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captions[1]="The Ultimate Kauai Guidebook: Kauai Revealed"
captions[2]="Canon PowerShot S400 4MP Digital Camera"
captions[3]="Paris: Portrait of a City (Book)"
captions[4]="A Propos de Paris (Book)"
captions[5]="My California: Journeys By Great Writers"
captions[6]="San Francisco: Then and Now (Book)"
captions[7]="California, by David Meunch and Marc Meunch"
captions[8]="Big Sur to Big Basin : California's Dramatic Central Coast"
captions[9]="Beaches (Book)"
captions[10]="American Photography: A Century of Images"
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summary[1]="From the Publisher: The finest guidebook ever written for Kauai. This edition has more useful information, the most up to date maps and scores of hidden gems listed nowhere else. This book and a rental car are all you need to discover what makes the Garden Island so special. Maps include beach access to even the most remote beaches, mile markers so you always know where you are, hiking trails and numerous details in an easy to follow format."
summary[2]="Amazon.com Review: Canon's PowerShot range of cameras has always been strong, and the PowerShot 400 continues that tradition. The 4 Megapixel Canon PowerShot S400 digital camera is capable of taking still images at 2,272 x 1,704 pixels--enough for a good quality A4 print. Resolutions go down to 640 x 480 for images you might only want to look at digitally. You can also capture video at 320 x 240 and 160 x 120 pixels...Digital cameras get more advanced all the time, but we dare to say that the PowerShot S400 is probably the best pocket sized digital camera we've seen."
summary[3]="Amazon.com Review: There's a magnificent colored glass skylight pictured on a double spread in this book that was photographed not in a cathedral but a department store. On the very next page is the highly distinctive tower of a steam laundry. Such is Weinreb's uncanny eye -- and lens -- for the details that escape most people..."
summary[4]="Amazon.com Review: ...Cartier-Bresson personally selected the more than 130 black-and-white photographs of Paris for this publication. With photographs taken over a period of 50 years, the work is beautifully and generously printed in duotone. The accompanying essays, both short and unobtrusive, are also familiar and personal..."
summary[5]="Fly-fish the pristine waters of the Owens River. Step up to the microphone in a California honky-tonk. Surf the biggest waves California has ever seen. Mingle with ducks in an urban oasis. Roller skate through L.A.'s Union Station. See California through the eyes of 27 of the state's finest writers in this delicious travel and adventure anthology. All of the contributors to MY CALIFORNIA donated their work so proceeds of this book can benefit the beleaguered California Arts Council, an agency forced to suspend school writing and arts education programs in 2003." 
summary[6]="Amazon.com Review: The natives call it simply 'the City.' This is the story of the changing face of San Francisco, and how it has become one of the most picturesque cities in the world. Seventy modern color photographs are compared side-by-side with seventy archival photographs from the 1850s to the 1950s. While focusing on famous vistas and familiar landmarks, it also explores well-known neighborhoods."
summary[7]="Amazon.com Review: Father and son, the Muenches capture the glorious panoramas that define our most elusive state. CALIFORNIA is an evocative photographic exhibition of a state that still has the power to make you dream of wild lands and starting anew."
summary[8]="Amazon.com Review: A coast lover's coffee-table book, Big Sur to Big Basin is both stirringly beautiful and exceptionally informative...Long-time California resident Pamela Verduin Cain has done a thorough job of finding and recounting stories that give the photos interest beyond the visual. There are Pebble Beach golf legends, secret nature hikes, famous authors' and artists' haunts, and palate-tempting descriptions of choice restaurants along the way. The book is divided into six sections: Big Sur, Carmel, Pebble Beach, Pacific Grove, Monterey, and Santa Cruz. A hand-illustrated map highlights 25 points of interest (such as the Steinbeck House, Point Lobos State Reserve, and Monterey Bay Aquarium) to help travelers actually find some of the stunning spots captured here..."
summary[9]="From moody, craggy coastlines to serene swathes of turquoise water and white sand, Beaches is an astounding photographic survey of the ineffable allure of paradise on earth. This spectacular collection of images from renowned photographers, including Robert Misrach, Joel Meyerowitz, and Art Wolff, stirs the spirit, capturing the mutable beauty of sand, sea, and sky..." 
summary[10]="On V.J. Day in Times Square,a sailor kissing a pretty girl he's never met before is caught in the act. Newly arrived European immigrants at Ellis Island gaze at the camera with a mix of apprehension and hope. A groundbreaking still life artfully eroticizes the curves and shadows of a twisted bell pepper. These are a few of the more than 150 photographs collected in American Photography that document a century of our national experience..." 
summary[11]="Adobe Photoshop Album is an exceptionally user-friendly compilation of practical applications for owners of digital cameras. Though it offers few advanced features, the package combines a variety of organizational and basic photo editing and sharing utilities within one convenient interface, and is thusly particularly valuable for digital photography newbies and anyone who is unsure how to handle their pics after they've snapped them." 
summary[12]="Compatible with Sprint cell phone service, the Handspring Treo 600 offers all the functionality of a high-end PDA, cell phone, a backlit QUERTY keyboard, and a digital camera all in a single device...You can attach photos to your text messages. The Treo 600's built-in 640 x 480, 0.3 megapixel digital camera makes it easy to take and send the photos back to your PC, use them in text messages, or as picture caller ID by attaching the pictures to corresponding people in the contacts list."
summary[13]="Rick Smolan and David Elliott Cohen are the original creators of the best selling Day in the Life series and have been responsible for the most successful photography books in history including the New York Times #1 best seller A Day in the Life of America."
summary[14]="Amazon.com Review: Jack Johnson has found himself a groove. Indeed, the Hawaiian surfing champion turned alternative pop-folk star really hasn't changed things one iota for his sophomore release. Fans of Brushfire Fairytales should be delighted with the results. The groove is a mellow one--most of the 16 tracks here are semi-acoustic--and that easy-going spirit filters into Johnson's lyrical philosophies. 'What will be will be / And so it goes' he sings on 'Times Like These,' the opening track. Thankfully, Johnson is never too mellow, and there's a 'Don't worry, be happy' vibe to most of his music. 'The Horizon Has Been Defeated' even has a pseudo-reggae feel to it."
summary[15]="With the compact Colorsplash in your hands, you're ready and armed to repaint your whole environment. Everything that you see around you is subject to manipulation and capture through its sharp little lens. Rotate the integrated flash Color Wheel and choose from a selection of colored flash lights to toss upon your subject. The elements of exposure time, flash color, subject color, exterior light, and the manic curiosity of your lomographic eye come together to yield an endless number of potential techniques and outcomes. Remember, 'colorsplash' is a philosophy. This is merely your tool to get there."


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