{"product_id":"waiting-for-the-end-of-the-world","title":"Waiting for the End of the World","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWaiting for the End of the World\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRichard Koss\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781568984667\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePrinceton Architectural Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2004\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e2004\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e144\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eWhere 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. \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003eRoss'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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaiting for the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e features an interview by author and social commentator Sarah Vowell.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Princeton Architectural Press","offers":[{"title":"Waiting for the End of the World | Richard Koss | Paperback | 9781568984667 | Used: Very Good | Photography 1766878 (temp: 7)","offer_id":49377033748632,"sku":"1766878","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61ZmKbAdlRL.jpg?v=1783026492","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/waiting-for-the-end-of-the-world","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}