9780399130878 - On the Road With Charles Kuralt by Charles Kuralt - 039913087X

For the last 25 years, photographer Sam Fentress has traveled America taking architectural photographs as his full-time profession. In this never-before published collection, Fentress reveals an America rich with spirituality, hunger, compassion, sorrow, remorse, and jubilation.

Mild-mannered think-tank wizard Jack Rigby becomes an accidental witness to a shoot-out between a cop and members of a biker gang. Jack brings home the only survivor, a biker, and nurses him back to health. The biker befriends Jack by giving him a motorcycle, and an unwanted house guest: a 15-year-old orphaned computer genius. Both the biker and the kid help Jack discover valuable lessons in life, while Jack falls in love with a young woman and helps her overcome her own challenges. Biker gangs,...

Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and unconsciously, to various forms of identification through their participation in schooling, family life and popular religion. They read texts about 'virtuous mothers', share 'meaningful foods' with other villagers, visit the altars of 'divining children' and participate in 'dangerous' god-strengthening rituals. In particular they learn about the family-based cycle of reciprocity, and the tension between...