BY TIM HETHERINGTON

Infidel is an intimate portrait of a close band of warriors - a small battalion of US soldiers, posted to an outpost in the Korengal Valley and considered one of the most dangerous Afghan postings in the war against the Taliban. Embedded along with writer Sebastian Junger, Hetherington documented the battalion, who model themselves on the ancient Spartans, over the course of a year.

BY DUANE MICHALS

Included are illustrations in his familiar photographic style accompanied by many poems and stories.

BY STANISLAV SZUKALSKI (artist), Glenn Bray (editor), Lena Zwalve (editor)

Extracts from the 39 volumes of my science "Zermatism," based on new interpretations of petroglyphic communications, in which will be revealed the most precedent-shattering and up-turning of all notions on our origins. Including samplings from Anthropolitical Motivations, The Deluged Gods, and Listen to These Stones

BY DAVID LACHAPELLE

1996

BY TERRY RICHARDSON

2004

BY SUSAN SONTAG

In this essential and revelatory volume, Susan Sontag confronts important questions surrounding the power dynamics between photographer and subject, the blurred boundary between lived events and recreated images, and the desires that lead us to record our lives.

BY RICK RUBIN

The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow.

BY ROLAND BARTHES

Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind.

BY MARK MANSON

A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life.

BY MARSHALL MCLUHAN & QUENTIN FIORE

Marshall McLuhan is the man who predicted the all-pervasive rise of modern mass media. Blending text, image and photography, his 1960 classic The Medium is the Massage illustrates how the growth of technology utterly reshapes society, personal lives and sensory perceptions, so that we are effectively transformed by the means we use to communicate.