Editors of Life

Offers a portfolio of one hundred still images, including Robert Capa's photographs from the beaches of Normandy, Joe Rosenthal's study of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, and works by Harry Benson, Eddie Adams, Larry Burrows, Alfred Eisenstadt, and other notable photographers.

Life: 100 Photographs That Changed the World

Full-color photos and fun, engaging information fill out this survey of interesting world-changers, including religious and political leaders, artists, scientists, adventurers and other cultural icons, both famous and obscure.

LIFE 100 People Who Changed the World

A compilation of photographs that capture the most important events of the past century in a study of the key milestones and personalities of the modern world, ranging from two World Wars to the horrific events of September 11th.

A History in Pictures from the Last 100 Years

Life: 100 Events That Shook Our World

Documents some of America's most famous and appalling crimes with a visual look at each case, the perpetrators, and the justice system at work, in such cases as the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Oklahoma City bombing.

Fifty Fascinating Cases from the Files - in Pictures

Life: The Most Notorious Crimes in American History

Features over one hundred images of Audrey Hepburn during her film career, daily life, and work with UNICEF, accompanied by some of the photographer's personal memories of her.

Life: Remembering Audrey

The editors at LIFE vigorously carry on the traditions of excellence in photography, in journalism, and in telling the story of our country and our world which began with LIFE magazine in 1936 by founding editor and publisher, Henry R. Luce. They have published books on a broad range of subjects, including New York Times bestsellers One Nation, LIFE Picture Puzzle and The American Journey of Barack Obama .

The Decade that Changed the World

LIFE 2000-2009

This book is a celebration. Yes, undeniably, there is some sadness in these pages. Why in the world was Kennedy killed? Why couldn't Marilyn have found happiness? Why did Michael leave the stage so early? But also, we revisit the dynamism of JFK, the beauty of Marilyn Monroe and the pure excitement that was Michael Jackson. In these pages, we lament the premature exits, but thrillingly celebrate the lives that were lived lived, often, to the very fullest. This special LIFE book is brimful with the stories of people we loved. The fans of Judy Garland, Elvis Presley and John Lennon were legion, and so were those of Tim Russert and John Ritter. These are people who, when we learned they had passed, made us sit up, take notice and focus on why they mattered-deeply-to all of us. IFE always takes the long view, and so this book salutes historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as well as contemporary celebrities including Christopher Reeve and Farrah Fawcett. What might the world have been like had Lincoln not been shot, or with four score more compositions by Mozart? How richer might we all be with further F. Scott Fitzgerald stories to read, or more James Dean movies to watch? These many people-more than 100 in all-are commemorated not only in prose but also in the fine, often surprising and sometimes rare pictures for which LIFE is famous. In these pages, those we lost come vibrantly alive once more. We remember these people precisely, and celebrate their important, if too short, lives.

Their Lives Were Not Long but Mattered

LIFE Gone too Soon

Nothing intrigues us like a secret. And nothing entertains us as much as a secret revealed. In this LIFE Book, the editors of such other classic volumes as The Greatest Unsolved Mysteries of All Time look energetically into the hidden recesses of the world's prominent -- and sometimes obscure -- secret societies. From Yale's Skull and Bones to the Catholic church's Opus Dei, there are many mysterious organizations worldwide about which we think know some things, but not all. Until now. LIFE opens the doors, and peers inside. Famous for its photography, LIFE publishes here pictures from behind closed doors. Accompanying these pictures, many of which were first taken exclusively for LIFE, is an authoritative text reflecting the quickened pulse of a good mystery; the writers of both Unsolved Mysteries and the bestselling The Most Notorious Crimes in American History are behind this book. In special sections, LIFE will look back and explore historic quests: Did the Round Table Really exist? Who was behind Easter Island and what was that society's dark secret? What was the clandestine Nazi group that went in search of Atlantis? Novelists and Hollywood, from Dan Brown to Indiana Jones, have often walked this way, and for good reason: We love this stuff. Now LIFE brings forth its vibrant treatment. This is an always fun investigation of the hidden world of secret societies.

LIFE The Hidden World of Secret Societies

An Illustrated History of Monarchy - from Yesterday to Today

LIFE The Royals

The Illustrated History

Life: The War in Iraq

This is the pictorial history of the rise (and fall) of great nations, from the ancients to today. But this is not just Rome and the Incas and British imperialism-though it certainly includes them-but lesser known civilizations that are often relegated to a footnote, or forgotten altogether. The ancient Anasazi Indians of the American Southwest apparently enjoyed an agrarian lifestyle that, after they mysteriously disappeared, would not be realized again on this continent for many generations. The natives of Easter Island sealed their own doom with a kind of communal hysteria that remains unclear. Several cultures put their mark on England's Stonehenge, and peeling the layers of that story is like parsing the experience of a very old tree, ring by ring. Of course the ages of empire are recounted: Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, Russia, Great Britain. We journey, photographically and archeologically, through Troy, and also the Mediterranean islands of Gnossos and Santorini (was this where Plato's Atlantis thrived before the cataclysm)? We climb to Machu Piccu, and trek to Australia to revisit the island continent when it belonged to its Aborigines. Obviously, many of the great civilizations belong to history, experiencing their glory before the advent of photography. There are no pictures of Alexander the Great or Genghis Khan or Napoleon beyond the painted ones. But there are many photographs of the civilizations they built and ruled, many of which were made for LIFE magazine, which looked at this story often. Near our book's end, we arrive at the ongoing narrative that is the United States of America: today's great civilization, built on a system called democracy. Our history and prospects are all the more fascinating when put in relief against the stories of all previous great civilizations.

The Rise and Fall of Nations, from the Ancients to Today

LIFE the World's Great Civilizations

Before the historic presidential election of 2008, LIFE Books published a best-selling volume entitled The American Journey of Barack Obama. In researching that book, the editors came to be deeply impressed not only by the exotic story of the candidate himself but also by the life and personality of the woman who would, if Obama were to prevail, enter the White House at his side. Michelle Robinson, the daughter of a Chicago municipal worker-and, in fact, a woman with slavery represented in her family tree-had risen to be educated in the Ivy League and was already embarked upon a successful legal career back in theWindy City before she ever met Barack Obama.Once she did, these two bright, charismatic young people influenced each other and rose together in Chicago politics. The rest, as they say, is history. As the nation came to know Michelle Obama, the nation fell for her-and for Malia and Sasha as well (plus now, of course, Bo). The same has happened on the world stage, where it has been observed that Michelle, with her vivacity and sense of style, has sometimes eclipsed her husband in the way that Jackie Kennedy outshone JFK back in the early 1960s. Meantime, Michelle has been out and about in Washington, working at the food bank, tending the garden, shepherding the kids. That, too, is part of the story-and all of it is here, in words and vibrant pictures, in LIFE's Michelle Obama: A Portrait of the First Lady. This is Michelle's story, from her girlhood to her current crucial role. It is not the story of the President's wife. It is the complete, illustrated biography of one of the most intriguing and captivating women in America.

A Portrait of the First Lady

LIFE Michelle Obama

round the second century B.C., in the Palestinian city of Sidon, there was a man named Antipater. He was the Baedeker of antiquity, as he compiled a list of must-sees for the travelers of old. He settled on the sacred number of seven as a good parameter for his list. He did not discriminate geographically: one of his wonders was in Europe, three in Asia, two in Africa and one on an island in the sea. Their construction spanned nearly 3,000 years, and they were all, indeed, constructions.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Life: The Seven Wonders of the World

In this deluxe commemorative edition, LIFE's editors focus on the publication's achievements more tightly than they ever have before: This is truly the best of everything LIFE has accomplished. In these pages are the best war photos ever taken for LIFE; the best photo essays ever to grace our pages (including the works of Capa and Parks and Smith); the loveliest pictures from Hollywood (in fact, the best pictures of Marilyn Monroe ever taken by such as Halsmann, Eisenstaedt and her dear friend Milton Greene), the best sports pictures, the funniest pictures we ever ran. The best pictures from the space race, and the most significant pictures to the human race, including Lennart Nilsson's "Life Before Birth." This is a premium volume of LIFE, and beyond its 200-plus pages, which include a review of every LIFE cover ever published, there is, included here, the ultimate premium: The first-ever LIFE issue, with the Margaret Bourke-White photograph of the Fort Peck Dam on the cover, reprinted in its entirety, at actual size (which was really big 10 1/2" x 14") and able to be detached. We've come a long way: We, you, those places, LIFE itself. This book tells, and celebrates, that voyage.

The Very Best of LIFE

LIFE 75 Years

More than one hundred compelling photographs--representing the work of such talented artists as Ansel Adams, Galen Rowell, Joel Meyerowitz, and Michael Melford--capture the rich natural wonders of America, from the Grand Canyon, Mount Rainier, and Big Sur to Nantucket Island and the Amish country of Pennsylvania. 100,000 first printing.

A Photographic Journey, Coast to Coast-and Beyond

Life: America the Beautiful

Gorgeous full-color photography, accompanied by detailed descriptions, captures some of the world's most beautiful and intriguing travel destinations, ranging from Australia's Great Barrier Reef or Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro to the Grand Canyon and Nantucket Island. 25,000 first printing.

100 Places to See in Your Lifetime

Life: Heaven on Earth

From this book's first chapter: "To be able to float free, with gravity exerting no impact. To live in Neverland. To be idolized-to be loved-by millions around the world. "These seem completely unreasonable dreams. But from a boy from Gary, Indiana, who was special from the first, they became more than dreams. They became fundamental needs. And they were achieved during a lifetime that was stunning in its highs and lows, and that was, ultimately, far, far too short. "Far too short and, more sadly still, perhaps poised for a triumphant next chapter. We will never know." While that is true-we will never know-we can revisit and celebrate that extraordinary life, and we do so in words and pictures in this special commemorative book. Although Michael Jackson lived just 50 years, he spent the great majority of that time in the public eye. We loved his as a boy, radiating joy and dancing up a storm in the Jackson 5, his falsetto tenor pouring forth from car radios coast to coast. We were subsequently thrilled by his reinvention as the biggest pop star on the planet, with "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" blasting from boom boxes around the world. The best pictures from each era are here. As you would expect, LIFE magazine, then the country's preeminent photo journal, was onto the Jackson 5 story early-in fact, we put the family on our cover when Michael was still a lad. He made the cover several more times, and he allowed LIFE exclusive access to his private California sanctum called Neverland. We have combed through our archives and found all the famous shots as well as several surprises, including never-before-seen pictures that show the boy and then the man in an unguarded, personal way. Also, we have taken the best from the portfolios of the world's top rock 'n' roll photographers and created, we think, a complete picture of this endlessly compelling entertainer. Michael Jackson was, like Sinatra, Elvis, the Beatles and few others, a celebrity who not only made us smile but changed the culture-who altered the way that we looked and behaved. In this book, we relive his thrilling life and times, which were our time too.

LIFE Michael 1958-2009

LIFE has covered all of the lavish royal weddings since even before Queen Elizabeth II wed in 1953, and of course the magazine documented in splendid, intimate detail the "wedding of the century," that of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, years later. Now LIFE celebrates the royal engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton. This book includes intimate pictures of William and Kate as they grew to be the splendid adults they are today. The best photographs of royal weddings that have already been, including those of Charles and Diana, Grace Kelly and Rainier of Monaco, Fergie and Andrew, and many others. A detailed look at the Middletons and the Windsors-the latter, royal family dating back to Queen Victoria. Photography from Buckingham Palace insiders, including pictures from Litchfield and Lord Snowdon. Note: As this book was published before the Royal Wedding, it does not contain photography from the wedding.

LIFE The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton

Not just another American story, this is THE American story.The country's history as told through its people. Europeans-+the British, the Irish, the Italians and all others-+Africans-coerced, and in recent years, people from every corner of the globe. These people came to escape fear or famine, or merely to chase a dream. From the New York photography of Jacob Riis to Louis Hine's mill girls' portraits to the new-age California: Asian and Mexican and everything else. American Immigrant is a vibrant and colorful story expertly told through the renowned Life lense and commentary.

Life: The American Immigrant

Joe McNally

Photography has been the business and the passion of LIFE since the original weekly magazine's inception in 1936, and it continues to be the business and passion of LIFE Books and LIFE.com in the new millennium. But photography has surely changed during these many decades. The rigs and gear of old have given way-first slowly, then all at once-to sleek miracle machines that process pixels and have made the darkroom obsolete. The casual photog puts eye to lens, sets everything on auto and captures a photograph that is . . . perfectly fine. One of LIFE's master shooters-in fact, the final in the long line of distinguished LIFE staff photographers-was Joe McNally, and he has always believed that with a little preparation and care, with a dash of enthusiasm and daring added to the equation, anyone can make a better photo-anyone can turn a "keeper" into a treasure. This was true in days of yore, and it's true in the digital age. Your marvelous new camera, fresh from its box, can indeed perform splendid feats. Joe explains in this book how to take best advantage of what it was designed to do, and also when it is wise to outthink your camera or push your camera-to go for the gold, to create that indelible family memory that you will have blown up as large as the technology will allow, and that will hang on the wall forevermore. As the storied LIFE photographer and photo editor John Loengard points out in his eloquent foreword to this volume, there are cameras and there are cameras, and they've always been able to do tricks. And then there is photography. Other guides may give you the one, two, three of producing a reasonably well exposed shot, but Joe McNally and the editors of LIFE can give you that, and then can show you how to make a picture. In a detailed, friendly, conversational, anecdotal, sometimes rollicking way, that's what they do in these pages. Prepare to click.

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