Edited by New York Daily News photo editor Shawn O'Sullivan, with text by veteran reporter Patrice O'Shaughnessy, "New York's Bravest: Eight Decades of Photographs" from the Daily News gathers nearly 140 photos of the FDNY at work and at play. To its credit, this book does not focus solely on the horrors of September 11. Instead, O'Sullivan - and of course, the many talented photographers who've graced the News' pages over the decades - present the FDNY in all its glory. That includes images of horse-drawn carriages from back in the 1920s, and trailblazing women taking the FDNY's grueling physical exam in the 1970s. (Women, however, would not join the FDNY's ranks until the early 1980s.) Inevitably, of course, the real dramatic photography in any book such as this will be the action photos, of firefighters risking life and limb to save others. "New York's Bravest" has plenty of that - before, as well as on, September 11, 2001. (167 pages / $29.95 / Powerhouse Books)