It seems at first commonplace: a photograph of peasants at harvest time, after work well done, resting contentedly with their tools, behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices that what seemed innocent on first view becomes horrific: the crops scattered in front of the group are skulls and bones. Where are we? Who are the people in the photograph, and what are they doing?
The starting point of Jan Gross's A Golden Harvest, this haunting photograph in fact depicts a group of peasants--"diggers" atop a mountain of ashes at Treblinka, where some 800,000 Jews were gassed and cremated. The diggers are hoping to find gold and precious stones that Nazi executioners may have overlooked. The story captured in this grainy black-and-white photograph symbolizes the vast, continent-wide plunder of Jewish wealth.
The seizure of Jewish assets during World War II occasionally generates widespread attention when Swiss banks are challenged to produce lists of dormant accounts, or national museums are forced to return stolen paintings. The theft of this wealth was not limited to conquering armies, leading banks, and museums, but to local populations such as those pictured in the photograph. Based upon a simple group shot, this moving book evokes the depth and range, as well as the intimacy, of the final solution.

This book presents Scott Shaw's visually penetrating photographs from Istanbul, Turkey.

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.

The Nazi regime was propelled to power by the new phenomenon of a cohesive mass media communication programme which encompassed press, posters, radio, art and film. The rise and fall of the Third Reich spanned a period of just 25 years and its powerful message was shaped and projected from a vision of German heroism, initially conceived and directed by Adolf Hitler and continued by Dr Josef Goebbels. This authoritative study of the propaganda generated by the Nazi party by Emmy award winning author Bob Carruthers encompasses an in-depth analysis of the surviving films, posters and magazines of the Third Reich.

The 36 photographs in this book, by Eduardo Machuca, show a sample of Armando Alanis' street poetry work in the city of Monterrey, Mexico. Armando has been painting unused street walls with white and then writing with black paint, short poetic messages that capture the attention and imagination of drivers and pedestrians alike. His work is, however, ephemeral. Walls get painted over by someone else to announce something else. This endeavour is now close to its 15th year, in which Armando has painted close to 5,000 walls. Walls' poems text translated into English.

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.

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

For readers who are fond of Georgia O'Keeffe's art and her legend comes Journey with Georgia by new author Nikita. A truly engaging experience, this coffee table book of photography takes a very specific detour in describing one of America's most revered artists. With a searing prose, Nikita chronicles a cross-country road trip in which she set out to capture the essence, as well as the purity, of what drove O'Keeffe. Nikita goes where the road takes her and, in this case, all roads lead to Georgia. As she shares the epic experience of retracing O'Keeffe's history, she shares intimate stories of Americans who were affected by O'Keeffe. From Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, where O'Keefe was born, to Lake George, New York, where O'Keeffe spent her summers with her lover and husband Alfred Stieglitz, Nikita takes the scenic route on this odyssey that ultimately ends at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. A gripping narrative, this incredible collection celebrates what quickens the heart and helps define the American experience.

Photographs of cities in China showing local communities and people's life which have been going on as local Chinese ways and remain untouched during the period of China's rapid development in the past 3 decades. With years of traveling around, mixed himself into Chinese society and the understanding of local life, Noppanan Arunvongse Na Ayudhaya, a China Foreign Expert, gives you 143 black and white photographs speaking by themselves which enhance your views of China, a giant on earth, through a unique approach you will find nowhere else.

East End is a collection of photographs taken over the six year period from 2005 to 2011. With locations from Whitechapel to Walthamstow, Silvertown, Docklands, London Fields, Upton Park and Leytonstone, David Apps' images document East London's ever-changing skylines, street art and the early stencil work of Banksy, and the London 2012 Olympic site before and during its construction.

A coffee-table type book with striking photos showing people and places worldwide. Each with an insightful essay-statement about the place, people and/or situation they illustrate. Each photo a work of art, suitable for framing.

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.

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

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.

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.

Filling Stations/ Churches and Schools, Trinity Bomb Site

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.