In 1969, a young New Yorker named Joe Randazzo moved from the big city to the little town of Shelby, NC and was amazed at the confluence of old and new living side by side. Realizing that the Carolinas were at a crossroad, Randazzo decided to capture the profound changes that were about to occur. He visited tent revivals, KKK rallies, cotton mills, deer drives and backwoods stills, always accompanied by his trusty Konica SLR, and planned to make his photos into a book. Then he lost the thousands of negatives, 5 years of work. Cleaning out the cellar 35 years later, Randazzo stumbled upon a carton filled with the long-lost negative files. You'll see over 200 of the best in this superb collection. The Carolinas today have changed beyond recognition. We can only be grateful that "Going With the Wind" exists to document a unique culture that will never be seen again.

Without a Roof: Portraits of the Homeless is a visceral and compelling book featuring 28 photographs by Eugene Rosenthal with text by Maya Dreamwalker. Painted with an impressionistic, stream-of-consciousness word brush, this book does not purport to be a textbook on the subject, yet it captures many of the thoughts and questions that have been raised about homelessness. Interspersed with facts, musings, and dotted with poetry, this small but vital book. It reminds us that the changing fortunes of time can adversely affect anyone at any time and emphasizes that we must enlarge our limited perspective to change stereotypical ideas about homelessness, and determine what safeguards will be in place in a world where the safety nets have ever enlarging holes. We would like to present our book, Without a Roof: Portraits of the Homeless, by Eugene Rosenthal and Maya Dreamwalker. In 2007, Eugene began to photograph the people in Bryant Park while on his way home from business meetings in New York City. What he has captured with his lens is disturbing and ironic. Surprised by our response to the photographs, we mutually agreed that a book would provide an outlet to bring attention to a growing and enduring problem. This small book can only highlight the magnitude of issues and it is our personal way of putting some small act into the world that may be helpful. We chose not to fill our book with facts and statistics and, avoiding sensationalism, did not show the worst case scenario thinking that in some way, we could help to alleviate some of the pain and suffering we witnessed. Many of us are feeling the economic shockwave moving across our nation. Many have been set back to square one, despite their best efforts to build and achieve. We look forward to hearing from you. We can be reached at: [email protected]. Books may be purchased at: www.createspace.com/3373367. Maya Dreamwalker Born in Harlem, NY, Maya Dreamwalker is a poet, author and spoken-word artist. Streetwise and aware, she creates wordscapes that magnify perception. Her insight into the human condition is the mirror that reflects the invisible back to us. Haunting, eclectic, and surreal. Eugene Rosenthal is a photographer and freelance photojournalist whose work is represented in many private collections.

BILINGUAL EDITION (English/Spanish) SECOND EDITION Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. 2008 changed our lives. During its first weeks the first executions took place. Alarmed, we wanted to believe these were just isolated events, underworld quarrels prone to end soon and everything would be just as it was before. However, the killings did not stop, and increasingly became more sadistic and violent. We would wake up just to find bodies hanging from our bridges as we drove to work or to drop our children at school. From their tribunes, our emboldened leaders ensured that organized crime was to be subdued shortly; they said they were about to prove that "no criminal group will be able to withstand the force of the Mexican State." Naively, they imagined that, by means of magic, the mere presence of thousands of soldiers would be enough to pacify the city. More than ten thousand businesses closed down, over one hundred thousand abandoned homes, more than five thousand homicides. These are the true achievements in this war against drugs. The intention of this work is to recount the version of common men and women. Ordinary citizens who strive and work. Honest people who have had their lives changed by power struggles between criminal groups and the lack of tact and determination shown by our authorities. It is simply a testimony in pictures. Pictures won't lie, they speak for themselves. A collection of photographs presented without notes, without captions, without references. Silent. No chronological or hierarchical order, not one is more or less important than another. Not intended to portray isolated events that occurred in this or that date; but intended to illustrate a reality that persists, that repeats itself, that becomes part of daily life. DISCLAIMER: This book contains graphic images.

Xavier High School in the Federated States of Micronesia has trained many of the Western Pacific's top leaders since 1952. It has been successful, despite having few resources, when so many others have failed. This book, the first about this remarkable Jesuit boarding school, shows how dedicated priests and lay educators, along with bright young Pacific Islanders, have developed an exceptional learning community.

The portrait of a very young Bob Dylan on the cover of "The Times They Are a Changin" is probably one of the most recognizable and famous album covers of all time. Photographer Barry Feinstein took that photo, as well as many more of Dylan throughout his career. His images have been published throughout the world many times over, and have become synonymous with our perceptions of that place and time in rock and folk music history.

Inspired by a series of photographs that Feinstein took in Hollywood during the 1950s and 60s, Bob Dylan wrote an extraordinary series of poems that have remained unpublished for decades. They are thought-provoking, witty and erudite observations of the world; through the lens of Feinstein's photographs, they speak volumes about the anonymous faces and places of Los Angeles, and offer wry commentary on images of stars and legends in the neighbourhood at the time. Photos of Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland float through the book, as do poignant images of starlets, casting couches, employment agencies and palm tree'd boulevards. Feinstein was there with a camera to capture some world-famous events, such as Marilyn Monroe's memorial service, and he photographed the forgettable moments, preserving them perfectly and timelessly. Bob Dylan's unsettling and distinctly unique perspective informs and enlivens every page, an irresistible interpretive voice narrating the visual images from photo to photo.

In 2010, HI Art Magazine invited the residents of Hawaii to be part of this ongoing project to create a portrait of the time, place and community in which we live. Hawaii photographers of all ages, amateur and professional, contributed images of the faces of the inhabitants of these islands. The end result is this book, curated by Kapulani Landgraf, Instructor of Photography and Hawaiian Visual Art at Kapi'olani Community College, Honolulu, HI.

located near the Pacific Ocean and borders China, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodian are two countries with the featured culture besides the people here have a simple life but very quiet average. Nature here seems to have said that, human life Vietnam and Cambodian introduction to the two countries through the true picture of life and the people here, besides the pictures of the human authors also recorded images of nature in this picture book.

Incredible Images of the Demolition of historic Yankee Stadium by Steve Spak.

This collection of photos is a brief tour of a few dwellings in Arizona. They are all reachable in a single day from Phoenix, yet somehow the ease of our travel makes us deaf to the sheer magnitude of these accomplishments. I can never pass another wall of stones and not hear the sounds of construction. It will be a joy to hear the shouts of El Giza, the singing of Machupicchu, the cadence of the Great Wall of China, and the whispers of Easter Island. Archaeologists have facts and figures gleaned from rubble, yet I imagine the past as if yesterday; juniper fires baking chapatis, barking dogs, and joyful shouts of children playing the game of wall building where small pieces are critical in the balance of the whole. There is so much to see and hear past the silence.

Through the visual beauty of photographic art and the eloquence of poetry and famous quotes, "One Nation, One Mission, One Promise" celebrates the oath passed down to us through the Charters of Freedom - The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It inspires us to remember that the United States is not left or right, religious or secular, it is not male or female, nor is it one race over another. The UNITED States of America is rather a country with a mission, an aspiration to live up to that contract with humanity written over two hundred years ago. Each generation is first the heir apparent and then ultimately becomes the passer of the torch to the next, so with each generation we get one step closer to a "more perfect union." It is our contract, it is in our hands, we are the people of the United States of America.

Photos of the disintergrating homesites, cellars and barns mostly from Stephens, Cotton and Jefferson Counties.

German photographer Birgit Nieser travelled across Burma on timber trucks and motorbikes capturing a way of life that is fast disappearing. Her stunning black and white images capture the essence and heart of this breathtaking country.

In 2001, the Pentagon had just 200 robotic aircraft. In 2008 it had more than 5,000. The number of military ground robots jumped from 160 in 2004 to around 4,000 in 2006. Only underwater robots lagged: so far just a few dozen systems have entered service. Under the water is, after all, the toughest environment for robots. But even undersea bots will see a boost in coming years. The Pentagon has plans to spend at least $4 billion a year for the foreseeable future designing and building robots.

The spread of robots in our armies, navies and air forces has greatly advanced the science, engineering and techniques for mixing thinking people and thinking machines. And it has forced us to try answering a basic moral question. Just how much responsibility should we surrender to machines? If and when robots fulfill their promise to make war cheaper and easier for our side, will we discover that we wage war too lightly? Are we already guilty of that sin?

This book examines just a handful of the many types of war bots, and just a few of the ways they're being used in the expanding American-led "war on terror." Some of these robots have been in service for years. Some are still just prototypes. Between them they span the entire range of military robotics. Some are killers. Others are helpers. All of them are soldiers with no fear.

In some countries, they call them the "abandonados," the abandoned ones. They're the impoverished mentally ill and mentally disabled patients being warehoused in psychiatric asylums that are more run-down, more uncaring than the most brutal American prisons. Confined in cage-like cells, tied to beds soiled with human waste, medicated to the point of senselessness, or wandering naked in unheated and garage-like wards, they live in what can only be called the shadows, their plight unseen and too easily ignored by the rest of the human family.

Working first as a journalist, later as a volunteer for the human rights organization Mental Disability Rights International, photographer Eugene Richards gained access to psychiatric institutions in Mexico, Argentina, Armenia, Hungary, Paraguay, and Kosovo. His wrenchingly intimate images reveal the often inhumane treatment suffered by the mentally disabled. Offered little that would qualify as effective care, patients are denied even the most basic human amenities: privacy, protection from harm, clean clothing. Accompanying the book, A Procession of Them, is a DVD of a short film of the same name. Directed and narrated by Richards, this unique and expressionistic film speaks of the chaos, claustrophobia, and loneliness of these living hells.

Making us face some hard truths, A Procession of Them drives home the point that when it comes to the plight of the mentally disabled, "no one much cares." As Richards concludes, it's "as if there is a kind of worldwide agreement that once people are classified as mentally ill or mentally retarded, you're free to do to them what you want."

Denison, Iowa, is as close to the heart of Middle America as it gets. The hometown of Donna Reed, Denison has adopted "It's a wonderful life" as its slogan and painted the phrase on the water tower that hovers over everything in town. And in many respects, life is pretty good here: it's a quiet town, a great place to raise children; the crime rate is low, the schools strong. It's home to the county's only Wal-Mart and a factory that does a booming business in antiterrorism barriers. For outsiders looking in, there is something familiar and comforting about Denison -- it conforms to the picture of the wholesome, corn-fed heartland which we as a nation cherish and which we think we know so well.
But something new and unfamiliar is happening in Denison, and traditional viewpoints and partisan labels don't quite capture it. The change goes beyond the post-9/11 loss of innocence; the sense of unease and, in some cases, of rebirth began well before 2001. Relations between the growing Latino population and the established Anglo citizenry are not always smooth. The industries that still predominate have become a mixed blessing for many people -- in the 1980s the meat-processing plant, for instance, froze wages, and they have remained basically static to this day.
For many years, Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson have made it their business to document interior America. In 1990 they won the Pulitzer Prize for their book And Their Children After Them, a conscious homage to the 1941 classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans. To gather their observations and insights on Denison, Maharidge and Williamson lived there for a year, spending time among the 8,000 people who live, love, work, run for office, go to school, and sometimes struggle to get by there. From the Lutheran woman who singlehandedly teaches English to Latino immigrants seeking grueling work in meatpacking plants to the leaders who struggle to rescue the community from economic ruin to the Latino businessman whose career is saved by two white men risking the wrath of small-town politics, the author and photographer trace the intersections of lives, the successes and failures, the real stories beneath Denison's mom-and-apple-pie surface.
Through Maharidge's gorgeous, plainspoken prose and Williamson's stunning photography, we are privy to a sweeping perspective layered with a microscopic depth of observation, and a searingly honest portrait tempered by heartfelt compassion. Denison, Iowa is a big, beautiful book about a small town at a critical time in our history -- and it's the crowning work of a brilliant, quarter-century partnership.

Katrina Days is photographer George Long's intimate portrait of life in and around New Orleans during the two tumultuous years immediately following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
His photographic perspective as a New Orleans insider provides an uncompromising view of pain, loss, and total frustration balanced with humor and hope for America's most authentic and soulful city.

The varied artistic approaches presented in this book reflect the interpretations and visions Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Some "illustrate" literal scenes from the text; others more metaphorically interpret the central themes of the text or wrestle with the moral questions raised by the implications of judging-or not judging-the actions of another. Although a few artists engaged the densely rich humor of Measure for Measure, more focused on the darker issues raised by this problematic comedy: the role of an apparently just Duke who nonetheless deceives his subjects; the malevolent Angelo who seems never to recognize his own hypocrisy. Most were attracted by Isabella's central conflict: should she redeem her brother's life by sacrificing her own virginity?

"Seed Hope. Flower Peace." Decades after the end of the Vietnam War, and years since the start of the Iraq War, these words by Jesuit priest, poet, peace activist, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Daniel Berrigan still resonate. Prayer for the Morning Headlines: On the Sanctity of Life and Death pairs select Berrigan poems with luminous photographs of cemetery statuary by Adrianna Amari. In this beautiful collection, the evocative images combine to form a meditation on the profound impact of the loss of any life, and bear witness to lasting grief, memory, and love. As noted historian Howard Zinn states in his eloquent introduction, ..".it was in Baltimore that Adrianna Amari took her extraordinary photographs of sculptures scattered through the city. It is all there, as in Berrigan's poems- life and death, the prayer that comes with commitment, the hope that comes with resistance, the visions of a world where peace and justice prevail." At times tranquil, at times dramatic, the words and images in Prayer for the Morning Headlines always implore readers to love one another and fight war no more.