Most Popular Books by Bruce Foster

Exploring the lobster''s biology and its history in language, literature and gastronomy, The Lobster''s Tale navigates the perils of a life driven by overreaching ambition and the appetite for knowledge, conquest and commerce. In conversation with the text, Bruce Foster''s photographs navigate a parallel course of shadows and light, in which the extraordinary textures and colours of the natural world tell a darker story. The Lobster''s Tale is a meditation on the quest for immortality on which both artists and scientists have embarked, and the unhappy consequences of the attempt to both conquer nature and create masterpieces. Meanwhile, below the waterline of text and images, a modest voice can be overheard whispering an alternative to these narratives of heroic and doomed exploration.The Lobster''s Tale brings together award-winning writer Chris Price and distinguished photographer Bruce Foster. It is the third in the korero series of ''picture books'' edited by Lloyd Jones, written and made for grown-ups and designed to showcase leading New Zealand writers and artists working together in a collaborative and dynamic way.

The much-loved tale of Maria and the von Trapp family is magically brought to life in this spectacular pop-up format. Based on the classic musical, this pop-up book transports the reader from the peaceful abbey to the lush green hills and breathtaking Austrian Alps. With intricate visual pops and lyrics from some of the memorable songs, such as ''My Favourite Things'', ''Edelweiss'', and ''Do-Re-Mi'', The Sound of Music pop-up is sure to become a favourite thing in any family''s library.

Coinciding with Frank Miller''s upcoming "Spirit" movie, Eisner''s graphic novel spins a noir tale of blackmail, murder, and espionage innovatively crafted into seven full-color pop-up spreads, featuring panoramic cityscapes, three-dimensional action sequences, and more.

On a horse farm in the steeplechase country of Maryland''s My Lady''s Manor, ER physician Alex Randolph and his girlfriend, Penny Murray, are recovering from injuries sustained in a hospital hostage incident that transforms them into instant but unwilling national celebrities. A thousand miles distant-in a parallel universe-an abused and impoverished young girl from the Everglades evolves into a stunningly beautiful sociopath of enormous wealth. As a golden summer transitions to fall, dark obsession stalks the unknowing young couple, and fate inexorably leads three lives to collision, sweeping the idyllic landscape of My Lady''s Manor with terror and death.

Between March and May 2013, photographer Bruce Foster and poet Gregory O''Brein were temporary citizens of Santiago de Chile, staying in an apartment a short walk from the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, where their works were included in the ''Kermadec - Art Across the Pacific'' exhibition. Camera in hand, Foster walked the streets of this ambiguous yet curiously animated city, with its buskers, military parades, stray dogs and cascades of water from the cannons of armoured vehicles; O''Brien wrote poems, seated at Cafe Sur or the Mosqueto (with its Fernando Pessoa placemats), or on a bench in the Parque Forestal. Together they observed the life of street, park, and busy intersection; they were drawn into the generous, abundant lives of their fellow citizens.

Although concrete admixtures are chemicals in a literal sense, by convention in concrete technology, the term "chemical admixture" is restricted to water-soluble substances other than air-entraining agents. Most chemical admixtures react chemically with the cement in concrete. This discussion will be confined to set-controlling and water-reducing admixtures. Chemical admixtures of other types are classified and described in a recent report of the American Concrete Inst. [1]. A water-reducing admixture is defined as one that reduces the quantity of mixing water required to produce concrete of a given consistency; a retarding admixture as one that retards the setting of concrete; an accelerating admixture as one that accelerates the setting and early strength development of concrete; a water-reducing and retarding admixture as one that reduces the quantity of mixing water required to produce concrete of a given consistency and retards the setting of concrete; and a water-reducing and accelerating admixture as one that reduces the quantity of mixing water required to produce concrete of a given consistency and accelerates the setting and early strength development of concrete. These five types of admixtures are referred to in ASTM Specifications for Chemical Admixtures for Concrete (C 494 - 63 T) as Types A, B, C, D, and E, respectively.