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Almost Killed by a Train of Thought
A polymath as well as novelist and journalist, David Benjamin, in his "weekly screeds," has ranged across subjects from sports to technology, to movies and memories,, from Paris to Tokyo to Wisconsin and beyond. This sampling of Benjamin's humor and imagination hearkens to the most esteemed forebears of the art of "1,000 fearful words," from Hazlitt to Twain to Russell Baker and Gail Collins.
David Benjamin Sherry: Monuments
A vivid portrait of the assault on America's parks and forests this volume is a landscape photography project that captures the spirit and intrinsic value of America's threatened system of national monuments. In April 2017 an executive order called for the review of the 27 national monuments created since January 1996. In December 2017 the final report called on the president to shrink four national monuments and change the management of six others.
The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked
A "Best Book of the Year" finalist of the Great Lakes Booksellers Association, here is a laugh-out-loud retelling of an American childhood. Through the telling of his own madcap childhood, David Benjamin pays homage to the exuberance of countless young boys growing up in Middle America in the 1950s. Whether he's stalking frogs through the bogs of Tomah, Wisconsin, playing four-kid baseball with his bothersome little brother and two favorite cousins, or sneaking into the theater to watch Saturday-afternoon Westerns, Benjamin is the kind of little kid who would have fallen in eagerly with the redoubtable Tom Sawyer. Traversing the nooks and crannies of kidhood, from ballfields to swimming holes, The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked captures a time and a place in twentieth-century American life and celebrates the adventures and wanderlust that once made childhood such an exhilarating enterprise.
Embodied Energy and Design
Architecture is increasingly understood as a field of practice that is inextricably embedded in ecologies and energy systems, and yet embodied energy-the various forms of energy required to ex- tract raw matter, to produce and transport building materials, and to assemble a given building- remains largely under-explored in its ramifications for both design and environment. As operational energy has declined as a proportion of buildings' total energy consumption, embodied energy has become an essential site for further speculation and innovation. 'Embodied Energy and Design: Making Architecture between Metrics and Narratives' asks questions about the varying scales, methods of analysis, and opportunities through which we might reconsider the making of architecture in the context of global flows of energy and resources. 120 illustrations
Sympathy for Jonah
The story of Jonah is sacred to all three Abrahamic faiths and remains a recognizable legend even in the most secularized corners of the West. And yet the maritime prophet's story has been trivialized as a quaint children's tale, his character has been blasted by unsympathetic commentators, and even his alleged tomb has now been destroyed by Islamic State militants who, in 2014, took the city of Mosul on the Nineveh Plains. Now that Nineveh is once again in the grip of tyrannical violence and communities across the West and the Middle East are deep in a time of discord and soul-searching, we might do well to recover the story of Jonah, a guiding light, who marches into the very heart of empire and confronts it with the radical politics of the kingdom of God, even as his own certainties are shaken to the core.
David Benjamin Sherry: Pink Genesis
Pink Genesis is a limited-edition artist's book of unique photograms by celebrated photographer David Benjamin Sherry. Sherry is a magician of the darkroom. Celebrated for his use of vivid color and his skill with traditional analog photographic techniques, he has established himself as a leading voice in contemporary photography. His work has often examined the monumental landscapes of the American West and the environmental challenges the region faces. Pink Genesis introduces Sherry's equally intriguing but lesser-known series of striking, large-scale, cameraless color photograms, laboriously made by hand in the darkroom. Using cardboard masks to create mesmerizing geometric forms and inco...
Survivor
When a passenger plane crashes near his school, Cole is left to help the victims, all dead except for one, and solve the mystery of what caused the crash.
The Voice of the Dog
Farfel is a German Shepherd and a retired NYPD K-9 police officer who realizes that his new master, Reggie Stockwell, is perhaps the most sexually frustrated man in all of New York. Reggie has determined to kill as many women as he can in hopes of triggering a trend that results in the end of sex as we know it. Farfel's only hope to end the carnage is to talk Reggie out of murder. As Farfel explains, all dogs can talk. But the rare human who understands Dogspeak is usually either a lunatic like Reggie or a little kid. Farfel can cajole and implore, but he dares not interfere with Reggie's bloody campaign because Farfel lives by The Code of the Dog, which reads in part: "I pledge absolute, li...
