Books from Abrams
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Two Trains Leave Paris: Number Problems for Word People
By Taylor Frey, Mike WesolowskiNumber Problems for Word People Taylor Frey, Mike Wesolowski. exactly 90 cm tall. Does she have space to add Mary-Kate and Ashley's Passport to Paris? TO SOLVE — Ninth-Price '90s Media Here's the formula for.
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The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle
By Kent Alexander, Kevin SalwenMine and cave expert Darren Freed of Hendersonville, N.C., has been looking for Rudolph since September 1998, and the federal government is paying his expenses. Freed has documented more than 1,000 gold, silver, sapphire and ruby mines ...
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History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos
By Luis H. FranciaLike Fidel Ramos, realizing that changing the current presidential system to a parliamentary one would be an uphill ... She would be replacing her son, Congressman Mike Arroyo Jr. This move has triggered intense speculation that she has ...
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The Moderns: Midcentury American Graphic Design
By Steven Heller, Greg D'OnofrioThe first comprehensive survey of Midcentury Modern graphic design in America
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Type Speaks: A Lexicon of Expressive, Emotional, and Symbolic Typefaces
By Steven Heller, Gail AndersonType Speaks is the first book to explore type as a medium that conveys emotions, concepts, and ideas, filled with hundreds of new fonts available through digital foundries.
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Decoding Manhattan: Island of Diagrams, Maps, and Graphics
By Steven Heller, Antonis AntoniouIntroduction: Manhattan as diagram -- Mutations on grid island -- The biggest apple -- Rapturous motion -- Species of the urban wild -- Text and the city -- We heart NY -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments -- Credits.
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Free Hand: New Typography Sketchbooks
By Steven Heller, Lita TalaricoIn Free Hand: New Typography Sketchbooks, Steven Heller, respected graphic-design commentator, and Lita Talarico, design educator, offer glimpses inside the personal sketchbooks of more than 70 designers and typographers--including Philippe ...
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Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women
By Kate Cooper... University Press, 2007) —— 'Gender and the Fall of Rome', in Philip Rousseau (ed.), A Companion to Late Antiquity (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), 187–200 —— 'The Household and the Desert: Monastic and Biological Communities in the Lives ...
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Flower Arranging the American Way: A World Association of Flower Arrangers Book
By Nancy D'Oench... Elizabeth, Chagrin Falls, OH Brandt, Elaine K., Winchester, VA Brassie, Fay C., Monroe, GA Bucher, Anne M., Silver Spring, MD Burgess, Candice, Macon, GA Burke, Elaine, Hartland, WI Burnette, Eddie, Duluth, GA Burnette, Elizabeth, ...
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Slim Aarons: Style
By Shawn Waldron, Kate BettsAccording to Slim, Pulitzer was one of three regular subjects with a perpetual tan—the other two being Willy Hutton of Palm Beach and the actor George Hamilton. opposite below right American socialite and fashion writer Nan Kempner ...
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Out of the Shadows: How Lotte Reiniger Made the First Animated Fairytale Movie
By Fiona RobinsonWith art inspired by Reiniger’s cut-paper style and a text that uses a fairytale motif that mimics her movies, Out of the Shadows is a sweeping tribute to one of most important figures of animation, whose influence still resonates today.
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Tula Telfair: Invented Landscapes
By Tula TelfairTula Telfair's hyper-realistic landscape paintings are at once awe-inspiring and extremely personal.
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A Grand Success!: The Aardman Journey, One Frame at a Time
By Peter Lord, David Sproxton... there were stars galore in the audience. He found the experience thrilling. In the course of a somewhat dizzying evening, he met – among many others – Princess Margaret and also David Puttnam, at that point arguably Britain's ...
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A Dog's History of America: How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent
By Mark DerrSometime during that assignment, he managed to meet and bite his commanding general, Dwight David Eisenhower, who, ... as is the corollary that America must remain a garrison state to preserve its freedom from external enemies, ...
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Heartbreak Hotel: A Novel
By Deborah Moggach'I know you hated Joni Mitchell but it's true. You don't know what you've got till it's gone.' 'I don't hate Joni Mitchell. I just think she's a bit lacking in the humour department.' He gave Rosemary a thin smile.
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Bill Nye's Great Big World of Science
By Bill Nye, Gregory MoneA few years after all this, another brilliant physicist named James Clerk Maxwell figured out how electricity and magnetism are precisely mathematically related. He wrote what we now call Maxwell's equations.
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Love & Sleep
By John CrowleyIn Love & Sleep, the second volume of the series, the professor Pierce Moffett finds himself at a great turning point in the history of the world. As a child, Pierce was no stranger to magic, but those revelations faded with time.
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DAEMONOMANIA: Book Three of the Aegypt Cycle
By John CrowleySo it is for Pierce Moffett, would-be historian and author, who has moved from New York to the Faraway Hills, where he seems to discover—or rediscover—a path into magic, past and present.
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A Year with Friends
By John SevenYoungsters are sure to take pleasure in following the characters’ activities throughout the year." —School Library Journal "In this pleasing concept book, husband-and-wife author-illustrator team Seven and Christy introduce two children ...
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Frankie Liked to Sing
By John SevenFrankie Liked to Sing celebrates the life of Frank Sinatra, whose iconic voice changed popular music forever and influenced generations of listeners all over the world.