Truckee, California, U.S.A.: Fine Line Productions Inc, 1994 In ten years of travel throughout Nevada, I have explored its deserts, mountains, cities and small towns and have met the independent, resilient people who live here. Even with the diversity of livelihood - from rancher to casino owner, small businesses to government workers, I've found most share a genuine pride in the state and a passion for wide-open spaces. This can be a harsh environment with extremes of temperature and terrain. But, thro... more information

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New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001 You may not believe this/because I'm a sheep, but I am not getting/near enough sleep. I start to doze off./my heart starts thumping./Someone somewhere/is counting me jumping. This is a wonderful book of photos of (mostly) barnyard animals and the thoughts they think, in rhyme. What about those funny looks we get from horses, pigs, geese, ducks, llamas, and yes, chickens? This book opens up the inner lives of livestock, revealing their concerns about relationships... more information

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United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley, 1998 Joe Benson charts the roots of mountaineering photography, looking first at the earliest visual records of the sport by artists such as Edward Whymper and George Baxter. During the 19th century, paintings and sketches were gradually replaced by photographers as the most common way to represent mountaineering. This unique book is a celebration of some of the work, previously unpublished, of the daring men and women who took a moment of mountaineering history and capture... more information

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New York, NY: St Martins Press, 1991 The fundamentals of riding are not contained in a simple list of steps, like the rules for using a computer or fixing a car. The basis of riding is the symbiosis of two living creatures, horse and human. Riding is too often taught as though the horse was a piece of machinery, with the result that riders, especially as they advance, have little understanding of the subtly different requirements for each riding style, or why the horse responds as it does. This is a visual ... more information

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Philadelphia, PA: Running Pr Book Pub, 2004 In 1994 a new photo-essay book captured the hearts of people around the world, as it celebrated the profound relationship between sisters. The women featured in the collection were writers, athletes, students, painters, socialites, and teachers. Sisters from all walks of life, all ages, told of how they fought and made up, laughed and loved, and how they gave, risked and resented one another - but never stopped caring. In this 10th Anniversary Edition the authors ... more information

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Cranbury, NJ: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1979 Horses have always been an important part of the movie industry. The B Westerns owed much of their popularity to horses. In fact, horses had some of the most important parts. Some horses achieved great popularity their names known in almost every household. They received as much or more fan mail than did the cowboy star. They had their hoof prints preserved in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. This book presents information about stars such as Tom Mix's To... more information

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New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1994 This moving and beautiful book offers unprecedented insight into the astounding strength of the human spirit when confronted with illness, pain, loss, and death. Carolyn Jones' vivid and life-affirming portraits capture people from all backgrounds - children and grandmothers, men and women of all races - living with HIV and AIDS. A common and harmful misconception holds that AIDS is an instant death sentence but, in fact, testing positive for HIV does not mean ... more information

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Herndon, VA: Brassey's, 1999 In this illustrated war volume, the authors show the battles, leaders, weapons, heroism, and pain of the Vietnam War, from its earliest beginnings to the fall of Saigon in 1975. Through more than 450 official and personal photographs (both U.S. and Vietnamese), they reveal the courage, the loneliness, and the fears of the three and a half million U.S. soldiers, Marines, airmen, and seamen who served in America's longest war. Here are the Marines battling house to house i... more information

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New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2000 During the second half of the 20th century, partly as the aftermath of WWII and more directly as a result of the dissolution of the Empire, Britain gradually evolved from a fairly rigid uniculture nation into a melting-pot of ethnic groups and faiths. It is this significant and fascinating change in the national configuration that prompted Rachel Morton to tour the country with her camera, exploring the multitude of religions and their devotees. From various Christian... more information

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Germany: Gina Kehayoff Pub, 2000 The images assembled in this volume are photographs depicting American cemetaries and graves. They represent a spotlight collection of notes, commentary, documentation, and witness. During several trips taken over many years throughout the southwest and west of the United States, Martha Laugs built up this striking treasury of photographs. They have been chosen deliberately to express an individuals view and make no claims to "political correctness" or even objecti... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Pub, 2001 This stunning book tells the complete story of the last military contest of the Vietnam War. Ranging from fierce firefights on a Cambodian island to a surreal black-tie dinner in the White House, the entire story about the hijacking of the U. S. merchant ship, S.S. Mayaguez, untold until now, is revealing in a riveting narrative of combat, courage, and governmental blunders that serves as a metaphor of the entire war. 384 pages, including appendices, ... more information

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Switzerland: Edition Stemmle, 1997 As early as 1968 Benedict J. Fernandez documented the confrontation between highly vocal minorities and the "quiet majority." A number of photographs from that time have been reproduced in this book. Here was a new phenomenon, even for late-1960s America: The confrontation with minorities who saw it as a part of their constitutional right to free speech that the public would also listen to their views. Many of his photographs contributed significantly to public a... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Power House Books, 2003 . Now the digital age is upon us, and nowhere in photography is it more omnipresent than in photojournalism. The processing and shipping of film has given way to the uploading and transmission of the digital image. All of the photographs in this book came from digital cameras, allowing us to see glimpses of war in "real" time. There is no doubt that the still camera remains a powerful tool and this book is a tribute to that. Through the eyes of s... more information

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New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966 New England Revisited is an album of memorable and nostalgic scenes of "the cradle of America"; also an anthology of some of the very best writing about New England. The photographic collection comprises 44 full color plates. The plates are arranged by seasons, each section being introduced by a double-page "spread." The byways and villages, mountains and rivers, harbors and islands of all six states of the region are here represented in the varyi... more information

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New York, NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1991 Barbara G. Harrison takes us to the enticing world of Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands. With photographs as lyrical as Ms. Harrison's prose, by internationally acclaimed photographer Sheila Nardulli, this gorgeous book sets out art and architecture, history and folklore, literature and, of course, food in a glorious feast for the spirit and the senses. Embellished by quotes of famous Italians and others, the book revels in color and vitality. Unquestiona... more information

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London: Secker & Warburg, 1999 This may well be the ultimate expression of celebrity worship gone mad. 20th-Century Dreams derives from the journal left by Max Vail at his death. His long and astonishingly varied life was spent moving relentlessly up the ladders of power. This journey took him to Vienna, Berlin, Paris, London, and finally America, and involved him with almost all the great names of the age. His journal provides a new and often shocking insight into recent history - its buried liaisons a... more information

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London, England: Marshall Editions Limited, 1987 This beautifully illustrated book discusses sacred sites, ancient cities, lost lands, and symbolic landscapes. This book is an extensive guide, detailing many places and their particular mysteries, making The Atlas of Mysterious Places a comprehensive reference to the world of unexplained sites, symbols, cities and landscapes. Photographs in color and black & white show the beautiful sites being examined. Included is a gazetteer and bibliography for your ... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Bulfinch Press, 2000 These places are real. They are not a dream or figment of the imagination. They speak of endless transformation. Eons of construction and demolition. Independence and total dependency. Reproduction and unique formation. Power beyond cognition, scale and spectrum. And they speak of us and to us. What can be gained by these apparitions of reality? What is their value to us humans who relate to things by their value? What is the value of landscape? This is a stu... more information

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New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1999 In most places, human beings dominate the picture. But in a few spots. nature rules unchallenged." So writes Bill McKibben in his uplifting introduction to Adirondacks, a book that reveals nature's glory, and the unique give and take between people and wilderness in the vast Adirondack Park. Bigger than the Grand Canyon, Glacier, Yellowstone, and Yosemite National Parks combined, the Adirondack Park contains a stunning array of mountains, wildlands... more information

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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969 Ghosts? Hans Holzer claims nothing he can't prove. You yourself can corroborte the authenticity of the incredible material his book contains. All you have to do is open the cover. The photographs that parapsychologist and ESP authority Holzer makes public here for the first time were taken under test conditions with factory-inspected cameras and film. Fraud, double exposure and light leaks have been carefully excluded. The more than fifty photos in this book show... more information

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