In Search of Hope
The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl
Written by Mariane Pearl
Preface by Cindi Leive
Foreword by Angelina Jolie

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2007
Price: $39.95

Mariane Pearl started traveling the globe for Glamour magazine in 2006 to profile courageous women and show that hope is stronger than fear. During the first year of writing her monthly "Global Diary" column, Pearl logged nearly 100,000 miles and met 12 brave, determined women-true agents of change in their communities-who... Read more >

Hungry Planet
What the World Eats
Written by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio

Format: Trade Paperback, 287 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2007
Price: $24.95

The age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as rising world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglomerates, transform eating habits worldwide. HUNGRY PLANET profiles 30 families from around the world--including Bosnia, Chad, Egypt, Greenland, Japan, the United States, and France--and... Read more >

Hungry Planet
What the World Eats
Written by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2007
Price: $24.99

The age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as rising world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglomerates, transform eating habits worldwide. HUNGRY PLANET profiles 30 families from around the world--including Bosnia, Chad, Egypt, Greenland, Japan, the United States, and France--and... Read more >

Forsaken
Afghan Women
Photographed by Lana Slezic

Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2007
Price: $35.00

In March 2004, when award-winning photographer Lana Šlezic began an assignment in Afghanistan, she never dreamed she would stay for two years. At the time she believed that since the ousting of the suffocating Taliban in 2001, Afghan women and girls were living under considerably less oppressive conditions. She soon discovered... Read more >

Women Who Light the Dark

Photographed by Paola Gianturco
Foreword by Kavita Ramdas

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2007
Price: $45.00

Across the world, local women are helping one another tackle the problems that darken their lives—domestic violence, sex trafficking, war, poverty, illiteracy, discrimination, inequality, malnutrition, disease. These women may lack material resources, but they possess a wealth of an even more precious resource: imagination—their imaginations light the dark.

Women in... Read more >

Where Valor Rests
Arlington National Cemetery
Written by Rick Atkinson

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $30.00

Arlington National Cemetery spreads across the rolling hills west of the Potomac, a serene and reverent sanctuary for the presidents, soldiers, and heroes—famous and unsung alike—who lie in eternal rest among its green lawns and quiet glades, a roster dating back to America's birth and including many of the foremost names... Read more >

Dirty Wow Wow and Other Love Stories
A Tribute to the Threadbare Companions of Childhood
Written by Cheryl Katz and Jeffrey Katz
Photographed by Hornick

Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2007
Price: $12.95

It'¬?s rare to find a child whose very first best friend wasn'¬?t a fuzzy teddy bear or downy blanket. Whether clutched securely in little arms each night or dragged gamely through the playground each day, these fiercely loved companions universally ease the uncertainties and loneliness of childhood. DIRTY WOW WOW AND... Read more >

The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
A Century by the Sea
Written by Santa Cruz Seaside Company

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2007
Price: $19.95

Warm sand and cool surf. The sweet scent of cotton candy and the thrill of your first roller coaster ride. These are the kinds of memories the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk has inspired over its first hundred years as one of America'¬?s oldest and most beloved seaside amusement parks.Colorfully illustrated with... Read more >

Fletcher Street

Photographed by Martha Camarillo
Introduction by Kathie Dobie

Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2006
Price: $39.95

Deep in the heart of Philadelphia, past row houses and vacant lots, run-down playgrounds and dilapidated schools, is a little place called Fletcher Street. It has everything one would expect to find down an alley in the ghetto, with one addition: horses. The men and boys of Fletcher Street have used... Read more >

Flesh Life
Sex in Mexico City
Text by Trisha Ziff
Afterword by Pedro Meyer
Photographed by Joseph Rodriguez
Introduction by Ruben Martinez

Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $35.00

“Spirit, flesh: in the end the same quest, born of a crumbling economy and identity. The single most apparent sign is the proliferation in prostitution, an ‘outing’ of what has always existed, but furtively. The government has officially admitted that it is impossible to rein in the sex trade; Mexico City... Read more >

The Murals of John Pugh
Beyond Trompe L'Oeil
Written by Kevin Bruce

Format: Hardcover, 168 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $150.00

John Pugh has created more than 200 murals and is considered to be the leading proponent, authority, and practitioner of Narrative Illusionism, a term coined to describe his particular mural style. This full-color collection showcases Pugh's most famous pieces, discusses how he revitalized the trompe l'oeil ("trick of the eye") genre... Read more >

Viva Colores
A Salute to the Indomitable People of Guatemala
Text by David Hill
Photographed by Paola Ginaturco

Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $39.95

The joyful cacophony of color that envelopes visitors to Guatemala may seem misplaced at first. After all, the nation has only recently emerged from a 36-year civil war that destroyed its infrastructure and claimed more than a million lives. But to the authors of ¡Viva Colores!: A Salute to the Indomitable... Read more >

Work
The World in Photographs
Written by Ferdinand Protzman

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $35.00

Culled from National Geographic's vast photographic archive as well as other important collections, this fascinating, wide-ranging volume presents a wonderfully varied group portrait of people at work—in great cities and tiny villages; in 19th-century China and 21st-century New York; in fields, factories, food carts, four-star restaurants, and just about everywhere else... Read more >

The Murals of John Pugh
Beyond Trompe L'Oeil
Written by Kevin Bruce

Format: Hardcover, 168 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $35.00

John Pugh has created more than 200 murals and is considered to be the leading proponent, authority, and practitioner of Narrative Illusionism, a term coined to describe his particular mural style. This full-color collection showcases Pugh's most famous pieces, discusses how he revitalized the trompe l'oeil ("trick of the eye") genre... Read more >

Hungry Planet
What the World Eats
Written by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2005
Price: $40.00

On the banks of Mali's Niger River, Soumana Natomo and his family gather for a communal dinner of millet porridge with tamarind juice. In the USA, the Ronayne-Caven family enjoys corndogs-on-a-stick with a tossed green salad. This age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as... Read more >

Vodou
Visions and Voices of Haiti
Written by Phyllis Galembo

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Price: $24.95

Now Back in Print!Eighty-plus brilliant color photographs are accompanied by captions and essays from experts of Voodoo, or VODOU, the dazzlingly symbolic spiritual tradition. Photographer Phyllis Galembo shows us the human and divine faces and voices of real Haitian Vodou in a beautiful, personal, and intimate document of a fascinating and... Read more >

Celebrating Women

Photographed by Paola Gianturco

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2004
Price: $49.95

Twenty-five thousand Swazi virgins dance for the Queen Mother. In Spain, people who have had near-death experiences ride in open coffins and thank Santa Marta for their lives. Half-a-million Bolivians pray to Mother Earth and the Virgin Mary for cell phones, sewing machines, televisions, and Tudor houses. Polish girls float wreaths... Read more >

Juvenile

Photographed by Joseph Rodriguez
Introduction by Nell Bernstein

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2004
Price: $29.95

"Well done, haunting, and thorough."
—CNN NewsNight with Aaron Brown

In 1989, juvenile courts handed 1.2 million delinquency cases. A decade later, this number had risen 44 percent, to 1.8 million. During this same period the violent-crime index dropped for juveniles. Today, there are more than 100,000 young people behind bars... Read more >

Through the Lens
National Geographic's Greatest Photographs
Edited by Leah Bendavid Val

Format: Hardcover, 504 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2003
Price: $30.00

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Aging in America
The Years Ahead
Text by Ed Winokur
Preface by Dr. Robert Butler
Photographed by Kashi, Ed
Foreword by Doris Roberts

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2003
Price: $45.00

Another baby boomer turns fifty every seven-and-a-half seconds. At this rate, by 2030, one quarter of the United States’ population will be over sixty-five, and by mid-century, the senior citizen population is expected to reach eighty million, outnumbering the population of young people for the first time in history.

Aging... Read more >