Renowned for its natural wealth since ancient times, the southern Thai island of Phuket has acquired a new kind of international celebrity in more recent days as a place of rest and relaxation for over a million foreign visitors a year.
With colorful, vivid photography and insightful commentary, this pictorial and Thailand travel guide offers readers a glimpse at a dynamic country and its people.
Thailand is one of the worlds most popular travel destinations for many very good reasons: friendly people, warm climate, sandy beaches, clear sea, stunning landscape, fascinating culture, spicy food, colorful nightlife.
Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant is an unprecedented photographic exploration of the most holy cities of Islam and the Hajj, or annual pilgrimage during Ramadan, when more than a million faithful journey to Mecca's Great Mosque to commemorate the first revelation of the Qur'an (Koran).
Zen Masters of Japan is the second book in a series that traces Zen's profoundly historic journey as it spread eastward from China and Japan, toward the United States.
Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant is an unprecedented photographic exploration of the most holy cities of Islam and the Hajj, or annual pilgrimage during Ramadan, when more than a million faithful journey to Mecca's Great Mosque to commemorate the first revelation of the Qur'an (Koran).
*Gold Medal winner in the 2014 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Home & Garden*"e;Just flipping through the pages of Quiet Beauty: The Japanese Gardens of North America will instantly lower your blood pressure.
The widespread influence of Buddhism is due in part to the skill with which a way of liberation was refined by it's teachers and became accessible to people of diverse cultures.
This beautiful gardening bookfull of lush photographs and insightful commentarywill surely give readers some new ideas for their home landscaping projects or Bali travel plans.
Offering a series of studies on key aspects of the Bonhoeffer's theology, this book emphasizes the biblical texture and dogmatic depth of his work and its continuing legacy.
This work traces the contours, shape, and development of Webster's Trinitarian theology and subsequently enliven debates in contemporary systematic theology.
This work traces the contours, shape, and development of Webster's Trinitarian theology and subsequently enliven debates in contemporary systematic theology.
Photography in Japan 1853-1912 is a fascinating visual record of Japanese culture during its metamorphosis from a feudal society to a modern, industrial nation at a time when the art of photography was still in its infancy.
Offering a series of studies on key aspects of the Bonhoeffer's theology, this book emphasizes the biblical texture and dogmatic depth of his work and its continuing legacy.
Written over a century ago when Japan was abandoning its rich traditions to embrace the hysteria of colonization, this classic written by Okakura Kakuzo helped preserve the masterpieces of Japanese art and culture by illuminating the spirit of the Japanese Tea Masters.
With over 350 full-color photographs and in-depth text, Classic Thai showcases the finest interior design art and architecture of the Kingdom of Thailand.
Since the moment William Ferriss parents gave their twelve-year-old son a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in 1954, Ferris passionately began to photograph his world.
In 2008, the Chinese government cracked down on protests throughout Tibet, and journalist Amy Yee found herself covering a press conference with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, his exile home in India.
UNA HISTORIA RECIENTE DE LA FOTOGRAFÍA Y A LA VEZ UN MANUAL PRÁCTICO REPLETO DE INNUMERABLES ANÉCDOTAS Y BASADO EN LAS LECCIONES DE LOS GRANDES MAESTROS.
At first glance, Jessica Ingrams landscape photographs could have been made nearly anywhere in the American South: a fenced-in backyard, a dirt road lined by overgrowth, a field grooved with muddy tire prints.
In 1942, Bill Manbo (19081992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming.
Between 2009 and 2014, as the nation contemplatedthe historic election of Barack Obama andendured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson set out with a camera to explore and document what was discernible to the historians eye during this tumultuous period.
A trailblazer for women photographers in the South, North Carolinas Bayard Wootten (18751959) overcame economic hardship, gender discrimination, and the obscurity of a small-town upbringing to become the states most significant early female photographer.
