Today's crafters are no longer interested in simply cross-stitching samplers or painting floral scrolls on china. Instead, the contemporary craft movement embraces emerging artists, crafters, and designers working in traditional and nontraditional media.

Faythe Levine traveled 19,000 miles to document what has emerged as a marriage between historical technique, punk culture, and the D.I.Y. ethos. For Handmade Nation (along with the documentary film of the same name, coming in 2009) she and Cortney Heimerl have selected 24 makers and 5 essayists who work within different media and have different methodologies to provide a microcosm of the crafting community. Participants in this community share ideas and encouragement through websites, blogs, boutiques, galleries, and craft fairs. Together they have forged a new economy and lifestyle based on creativity, determination, and networking. Handmade Nation is a fascinating book for those who are a part of the emerging movement or just interested in sampling its wares.

Faythe Levine and Cortney Heimerl are both based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They met while they were both selling their handmade goods at a local farmer's market.

 Lists presents almost seventy artifacts, including 'to do' lists, membership lists, lists of paintings sold, lists of books to read, lists of appointments made and met, lists of supplies to get, lists of places to see, and lists of people who are 'in.'

Many of the lists are historically important, throwing a flood of light on a moment, movement, or event; others are private, providing an intimate view of an artist's personal life: Pablo Picasso itemized his recommendations for the Armory Show in 1912; architect Eero Saarinen enumerated the good qualities of the then New York Times art editor and critic Aline Bernstein, his second wife; sculptor Alexander Calder's address book reveals the who s who of the Parisian avant-garde in the early twentieth century. In the hands of their creators, these artifacts become works of art in and of themselves. Lists includes rarely seen specimens by Vito Acconci, Leo Castelli, Joseph Cornell, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, H. L. Mencken, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Richard Pousette-Dart, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Andrew Wyeth.

Liza Kirwin is the curator of manuscripts at the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art. She is the author of several books, including More Than Words.

As seen in O: The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Cool Hunting, and countless other media outlets, The Map as Art is available now in a paperback edition. This volume by Katharine Harmon, author of our best-selling book You Are Here, extends that book's celebration of mapmaking to the world of artists' maps. It is little surprise that in an era of globalized politics, culture, and ecology contemporary artists are drawn to maps to express their visions. Using paint, salt, souvenir tea towels, or their own bodies, map artists explore a world free of geographical constraints. 

In The Map as Art, Harmon collects 360 colorful, map-related artistic visions by well-known artists, such as Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Olafur Eliasson, William Kentridge, and Vik Muniz, and many more less-familiar artists for whom maps are the inspiration for creating art. Essays by Gayle Clemans bring an in-depth look into the artists' maps of Joyce Kozloff, Landon Mackenzie, Ingrid Calame, Guillermo Kuitca, and Maya Lin. Together, the beautiful reproductions and telling commentary make this anessential volume for anyone open to exploring new paths.

In Obsessive Consumption, Portland-based artist Kate Bingaman-Burt holds up a mirror to her own obsession with shopping and acquisition. Faced with a mounting pile of postgraduation credit card debt, Bingaman-Burt concocted a unique artistic response to this all-too-common dilemma. She picked up a pen and began drawing her monthly credit card statements, painstakingly recreating every last ledger line and decimal point, vowing to continue serving her artistic penance until her debt was repaid. As a relief from this project, turning the idea of 'retail therapy' on its ear, Bingaman-Burt began drawing one of her purchases from each day, losing herself in the items, patterns, simple lines, and typography.

A celebration of the beauty of the everyday, Obsessive Consumption presents a microcosm of consumer culture that will appeal to everyone from a thirteen-year-old mall-dweller to a middle-aged anticonsumerism advocate.

Get to know birds by ear with this engaging, one-of-a-kind book. Discover 75 unique species from Eastern and Central North America as you enjoy their sounds at the touch of a button-reproduced in high quality on the attached digital audio module-while reading vivid descriptions of their songs, calls, and related behaviours. Learn what Black-capped Chickadees are thinking as they give their unmistakable namesake call, or find out why many songbirds have dialects that vary from region to region.

Complete with up-to-date range maps and more than 130 sounds provided by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's world-renowned Macaulay Library, as well as exquisite illustrations of each species, The Backyard Birdsong Guide will resonate with beginners and experts alike.

From the best-selling Bird Songs series comes the most comprehensive bird book ever published. Bird Songs Bible covers the sights and sounds of every single breeding bird in North America nearly 750 in all. This utterly distinctive package features a state-of-the-art digital audio player that brings to life the birds' songs and calls with the touch of a button. Written by a panel of ornithological experts and produced with the renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology, this indispensable reference features lavish illustrations of the birds and their habitats, scientifically accurate range maps, and detailed information on distribution, habitat, behavior, and vocalizations. A beautiful keepsake object, Bird Songs Bible is an essential volume for the true bird lover.

One in five adults in North America is a birdwatcher or birder, and birdwatching is the fastest-growing outdoor activity. This stunning new audio-inclusive package presents 250 of the most eye-catching and commonly seen birds in North America, including the newly rediscovered Ivory-billed Woodpecker, as well as the Snow Goose, the Marbled Murrelet and the Spotted Owl, in an elegant and accessible format that matches songs and calls to bird. 

The collection draws from the world-renowned Macauly Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the major source of sound recordings for research, education, conservation, the media and commercial products.

The sleek, built-in digital audio player plays 250 striking songs and calls, each running 10 to 15 seconds, with a try-me feature that allows users to hear songs at the point of discovery. Renowned bird biologist Les Beletsky provides a succinct and captivating description of each of the birds profiled, with an emphasis on their distinctive songs. Lavish full-colour illustrations accompany each account.

The foreword is written by renowned natural historian Jon L. Dunn, an expert on the distribution and identification of North American birds and the chief consultant for the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America.

Get ready for the most groundbreaking entry to date in the best-selling Birdsongs series (more than 400,000 copies sold!).

Birdscapes delivers an immersive birding experience never before seen-or heard-in any book. For the eyes: seven elaborately engineered, full-color pop-ups portraying dozens of bird species in diverse North American habitats, from the Alaskan Tundra to a Southeast swamp. For the ears: extended recordings of the birds' calls and songs in stereo from the collection of the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. For the serious birder: scientifically accurate illustrations of the birds and moving text about their fragile ecosystems. This beautifully crafted volume is a visual and audio delight!

Modern society is plagued by fragmentation. The various sectors of our communities — businesses, schools, social service organizations, churches, government — do not work together. They exist in their own worlds, as do so many individual citizens, who long for connection but end up marginalized, their gifts overlooked, their potential contributions lost. This disconnection and detachment makes it hard — if not impossible — to envision a common future and work towards it together. We know what healthy communities look like — there are many success stories out there, and they've been described in detail. What Block provides in this inspiring new book is an exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation: How is community built? How does the transformation occur? What fundamental shifts are involved? He explores a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen.

Leadership is the critical factor that determines the success of any business or department. The ability to select, manage, motivate, and guide employees to achieve results is the true measure of any leader's success.

In this fast-moving book, business expert Brian Tracy reveals the strategies used by top executives and business owners everywhere to achieve astounding results in difficult markets against determined competition.

Brian Tracy has worked with more than 1,000 companies in 52 countries. In How the Best Leaders Lead, he gives you a series of practical, proven ideas and strategies that leaders and managers at every level can use immediately. With this timely guide, anyone can learn how to become a better and more effective leader and get more done faster than they ever dreamed possible.

From management legend Henry Mintzberg comes the most authoritative and revealing study of the the nature of managing in our time. Through a holistic synthesis of existing data and analysis on managers, and by studying a day in the worklife of 29 managers, Mintzberg presents a complete picture of what modern managers do, how they do it, the challenges of their jobs, and how they can be most effective.

"Perhaps the world's premier management thinker." — Tom Peters

"One of the most original minds in management." — Fast Company

Based on his 25 years of experience, Polak explodes what he calls the "Three Great Poverty Eradication Myths": that we can donate people out of poverty, that national economic growth will end poverty, and that Big Business, operating as it does now, will end poverty. Polak shows that programs based on these ideas have utterly failed--in fact, in sub-Saharan Africa poverty rates have actually gone up.

These failed top-down efforts contrast sharply with the grassroots approach Polak and IDE have championed: helping the dollar-a-day poor earn more money through their own efforts. Amazingly enough, unexploited market opportunities do exist for the desperately poor. Polak describes how he and others have identified these opportunities and have developed innovative, low-cost tools that have helped in lifting 17 million people out of poverty.

This book is a highly informative, highly entertaining introduction to what art direction is and what art directors do. Co-written by one of the world's leading art directors, it coves the role of art director in numerous environments, including magazines and newspapers, advertising, corporate identity, museums and publishing. It also provides an insight into what
makes a successful art director, what an art director actually does all day, what makes things go right, and what makes things go wrong. Alongside perspectives on typography, illustration and photography, there are case studies of successful art direction in different spheres, from McSweeney's to the Vier5 website. The authors have also invited preeminent international art directors to discuss their roles in special sections of the book which they have art directed themselves. Clearly written, including a glossary of handy art director sayings, an 'art director test' and more, Art Direction Explained will provide students with insights into the world of art direction and professionals with a bible to the profession.

Bibliographic: 100 Classic Graphic Design Books is an insightful compilation of the best design books of the last 100 years. It covers a huge range of material — historic titles from pioneering type foundries to the best of recent monographs from today's leading studios — and provides a unique insight into the evolution of graphic design in the twentieth century. Classic graphic design manuals by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Josef Müller- Brockmann are included, alongside pioneering instructional titles on advertising and the impact of the avante-garde. Monographs designed by and covering the major individuals and studios of the era — from A.M. Cassandre and Alexey Brodovitch to Stefan Sagmeister and Peter Saville — are detailed, along with groundbreaking anthologies on trademark design, Polish film posters, corporate identity and more.

Appropriate both for course adoption and as a book for the amateur design market of Thinking with Type and DIY: Design It Yourself, Graphic Design The New Basics fills a huge gap in course books on graphic design. Classic texts like Meggs' History of Graphic Design don't incorporate the influence of new software and new media, while new books ignore the basics of line, point, colour and grid. Both are addressed in this book by bestselling author Ellen Lupton, who has proven herself as a major player in design education.

This book offers students, novice designers, and battle-toughened professionals alike an insider's guide to the complexities of current graphic design practice and thinking. It contains all you need to know to survive and prosper in the complex, ever-shifting world of graphic design. Set out in A-Z style and written in a realistic, conversational, and insightful way, the book provides advice on the fundamental topics and issues that face designers in their daily lives, looking at everything from kerning to presenting; from budgeting to dealing with rejection; from annual reports to interface design.

Published to instant acclaim in 2005, our best selling How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul has become a trusted resource for graphic designers around the world, combining practical advice with philosophical guidance to help young professionals embark on their careers. This new, expanded edition brings this essential text up to date with new chapters on professional skills, the creative process, and global trends that include social responsibility, ethics, and the rise of digital culture.

How to Be a Graphic Designer offers clear, concise guidance along with focused, no-nonsense strategies for setting up, running, and promoting a studio; finding work; and collaborating with clients. The book also includes inspiring new interviews with leading designers, including Jonathan Barnbrook, Sara De Bondt, Stephen Doyle, Ben Drury, Paul Sahre, Dmitri Siegel, Sophie Thomas, and Magnus Vol Mathiassen.

No component of graphic design has attracted as much interest or inspired as much innovation in recent years as lettering and type. These fundamentals of design, once the exclusive domain of professional typographers, have become an essential starting point for anyone looking for a fresh way to communicate. Practical information about creating letters and type often amounts to a series of guidelines for executing a particular process, font program, or style. But what makes lettering and type endlessly fascinating is the flexibility to interpret and sometimes even break these rules. 

Lettering & Type is a smart-but-not-dense guide to creating and bending letters to one's will. More than just another pretty survey, it is a powerful how-to book full of relevant theory, history, explanatory diagrams, and exercises. While other type design books get hung up on the technical and technological issues of type design and lettering, Lettering & Type features the context and creativity that shape letters and make them interesting.

Princeton Architectural Press' all time best selling book is now available in a revised and expanded second edition.

Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content, including the latest information on style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals, the use of small caps and enlarged capitals, as well as information on captions, font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering. Throughout the book, visual examples showhow to be inventive within systems of typographic form—what the rules are and how to break them. Thinking with Type is a type book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with words. The popular online companion to Thinking with Type has been revised to reflect the new material in the second edition.

If there is one experience that any graphic designer can relate to, it's the quest for the perfect typeface. The right typeface communicates the visual essence of the content while enhancing the impact of the overall design. The dozens of type samplers available are often more confusing than helpful, offering hundreds of choices but little guidance.

Typeface: Classic Typography for Contemporary Design is a unique sourcebook featuring sixty classic typefaces that continue to resonate with today's most influential graphic designers. The book is organized using typographic classifications such as sans serif, serif, display script, and dingbats. Each typeface is presented in detail including its origin, main characteristics, and uses. The main character set of each type specimen is accompanied by typesheet, style examples including technical specifications, and non-Latin characters.

In addition, Typeface includes a unique feature certain to delight designers: a choice of similar typefaces is given for each font so that alternatives can be easily compared taking the stress out of tracking down typefaces. Characteristics such as vertically stressed oblique serifs or abrupt contrasts are highlighted and easily cross-referenced allowing designers to make educated type choices without having to trawl through the seemingly endless pages of type vendor libraries. Accompanying the main character sets and typesheets are examples of the typefaces in use. Leading practitioners such as Pentagram, karlssonwilker inc., and Why Not Associates provide a working context for each typeface making Typeface both a fully functional sourcebook and an inspirational showcase of international typographic design.

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters coauthor Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and the result is Android Karenina: an enhanced edition of the classic love story set in a strange new world of robots, cyborgs, and interplanetary travel.

As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: the tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and the much more hopeful marriage of Nikolai Levin and Kitty Shcherbatskaya. These four, yearning for true love, live in a steampunk-inspired 19th century of mechanical butlers, extraterrestrial-worshiping cults, and airborne debutante balls. Their passions alone would be enough to consume them—but when a secret cabal of radical scientific revolutionaries launches an attack on Russian high society's high-tech lifestyle, our heroes must fight back with all their courage, all their gadgets, and all the power of a sleek new cyborg model like nothing the world has ever seen.

Filled with the same blend of romance, drama, and fantasy that made the first two Quirk Classics New York Times best sellers, Android Karenina brings this celebrated series into the exciting world of science fiction.

LEO TOLSTOY wrote two of the greatest novels in world literature: War and Peace and Anna Karenina. BEN H. WINTERS is coauthor of the New York Times Best Seller Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, which was hailed by The Onion A.V. Club as a "sheer delight" and by Library Journal as "strangely entertaining, like a Weird Al version of an opera aria." Mr. Winters lives in Brooklyn.

Harry is waiting in Privet Drive. The Order of the Phoenix is coming to escort him safely away without Voldemort and his supporters knowing--if they can. But what will Harry do then? How can he fulfil the momentous and seemingly impossible task that Professor Dumbledore has left him with?

Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth, safety and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or hesitation the inexorable path laid out for him ...

In this final, seventh instalment of the Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited. The spellbinding, richly woven narrative, which plunges, twists and turns at a breathtaking pace, confirms the author as a mistress of storytelling, whose books will be read, reread and read again.

Paperback editions of all seven bestselling Harry Potter titles are included in this boxed set: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Complete with 20 illustrations in the style of C. E. Brock (the original illustrator of Pride and Prejudice) this insanely funny expanded edition will introduce Jane Austen’s classic novel to new legions of fans.

With more than one million copies in print, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was the surprise publishing phenomenon of 2009. A best seller on three continents, PPZ has been translated into 21 languages and optioned to become a major motion picture.

In this terrifying and hilarious prequel, we witness the genesis of the zombie plague in early-nineteenth-century England. We watch Elizabeth Bennet evolve from a naive young teenager into a savage slayer of the undead. We laugh as she begins her first clumsy training with nunchuks and katana swords and cry when her first blush with romance goes tragically awry. Written by acclaimed novelist (and Edgar Award nominee) Steve Hockensmith, Dawn of the Dreadfuls invites Austen fans to step back into Regency England, Land of the Undead!

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From the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes a new tale of romance, heartbreak ... and tentacled mayhem.

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities.

As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon.

Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels? It’s survival of the fittest — and only the swiftest swimmers will find true love!

Anna Getty — chef, TV personality, heiress, and mother — loves great food made from fresh, organic, and sustainably harvested ingredients.

In this fact-filled guide and cookbook, Anna explains how to shop for organic, seasonal, and local ingredients, how to keep an eco-friendly kitchen, and how to cook meals that are as scrumptious to eat as they are healthy for you and the earth. Such delights as Roasted Tomato and Goat Cheese Toasts, Double Lemon Chicken Breast with Fresh Tomato Basil Salsa, and Mini-Strawberry Rhubarb Crumbles will quickly help anyone down the road to a healthier, organic lifestyle.

Packed with sound advice, plenty of color photographs, and 100 fabulous recipes, Anna's kitchen is the destination of choice for the discerning home cook.

Anna Getty is a writer, TV personality, and organic living expert. She lives in Los Angeles. Dan Goldberg is a commercial photographer specializing in food and still life. He lives in Chicago. Director and photographer Ron Hamad has exhibited internationally and resides in Los Angeles.

Anna Getty's PureStyle Living website

Visually stunning, this comprehensive guide to rustic French cuisine is the only up-to-date cookbook that covers all the regions of France. Creating this classic was a vast labour of love for Anne Willan, combining extensive research with years of experience cooking and writing about French cuisine.

Over 250 recipes include the best regional and country dishes, from the time-honoured La Truffade with its crispy potatoes and melted cheese to the Languedoc specialty Cassoulet de Toulouse, a bean casserole of duck confit, sausage and lamb, along with fish stews, savory tarts and desserts such as Pets de Nonne (deep-fried cream puffs).

"After Julia Child, Willan, by dint of her books alone, has probably done more to illuminate French cooking for home chefs than any other woman in America or England." —Washington Post

English-born ANNE WILLAN (France) founded La Varenne, a highly respected cooking school, 30 years ago. Her many cookbooks include The Good Cook and the influential La Varenne Chateau du Fey. Among her many awards is a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals

In The Country Cooking of Ireland, internationally acclaimed food and travel writer Colman Andrews brings to life the people, countryside, and delicious food of Ireland. Fast emerging as one of the world's hottest culinary destinations, Ireland is a country of artisanal bakers, farmers, cheesemakers, and butteries, where farm-to-table dining has been practiced for centuries. Meticulously researched and reported, this sumptuous cookbook includes 250 recipes and more than 100 photographs of the pubs, the people, and the emerald Irish countryside taken by award-winning photographer Christopher Hirsheimer. Rich with stories of the food and people who make Ireland a wonderful place to eat, and laced with charming snippets of song, folklore, and poetry, The Country Cooking of Ireland ushers in a new understanding of Irish food.

Colman Andrews is an award-winning food editor and food and travel writer. He lives in Connecticut. Christopher Hirsheimer's photographs have appeared in numerous food magazines and cookbooks. She lives in Pennsylvania.

This new bible for all things vegetable from Fine Cooking's Vegetable Queen is ideal for the millions of eaters who want to get the recommended five to nine servings of fruits and greens into their daily diet. Susie Middleton shares her love of healthful, delicious veggies with a guide to shopping for and cooking delectable meatless meals, including such delights as Spinach with Shallots and Parmigiano and Roasted Eggplant, Bell Pepper, and Fresh Basil Salad. More than 100 recipes for appetizers, snacks, entrees, and side dishes, many of them vegan, make Fast, Fresh & Green an excellent resource for vegetarians and omnivores.

Susie Middleton is a chef, recipe developer, food writer, and longtime executive editor of Fine Cooking magazine. She lives in Connecticut. Ben Fink is a New York-based photographer.

This new masterwork of Chinese cuisine showcases acclaimed chef Eileen Yin-Fei Lo's decades of culinary virtuosity. A series of lessons build skill, knowledge, and confidence as Lo guides the home cook step by step through the techniques, ingredients, and equipment that define Chinese cuisine. With more than 100 classic recipes and technique illustrations throughout, Mastering the Art of Chinese Cooking makes the glories of this ancient cuisine utterly accessible. Stunning color photography reveals the treasures of old and new China, from the zigzagging alleys of historical Guangzhou to the bustle of city centers and faraway Chinatowns, as well as wonderful ingredients and gorgeous finished dishes. Step-by-step brush drawings illustrate Chinese cooking techniques. This lavish volume takes its place as the Chinese cookbook of choice in the cook's library.

Created in the late 1950s, Black Blizzard is Yoshihiro Tatsumi's remarkable first full-length graphic novel and one of the first published examples of Gekiga. Tatsumi documented how his love for Mickey Spillane and hardboiled crime novels led him to create this landmark genre of manga in his epic critically acclaimed 2009 autobiography, A Drifting Life. With Black Blizzard, Tatsumi explores the dark underbelly of his working-class heroes that five decades later will make him one of the most well known Japanese cartoonists in North America.

Susumu Yamaji, a 24-year-old pianist, is arrested for murder and ends up handcuffed to a career criminal on the train that will take them to prison. An avalanche derails the train and the criminal takes the opportunity to escape, dragging a reluctant Susumu with him into the blizzard raging outside. They flee into the mountains to an abandoned ranger station, where they take shelter from the storm. As they sit around the fire they built, Susumu relates how love drove him to become a murderer.

KENK: A Graphic Portrait is a groundbreaking 304-page journalistic comic book detailing the life and times of Igor Kenk, "the world's most prolific bicycle thief" (The New York Times and The Guardian).

The bestselling graphic novel on Canada's infamous folk hero is back in a paperback edition with a new cover by Chester Brown. Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography is the book that launched the graphic novel medium in Canada. Brown received the Harvey Award for best writing and best graphic novel, and made several Best of the Year lists. Publishers Weekly hailed the book as a "contender for best graphic novel ever."

Chester Brown reinvents the comic book medium to create a historical biography on Louis Riel. He crafts a compelling and meticulous retelling of the charismatic 19th-century Metis leader, regarded by some as a martyr and by others as a treacherous murderer. Canadian history at its best, Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography is entertaining and accessible for all ages.

"If you love to read a gripping story, if you are awed by the talent of an artist, then look no further: Chester Brown's Louis Riel is comix history in the making, and with it, history never looked so good." — Globe and Mail

Ages 14 and up

"A gifted ... cartoonist ... the delight of his work is in the play of free-as-sociating and funny imagination." — Ken Johnson, New York Times

"Boundary-destroying, wacked-out (and beautifully drawn) material from Canadian artist Marc Bell that will leave you feeling as if you have bees in your head." — Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Marc Bell is a riddle wrapped in a conundrum further wrapped in salty bacon." — LA Weekly

Marc Bell's Hot Potatoe seamlessly combines decade-plus comics activities with a lifelong devotion to, as Bell calls it, "Fine Ahtwerks." Part art monograph, part comics collection, Hot Potatoe is filled with mixed media cardboard constructions, watercoloured drawings, altered found texts and Bell's most intense, dizzying comics from the contemporary avant-garde comics anthologies — Kramers Ergot and The Ganzfeld. Represented by the Adam Baumgold Gallery in Manhattan, Bell is one of the leading lights in the new emphasis on drawing in the art world. He comes on like a stepchild of R. Crumb, Ray Johnson and Basquiat; armed with a dashing and looping rapidograph.

Recommended age level: 16+

Mendleman's life goes through an upheaval when he discovers that he can no longer earn a living for his growing family doing the work that defines him-making well-crafted rugs by hand. A proud artisan, he takes his donkey-drawn cart to the market only to be turned away when the distinctive shop he once sold to now only stocks cheaply manufactured merchandise. As the realities of the marketplace sink in, Mendleman unravels. James Sturm draws a quiet, reflective, and beautiful portrait of eastern Europe in the early 1900s-bringing to life the hustle and bustle of an Old-World marketplace on the brink of the industrial revolution. Market Day is an ageless tale of how economic and social forces can affect a single life.

"A brilliant parable about literature, history and what telling stories tells us about ourselves." — Toronto Star

"A provocative collision." — Entertainment Weekly

"Disconcerting and fascinating... a canny fusion of overlapping fictional legacies." — Globe and Mail

Masterpiece Comics adapts a variety of classic literary works with the most iconic visual idioms of twentieth-century comics. Dense with exclamation marks and lurid zip-a-tone, R. Sikoryak's parodies remind us of the sensational excesses of the canon, or, if you prefer, of the economical expressiveness of classic comics from Superman to Peanuts. In "Blond Eve," Dagwood and Blondie are ejected from the Garden of Eden into their archetypal suburban home; Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray is re-imagined as a foppish Winsor McCay character; and Camus' Stranger as a brooding, chain-smoking Golden Era Superman.

Recommended age level: 16+

Voted "Best of" by CBC Radio One's "Talking Books," the American Library Association and Time.com.

More timely than ever, Guy Delisle's acclaimed Pyongyang is a glimpse into one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today: North Korea. Pyongyang is a graphical record of the time cartoonist Guy Delisle spent working as an animator in Pyongyang, becoming one of the few Westerners to witness current conditions in the surreal showcase city.

"The memoir is topical, coming at a time when interest in the goings-on behind the last remaining panel of the Iron Curtain is high... The episodes are smart, sharply observed and funny, without downplaying the untold horrors (death camps, starvation) that lurk around every corner."
Globe and Mail

"Tinged with black humour, ...[Pyongyang] offers a perspective no straight-up print journalism could."
National Post

Before blogs, there were zines. Before zines, there were scrapbooks. Sometimes overlooked in the quest to produce high culture, these most direct and intimate means of communication and recording memory are the tools favoured by Sonja Ahlers in the making of her art. A selftaught artist and writer, Ahlers wears her pop culture obsessions on her sleeve, professing her love for such visual icons as Princess Di, Holly Hobbie and Stevie Nicks. Focusing on found objects such as stickers, greeting cards, magazine photos collected in collage framework, complete with song lyrics hand-lettered in cursive script and heartbreaking, melancholic water colors, Ahlers explores and exposes the social construction of roles, feminine and otherwise. With The Selves, the schizophrenic nature of an identity foraged from modern cultural sources is laid bare.

"Deliciously drawn (with fragments of collage worked into each page), insightful and bubbling with delight in the process of artistic creation. A+"
Salon

How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry's compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. What It Is demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or to remember. Comprising completely new material, each page of Barry's first Drawn & Quarterly book is a full-colour collage that is not only a gentle guide to this process but an invigorating example of exactly what it is: "The ordinary is extraordinary." 

Praise for Lynda Barry's previous work:

"Barry is, underneath the wonky handwriting and the quirky, na*ve drawings, a great memoirist ... Like [Tobias] Wolff and [Dave] Eggers, she finds a tone that accommodates self-criticism and self-irony without tipping over into self-loathing ... but what she is particularly good at is resonance."
The New York Times

"Barry is not just a storyteller, she's an evangelist who urges people to pick up a pen-or a brush ... and look at their own lives with fresh, forgiving eyes."
The San Francisco Chronicle

Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friend and stranger alike into a series of one-sided conversations, punctuating his own lofty discursions with a brutally honest, selfnegating sense of humor. After his father dies, Wilson, now irrevocably alone, sets out to find his ex-wife with the hope of rekindling their long-dead relationship, and discovers he has a teenage daughter, born after the marriage ended and given up for adoption. Wilson eventually forces all three to reconnect as a family — a doomed mission that will surely, inevitably backfire. In his first all-new graphic novel, one of the leading cartoonists of our time, Daniel Clowes, creates a thoroughly engaging, complex and fascinating character study of the modern egotist-outspoken and oblivious to the world around him. Working in a single-page-gag format and drawing in a spectrum of styles, the cartoonist of Ghost World, Ice Haven, and David Boring gives us his funniest and most deeply affecting novel to date.

Now available in paperback, The Green House vividly illustrates the emerging collaboration between stylish architecture, interior design, and environmental responsibility. This groundbreaking book features more than thirty-five residences in fifteen countries—and nearly every conceivable natural environment—designed by a combination of star architects and lesser-known practitioners, all of whom put 'greenness' in the service of quality design, and not the other way around.

There is a difference between a roof garden and a green roof. The roof garden is for enjoying. A green roof is usually off limits and installed for environmental performance. In fact, a green roof's ability to cool down cities by decreasing carbon dioxide and increasing oxygen is seen by many environmentalists, politicians and architects as the great green hope. So how can the two be brought together for the attainment of both?

The American Society for Landscape Design (ASLA) commissioned renowned landscape architects Michael Van Valkenberg Associates in collaboration with the Conservation Design Forum to create a hybrid for its headquarters: the green roof garden. Christian Werthmann uses this case study to present an innovative guide to creating a green roof garden. He details both the design process and the specifics of environmental soundness.

Since its launch in 1993 by the nonprofit Green Building Council, the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program has become the standard measure of sustainability for buildings worldwide. Successfully reaching one of four LEED certification levels, Certified, Silver, Gold, or Platinum, requires specific point totals, which differ among building types. Getting certified, in addition to altruistic benefits, allows building owners to take advantage of a growing number of state and local government incentives. The menu of potential points available for various practices ranges from installing bike racks on-site to documenting the source of the iron ore used in any construction steel. As any architect or developer can attest, navigating this complex system of required prerequisites and credits can be maddening. It may be good to be green, but it's still far from easy. An architect's knowledge of materials can make or break a building's rating. Though LEED's performance-based criteria exclude individual materials and products from earning points toward certification, their specific use can. Apply a material in the wrong situation and you may not get credit for it.

LEED Materials is packed with critical information on nearly two hundred materials, products, and services. Organized in the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) Master Format, industry standard in building contracts, this highly visual guide makes sure your material choices and uses will maximize your LEED credits. LEED Materials includes a foreword by Steven Winter, former chairman of the U.S. Green Building Council.

Think green is the theme of the extraordinary spaces and exceptional structures discussed in Natural Architecture. All the structures directly reference nature in the location chosen, the materials used and the minimum use of non-artisan techniques.

The contributors represent the currents of contemporary art, such as land art, environmental art, conceptual art and architecture, including Olafur Ellasson, Patrick Dougherty, Nils-Udo, Bruni & Babart, Mikael Hansen and Jackie Brookner.

In this timely book, Lori Ryker confronts the ecological and cultural problems associated with using energy and explains ways to have a beautiful home using much less, no matter where you live or how much money you make. Ryker shows how to avoid hooking up to city services and how to choose and incorporate "off the grid" technologies-geothermal energy, wind turbines, rainwater collection, micro-hydro power-into any home. A home in Ontario is showcased.

The follow-up volume to the successful Off the Grid: Modern Homes + Alternative Energy, Lori Ryker's newest book looks at six architectural projects that integrate alternative technologies for generating and conserving energy--allowing for "off-the-grid" living.

With this extensive resource, environmentally minded homeowners can research alternatives to being tied to the main line of municipal energy and resource. Independence can be through rainwater collection, photovoltaic (PV) systems and more. Diagrams and descriptions of technologies are provided alongside the book's case studies.

In Prefab Green, architect Michelle Kaufmann shares her vision of creating thoughtful, sustainable design for everyone. Her firm, Michelle Kaufmann Designs (mkDesigns), blends sustainable home layouts, eco-friendly materials, and low-energy options to create a "prepackaged" green solution to home design. Kaufmann tells about five eco-principles that are present in every design her firm creates — smart design, eco-materials, energy efficiency, water conservation, and healthy environment — and how each work together to create homes that make a difference.

Harry is waiting in Privet Drive. The Order of the Phoenix is coming to escort him safely away without Voldemort and his supporters knowing--if they can. But what will Harry do then? How can he fulfil the momentous and seemingly impossible task that Professor Dumbledore has left him with?

Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth, safety and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or hesitation the inexorable path laid out for him ...

In this final, seventh instalment of the Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited. The spellbinding, richly woven narrative, which plunges, twists and turns at a breathtaking pace, confirms the author as a mistress of storytelling, whose books will be read, reread and read again.

Paperback editions of all seven bestselling Harry Potter titles are included in this boxed set: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Paperback editions of all seven bestselling Harry Potter titles are included in this boxed set: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Experience the best of Australia. Highlights: reveal the must-see attractions and unbeatable experiences. Itineraries organized by region, theme and length of trip. Local Experts recommend what not to miss. Easy-to-Use Tools make planning your trip simpler than ever, no matter what your budget.

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Experience the best of Europe. Highlights reveal the must-see attractions and unbeatable experiences. Itineraries organized by region, theme and length of trip. Local Experts recommend what not to miss. Easy-To-Use Tools make planning your trip simpler than ever, no matter what your budget.

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Experience the best of France. Highlights reveal the must-see attractions and unbeatable experiences. Itineraries organized by region, theme and length of trip. Local Experts recommend what not to miss. Easy-to-Use Tools make planning your trip simpler than ever, no matter what your budget.

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Experience The Best of Great Britain. Highlights reveal the must-see attractions and unbeatable experiences. Itineraries organized by region, theme and length of trip. Local Experts recommend what not to miss. Easy-To-Use Tools make planning your trip simpler than ever, no matter what your budget.

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Experience the best of Ireland. Highlights reveal the must-see attractions and unbeatable experiences. Itineraries organized by region, theme and length of trip. Local Experts recommend what not to miss. Easy-To-Use Tools make planning your trip simpler than ever, no matter what your budget.

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Experience the best of Italy. Highlights reveal the must-see attractions and unbeatable experiences. Itineraries organized by region, theme and length of trip. Local Experts recommend what not to miss. Easy-To-Use Tools make planning your trip simpler than ever, no matter what your budget.

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Experience the best of Japan. Highlights reveal the must-see attractions and unbeatable experiences. Itineraries organized by region, theme and length of trip. Local Experts recommend what not to miss. Easy-To-Use Tools make planning your trip simpler than ever, no matter what your budget.

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Experience the best of Spain. Highlights reveal the must-see attractions and unbeatable experiences. Itineraries organized by region, theme and length of trip. Local Experts recommend what not to miss. Easy-To-Use Tools make planning your trip simpler than ever, no matter what your budget.

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Experience the best of Thailand. Highlights reveal the must-see attractions and unbeatable experiences. Itineraries organized by region, theme and length of trip. Local Experts recommend what not to miss. Easy-To-Use Tools make planning your trip simpler than ever, no matter what your budget.

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Anxiety problems are the most common of all mental health problems in Canada, affecting approximately one in 10 people.

The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook is a major revision of New Harbinger's bestselling workbook. It provides step-by-step help for sufferers of anxiety and phobia disorders and offers the latest treatment strategies.

Changes to this edition include new information on the latest medications for anxiety, on health-related conditions that aggravate anxiety, and on mindfulness meditation for anxiety management. As with previous editions, this book contains the most up-to-date information on medications, natural supplements and complementary strategies that can alleviate anxiety symptoms. The sections on relaxation, nutrition and exercise are updated and expanded.

In this jargon-free book, a distinguished team of authors offers readers unprecedented access to the core skills of dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), formerly available only through complicated professional books.

Along with ACT, DBT is part of the "third wave" of behaviour therapies that is revolutionizing the practice of psychotherapy today. The straightforward, step-by-step exercises in this book will bring DBT skills to general readers and therapists in private practice to help them treat problems ranging from anxiety and depression to troubled relationships and out-of-control emotions.

Memo Cards are part of the Moleskine Folio Tools Collection.

The Collection contains small, appealing items, useful at work as in everyday life. For memories, notes and messages. This collection retains the classic mood of the Moleskine brand: ivory color pages, smooth black cover, thick paper, rounded corners, elastic band closure, inner expandable pocket, and the signature interior leaflet narrating the history of Moleskine legendary notebooks. 

All paper used in the Folio collection is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), an international non-profit organization established in 1993 to promote socially and environmentally responsible management of the world's forests.

The colour of Folio Tools is silver dark turquoise.

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Discover Moleskine Passions — journals for the loves of your life!

The Passions Wine Journal is designed for those who love wine. Collect and organize your passion for wine with a unique journal featuring informative pages including wine measures and glossary, 6 themed sections to fill in, 6 themed sections to personalize, 10 blank pages for notes and thoughts, and a collection of adhesive labels to further customize. Each Passions journal features a fully-embossed cover, 3 ribbon place markers, and a double expandable inner pocket. 240 pages.

Discover Moleskine Passions — journals for the loves of your life!

The Passions Wine Journal is designed for those who love wine. Collect and organize your passion for wine with a unique journal featuring informative pages including wine measures and glossary, 6 themed sections to fill in, 6 themed sections to personalize, 10 blank pages for notes and thoughts, and a collection of adhesive labels to further customize. Each Passions journal features a fully-embossed cover, 3 ribbon place markers, and a double expandable inner pocket. 240 pages.

Discover Moleskine Passions — journals for the loves of your life!

The Passions Music Journal is designed for those who love music. Collect and organize your passion for music with a unique journal featuring informative pages including wine measures and glossary, 6 themed sections to fill in, 6 themed sections to personalize, 10 blank pages for notes and thoughts, and a collection of adhesive labels to further customize. Each Passions journal features a fully-embossed cover, 3 ribbon place markers, and a double expandable inner pocket. 240 pages.

Discover Moleskine Passions — journals for the loves of your life!

The Recipe Passions Journal is designed for those who love to cook. Collect and organize recipes, food calendars, facts, notes, and thoughts. Each Passions journal comes with an embossed cover, 3 ribbon placeholders, and a double expandable inner pocket to stash recipe cards and magazine clippings. Features include: 6 tabbed sections to personalize, informative pages with measures and conversions, 6 themed sections to fill in, 6 tabbed sections to personalize, 16 blank pages for notes and thoughts, and a set of adhesive labels to further customize your journal. 240 pages.

Discover Moleskine Passions — journals for the loves of your life!

The Passions Wine Journal is designed for those who love wine. Collect and organize your passion for wine with a unique journal featuring informative pages including wine measures and glossary, 6 themed sections to fill in, 6 themed sections to personalize, 10 blank pages for notes and thoughts, and a collection of adhesive labels to further customize. Each Moleskine Passions journal features a fully-embossed cover, 3 ribbon place markers, and a double expandable inner pocket. 240 pages.

Discover Moleskine Passions — journals for the loves of your life!

Collect and organize your passion for wellness with a unique journal featuring informative pages including wine measures and glossary, 6 themed sections to fill in, 6 themed sections to personalize, 10 blank pages for notes and thoughts, and a collection of adhesive labels to further customize. Each Passions journal features a fully-embossed cover, 3 ribbon place markers, and a double expandable inner pocket. 240 pages.

Renowned graphic artist Jason Munn, the one-man operation behind the studio The Small Stakes, is a leader in modern-day music poster design. Collected here for the first time are over 150 of his iconic posters for various bands, including Beck, Wilco, Built to Spill, the Flaming Lips, the Pixies, and many more. Unique in their conceptual elegance, Munn's silk-screened posters are widely appreciated for perfectly evoking each artist or band s character and distinctive sound. With a foreword by Death Cab for Cutie's bassist Nicolas Harmer, an interview conducted by prolific poster artist Jay Ryan, and 6-color printing that showcases metallic silver and gold, this book is a beautiful celebration of art and music.

In the weeks leading up to The White Stripes' tenth-anniversary show, the band embarked on an adventurous and unprecedented tour that took them to every province and territory in Canada—from ocean to permafrost—playing unusual venues to crowds of all sizes, and culminating with the anniversary show.

Photographer Autumn de Wilde traveled with the band into town and over tundra, capturing the beauty of the landscape, the exhilarating power of the live shows, the band's intense connection with their fans, and Jack and Meg White's on- and offstage lives, all with rare and candid access.

In nearly 300 color and black-and-white images, this remarkable book documents an epic journey and an amazing band

Including a CD of unreleased live acoustic performances, 200 photos and revealing conversations with Smith's surviving friends, family and fellow musicians, Elliott Smith is the only book on the beloved and troubled singer/songwriter by those who knew him well. Written by a close friend, it is authorized by Smith's family.

A major indie-rock cult figure when he died, Smith's Beatlesque pop songs have left a deep mark on a generation of fans and musicians. His music in the film Good Will Hunting was nominated for an Oscar. His six albums have sold over a million copies worldwide and counting.

Musicians Beck Hansen and Chris Walla write the foreword, while interviews range from members of the bands Death Cab for Cutie and Nada Surf to Smith's roommate, his girlfriend and his manager. Accompanying these personal conversations are handwritten song lyrics and ephemera.

For many years Lauren Dukoff has been photographing close friend and musician Devendra Banhart and an extended, loosely-knit, international family of artists who share inspiration variously from folk, Tropicalia, and each other, as well as a range of other musical influences.

This lovely hardcover album collects Dukoff's striking portraits and candid images of Banharts, Joanna Newsom, Bat for Lashes, Feathers, Espers, Vetiver, Bert Jansch, Vashti Bunyan, and many others, individually and together in performance and more private spaces.

The 150 full-bleed color and black and white photographs are complemented by a foreword by Banhart, text and artwork by the musicians, artist biographies, and a digital download featuring songs by some of the artists in the book.

Since 2001, Gigposters.com has been the Internet's first and best resource for rock-show poster art; their massive online database showcases more than 90,000 posters from 7,000 different designers including all of today's top poster studios.

Gig Posters Volume I highlights the 700+ best examples in their collection, including 101 perforated and ready-to-hang posters for bands such as Radiohead, Wilco, the Decemberists, the Shins, Arcade Fire, Sleater-Kinney, and more.

Among the many designers contributing to this collection are Rob Jones (of White Stripes fame), The Decoder Ring (house artists for Modest Mouse), Patent Pending, Tara McPherson, and more. Packaged in an oversized 11-by-14-inch paperback, Gig Posters Volume I is a spectacular compilation of rock show art (and one hell of a cheap way to decorate a dorm room or apartment!).

Clay Hayes is the founder and proprietor of Gigposters.com. He lives in Alberta, Canada.

Grateful Dead fans are legendary for their Dead-ication to the band and its enduring legacy of freewheeling musical exploration.The Grateful Dead Scrapbook collects rare removable memorabilia and evocative images culled from the Grateful Dead Archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz, including never-before-published photos, flyers, fan letters, and other ephemera. To accompany the eye-popping visuals, renowned journalist Ben Fong-Torres draws on his personal knowledge of the San Francisco music scene in a rich text that conveys the Grateful Dead's story in a fresh way, centering each chapter on a pivotal song that encapsulates a certain era of the group's songwriting, performance, and community. An attractive slipcase and an audio CD round out the book's beautiful design, delivering a richly illustrated volume as colorful as the band itself.

A celebration of the life, love, music and creativity of John Lennon, this illustrated biography features removable facsimiles of his handwritten lyrics and famous drawings as well as rare photographs, documents and other memorabilia drawn from Yoko Ono's personal archives and other sources.

The biographical text runs chronologically from Lennon's early years in Liverpool through to his death in New York City, with the focus on his life as a musician and artist. The 40 interactive elements cover his school days, the years with The Beatles, his career with Yoko Ono and his work as a solo artist. Besides the handwritten lyrics, mementoes include an early report card, a ticket to the Ed Sullivan Show, Yellow Submarine posters, drawings and a previously unpublished "Dear World" letter calling for world peace. Illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs, this innovative and interactive package is completed by a CD with a live recording of "Imagine" and several interviews with Lennon talking about his life and art.

James Henke is curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He wrote for Rolling Stone magazine for 16 years and is the author of Take You Higher and Lennon: His Life and Work.

Photographer Todd Gray worked with Michael Jackson for several years before Jackson requested that he become his personal photographer, a relationship that began after a trip to Disneyland and encompassed Michael's time performing with the Jacksons through the release of his smash solo albums Off the Wall and Thriller. Michael Jackson: Before He Was King collects unseen and intimate photographs of Michael taken over a span of 10 years, from 1974 to 1983, just as he bloomed into unprecedented international stardom, but before he became insulated as the King of Pop. Throughout, Gray was granted personal access to Michael at home, with his family and fans, as well as to his incredible, career-making live performances and the video shoot for "Beat It."

Michael?s obvious comfort, candor, and pure joy shine through in the images. And Gray, a young black man not much older than Michael at the time they met, brings unique insights to his time with the singer. An introduction and narrative captions by Gray add context to the images, and together create an intimate portrait of Michael at his creative peak, as he grew from a brilliantly talented young man into a pop icon.

The newest addition to the smash-hit Listography series will have list-makers singing for joy! Loaded with a lovin' spoonful of music-inspired list topics ranging from traditional (top 20 favorite albums) to eclectic (favorite dance party playlist) to downright experimental (concerts you wish you could time travel back to), this journal gives music lovers a backstage pass to hours of list-making fun.

For nearly 40 years, legendary rock photographer Neil Zlozower has documented an astonishing who's who of the most influential players of rock and metal guitar from the 1970s to today.Six-String Heroes collects his killer shots of the best players ever to wield an axe, including candid, studio, and live photos of such giants as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Slash, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Dave Navarro, Dimebag Darrell, John Frusciante, Joe Satriani, Angus Young, and many more. With a foreword by Steve Vai, notes by Zlozower, and short texts by some of the guitarists themselves, Six-String Heroes captures the power and technique of the instrument through the lens of its legendary players a must-have for guitar fans everywhere.

This handsome volume features vibrant photographs of some of the world?s most recognizable musicians, selected by Graham Nash, an internationally acclaimed artist of two media?photography and music?who is uniquely qualified in both worlds. Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and Johnny Cash share pages with Kurt Cobain, Sting, Michael Stipe, and many others in shots by legendary photographers such as Daniel Kramer, Charles Peterson, Annie Leibovitz, and others. A rare collection, Taking Aim is destined for the shelves of both photo collectors and rock and roll fans.

So the baby's butt is redder than a baboon's and he's screaming like a crazed hockey fan. What's a new father supposed to do? Since 2007 more than 2 million men have turned to DadLabs for the answers. Home to the Internet's finest weekly video program about modern fatherhood, DadLabs is the brainchild of four regular guys in Austin, Texas, and now they've compiled the best of their advice into a book.

In DadLabs Guide to Fatherhood readers will learn: How to keep the baby alive until the wife gets home; That washing bottles will not make your balls fall off; Things not to say during birthing ("You're sure it's mine right?"); Top-secret delivery room tips (No. 1: Bring change for the snack machine); Why sex is overrated (and other lies fathers tell themselves); Why other parents' children are inferior to yours. Full of guy-friendly advice, DadLabs Guide to Fatherhood proves that being a man with a sense of humor and being a skillful parent are not mutually exclusive.

Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile conducted interviews with hundreds of mothers while researching their best-selling book I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids. It didn't take long before these moms began to reveal their Dirty Little Secrets—surprising, thought-provoking, guilty confessions they hadn't told anyone else. Cringe-worthy moments ("I bit my daughter's finger trying to steal a bite of her cookie.") meet real insights ("I love my kids but I didn't always. It took time to fall in love with them."). These are the private thoughts that every mom has—and every mom can relate to.

Skate ramps, zip lines, go-carts, and more! In this super-fun book, Todd Davis extreme sports athlete and host of HGTV's Over Your Head presents 25 awesome projects for dads to build with their kids.

Busy dads can choose projects that range from simple to challenging and take anywhere from five minutes to a full weekend. Readers are given all the directions they need to grab materials that can be found around the house or at the local hardware store and get to work banging up a sweet BMX ramp or half-pipe, building a tree house or tire swing, or throwing together a slip-and-slide or tie-dye station for an afternoon of fun.

With plenty of color photographs, easy-to-follow instructions, and detailed illustrations, Handy Dad is chock-full of creative and inexpensive ways to keep kids (and dads) entertained for hours.

As any parent of more than one child will tell you, things are much easier the second time around. In this warm and reassuring book, scores of real-life second-time parents offer first-timers their stories and lessons learned. One hundred accessible entries guide new parents through pregnancy and the first year of life, covering everything from birth plans and breast-feeding to finding a parental comfort zone. With a dose of patience and a sprinkling of humor, How to Have Your Second Child First helps first-timers navigate parenthood with the savvy and calm of moms and dads who have been there before twice.

What mother hasn't secretly thought along the lines of "I wonder if I could get my own apartment?" or "Is slowly browsing the aisles at Target by myself actually better than therapy?" Fresh from the front lines of modern motherhood comes a book that uncovers the guilty secrets of today's moms, in their own words. Brimming with true stories that will make moms everywhere laugh out loud and say amen, this girlfriend's guide to being a mom is both insightful and sincere.

Through over 100 interviews, the authors found that, past the first 20 minutes of touting the joys of motherhood, mothers everywhere were at some level unsure of whether they were doing a good job—and whether they even liked that job. Does passing off Safeway cookies as home-made make you a Bad Mom? Are you a Bad Mom because you screamed at a four-year-old who got up 12 times in one night? Without being academic, preachy or depressing, I Was a Really Good Mom diagnoses the craziness and extends a loving hand. Reading it is like having the best coffee klatch ever.

Turning his camera to the world of birds, Andrew Zuckerman has a created a new body of work showcasing more than 200 stunning photographs of nearly 75 different species. These winged creatures from exotic parrots to everyday sparrows, and endangered penguins to woody owls are captured with Zuckerman's painstaking perspective against a stark white background to reveal the vivid colors, textures, and personalities of each subject in extraordinary and exquisite detail. The ultimate art book for ornithologists and nature enthusiasts alike, Bird is a volume of sublime beauty.

Andrew Zuckerman website

Bird website

As delightful as it is thought-provoking, Creature is the first book of up-and-coming photographer Andrew Zuckerman's striking studio portraits of wild animals from around the world.

Shot against white backgrounds, 200 wild creatures-from leopards to parrots, bears to baboons-are depicted with a rare sensitivity, insight, humour and wonder. The portraits of baby animals are particularly appealing.

These astonishing images will appeal to animal and nature lovers, photography fans and anyone interested in the world around us and its many fragile, natural wonders. The book will also be of interest from an environmental perspective, as more and more people become concerned with preserving the natural world against such threats as climate change.

ANDREW ZUCKERMAN (New York) is a photographer and filmmaker.

Lickshot is Ben Watts's highly personalized scrapbook and travel diary. A triumph of lo-fi style, its pages are a delirious pastiche of gritty photographs, wonky Polaroids, and hand-scrawled graffiti, held together by slashes of colored tape. Its contents reflect the incredible variety of Watts's photographic subjects — from high school ice skaters, Brooklyn biker gangs, and lounging sunbathers to world-famous actors, supermodels, and today's hottest musicians.

Lickshot includes photos of Heath Ledger, Benicio del Toro, Tobey Maguire, Rachel Weisz, Guy Pearce, Adrien Brody, Bruce Springsteen, Lil Wayne, Lou Reed, Jay-Z, Coldplay, T.I., Alicia Keys, Snoop Dogg, André 3000, B. B. King, Mary J. Blige, and Ben Harper. An interview with Watts by Vanity Fair editor Ingrid Sischy explores Watts's background and creative influences.

Trees are vital — without them we simply wouldn't be here. Not only essential, they have been an inspiration throughout our history. In breathtaking photographs and stories we are taken on a journey from the boreal forest at the edge of the Arctic to the rainforests girdling the planet; from ancient bristlecones to fresh-leaved seedlings; from the charming and familiar to the scary and rare. An elegantly written and highly accessible text is complemented by an extraordinary collection of images created by some of the world's leading nature photographers.

Through the extraordinary images and insights of the world's master photographers, Photowisdom explores the richness of contemporary photographic practice.

Photowisdom features commentaries from original interviews with world-leading photographers alongside exquisite reproductions of key images chosen by the artists themselves.The result is an unprecedented collection of 200 images showcasing each master photographer's work and their unique voice. Photowisdom will support a project with award-winning charity PhotoVoice to help children in rural Afghanistan express their concerns, and grasp opportunities through photography.

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters coauthor Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and the result is Android Karenina: an enhanced edition of the classic love story set in a strange new world of robots, cyborgs, and interplanetary travel.

As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: the tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and the much more hopeful marriage of Nikolai Levin and Kitty Shcherbatskaya. These four, yearning for true love, live in a steampunk-inspired 19th century of mechanical butlers, extraterrestrial-worshiping cults, and airborne debutante balls. Their passions alone would be enough to consume them—but when a secret cabal of radical scientific revolutionaries launches an attack on Russian high society's high-tech lifestyle, our heroes must fight back with all their courage, all their gadgets, and all the power of a sleek new cyborg model like nothing the world has ever seen.

Filled with the same blend of romance, drama, and fantasy that made the first two Quirk Classics New York Times best sellers, Android Karenina brings this celebrated series into the exciting world of science fiction.

LEO TOLSTOY wrote two of the greatest novels in world literature: War and Peace and Anna Karenina. BEN H. WINTERS is coauthor of the New York Times Best Seller Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, which was hailed by The Onion A.V. Club as a "sheer delight" and by Library Journal as "strangely entertaining, like a Weird Al version of an opera aria." Mr. Winters lives in Brooklyn.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Complete with 20 illustrations in the style of C. E. Brock (the original illustrator of Pride and Prejudice) this insanely funny expanded edition will introduce Jane Austen’s classic novel to new legions of fans.

With more than one million copies in print, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was the surprise publishing phenomenon of 2009. A best seller on three continents, PPZ has been translated into 21 languages and optioned to become a major motion picture.

In this terrifying and hilarious prequel, we witness the genesis of the zombie plague in early-nineteenth-century England. We watch Elizabeth Bennet evolve from a naive young teenager into a savage slayer of the undead. We laugh as she begins her first clumsy training with nunchuks and katana swords and cry when her first blush with romance goes tragically awry. Written by acclaimed novelist (and Edgar Award nominee) Steve Hockensmith, Dawn of the Dreadfuls invites Austen fans to step back into Regency England, Land of the Undead!

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action!

In addition to the illustrations in the first edition, the expanded version features 13 new full-color oil painting illustrations — depicting all of PPZ's most memorable moments — and a special preface from author Seth Grahame-Smith in which he describes the writing of PPZ. Best of all, The Deluxe Heirloom Edition features 30% MORE ZOMBIES! Seth has written pages and pages of all-new (and entirely gratuitous) ultra-violent zombie mahem. If you loved the premise and zombie action of the first book, you'll love this expanded Deluxe Edition even more.

From the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes a new tale of romance, heartbreak ... and tentacled mayhem.

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities.

As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon.

Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels? It’s survival of the fittest — and only the swiftest swimmers will find true love!

In Excuses Begone! Dr. Wayne W. Dyer reveals how to change lifelong, self-defeating thinking patterns that prevent you from living at the highest levels of success, happiness, and health. You may know what to think but find it terribly difficult to change thinking habits that have been with you since childhood.

This business of changing habituated thinking patterns is really the business of eliminating the same old tired excuses. When you eliminate excuses that explain your shortcomings or failures, you'll awaken to your infinite possibilities. Removing the excuses involves examining these thinking habits under a new and truthful light.

In this groundbreaking work, Wayne presents a compendium of conscious and subconscious excuses employed by virtually everyone, along with a new paradigm that guides you to put those excuses to rest once and for all. You'll learn to apply specific questions to any excuse, and then proceed through the steps of the Excuses Begone! paradigm. The old habituated ways of thinking will melt away as you experience the joy of releasing excuses and the absurdity of hanging on to them. There are no excuses worth defending ever, even if they've always been part of your life.

This book represents Wayne's effort to help anyone whose self-defeating thoughts are persistently present, learn how to discard those old thinking habits, and discover the infinite possibilities of life!

In his latest book, former senior computer systems designer and bestselling author Gregg Braden merges these ancient and modern world views into a powerful new model of time. Marrying the modern laws of fractal patterns to the ancient concept of cycles, he demonstrates how everything from the war and peace between nations to our most joyous relationships and personal crises are the returning patterns of our past. As each pattern returns, it carries the same conditions of previous cycles: fractal patterns that can be known, measured and predicted!

What makes this model so important today is that the returning cycles also carry a window of opportunity — a choice point — that allows us to choose a new outcome for the cycle. Braden suggests that if we can see time from this perspective, the patterns will show us what's in store for the future, and perhaps how to avoid the mistakes of our past. After presenting the case histories that confirm the accuracy of fractal time calculations, the author crosses the traditional boundaries of science and spirituality to answer the question that must be asked: What does fractal time tell us about 2012, and beyond? Because the cycles repeat, the seed for 2012 has already happened and the pattern already exists! In a narrative format of easy-to-read science and true-life accounts, Fractal Time shows us what we can expect as we close the Great World Age described by the Mayan Calendar, and the secret to our moment in history.

This Leading Edge work by Esther and Jerry Hicks, who present The Teachings of Abraham®, will help you understand every relationship you are currently involved in as well as every relationship you have ever experienced.

This book uncovers a myriad of false premises that are at the heart of every uncomfortable relationship issue, and guides you to a clear understanding of the powerful creative Vortex that has already assembled the relationships that you have desired. Abraham will show you how to enter that Vortex, where you will rendezvous with everything and everyone you have been looking for. Abraham says: "It is our desire to help you to solve the mystery of those seemingly impossible relationships; to sort out the details of joyously sharing your planet with billions of others; to rediscover the beauty of your differences; and, most of all, to reestablish the most important relationship of all: your relationship with the Eternal, Non-Physical Source that is really you. It is our desire that you experience an enhanced appreciation of your planet; your body; your family; your friends; your enemies; your government; your systems; your food; your finances; your animals; your work and your play; your purpose; your Source; your Soul; your past, your future, and your present..."

This third instalment in the spectacular Legends Series celebrates Western Canada's first NHL franchise, the Vancouver Canucks. Full of glorious photos and engaging stories, Canucks Legends chronicles the first four decades of the franchise--from a young expansion team, to the Canucks' current place among hockey's elite, on the verge of bringing the first Stanley Cup to Vancouver. The Canucks come to life through 75 player profiles--Orland Kurtenbach, Stan Smyl, Richard Brodeur, Cam Neely, Trevor Linden, Markus Naslund, Todd Bertuzzi and many others--and over 300 historic and contemporary photos. With guest essays by journalists Archie McDonald, Tony Gallagher, Iain MacIntyre and Kevin Woodley, this book is a must-have for every Canucks fan and hockey historian.

One of the most popular Winter Olympic sports in the world, figure skating's appeal lies in its combination of gymnastic grace, athletic accuracy, and creative expression — all with a hint of drama!

Both women and men, as singles and in pairs, have thrilled as competitors in this sport. Now their mysteries and histories are explored in the fifth installment of the highly successful How Sports Work series. How Figure Skating Works has facts, figures, and fun for everyone — from the rookies of the rink all the way up to the triumphant triple lutzers. Unique insider information includes the science behind a figure skate?s special design, a catalogue of the most inventive (and strangest) moves, stories of Olympic judging and score-keeping, and the secrets behind some of the greatest partnerships and rivalries in skating. Plus, "Quick Answers to Speedy Questions" sidebars explain all things figure skating, "Legends on Ice" profiles introduce young fans to some of the most inspirational skaters in history, and the "Rules and Regs" section at the back of the book provides all the terms and need-to-know information to make every reader a master of figure skating basics.

Ages 8-12

Think you know everything there is to know about hockey?

Here's a whole new look at Canada's favourite sport: from the perspective of science. Newly revised and updated with the latest NHL rules, How Hockey Works was first published in 2002 in the How Sports Work series.

Fully illustrated and in a format that matches the proportions of an ice rink, How Hockey Works explains all the basics. Along with a glossary and a "Rules & Regs" section are inspiring stories from professional men's and women's hockey.

"Even after spending 15 years as a player in the NHL, I gained new insights from reading How Hockey Works. This book will score with fans and players alike." — Ron Ellis, Hockey Hall of Fame

"A colourful, informative book packed with hockey history, science and trivia." — Calgary Herald

Ages 8-12

Maple Leafs Top 100 is the definitive book for ardent Maple Leafs fans and is sure to stir passionate debate about its list of the 100 top players from 1927 to 2007. Mike Leonetti, author of Maple Leafs Legends, offers a fresh angle on the much-loved Maple Leafs, making this book a must-have for every fan.

The team has not won the Stanley Cup in 40 years: win, lose or draw, diehard fans debate the merits of their favourite team rosters. Leonetti details the team's rich history, featuring profiles on 100 of the top players, as chosen by a specially selected panel of experts. Also included are special essays by John Iaboni, 30-year veteran of the Maple Leafs organization and editor of the Leafs' official program, Leafs Game Day.

With full-colour photographs, anecdotes, statistics and trivia spanning eight decades, and in-depth profiles of 100 of the greatest players, this book is an essential part of every hockey fan's collection.

Compiled by highly recognized medical professionals in the emergency response and trauma field, the latest edition of Medicine for Mountaineering features fully revised and expanded information to help mountaineers weather storms, animal attacks, injuries, and more. With a new foreword by Buck Tilton and updated essentials on reacting to wilderness accidents, the 6th edition includes new chapters on drowning, avalanche injuries, evacuation procedures, and more.

With millions flocking to the sport each year, snowboarding has become one of the of most popular winter pastimes. Written for the beginning to intermediate practitioner, Snowboarding focuses on the techniques of the sport, from park and pipe riding to boardslides and tail presses. Liam Gallagher details everything from the basics of understanding snow conditions and park responsibility to the fundamentals of riding, with a complete explanation of jumps and rails. Featuring a history of the sport, a breakdown of choosing and caring for your gear, and testimonials from professional riders, this is the comprehensive guide to get you out on the mountain.

Sport climbers often project a route that tests their physical limits in hopes of an eventual completion, regardless of the number of attempts. Succeeding requires a solid understanding of belaying and other climbing techniques that are used in various climbing disciplines, but are detailed here specifically for sport climbing. Targeting varying abilities, Sport Climbing teaches climbers how to rehearse moves and train for routes, how to get through the pump, how to fight until the end of a pitch, how to stay composed when tired, and how to best use their bodies to climb efficiently and expertly. Whether inspiring new climbers to learn the nuances of scaling vertical terrain, or delving into a deeper, more conceptual understanding of how to go about projecting a route, Andrew Bisharat brings confidence and a level of practicality to the sport. He demonstrates how skills specific to redpointing transfer over to traditional climbing, making this a must-have book for any climber. Featuring tips from famous climbers such as Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold, the author brings a modern voice to a fun and exciting sport.

Pack your knives and go ... straight to the bookstore. Top Chef presents the official companion cookbook to the No. 1 rated food show on cable television! Featuring 100 fabulous recipes from the first three seasons of the show, including dishes from the Elimination Rounds and the Quick-Fire Challenges, Top Chef Cookbook invites fans into the hottest kitchen on prime time. In-depth discussions with contestants, judges and crew reveal the inner workings of the show, and lavish photographs take readers behind-the-scenes into the Top Chef pantry and the competition sites.

Handsomely packaged with a canvas cover inspired by the chef’s jacket worn by each of the Top Chef contestants, this cookbook will have aspiring culinary contenders reliving classic show moments and relishing new recipes just in time to obsess over Padma’s outfits in Season 4.

“The best food companion on TV.” (Los Angeles Times)

The highest-rated food show on cable television serves up a hot new trivia game! Up to six people can play individually or more can form teams and vie for the glory — and the title — of Top Chef. Relive favorite episode moments by answering questions about the contestants, the judges, and the food. What part of the pig does ham come from — the belly, the hind leg, or the back? Which Top Chef judge earned three Michelin stars by the age of 26? Answer correctly and become Top Chef. Answer incorrectly and it’s time to ‘pack your knives and go!’

The much-anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Top Chef: The Cookbook is here! Drawing from all 5 seasons of the show, Top Chef: The Quickfire Cookbook features 75 of the best recipes — from Spike’s Pizza alla Greek to Stephanie’s Bittersweet Chocolate Cake — culled from the Top Chef Quickfire Challenges. Everything the home chef needs to assemble an impressive meal and channel the energy of the Quickfire kitchen is collected here, including advice on hosting a Quickfire Cocktail Party and staging Quickfire Challenges at home. Best of all, this book is spilling over with sidebar material, including tips for home chefs, interviews with contestants, fabulous photos, and fun trivia related to the chefs, dishes, and ingredients that make Top Chef a favourite.

Want to know where to discover a spectacular tropical paradise? How about journeying to the world's greatest natural wonders, or taking the road trip of a lifetime? 1000 Ultimate Experiences brings together 1000 ideas, places and activities sure to inspire and entertain. Make your own list, hit the road, and start ticking off places you've always wanted to see and things you've always wanted to do. Who knows where you'll end up! Sleep under the stars in a Bedouin tent in Jordan, find out the best beaches to swing a hammock, and jump on board the Ghan for a trip through Australia's remote Red Center. Spot Banksy's art in Bristol, or come on, get happy in Bhutan.

Lonely Planet's Best In Travel 2010: The best places to go and things to do all around the world right now! Drawing on the knowledge, passion and miles traveled by Lonely Planet's staff and authors, you've got a year's worth of travel inspiration to take you out of the ordinary and into some unforgettable experiences.Highlights include: Lonely Planet presents the top 10 countries, regions and cities to visit in 2010 and a 2010 Travel Plannner with over 30 adventures mapped out month-by-month. Contains the best travel experiences for the year ahead, from wildlife-watching in South Africa to catching a space flight launched from the Mojave Desert.

Since 1998, Lonely Planet has been publishing our favorite travel stories. The disasters of Lonely Planet Unpacked, the romances of Brief Encounters, the random acts of generosity in Kindness of Strangers, the out-there adventures of Tales from Nowhere - these stories, and many others, explored the reasons why we travel, and what we find when we get there. Now we've selected the best of them. From the first tentative steps of the young backpacker finding her feet in a London hostel, to the beyond-travel commetment of setting up house in Delhi, the 26 stories in this collection cover the globe and reveal a world of travel experiences.Best of Lonely Planet's Travel Writing includes: Tim Cahill, William Dalrymple, Jason Elliot, Pico Iyer, Jan Morris, Emily Perkins, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Danny Wallace, Tony Wheeler, Simon Winchester and more.

Cities represent civilization and human achievement: they are bubbling microcosms of virtues and vices, vanguards of technology and creative pursuits, incubators of traditions and melting pots of diversity. More than half the world's population now lives in cities, and for travelers they hold an endless fascination. Every city has its own personality, in the form of its streets and buildings and in its human architecture. Taking our cue from the buzz on the street, we have captured the flavor of each city through the eyes of the typical citizen: hot conversation topics, urban myths, the best places to eat and rink and to seek out after dark. It's a tempting cocktail for the urban adventurer.

Imagine tucking into grasshoppers as you wander the Mercado Benito market in Oaxaca, Mexico, or chowing down on juicy witchetty grubs on your travels through Central Australia — such meals can be the perfect entrée to a culture. In this book you'll find over 50 delicacies that creep, crawl, sizzle and spit, where they originated from and wher eyou can experience them. You may not salivate over blood, scorpions, chicken's knees or partially digested coffee beans, but travel long enough and you're bound to meet someone who does. Extreme Cuisine is sure to challenge your idea of what makes good eating.

Whether it's lively summer night markets in Vancouver's Chinatown, beating back diamond powder in the Kootenays, wine-tasting your way through the Okanagan Valley or floating past grizzly bears on a Bella Coola river tour, our 4th edition takes you there.Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.In this guide: a full color Parks chapter explores BC & the Yukon's most beautiful protected spaces, an expanded Whistler chapter, including coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics, and expert trustworthy knowledge from resident and specialist authors.

One of the most popular Winter Olympic sports in the world, figure skating's appeal lies in its combination of gymnastic grace, athletic accuracy, and creative expression — all with a hint of drama!

Both women and men, as singles and in pairs, have thrilled as competitors in this sport. Now their mysteries and histories are explored in the fifth installment of the highly successful How Sports Work series. How Figure Skating Works has facts, figures, and fun for everyone — from the rookies of the rink all the way up to the triumphant triple lutzers. Unique insider information includes the science behind a figure skate?s special design, a catalogue of the most inventive (and strangest) moves, stories of Olympic judging and score-keeping, and the secrets behind some of the greatest partnerships and rivalries in skating. Plus, "Quick Answers to Speedy Questions" sidebars explain all things figure skating, "Legends on Ice" profiles introduce young fans to some of the most inspirational skaters in history, and the "Rules and Regs" section at the back of the book provides all the terms and need-to-know information to make every reader a master of figure skating basics.

Ages 8-12

Think you know everything there is to know about hockey?

Here's a whole new look at Canada's favourite sport: from the perspective of science. Newly revised and updated with the latest NHL rules, How Hockey Works was first published in 2002 in the How Sports Work series.

Fully illustrated and in a format that matches the proportions of an ice rink, How Hockey Works explains all the basics. Along with a glossary and a "Rules & Regs" section are inspiring stories from professional men's and women's hockey.

"Even after spending 15 years as a player in the NHL, I gained new insights from reading How Hockey Works. This book will score with fans and players alike." — Ron Ellis, Hockey Hall of Fame

"A colourful, informative book packed with hockey history, science and trivia." — Calgary Herald

Ages 8-12

What Will Your Vancouver Encounter Be?

Rubbing elbows with Olympiads in Robson Square or taking in the Olympic sites? Gawking at breathtaking mountain-backed waterfront vistas from Stanley Park or wandering through a kaleidoscope of brightly colored street art in downtown?

Try Kayaking beneath a full moon and the twinkling lights of the city or sampling heirloom tomatoes, duck prosciutto and organic tea at the Public Market. Dance the night away with the beautiful people in Gastown. Discover twice the city in half the time with a full-color pull-out map and detailed neighborhood maps for easy navigation. Our resident author recommends the very best neighborhoods, sights, restaurants, shops and entertainment with unique itineraries and highlights help you make the most of a short trip. Local experts reveal Vancouver's secrets: from a microbrewer's favorite local bars to an art gallery curator's take on city culture.

A keepsake and guidebook to the magic of Vancouver's Winter Games in February 2010, this sport-by-sport guide features behind-the-scenes stories, legendary moments and full-colour photography. The author is a veteran writer on Olympic competition and will have first-hand reporting at the 2010 games.

Combining the lore and magic of the Winter Games with profiles of the individual sports, author Ron Judd has created the ultimate insider's guide to complement the Olympic games coming in 2010. From alpine skiing and figure skating to luge and curling, Judd devotes a chapter to each competitive sport, examining its history, key competitors in past Olympics, the newest athlete contenders, how the sport is played and judged, and more.

Anecdotes and fun facts about the Winter Olympics give the reader a true sense of being at the games. And for readers who want to hit the slopes or rinks of British Columbia, Judd includes a round-up on outfitters and access to the Olympic venues. The Winter Olympics also includes a chapter on the Paralympic Winter Games.