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Publishing the results of the 49th annual World Press Photo Contest, this exceptional book contains the very best press photographs from the year 2005 - pictures submitted by photojournalists, picture agencies, newspapers and magazines throughout the world. Selected from thousands of images, these prizewinning photos capture the most powerful, moving and sometimes disturbing images of the year.

This fascinating, wide-ranging volume presents a wonderfully varied group portrait of people at work--in great cities and tiny villages; in 19th-century China and 21st-century New York; in fields, factories, food carts, four-star restaurants, and just about everywhere else. National Geographic is pleased to present our new Collectors Series. Each volume is a fresh presentation of one of our world-famous photography books. Our first volume, "Work," showcases this most universal human pastime through images culled from National Geographic''s vast photographic archive as well as other important collections. This fascinating, wide-ranging volume presents a wonderfully varied group portrait of people at work--in great cities and tiny villages; in 19th-century China and 21st-century New York; in fields, factories, food carts, four-star restaurants, and just about everywhere else we earn our keep. Here are cowboys and clowns, shepherds and shopkeepers, street musicians and artists'' models all plying their assorted trades; on one page a professional quarterback fires off a pass as the crowd cheers him on, on the next a lone fisherman casts his net in the silent solitude of a Pacific lagoon, and on the next a nomadic tribesman erects a yurt on the Mongolian plain. From the glamour of a Parisian fashion show to the grit of an African diamond mine, there are countless ways to make a living. "Work" illuminates scores of them offering revealing glimpses into various eras and cultures and engaging the reader with entertaining text and informative captions. With a wonderful mix of the utterly unexpected and the instantly familiar, this vivid panorama takes an essential human activity and shows us myriad ways in which work is at once universal and delightfully, unforgettably unique.

Images of the dominant female were once the exclusive property of secretive fetishists, guiltily celebrated in underground books and videos and unknown to the mainstream. Today provocative characters like the dominatrix, the unattainable goddess, and the cruel temptress have become familiar, if still controversial, figures in pop culture. Women in Control showcases images and icons from this heady world. Noted fetish photographer Larry Utley offers both the aficionado and the curious observer a visual feast of unconventional, individualistic, strong women in control of their own sexuality - and, frequently, that of those around them. Vivid tableaux range from the playful (a cowgirl in chaps hog-ties a grinning cowpoke) to the perverse (a woman is clad sensually in a live rattlesnake). Printed in a large format and lavishly illustrated, this book goes beyond documenting the expected to pay tribute to women''s power in the S/M scene.

AN ABRIDGED VERSION OF STEFAN MAY''S STUNNING COLLECTION OF BLACK-AND-WHITE NUDES OF THE SAME TITLE.

After the astounding success of Couples and Men, teNeues introduces a third collection of beautifully composed, highly erotic images of the female form from acclaimed photographer Stefan May. Here are pictures that reveal the beauty, sensuality and grace of women''s bodies. With the expert eye that made his previous books so extraordinary, Stefan May offers a collection of stunning black and white photographs that is second to none.

First published by teNeues in 2001 on the heels of his award-winning book Nudes, this sumptuous collection of powerful, sensuous photographs of the female form is now available in a new hardcover edition (same format as Nudes) designed to appeal to a wide audience. Bitesnichs photographs embrace the classic ideal of womanly beauty and transform it into a sublimely artistic exercise of form, composition, and contrast. By treating his models as truly artistic objects - abstract, architectural, and natural - Bitesnich imbues his celebration of women with the insight and originality of a true master.

"Witness Iraq documents the lightening-swift U.S.-led military campaign Operation Iraqi Freedom from the perspective of some of the world''s most renowned and respected photojournalists who possessed extraordinary first-hand access to this unprecedented display of military precision, planning, and containment. Captured in "Witness Iraq are the trials and tribulations of the coalition forces and the Iraqi people as Saddam Hussein''s reign of terror is brought to an end, once and for all. Marcel Saba, revered editor and founder of famed photojournalism agency SABA Press Photos, relied upon decades of experience and his esteemed reputation within the world of photojournalism to amass this exclusive and unprecedented collection of first-hand perspectives to create the broadest, most inclusive visual document of the war. Witness the desperation of Iraqi soldiers as they attempt to surrender. Witness an unpublished and more telling view of the jubilation in Baghdad when the famed huge statue of Saddam Hussein in toppled. Feel the empathy of a U.S. soldier as he cradles an injured Iraqi child. Although this has become history''s most photographed military show the courage, tragedy, humor, and compassion, portraying the chaos of conflict as well as the respect and empathy for human life. Through these images, you will witness not only the horrors of war but also the triumph of the human spirit.