Bikers is a fascinating look at bike culture. The German photographer Andreas Endemann spent a summer following UK bikers as they travelled from meet to meet, throughout the country. These are true individuals committed to a way of life which marks them out from the crowd; individuals dedicated, even addicted, to their bikes and to the culture that surrounds them. The resultant photographs are superb, beautiful hand-tinted images that capture a wonderfully fresh portrait of this fascinating group, and make this one of the finest books on bike culture ever published. If you're interested in bikes or the biker lifestyle, then this is the book for you.

On his nighttime rambles through the City of London-i.e., its historical and financial heart-Andreas Schmidt (born 1967) documents the icy glamour of its epic-scaled financial palaces, in which empty lobbies, conference rooms and endless corridors proliferate. Schmidt's portrait of these eerily alienated realms restore the understanding that such environments, in their oversized grandeur, are very far from the civic good.

Fierce Tea Theory focuses on the life and work of Jaisen, a self-proclaimed New Age performance artist from the Northeast of England. Alone, or with his brother and friends, he instigates artistic events -- performances which are strongly ritualistic and extraordinarily surreal and anarchistic. Taking as his apparent starting point the documentation of the activities of an extraordinary and fascinating individual, Webb has developed his approach in such a way that the subject becomes a mechanism for far wider considerations of the nature of individual self and identity.

When the Peoples' Republic set up its Special Economic Zones in the 1980s communist China entered into global trade and international capital. The goal was financial but new money also brought new values and new ways of life. Polly Braden's photography is an intimate response to the material and psychological effects of the changes experienced by the country's new urban class. Shot over three years in Shanghai, Xiamen, Shenzhen and Kunming, "China Between" is a revelatory portrait. No longer will images of epic scenes dominate our view of this country. Braden shows how a casual glance, a moment of doubt or a quick trip to the shopping mall can tell us as much about modern China as any image of a dam, a protest or a teeming workforce.

There is always a sense of adventure when going on a railway journey. Whether it is aboard the Orient Express from London to Istanbul, or travelling the Transcontinental railroad through the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific coast, or riding the Serra Verde Express through the Brazilian rainforest, Rail Journeys takes the reader on a journey through some of the most unusual, romantic and remarkable landscapes in the world. Find out about the Coast Starlight, which carries passengers from Los Angeles along the Pacific coast to Seattle and all points in between; or the 7,000 kilometre Trans-Siberian, crossing the entirety of Mongolia and Russia from Beijing to Moscow; or 'El Chepe', the Mexican Copper Canyon railway, a line which took 90 years to build and negotiates 87 tunnels, 36 bridges and sweeping hairpin bends as it climbs from sea level to the rim-top views it offers at 2,400m; or enjoy the engineering excellence of the Konkan Railway in India, connecting Mumbai with the port of Mangalore via some 2,000 bridges and 90 tunnels; or experience the Shinkansen 'Bullet Train' as it races at speeds of more than 300 km/h between Tokyo and Kyoto, passing the iconic Mount Fuji on the way. With 200 outstanding colour photographs, Rail Journeys takes the reader to some of the most historic, spectacular and remotest locations in the world, places where trains still offer romantic and astounding experiences of rail travel at its best.