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"White Sands National Monument in south-central New Mexico provides a unique desert experience for the half-million tourists who visit each year. Schneider-Hector's history of White Sands, one of the world's greatest concentrations of gypsum dunes, enhances that experience by clearly explaining the geological formation of the dunes, the interaction of plants and animals, and the effects of human intervention"--Back cover.
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Beautifully presented and accompanied by lively and informative essays, this volume presents for the first time the entire art collection of the White House. By tracing the development of the collection from 1800 to the present, Kloss covers the history of the events of the nation as well as a social history of the widely divergent tastes of the American populace. The book is divided into three parts: an overview of the collection's development is...
15) Real life at the White House: two hundred years of daily life at America's most famous residence
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Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the White House with this richly illustrated new book on America's, if not the world's, most famous residence. Abigail Adams dried her wash in the unfinished East Room. Benjamin Harrison left the lights burning all night because he feared being shocked by the newly installed electric switches. LBJ waged an obsessive battle with the water pressure in the shower, demanding shower heads on all sides. His successor,...
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"Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise was immediately hailed as Don DeLillo's "breakout novel" when it first appeared in 1985. The novel entertains a wide array of compelling topics and concerns with consummate agility. Study this spot-on satire of post-war America" -- publisher website (July 2007).
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In Whiteness Visible, Valerie Babb investigates the history, values, rituals, and shared consciousness that created whiteness in the United States, as well as the representations that sustain its influence on both cultural and literary vision. Babb formulates an understanding of whiteness by tracing its literary and cultural evolution, enlisting diverse sources from, among others, the Han dynasty, Aristotle's Politica, and excerpts from the recollections...
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This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the photographic work and teaching of Clarence H. White and his students, who were New York's vanguard art photographers in the first half of this century. The incisive texts, written by two White scholars, examine the social context of White's ideologies, and arts and crafts principles. These beautifully reproduced images reveal the photographic work of White and his students, which is based...
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Margaret Bourke-White was an internationally renowned photojournalist who from the 1920s through the 1950s tirelessly and fearlessly recorded the objects, people, and events that shaped history. Famous first as an industrial photographer, then as one of the four original staff members of LIFE magazine, her vision and camera took her where others had never dared to venture. Her lasting contributions to photojournalism and documentary photography brought...
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