Product Description: A book which examines the need for social scientists to include into their research the feelings and emotions of both themselves and their respondents. Qualitative researchers have, in part, insulated their readers from raw emotion, or failed to document the whole of the facts surrounding collection of sensitive data...read more

Product Description: It's a dog's world, and Keith Carter knows how to photograph it. Collected here for the first time are the extraordinary dog portraits of renowned Southern photographer Keith Carter, whose art has been praised by reviewers around the country...read more

A collection of photographs reflects life and scenes in small communities of Texas

Capturing the extraordinary within the ordinary moment, seventy-five black-and-white photographs, many never before published, span the artist's career and are accompanied by his own account of his life and artistic development in Beaumont, Texas. UP. (view table of contents)

Essay by John Wood. In his most recent series, Holding Venus, Keith Carter continues to explore what he has referred to as the poetry of the ordinary, that moment of transcendence when the commonplace becomes the extraordinary. Myth and metaphor form the foundation of Carters imagery, which transforms the literal into the symbolic. In this sense, the notion of holding Venus remarks upon the connection between the earthly and the celestial at the same time that it attests to the fundamental human aspiration to realize that which is seemingly unattainable. While his early work concentrated on evoking a sense of place and spirit in his native East Texas, Carter has more recently turned his distinct perspective outward, photographing in Italy, France, England, and elsewhere. Yet, he approaches his subject matter with humor and celebration and with a probing eye for the human spirit, regardless of time and place. Often, his subjects are merely apparitions, whose forms are slightly obscured by opt! ical distortions. The imagery of Carters enigmatic worldexplores the mythological, the surreal, and the intangible that infuse everyday rituals and moments. A poet of the ordinary. Los Angeles Times Keith Carters photographsare united by an uncommonly penetrating sensibility. They are works of endearingly human dimension. New York Times Keith Carter has taken his camera abroad and found new material for his increasingly mythic vision. Art News

Product Description: Haunting in their mystery and beauty, Keith Carter's horses fill the frame like spirits in a dream--but without ever ceasing to be real horses. Whether he's photographing thoroughbreds preparing for the elaborate maneuvers of dressage or a farm nag grazing in a field, Carter meets horses on their terms, not his...read more

Product Description: Stark, compelling images from border-town brothelsIn the early 1970s, Boystown was a collection of brothels along the border between Texas and Mexico, where cowboys and college boys, gang members and family men, drunkenly traveled desert highways to dance to six-piece Tejano bands, guzzle cheap liquor, and pay for sex...read more

Product Description: A magnificent National Trail from the Severn Estuary to the north Wales coast following the line of Offa's Dyke, an impressive 8th century earthwork along the English/Welsh border. The ever-changing landscape--the Wye Valley, the Black Mountains, the Shropshire Hills, and the Clwydian Hills--is steeped in history and legend providing 168 miles of fascinating walking...read more

Product Description: Trail guide with 140 large-scale maps to the Pennine Way, Britain's best-known National Trail which winds for 256 miles over wild moorland and through quiet dales following the backbone of Northern England. This is a complete guide to all visitors need to know for the full enjoyment of walking the trail, not just a trail guide--getting there, places to stay, places to eat, background information, and flora and fauna are all included...read more

Product Description: The Offa’s Dyke Path is a magnificent National Trail that runs from the North Wales coast to the Severn Estuary following the line of Offa’s Dyke, an impressive 8th century earthwork along the English/Welsh border. The ever-changing landscape – the Wye Valley, the Black Mountains, the Shropshire Hills and the Clwydian Hills – is steeped in history and legend providing 177 miles of fascinating walking...read more

Product Description: Britain’s best-known National Trail winds for 256 miles through three National Parks – the Peak District, Yorkshire Dales and Northumberland. This superb footpath showcases Britain’s finest upland scenery, while touching the literary landscape of the Bronte family and Roman history along Hadrian’s Wall...read more

Product Description: Lauded as "a transcendent realist" and "a poet of the ordinary," Keith Carter is an internationally acclaimed photographer whose work has been shown in over one hundred solo exhibitions in thirteen countries. At first finding his subjects in the familiar, yet exotic, places and people of his native East Texas, Carter has since expanded his range not only geographically, but also into realms of dreams and imagination, where objects of the mundane world open glimpses into ineffable realities...read more

Product Description: Fully revised third edition of the second of Trailblazer's 11-title series of British Walking Guides. The Cornwall Coast Path is a 203-mile section of a National Trail around the south-western tip of Britain, with some of the best coastal walking in Europe...read more

Product Description: "Some days I think of myself as the Flannery O'Connor of children's photography. My pictures occasionally tend toward the dark or solitary side. In my world of truths and half-truths, the inhabitants might be amiss or fallen from grace, but my children inhabit a peaceable kingdom where everything that falls deserves a chance to be restored...read more

Product Description: The Offa’s Dyke Path is a magnificent National Trail that runs from the North Wales coast to the Severn Estuary following the line of Offa’s Dyke, an impressive 8th century earthwork along the English/Welsh border. The ever-changing landscape  – the Wye Valley, the Black Mountains, the Shropshire Hills and the Clwydian Hills – is steeped in history and legend providing 177 miles of fascinating walking...read more

Product Description: Britain’s best-known National Trail winds for 256 miles through three National Parks – the Peak District, Yorkshire Dales and Northumberland. This superb footpath showcases Britain’s finest upland scenery, while touching the literary landscape of the Bronte family and Roman history along Hadrian’s Wall...read more