Books written by William L. Fox

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  Lodge of the Double-headed Eagle (c)

  The historical accomplishments of ancient builders , memorialized by artisans themselves in a craft organization's ceremonies and signs , formed an intersection with a widening outside interest to speculate about antiquity .

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  View Finder: Mark Klett, Photography, and the Reinvention of Landscape

  Examines the history of photography in the American West and of Klett's role in documenting the landscape.

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  Once and Future Monuments

  Michael Heizer- The Once and Future Monuments is a long overdue addition to the critical and biographical literature of this major figure in American art.

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  Desert Water

  Plant are named with both common and scientific names. Photo notes provide useful information to the striking images in the book.

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  Terra Antarctica: Looking into the Emptiest Continent

  whaler William Scoresby sailed north in 1806, he mapped almost a thousand miles of the east coast of Greenland, reached past 81o N, and returned home with sketches ranging from the structure of snowflakes to icebergs.

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  Playa Works: The Myth of the Empty

  Writer-poet William L. Fox has spent much of his career contemplating the complex ways that landscape, human cognition, and history collide to create our perceptions and treatment of place. In...

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  Making Time: Essays on the Nature of Los Angeles

  A master of combining science, history, and his own experiences into a riveting read, William L. Fox will make you look at L.A.--and any urban landscape --in an entirely new...

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  The Half-life of History: The Atomic Bomb and Wendover Air Base

  The stories and relics at Wendover describe more than the past, they also point to a historic cycle; to a present filled with new apprehensions that carry the potential for a chilling future.

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  Driving by Memory

  This is a profoundly personal, even idiosyncratic book about the most public of subjects--living in the postmodern West at the end of the millennium and what the cities, the freeways, the open spaces, and the billboards tell us about ...

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  In The Desert Of Desire: Las Vegas And The Culture Of Spectacle

  Las Vegas, says William Fox, is a pay-as-you-play paradise that succeeds in satisfying our fantasies of wealth and the excesses of pleasure and consumption that go with it.