Portraits taken in the 1990s of Somali refugees in camps in Kenya. This book was the first in a series of projects intended to further awareness of international human rights issues.

Leaving behind a world on the brink of destruction, man came to the Red planet and found the Martians waiting, dreamlike. Seeking the promise of a new beginning, man brought with him his oldest fears...

Yevtushenko's poetry leaps continents and covers war and peace, intolerance and human striving. {This is} a passionate and essential edition of his collected poems. --Herbert Mitgant, The New York...

Robert A. M. Stern Architects, over its forty-year history and across a wide range of building types, has defined principles common to all projects. Stern articulates the ideas that govern his design...

Filmmaker Robert Gardner reflects on a life spent observing, recording and illuminating the human condition in some of the most remote regions of the world.

"This healthy collection of new poems and selections from seven previous volumes is remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his...

"Scientist Rosemary Grant's journey in life has involved detours and sidesteps--not the shortest or the straightest of paths, but one that has led her to the top of evolutionary biology. In this...

A comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the present. Written with an international perspective that encourages...

Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight...

From the author of City of Bohane, a debut collection that "could easily have been titled ‘These Are Little Masterpieces'" (The Irish Times)This award-winning story collection by Kevin Barry summons...

For thirty years David G. Campbell has explored the Amazon, an enchanting terrain of forest and river that is home to the greatest diversity of plants and animals to have ever existed, anywhere at...

In the 'Baptism of Christ', long recognized as a major achievement of the early renaissance, a sense of haunting portent emanates from a seemingly straightforward representation of a familiar...

Product Description This edited volume interrogates the "global cities" literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial "global network." Through a historical-ethnographic...