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2007

Taylor Swift: Fearless


Taylor Swift - 2007
    Swift's second studio album was the bestelling album of 2009 and spent eleven weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200. The album has since become one of the bestselling albums ever, having sold over 12 million copies worldwide! Our matching folio includes piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of all 13 tracks, including: The Best Day * Breathe * Change * Fearless * Fifteen * Forever & Always * Hey Stephen * Love Story * Tell Me Why * The Way I Loved You * White Horse * You Belong with Me * You're Not Sorry.

Pokémon Diamond & Pearl Pokédex - The Official Pokémon Full Pokédex Guide


Lawrence Neves - 2007
    Providing stats, levels, learned moves, and more.* Exclusive Poster - The Pokedex will include an exclusive poster for fans.* Strategy Included - In addition to complete information for each individual Pokemon, this guide will include strategy for keeping, collecting, and raising the creatures in your collection.

Pokémon Diamond & Pearl - The Official Pokémon Scenario Guide


Lawrence Neves - 2007
    Welcome to the Sinnoh region — full of new Pokémon and more awesome adventures!Detailed walkthrough of the Sinnoh region! Who you should meet! Who can help you out!Special Sinnoh-only Pokédex! Check out the newest Pokémon!Detailed charts, maps, and information — including all items, berries, and moves!

The Jim Morrison Scrapbook


James Henke - 2007
    New interviews with friends, family members, surviving band members, and music industry figures complement a selection of rare and never-before-published photos, including shots of private moments with his "cosmic mate" Pam Courson and his last days in Paris. The book also features 24 pieces of removable facsimile memorabilia, such as Jim's handwritten lyrics to "L. A. Woman," his teenage artwork, and a letterto his father concerning Jim's infamous arrest in Miami. An exclusive 60-minute CD comprising rare interviews plus Jim telling candid stories and a never-before-heard original poem caps off this incomparable collector's package.

The Best of MUTTS


Patrick McDonnell - 2007
    A decade. In dog and cat years it's even longer, and in cartooning years, well, it's just plain rare to maintain the popularity and consistent excellence that MUTTS and Patrick McDonnell have achieved. In The Best of MUTTS the 17th-and first-ever hardcover with Andrews McMeel Publishing- MUTTS cartoon collection, McDonnell selects his favorite strips from the past 10 years.* Certain to be a much-sought-after holiday gift and a special tome for collectors and fans, this collection is divided into ten chapters, each featuring an introduction by McDonnell.* Earl and Mooch, along with supporting sidekicks Shtinky Puddin', Sourpuss, Guard Dog, and Crabby, are featured. Including the Gift of Nothing, the introduction of the pink sock, belly rubs, angel visits, and the formation of the MUTTS Book Club, this treasury collects more than 300 poignantly entertaining MUTTS strips.* Always striking a delicate balance between lighthearted fun and responsible social commentary, McDonnell's work has been recognized by critics and the popular press for its distinctive style, heartwarming humor, and strong yet non-preachy stand on responsible pet ownership, animal protection and advocacy, art and artist appreciation, the celebration of nature, and the sanctity of all life.* MUTTS appears in 700 newspapers in over 20 countries and receives about two million visits each month to its official Web site, muttscomics.com

The River Cottage Fish Book


Nick Fisher - 2007
    The definitive guide to fish, fishing and fish cooking from the team behind the award-winning 'River Cottage Meat Book'.

Donald Miller Greatest Hits: Three Books In One: 1) Through Painted Deserts, 2) Searching For God Knows What, 3) Blue Like Jazz


Donald Miller - 2007
    Miller's graceful, unpretentious reflections will touch religious readers who are still searchers: "In the winter, it was easier for me to believe in God and I suppose that it had to do with the new weather, with the color of leaves clinging to trees, with the smoke in the fireplaces of the opulent houses where I would ride my bike. I half believed that God lived in one of those neighborhoods."

The Judy Moody Double-Rare Collection (Judy Moody #4-6)


Megan McDonald - 2007
    Jump-start a Judy Moody collection! A new boxed set makes it easy to keep track of her many hilarious moods.For Judy Moody fans who are partway there and eager to catch up on more recent escapades, here is the perfect solution! This double-rarecollection features:- Judy Moody Predicts The Future- Judy Moody, M.D.: The Doctor Is In!- Judy Moody Declares Independence

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion - Stage 0: Entrance


Ichirou Ohkouchi - 2007
    In the year 2010, the Holy Empire of Brittania declares war on Japan. Japan surrenders. Freedom is lost and Japan is renamed "Area 11" and its people are known as "Elevens."

The Judy Moody Totally Awesome Collection: Books 1-6


Megan McDonald - 2007
    Jump-start a Judy Moody collection! A new boxed set makes it easy to keep track of her many hilarious moods.The first six Judy Moody adventures in one complete set.JUDY MOODYJUDY MOODY GETS FAMOUS!JUDY MOODY SAVES THE WORLD!JUDY MOODY PREDICTS THE FUTUREJUDY MOODY, M.D.: THE DOCTOR IS IN!JUDY MOODY DECLARES INDEPENDENCE

Rick Stein's Mediterranean Escapes


Rick Stein - 2007
    Rick Stein's culinary odyssey takes in both the islands and coast of this remarkable region.Travelling often by public ferry boat, and encountering extraodinary people along the way, Rick has sought out the very best of the region's food. This is a land where culinary trends are looked down upon. What matters is how good the lemons are this year and who is pressing the best olive oil. Rick's pick of more than 100 recipes includes Catalan Grilled Stuffed Mussels, Feta and Mint Pastries, Puglian Fava Bean Puree, Corsican Oysters with a Pernod and Tarragon Dressing, Moroccan Chicken with Preserved Lemon and Olives, Sicilian Orange Cake and Corfiot Rice Pudding.Fully illustrated with beautiful food photography by Earl Carter and landscape photography by Craig Easton, Rick Stein's Mediterranean is a fascinating journey into a rich and varied culinary heritage.

Disney High School Musical: All Access


Peter Barsocchini - 2007
    With removables related to favorite scenes in both of the hit Disney Channel Original Movies, as well as elements like Gabriella's karaoke tips and Sharpay's sketches of her dream golf cart, Disney High School Musical All-Access takes readers beyond what they've seen in the movies and gives them an in-depth look at the world of High School Musical.

Yellow Rose Recipes


Joanna Vaught - 2007
    Yellow Rose Recipes is for cooks who want big flavor without the hard-to-find ingredients they'll only use once. Even your most ardent meat-eating friends will love these hearty, comforting dishes. And those already enamored with vegan cooking will find this book sauce-stained and dog-eared in no time. Better buy two! Forward by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. NOTE: This book will ship December 13th.

Next Life


Rae Armantrout - 2007
    Attempting to imagine the unimaginable and see the unseen, Armantrout evokes a "next life" beyond the current, and too often degraded, one. From the new physics to mortality, Armantrout engages with the half-seen and the half-believed. These poems step into the dance of consciousness and its perennial ghost partner--"to make the world up/of provisional pairs." At a time when our world is being progressively despoiled, Armantrout has emerged as one of our most important and articulate authors. These poems push against the limit of knowledge, that event-horizon, and into the echoes and phantasms beyond, calling us to look toward the "next life" and find it where we can.

Complete Krav Maga: The Ultimate Guide to Over 230 Self-Defense and Combative Techniques


Darren Levine - 2007
    Whether you are big or small, male or female, young or old, you can use Krav Maga to protect yourself by exploiting an assailant’s vulnerabilities. Learning Krav Maga will give you the fitness, skills and confidence to feel safer and more secure every day.All the moves in Complete Krav Maga—from beginner Yellow Belt to advanced Brown Belt—are described in depth and illustrated with step-by-step photos:•BeginnerPunches, kicks, knee strikes and basic defense movements•IntermediateFurther self-defense moves, counterattacks, and defenses against knives, guns and sticks•AdvancedAll weapon defenses, groundfighting techniques and advanced strikes

Staring Back


Chris Marker - 2007
    Marker gave film lovers one of their most memorable experiences with La Jet�e (1962)--a time-travel montage set after a nuclear war that inspired Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys (1995). His still camerawork is not as well known, but Marker has been taking photographs as long as he has been making films. Staring Back presents 200 black-and-white photographs from Marker's personal archives, taken from 1952 to 2006. Some of the photographs are related to his classic films (which include Le Jet�e, Sans Soleil, �Cuba Si!, and The Case of the Grinning Cat), others are portraits of famous faces (Simone Signoret, Akira Kurosawa), but most are pictures of people Marker has encountered as he has traveled the world (an extra who appeared in Kurosawa's Ran, a woman seen on a street in Siberia). The central section of the book contains a series of photographs documenting political protests Marker has witnessed, including the march on the Pentagon in 1967, the events of May 1968 in Paris, and the tumultuous 2006 demonstrations protesting the French government's proposed employment policies. The photographs are accompanied by several unpublished texts by Marker, including the English language text of The Case of the Grinning Cat and Marker's annotations for some of the photos. The book--which appears in conjunction with an exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University--also includes essays by Wexner Center curator Bill Horrigan and art historian Molly Nesbit.

Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives


François Dosse - 2007
    Félix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an unusual psychiatric clinic at La Borde. Their meeting was quite unlikely, yet the two were introduced in an arranged encounter of epic consequence. From that moment on, Deleuze and Guattari engaged in a surprising, productive partnership, collaborating on several groundbreaking works, including "Anti-Oedipus," "What Is Philosophy?" and "A Thousand Plateaus."Fran?ois Dosse, a prominent French intellectual known for his work on the Annales School, structuralism, and biographies of the pivotal intellectuals Paul Ricoeur, Pierre Chaunu, and Michel de Certeau, examines the prolific if improbable relationship between two men of distinct and differing sensibilities. Drawing on unpublished archives and hundreds of personal interviews, Dosse elucidates a collaboration that lasted more than two decades, underscoring the role that family and history--particularly the turbulent time of May 1968--play in their monumental work. He also takes the measure of Deleuze and Guattari's posthumous fortunes and the impact of their thought on intellectual, academic, and professional circles.

Thanksgiving: : The Pilgrims' First Year in America


Glenn Alan Cheney - 2007
    It's about 102 people who came to the New World, suffered terribly, struggled courageously, and established the foundation of America. The prologue explores the reasons they left Europe. The book then puts the reader on the gun deck of the Mayflower where the passengers endured a horrific 66-day voyage across the Atlantic. The book puts the reader in the Pilgrims' cold, wet boots as they tromp around Cape Cod in search of a place to live as winter sets in. Though "Thanksgiving" holds strictly to fact, the graphic, dramatic presentation shares the Pilgrim experience. It treats the Pilgrims not as super-heroes or cartoon characters but as just plain people who were willing to face death for the values they believed in. You can read excerpts at NLLibrarium dot com.

Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. 1


Winsor McCay - 2007
    The first in a full color oversized collection of the signature strip from America's greatest comic illustrator of all time. It includes rare Nemo promo art, the series that featured many of Nemo's characters first " Tales of The Jungle Imp" in color, and that wonderful New strip from 1905-1909.

Madame Curie - A Biography by Eve Curie


Vincent Sheean - 2007
    This is the Madame Curie many people know but here is a biography written by her daughter Eve that shows her human side, in a way that can only be viewed and admired from a family member describing her as a caring mother, devoted and passionate wife. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Seven Hundred Penguins


Jim Stoddart - 2007
    A full-colour, sensuous delight, with one jacket on every page, the featured jackets represent the personal favourites of Penguin staff from offices all over the world, and run from Penguin's birth in 1935 to the end of the twentieth century.Throughout there are jackets that bring back a flood of memories of the first time a book was read; there is beautiful typography from Jan Tschicold; arresting illustrations; visual witticisms from Derek Birdsall; countless mutations of the much-loved Penguin grid. There are also, with no formula at all, jackets that just make sense.Featuring old favourites and plenty of surprises, 700 Penguins is a unique and inspiring collection of the most impactful and well-loved Penguin covers of the twentieth century.

Grant Morrison: The Early Years


Timothy Callahan - 2007
    Along the way, he also addressed Batman with his multi-layered ARKHAM ASYLUM and his literary "Gothic" storyline. Callahan examines all five works in detail, drawing out their evolving themes and exploring Morrison's sometimes difficult texts in plain language. Rounding out the volume: an exclusive interview with Morrison, a foreword by popular comics writer Jason Aaron, and an appendix addressing Morrison's even earlier, shorter work. From Sequart Research & Literacy Organization. More info at http: //Sequart.org

Engines of Creation 2.0: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology


K. Eric Drexler - 2007
    Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica and Watson and Crick's A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid come quickly to mind. In recent decades we can add Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation, which established the revolutionary new field of nanotechnology. In the twenty years since this seminal work was published, its premises and analyses have been confirmed and we are starting to apply precise molecular assembly to a wide variety of early applications from blood cell sized devices that can target cancer cells to a new generation of efficient solar panels. We can now see clearly the roadmap over the next couple of decades to the full realization of Drexler's concept of the inexpensive assembly of macro objects constructed at the nanoscale controlled by massively parallel information processes, the fulfillment of which will enable us to solve problems — energy, environmental degradation, poverty, and disease to name a few — that have plagued humankind for eons." — Ray Kurzweil, inventor, and author of The Singularity is Near, When Humans Transcend Biology Originally published in 1986, K. Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation laid the theoretical foundation for the modern field of nanotechnology and articulated the amazing possibilities and dangers associated with engineering at the molecular scale. Unique for both its style and substance, the book is today recognized as the seminal work in nanotechnology and has earned Drexler the title of "Father of Nanotechnology." Engines of Creation 2.0: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology — Updated and Expanded, is an ebook-only version available for free to readers exclusively through WOWIO. In addition to an updated "look and feel" for the ebook, Engines of Creation 2.0 has been expanded to include the first known lecture on nanotechnology by physicist Richard Feynman, the landmark open letter debate between Dr. Drexler and the late nanotech pioneer and Nobel laureate Dr. Richard Smalley, analysis of the debate by Ray Kurzweil, and a number of new additions by Dr. Drexler, including his advice to aspiring nanotechnologists.

Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s


Edmund Wilson - 2007
    With this volume and a companion volume devoted to the 30s and 40s--the first two entries in what will be a series devoted to Wilson's work--The Library of America pays tribute to the writer who first conceived the idea of a publishing series dedicated to "bringing out in a complete and compact form the principal American classics." "Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s and 40s" gives us Wilson at the midpoint of his extraordinary career as critic and scholar, and includes in complete form three of his most significant books. "The Triple Thinkers" (1938, revised 1948) and "The Wound and the Bow" (1941) give us Wilson at the height of his powers, in a series of extended literary studies marked by his unique combination of criticism, biographical narrative, and psychological analysis. Here are his dazzling portraits of Pushkin and Flaubert, Dickens and Henry James, Kipling and Casanova, equally sensitive to historical context and his subjects' inner lives; his scintillating reader's guide to the mysteries of Finnegans Wake and his celebrated exploration of the nature of creativity through the figure of Sophocles' wounded hero Philoctetes. "Classics and Commercials" (1950) is Wilson's gathering of the best of his reviews from the 1940s, a collection that exemplifies the range and omnivorousness of his interests. In the exact and fluent prose that makes him an unfailing delight to read, Wilson takes on everything from Gogol and Tolstoy to contemporaries like James M. Cain, Katherine Anne Porter, Dorothy Parker, and William Faulkner. Whether registering his qualms about detective novels, parsing the etiquette manuals of Emily Post, or paying tribute to the comic genius of Evelyn Waugh, Wilson turns any critical occasion into the highest kind of pleasure. The volume is completed with a selection of uncollected reviews from this period, including Wilson's observations on the work of William Maxwell, Saul Bellow, and Anais Nin.

Catching Tigers in Red Weather


Andrew Demcak - 2007
    CATCHING TIGERS IN RED WEATHER, winner of the Three Candles Press Open Book Award (selected by Joan Larkin), is a collection of poems by a new voice that combines montage cut-ups with an informing dialectic that gives us a wide array of contemporary American viewpoints. By turns playful and serious, he deftly embraces and criticizes a popular culture that is too complicated to dismiss with swift and simple comments. It is a book of rich rewards. "Andrew Demcak is a poet unafraid of the harrowing, sometimes revelatory nature of modern life. Above all, these poems evoke the moments when people come together, both in violent and romantic ways, and they also train a keen eye on the aftermaths of our partings. CATCHING TIGERS IN RED WEATHER will remind everyone who reads it that beauty and fear come into the world hand-in-hand. Like any significant poetry, it will alter its readers' perspectives forever"--Kaya Oakes.

GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator, Issue 1


Sue MillerNadine Darling - 2007
    And if you've ever woken up with an unexpected physical deformity--say, an arrow in your heart--you'll truly enjoy the next story. There's also a smattering of flash fiction and psychedelia; a straight-out story where things aren't what they seem, poetry that takes you from the perverse to the sublime, some magic realism, science fiction, and a few letters to another species thrown in for good measure. We haven't forgotten those of you with a literary bent. In addition, the artwork in this issue is particularly strong, with oil paintings, watercolors, photography, and photo illustrations complementing the words with which they are paired. Please let us know what you think of Issue 1, and thanks for reading GUD.Comprising:StoriesElectroencephalography by Darby Larson;Arrow by Nadine Darling;Drive Thru by Kenneth Darling;Hello Goodbye by Lavie Tidhar;Aliens by Jordan E. Rosenfeld;Not In The Yellow Pages by Lesley C. Weston;Natural History by Gini Hamilton;Unzipped by Steven J Dines;Max Velocity by Leslie Claire Walker;The Illiterate Sky by David Lenson;In the Dark by Sean Melican;Fear not Heaven's Fire by Jaine Fenn;Experiment: Love by Brian Conn;Anything by Matt D Bell;Women of the Doll by Nisi Shawl;The Gods of Houston by Rebekah Frumkin;Item 27 by Mike Procter;Jimmy's Luck by Tammy R. Kitchen.PoetryThe Intrigue of Being Watched by Rusty Barnes;really nice on drugs by Timothy Gager;your personal ground zero (to franz wright) by Timothy Gager;moving boxes by Timothy Gager;Hunting Season by Rusty Barnes;The Banker Calls for Three Martinis and a Pipe by Cami Park;Sisyphus of the Staircase by Cami Park;A Doorbell by Kenneth L Clark;In Defense Of The Boll-Weevil by Kenneth L Clark;Catholic Girls by Kenneth L Clark.ReportMad Dogs by Christian A. Dumais.ArtAn Bradán Feasa (The Salmon of Knowledge) by Oisín Mac Suibhne (cover);Charging The Inspiration by Cameron Gray;The Prophet -- eyes detail by Ilona Taube;Spring by Magali Cadieux;the trial by Christopher S. Cosco;Growth by Caleb Morgan;Steps To Darkened Ends by Ali Al Saeed;The Prophet -- two figures by Ilona Taube;torso twenty-one by Christopher S. Cosco.

Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s


Edmund Wilson - 2007
    With this volume and a companion volume devoted to the 30s and 40s--the first two entries in what will be a series devoted to Wilson's work--The Library of America pays tribute to the writer who first conceived the idea of a publishing series dedicated to "bringing out in a complete and compact form the principal American classics." "Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s" presents Wilson in the extraordinary first phase of his career, participating in a cultural renaissance and grappling with the crucial issues of his era. The Shores of Light (1952) is Wilson's magisterial assemblage of early reviews, sketches, stories, memoirs, and other writings into a teeming panorama of America's literary life in a period of exuberant expansion and in the years of political and economic strife that followed. Wilson traces the emergence of a new American writing as he reviews the work of Hemingway, Stevens, Cummings, Dos Passos, Wilder, and many others, including his close friends F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Little escapes his notice: burlesque shows and Henry James, Soviet theater and the magic of Harry Houdini, the first novels of Malraux and the rediscovery of Edgar Allan Poe. "Axel's Castle" (1931), his pioneering overview of literary modernism, includes penetrating studies of Yeats, Eliot, Proust, Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and others. For several generations this book has stood as an indispensable companion to some of the crucial turning points in modern literature. Both these classic works display abundantly Wilson's extraordinary erudition and unquenchable curiosity, his visionary grasp of larger historical meanings, his gift for acute psychological portraiture, and the matchless suppleness and lucidity of his prose. For Wilson, there are no minor subjects; every literary occasion sparks writing that is witty, energetic, and alive to the undercurrents of his time. In addition this volume includes a number of uncollected reviews from the same period, including discussions of H. L. Mencken, Edith Wharton, and Bernard Shaw

Music and Architecture: Architectural Projects, Texts, and Realizations


Iannis Xenakis - 2007
    Sharon Kanach assisted the composer in gathering the texts for this, his last ambitious project. Her commentary throughout the book seeks to bridge the reciprocal influences between music and architecture in the Xenakis oeuvre.

Superbad: The Illustrated Moviebook


Seth Rogen - 2007
    Theirs is a ridiculously dependent friendship—but now they've gotten into different colleges and are forced to contemplate life apart. Evan (Michael Cera) is sweet, smart, and generally terrified. Seth (Jonah Hill) is foul-mouthed, volatile, and all-consumed with the topic of human sexuality. They are joined by their nerdy pal Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), whose fake ID as "McLovin" sets everything into motion. This is the story of their misguided attempts to reverse a lifelong losing streak with the ladies in one panic-driven night . . . that awful, humiliating night you cherish for the rest of your life.Exclusive to this must-have companion book:Introduction by producer Judd Apatow"Mr. Vagtastic's Guide to Buying Porn"Hilarious captioned drawings by David GoldbergThe film's complete scriptFull cast and crew creditsAlso included is a section of commentaries and reviews from:Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)New York magazine (David Edelstein)Entertainment Weekly (Josh Rottenberg)The New York Times (Michael Cieply)

Collected Prose


Rae Armantrout - 2007
    Literary Criticism. Essays. These wide-ranging talks, essays, and interviews-beginning with "Why Don't Women Do Language-Oriented Writing?" and including "Feminist Poetics and the Meaning of Clarity," "Poetic Silence," and "Cosmology and Me"--are essential documents for understanding not only Rae Armantrout's poetry and poetics but her contribution to the development of language poetry in particular and contemporary poetry in general. Like her poetry, Armantrout's prose is marked by concision, a refreshing absence of jargon, and a quizzical mind that never rests easy. COLLECTED PROSE also features True, Armantrout's illuminating autobiography, which details her early years in San Diego and Berkeley.

Surreal South '07: An Anthology of Short Fiction and Poetry


Laura BenedictChris Offutt - 2007
    What you are about to encounter is the unfiltered stuff of the dream, and that is wild, terrifying, provocative, and unsettling material. In this volume, some of the best living Southern writers are offering up a feast of their dreams, wonderful and awful in equal measure, for you to enjoy. These dream stories and poems will tell you what you have always known, but what you are too afraid to say out loud in the full light of day: that we are a race of chimeras, beings made up of the incompatible parts of innumerable mutually antagonistic creatures. Our pieces do not fit together. We are, when were willing to tell the truth about ourselves, surreal at our hearts. Welcome to the Surreal South.Contents:The echo of neighborly bones by Daniel WoodrellSales call by Susan WoodringHelp me find my spaceman lover by Robert Olen ButlerWillows / The swan by Rodney JonesThe river that was my father / Poem in the ninth month by Beth Ann FennellyFat lighter by George SingletonSautéing the platygast by Dean PaschalPig helmet & the wall of life by Pinckney BenedictThe drinking gourd by Katie EstillSwans by Benjamin PercyThe Bear Bryant funeral train by Brad ViceNight by Jacinda TownsendDog song by Ann PancakeThe era of great numbers by Lee K. AbbottDecirculating the monkey by Chris OffuttCorpse bird by Ron RashMother by Andrew HudginsThe widow Sunday by Kathy ConnerSmonk gets out alive by Tom FranklinWitches, all by Laura BenedictThe paperhanger by William GaySilver man / Dinner date by Joy Beshears HayCrazy ladies by Greg JohnsonCactus Vic and his marvelous magical elephant / The best chicken in Arkansas by Jon TribbleBirdfists by Julianna BaggottThe bingo master by Joyce Carol OatesThe truth and all its ugly by Kyle MinorContributors biographies & notes

Unhuman: The Elephantmen Art of Ladrönn


José Ladrönn - 2007
    The very first American art work by the Eisner award-winning artist Spotlights the career of the cover artist behind the industry's biggest titles, including The Incredible Hulk

High School Musical 2 Easy Piano


Hal Leonard Corporation - 2007
    Includes art from the film.

Gaudi: Complete Works


Isabel Artigas - 2007
    his works celebrated individuality aestheticism as well as practicality and pure artistic innovation. taschen has brought us yet another essential 2-volume box set charting not only the evolution of gaudi's works but also how they represented transformations in the way people thought and manifested their visions.

Eye Mind: Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators


Paul Drummond - 2007
    The Elevators followed their own spiritual cosmic agenda, to change society by finding a new path to enlightenment. Their battles with repressive authorities in Texas and their escape to San Francisco’s embryonic counterculture are legendary. When the Elevators returned to Texas, the band became subject to investigation by Austin police. Lead singer Roky Erickson was forced into a real-life enactment of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest and was put away in a maximum-security unit for the criminally insane for years. Tommy Hall, their Svengali lyricist, lived in a cave. Guitarist Stacy Sutherland was imprisoned. The drummer was involuntarily subjected to electric shock treatments, and the bassist was drafted into the Vietnam War. This fascinating biography breaks decades of silence of band members and addresses a huge cult following of Elevators fans in the United States and Europe. The group is revered as a formative influence on Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Patti Smith, Primal Scream, R.E.M, and Z.Z. Top. Roky Erickson is the subject of a heralded recent documentary feature, You’re Gonna Miss Me; a box set of remastered Elevators CDs with liner notes by author Paul Drummond will be issued in fall 2007.

Strontium Dog: Search/Destroy Agency Files, Vol. 1


John Wagner - 2007
    Following the atomic war of 2150, Britain has been devastated by nuclear holocaust survivors rebuilt their lives, but many were warped by the mutating effects of Strontium 90 fallout. Unable to live or work amongst the 'norms', mutants were forced to grow up in ghettos and take the only job open to them - bounty hunting. These Search/Destroy Agents hunt the criminals too dangerous for the Galactic Crime Commission. One such Strontium Dog is Johnny Alpha, whose eyes emit piercing Alpha rays and enable him to see through solid objects - and into men's minds.Now in the first volume collecting together all the Strontium Dog adventures from the beginning you can join Johnny, his norm Viking partner Wulf Sternhammer and alien medic The Gronk as they fight their way through a universe of violence and prejudice!Collects:- Max Quirxx (Starlord #1-#2)- Papa Por-ka (Starlord #3-#5)- No Cure for Kansyr (Starlord #6-#7)- Planet of the Dead (Starlord #8-#10)- Two-Faced Terror (Starlord #12-#15)- Demon Maker (Starlord #17-#19)- The Brain (Starlord #21-#22)- The Galaxy Killers (Progs #86-#94)- Journey into Hell (Progs #104-#118)- Death's Head (Progs #178-#181)- The Schicklgruber Grab (Progs #182-#188)- Mutie's Luck (Prog 189)- The Doc Quince Case (Progs #190-#193)- The Bad Boys Bust (Progs #194-#197)

Read, Remember, Recommend (A Reading Journal for Book Lovers)


Rachelle Rogers Knight - 2007
    Featuring 60 cross-referenced lists of literary awards and notable picks (Pulitzer, National Book Award, 100 Best Books of the Century), this journal offers more than 2500 suggestions to help readers discover great literature and new authors. The journal also provides room to record books read, jot down thoughts and ideas, and keep track of recommendations, books borrowed and loaned, and book club history.Unlike anything on the market, Read, Remember Recommend keeps readers coming back to bookstores to purchase recommended books, creates opportunities for add-on and return sales, and celebrates the readers' love of books.

Hip Flask: Concrete Jungle: The Big Here & the Long Now, Volume 1


Richard Starkings - 2007
    Now, freed and rehabilitated by the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, the "Unhumans" now live amongst men. Legitimized by the Elephantmen Act, they are nevertheless denied the right to bear arms and must survive on their wits alone... Collecting Hip Flask: Elephantmen and Hip Flask: Mystery City into one handsome volume.

The Thick of It: The Scripts


Armando Iannucci - 2007
    A satire on the inner workings of modern politics, it is chock-full of tales of elaborate spin-doctoring, bitter back-stabbing, and policy-making at its most outrageous. And yet, according to insiders, it's frighteningly close to the true workings of contemporary government. This exclusive collection of razor-sharp scripts and extras is a treat for fans and newcomers alike.

Desserts by the Yard: From Brooklyn to Beverly Hills: Recipes from the Sweetest Life Ever


Sherry Yard - 2007
    Her marvelous confections have won over patrons from Madonna to Frank Sinatra. Now the country’s premier pastry chef reveals the recipes that have made her a star in her own right and won her two coveted James Beard Awards.Desserts by the Yard begins with inspirations from Yard’s childhood, such as My Favorite White Birthday Cake with Chocolate and Butter Fudge Frosting, and culminates in the spectacular creations she makes every year for the Academy Awards. Included here are some of Yard’s most famous recipes: the slinky crcme brulée she perfected when she worked at New York’s Rainbow Room, the coffeecake that made Campton Place Hotel San Francisco’s most popular breakfast spot, and the souffléed crcme fraîche pancakes with strawberry sauce she learned in Vienna. Don’t miss the chocolate caramel tart that Hugh Grant loves, former President Clinton’s favorite oatmeal raisin cookies, or the treat that made actress Suzanne Pleshette exclaim, “Bitch! You’re gonna make me fat!”Desserts don’t get easier than Yard’s No-Bake Cheesecake, more decadent than Chocolate Bread Pudding with Butterscotch Gelato, or more holiday-perfect than Triple Silken Pumpkin Pie. In sidebars to each recipe, Yard shares tricks and techniques along with hilarious anecdotes that show her pluck, determination, and generosity.

Dr. Seuss' Pocket Library 6 mini flip-the-flap books


Dr. Seuss - 2007
    The six titles, presented in a slip case, are Wacky Weather, Dizzy Days, Silly Opposites, Nutty Numbers, Crazy Colours and Amazing Animals.Each book has flip-the-flap additions to the two comments on the relevant pages. Great fun for children of all ages.

Thinking about Godel and Turing: Essays on Complexity, 1970-2007


Gregory Chaitin - 2007
    In this volume, Chaitin discusses the evolution of these ideas, tracing them back to Leibniz and Borel as well as Gödel and Turing.This book contains 23 non-technical papers by Chaitin, his favorite tutorial and survey papers, including Chaitin's three Scientific American articles. These essays summarize a lifetime effort to use the notion of program-size complexity or algorithmic information content in order to shed further light on the fundamental work of Gödel and Turing on the limits of mathematical methods, both in logic and in computation. Chaitin argues here that his information-theoretic approach to metamathematics suggests a quasi-empirical view of mathematics that emphasizes the similarities rather than the differences between mathematics and physics. He also develops his own brand of digital philosophy, which views the entire universe as a giant computation, and speculates that perhaps everything is discrete software, everything is 0's and 1's.Chaitin's fundamental mathematical work will be of interest to philosophers concerned with the limits of knowledge and to physicists interested in the nature of complexity.

In the Space of Reasons: Selected Essays


Wilfrid Sellars - 2007
    He was, Richard Rorty writes, "as original a mind as C. S. Peirce, and it has taken almost as long for the importance of his ideas to be appreciated." This collection, coedited by Sellars's chief interpreter and intellectual heir, should do much to elucidate and clearly establish the significance of this difficult thinker's vision for contemporary philosophy.The volume presents the most readable of Sellars's essays in a sequence that illuminates what Robert Brandom calls the "inferentialist" conception of meaning at the heart of his work. This conception, laid out in the early essays, is deployed in various epistemological contexts throughout the book so that, upon arriving at the concluding papers on Kant, the reader has been given a tour d'horizon not only of the central topics of philosophy of mind and language, but of much of the history of philosophy as well—and, with this, a sense of what a shifting of analytic philosophy from its Humean into its Kantian stage would entail.

Advanced Krav Maga: The Next Level of Fitness and Self-Defense


David Kahn - 2007
    This follow up to Krav Maga: An Essential Guide to the Renowned Method - for Fitness and Self-Defense, explores essential combative tactics including standing, clinch, and extensive groundwork from yellow, orange and green belt levels, to help you update and improve your skills. In this guide to advance techniques and training, David Kahn will teach you:*How krav maga saved Ernest Kovary, Imi Lichtenfeld's oldest living student, the day WWII began*The mindset of effective self-defense*Upper and lower body combatives and defenses*Powerful retzev workouts*New techniques for mastering escapes against chokes, grabs, and takedowns*Krav maga groundwork and instruction*Women's self-defense principlesRegardless of strength, size, age, or gender, you can learn advanced techniques for fending off any attacker - swiftly, powerfully, and simply. And the conditioning you will achieve by practicing these techniques will tone your muscles, improve your reflexes, and get you fighting fit.From the American expert and Israeli Grandmaster Haim Gidon's United States representative in the fitness and combat techniques of krav maga, this is the most up to date, authoritative, and advanced guide to real fighting techniques and rigorous conditioning.

The Original Teachings Of Jesus Christ


Vladimir Antonov - 2007
    The Teachings are systematized in this book in accordance to the main themes touched by Jesus. The bibliographic sources used in this work are the New Testament and some Apocryphal Gospels. The book is addressed to all people.