Abrams imprint: 1041 books
Falconry Basics
A Handbook for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
In this fully revised edition of his classic guide to falconry for beginners, lifelong falconer Tony Hall presents the most comprehensive information available to newcomers to the sport. Falconry Basics is specifically designed for novices and covers the basics, from different types of birds and their...
Elemental
How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
If you want to understand how our world works, the periodic table holds the answers. When the seventh row of the periodic table of elements was completed in June 2016 with the addition of four final elements—nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson—we at last could identify all the ingredients...
Obsolete
An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
A cultural catalog of everyday things rapidly turning into rarities—from landlines to laugh tracks.
So many things have disappeared from our day-to-day world, or are on the verge of vanishing. Some we may already think of as ancient relics, like typewriters (and their accompanying bottles...
by Tim Flach, Jonathan Baillie
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
In Endangered, the result of an extraordinary multiyear project to document the lives of threatened species, acclaimed photographer Tim Flach explores one of the most pressing issues of our time. Traveling around the world—to settings ranging from forest to savannah to the polar seas to the great...
HEY, U UP? (For a Serious Relationship)
How to Turn Your Booty Call into Your Emergency Contact
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Who better to write a very humorous manual about evolving modern relationships than two CollegeHumor veterans and viral-video stars who happen to be a real-life husband-and-wife team? With candor, bite, and charm, HEY, U UP? takes readers on an eight-chapter journey through the trials of hooking up...
What the Luck?
The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In Israel, pilot trainees who were praised for doing well subsequently performed worse, while trainees who were yelled at for doing poorly performed better. It is an empirical fact that highly intelligent women tend to marry men who are less intelligent. Students who get the highest scores in third...
by Ilana Wiles
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Ilana Wiles is not a good mother. She’s not a bad mother either. Like most of us, she’s normal. From the creator of the wildly popular blog Mommy Shorts comes Ilana Wiles’s first humor book on remarkably average parenting. If you want solid advice about raising kids, this book is not for you....
Before Galileo
The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Virtually nothing is said about the European scholars who came before. In reality, more than a millennium before the Renaissance, a succession of scholars paved the way for the exciting discoveries usually credited to Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, and others. In Before Galileo, physicist and historian...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
To become the first female Jewish Supreme Court Justice, the unsinkable Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome countless injustices. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and ’40s, Ginsburg was discouraged from working by her father, who thought a woman’s place was in the home. Regardless, she went...
Circles Around the Sun
In Search of a Lost Brother
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Within a few years, his world had begun to fall apart. By the time Molly was old enough to begin to know him, Mike was heavily medicated and frequently delusional, living in hospitals or care homes or on the road. Years later, through reading an astonishing archive of letters preserved by her mother...
Design Like You Give a Damn [2]
Building Change from the Ground Up
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Design Like You Give a Damn [2] is the indispensable handbook for anyone committed to building a more sustainable future. Following the success of their first book, Architecture for Humanity brings readers the next edition, with more than 100 projects from around the world. Packed with practical and...
How Not To Be A Doctor
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Doctor and medical columnist John Launer has written on the practice and teaching of medicine for many years. Now, more than fifty of his essays have been collected in How Not to Be A Doctor. Taken together, they set out an argument that being a doctor—a real doctor—should mean being able to draw...
Deception in War
Art Bluff Value Deceit Most Thrilling Episodes Cunning mil hist from The Trojan
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2003
While the battle for air supremacy is being waged in the skies, the coalition forces pull off a stunning, and ultimately decisive, deception. Later dubbed the “Hail Mary Pass,? it consists of the abrupt relocation of the coalition ground forces hundreds of miles to the West. Meanwhile, as inflatable...
A Piece of the Sun
The Quest for Fusion Energy
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
The solution, says Daniel Clery in this deeply revelatory book, is to be found in the original energy source: the Sun itself. There, at its center, the fusion of 620 million tons of hydrogen every second generates an unfathomable amount of energy. By replicating even a tiny piece of the Sun’s power...