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After a hardscrabble boyhood, Cook...

PTSD in Pictures and Words is a book without technical terms and language and is intended to address Veterans of all wars, conflicts and trauma. As a combat veteran, of the Vietnam War, I also suffer from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Therefore I understand the debilitating effects and the struggle many veterans experience with this terrible disorder.

May this book bring comfort, understanding and hope to all those who suffer from the trauma associated with service-connected disabilities. -Clyde R. Horn

Following her award-winning monograph 5683 miles away, Yael Ben-Zion fixes her camera on another personal but politically charged theme: intermarriage. Ben-Zion initiated the project in 2009, inviting couples who define themselves as "mixed" to participate. Her own marriage "mixed," she was interested in the many challenges faced by couples who choose to share their lives regardless of their different origins, ethnicities, races, or religions.

Through layered images and revealing texts--including excerpts from a questionnaire she asked her subjects to fill...

The first volume of this very special twinset offers a collection of characterful photographs of grannies and the things nearest to each of them, arranged alphabetically and accompanied by short, gently humorous verses by Kit Hesketh-Harvey. The second volume is delightfully populated with Lawrence Mynott's drawings of lively old ladies. Spirited, stylish, sweet--here are granny archetypes of every stripe. You'll find Lucinda, whose hat addiction shows no sign of waning, and Kitty, whose knitting skills are second to none. You might even meet the Queen--the most famous British granny of...

Monkey or dog, animals strange or familiar, Belgian photographer Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt does not differentiate. He fixes a moment of meeting between two beings, so close, so different. Beyond the bizarre, beyond the comical nature that underscores without caricaturizing, there is a respect of the other, a tenderness, a humility in his photographs that charges them with rare emotion. Since he began looking through his Leica's viewfinder, he has created pure and elegant photographs marked by a constant sense of humor. His compositions are arranged with a steady eye while managing to...

American photographer Annie Marie Musselman has a series of photographs that are sure to tug at your heart--especially if you're an animal lover. Finding Trust shows injured wild animals being cared for at a wildlife rehabilitation center.

Musselman started shooting the project seven years ago at a small sanctuary in Washington State. In the process of documenting the animals' lives, she was personally involved with helping the patients as well and in turn they helped heal her from the grief of her mother and father's deaths.

For more than forty years, Helen M. Stummer has captured images depicting the dignity, humanity, and suffering of people living in conditions of poverty. Her efforts taught her to understand firsthand the resilience of people living in insufferable conditions. In her inspiring memoir, Risking Life and Lens, Stummer recounts her experiences as a socially-concerned documentary photographer whose passion for her work overcame her fears.

Stummer s images, from the mean streets of Manhattan and Newark, New Jersey, to the back woods of Maine and the mountains of Guatemala, expose...