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"Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs,...

Presents a collection of stories about animals who have forged unlikely, abiding bonds with other animals of different species, Koko the gorilla and All Ball the kitten to Owen the hippo and the tortoise Mzee.

"The sky is made of rivers before and after they became rivers," writes Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg. Weather subtly shapes our days, infuses our moods and interactions, and at times, completely re-orients our lives. Catching moments of stunning beauty and surprising shifts in the sky helps make the vibrant and variable world more visible to us, and shows us how to truly see--

The Planets features more than 200 stunning photographs of our solar system from the archives of NASA, each paired with a detailed caption. The content is organized by distance from the Sun--beginning with Mercury and moving outward through Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and the planetary objects beyond.--

A photographic documentary of American military life offers insight into the lives of the nation's elite units, new recruits, and MPs on outposts, strategic bases, and in the cockpits of fighter planes.