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From: Insight on the News | Date: December 22, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Stephen Goode, INSIGHT

Some books are beautiful things but don't have much inside to recommend them. Others are rich when it comes to content, yet come up short when judged by looks. Insight has chosen five published in 2003 that score high in both categories.

Two are books packed with photographs - one of pictures from all over the globe, with a few from the universe in general; the other contains nothing but photographs of the people and their homes in a small portion of the mountains of North Carolina. A third presents the work of an underappreciated American ...

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