Edited and with an introduction by Sam Watters, American Gardens has more than 250 archival photographs and plans and an invaluable biography section profiling the schooling and projects of the landscape designers whose work is featured in the book. In a large landscape format, American Gardens captures estate gardens as they existed for one generation, a time when people had the land, the time, and the skill to fulfill the grandest gardening fantasies

Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop is the first fully illustrated tour of iconic print shop and also chronicles the long life and large cast of employees, entertainers, and American legends whose histories are intertwined with it. Complete with 190 illustrations - as well as a special book jacket that unfolds to reveal an original Hatch poster on the reverse - Hatch Show Print is a dazzling document of this legendary institution

Sara Cedar Miller, the official historian and photographer for the Central Park Conservancy, draws on extensive research to tell the captivating story of the park's creation, placing it in the context of 19th-century American art and social history and illuminating the roles of its designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and their associate Jacob Wrey Mould. Fascinating period views and original plans and drawings, many previously unpublished, are complemented by Miller's breathtaking new photographs, which reveal the restored park in all its glory

In Parks and Plates, Robert J. Lillie explains the fascinating geological processes that have formed these dramatic volcanoes, shorelines, and landscapes. Structuring the text around major geological features, Lillie highlights geologic patterns across many different parks and uses over 100 park sites to illustrate plate tectonics visually. Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, diagrams, and maps, Parks and Plates is the ideal text to enrich undergraduates experience of our national parks

The Splendid Heritage catalog of American Indian artifacts represents the commitment of American collectors to share the beauty and significance of hundreds of ethnographic treasures with a worldwide audience

Jubilee provides a clear-eyes chronicle of slavery and its enormous effect on out nation's history and economy, tracing the origin and development of the slave trade and the realities of life for Africans - slaves, runaways, and freedom alike - in pre-Civil War America. The book also illustrates how the conditions of the "peculiar institution" were transformed into a vibrant, distinctively African-American culture

В монографии представлен комплексный анализ концептуальных положений и современных подходов изучения феномена международного предпринимательства; раскрыта роль личностных и организационных факторов, а также различных факторов окружающей среды, влияющих на эффективность международного предпринимательства, классифицирована деятельность международного предпринимательства

This book comprises speeches of authoritative politicians from other countries, spiritual leaders, intellectuals and businessmen about background of success in Kazakhstan, led by N.Nazarbayev

This work focuses on themes related to daily life, depicting the natural scenery along the banks of the Bian River, and the hustling and bustling life in the early twelfth-century city of Bianjing, then the capital of Northern Song Dynasty, as its citizens celebrate the Qingming Festival

This guide give enough of the Azerbaijan history and culture to have a better appreciation for the people