In How to Booze, Jordan Kaye and Marshall Altier offer us some exquisite cocktails, and advice that is best described as unsound. The authors pair up the perfect cocktail with entertaining advice for life's best alcohol-induced moments. This is way more than just a mixology guide, this is both ... More →
Putting a man on the moon, and then returning him safely back to earth required three main things to be developed; the spacecraft, the launch vehicles and the astronauts protective clothing. This amazing book: Spacesuits: Within the Collections of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, take ... More →
If you want tons of crazy photos, bad decisions, WTF moments, fan stories, some celebrities and the odd goat thrown in for good measure then this is the book for you. The premise of this book is simple; we are American and we will shop and when we do shop, especially on a trip to our favorite ... More →
One of the men who brought us Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, Ben H. Winters is back and this time has teamed with none other than Russian literary giant Leo Tolstoy. The result of this unlikely partnership is Android Karenina which sees this classic love story lifted from the time when ... More →
Mad Men Unbuttoned is a celebration, told in a visually arresting way, of the artistic and cultural ephemera that existed in advertising during the 1960's, AKA The Mad Men era. Based on the hugely popular blog of the same name, this volume nails it with its look at both the 1960'a and the ... More →
This is less of a stand-alone book and more a collection as there is a new edition of Sketchnotes brought out every year as well as many special editions. We have Eva-Lotta to thank for all of them as she travels around numerous Design and User Experience events taking visual notes of the many talks ... More →
Apart from being some of the most alluring sex symbols ever, can you think of anything else that Brigitte Bardot, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Bettie Page have in common? They all graced the Playboy pages during the 1950's, a decade renowned for being the last great era of old-style glamour. ... More →
The Porsche Book ($85) is a turbocharged book that takes lovers of the unique Porsche experience on the ride of their lives. Browsing through this book your journey becomes both image packed and nostalgic as we travel through the annals of the highest performances of both design and motoring ... More →
If you consider yourself to be innovative, or inventive, or both when it comes to cooking it can be difficult to find an outlet for your creativity as opposed to just following recipes. Cooking For Geeks ($7) is the book you have been waiting for. It goes behind the dish and looks at the science ... More →
The Beauty graphic novel ($2+) is a science fiction story, set in a world where an unusual sexually transmitted disease (The Beauty) makes people more and more beautiful every day, with seemingly few side effects. Most of the population are infected but when detectives Foster and Vaughn find out the ... More →
Packed with both insightful text and gorgeous images, The Story Of Eames Furniture ($130) is a unique book that can only be described as the benchmark reference guide to what is, arguably, the most important and influential brand of furniture of modern times. It reveals in unbelievable detail just ... More →
If you're a rookie and have no idea how to setup a bar at home, then The 12 Bottle Bar ($11) is a must read. The 12 Bottle Bar is three books in one. It's a toolkit, describing the twelve bottles needed to get your home bar started. These include seven spirits, one liqueur, two Vermouths, and two ... More →
