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by Anthony Bourdain
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Anthony Bourdain, host of Parts Unknown, reveals "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine" in his breakout New York Times bestseller Kitchen Confidential.
Bourdain spares no one's appetite when he told all about what happens behind the kitchen door. Bourdain...
Writing on the Wall
Social Media - The First 2,000 Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses, the story of social media from ancient Rome to the Arab Spring and beyond.
Social media is anything but a new phenomenon. From the papyrus letters that Cicero and other Roman statesmen used to exchange news, to the hand-printed...
Obamacare: What's in It for Me?
What Everyone Needs to Know About the Affordable Care Act
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
On January 1, 2014, the most important consumer protections in ObamaCare (the Affordable Care Act) go into effect. With both supporters and opponents of the law debating its merits and its controversial rollout, there is a need for “news-you-can-use” types of resources from credible third parties.
Enter...
Grindhouse
Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
The pervasive image of New York's 42nd Street as a hub of sensational thrills, vice and excess, is from where "grindhouse cinema,†? the focus of this volume, stemmed. It is, arguably, an image that has remained unchanged in the mind's eye of many exploitation film fans and academics alike....
A Game Plan for Life
The Power of Mentoring
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
From the legendary basketball coach who inspired generations of athletes and businesspeople, an inspiring book about the power of mentoring and being mentored.
After eight books, many of them bestsellers, A Game Plan for Life was the one closest to John Wooden's heart: a moving and inspirational...
Unretirement
How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The budget battles of recent years have amplified the warnings of demographic doomsayers who predicted that a wave of baby boomers would bleed America dry, bankrupting Social Security and Medicare as they faded into an impoverished old age. On the contrary, argues award-winning journalist Chris Farrell,...
Logicomix
An epic search for truth
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
This exceptional graphic novel recounts the spiritual odyssey of philosopher Bertrand Russell. In his agonized search for absolute truth, Russell crosses paths with legendary thinkers like Gottlob Frege, David Hilbert, and Kurt Gödel, and finds a passionate student in the great Ludwig Wittgenstein....
Animal Comics
Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Animal characters abound in graphic narratives ranging from Krazy Kat and Maus to WE3 and Terra Formars. Exploring these and other multispecies storyworlds presented in words and images, Animal Comics draws together work in comics studies, narrative theory, and cross-disciplinary research on animal...
by Seymour Chwast
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
The "left-handed designer," Seymour Chwast has been putting his unparalleled take-and influence-on the world of illustration and design for the last half century. In his version of Dante's Divine Comedy, Chwast's first graphic novel, Dante and his guide Virgil don fedoras and wander through...
by Rachael Ball
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
A Guardian Best Graphic Book of 2015
Iris (or balletgirl-42 as she's known on the internet dating circuit) is a zookeeper looking for love when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. Overnight, her life becomes populated with a carnival of daunting hospital characters. Despite the attempts of...
What to Do When I'm Gone
A Mother's Wisdom to Her Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A mother's advice to her daughter--a guide to daily living, both practical and sublime--with full-color illustrations throughout.
One sleepless night while she was in her early twenties, illustrator/writer Hallie Bateman had a painful realization: her mom would die, and after she died she would...
by Alecos Papadatos, Abraham Kawa, Annie Di Donna
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Democracy opens in 490 B.C., with Athens at war. The hero of the story, Leander, is trying to rouse his comrades for the morrow's battle against a far mightier enemy, and begins to recount his own life, having borne direct witness to the evils of the old tyrannical regimes and to the emergence of...
Going into Town
A Love Letter to New York
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Washington Post "10 Best Graphic Novels of the Year"
New York Magazine "The Year's Most Giftable Coffee Table Books"
Newsday "Best Books of the Season"
The Verge "The Ten Best Comics of the Year"
An Indie Next Pick
Winner of the New York City Book Award
From...
Mahaviri
Hanuman Chalisa Demystified
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
The Hanuman Chalisa authored by Goswami Tulsidas is one of the most popular Hindu devotional hymns. The 'Mahaviri' Hindi commentary (1984) by Swami Rambhadracharya has been acclaimed as the best treatise on the Hanuman Chalisa. This book presents an annotated and expanded English translation of the...