Abrams imprint: 1041 books
Tim Gunn
A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
There seems to be no one more qualified or equipped to ponder or even, dare I say, dictate 'quality, taste, and style' than Tim." -Sarah Jessica Parker, actor/producer
Television has introduced the world to a new fashion authority: Tim Gunn. As Bravo's style mentor and Chair of the Fashion...
Knit to Flatter
The only instructions you'll ever need to knit sweaters that make you look good and feel great!
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Knit to Flatter is about celebrating the body you have been given and creating sweaters that make you look and feel great. Part instruction manual and part pattern collection, Knit to Flatter teaches you how to assess your shape—top-heavy, bottom-heavy, or proportional— and then knit accordingly....
by Philippe Petit
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
“Mr. Petit is the perfect teacher” in this fascinating, educational volume on knot-tying—an art and science that has held civilization together (The Wall Street Journal).
Philippe Petit is known for his astounding feat of daring when, on August 7, 1974, he stepped out on a wire illegally...
Simple Matters
Living with Less and Ending Up with More
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
For anyone looking to declutter, organize, and simplify, author Erin Boyle shares practical guidance and personal insights on small-space living and conscious consumption. At once pragmatic and philosophical, Simple Matters is a nod to the growing consensus that living simply and purposefully is more...
Julia's Cats
Julia Child's Life in the Company of Cats
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The world knows Julia Child as the charismatic woman who brought French cuisine to America and became a TV sensation, but there’s one aspect of her life that’s not so familiar. Soon after the Childs arrived in Paris in 1948, a French cat appeared on their doorstep, and Julia recalled, “Our domestic...
Norah Gaughan's Knitted Cable Sourcebook
A Breakthrough Guide to Knitting with Cables and Designing Your Own
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
This guide for the modern knitter presents more than 150 new and innovative cable stitch patterns ranging from basic to complex and offers enlightening insight into how cables are engineered, how knitters can design their own, and how knitters can mix and match cables in a knitting pattern. Teacher,...
by The Topps Company
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Take a fun look back at Quacker Oats, Blisterine, and more classic packaging parodies—plus an interview with creator Art Spiegelman!
Known affectionately among collectors as “Wacky Packs,” the Topps stickers that parodied well-known consumer brands were a phenomenon in the 1970s—even outselling...
Norwegian Wood
Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The latest Scandinavian publishing phenomenon is not a Stieg Larsson–like thriller; it’s a book about chopping, stacking, and burning wood that has sold more than 200,000 copies in Norway and Sweden and has been a fixture on the bestseller lists there for more than a year. Norwegian Wood provides...
Terra Nova
The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
A look at what the American lifestyle has done to the environment—and how to move toward a better future.
In the last century, three powerful forces—oil, cars, and suburbs—buoyed the American dream. Yet now, the quality of life in the United States is declining due to these same three forces....
How to Fake a Moon Landing
Exposing the Myths of Science Denial
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A collection of “lively, plain-language debunkings of seven cases of quack or fraudulent science and . . . antiscientific bias in general” (Booklist).
Is hydro-fracking safe? Is climate change real? Did the moon landing actually happen? How about evolution: fact or fiction? Author-illustrator...
Basketball (and Other Things)
A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
#1 New York Times bestseller
Who is the greatest dunker of all time? Which version of the Michael Jordan was the best Michael Jordan? What is allowed and absolutely not allowed in a game of pickup basketball? Basketball (and Other Things) presents readers with a whole new set of pivotal and...
Tom Fitzmorris's Hungry Town
A Culinary History of New Orleans, the City Where Food Is Almost Everything
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
A cuisine lover’s history of New Orleans—from the Creole craze to rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina—from one of the city’s best-known food critics.
Tom Fitzmorris covers the New Orleans food scene like powdered sugar covers a beignet. For more than forty years he’s written a weekly...
kate spade new york: things we love
twenty years of inspiration, intriguing bits and other curiosities
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
within the four walls of kate spade new york, personal style is applauded and cultural curiosity is encouraged. long before the days of pinboards and social sharing, the brand’s in-house creative team began amassing a collection of things we love on their website: a crayon ring, a cocktail doodle,...
Mapping Manhattan
A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Armed with hundreds of blank maps she had painstakingly printed by hand, Becky Cooper walked Manhattan from end to end. Along her journey she met police officers, homeless people, fashion models, and senior citizens who had lived in Manhattan all their lives. She asked the strangers to map...