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For over forty years, postmodern architect Frank Gehry has changed skylines with his dramatic forms. Among several other awards, his enchanting body of work earned him the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize-the “Nobel Prize of architecture.” Experience for yourself Gehry's captivating deconstructive designs in a new interactive book, Frank Gehry in Pop-Up. This beautiful pop-up book illustrates Frank Gehry's greatest works of architecture and their natural environments, ... Read more
Alan Lapidus’s life has been a Zelig-like romp through most of the cultural and political highlights of the recent past. He has popped up as architect for or observer of many of our era’s most iconic figures, including Donald Trump, various Mafia big shots, mayors, Aristotle and Jackie Onassis, Bob Guccione, pit bosses, real estate legends, and spies. Everything by Design takes us behind the scenes in Las Vegas, Disney World, Havana, Atlantic City, Moscow, the Amazon rainforest, and ... Read more
Barrie Jean Borich's memoir of her 14-year marriage is a subtle exploration of gender and the intricacies of butch-femme desire. In dense, lyrical paragraphs, My Lesbian Husband describes Borich's first attraction to her partner, Linnea, and the slow building of their life together in a decaying neighborhood in Minneapolis. Borich traces both the pleasures and the wrenching difficulties of trying to construct a long-term union in the absence not only of legal and social support but of ... Read more
Short stories featuring Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Big Bad Wolf, Scamp and other Disney characters. It's Earth Day in Duckburg, and Donald's cleaning up the city in William Van Horn's "Taking Things Litterly." Mickey Mouse and Eega Beeva explore "Pflip's Strange Power" in a 1948 classic by Bill Walsh and Floyd Gottfredson. From KFS 12/27/48-3/5/49 Li'l Bad Wolf plays "Musical Eggs" in an Easter-themed story by the famous Dutch team of Wilbert Plijnaar and Dick ... Read more
For the first time, an edition of Lewis's classic fantasy fiction packaged specifically for adults. Complementing the look of the author's non-fiction books, and anticipating the forthcoming Narnia feature films, this edition contains an exclusive "P.S." section about the history of the book, plus a round-up of the first six titles. The last days of Narnia, and all hope seems lost as lies and treachery interweave to threaten the destruction of everything. As the battle lines are ... Read more
Once in a great while a science fiction story is so visionary, yet so close to impending scientific developments that it becomes not only an accurate predictor, but itself the locus for new discoveries and development. True Names by Vernor Vinge, first published in 1981, is such a work.Here is a feast of articles by computer scientists and journalists on the cutting edge of the field, writing about innovations and developments of the Internet, including, among others:Danny Hillis: Founder of ... Read more
A truly visionary book based on the popular workshops of a highly acclaimed art therapist, designer, and pioneer in personal growth through creativity. In Visioning, Lucia Capacchione, the author of such self-help classics as Recovery of Your Inner Child and The Power of Your Other Hand, shows us that we can transform our lives in the same way that a designer transforms raw materials to meet his or her vision. Drawing on her experiences as a designer and corporate consultant, Capacchione uses ... Read more
Short stories featuring Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Big Bad Wolf, Scamp, and other Disney characters. In "Chimera," Donald and the nephews chase an apparent abominable snowman through the depths of Duckburg's snowy woods. "Snow Beast" brings another yeti to life - this time a King Kong-sized, Mickey Mouse-battling brute who's under the power of an ancient curse. "All Creatures Great and Small" On New Year's Day, Donald makes a resolution to tolerate the nephews' annoying pets ... Read more
The subject of John Singer Sargent's most famous painting was twenty-three-year-old New Orleans Creole Virginie Gautreau, who moved to Paris and quickly became the "it girl" of her day. A relative unknown at the time, Sargent won the commission to paint her; the two must have recognized in each other a like-minded hunger for fame. Unveiled at the 1884 Paris Salon, Gautreau's portrait generated the attention she craved-but it led to infamy rather than stardom. Sargent had painted ... Read more
Build your skills in the development of story ideas that will command an audience for your 2-5 minute animated short. Packed with illustrated examples of idea generation, character and story development, acting, dialogue and storyboarding practice this is your conceptual toolkit proven to meet the challenges of this unique art form. The companion DVD includes in-depth interviews with industry insiders, 18 short animations (many with accompanying animatics, character designs and environment ... Read more
Did you know? In just one minute the Earth travels 1,100 miles around the sun. Cartwheel champ Brianna Schroeder turns 48 cartwheels. 28,824 photographs are taken (822 of them at Disney World). Over $60,000 is spent on eBay. You lose 8 brain cells, 40,000 skin cells, and one taste bud. (How weird.) A ladybug flaps its wings 60,000 times. 6,805,555 e-mails are sent (35% of them Spam). Jean-Yves Mulot breaks 42 flaming concrete blocks with his bare hand. Whew!Filled with hundreds of incredible ... Read more
Today's customers have more information, power, and choice. Trying to push these empowered customers with dated selling techniques is no longer effective. Gordon’s vision of "motivating your customers to buy" is more than words. He has captured the renaissance of new ideas in a hands on, practical guide. Through seven separate research studies on thousands of sales people and buyers, as well over 100 personal interviews with America’s top sales organizations including Microsoft, Coca ... Read more
There are a thousand stories in the land of Narnia, and the first is about to be told in an extraordinary motion picture, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, from Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media. In the never-ending war between good and evil, The Chronicles of Narnia set the stage for battles of epic proportions. Some take place in vast fields, where the forces of light and darkness clash. But other battles occur within the small chambers of the heart and are ... Read more
Nine years ago, Pam Cope owned a cozy hair salon in the tiny town of Neosho, Missouri, and her life revolved around her son's baseball games, her daughter's dance lessons, and family trips to places like Disney World. She had never been out of the country, nor had she any desire to travel far from home.Then, on June 16th, 1999, her life changed forever with the death of her 15-year-old son from an undiagnosed heart ailment. Needing to get as far away as possible from everything that ... Read more
From awe-inspiring skyscrapers designed to be noticed to the impressive engineering of the bridges, tunnels, and energy-generating wind fields, viaducts, and dams for which function is just as important as form, 100 MODERN MARVELS OF THE WORLD displays some of the most fascinating feats of architecture and engineering in the modern world. This volume includes famous landmarks like the Sydney Opera House and the CN Tower, as well as less-visible projects like New York City's Third Water ... Read more
That gratifying new car smell is actually a manufactured 'new car' aroma. The sound of kellogg's cornflakes crunching in our mouths is created in sound labs. Singapore Airlines has patented the smell in its cabins. Branding has reached a new frontier. In the future brands will have to appeal to the neglected senses: touch, taste, and smell. In this fully updated new edition of brand sense, Martin Lindstrom shows how it can be done. Drawing on the most extensive worldwide study ... Read more
Long adventures and short stories featuring Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, the Beagle Boys, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and other Disney characters. In "Antidollarosis," the Beagle Boys infest Scrooge's money with a bacterial blight... that creates allergic reactions in Scrooge whenever he comes near it. In "A Job Too Well Done," it's Gyro Gearloose's task to rid the city of excess snow. "The Grouch Kings of Duckburg" matches two fan favorites: writer John Lustig and artist Daniel ... Read more
Published in collaboration with the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation, "The Treasures of Salvador Dali" offers one of the most up-to-date and intriguing views of the life and works of one of the world's most famous artists of the 20th century. Augmented by the inclusion of facsimiles of over 30 documents from the archives of the Foundation, this beautiful book takes the reader through the life of one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement. From his first forays into the world of art ... Read more
Short stories featuring Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Big Bad Wolf, Scamp, and other Disney characters. In William Van Horn's "A Fluid Situation," Donald deals with an annoying leaky faucet by turning self-declared plumber... a decision he lives to regret! In Donald D Markstein's "Easy Work," when Mickey sees construction work being done with giant robots, he signs on to give it a shot - and ends up in frenzied competition with rival robot wrangler Sam Simian. Next it's Carl ... Read more
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