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Christmas Baking

by Mia Öhrn – Skyhorse (October 10, 2012)

The Christmas season is a magical time—sleigh bells ringing, puffy snow flurrying, a cozy fire crackling, and wonderful aromas coming from the kitchen as families make yummy Christmas treats. Christmas Baking...

Jim Otto

by Jim Otto & Dave Newhouse – Sports Publishing (July 01, 2012)

Jim Otto is generally reconized as one of the greatest and most durable offensive centers the game of football has ever seen. He wasn't drafted by any NFL team so he joined the Oakland Raiders of the new AFL,...

An American Odyssey

by Bob Mathias & Robert Mendes – Sports Publishing (August 01, 2012)

Bob Mathias is a true 20th-century American hero. The youngest man ever to win the Olympic decathlon gold medal, and the only American ever to win it twice, Mathias was also a movie star, U.S. Marine, writer,...

Mark McGwire

by Rob Rains – Sports Publishing (June 05, 2012)

Mark McGwire made 1998 a season to remember for baseball fans all over the world when he blasted a record 70 home runs. Before turning himself into one of the most revered hitters in the game, though, he had...

Curt Schilling

by Paul Hagen – Sports Publishing (June 05, 2012)

Author Paul Hagen tells the story of how Curt Schilling of the Philadelphia Phillies developed into one of baseball's best pitchers. His success did not come easy, as he had to deal with off-the-field problems...

Birth of a Dynasty

by Alan Hahn & Bob Nystrom – Sports Publishing (August 01, 2012)

The National Hockey League saw the birth of a new dynasty in 1980. The New York Islanders had been an expansion franchise in 1972 in the New York City suburbs of Long Island. For years they played in the long...

Cocktails at Dinner

by Michael Turback & Julia Hastings-Black – Skyhorse (January 06, 2015)

Cocktails at Dinner is equal parts cookbook and bar book. It explores a fascinating edge of the culinary frontier—food and cocktail pairings—with an imaginative collection of companionable recipes.

As mixologists...

FAR/AIM 2015

by Federal Aviation Administration – Skyhorse (November 18, 2014)

If you’re an aviator or aviation enthusiast, you cannot be caught with an out-of-date edition of the FAR/AIM. In today’s environment, there is no excuse for ignorance of the rules of the US airspace system....

Actor Training the Laban Way

by Barbara Adrian – Allworth (February 23, 2010)

* Individual, partner, and group exercises to make any actor more expressive

* Crucial acting tips based on the work of distinguished theorist Rudolf Laban

* 65 original illustrations of anatomy and warm-up...

Design Thinking

by Thomas Lockwood – Allworth (February 16, 2010)

This thought-provoking and inspirational book covers such topics as: developing a solid creative process through “Visual Reflection Notebooks” and “Bring Play to Work”; understanding the artist’s unique...

Art Without Compromise

by Wendy Richmond – Allworth (February 16, 2010)

Combining 24 years of research and insight from her columns in Communication Arts magazine, artist, educator, and writer Wendy Richmond challenges artists to investigate their work through multiple lenses in...

The Quotable Musician

by Sheila E. Anderson – Allworth (February 16, 2010)

In The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac, music artists through the ages speak out in this illuminating collection of quotations. Both the famous and the obscure from every genre of music--including classical,...

Animation Development

by David B. Levy – Allworth (February 16, 2010)

Whether a novice curious about the cartoon production process, a visual arts student who has not yet experienced that big break, or a seasoned professional looking for valuable insight, Animation Development...

Corporate Creativity

by Thomas Lockwood & Thomas Walton – Allworth (February 23, 2010)

Corporate Creativity is the ultimate guide for executives and managers looking to increase creativity and innovation in their companies. This anthology of provocative essays, drawn from the pages of Design...

Documentary Superstars

by Marsha Mccreadie – Allworth (February 23, 2010)

The first book to trace the rise of documentaries as mainstream entertainment. When did documentaries get glamorous? Documentary Superstars looks at the history of documentaries and traces their transition from...

Designers Don't Read

by Austin Howe – Allworth (February 16, 2010)

Austin Howe is a creative director, writer, advocate, and cheerleader for design-but not a designer. He believes “in the wonder and exuberance of someone who gets paid-by clients to do what he loves.” Howe...

Selling Your Photography

by Richard Weisgrau – Allworth (February 23, 2010)

Selling Your Photography is the road map to help photographers find their way through the complexities of the marketplace and get their images published! This insider’s guide examines magazines, newspapers,...

ASMP Professional Business Practices in Photography

by American Society of Media Photographers – Allworth (February 16, 2010)

At last! The eagerly anticipated revised edition of the photographer’s "business bible" is here, fully updated with the last word on key business practices, industry standards, and resources. Up-to-the-minute...

Great Producers

by Iris Dorbian – Allworth (February 23, 2010)

Up close and personal with Broadway’s brightest lights of the past, present, and future.

* Firsthand accounts, rare interviews, backstage anecdotes

* Insider ideas from Disney, Jujamcyn, Mackintosh, Weissler,...

AIGA Professional Practices in Graphic Design

by Tad Crawford – Allworth (February 23, 2010)

"Provides definitive guidelines on all aspects of the graphic design business."—FYI. * Newly revised and expanded version of an industry classic--5,000 sold! * Up-to-the-minute! Includes web, interactive, and...

Follow Me To

by Murad Osmann & Nataly Zakharova – Skyhorse (January 06, 2015)

The Follow Me project was created in 2012 based on the concept of showing the beauty and uniqueness of different locations around the world. It is a story told through the eyes of two ordinary travelers who...

The Last Love of George Sand

by Evelyne Bloch-Dano – Arcade (February 06, 2013)

George Sand is one the most celebrated writers and controversial personalities of nineteenth-century France; she is as famous for her bohemian lifestyle as for her written work. The Last Love of George Sand...

When Kids Are Grieving

by Donna M. Burns – Skyhorse (November 18, 2014)

Most students experience some form of loss in their lives, and the resulting grief can profoundly affect their academic performance, emotional stability, and social interactions. Serving both as a resource and...

Teaching Students with Emotional Disturbance

by Bob Algozzine & Jim Ysseldyke – Skyhorse (November 18, 2014)

Valuable insight and sound intervention strategies for addressing the needs of students with social and emotional problems!

When a student is inattentive, extremely anxious, or has an outright tantrum in the...

Best New Horror

by Stephen Jones – Skyhorse (November 11, 2014)

Best New Horror combines dozens of the best and grisliest short stories of today. For twenty-five years this series has been published in the United Kingdom as The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and now comes...

Teaching English Language Learners K–12

by Jerry Jesness – Skyhorse (November 18, 2014)

Bring the English language to life with this valuable new resource!

Some say that learning a second language is like drinking water from a fire hose. But teaching it does not have to be like standing under Niagara...

Mystery on the Isles of Shoals

by J. Dennis Robinson – Skyhorse (November 18, 2014)

For the first time, the full story of a crime that has haunted New England since 1873.

The cold-blooded ax murder of two innocent Norwegian women at their island home off the coast of New Hampshire has gripped...

The Great Polar Fraud

by Anthony Galvin – Skyhorse (November 18, 2014)

In 1910 Roald Amundsen set off from Oslo toward the North Pole but soon received word that two Americans—Frederick Cook and Robert Peary—each claimed to have reached the Pole ahead of him. Devastated, Amundsen...

Federal Benefits for Veterans, Dependents, and Survivors

by The US Department of Veterans Affairs – Skyhorse (November 18, 2014)

Veterans of the United States armed forces may be eligible for a broad range of benefits and services provided by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). If you’re looking for information on these benefits...

Why Can't a Man Be More Like a Woman?

by Lewis Wolpert – Skyhorse (November 18, 2014)

How different are men and women, really? Controversy surrounds the question and makes uncovering the answers—based in evolution, genetics, and biology—increasingly difficult. Still, significant differences...

Projects to Get You Off the Grid

by Instructables.com & Noah Weinstein – Skyhorse (November 11, 2014)

Instructables is back with this compact book focused on a series of projects designed to get you thinking creatively about thinking green. Twenty Instructables illustrate just how simple it can be to make your...

Low Carb, High Fat Food Revolution

by Andreas Eenfeldt – Skyhorse (December 09, 2014)

You hear miraculous stories in the news all the time—a man loses 370 pounds, another is able to return ten of his twelve medications at the pharmacy, and an epileptic child suddenly stops having seizures—each...

The Ebola Survival Handbook

by Joseph Alton – Skyhorse (October 27, 2014)

As the Ebola epidemic becomes more frightening—and hits closer to home—people are looking for answers. How does it spread? Are we at risk? How do we protect ourselves and our families from this deadly disease?...

Hacks for Minecrafters: Combat Edition

by Megan Miller – Sky Pony (November 25, 2014)

From the author of Hacks for Minecrafters and Hacks for Minecrafters: Master Builder comes the most encompassing guide ever to combat in the world of Minecraft!

With more than 100 million registered Minecraft...

The Swedish Christmas Table

by Jens Linder & Johanna Westman – Skyhorse (November 25, 2014)

Yuletide is a time of delicious smells wafting through the halls: onions sizzling on the stove, a wood fire gently moldering in the grate, and fresh-baked gingerbread ready to hang on the tree. It’s a time...

Vegan Vitality

by Karina Inkster & Robert Cheeke – Skyhorse (November 25, 2014)

A guide to veganism for active lifestyles—with one hundred delicious recipes.

The culture of food in North America is changing—and fast. More than eight million North Americans choose to exclude meat from their...

The Salvage Chef Cookbook

by Michael Love & Robert Irvine – Skyhorse (November 25, 2014)

How much food do you throw away every day?

The Salvage Chef Cookbook is far more than a book of 125 scrumptious recipes; it begins by demonstrating to readers how to both increase food shelf life and determine...

The Peruvian Kitchen

by Morena Cuadra & Morena Escardo – Skyhorse (December 30, 2014)

Peruvian food has been climbing the culinary ladder at full speed, praised by the untrained palate of the average traveler and by food experts alike. Local Peruvian chefs are quickly gaining international celebrity...

Integrating Science with Mathematics & Literacy

by Elizabeth Hammerman & Diann Musial – Skyhorse (December 30, 2014)

Challenge and expand students' abilities with multidimensional performance tasks!

In this invaluable resource, science educators Elizabeth Hammerman and Diann Musial define a new vision for integrating science,...

The Illustrated History of Guns

by The Berman Museum of World History, Chuck Wills & Robert Lindley – Skyhorse (November 25, 2014)

See the history of civilization through the world’s most deadly and fascinating firearms!

The Illustrated History of Guns is a comprehensive look at the often deadly, sometimes surprising, always fascinating...

Painting the Corners

by Bob Weintraub – Yucca (November 18, 2014)

"Imaginative baseball stories for long rain delays and hot stove league nights." —Darryl Brock, author of If I Never Get Back and Two in the Field

Bob Weintraub's marvelous collection of baseball stories goes...

Fishing Stories

by Nick Lyons & Mari Lyons – Skyhorse (November 18, 2014)

All fishermen who have fished for a lifetime have baskets of great stories and reminiscences about the sport they love. Nick Lyons’s new collection is chock-full of them. From fishing a small Catskill creek...

Birthday Cakes

by Janne Jansen – Skyhorse (December 30, 2014)

50 Recipes for birthday cakes.

Learn to create delicious birthday cakes for small and large celebrations with this colorful book. Featuring fifty easy-to-follow recipes, Birthday Cakes will give you tips on how...

Plague

by Kent Heckenlively & Judy Mikovits – Skyhorse (November 18, 2014)

On July 22, 2009, a special meeting was held with twenty-four leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health to discuss early findings that a newly discovered retrovirus was linked to chronic fatigue...

Masterpieces of the English Short Novel

by Kenneth H. Brown – Arcade (November 18, 2014)

These nine novels are the best of the best—great writing by some of the most brilliant literary minds of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Samuel Johnson’s biography of Richard Savage raises the life...

Tales from the Cleveland Cavaliers Locker Room

by Roger Gordon & Austin Carr – Sports Publishing (November 18, 2014)

Long before “The Decision,” four MVP awards, and back-to-back NBA championships with the Miami Heat, LeBron James opened the 2003–04 season as an untested rookie with the Cleveland Cavaliers. In Tales from...

Unbreakable

by James R. Baehler – Sports Publishing (November 18, 2014)

Unbreakable gives fans the fascinating stories behind incredible records and the players who made them and provides a basis for comparing players of the Deadball era with those of today. Most importantly, it...

The Endermen Invasion

by Winter Morgan – Sky Pony (November 18, 2014)

Will a griefer destroy Steve’s hope of winning the elite building competition?

This adventure series is created especially for readers who love the fight of good vs. evil, magical academies like Hogwarts in...

Vegan Dinner Party

by Sandra Vungi – Skyhorse (November 25, 2014)

Vegan Dinner Party contains only the best selection of amazingly tasty recipes that will make your family and friends fall in love with all these new yet comforting tastes. Guests at your vegan dinner party...

The Mystery Hat

by Rune Brandt Bennicke & Jakob Hjort Jensen – Sky Pony (November 25, 2014)

Crow, Pig, and Beaver are taking a nice stroll in the woods when they come across a red hat sitting in a puddle. Whose hat is it? What mysterious circumstances could have brought it to this very puddle? Crow...