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The Book

Product Description: Destroying books has traditionally been seen as a brutal, almost inhumane, act. Is it possible that instead, book destruction can be turned into beautiful and inspiring works of art? That's the premise behind a new book from distinguished designer and photographer, Julius Friedman...read more

By Julius Friedman and Pico Iyer (foreword by)

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9781938462191 | Old Stone Pr, April 20, 2016, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Destroying books has traditionally been seen as a brutal, almost inhumane, act.

El arte de la quietud / The Art of Stillness: La Aventura De No Ir a Ninguna Parte / Adventures in Going Nowhere

By Eydis Einarsdottir (photographer) and Pico Iyer

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Hardcover:

9788492921348 | Urano, January 15, 2016, cover price $12.95

Ted Books: The Completist: The Terrorist's Son / The Mathematics of Love / The Art of Stillness / The Future of Architecture / Beyond Measure / Judge This / How

By Zak Ebrahim, Hannah Fry, Margaret Heffernan, Pico Iyer and Marc Kushner

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Hardcover:

9781501139130 | Box edition (Ted, December 8, 2015), cover price $159.00

Ted Books: Small books, big ideas: The Art of Stillness / The Future of Architecture / Judge This

By Pico Iyer, Chip Kidd and Marc Kushner

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Hardcover:

9781501139123 | Box edition (Simon & Schuster, November 24, 2015), cover price $49.99

Cuba: This Moment, Exactly So

Product Description: Award-winning photographer Lorne Resnick showcases the beauty and vibrancy of Cuba in stunning images captured over twenty years.Being in Cuba feels like falling in love with the person you know you were meant to be with. Itâs exhilarating and bewitching...read more

By Pico Iyer (foreword by)

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9781608876747 | Insight Editions, November 24, 2015, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Award-winning photographer Lorne Resnick showcases the beauty and vibrancy of Cuba in stunning images captured over twenty years.

The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

By Pico Iyer

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CD/Spoken Word:

9781442375840 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, November 4, 2014), cover price $14.99

Lost Worlds: Ruins of the Americas

Product Description: This extraordinary collection perfectly portrays the architectural, geographic and historical significance of ruins that are considered world wonders and little known gems. Included are monumental temples of Mexico's Mayan civilization, a Colonial era palace on the island of Haiti, earthquake-ravaged cathedrals in Guatemala, and astonishing Incan citadels in Peru's Sacred Valley - culminating with the breathtaking beauty of Machu Picchu...read more

By Arthur Drooker and Pico Iyer (foreword by)

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9781851497584 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, April 16, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This extraordinary collection perfectly portrays the architectural, geographic and historical significance of ruins that are considered world wonders and little known gems.

9781851496747 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, November 16, 2011, cover price $49.95

The Man Within My Head

By Pico Iyer

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Hardcover:

9780307267610 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 3, 2012, cover price $25.95

Paperback:

9780307387561 | Vintage Books, January 22, 2013, cover price $15.00

The Gate

By Pico Iyer (introduced by), William F. Sibley (trans) and Natsume Soseki

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9781590175873 | New York Review of Books, December 4, 2012, cover price $15.95

The Skeptical Romancer: Selected Travel Writing

By Pico Iyer (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780307272126 | Everymans Library, November 3, 2009, cover price $24.00

The Skeptical Romancer: Selected Travel Writings

Product Description: One of the seminal writers of the twentieth century, W. Somerset Maugham was also a fearless and constant traveler who chronicled his adventures with a rare mix of wit and excitement. In The Skeptical Romancer, acclaimed travel writer Pico Iyer selects vignettes of Maugham's wise and vivid prose that track his transformation from a boyish traveler in Spain to a worldly man of letters, looking back on India, China, Russia, and America...read more

By Pico Iyer (editor) and W. Somerset Maugham

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9780307473189 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 14, 2012), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: One of the seminal writers of the twentieth century, W.

The Lady and The Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto: Library Edition

Product Description: [This is the MP3CD audiobook format.] When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today--not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the images woven through literature, of the lunar Japan that still lives on behind the rising sun of geopolitical power...read more

By Ralph Coshman (narrator) and Pico Iyer

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9781441785305 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 20, 2011), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [This is the MP3CD audiobook format.

100 Journeys for the Spirit

By Pico Iyer (foreword by), Joseph III Marshall (contributor), Michael Ondaatje (contributor) and Paul Theroux (contributor)

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Hardcover:

9781907486326, titled "100 Journeys for the Spirit: Sacred*inspiring*mysterious*enlightening" | Duncan Baird Pub, October 5, 2010, cover price $9.99

The Best Spiritual Writing 2010

By Pico Iyer (introduced by)

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9780143116769 | Penguin USA, January 5, 2010, cover price $16.00

A Tiger for Malgudi and the Man-eater of Malgudi

Product Description: Two comic gems from the father of modern Indian fiction- available in one volume for the first time These two novels show R. K. Narayan at his best, offering enchanting tales of human absurdity that are also skillfully woven parables infused with Hindu mysticism...read more

By Pico Iyer (introduced by)

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9780143105800 | Penguin Classics, July 28, 2009, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Two comic gems from the father of modern Indian fiction- available in one volume for the first time These two novels show R.

Cuba: Singing With Bright Tears

Product Description: âVirginia Beahan is one of our most accomplished and eloquent photographers. Her images remind us that the best landscapes have as much to tell us about history and culture as they do about topography. Looking at CUBA singing with bright tears, I am heartened to see that it is still possible to make a perfect photograph...read more

By Jon Lee Anderson (contributor), Virginia Beahan (photographer) and Pico Iyer (contributor)

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Hardcover:

9780976195559 | 1 edition (Pond Pr, April 1, 2009), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: âVirginia Beahan is one of our most accomplished and eloquent photographers.

The Snow Leopard

By Pico Iyer (introduced by)

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9780143105510 | Penguin Classics, September 30, 2008, cover price $17.00

The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

By Pico Iyer

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Hardcover:

9780307267603 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 25, 2008), cover price $24.00

Paperback:

9780307387554 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 10, 2009), cover price $15.95

9780747597261 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, April 21, 2008, cover price $21.80

Dimsum: Asia's Literary Journal

By Pico Iyer, David Mitchell and Nury Vittachi (editor)

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Paperback:

9789889836221 | Chameleon Pr Ltd, November 1, 2005, cover price $14.00

Sun After Dark: Flights into the Foreign

Follows the psychologically significant forays of a cultural journalist to such sites as a Bolivian prison, a hidden monastery in Tibet, and the Khmer Rouge killing fields of Cambodia, a journey during which he met such individuals as Kazuo Ishiguro, the Dalai Lama, and W. G. Sebald. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

By Pico Iyer

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9780375415067 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 2004, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Presents essays, book reviews, and miscellaneous pieces in which the author discusses his visits to some of the world's poorest and most exotic places, such as Bali, Haiti, Ethiopia, and Oman.

Paperback:

9781400031030 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 12, 2005), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Follows the psychologically significant forays of a cultural journalist to such sites as a Bolivian prison, a hidden monastery in Tibet, and the Khmer Rouge killing fields of Cambodia, a journey during which he met such individuals as Kazuo Ishiguro, the Dalai Lama, and W.

Complete Short Stories

A definitive compilation of short fiction by the critically acclaimed author of The Quiet American and The Third Man features forty-nine stories that capture all facets of the human experience and includes works originally published in two volumes--Collected Short Stories and The Last Word and Other Stories. Original.

By Graham Greene and Pico Iyer (trans)

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9780143039105 | Penguin Classics, February 28, 2005, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A definitive compilation of short fiction by the critically acclaimed author of The Quiet American and The Third Man features forty-nine stories that capture all facets of the human experience and includes works originally published in two volumes--Collected Short Stories and The Last Word and Other Stories.

The Best American Travel Writing 2004

Edited by the acclaimed author of Video Night in Kathmandu, the latest volume in the annual series presents a wide-ranging anthology of the finest travel writing published over the past year, selected from a wide variety of magazines, newspapers, and Web sites and encompassing contributions by Roger Angell, Joan Didion, John McPee, Tim Cahill, Adam Gopnik, George Packer, and other notable authors. Simultaneous.

By Pico Iyer (editor)

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9780618341269 | Mariner Books, October 14, 2004, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the previous year, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.

ABANDON

Obsessed with the teachings of Sufism, John Macmillain, an English graduate student studying in California, follows the trail of some rumored ancient Islamic manuscripts on a vain search that brings him back empty- handed to California and to an encounter with Camilla Jensen, an enigmatic and elusive young woman. Reprint. 17,000 first printing.

By Pico Iyer

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9781400030859 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 2004), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Obsessed with the teachings of Sufism, John Macmillain, an English graduate student studying in California, follows the trail of some rumored ancient Islamic manuscripts on a vain search that brings him back empty- handed to California and to an encounter with Camilla Jensen, an enigmatic and elusive young woman.

Living Faith: Windows into the Sacred Life of India

A photographic tour of the faiths and people of India is a tribute to the region's experience and rich diversity, noting how its secular nature enables the harmonious coexistence of multiple religions. 25,000 first printing.

By Pico Iyer and Dinesh Khanna

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Hardcover:

9780060578237 | 1 edition (Harper San Francisco, December 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A photographic tour of the faiths and people of India is a tribute to the region's experience and rich diversity, noting how its secular nature enables the harmonious coexistence of multiple religions.

Abandon: A Romance

Obsessed with the teachings of Sufism, John Macmillain, an English graduate student studying in California, follows the trail of some rumored ancient Islamic manuscripts on a vain search that brings him back empty handed to California and to an encounter with Camilla Jensen, an enigmatic and elusive young woman. 35,000 first printing.

By Pico Iyer

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Hardcover:

9780375415050 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 1, 2003, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Obsessed with the teachings of Sufism, John Macmillan, an English graduate student studying in California, follows the trail of some ancient Islamic manuscripts on a vain search that brings him to an encounter with the enigmatic Camilla Jensen.

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