Richard Ross Livres

""Oregon III,"" now in its 17th printing, remains a best-seller for Graphic Arts Center Publishing® . A splendid portrait of the state.

Where will you go when the trouble starts? For countless people around the world, the answer is that bomb shelter down in the basement. In fact, people from around the work have been building shelters to protect themselves from catastrophe -- natural disaster, war, nuclear events -- for centuries. Waiting for the End of the World is photographer Richard Ross's journey into this quirky, somewhat paranoid, and occasionally beautiful underground world. Ross has documented not only the bomb shelters of the United States, but also examples from Vietnam, Russia, England, Turkey, and even Switzerland, where citizens are required by law to have a bomb shelter.Ross's subjects include the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia, where a shelter was built to house the entire U.S. Congress, shelters in Beijing, where the Chinese built a complete city underground, and Hittite shelters in Eastern Turkey built some 4,000 years ago. His ethereal images show spaces that at once provide only the barest necessities for survival but maintain a level of idiosyncratic personality that testify to the endurance -- and wackiness -- of the human spirit.Waiting for the End of the World features an interview by author and social commentator Sarah Vowell.

Three years after a decisive battle with the body-snatching Cenari, both sides have prepared for their next confrontation, but which side's planning will give them the advantage? The repealing of the Cenari invasion forces has ushered in a new era of peace, brokered by Ambassador Illandra Page, whose telepathic abilities assisted in destroying the Cenari invasion fleet. She now focuses on her political career, uncovering the mysteries behind the Cenari and their creators, and the disappearance of Race Allard, the hero of the United Republic. Race was reported missing after the last battle. Stealing an enemy ship to return home, his starship never made it. His precognitive powers were the deciding factor in the final confrontation with the leftover nanite invaders of a lost alien civilization. His absence leaves humanity vulnerable, as others scurry to fill in the gaps left behind in his absence. The reports from the outer edges of space bring discouraging news as malice in the shadows once again starts to infect civilization. Could the hope for mankind lie in the discovery of a powerless ship back from the edges of the galaxy? The final battle for the known universe with the Cenari is about to come to a head in the continuation of the Cosmic Endeavor series!