This unique book is the only fully interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of the Australian desert and its pivotal role in the cultural history of Australia.Beginning with the prehistory of the continent, it engages with geology, the Abo...Lasīt vairāk
This unique book is the only fully interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of the Australian desert and its pivotal role in the cultural history of Australia.Beginning with the prehistory of the continent, it engages with geology, the Abo...Lasīt vairāk
Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees is a unique multidisciplinary book which brings together natural history, science, Indigenous knowledge, public policy, art, and creative writing to spotlight the iconic Joshua tree threatened by climat...Lasīt vairāk
The first complete survey of an underrecognized American modernist in more than two decades. Agnes Pelton became famous for her distinctive metaphysical landscape paintings rooted in the imagery of the American Southwest and Calif...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Nov-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520306691)
Long viewed as a tabula rasa, the deserts of the American West have played a distinct role in the projection of American cultural identities. Historically represented through fantasies of individualism, frontier ruggedness, and land acquisition, the...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Aug-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Crown Books for Young Readers, ISBN-13: 9780593121276)
When his mother, a professional singer, dies, twelve-year-old Harrison moves to the southern Utah desert, where he continues learning card tricks, makes new friends, enters an art contest, and finds a way to pay tribute to his mother. Practic...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Aug-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Crown Books for Young Readers, ISBN-13: 9780593121269)
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Practicing advanced magic illusions to comfort himself during the year following his famous singer mothers death, Harrison is placed in the care of an aunt whose community is believed to be patronized by a wish-granting art judge. By the author of T...Lasīt vairāk
Now available in a new paperback edition,this book for young readers offers anillustrated introduction to the life and artof Georgia OKeeffe. Georgia OKeeffes bold and colorful depictions of flowers, NewYork skylines, and desert la...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Aug-1997, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Nevada Press, ISBN-13: 9780874172942)
A collection of letters from and to the writer whose book, The Desert , fostered an appreciation of the American Southwest in the early years of the 20th century. Although he wrote that he rode alone on horseback through thousands of miles of the re...Lasīt vairāk
