The New World Champion Paper Airplane Book ($12) is a great collection of easy to fold designs for paper airplanes also has many innovative theories about flight itself, and includes the authors own Guinness World Record breaking plane. There are 16 tear out model planes to create to hone your ... More →
"Andrew Blum plunges into the unseen but real ether of the Internet in a journey both compelling and profound. You will never open an email in quite the same way again." - Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times bestselling author of Traffic. Andrew Blum is a correspondent for Wired magazine, and through ... More →
The current working from home phenomenon has never been so thoroughly explored as it is in this new and illuminating book from the bestselling founders of 37signals Fried and Hansson. Remote: Office Not Required ($11) takes an in depth look at this surging trend of employees who never enter an ... More →
In The Big, Bad Book of Beasts ($15) we have the wildest collection in the world of both animal lore and knowledge. Never mind "Lions and tigers and bears oh my!" we also have dragons, monsters and dinosaurs, my oh my! For centuries now the most popular books, after the Bible, in the western world, ... More →
The petrol heads at Top Gear bring us the undisputed, coolest 500 rides on earth in the book Top Gear: The Cool 500 ($30). Ever since that day in 1885 when Karl Benz powered up his Patent Motorwagon for the first time man has been swooning and salivating over all things automobiles, and none have ... More →
Once upon a time a caveman picked up a rock and proceeded to chuck it at someone or something. A History of Weapons ($14) began at that moment. John O'Bryan is a respected comedy writer and self described weapons nerd who relays to us through A History Of Weapons the often freaky highlights of the ... More →
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." | Albert Einstein. Information Graphics ($47) looks at how the most complex of ideas can be communicated through. Our everyday lives are packed with a continuous huge flow of information in order than we interpret and are ... More →
The Summer of Beer and Whiskey ($20) is about Chris von der Ahe who knew so little about baseball it could be written on a postage stamp, yet his risked his life savings in order to found a franchise that would grow into the St Louis Cardinals. Despite this, the German born proprietor of a beer ... More →
Best Book of the Month on Amazon, Barnes & Noble Booksellers' Pick, iTunes/iBookstore Best Book of the Month. These are just a few of the critical acclaims which have been heaped upon A Curious Man ($18), the marvelous and compelling biography of the enigmatic cartoonist Robert "Believe It or ... More →
In this volume, Things Come Apart ($21) brings us unique and inspiring photographs which capture the electronic and mechanical objects from both past and present in a broken down and meticulously arranged format. This is Todd McLellan's unique photographic vision of our material world and covers 50 ... More →
Smoke: New Firewood Cooking ($) has a Texan chef showing us there is a whole big world of flavor that stretched way beyond the parameters of barbecues. Smoke is the main primer in the most time tested cooking technique of all time, but also one that we have largely lost touch with over time. Tim ... More →
1001 Golf Holes You Must Play Before You Die ($25), is a lavishly illustrated book that brings us the definitive collection of the 1001 best golf holes across the globe. These are organized by the level of the challenge so golfers at whatever stage of the game will find the ones best suited to them. ... More →
