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  • Of Arcs and Circles

    Insights from Japan on Gardens, Nature, and Art

    From his vantage point as a garden designer and writer based in Kyoto, Marc Peter Keane examines the world around him and delivers astonishing insights through an array of narratives. How the names of gardens reveal their essential meaning. A new definition of what art is. What trees are really made of. The true meaning of the enigmatic torii gate found at Shinto shrines. Why we give flowers as ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Solid State

    The Story of "Abbey Road" and the End of the Beatles

    Acclaimed Beatles historian Kenneth Womack offers the most definitive account yet of the writing, recording, mixing, and reception of Abbey Road.In February 1969, the Beatles began working on what became their final album together. Abbey Road introduced a number of new techniques and technologies to the Beatles' sound, and included "Come Together," "Something," and "Here Comes the Sun," which all ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Cute Creature Art Class

    Enchanting Anime Beasties - Learn to Draw over 50 Magical Monsters

    by Naomi Lord ...
    Enhance your drawing skills and create 57 anime fantasy creatures following simple step-by-step tutorials.In Cute Creature Art Class, popular anime artist Naomi Lord shares the secrets to drawing enchanting creatures in her signature style. Through easy-to-follow tutorials, Lord walks you through the techniques she used to create these anime characters, including her personal suggestions when it ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life

    How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect, and Happiness

    An essential and accessible guide to increasing happiness, improving your financial well-being, and bettering your health through the timeless Chinese art of feng shui.Promising health, wealth, and happiness, feng shui offers endless appeal—at least in concept. Unfortunately, feng shui’s seemingly complicated methods are often difficult to learn and apply in a meaningful way. Fortunately, Move ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Saving Monticello

    The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built

    by Marc Leepson ...
    The complete history of Thomas Jefferson's iconic American home, Monticello, and how it was not only saved after Jefferson's death, but ultimately made into a National Historic Landmark.When Thomas Jefferson died on the Fourth of July 1826, he was more than $100,000 in debt. Forced to sell thousands of acres of his lands and nearly all of his furniture and artwork, in 1831 his heirs bid a final ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Computer Graphics

    International Student Edition

    Updated coverage of existing topics Major updates and improvements to several chapters, including texture mapping, graphics hardware, signal processing, and data structuresA text now printed entirely in four-color to enhance illustrative figures of concepts ... Read more

    $150.99 USD

  • Rites of Spring

    The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age

    This award-winning cultural history reveals how the Great War changed humanity.This sweeping volume probes the origins, the impact, and the aftermath of World War I—from the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. “The Great War,” as Modris Eksteins writes, “was the psychological turning point . . . for modernism as a whole. The urge to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Unit of Water, a Unit of Time

    In a time when racing boats are mass-produced from synthetic materials, a dying breed of craftsman continues to build wooden sailboats of astonishing beauty. Boatbuilding is an ancient art, and Joel White was a master. Son of the legendary writer E.B. White, he was raised around boats and his designs were as sublime and graceful as his father's prose. At a boatyard in Maine, White and his closely ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

    by J.K. Rowling ...
    Series Book 1 - Fantastic Beasts
    When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone...Inspired by the original Hogwart’s textbook by Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original screenplay marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Art & Fear

    Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

    The book appeals equally to beginning and advanced artists. It is widely used as a required or recommended text in art classes. It has garnered over one hundred reviews and a nearly perfect five-star rating on the Amazon.com website. Over 250,000 copies have been sold. It has also been published in French and Korean language editions. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Letters From Father Christmas

    The first ever paperback edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s complete Father Christmas letters, including a new introduction and rare archive materials.Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R.Tolkien’s children. Inside would be a letter in strange spidery handwriting and a beautiful colored drawing or some sketches. The letters were from Father Christmas.They ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937

    Series series Images of America
    From the time settlers first pushed into the Ohio Valley, floods were an accepted fact of life. After each flood, people shoveled the mud from their doors and set about rebuilding their towns. In 1884, the Ohio River washed away 2,000 homes. In 1913, an even worse flood swept down the river. People labeled it the "granddaddy" of all floods. Little did they know there was worse yet to come. In 1937 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who Really Cares

    Childhood Poems

    by Janis Ian ...
    Who Really Cares, Childhood Poems by Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Janis Ian, includes all poetry from earlier, print editions of this early proof of what was to come from one of America’s most talented songwriters. Though Ian is a prolific composer and world-famous for her music and performances, this is the musician’s only book of poetry. It was first published in 1969, and has ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Palaces for the People

    How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

    “A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move us forward.”—Jon StewartNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • “Engaging.”—Mayor Pete Buttigieg, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Home Sweet Maison

    The French Art of Making a Home

    French Women Don’t Get Fat meets The Little Book of Hygge in this lively, sophisticated, and practical illustrated lifestyle guide that shows how to enjoy la belle vie—to live like the French every day—transforming your house into a home defined by beauty, family, and accessible elegance.How do the French create the elusive and alluring sanctuaries they call home? This question long intrigued ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Rendering in Pen and Ink

    The Classic Book On Pen and Ink Techniques for Artists, Illustrators, Architects , and Designers

    Arthur L. Guptill's classic Rendering in Pen and Ink has long been regarded as the most comprehensive book ever published on the subject of ink drawing. This is a book designed to delight and instruct anyone who draws with pen and ink, from the professional artist to the amateur and hobbyist. It is of particular interest to architects, interior designers, landscape architects, industrial designers ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $5.99 USD

  • Hollow Land

    Israel's Architecture of Occupation

    by Eyal Weizman ...
    Acclaimed exploration of the political space created by Israel’s colonial occupationThis new edition of the classic work on the politics of architecture—and the architecture of politics—appears on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War, which expanded Israel’s domination over Palestinian lands.From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Wall of Birds

    One Planet, 243 Families, 375 Million Years

    A celebration of the diversity and evolution of birds, as depicted in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's magnificent 2,500-square-foot Wall of Birds mural by artist Jane Kim.Part homage, part artistic and sociological journey, The Wall of Birds tells the story of birds' remarkable 375-million-year evolution. With a foreword by John W. Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and full ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Lumen Picturae

    A Classical Drawing Manuel

    LumenPicturaeis apictorial guide to classicaldrawing as exemplified by the sublime work of the influential 17th centuryDutch engraver Frederick de Wit. Presenting a carefully curated set of imagesnever before seen outside of rare book archives, Lumen Picturaerenders de Wits’ incomparable figure drawings available to the public forthe first time. In the tradition of Harold Speed’s The Practice and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Poetics of Space

    Translated by Maria Jolas ...
    A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin ClassicsSince its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists, critics, and readers alike. The rare work of irresistibly inviting philosophy, Bachelard’s seminal work brims with quiet revelations and stirring, mysterious imagery. This lyrical journey takes as its premise ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Beautiful Fighting Girl

    From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of young women in Japanese society. In Beautiful Fighting Girl, Saitō ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Old In Art School

    A Memoir of Starting Over

    by Nell Painter ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editor’s ChoiceA San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardThis memoir of one woman’s late-in-life career change is “a smart, funny and compelling case for going after your heart’s desires, no matter your age” (Essence)Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Ir... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • SolidWorks Flow Simulation 2022 Black Book

    The SolidWorks Flow Simulation 2022 Black Book is the 5th edition of our series on SolidWorks Flow Simulation. The book is targeted for beginners of SolidWorks Flow Simulation. This book covers the basic equations and terms of Fluid Dynamics theory. The book covers all the major tools of Flow Simulation modules like Fluid Flow, Thermal Fluid Flow, and Electronic Cooling modules. A chapter on basic ... Read more

    $35.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Show Your Work!

    10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

    by Austin Kleon ...
    Series series Austin Kleon
    In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey—getting known.Show Your Work! is about why generosity trumps genius. It’s about getting findable, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD