Rick Steves

Gene Openshaw

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Florence and Tuscany. With the self-guided tours in this book, you'll discover the geographic heart of Italy. Take the Renaissance Walk and tour the Uffizi Gallery to learn how Florence taught civilized living to the rest of Europe. Wander through the medieval city of Siena and find out what Pisa has to offer beyond the Leaning Tower. Relax in sunny Tuscan hill towns where you'll enjoy full-bodied wine, the world's best gelato, and the company of friendly locals. Rick's candid, humorous advice will guide you to good-value hotels and restaurants. You'll learn how to get around by train, bus, or rental car and get up-to-date advice on what's worth your time and money. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves guidebook is a tour guide in your pocket.

Rick Steves' Florence and Tuscany 2013

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Marc S. Dubin

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Highly pictorial, these Eyewitness Travel Guides are now offered in a tenth anniversary edition, with all the information savvy travelers need to know.

Greek Islands

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Lorraine Johnson

John Ryan

Jane Ewart

Chicago

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Catherine Tennant

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Practical Guide to the Mythology of the Night Sky

Gives the myths and legends associated with 87 constellations; with stories, beliefs and scientific information about individual stars.

The Box of Stars

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Simple and delicious easy to make recipes

Smoothies and juices

Patrick Dillon

From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond

Aspiring architects will be in their element! Explore this illustrated narrative history of buildings for young readers, an amazing construction in itself. We spend most of our lives in buildings. We make our homes in them. We go to school in them. We work in them. But why and how did people start making buildings? How did they learn to make them stronger, bigger, and more comfortable? Why did they start to decorate them in different ways? From the pyramid erected so that an Egyptian pharaoh would last forever to the dramatic, machine-like Pompidou Center designed by two young architects, Patrick Dillon’s stories of remarkable buildings — and the remarkable people who made them — celebrates the ingenuity of human creation. Stephen Biesty’s extraordinarily detailed illustrations take us inside famous buildings throughout history and demonstrate just how these marvelous structures fit together.

The Story of Buildings

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Robert Cumming

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

A Visual History

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Edgar Degas Covering every era and over 650 artists, this comprehensive, illustrated guide offers an accessible yet expansive view of art history, featuring everything from iconic works and lesser-known gems to techniques and themes. Offering a comprehensive overview of Western artists, themes, paintings, techniques, and stories, Art: A Visual History is packed full of large, full-color images of iconic works and lesser-known gems. Exploring every era, from 30,000BCE to the present, it includes features on the major schools and movements, as well as close-up critical appraisals of 22 masterpieces – from Botticelli’s Primavera to J. M. W. Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire. With detailed referencing, crisp reproductions, and a fresh design, this beautiful book is a must-have for anyone with an interest in art history – from first-time gallery-goers to knowledgeable art enthusiasts. What makes great art? Discover the answer now, with Art: A Visual History.

Art, Second Edition

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Jamie Jensen

Offers detailed descriptions of drives through California and the Southwest, with a flexible format allowing one to switch routes during a journey, and including information on where to eat and sleep, the best local radio stations, hundreds of roadside attractions, and more.

California and the Southwest

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Jeffrey Kennedy

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Travelers can explore the best that Naples and the Amalfi Coast have to offerwith this guide to the top ten scenic drives, museums and galleries, gorgeousvillas and gardens, and much more.

Top 10 Naples and the Amalfi Coast

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"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands--and then eat just one of the pieces."--JUDITH VIORST, poet. Chocolate is more than just a food--it's a consuming passion, a sensual delight, melting in your mouth, bursting into rich flavor. Whether dark, bittersweet, or milky; with or without nuts; shaped into a bite-size bar or a classic bonbon, it's the ultimate indulgence. Increase your enjoyment of this epicurean delight, shown in mouthwatering pictures, through an understanding of its intricacies, its manufacture from tree to truffle, and its many varieties. Take a tour of the most esteemed chocolatiers, learn to distinguish between a premium and lower-grade product, and find out who produces the most exclusive chocolate in the world. The piece de resistance: recipes so you can do what's most important--make delicious chocolate confections of your own!

Chocolate

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Eckhart Tolle

Celebrating 25 Years as a New York Times Bestseller — Over 16 Million Copies Sold

It’s no wonder that The Power of Now has sold over 16 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 30 foreign languages. Much more than simple principles and platitudes, the book takes readers on an inspiring spiritual journey to find their true and deepest self and reach the ultimate in personal growth and spirituality: the discovery of truth and light. 

A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

The author shares the secret of his own self-realization and the philosophy for living in the present he has developed.

The Power of Now

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Sara Withers

Features step-by-step photography and detailed line drawings for each project
*Includes variations on designs allowing readers to apply the techniques to a variety colors and materials

*Methods range from simple gluing and threading to sophisticated wiring techniques

Over 25 Original Designs for Necklaces, Earrings, Bracelets and More

*Features step-by-step photography and detailed line drawings for each project*Includes variations on designs allowing readers to apply the techniques to a variety colors and materials* Methods range from simple gluing and threading to sophisticated wiring techniquesAntique, mother-of pearl, plastic or metal -- gorgeous buttons just cry out to be made into unique, one-off pieces of jewelry. In this stylish new book, jewelry designer Sara Withers shows how vintage and new buttons can be combined with all kinds of beads and pearls to create a wide range of original pieces from necklaces and earrings to bracelets and barrettes. Complete with stylish finished photography this inspirational book is perfect for all lovers of beautiful jewelry.

Button Jewelry

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Shigenobu Kobayashi

The Colorist seeks nothing less than to demystify color aesthetics. After three years of extensive travel and research, color specialist Shigenobu Kobayashi has devised a stunningly simple method for pinpointing personal color preferences. A series of clear-cut exercises allows you to accurately define your color sense and then locate it on an "image scale" in order to select compatible color schemes for home or office, or even wardrobe.

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

A Practical Handbook for Personal and Professional Use

Examining the underlying colour schemes of Europe, this text seeks to apply those characteristic colour combinations to one's personal and professional life. What emerges is a sense of what colour in Europe is all about, how it is used and how it can be exploited for pleasure or display. In his third book, Shigenobu Kobayashi seeks to discover the underlying colour schemes of Europe and to determine how to apply its characteristic colour combinations to one's personal and professional life. Kobayashi illuminates the underpinnings of colour in the everyday (home,

Colorist

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John Maeda

Paola Antonelli

Most art and technology projects pair artists with engineers or scientists: the artist has the conception, and the technical person provides the know-how. John Maeda is an artist and a computer scientist, and he views the computer not as a substitute for brush and paint but as an artistic medium in its own right.

Honorable Mention, 2000, American Association of Museums (AAM) publication competition. and Winner of the 1999 AAP/PSP award in the category of Computer Science, granted by the Professional/Scholary Reference Division of the Association of American Publishers. Most art and technology projects pair artists with engineers or scientists: the artist has the conception, and the technical person provides the know-how. John Maeda is an artist and a computer scientist, and he views the computer not as a substitute for brush and paint but as an artistic medium in its own right. Design By Numbers is a reader-friendly tutorial on both the philosophy and nuts-and-bolts techniques of programming for artists. Practicing what he preaches, Maeda composed Design By Numbers using a computational process he developed specifically for the book. He introduces a programming language and development environment, available on the Web, which can be freely downloaded or run directly within any JAVA-enabled Web browser. Appropriately, the new language is called DBN (for "design by numbers"). Designed for "visual" people—artists, designers, anyone who likes to pick up a pencil and doodle—DBN has very few commands and consists of elements resembling those of many other languages, such as LISP, LOGO, C/JAVA, and BASIC. Throughout the book, Maeda emphasizes the importance—and delights—of understanding the motivation behind computer programming, as well as the many wonders that emerge from well-written programs. Sympathetic to the "mathematically challenged," he places minimal emphasis on mathematics in the first half of the book. Because computation is inherently mathematical, the books second half uses intermediate mathematical concepts that generally do not go beyond high-school algebra. The reader who masters the skills so clearly set out by Maeda will be ready to exploit the true character of digital media design.

Design by Numbers

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Robert Bringhurst

In a discussion embracing five and a half centuries, poet and designer Bringhurst covers the design of individual characters of type and entire alphabets, as well as the layout of pages, including such items as footnotes, margins, and tables. A glossary defines terms such as kern, fore-edge, and pica, and there are annotated lists of type designers, from the 1400s until now, and of type foundries, mostly contemporary. 

This book is more than a typographic style guide. It is also a history of typographic usage and a brief encyclopedia of typographic concepts, resources and traditions. In short, it is a lucid and authoritative desktop reference for everyone who works with written word.

Elements of Typographic Style

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Johannes Itten

In this book, the world's foremost color theorist examines two different approaches to understanding the art of color. Subjective feelings and objective color principles are described in detail and clarified by color reproductions.

The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color

"In this book Itten examines two different approaches to understanding the art of color. Subjective feelings and objective color principles are the two poles which are described in detail and clarified with numerous color reproductions." --P. [2] of cover.

The Art of Color

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The Story of Art, one of the most famous and popular books on art ever written, has been a world bestseller for over four decades. Attracted by the simplicity and clarity of his writing, readers of all ages and backgrounds have found in Professor Gombrich a true master, and one who combines knowledge and wisdom with a unique gift for communicating his deep love of the subject.

Yiqi Shao (Yiqidaydreaming)

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Greek Islands

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Chicago

Catherine Tennant

The Box of Stars

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Smoothies and juices

Patrick Dillon

The Story of Buildings

Robert Cumming

Art, Second Edition

Jamie Jensen

California and the Southwest

Jeffrey Kennedy

Top 10 Naples and the Amalfi Coast

Practical cooking

Chocolate

Eckhart Tolle

The Power of Now

Sara Withers

Button Jewelry

Shigenobu Kobayashi

Colorist

John Maeda; Paola Antonelli

Design by Numbers

Robert Bringhurst

Elements of Typographic Style

Johannes Itten

The Art of Color

E. H. Gombrich

The story of Art

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Rick Steves' Florence and Tuscany 2013

Marc S. Dubin

Greek Islands

Lorraine Johnson; John Ryan; Jane Ewart

Chicago

Catherine Tennant

The Box of Stars

Christine ambridge

Smoothies and juices

Patrick Dillon

The Story of Buildings

Robert Cumming

Art, Second Edition

Jamie Jensen

California and the Southwest

Jeffrey Kennedy

Top 10 Naples and the Amalfi Coast

Practical cooking

Chocolate

Eckhart Tolle

The Power of Now

Sara Withers

Button Jewelry

Shigenobu Kobayashi

Colorist

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Design by Numbers

Robert Bringhurst

Elements of Typographic Style

Johannes Itten

The Art of Color

E. H. Gombrich

The story of Art

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