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Over 12 million people each year are wowed by Matteo Pericoli's spectacular skyline mural in New York's JFK International Airport. Now Pericoli has rendered that same mural in the unique accordion format of his previous best-selling book Manhattan Unfurled. The original 397-foot drawing (the largest ever featured in an airline terminal) captures the breathtaking beauty of 415 famous buildings from 70 countries melded into a seamless skyline where the Eiffel Tower rubs shoulders with the Brooklyn Bridge. Pericoli's art speaks to the traveler in us all and serves as a visual reminder that the world is smaller than we think. With this mural reproduced in its entirety on a 10-foot foldout scroll of paper readers will hold the world in their hands..
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Enjoy the majesty of Colorado's highest peaks with this beautiful coffee table book. Borneman, co-author of A Climbing Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, and Caudle, photographer of several books and calendars featuring Colorado scenics, have combined their talents and wealth of knowledge of Colorado's fourteeners to produce the ultimate celebration of these heralded peaks. 14,000 Feet is a book sure to be loved by climbers and armchair travelers alike..
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A tale of two cities -- both called "New York."

The first is a real city, an urban agglomeration of millions The second is a mythic city, so rich in memory and association and sense of place that to people everywhere it has come to seem real: the New York of such films such as 42nd Street, Rear Window, King Kong, Dead End, The Naked City, Ghostbusters, Annie Hall, Taxi Driver, and Do the Right Thing — a magical city of the imagination that is as complex, dynamic, and familiar as its namesake of stone and steel.

As James Sanders shows in this deeply original work, the dream city of the movies — created by more than a century of films, from the very dawn of the medium itself — may hold the secret to the allure and excitement of the actual place. Here are the cocktail parties and power lunches, the subway chases and opening nights, the playground rumbles and rooftop romances. Here is an invented Gotham, a place designed specifically for action, drama, and adventure, a city of bright avenues and mysterious side streets, of soaring towers and intimate corners, where remarkable people do exciting, amusing, romantic, scary things. Sanders takes us from the tenement to the penthouse, from New York to Hollywood and back again, from 1896 to the present, all the while showing how the real and mythic cities reflected, changed, and taught each other.

Lavishly illustrated with scores of rare and unusual production images culled from Sanders's decade-long research in studio archives and private collections around the country, Celluloid Skyline offers a new way to see not only America’s greatest metropolis, but cities the world over.


From the Hardcover edition..
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Travel on a journey from London to Hong Kong. Compare the historic skylines of some of the world's most treasured cities with the contemporary photographs of Blakeway Worldwide Panoramas, while visiting 14 locations in this 17-month landscape-format calendar and seeing how these extraordinary cities have changed through time. A skyline key identifies some of the main landmarks in each city.

Experience Monte Carlo, Paris, Toronto, and Moscow, among others, as you've never seen them before.

Large format allows for the best presentation of the skyline photographs..
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Although fundamental factors of program, technology, and economics make tall buildings everywhere take similar forms, skyscrapers in New York and Chicago developed very differently in the first half of the twentieth century. In contrast to standard histories that counterpose the design philosophies of the Chicago and New York "schools," Willis shows how market formulas produced characteristic forms in each city—"vernaculars of capitalism"—that resulted from local land-use patterns, municipal codes, and zoning. Refuting some common clich s of skyscraper history such as the equation of big buildings with big business and the idea of a "corporate skyline," Willis emphasizes the importance of speculative development and the impact of real-estate cycles on the forms of buildings and on their spatial distribution.

Form Follows Finance cautions that the city must be understood as a complex commercial environment where buildings are themselves businesses, space is a commodity, and location and image have value..
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The Sixth Marine Division holds a unique place in U.S. Marine Corps history, because it was retired after one great battle. The division was formed on Guadalcanal in September 1944, its ranks filled with battle-hardened veterans and untested replacement troops. The Sixth Division fought its only action on the island of Okinawa from April to June 1945 but entered the fight with more combat experience overall than any other Marine division in its initial battle. It disappointed no one. The Okinawa campaign involved eight Army and Marine divisions, but the Sixth captured most of the ground in some of the bloodiest fighting of the war. Weeks later, atomic attacks on two Japanese cities in early August 1945 swiftly ended the war. "Before Hiroshima there was Okinawa. Because of Okinawa, in considerable part there was Hiroshima," wrote one reporter. With the invasion of Japan canceled, the Sixth Division went to China on occupation duty and, on 1 April 1946, was reorganized out of existence. As it was created overseas, so was it disbanded.

This book tells the story of these Marines in their own words. Historian Laura Lacey—a Marine family member who has lived on Okinawa—sympathetically portrays the men who in 1945 fought a tremendous battle that she contends has not received its full share of attention from historians. Lacey considers the gritty details of close quarters combat and considers the myriad physical and psychological wounds that war wreaks. With Marines now engaged in a tough fight in Iraq, Lacey’s book reminds us that whether or not a war is popular, war is indeed hell..
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Take a scenic journey through Rocky Mountain National Park through the eyes of talented photographer Erik Stensland Erik lives just outside the park boundary in Estes Park, and uses his ease of access to take frequent forays into the park to capture its most beautiful places and its most fleeting moments..
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Celebrate the beauty and diversity of the Colorado landscape with a new photo for every week of the year! This engagement calendar is laid out with expansive grids with plenty of room for recording important dates and events..
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Celebrate the beauty and diversity of Colorado's 14,000-foot-high peaks with 14 new photos by members of the legendary Colorado Mountain Club, including award-winning Colorado photographer, Todd Caudle! This deluxe wall calendar is laid out with expansive grids with plenty of room for recording important dates and events. This is the official calendar of the Colorado Mountain Club!.
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