Holiday Buying Guide

TIME brings you the best of this year's holiday entertainment gifts, from a bound collection of Marilyn Monroe photography to a boxed retrospective of the films of Stanley Kubrick, a boxed set that pays homage to the days of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, a Johnny Cash anthology, and more

Blue Planet Run

Book Art buyer's guide blue planet run water

$45

Another project from Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt, the pair behind the various Day in the Life photo books. This one is devoted to the burgeoning worldwide water crisis. The combination of exploding population and environmental degradation is producing a potentially calamitous shortage of pure water in a world where as many as a billion people already lack access to it. Pictures from scores of photographers working all around the world show what the crisis looks like now (it looks bad), the solutions available, (those look better), and the reasons why blue has to become the new green.

Richard Lacayo

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