Raskols
The Gangs of Papua New Guinea
Written by Stephen Dupont
Contribution by Ben Bohane
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $30.00
Beautiful black-and-white portraits of Papua New Guinea's most fearsome gangsters, brigands, thieves, and carjackers posing with their arsenal of homemade guns and knives.Papua New Guinea: A land of striking beauty, mountain ranges, lush rainforests, and some of the most spectacular coastlines on earth. A land with over eight hundred unique tribes...
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Arctic Voices
Resistance at the Tipping Point
Written by Subhankar Banerjee
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $35.95
"One of the great strengths of Arctic Voices is that it shows how Alaska and the Arctic are tied to the places where most of us live. In this impassioned book, Banerjee shows a situation so serious that it has created a movement, where “voices of resistance are gathering, are getting louder and louder.” May his heartfelt efforts magnify them. The climate changes that...
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Arctic Voices
Resistance at the Tipping Point
Written by Subhankar Banerjee
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $35.95
A pristine environment of ecological richness and biodiversity. Home to generations of indigenous people for thousands of years. The location of vast quantities of oil, natural gas and coal. Largely uninhabited and long at the margins of global affairs, in the last decade Arctic Alaska has quickly become the most contested...
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Black Crack in Iran
Written by Aslon Arfa
Text by Steffen Gassel
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $29.95
Creating an accurate picture of daily life in Iran is a difficult endeavor. Due to strict religious and moral codes, even photographing a woman inside her home without a scarf covering her head is all but impossible. Evidence of the censure of media in Iran has always been visible to Western...
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Booked
The Last 150 Years Told through Mug Shots
Written by Giacomo Papi
Translated by Jamie Richards
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
Every year twelve million Americans are arrested and photographed by the police. In many ways, mug shots are our history. Using a dazzling selection of mug shots that are arrestingly raw in their starkness and strangely eloquent in their simplicity, this absorbing, humorous, often bewildering collection sheds a whole new light...
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The Obscene Image
Parisian Hospital Break Room Graffiti
Written by Gilles Tondini
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: November 16, 2010
Price: $34.95
Certain hospitals in Paris contain illustrated phenomena that have remained unseen, by the French and the world at large, until now. In
The Obscene Image, photographer Gilles Tondini reveals the frenzied frescos created by doctors and nurses who use hospital break rooms to let off steam and maintain sanity as they...
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The President's Photographer
Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office
Written by John Bredar
Foreword by Pete Souza
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $35.00
Official companion to the National Geographic Television Special airing in November 2010,
The President's Photographer is the intimate story of the men and women who are both visual historians and key links between the public and the Presidents. Like the film, this behind-the-scenes invitation features the images and recollections of the nine professionals who...
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What I Eat
Around the World in 80 Diets
Written by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $40.00
A stunning photographic collection featuring portraits of 80 people from 30 countries and the food they eat in one day.
In this fascinating study of people and their diets, 80 profiles are organized by the total number of calories each person puts away in a day. Featuring a Japanese sumo wrestler, a...
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Curse of the Black Gold
50 Years of Oil in The Niger Delta
Written by Kashi, Ed
Edited by Michael Watts
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $39.95
Curse of the BlackGold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta takes a graphic look at the profound cost of oil exploitation in West Africa. Featuring images by world-renowned photojournalist Ed Kashi and text by prominent Nigerian journalists, human rights activists, and University of California at Berkeley professor Michael Watts, this...
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Vending Machines
Coined Consumerism
Written by Christopher D. Salyers
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Price: $27.95
In airports, iPods, headphones and other technological gadgets are sold in vending machines; artists from London to Buenos Aires have converted cigarette vending machines to sell art; along New York City's St. Marks Place numerous kiosks provide "fresh food" for late-night snackers via, you guessed it, vending machines. Marketers have caught...
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FRAGILE
The Human Condition
Written by Howard G. Buffett
Foreword by Shakira Mebarak
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Price: $35.00
Fragile is the documentation of life stories in sixty-five countries. It is about personal accounts, some successful, some shattering. The book is an effort to move intellectual discussions to face emotional realities. It is one man's attempt to bring this reality to those who may be motivated to affect change.
It is...
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Polar Obsession
Written by Paul Nicklen
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $50.00
The Arctic is in Paul Nicklen’s blood. Born and raised on Baffin Island, Nunavut, he grew up in one of the only non-Inuit families in a tiny native settlement amid the ice fields, floes, and frigid seas of Northern Canada. At an age when most children are playing hide-and-seek, he was...
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An American Family
Three Decades with the McGarveys
Text by Claude Cookman
Photographed by Pam Spaulding
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00
Whether you think of it as the ultimate in time-lapse photography or a reality show begun decades before its time, this 30-year photographic look at one middle-class family from Louisville, Kentucky, is Americana at its most evocativeat once moving, modest, and quietly magnificent. Conceived in the 20th century and carried forward...
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44 Days
Iran and the Remaking of the World
Written by David Burnett
Contribution by Christiane Amanpour and John Kifner
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $50.00
At a time when most Westerners fled the carnage in Iran, David Burnett was one of the few to stay and document the breathtakingly sudden fall of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in December 1978, and the chaotic political maneuvering that would culminate in the triumph of the Ayatollahs and the birth...
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Through the Lens
National Geographic Greatest Photographs
Written by National Geographic
Edited by Leah Bendavid-Val
Format: Hardcover, 504 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $17.95
For more than 100 years, National Geographic has set the standard for nature, culture, and wildlife photography. In
Through the Lens, 250 spectacular imagessome famous, others rarely seenare gathered in one lavish, newly formatted volume.
Through the Lens is divided into geographical regions with a special section devoted to space exploration. Each...
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Witness
One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story
Written by Ruth Gruber
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $17.99
With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after–tells her story in her own words and photographs.
In Witness, Gruber writes about what she saw and...
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Inside the Vatican
Written by Bart McDowell
Photographed by James L. Stanfield
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $19.95
For almost a year, veteran National Geographic photographer Jim Stanfield captured nearly every corner of the Vatican, both the world’s smallest country and the center of the Roman Catholic Church. Along with author Bart McDowell, he provides an insider’s view into the history of this 108.7-acre enclave, from the first St...
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I Am Because We Are
Photographed by Kristen Ashburn
Foreword by Madonna
Format: Hardcover, 180 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2009
Price: $49.95
I Am Because We Are is the companion volume to the acclaimed forthcoming documentary film directed by Nathan Rissman and written and produced by Madonna. This book of images by award-winning photojournalist Kristen Ashburn—culled from her work in Malawi and Africa over the past seven years as well as from her...
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Yes We Can
Barack Obama's History-Making Presidential Campaign
Photographed by Scout Tufankjian
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: December 9, 2008
Price: $29.95
Yes We Can: Barack Obama's History-Making Presidential Campaign is the story of Barack Obama’s historic journey from junior Senator from Illinois to—if all polls hold as indicated—President of the United States of America, as documented by Scout Tufankjian, the only independent photographer to cover his entire campaign from before he announced...
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Reza War and Peace
Written by Reza Deghati
Introduction by Sebastian Junger
Format: Hardcover, 296 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $75.00
With the Middle East and Asia as his far-ranging home territory, Reza has chronicled 30 years of turmoil, hope, and splendor for a host of international publications including
Newsweek,
Time,
Geo, and
National Geographic magazines. Now, he displays some of his most dramatic works in
Reza War and Peace–a powerful and...
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The Life of a Photograph
Written by Sam Abell
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $40.00
Drawing on 40 years of fieldwork,
The Life of a Photograph takes readers on assignment and inside the heart of a master photographer to witness the process of making a truly great picture. This exquisite book is organized by the known and unexpected themes of Abell’s work, ranging from his sensitive...
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Child Soldiers
Edited by Leora Kahn
Introduction by Luis Moreno-Ocampo
Format: Hardcover, 120 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $45.00
Photographs by: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Lynsey Addario, Martin Adler, Richard Butler, Francesco Cito, Gary Calton, Chris de Bode, Donna De Cesare, Miquel Dewever Plana, Tiane Doan na Champassak, Colin Finlay, Riccardo Gangale, Cedric Gerbehaye, Jan Grarup, Tim A. Hetherington, Rhodri Jones, Bob Koenig, Roger Lemoyne, Zed Nelson, Peter Mantello, Heather McClintock, Olivier...
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Still Here
Stories After Katrina
Photographed by Joseph Rodriguez
Introduction by Patrice Pascual
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $35.00
Hurricane Katrina was the most costly natural disaster in the history of the United States. The Category 1 hurricane, which landed August 29, 2005 in the Gulf Coast region, caused 81.2 billion dollars in property damage, killed 1,836 people, and permanently displaced hundreds of thousands more. In the weeks following the...
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