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Greenpeace: Standing up for the Earth Calendar 2009 (Wall Calendars)

Greenpeace

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A Little step to help the world 5 out of 5 stars.
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Our world needs help in so many ways! This is a simple and beautiful way to spread the message. I give them every year for the holidays and Amazon.com is the only place I can count on to have them! Thank you!

Greenpeace calendar 5 out of 5 stars.
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Every year I buy the Greenpeace calendars and I use them as per Christmas present. I use it by agenda and the pictures are fantastics! (sorry for my english...)

Editorial Review:

Dazzling in its imagery and powerful in its message of conservation, Greenpeace features a dozen full-color portraits by the world's top nature photographers, including Art Wolfe and Frans Lanting: emperor penguins waddling across an ice floe. A manatee and her baby gliding through glassy Florida waters. Alaska's tundra turned into a tapestry of red, yellow, and orange fall foliage. From the expressive face of a Japanese macaque to a Scottish woodland abloom with bluebells, each picture is a poignant reminder of just what is at stake. As always, all royalties from the sale of this calendar go to support the work of Greenpeace.

Life: Picture Puzzle Holidays! (Life Picture Puzzle)

Editors of Life Magazine

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As the leaves change colour and the air turns crisp, our thoughts naturally turn to the upcoming holiday festivities. The folks at "Life" have also been thinking about these days of good cheer, and have been busy collecting the prettiest and most fun-filled photos of the winter holidays. "Life Picture Puzzle: Holiday" is 144 pages filled with all the moments that warm our hearts and the most amusing, challenging and beautiful puzzles drawn from Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year's. See if you can spot the differences as the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade floats by or catch the funny ornaments that have jumped on the Christmas tree.

Creature

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Total reviews: 23 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

A daring design by a phenomenal artist 5 out of 5 stars.
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It is obvious by looking at the other reviews that the controversy over this book's layout is frustratingly bifurcated for the undecided buyer. The book has a delightfully bold layout and my review is as follows; the white backgrounds create a uniformity that stabilizes the book page to page. Additionally, the white aids the effort to capture the intrinsic 'creature' within each animal. Unless there can be an appreciation and an understanding for the blankness within this book, its purchase will sadly be seen as a waste. It is comforting to know that, regardless of harsh critics and naive readers, the book was driven solely by simple design. In our capitalistic economy today, it is difficult to create a sound book without trying to appeal to public tastes, but Andrew Zuckerman succeeded with Creature.

Editorial Review:

Photographer Andrew Zuckerman's strikingly detailed images of animals from around the world are as delightful as they are inspiring. This collection of astonishing studio portraits of 175 wild creatures from baby leopards to parrots, bears, mandrills, and many more are stunningly foregrounded against white backgrounds, depicting their subjects with rare sensitivity, insight, humor, and wonder. Zuckerman also an up-and-coming filmmaker, whose first short film, High Falls, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 has created a volume perfect for animal lovers, photography fans, and anyone fascinated by the world around us. Creature is a beautiful and thought-provoking look at the fragile wonders of the natural world.

Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People

Hamish Bowles

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

This unique book of thirty-six spectacular houses and gardens—whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and society—draws not only on stories that have appeared in the pages of Vogue and Vogue Living over the past two decades but also on images that have never before been published. Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People takes you to these style-makers’ private realms around the world, captured by such celebrated photographers as Miles Aldridge, Cecil Beaton, Jonathan Becker, Eric Boman, Oberto Gili, François Halard, Horst P. Horst, Annie Leibovitz, Sheila Metzner, Mario Testino, Tim Walker, and Bruce Weber, among many others. Their dazzling photographs bring to life interiors and exteriors, modern and classical, that are both inspiring and transporting. Writers like Hamish Bowles, Joan Juliet Buck, Dodie Kazanjian, Eve MacSweeney, Julia Reed, Marina Rust, and Vicki Woods take us behind the scenes to give us an intimate view of the owners and how they live.

Here are Madonna’s romantic rural retreat in the depths of the English countryside and the Oscar de la Renta’s coral-stone Palladian mansion on the coast of the Dominican Republic; Michael and Eva Chow’s epic Los Angeles manse and shoe maestro Christian Louboutin’s magical houseboat on the Nile; Donna Karan’s Zenlike Manhattan aerie and legendary tastemaker Marella Agnelli’s enchanted villa and gardens in the Palmeraie of Marrakesh; Julian and Olatz Schnabel’s operatic downtown loft and childrenswear designer Rachel Riley’s miniature château on the Loire; celebrated landscape gardener Fernando Caruncho’s innovative Spanish gardens and Houghton, David Cholmondeley’s magnificent English stately home; Janet de Botton’s idyllic Provençal estate; and four decades of Karl Lagerfeld’s endlessly surprising houses, both innovative and palatial.

Lavishly illustrated in full color, Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People is an irresistible voyage through some of the world’s most beautiful and private gardens and interiors.

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats

Peter Menzel

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Total reviews: 43 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

interesting read 4 out of 5 stars.
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this book is facinating if you are at all interested in how the rest of the world lives

Superb reading!! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I couldn't put this book down! I was drawn to it because it mixed my loves of both food and culture into one superb read.The photography is stunning,the cultural facts immersing and the reading about different families addictive.

Editorial Review:

The age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as rising world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglomerates, transform eating habits worldwide. HUNGRY PLANET profiles 30 families from around the world?including Bosnia, Chad, Egypt, Greenland, Japan, the United States, and France?and offers detailed descriptions of weekly food purchases; photographs of the families at home, at market, and in their communities; and a portrait of each family surrounded by a week's worth of groceries. Featuring photo-essays on international street food, meat markets, fast food, and cookery, this captivating chronicle offers a riveting look at what the world really eats.

Audubon 365 Songbirds and Other Backyard Birds Picture-A-Day Calendar 2009 (Picture-A-Day Wall Calendars)

National Audubon Society

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Great photos! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I had this calendar for 2008 and loved seeing all of the beautiful pictures of the birds on every day of the month. I will definitely order it for 2009.

Editorial Review:

For America's 70 million birders, 365 Songbirds presents the thrill of a new sighting every day. Close-up and in vivid full color, these are the familiar warblers that flit around the yard, perch on the feeder, and bring music and beauty to our daily lives. An American Goldfinch decked out in bright summer plummage, a robin's nest with a clutch of blue eggs, a Northern Cardinal perched on a snow-covered branch. Plus woodpeckers, jays, meadowlarks, sparrows, orioles, and jewel-like hummingbirds. In addition to the daily featured birds, one species is celebrated in depth each month, with a large photograph and detailed text.

A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart

Maria Alexandra Vettese, Stephanie Congdon Barnes

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Editorial Review:

The morning hours before the hustle and bustle of the day commences is the perfect time to pause and enjoy a sense of renewal and vitality. On the morning of December 7, 2006, Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes each took a digital photo of everyday objects randomly arranged on their kitchen tables and, unbeknownst to one another, uploaded them to the website Flickr.

"A Year of Mornings" collects 236 images – always taken before 10AM without discussion between the two women – from this uniquely 21st-century artistic collaboration. The intimacy of these photographs – discarded clothing, a view of a snowy day from the window, a table cloth – combined with their striking similarities in color and composition defies the reality of their long-distance collaboration. While clearly kindred spirits, the two women have met in person only once. Their friendship is maintained solely online, sustained by a shared love for moments of serenity, solitude, and peacefulness. The annotated photographs in "A Year of Mornings" radiate an aura of sweetness and light – the promise of a new day.

Seen Behind the Scene (Photography) (Photography)

Mary Ellen Mark

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Editorial Review:

Since the 1960s Mary Ellen Mark has worked on over 100 film sets as a 'special stills photographer', making thousands of documentary photographs of life behind the scenes, rather than conventional still photographs made of actors on camera. This exciting new book presents the best of her images ranging from the first films that Mark shot in the 1960s, such as Fellini's Satyricon, to legendary 1970s productions like Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, as well as films from the ensuing decades, ranging from Network to Tootsie, from Gandhi to Showgirls. She continues to work on film sets and over the last decade has photographed recent Oscar-winning productions such as Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritú's Babel, and Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.



Over her career, Mark has been given unprecedented access to the film sets she has worked on, roaming freely among cast and directors, and photographing in make-up, during rehearsals, on the set, and off the set to provide a full picture of life behind the scenes. Her experience over the last forty years reveals much about the changes in filmmaking. She recalls in her introduction how she loved to photograph the director's reaction and interaction during rehearsal when he was behind the camera; but now in contemporary filmmaking the director is nowhere near the camera, but rather in front of a video monitor away from the set. Her iconic 1960s portraits of Fellini behind his camera fix this moment in film history and are evidence of the changes in technology.



Mark's portraits from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s reveal the changing nature of celebrity. When she first started working, Mark would be just another person on the set with full access to every cast member. With the rise of the massive power and impact of celebrity, it has become much more difficult for photographers to work on sets, when actors are constantly surrounded by an entourage of publicists, agents, and assistants. Their schedules are carefully planned down to the minute, and it is harder for a photographer to gain access to them. Therefore, Mark's more recent candid photos of major celebrities, such as Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, and Nicole Kidman, are rare and particularly special.



Seen Behind the Scene includes beautiful and engaging portraits, documentary pictures that reveal the way a film is made, dramatic moments in direction, and amusing photos that reveal the camaraderie on set - such as Henry Fonda making faces behind Katharine Hepburn, well-known prankster Jack Nicholson turning Stockard Channing upside down, and Dustin Hoffman causing a lot of amusement in his female costume between scenes on the set of Tootsie.



The text for the book comes from a number of high profile actors, directors, and film industry professionals who complete this picture of life 'behind the scenes' by sharing their anecdotes and thoughts about their profession. Among these engaging texts, cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno remembers how Fellini fled in fear of the white horse in Satyricon, Sofia Coppola recalls growing up on set with her father, and Helen Mirren eloquently describes the disconcerting experience of night shoots to complete this insight into the world of filmmaking.

The Secret Garden Calendar 2009 (Wall Calendars)

Smith & Hawken

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My sister's favorite 5 out of 5 stars.
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I get this calendar every year for my sister who lives out of the country. She enjoys it every time. Beautiful inspirations. I was however, disappointed the other Smith and Hawken calendar was not available for 2009.

Editorial Review:

A little slice of paradise tucked away from the outside world—over a mossy stone wall, at the end of an overgrown path, through a latched gate—the secret garden is a sanctuary of sensory pleasures: birdsong and gently trickling water, the scent of blooming flowers, the sun-dappled beauty of layers of greenery. From Smith & Hawken comes a year of serene havens for the mind and spirit. An English country retreat overrun with roses. Through a beautiful stone archway, a sunny kitchen garden. And an irresistible invitation to sit and stay awhile: a greenery-enveloped nook furnished with a pair of chairs. Accompanying the transporting photographs are gardening quotations and appreciations.

Equus

Tim Flach

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“From the outset I felt quite strongly that I wanted to celebrate the horse in its own right.”                                         —Tim Flach, photographer

 

No animal has captured the human imagination quite like the horse, depicted in media from cave drawings thousands of years ago through countless renderings in paint, clay, ink, even film. Award-winning photographer Tim Flach’s quest to document the horse has resulted in Equus, an intensely moving look at an animal—as solitary subject and en masse, from the air and from underwater—whose history is so powerfully linked to our own.

 

From exquisite Arabians in the Royal Yards of the United Arab Emirates to purebred Icelandic horses in their glacial habitat; from the soulful gaze of a single horse’s lash-lined eye to the thundering majesty of thousands of Mustangs racing across the plains of Utah, Equus provides an amazing and unique insight into the physical dynamics and spirit of the horse.