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This coffee-table collection of industrial-therapeutic dishabille — 70 abandoned asylums in 30 states, photographed over six years — is as gorgeous and meditative as it is harrowing.
Cover to Cover 2010
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I personally have a weakness for coffee-table books with sumptuous photos of golf courses in slanting shafts of early sun.
What to Get a Golfer for the Holidays John Paul Newport 2011
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There were Obama books everywhere I looked: hardcover, softcover, coffee-table books, coloring books, you name it.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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The main value of "Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label," a beautifully illustrated coffee-table book that almost incidentally contains an oddly unfinished oral history, is in the way it traces the sources of the label's strength and weakness to its origins.
Ladies Love Cool Jams Tim Marchman 2011
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In 2001, with Marc Ewing, I started Alpinist Magazine, a coffee-table quarterly that picked up where the AAJ left off.
Christian Beckwith: Adventropy: Adventure Philanthropy at Work Christian Beckwith 2010
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We Are the Ship has the format of a coffee-table book and, although marketed to children, may appeal also to adults.
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We Are the Ship has the format of a coffee-table book and, although marketed to children, may appeal also to adults.
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No other living musician has generated so much ink—articles, biographies, cultural studies, dissertations, monographs, coffee-table books, even the scholarly "Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan."
Poet, Prophet and Puzzle David Yezzi 2011
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We Are the Ship has the format of a coffee-table book and, although marketed to children, may appeal also to adults.
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This coffee-table collection of industrial-therapeutic dishabille — 70 abandoned asylums in 30 states, photographed over six years — is as gorgeous and meditative as it is harrowing.
Cover to Cover 2010
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