{"id":646901,"date":"2013-03-14T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=72962"},"modified":"2013-03-14T18:19:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T22:19:47","slug":"the-new-ted-book-minescape-waging-war-against-land-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646901","title":{"rendered":"The new TED Book, &ldquo;Minescape: Waging War Against Land Mines&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72969 alignleft\" style=\"margin:0 10px 10px 0;float:left;\" alt=\"Minescape-cover\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/minescape-cover.jpg?w=900\"   \/>Long after a war is over, land mines continue to maim and kill. In\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/pages\/tedbooks_library#Minescape\">Minescape: Waging War Against Land Mines<\/a><\/i>, artist and photojournalist Brett Van Ort shares a collection of photographs documenting the tragic and unforeseen consequences of leftover land mines from the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through unsettling photographs of deceptively innocent landscapes, descriptions of the various types of land mines and chilling images of prosthetic limbs and metal joints,\u00a0<i>Minescape<\/i>\u00a0reminds us of the\u00a0lingering threats of war that often remain in times of peace.<\/p>\n<p><i>Minescape<\/i>\u00a0is the first TED Book to be released in conjunction with a print edition, and will complement an art book to be published by Daylight Books in April 2013.\u00a0This will also mark one of the first projects from the newly launched Daylight Digital. But the TED Books version of\u00a0<i>Minescape\u00a0<\/i>will be a little different,<i> <\/i>pairing Van Ort\u2019s moving photographs and personal accounts with Joel Whitney\u2019s globe-trotting investigative essays. It also includes multimedia features that detail the continued impacts of land mines as well as innovative techniques for landmine detection, allowing photography lovers and academics-alike to go beyond the images.<\/p>\n<p><i>Minescape <\/i>is available for\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Minescape-Waging-Against-Mines-ebook\/dp\/B00BR5408A\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1363201861&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=minescape\">Kindle\u00a0<\/a><\/span>and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/minescape-brett-van-ort\/1114820888?ean=2940016297064\">Nook,<\/a><\/span> as well as through the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/minescape\/id610720367?ls=1\">iBookstore<\/a>. Or download the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/ted-books\/id511071050?mt=8\">TED Books<\/a>\u00a0app for your iPad or iPhone. A subscription costs\u00a0$4.99 a month, and is an all-you-can-read buffet.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/72962\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/72962\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=72962&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/GGTRJetc6Uw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long after a war is over, land mines continue to maim and kill. In\u00a0Minescape: Waging War Against Land Mines, artist and photojournalist Brett Van Ort shares a collection of photographs documenting the tragic and unforeseen consequences of leftover land mines from the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through unsettling photographs of deceptively innocent landscapes, descriptions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7789,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}