With a provocative series of images rarely captured on film, acclaimed photographer Herlinde Koelbl offers us a unique glimpse of what soldiers around the world are trained to see as they learn to take aim at the enemy. In a career spanning nearly three decades, Herlinde Koelbl has firmly established herself as Germany's most acclaimed photographer. From intimate scenes of private life, to the corridors of power, Koelbl's eye for detail allows us to see the world we think we know in ways we never imagined. In her most recent book, Targets, Koelbl has focused her lens on the phantom battle scenes used by armies worldwide to train their soldiers to shoot to kill. In the vast expanse of barren deserts, in labyrinths of concrete bunkers, and in mock Arab villages created by Hollywood set designers, soldiers are being taught to take aim at a great range of targets, all for the same deadly purpose. Over a period of six years Koelbl has visited military training camps in more than 20 countries across the globe, to see how soldiers learn their trade. The result is a compilation of portraits--surprising, disturbing, and fascinating--of the lifeless targets used in practice to simulate an enemy in order to prepare for wars yet to come. Accompanying the photographs are texts from Koelbl's conversations with soldiers along with insightful essays on the increasingly diverse and perplexing conditions confronted by military populations throughout the world.

Remember the Martian invasion of 2001? No? Not to worry, some of Marvel's top talents have preserved it for you! Re-live the sequel to H.G. Wells's masterpiece as a sword-wielding slave leads a band of fearless freedom fighters against Earth's alien overlords! Featuring mutants, madmen, metal monsters, and more! Guest-starring (who else?) Spider-Man! Free Earth! Collects Amazing Adventures (Vol. 2) #18-39, Marvel Team-Up #45, Marvel Graphic Novel #7, and Killraven #1 (Marvel Knights).

Dall'infanzia nei quartieri ghetto nazionalisti cattolici di Belfast alle prime esperienze di lavoro nei pub del centro e delle zone protestanti: dall'impegno politico nel movimento per i diritti civili degli anni '60 alla rivolta del Bogside a Derry; dall'internamento nel campo di Long Kesh allo sciopero della fame di Bobby Sands e dei suoi compagni, sino alle prime, difficili, trattative con il governo di Londra. Questa storia di "un uomo normale in circostanze straordinarie" č una utile lettura per chi voglia capire il conflitto che da decenni infuria nell'Irlanda del Nord tra l'esercito britannico e il Movimento repubblicano irlandese.

Adams has written a lovely volume that is valuable not only for its content and vision but for the glimpse it offers into what makes him--politician and revolutionary--tick.--Kirkus ReviewsR