Filling Stations/ Churches and Schools, Trinity Bomb Site

My job as a Security Guard at THE NORWICH STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL was given to me at a time when I had just about run out of money and time. Soon after I had worked there for a while, I began hearing the line from the Leonard Cohen song THE BLUE RAINCOAT that went "You're Living for Nothing, I Hope You are Keeping Some Kind of a Record." Very soon after I heard those words, I took up my camera and began taking photo's and keeping "Some Kind of a Record" My visual and written reflections make up this book, and I find them to be extremely haunting. I dedicate this book and my reflections to all the souls that spent time, as I have in THE ASYLUM. Peter Buckley McClure

Every four years since 1972, the Pacific Islands' best dancers and cultural practitioners gather to perform. The Festival of Pacific Arts, as this amazing event is known, is a celebration unlike any other held in Oceania. The Festival is a two-week showcase of the finest dancers, singers, carvers and other cultural masters from across the Pacific. This book, the first published about the Festival of Pacific Arts, tells the story of the 10th Festival that was held in American Samoa in mid-2008. More than 2,000 cultural practitioners traveled to Tutuila Island for the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts. Hundreds of visitors from around the world, plus thousands of resident Samoans, gathered on the shores of Pago Pago Harbor to watch performance after performance. This book is the story of that special gathering of the best of the Pacific Islands.

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.

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.

'When you are suspended by a rope you can recover, but every time I see a rope I remember. If the light goes out unexpectedly in a room, I am back in my cell.' Binyam Mohamed, Prisoner #1458. For eight years the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay on Cuba has been home to hundreds of men, all Muslim, all detained in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on suspicion of varying degrees of complicity or intent to carry out acts of terror against American interests. Labelled 'the worst of the worst', most of these men were guilty of nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Many fell prey to a US military policy of paying bounty money for anyone the Pakistani secret service, border guards or village leaders on both sides of the blurred Afghan-Pakistan border considered a possible or potential 'suspect', thereby becoming currency in the newly defined 'War on Terror'. Held in legal limbo for years and repeatedly interrogated, almost all have been released without charge and only a very few have been tried in the special military commissions set up for the purpose. Guantanamo: If the light goes out illustrates three experiences of home: at Guantanamo naval base, home to the American community; in the camp complex where the detainees have been held; and in the homes where former detainees, never charged with any crime, find themselves trying to rebuild lives. These notions of home are brought together in an unsettling narrative, which evokes the process of disorientation central to the Guantanamo interrogation and incarceration techniques. It also explores the legacy of disturbance such experiences have in the minds and memories of these men.

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.

On April 6, 1970, Vietnam War photojournalists Sean Flynn (son of Errol Flynn) and Dana Stone set off on two rented motorcycles to cover one last story and were captured by Communist forces, never to be seen or heard from again. Their friend and fellow journalist, Perry Deane Young, tells their story here in a remarkable memoir first published in 1975. This new Press 53 Classics edition features photos by Flynn, Stone, their friends Tim Page, Nik Wheeler, and others, including a new chapter with updates on the lives of those involved and the ongoing search for two of the missing.

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.