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Barney Saltzberg's irrepressible and imaginative books — Good Egg, Beautiful Oops!, Arlo Needs Glasses, and A Little Bit of Oomph!, combine distinctive art, a lively spirit, and paper engineering to bring great joy to kids (and grown-ups, too). Now Barney is launching a new series of board books about a character named Redbird. With his long orange beak, red body, and friendly expression, Redbird calls to mind Dr. Seuss's offbeat heroes and Boynton's zany barnyard creatures, while embodying the author's signature playful style. In Friends Come in Different Sizes, he introduces readers to all his delightful friends — some who are tall and some who are taller, and some who are small and some who are smaller. Friends can be SHORT. Friends can be LONG. Doesn't matter what they look like... Friends all get along!

Barney Saltzberg's irrepressible and imaginative books — Good Egg, Beautiful Oops!, Arlo Needs Glasses, and A Little Bit of Oomph!, combine distinctive art, a lively spirit, and paper engineering to bring great joy to kids (and grown-ups, too). Now Barney is launching a new series of board books about a character named Redbird. With his long orange beak, red body, and friendly expression, Redbird calls to mind Dr. Seuss's offbeat heroes and Boynton's zany barnyard creatures, while embodying the author's signature playful style. In Colors, Colors, Everywhere!, Redbird tries to pick his favorite color — is it red like him, blue like the sky, or yellow like the sun? Finally, he concludes: Colors, colors, everywhere! It's hard to really choose... It's hard to really know! And that's the reason why I love... the colors of the rainbow!

The perfect gift, and the easiest gift — because we all know someone who deserves a pat on the back, a big thumbs-up, or just a special thank-you! You Are Doing a Freaking Great Job is a vibrant, colorful, pocket-size book of encouragement. Created by more than 20 artists and designers — from the well-known Etsy favorites Emily McDowell (who did the cover art) and Mary Kate McDevitt, to emerging talents Lindsay Whitehead and J. Zachary Keenan — this powerful little book is filled with nearly 200 uplifting and inspiring quotes, lyrics, and words of advice rendered in the original hand-lettered style of art that is pinned and repinned on Pinterest and sold on Etsy. There are mantras: You are in charge of your own happiness. Galvanizing words of action: Make it now. Heartening quotes: You are capable of more than you know. Bursts of motivation: Be a Warrior, Not a Worrier and Spread Your Arms and Trust Your Cape. Interweaved throughout is complementary text — including surprising playlists, sweet and simple recipes, and suggestions for inspirational films to watch and graduation?

Introducing a vibrant addition to the bestselling series: EyeLike Stickers: Wild Animals. Packed with 400 durable and reusable full-color stickers, each of these books will appeal to kids and crafters alike. The stickers are designed to be stuck on and peeled off over and over again without tearing or losing adhesive. Their high-quality images boast amazingly lifelike detail and dazzling color. Stick ’em on cubbies, cards, notebooks, lockers, and scrapbooks; create entire sticker panoramas on the books’ inside front covers, which double as glossy illustrated backgrounds. A nimble deer. An adorable sloth. A magnificent lion. Beautiful and fascinating creatures from around the world come to life in Wild Animals.

Introducing a vibrant addition to the bestselling series: EyeLike Stickers: Space. Packed with 400 durable and reusable full-color stickers, each of these books will appeal to kids and crafters alike. The stickers are designed to be stuck on and peeled off over and over again without tearing or losing adhesive. Their high-quality images boast amazingly lifelike detail and dazzling color. Stick ’em on cubbies, cards, notebooks, lockers, and scrapbooks; create entire sticker panoramas on the books’ inside front covers, which double as glossy illustrated backgrounds. For outer space fanatics and science lovers, Space offers a universe of rockets, planets, supernovas, black holes, and other extraterrestrial wonders.

For art lovers, a daily masterpiece beautifully photographed and reproduced selected from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Degas s colorful pastel drawing Russian Dancers. The recently restored Washington Crossing the Delaware. Modigliani s Flower Vendor. And an intricately inlaid wooden Mosquito Mask from the Tlingit culture. Reflecting the Met s vast archives, the art ranges from the ancient to the contemporary, and encompasses a diversity of media, periods, and cultural traditions»

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, about using the network instead of wasting time networking. It s not self-promotion, it s self-discovery let others into your process, then let them steal from you. Filled with illustrations, quotes, stories, and examples, Show Your Work! offers ten transformative rules for being open, generous, brave, productive. In chapters such as You Don t Have to Be a Genius; Share Something Small Every Day; and Stick Around, Kleon creates a user s manual for embracing the communal nature of creativity what he calls the ecology of talent. From broader life lessons about work (you can t find your voice if you don t use it) to the etiquette of sharing and the dangers of oversharing to the practicalities of Internet life (build a good domain name; give credit when credit is due), it s an inspiring manifesto for succeeding as any kind of artist or entrepreneur in the digital age.

Some people say you can only learn to cook by doing. So Adam Roberts, creator of the award-winning blog The Amateur Gourmet, set out to cook in 50 of America's best kitchens to figure out how any average Joe or Jane can cook like a seasoned pro. From Alice Waters's garden to Jose Andres's home kitchen, it was a journey peppered with rock-star chefs and dedicated home cooks unified by a common passion, one that Roberts understands deeply and transfers to the reader with flair, thoughtfulness, and good humour: a love and appreciation of cooking. The culmination of that journey is a cookbook filled with lessons, tips, and tricks from the most admired chefs in America, including how to properly dress a salad, bake a no-fail piecrust, make light and airy pasta, and stir-fry in a wok, plus how to improve your knife skills, eliminate wasteful food practices, and create recipes of your very own. Most important, Roberts has adapted 150 of the chefs' signature recipes into totally doable dishes for the home cook. Now anyone can learn to cook like a pro.

In «Under Pressure», Thomas Keller shows us how sous vide, which involves packing food in airtight plastic bags and cooking at low heat, achieves results that other cooking methods simply cannot — in flavour and precision. For example, steak that is a perfect medium rare from top to bottom; and meltingly tender yet medium rare short ribs that haven't lost their flavour to the sauce. Fish, which has a small window of doneness, is easier to finesse, and salmon develops a voluptuous texture when cooked at a low temperature. Fruit and vegetables benefit too, retaining their bright colour while achieving remarkable textures. There is wonderment in cooking sous vide — in the ease and precision (salmon cooked at 123 degrees versus 120 degrees!) and the capacity to cook a piece of meat (or glaze carrots, or poach lobster) uniformly.

Presenting the finest in French bistro cookery, the celebrated chef and author of The French Laundry Cookbook introduces nearly 150 recipes that emphasize a variety of emblematic bistro dishes, including soupe l'oignon grantin e, steamed mussels, steak frites, confit of duck, country-style p t s, and gigot d'agneau.

With the sensibility of a poet, the outlook of a practical philosopher, the obsession of a list maker, Barbara Ann Kipfer is a writer with a unique approach to life. In 14,000 THINGS TO BE HAPPY ABOUT, she tells us why to live. In THE WISH LIST, she tells us what we should do with our lives. And so far it's worked — her first two books have over a million copies in print. Now in 8,789 WORDS OF WISDOM, she tells us how to live. 8,789 WORDS OF WISDOM is brimming with great advice, maxims, sayings and saws, proverbs, precepts and truths — 8,789 of them, to be exact. It has the chunky comfort of 14,000 THINGS, and a similar quirky, compulsively readable format — line after line after page after page of words of wisdom. Turn to any spot in the book and there is the secret to living a happier, healthier, saner, more productive life. Learn to unlearn. Appreciate the questions as much as the answers. Stretch beyond what is comfortable. There are folksy expressions polished smooth over time: If you think you can, you can. Experience is the best teacher. Quotes: Those who know don't speak, those who speak don't know (Laotzu). Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there (Will Rogers). Unexpected turns: Listen with your eyes. Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment. Taken together it's the ultimate source of self-improvement.

First published in 1975, this cartoon book features cats that, unlike other feline creations which are cute, cloying or malevolent, are solemn, simultaneously ominiscient and dim-witted, and blessed with the Rubenesque grace of a 1950 Buick.

The mystery of the body in motion. The surprise of seeing what seems impossible. And the pure, joyful optimism of it all. Dancers Among Us presents one thrilling photograph after another of dancers leaping, spinning, lifting, kicking — but in the midst of daily life: on the beach, at a construction site, in a library, a restaurant, a park. With each image the reader feels buoyed up, eager to see the next bit of magic. Photographer Jordan Matter started his Dancers Among Us Project by asking a member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company to dance for him in a place where dance is unexpected. So, dressed in a commuter's suit and tie, the dancer flew across a Times Square subway platform. And in that image Matter found what he'd been searching for: a way to express the feeling of being fully alive in the moment, unself-conscious, present. Organized around themes of work, play, love, exploration, dreaming, and more, Dancers Among Us celebrates life in a way that's fresh, surprising, original, universal. There's no photo-shopping here, no trampolines, no gimmicks, no tricks. Just a photographer, his vision, and the serendipity of what happens when the shutter clicks.

Don't you just hate when you hold the ketchup bottle over your French fries and the first thing that comes out is red water? People who think soy is the solution to all health problems? The fact that Barry Manilow didn't write his hit song, «I Write the Songs»? Almost as if in answer to Barbara Ann Kipfer's «14,000 Things to Be Happy About» (over 1 million copies in print) and its legion of sunny readers, Scott Cohen has compiled an obsessive, hilarious compendium of life's irritations--the myriad little annoyances, vexations, injustices, and petty pretensions that make any sane person cringe. Of course, this is more than snippy waiters or rude drivers who cut you off. It is a finely honed selection of 738 exasperating things, people, situations, complaints, and attitudes that everyone who's ever had a bad day can appreciate. And which will make us all feel better, just because we know someone else is paying attention--at last. Talk about annoying: Yoga instructors who smoke. Pets that only show affection right before mealtime. Tipping someone who hasn't earned it only because you don't want to look cheap. Late fees for a video you didn't have time to watch. The second-to-last day of a two-week vacation. A sneeze that lingers in your nose, doesn't come out, and then is absorbed by your forehead. When your Cracker Jack has melted into one big Jack. When your doctor asks if you mind if an intern watches your colonoscopy.

There's never before been a book like Gallop! Employing a patented new technology called Scanimation, each page is a marvel that brings animals, along with one shining star, to life with art that literally moves. It's impossible not to flip the page, and flip it again, and again, and again. A first book of motion for kids, it shows a horse in full gallop and a turtle swimming up the page. A dog runs, a cat springs, an eagle soars, and a butterfly flutters. Created by Rufus Butler Seder, an inventor, artist, and filmmaker fascinated by antique optical toys, Scanimation is a state-of-the-art six-phase animation process that combines the «persistence of vision» principle with a striped acetate overlay to give the illusion of movement. It harks back to the old magical days of the kinetoscope, and the effect is astonishing. Complementing the art is a delightful rhyming text full of simple questions and fun, nonsense replies: Can you gallop like a horse? giddyup-a-loo! Can you strut like a rooster? cock-a-doodle-doo! Every child who opens the book will be amazed, and so will every parent!

Whether selling, managing, applying to university, looking for a job — or looking for a soulmate — the secret of success is connecting with other people. Nicholas Boothman shows exactly how to make the best out of any relationship's most critical moment — those first 90 seconds that make up a first impression. Armed with his program, readers learn how to establish immediate trust by synchronizing voice tone and body language; the power of a Really Useful Attitude; and how to get people talking and keep them talking. He discusses eye cues, the magic of opposites attracting, and sensory preferences — some of us are Visual people, others are Kinesthetic (responding most to the sense of touch), and a few are Auditory. So when you say «I see what you mean» to a Visual, you're really speaking his or her language.

All you need is love. And Nick Boothman will help you find it fast. First he helps you determine, through a series of revealing self-assessments, what kind of a person your soul mate, or Matched Opposite, is likely to be. Next he leads you through a series of steps that can all take place during a single short date, whether you met online or elsewhere: how to make a fabulous first impression using non-verbal signals, how to successfully flirt, and how to create a playful air of mystery and intrigue. Then he gets to the heart of the matter, revealing how to create rapport and then intimacy, by first finding common ground, then opening up and sharing your thoughts and feelings — all in 90 minutes or less. A new chapter on internet dating teaches you how to expand your opportunities for finding your matched opposite, how to get noticed online (and some common pitfalls to avoid), and — most importantly — how to successfully transition from an online to a real-world relationship.

It's like gossip--what woman wouldn't want to share all those little unexpected and invariably hilarious things men do that drive them crazy? Here, from hundreds of women (first names only, please), comes one juicy detail after the next, and it's far beyond who left the toilet seat up: «He used coupons to pay for our anniversary dinner.» --Dolly, New York, NY «Every night, settling in, he grunts. I lie there waiting for him to quiet down. He sighs a long sigh and groans the same words every single night: 'Oh, bed, bed, bed, bed, bed. Oh, bed, bed, bed, bed, bed. Oh, bed, bed, bed . . .'»--Ellen, Cleveland, OH Now, reissued with a fresh new cover that will heighten its appeal as the perfect impulse gift for any woman with a man in her life.

At last, for a generation that's materially ambitious yet financially clueless comes I Will Teach You To Be Rich, Ramit Sethi's 6-week personal finance program for 20-to-35-year-olds. A completely practical approach delivered with a nonjudgmental style that makes readers want to do what Sethi says, it is based around the four pillars of personal finance— banking, saving, budgeting, and investing—and the wealth-building ideas of personal entrepreneurship. Sethi covers how to save time by not wasting it managing money; the guns and cars myth of credit cards; how to negotiate like an Indian—the conversation begins with «no»; why «Budgeting Doesn't Have to Suck!»; how to get things rolling—for real—with only $20; what most people don't understand about taxes; how to get a CEO to take you out to lunch; how to avoid the Super Mario Brothers trap by making your savings work harder than you do; the difference between cheap and frugal; the hidden relationship between money and food. Not to mention his first key lesson: Getting started is more important than being the smartest person in the room. Integrated with his website, where readers can use interactive charts, follow up on the latest information, and join the community, it is a hip blueprint to building wealth and financial security. Every month, 175,000 unique visitors come to Ramit Sethi's website, Iwillteachyoutoberich.com, to discover the path to financial freedom. They praise him thoughtfully («Your site summarizes everything I want with my life—to be rich in finances, rich in experience, rich in family blessings,» Dan Esparza) and effusively («Dude, you rock. I love this site!» Richard Wu). The press has caught on, too: «Ramit Sethi is a rising star in the world of personal finance writing . . . one singularly attuned to the sensibilities of his generation. his style is part frat boy and part silicon Valley geek, with a little bit of San Francisco hipster thrown in» (San Francisco Chronicle). His writing is smart, his voice is full of attitude, and his ideas are uncommonly sound and refreshingly hype-free.

»Just Ride» is the single best book for any newly passionate or well-established bike rider. It simplifies bike riding to the essentials, plus plenty of fun, smart stuff. As the author of this manifesto on the best way to ride, Grant Petersen takes no prisoners. His wise words will muffle the noisy show-offs who tout unnecessary extras and his declarative statements will negate the damaging advice that tells you to ride in a way that's just bad for you. New riders will get off on the right pedal and experienced riders will be able to think clearly again with advice from an expert.

»Made by Dad» is chock full of 67 extraordinary, custom-designed how-to projects for DIY parents everywhere. The projects range from full-length, artfully illustrated creations to smaller, MacGyver-like challenges that can be whipped out at the coffee shop, plus «DIY Dad» tips sprinkled throughout and illustration templates to boost your project's artistic appeal. All chapters, categorized by theme — Dangerous Decor, Gross Gadgets, Covert Creations, Crafty Disasters, Home Hacks, and more — include step-by-step project illustrations, complete with visual «status checks» (to help you keep up), and clever, playful games to incorporate the finished project. Dads will love to create stealthy contraptions like the Bunk Bed Communicator, and the whole family will be impressed with the endless entertainment that can be gleaned from the «Steampunk»-Inspired Balancing Robot. While the projects have a decidedly made-scientist-in-his-laboratory feel, the book's charm and richness of material will appeal to mummies, too-especially when she flips to the whole chapter of projects dedicated to showing Mum-appreciation — like the I Love You THIS MUCH Pop-up Card (with Go-Go-Gadget-style arms that extend to give Mum a virtual hug!).

All the Kliban people--from Houdini escaping New Jersey to the famed Genghis and Sylvia Khan.»Not to put down Crumb or Koren or Booth or Rodgriguez or Trudeau or anybody else, but «Kliban's Never Eat Anything Bigger than Your Head & Other Drawings» is the only book I've read in years that made me howl. I mean thigh-slapping, roll-on-the-ground, can't-catch-my-breath howling. And every time I go back to it, I find some new detail to chuckle at.»--Charles M. Young, «Rolling Stone.»

Obsessed. Vivier, Blahnik and Westwood. Two-foot-high wooden chopines of the 15th century and their resurgence as the platform shoes of the '60s and '70s. The paradox of high heels. Uppers of tulle, brocade, rhinestone, glass, fish scales and feathers. The Chanel toe, Jackie O's pump, Marilyn's stiletto. «Shoes» is a visual extravaganza, a celebration of women's footwear with over 1,000 photographs of shoes in glorious color. Includes Footnotes (fascinating facts about shoes), profiles of master shoemakers, and The Shoe That Left an Imprint--remember Courreges' futuristic Go-go boots? — Backcover

Imagine a book whose pages literally recreate your favourite scenes from your favourite movies — in full motion. Sounds like something out of a «Star Wars» movie, right? How perfect, then, that Rufus Butler Seder chose «Star Wars» as the subject of his next book, which brings to life ten of the most iconic and memorable scenes from all six classic movies. Darth Vader's final lightsaber duel with Obi Wan Kenobi, R2D2 and C3PO making their way across the sands of Tatooine; Luke's targeted descent into the trenches of the Death Star; Princess Leia giving R2D2 the stolen plans; General Grievous with his four lightsabers spinning; Yoda and Emperor Palpatine locked in an epic Sith Lightning duel; the Millennium Falcon zooming out of eating range of the giant asteroid slug; Anakin and Padme's tender love scene at the entrance of the Geonosian Battle Arena; Boba Fett gliding on his jetpack; and, Darth Maul's thrilling double-bladed light saber battle against Qui Gon Jinn are all brought to life by the magic of Scanimation.