The Foreign Service Journal, November 2010

48 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 0 state’s internal politics and its relations with others. Maps, pictures and charts enliven the book’s pages and attest to the authors’ meticulous attention to detail. For students and scholars of the Middle East, this con- cise volume provides both a broad overview of regional trends and a wealth of useful detail that is difficult to find in a single volume. A former diplomat-in-residence at Baylor University, Colbert Held was a Foreign Service officer for 15 years who acquired experience in nearly every country in the Middle East. John Cummings is a former USAID econ- omist who has worked in the Treasury Department and the World Bank. He has also taught at Al-Hikma Uni- versity in Baghdad, Tufts University and the University of Texas at Austin. Photography Snow Peaks Black Tents Daniel Miller, www.blurb.com , 2010, $7.95 softcover, $26.95 hardcover, 150 illustrations, 200 pages. This unusual book, self-pub- lished online and available to pre- view there in full, is a record of the author’s journeys and work among Tibetan-speaking nomads in the Himalaya in Nepal and Bhutan and throughout the Tibetan Plateau re- gion of what is now China. The many, stunning photographs in the book cover a time span of more than three decades and capture a disappearing way of life. They are comple- mented by an insightful and informative narrative on the nomadic culture. Daniel Miller is an FSO with USAID in India. A rangeland ecologist, he went to Nepal for the first time in 1974, and bought his first camera, a Canon FTb, at that time. For the past 25 years he has worked with no- mads in Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, Mongolia, Nepal and Tibet. He still uses a Canon F-1 manual camera. This book can be purchased online at www.blurb. com/user/store/wildyakman. A richly illustrated 2011 Weekly Planner as well as other works by Daniel Miller are also available. ■