Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Arizona

Great Cities of the World

William Gurstelle

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Projects and Ruminations on the Art of Living Dangerously

A Selection of the Scientific American Book Club Want to add more excitement to your life? This daring combination of science, history, and DIY projects will show you how. Written for smart risk takers, it explores why danger is good for you and details the art of living dangerously. Risk takers are more successful, more interesting individuals who lead more fulfilling lives. Unlike watching an action movie or playing a video game, real-life experience changes a person, and Gurstelle will help you discover the true thrill of making black powder along with dozens of other edgy activities. All of the projects--from throwing knives, drinking absinthe, and eating fugu to cracking a bull whip, learning bartitsu, and building a flamethrower--have short learning curves, are hands-on and affordable, and demonstrate true but reasonable risk. With a strong emphasis on safety, each potentially life-altering project includes step-by-step directions, photographs, and illustrations along with troubleshooting tips from experts in the field.

Absinthe and Flamethrowers

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Michael Bockemühl

Rembrandt

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Lichtenstein 

Françoise Mouly

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See

Frantoise Mouly takes us behind the scenes at the New Yorker and reveals how the magazine creates its signature covers commenting on the most urgent political and cultural events of the day. She shows the shocking and hilarious sketches that didnÆt make the cut and explains how these are essential stages in the evolution of a cover that stands the test of time but retains its edge. Her book captures contemporary historyùfrom the farce of Monica Lewinsky to the adventures of Michelle and Barack to nuclear meltdown in Japanùin images that are as acute as they are outrageous. More than that, it shows how the magazine that exemplifies journalistic excellence in America also dares to cultivate a sense of humor when grappling with complex moral and political issues.

Blown Covers

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1952 First edition, snip on inside of dust jacket but overall very good condition.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Bolivar

The secret lives of Lawrence of Arabia

Not peace but a sword

Erik Larson

A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Bleak Expectations -- The Rising Threat -- A Certain Eventuality -- Dread -- Blood and Dust -- The Americans -- Love Amid the Flames -- One Year to the Day -- Epilogue.

The Splendid and the Vile

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Geoffrey Dobson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Science, Religion and Religion Myth and the Shaping of Western Thought

A tour guide into the succession of ways human beings have constructed order and meaning about the world, and their place in it. The book examines how various cultures over the past 5000 years have looked at the same phenomena and devised totally different worldviews, ranging from deep mythopoeic supernatural reflections to purely physical ones.

A Chaos of Delight

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David Macaulay

In the year 4022, an amateur archeologist makes an important discovery in the long buried country of Usa that has many humorous parallels to Howard Carter's excavation of Tutankhamen's tomb.

Motel of the Mysteries

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In this comprehensive and entertaining resource, David Macaulay reveals the inner workings of the human body as only he could. In order to present this complicated subject in an accurate and entertaining way, he put in years of research. He sat in on anatomy classes, dissections, and even reached inside the rib cages of two cadavers to compare their spleen sizes. He observed numerous surgeries, including a ten-hour procedure where a diseased pancreas was removed, as well as one where a worn-out old knee was replaced by a brand new one. This hands-on investigation gives Macaulay a unique perspective to lead his readers on a visual journey through the workings of the human body.

The seven sections within the book take us from the cells that form our foundation to the individual systems they build. Each beautifully illustrated spread details different aspects of our complex structure, explaining the function of each and offering up-close glimpses, unique cross-sections and perspectives, and even a little humor along the way.
This one-of-a-kind book can serve as a reference for children, families, teachers, and anyone who has questions about how his or her body works. When readers see how David Macaulay builds a body and explains the way it works, they will come away with a new appreciation of the amazing world inside them.

The Way We Work

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Dan Roam

The Hands-On Method for Solving Complex Problems with Simple Pictures

This companion workbook to "The Back of the Napkin" helps readers put Roam's principles into practice with step-by-step guidelines. It's filled with case studies, do-it-yourself exercises, and plenty of blank space for drawing.

Unfolding the Napkin

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Sarah Teale

Nice condition, book is very good, slight fading on cover.

Brings to life the time when giants roamed the earth, integrating myth, legend, fantasy, and richly detailed illustrations to depict the Big People's ways of life

Giants

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Stephen O'Shea

The Revolutionary Life and Spectacular Death of the Medieval Cathars

Chronicles the life & death of the Cathar movement, led by a group of heretical Christians whose brutal suppression by the Catholic Church unleashed the Inquisition.

The Perfect Heresy

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