A book full of tongue twisters, zany poems and jingles from many countries, for stumbling and stuttering, singing and savoring.

Cohen's Cornucopia

Mark Cohen

Sagebrush Education Resources

Idaho's Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument opens a window into the earth to reveal an extraordinary treasure trove of fossils from the Northwest's past. The discovery there of the modern horse's ancestor reveals how life has persisted and evolved against incredible odds. The story of how a natural wonder became a national monument sheds light on the development of modern paleontology and wilderness ecology.

Equus evolves: The story of the Hagerman horse

Black Canyon Communications, in cooperation with Hagerman Fossil Council

After three of her colleagues turn up dead, mathematics professor Jayne Smyers calls in Marine-turned-PI Pepper Keane to investigate the suspicious deaths. Through the deaths occur in three different states and there is little evidence pointing to a single killer, a curious constant emerges in this deadly equation: each of the professors was an expert in fractal geometry. With the chances of another murder increasing exponentially, Keane knows he must identify the killer before another professor is forced to take the most permanent of sabbaticals.

The Fractal Murders: A Pepper Keane Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

RB Large Print

Mark Cohen first came to the attention of the photography world in 1973 with a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. This iconic show proved to the art world that Cohen was the heir apparent to the explosive street photography of the 60s. Now, after more than thirty years, Cohen’s complex and influential body of work is presented for the first time in Grim Street, an astonishing collection of Americana as original and effective as the work of Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, or Weegee. Cohen’s photography confronts the viewer with a startling beauty, rapidly shifting from rough and confrontational to quiet, respectful, and serene. In Grim Street, filled with what Cohen calls “grab shots,” you can easily imagine the photographer guilefully patrolling the streets of Wilkes-Barre, the Pennsylvania mine-town he calls home. His camera, often prefocused and shot from the hip, scrolls around its subjects searching for tidbits of delectable detail. Then suddenly thrusting out towards its subjects, a strobe bursts, capturing a violently cropped spot of stockinged legs creeping around a corner, or a woman’s bared teeth and stretched lips. In these images emerges a cluttered world of visceral, sexualized encounters with the human body. The photographs are equally fascinating for the inconsistent reaction of their subjects. In one shot, a group of young girls hide their faces with their coats and cower against a brick wall, desperately searching for any protection from Cohen’s camera. Another shot brandishes a dapper young man, hair greased and comb quickly pulled out for the glamour shot. But just when you think that you can’t see the photographs for all the noise, Cohen’s camera stands back in meditation, displaying sensitive compositions of the gardens of Wilkes-Barre and the small town’s residents engaging in their daily comforts. One of the more complex bodies of street photography around, Cohen’s work will open your eyes as wide as they can go and keep you flipping the pages for years to come. “Cohen’s black-and-white photos…are deliberately disconcerting, almost vulgar….Heads are cropped out of the frame; truncated hands, legs, and arms loom monstrously into view; perspective warps. Cohen wasn’t alone in his harsh, comic view of down-home America, but his in-your-face take and fragmentary results were jarringly unique, and much imitated.” —Vince Aletti, The Village Voice

Grim Street

Arts & Photography

Anne Wilkes Tucker

Joel-Peter Witkin

Thomas Southall

Individual Artists

powerHouse Books

It was 1839, a time when European ideas on education, fashion, entertainment, and politics were infiltrating every aspect of life in the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Sephardim, descendants of the Spanish Jews exiled in 1492, were about to undergo vast changes in their education, outlook, and family life. In Monastir, a series of fires initiated these changes early and dramatically. A century later, in 1939, the Second World War began and the Monastir Jews faced extinction. Last Century of a Sephardic Community: The Jews of Monastir, 1839-1943, is the first book to tell this dramatic story.  It also presents, for the first time, rare photographs and illustrations, original translations of Monastir's Sephardic folklore, and a complete listing of the Monastir Jews who were deported to the Treblinka concentration camp.

Last Century of a Sephardic Community: The Jews of Monastir, 1839-1943

Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture

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