It was like being the village idiot with O-levels. I jack-knifed trailers, got outwitted by even the dimmest animals and was dragged through a hedge backwards on a tractor ...' Richard Benson was never cut out for the family farm, but he returned from London when his dad had to sell up and found that their shared loss was part of a profound change in rural life. In the house after the sale, dad gave a heavy raspy sigh and sank against my mum. Everything seemed to freeze for a moment as the clock kept ticking ...'

Farm : The Story of One Family and the English Countryside

Richard-Benson

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family

Bloomsbury Publishing

The history of the photographic book goes back well more than a century; the medium of photography and the book format were understood very early on to relate to each other on both technical and aesthetic levels. The examples of truly great combinations of photographic image and text, great design and typography bound together as books are numerous, and make up an impressive artistic, social, and documentary statement of the 20th century. Writer and rare book expert Andrew Roth has selected for this volume a group of 101 of the best photography books ever published: books that bring all of the elements of great bookmaking together to create, ultimately, a thing of beauty, a work of art. Mostly made up of publications in which the photographs were meant to be seen in book form, as opposed to the book being merely a repository of images, this list includes many artists and titles that will be familiar to the collector, but also not a few surprises. Chronologically, the first book is Volume One of Edward Curtis's seminal 1907 The North American Indian, the last is David LaChapelle's LaChapelle Land from 1996, and in between are books by Walker Evans and Berenice Abbott, Atget and Brassai, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand, and many other seminal photographers from all over the world. Each book in the catalogue receives a double page spread including publication information, several image spreads, and a short text about it. The Book of 101 Books, however, is far more than simply an annotated and illustrated catalogue. Six important new essays on a variety of related topics from respected scholars, critics, and artists are included as well: here you will find Richard Benson on the history of printing techniques, Shelley Rice on the societal significance of photography books, May Castleberry on reprints, exhibitions, and keeping books alive for the public; Daido Moriyama on his personal memories of making his classic Bye Bye Photography, Dear, Neville Wakefield on the particular attributes of one of the most recent books in this group: Richard Princeis 1995 Adult Comedy Action Drama, and Jeffrey Fraenkel on the myriad perils of publishing photography books. The catalogue entries themselves are written by the well known critics Vince Aletti and David Levi Strauss. Taken together, the depth and beauty of these essays and images makes The Book of 101 Books both an essential reference and an aesthetically compelling object. In order to insure safe delivery for this item we can only ship Federal Express 3rd Day. An additional charge of $25.00 will be added to your purchase.

The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century

Arts & Photography

Neville Wakefield

May Castleberry

Jeffrey Fraenkel

Daidō Moriyama

Shelley Rice

Photography & Video

PPP Editions / Roth Horowitz, LLC

The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations of the Hollingworth family. Spanning Richard Benson's great-grandmother Winnie's ninety-two years in the valley, and drawing on years of historical research, interviews and anecdotes, The Valley lets us into generations of carousing and banter as the family's attempts to build a better and fairer world for themselves meet sometimes with triumph, sometimes with bitter defeat. Against a backdrop of underground explosions, strikes and pit closures, these are unflinching, deeply personal stories of battles between the sexes in a man's world sustained by strong women; of growing up, and the power of love and imagination to transform lives.

The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Yorkshire Family

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Bloomsbury Paperbacks

Based on the bestselling F in Exams book series, this calendar presents a full year's worth of masterful fails, featuring hundreds of stunningly wrong but amazingly funny student test answers, plus all kinds of things everyone should have learned in high school but didn't.

F in Exams 2016 Daily Calendar

Chronicle Books+

In Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but also as a teacher and mentor. The book illuminates the untold tenets of Malcolm X's educational philosophy, and also traces a historical trajectory of Black activists that sought to create spaces of liberation and learning that are free from cultural and racial oppression. It explains a side of the Black student movement and shift in black power that develops as a result of the student protests in North Carolina and Duke University. From these acts of radicalism, Malcolm X Liberation University (MXLU), the Student Organization for Black Unity (SOBU/YOBU), and African Liberation Day (ALD) were produced to serve as catalysts to extend the tradition of Black activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Scholars, researchers, community organizers, and students of African-American studies, American studies, history of education, political science, Pan-African studies, and more will benefit from this provocative and enlightening text.

Fighting for Our Place in the Sun

Peter Lang

Can a person know for sure that he is going to heaven when he dies? I am sure that if you could really know for sure, you would want to know. Wouldn't you? You would want your little children, who trust you and look up to you, to know. Or your mother or grandmother, who are getting older. Here is the story of a sixth generation Mormon who chronicles her struggle with the question, "Can I Know For Sure?" You will sense her happiness in her early life of religion. You will sense her pain as she struggles to obtain peace with God. We present this story so you can see the real difference between religion and real peace with God.

Struggle to Peace

Religion & Spirituality

Cindy Benson

Christian Books & Bibles

Christian Services Network

Everything You Think You Know is Wrong: Exposing the Truth Behind Common Myths and Misconceptions

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Summersdale Publishers

Wit of the Nation: Quips and Quotes for Every Occasion

Reference

Quotations

F in Retakes: Even More Test Paper Blunders (F in Exams)

Summersdale

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