"Tokachi Millennium Forest" is a gorgeous overview of the design and construction of the Millennium Forest, envisioned by entrepreneur Mitsushige Hayashi, who bought land to make his newspaper business carbon neutral. Over time, the... Read More
“When we look through the eye of the camera, hidden things sometimes appear that we might not otherwise notice,” writes photographer Ryan J. Bush. After twenty-one years as a fine art photographer, he positions the natural world as a... Read More
Beautiful and photo-filled with elements of a reference text and a travel memoir, this is a firmly grounded study of essential oils. In Healing Civilizations, Nadim Shaath takes a literal and spiritual worldwide journey to rediscover the... Read More
Hifalutin art snobs say that designers don’t qualify as artists because they’re constrained by budget, production specifications, and the unglamorous nuts-and-bolts parts needed to make things functional. In our mind, that’s like... Read More
Shuffle through your memory bank of WWI and you’ll likely visualize grainy, b&w images of trenches, gas masks, zeppelins, and mud, lots of mud. Americans, especially, can’t readily distinguish the Ardennes from Verdun, Ypres from... Read More
Washington DC’s Embassy Row, an avenue of unrivaled diplomatic importance, is anchored by the British ambassador’s residence, a massive neoclassical English country house—the haunt of kings and queens and countless other royalty... Read More
Essayists muse about J. Fenwick Lansdowne’s career as a nature artist in this vibrant and intimate look at his life and works. Vibrant images fill this tribute to Canadian avian artist J. Fenwick Lansdowne (1937-2008). Born in Hong... Read More
Extensively researched and enriched text details British imperialism in India. “The Great Game” of this book’s title was the half century of political maneuvering and machinations in the Hindu Kush and in India’s Northwest... Read More