highlights, plus dozens of smaller images in the grid below. Every month is the trip of a lifetime.

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Nat Geo Amazing!: 100 People, Places, and Things That Will Wow You

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Nat Geo Amazing!: 100 People, Places, and Things That Will Wow You Overview

Nat Geo Amazing! (a.k.a. National Geographic Amazing) is National Geographic as you've never seen it before—a celebration of the world's 100 most fascinating people, places, and things, showcased in a large-format, full-color trade paperback. 

The thrilling images, incredibly stories, and cutting-edge design of NATGEO Amazing! will have you doing double-takes at some of the most fascinating and fun information in the world, including Amazing Animals, Interesting People, Weird But True Facts, Ancient Discoveries with Modern Twists, Natural Wonders, and more! You'll find that truth is often stranger—and way more arresting—than fiction as you witness natural beauty, raw emotion, and odd phenomena through the discerning prism of the people who know the world best: National Geographic. We hope that each and every page inspires you to say the book's name: AMAZING!  

Some of the amazing things you'll see:

• the true face of Golden King Tutankhamun revealed through DNA scans and forensic reconstruction
• all the letters of the alphabet on butterfly wings
• how New York City looked more than 400 years ago
• unlikely animal friendships, including the dog and the fish
• the adreneline-rushing sport of parkour and how it all began
• apes laugh when tickled and chimpanzees mourn their dead
• the real spiderman, who climbs skyscrapers without ropes
• that more people die from falling out of bed than from shark attacks
• the incredible story of the skydiving dog

...plus 90 more stories that will WOW you.

Nat Geo Amazing! will have no trouble grabbing your attention and never letting go. This 192-page collection of the world's most fascinating information is the must-have companion to a new National Geographic Channel series of the same name on Fridays at 7 PM (check local listings).

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The Lady Who Married the Eiffel Tower, Nudi-Whats?

Feeling Chummy	Visions of Mars

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Uncommon Places: The Complete Works

Uncommon Places: The Complete Works Overview

Published by Aperture in 1982 and long unavailable, Stephen Shore's legendary Uncommon Places has influenced a generation of photographers. Among the first artists to take color beyond advertising and fashion photography, Shore's large-format color work on the American vernacular landscape stands at the root of what has become a vital photographic tradition. Uncommon Places: The Complete Works presents a definitive collection of the original series, much of it never before published or exhibited. Like Robert Frank and Walker Evans before him, Shore discovered a hitherto unarticulated version of America via highway and camera. Approaching his subjects with cool objectivity, Shore's images retain precise internal systems of gestures in composition and light through which the objects before his lens assume both an archetypal aura and an ambiguously personal importance. In contrast to Shore's signature landscapes with which "Un-common Places" is often associated, this expanded survey reveals equally remarkable collections of interiors and portraits. As a new generation of artists expands on the projects of the New Topographic and New Color photographers of the seventies--Thomas Struth (whose first book was titled Unconscious Places), Andreas Gursky, and Catherine Opie among them--Uncommon Places: The Complete Works provides a timely opportunity to reexamine the diverse implications of Shore's project and offers a fundamental primer for the last thirty years of large-format color photography. Essay by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen. Interview by Lynne Tillman. Hardcover, 12.75 x 10.5 in./188 pgs / 162 color and 7 b&w.

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