Little Brown Life: Our Century In Pictures — Edited by Richard B. Stolley

The quintessential coffee table book for the new millennium? The greatest scrapbook of the century? The ultimate Life publication? However you slice it, Life: Our Century in Pictures is an amazing collection of photographs showing the significant events and people most responsible for shaping our world and culture during the past 100 years. Many of these pictures we have seen before ? time and time again ? and seeing them again is like revisiting old friends. Yet some have a surprising freshness to them and it's like you're seeing them for the first time. It all adds up to one of the most fascinating photographic time capsules ever published.

The book spans the century in nine epochs, intertwining politics, science, sports, the arts and everyday life at home and at work. Each period is introduced with an essay by a notable historical commentator and contains a special section that traces an event or trend from the beginning of the century forward. Each epoch closes with a Requiem, which recalls memorable individuals who died during that time. From Wyatt Earp to John Kennedy Jr., it's the time capsule of a lifetime...or is that Time Life...?