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The Pearl: A Russian Love Story

Product Description: Once upon a time in Russia, Nicolas Cheremeteff was the richest man in the land. He owned castles and lands and 200,000 souls. But more than all his gold and wealth, he loved. . .music.The Pearl is the true-life Cinderella story of a love affair that broke all social conventions: the romance of wealthy Russian nobleman Nicolas Cheremeteff and a serf named Praskovia, a girl with a miraculous singing voice and kind heart...read more

By Nan Richardson and Alexandra Young (illustrator)

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9781884167249 | Umbrage Editions Inc, March 15, 2011, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Once upon a time in Russia, Nicolas Cheremeteff was the richest man in the land.

Laogai: The Machinery of Repression in China

Product Description: An eloquent and vivid summary in shocking, never-before-seen photographs smuggled out of the People Republic of China, LAOGAI exposes the human rights record of the world’s most authoritarian state—a nation whose own remarkable transformation has not extended to the basic demands of its people’s freedom...read more

By Nicole Kempton (editor), Andrew J. Nathan (introduced by), Nan Richardson (editor) and Harry Wu (foreword by)

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9781884167775 | Umbrage Editions Inc, October 1, 2009, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: An eloquent and vivid summary in shocking, never-before-seen photographs smuggled out of the People Republic of China, LAOGAI exposes the human rights record of the world’s most authoritarian state—a nation whose own remarkable transformation has not extended to the basic demands of its people’s freedom.

Dressed to Kill: What to Wear When Fashion Makes History

Product Description: From Jackie O.’s pink suit to Mao’s signature blue jacket with tidy collar, fashion has been a catalyst, a lightning rod, even a dominant player at many of the central events in history. While critics and moralists through the ages have raged against fashion’s essential frivolity, many cultural and political leaders have intuitively understood its centrality to human concerns...read more

By Nan Richardson

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9781884167720 | Umbrage Editions Inc, November 30, 2011, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: From Jackie O.

Tribal Alphabet

Product Description: In bold and vibrant colors, artist Claudia Pearson has created a dazzling group portrait of the world of indigenous peoples. Aimed at a young reader audience (ages three to eight), the page text is simple, direct, and informative, while the glossary in the back of the book provides valuable in-depth information for parents and older readers...read more

By Nan Richardson

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9781884167713 | Umbrage Editions Inc, May 1, 2008, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In bold and vibrant colors, artist Claudia Pearson has created a dazzling group portrait of the world of indigenous peoples.

Dressed to Kill: Fashion Makes History

Product Description: Putting fashion at the center of the historical stage, this anthropologist’s dream source for studying ongoing political, sexual, and social trends offers a quirky index to the past. Who could have predicted that dictators could be toppled by excess footwear? Or that the demise of the British Empire would be presided over by a man in a diaper? Fashion’s subliminal force resonates in our cultural memory, Proustian in its power to mark times and places...read more

By Nan Richardson (editor)

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9781884167676 | Umbrage Editions Inc, June 30, 2012, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Putting fashion at the center of the historical stage, this anthropologist’s dream source for studying ongoing political, sexual, and social trends offers a quirky index to the past.

Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who are Changing Our World

Amazon.com Review: Anonymous wears a black shroud and a hangman's noose. Unnamed and masked, perhaps he or she will avoid the fate suggested in the haunting photograph that graces the cover of this remarkable book. Anonymous is one of the mostly unsung heroes interviewed by Kerry Kennedy Cuomo who are fighting for human rights in places where torture, imprisonment, and death are the side effects of speaking out against such atrocities as child soldiers, sex slavery, honor killings, and repression of political rights...read more

By Eddie Adams (photographer), Kerry Kennedy and Nan Richardson (editor)

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9781884167522 | Umbrage Editions Inc, April 1, 2007, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Amazon.

Flesh And Spirit

Product Description: Claudio Edinger’s roving eye has taken him down alleyways of life, searching for the spirit in the flesh, or the body of the soul.

By Claudio Edinger, Simonetta Persichetti (contributor) and Nan Richardson (contributor)

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9781884167638 | Umbrage Editions Inc, November 30, 2006, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Claudio Edinger’s roving eye has taken him down alleyways of life, searching for the spirit in the flesh, or the body of the soul.

Wild Love

Product Description: Wild Love takes you on a journey through thirty-six mating rituals, from the cumbersome wooing of giant tortoises to the passionate flight of courting egrets to the cruel dance of the praying mantis. Full of stunning photography by such renowned nature photographers as Art Wolfe, Jim Brandenburg, Jeff Foott, and Frans Lanting, and complete with entertaining and informative text on each species, Wild Love is sure to sure to surprise and seduce...read more

By Nan Richardson (editor)

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9781884167508 | Umbrage Editions Inc, April 1, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Wild Love takes you on a journey through thirty-six mating rituals, from the cumbersome wooing of giant tortoises to the passionate flight of courting egrets to the cruel dance of the praying mantis.

9780811804523 | Chronicle Books Llc, August 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Wild Love takes you on a journey through thirty-six mating rituals, from the cumbersome wooing of giant tortoises to the passionate flight of courting egrets to the cruel dance of the praying mantis.

Decir la verdad al poder / Speak Truth to Power: Defensores de los derechos humanos que estan cambiando nuestro mundo / Human Rights Defenders from Around the Globe

Presents a collection of fifty profiles of individuals, both famous and unsung, who are struggling to make a difference in the world, including Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Helen Prejean, Desmond Tutu, and Elie Wiesel.

By Eddie Adams, Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, Carlos Fuentes (introduced by), Kerry Kennedy and Nan Richardson

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9781884167379 | Umbrage Editions Inc, April 1, 2006, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of fifty profiles of individuals, both famous and unsung, who are struggling to make a difference in the world, including Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Helen Prejean, Desmond Tutu, and Elie Wiesel.

Wild Babies

Product Description: Wild Babies takes an intimate look at the beginnings of life for 36 species of mammals, birds, and amphibians in their natural habitats. Exquisite color photographs from such renowned nature photographers as Art Wolfe, Jim Brandenburg, Jen and Des Bartlett, and Frans Lanting are accompanied by lively and informative text on each species...read more

By Nan Richardson (editor)

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9781884167515 | Umbrage Editions Inc, April 1, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Wild Babies takes an intimate look at the beginnings of life for 36 species of mammals, birds, and amphibians in their natural habitats.

9780811804776 | Chronicle Books Llc, June 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Shows and describes hippos, lions, ostriches, bats, bees, sharks, manatees, goats, hedgehogs, rabbits, elephants, seals, cuckoos, giraffes, wolves, and penguins

Subterranea

Product Description: With each image, Sally Gall draws us deeper into the underworld existing in Mexico, Belize, Southeast Asia, the United States, and Europe, freezing in time the remarkable architecture of crumbling walls, stalactites and stalagmites coated with icy limestone, and calcite formations gleaming in the darkness...read more

By Sally Gall and Nan Richardson

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9781884167270 | Umbrage Editions Inc, March 1, 2003, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: With each image, Sally Gall draws us deeper into the underworld existing in Mexico, Belize, Southeast Asia, the United States, and Europe, freezing in time the remarkable architecture of crumbling walls, stalactites and stalagmites coated with icy limestone, and calcite formations gleaming in the darkness.

I Refuse to Die: My Journey for Freedom

The director of Africa's National Democratic and Human Rights Organization describes his experiences in the human rights movement including those during British rule and Moi's regime, chronicling his education and political career. (view table of contents)

By Kerry Kennedy Cuomo (foreword by), Nan Richardson (foreword by) and Koigi Wa Wamwere

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9781583225219 | Seven Stories Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The director of Africa's National Democratic and Human Rights Organization describes his experiences in the human rights movement, including those during British rule and Moi's regime.

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Product Description: Interviews with Richard Avedon, Suzy Parker, Eileen Ford, Lillian Bassman, Mary Jane Russell, and Lauren Bacall "Dahl-Wolfe freed color from convention and timidity. . . . Today, her pictures continue to seem just a little ahead of their time...read more

By Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Vicki Goldberg and Nan Richardson

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9780810940512 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 2000, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Interviews with Richard Avedon, Suzy Parker, Eileen Ford, Lillian Bassman, Mary Jane Russell, and Lauren Bacall "Dahl-Wolfe freed color from convention and timidity.

Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World

By Eddie Adams, Kerry Kennedy Cuomo and Nan Richardson

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9781884167331 | Umbrage Editions Inc, August 1, 2004, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of fifty profiles of individuals, both famous and unsung, who are struggling to make a difference in the world, including Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Helen Prejean, Desmond Tutu, and Elie Wiesel.

Internet Cool Guide: A Savvy Guide to the Hottest Web Sites

Collects descriptions and addresses of web sites dealing with such issues as careers, dating, education, fashion, gambling, health, children, law, music, politics, religion, shopping, sports, and travel

By Becca Burns (editor), Rula Razek (editor) and Nan Richardson

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9783823809975 | Te Neues Pub Group, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Collects descriptions and addresses of web sites dealing with such issues as careers, dating, education, fashion, gambling, health, children, law, music, politics, religion, shopping, sports, and travel

Lillian Bassman

Product Description: For 50 years Lillian Bassman has been one of the great figures in the world of fashion photography. Now, after a 20 year hiatus the 79 year old photographer is agai n at the forefront and her autobiography will thrill admirer s with its revelations. ' (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Lillian Bassman, Catherine Chermayeff (editor), Martin Harrison, Kathy McCarver Mnuchin (editor) and Nan Richardson

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9780821223765 | Bulfinch Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: For 50 years Lillian Bassman has been one of the great figures in the world of fashion photography.

Chim: The Photographs of David Seymour

By Inge Bondi, Catherine Chermayeff (editor), International Center of Photography (photographer), Kathy McCarver Mnuchin (editor), Nan Richardson (editor) and David Seymour

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9780821222294 | Bulfinch Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $50.00

I Dreamed I Had a Girl in My Pocket: The Story of an Indian Village

Photographs and narratives feature the children of rural India

By Catherine Chermayeff, Wendy Ewald and Nan Richardson

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9780393039351 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Photographs and narratives feature the children of rural India

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9780393314274 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1996, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Photographs and narratives feature the children of rural India

The Face of the Century: 100 Years of Makeup and Style

Product Description: A former Ford model offers a lavishly illustrated account of women's style and makeup which traces the evolution of the concept of beauty from the flirty flapper of the '20s to the retro elegance of today. Illustrations include high-style portraiture by Beaton, Horst, Avedon, Newton, and Meisel, immortalizing such icons as Elizabeth Taylor, Mary Pickford, and Josephine Baker...read more

By Catherine Chermayeff, Kate De Castelbajac and Nan Richardson

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9780847818952 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, October 1, 1995, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: A former Ford model offers a lavishly illustrated account of women's style and makeup which traces the evolution of the concept of beauty from the flirty flapper of the '20s to the retro elegance of today.

Drag Diaries

Product Description: Offering the inside scoop on drag history and culture, this book includes a chronology of drag-related films, an annual drag calendar, a drag-inspired reading list, an essential drag shopping guide, and interviews with famous drag entertainers, from Joey Arias to Lypsynka...read more

By Catherine Chermayeff, Jonathan David and Nan Richardson

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9780811808958 | Chronicle Books Llc, September 1, 1995, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Offering the inside scoop on drag history and culture, this book includes a chronology of drag-related films, an annual drag calendar, a drag-inspired reading list, an essential drag shopping guide, and interviews with famous drag entertainers, from Joey Arias to Lypsynka.

Scaly Facts

An easy-to-read text and vibrant collages introduce very young children to fifteen snakes, lizards, and alligators, ranging from the world's largest lizard to the trickster glass snake. By the author of Fishy Facts.

By Catherine Chermayeff, Ivan Chermayeff and Nan Richardson

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9780152001094 | Gulliver Books, March 1, 1995, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Provides information on a variety of reptiles, how they live, and what they eat

Feathery Facts

Fifteen birds, some familiar and some exotic--from the eight-foot ostrich to the two-inch hummingbird--make a fact-filled appearance in a simple text and paper-collage illustrations. By the author of Furry Facts.

By Catherine Chermayeff, Ivan Chermayeff and Nan Richardson

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9780152001100 | Gulliver Books, March 1, 1995, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Provides information on a variety of birds, how they live, and what they eat

Malcolm X: Speaks Out

By Catherine Chermayeff, Nan Richardson, Antoinette White and Malcolm X

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9780836280111, titled "Malcolm X Speaks Out" | Har/dskt edition (Andrews McMeel Pub, November 1, 1992), cover price $17.95

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9780836280104 | Andrews McMeel Pub, November 1, 1992, cover price $9.95

Gorilla: Struggle for Survival in the Virungas

Product Description: Gorilla recounts in remarkable color photographs the strange and powerful story of the last few hundred members of a nearly extinct species: the famed mountain gorillas of the Virunga volcanoes. These inhabitants of the forested mountain range bordering Rwanda, Uganda, and Zaire, were brought to the attention of the world through last-ditch efforts to preserve their dwindling survival...read more

By Michael Nichols, Nan Richardson and George B. Schaller

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9780893813499 | Reprint edition (Aperture, September 1, 1992), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Gorilla recounts in remarkable color photographs the strange and powerful story of the last few hundred members of a nearly extinct species: the famed mountain gorillas of the Virunga volcanoes.

Aperture 115: New Southern Photography : Between Myth and Reality, Summer 1989

By Charles Hagen and Nan Richardson

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9780893813789 | Aperture, November 1, 1989, cover price $18.50

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