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  • Vietnam, Our Beloved Land

    Translated by The-Uy Tran ...
    This collection of photography and essays from 1960's Vietnam offers a picture of normal, daily life during the Vietnam War era.Some of the photographs were entered in international expositions where they were recognized not only for fine composition and balance, but also for their ability to capture glimpses of Vietnam that few Westerners have had the chance to see, or understand.What do such ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Spirit World

    by Michael Smith ...
    The author of New Orleans Jazz Fest documents the thriving cultural richness of the Black Big Easy and captures the expressions of urban folk culture.Many Black neighborhoods in New Orleans are perceived by outsiders as being areas of decay. However, to photographer Michael P. Smith, in these neighborhoods remained the preserves of a rich cultural heritage. Smith, who photographed the subject for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • More Toronto Sketches

    The Way We Were

    by Mike Filey ...
    Mike Filey’s "The Way We Were" column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper’s most popular features. In More Toronto Sketches, the second volume in Dundurn Press’s Toronto Sketches series, Filey brings together some of the best of his columns.Each column looks at Toronto as it was, and contributes to our understanding of how Toronto became what it is. Illustrated with photographs of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Betty Page Confidential

    Featuring Never-Before Seen Photographs

    Curvaceous, friendly and wholesome-looking, Playboy pinup Betty Page was the perfect complement to the still-innocent fantasies of young men during the Eisenhower years. Betty Page Confidential includes a biography of the reclusive goddess, an official Betty Page trivia quiz and 100 photos.Betty Page Confidential is the ultimate book on this 1950s icon. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Towns of the Monadnock Region

    Series series Images of America
    Since the development of photography in the mid-nineteenth century, the camera has been used as a tool of both discovery and preservation. Photographs bring alive our image of the past, and can open a floodgate of memories and nostalgia or inspire curiosity and a sense of history. One of the prominent geological features in the southwest corner of New Hampshire is Grand Monadnock, a bald granite ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gloucester on the Wind

    America's Greatest Fishing Port in the Days of Sail

    Series series Images of America
    Gloucester on the Wind is an engaging history of this town, with never before seen historical photographs.Since the development of photography in the mid-nineteenth century, the camera has been used as a tool of both discovery and preservation. Photographs bring alive our image of the past, and can open a floodgate of memories and nostalgia or inspire curiosity and a sense of history. Originally ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pleasures Taken

    Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs

    by Carol Mavor ...
    An intimate look into three Victorian photo-settings, Pleasures Taken considers questions of loss and sexuality as they are raised by some of the most compelling and often misrepresented photographs of the era: Lewis Carroll’s photographs of young girls; Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographs of Madonnas; and the photographs of Hannah Cullwick, a "maid of all work," who had herself pictured in a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Littleton, New Hampshire

    Series series Images of America
    Littleton, New Hampshire, is listed number eleven in Norman Crampton�s One Hundred Best Small Towns in America, and it does indeed have a great deal to offer. Situated between two major rivers in the heart of the White Mountains, it was incorporated in 1784 but it wasn�t until the nineteenth century that the incredibly striking natural beauty of the surrounding area was discovered by the outside ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cranbury

    Series series Images of America
    Few New Jersey towns have retained as much nineteenth-century charm as Cranbury. Set in agriculturally rich Middlesex County, Cranbury is known for its shuttered white-clapboard houses, lovely shaded streets, picket fences, and tranquil lake. First settled in 1697, Cranbury came of age more than one hundred years later when it developed into a bustling center with a gristmill, a sawmill, tanneries ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Boston

    A Century of Progress

    Series series Images of America
    On March 4, 1822, the townsfolk of Boston voted to incorporate their town as the City of Boston. A great change had just taken place, but even greater changes were to come during the ensuing century, as Boston's population grew from 50,000 to 750,000 by 1922 and as it developed from a colonial town into the "Hub of the Universe." Boston: A Century of Progress brings to life one hundred amazing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jersey City

    Series series Images of America
    Go inside the people, places and events of Jersey City with over 200 fascinating photographs that bring its past to life!Author Patrick Shalhoub takes us on a journey into Jersey City's past. We see the farming communities which dominated the locality from the 1660s through the middle of the 19th century when the area was part of the larger Bergen Township. We then experience the arrival of the ... Read more

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  • Plymouth, Connecticut

    Series series Images of America
    During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the town of Plymouth, Connecticut�formerly known as Northbury�was settled only by scattered groups of Indians and hearty newcomers from Europe. As time went on, however, the Town of Plymouth developed into an industrial community composed of nine organized districts: Plymouth, Greystone, Allentown, the Lakes, Pequabuck, Terryville, East Plymouth, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Along the Toms River

    Series series Images of America
    See the people, places and events that have defined the city of Toms River and its surrounding area since the early 1700s.Located on the banks of the river of the same name, Toms River was first settled in the early 1700s by loggers drawn to the dense forests on the river's banks. During the American Revolution, the village was a constant thorn in the side of the British, and it was attacked and ... Read more

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  • Newport

    by Rob Lewis ...
    Series series Images of America
    Visit the town of Newport, one of New England's largest seaports, through this new and exciting photographic history.Founded in 1639, the city of Newport offered a temperate climate and a wealth of natural resources to early settlers seeking religious freedom. In Colonial times, Newport flourished as one of New England's largest seaports, a prosperity dimmed only by the Revolutionary War and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Japan Land of Beauty & Tradition

    by Philip Sandoz ...
    This Japan travel guide features dozens of beautiful photographs and insightful commentary.Japan: Land of Beauty and Tradition takes the reader on a sweeping tour of this always enticing and often surprising country. From the gaudy exuberance of the Sensoji temple to the tranquility of Ryoanji's stone garden, from Kyushu's tropical shores to Hokkaido's arctic slopes, from rice fields and iris ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Beautiful Japan

    A Souvenir

    by Leza Lowitz ...
    This beautifully photographed Japan travel pictorial features all the most famous sites in Japan along with extensive notes and even maps.Shop along tree-lined streets filled with exclusive boutiques, stroll in ancient temple grounds, strike a business deal on the thirty-second floor of a chrome-and-glass skyscraper, get swept up in the crowds, or sip sake with newfound friends in a bustling ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Scarborough

    Series series Images of America
    Through this significant and entertaining collection we experience Prout's Neck the way artist Winslow Homer knew it and everyday life the way that Scarborough photographer Charles F. Walker captured it on film for future generations to marvel at.Imagine arriving at Scarborough in the late 1800s, stepping out of your train car onto the platform, and becoming one of the many visitors enjoying the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Around Wiscasset

    Alna, Dresden, Westport Island, Wiscasset, and Woolwich

    by Jim Harnedy ...
    Series series Images of America
    The Kennebec and Sheepscot Rivers of Maine, natural boundaries for the Wiscasset region, provided the water highways for early explorers, traders, and missionaries.For over 360 years, the area has been home to shipbuilders, fishermen, farmers, and tradesmen. This marvelous photographic chronicle traces not only the rich historical traditions of the area, but also the shared sense of life's ... Read more

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  • I'd Rather Live in Buxton

    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 of prejudice, of learning that in the world outside Buxton, black stars would have to shine doubly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Southampton

    by Mary Cummings ...
    Series series Images of America
    From a bucolic backwater to one of the most fashionable resorts on the East Coast, this is the history of New York's Southampton.Settled in 1640 by a group of Puritans from Massachusetts, Southampton changed very little until the railroad line from New York City reached the village in 1870, focusing mainly on whaling. It was only then that wealthy New Yorkers discovered the rural hamlet on the ... Read more

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  • Bradford

    The End of an Era

    Series series Images of America
    For more than 225 years, the town of Bradford, Massachusetts, led an independent life on the Merrimack River. Stately homes lined its main roads, a classic New England common graced its center, and high on a hill stood Bradford Academy, the town�s best-known institution. In November 1896, Bradford�s long independence came to an end when the town�s voters agreed to annexation by the city of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Echoes of Edgecombe County

    1860-1940

    Series series Images of America
    Edgecombe County, North Carolina, has a long andintriguing history stretching back to the 1730s, when the first permanent European residents began settling the banks of the Tar River, and beyond, when Tuscaroras roamed the woodlands of this fertile region. Edgecombe County was recognized as a county in 1741; just over a century later it led the nation in cotton production and was well known as a ... Read more

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  • Ocean City, New Jersey

    Series series Images of America
    Ocean City, which calls itself "America's Greatest Family Resort," is best known for its clean beaches and yearly bayfront celebration called the "Night in Venice."Founded in 1879 as a Christian seaside resort, the island community still maintains some of its early traditions including prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages--while striving to continue its long-standing reputation as a family ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Doing Life

    Reflections Of Men And Women Serving Life Sentences

    by Howard Zehr ...
    What does it mean to face a life prison sentence? What have "lifers" learned about life-from having taken a life? Photographer Howard Zehr has interviewed and made portraits of men and women in Pennsylvania prisons who are serving life sentences without possibility of parole. Readers see the prisoners as people, de-mystified. Brief text accompanies each portrait, the voice of each prisoner ... Read more

    $10.99 USD