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The historic county of Berkshire stretches about 70 miles from the Marlborough Downs to the suburbs of West London, and its scenery includes forest, ancient chalk hills and Thames Valley lowlands. This collection of photographs from around the year is accompanied by the author’s personal reflections on the landscape and story of England’s Royal County.

With an emphasis on discovering the spirit of each town, this tour of Provence and the Cote d’Azur characterizes each one, such as Cannes, ‘the film star’, and Avignon, ‘the art lover’, and explores its distinctive atmosphere, culture, food and architecture. Richly illustrated throughout, the book highlights experiences that could easily be missed, and concludes with a directory of guest houses, museums, galleries and markets.

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The result of a seven-year project to document the horse in places as far-flung as Iceland and the deserts of Utah, Equus is a remarkable gallery of over 135 photographs showing the variety of equine physique and breeds as diverse as zebra, donkeys and Thoroughbreds. From a tracking vehicle, Flach captured the image of an Arabian at full gallop, on the Mongolian steppes he photographed wild Prewalzski horses, and other techniques used range from studio close-ups to x-ray and, remarkably, underwater photography.

This first volume in the series introduces the collection and illustrates the ways in which African Americans have used activism, community and culture to fight for social justice and better living standards.

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In 1891, after the massacre at Wounded Knee, a Sioux man named Plenty Horses shot dead one Lieutenant Casey. Told mainly through Native American eyewitness testimonies, this account of his trials, which hinged on whether criminal acts were justified in war, also charts the Plains Indians’ four-decade struggle against a United States determined to seize their lands, reveals Plenty Horses’ despair at reservation life, and exposes the devastating effects of assimilation on Native American culture.

Although women started to enter employment en masse in the early 20th century, it was not until the 1970s that they began to exercise a modicum of autonomy over what they wore at work. Accompanied by introductory essays by fashion journalist Vanessa Friedman and New York Times. bestselling author Roxane Gay, the 240 photographs in this volume depict the changes in women’s clothing in the workplace over the last hundred years.