- The Cobra-Ferrari Wars: 1963-1965 (Michael L. Shoen)
Personal recollections range from Shelby's greenest mechanic to Ferraris chief engineer, from forgotten privateers to world-class drivers. Acclaimed by Ferrari and Cobra enthusiasts alike, this is the definitive history of the epic struggle that changed sports car racing forever. The work is based on interviews of 53 of the original participants, conducted over 18 years. Over 530 archival photos, drawings, blueprints and documents, including 57 large-format color prints.
- Doggie Paddlin' (David & Linda Mullaly)
That first moment you learn to paddle is almost as much fun as the first time you take your dog along with you. Whether on a canoe or kayak, surf board or stand up paddle board, dogs can’t get enough of the water. From paddling poodles to surfing sheepdogs, bring your furry best friend along for the ride and uncover hidden depths to their unique personality. Professional photographer David Mullally captures a dog’s love of being on the water through a series of breathtaking, awe-inspiring, and hilarious images while Linda Mullally provides need-to-know information to help you get your dog on the water. Explore, laugh, and learn as these energetic dogs show us the true meaning of happiness.
- Finding Shelter: Portraits of Love, Healing, and Survival (Jesse Freidin)
Without volunteers, our nation’s animal shelter system simply would not exist. Volunteers speak for those that cannot speak, pick up the pieces for abandoned animals that have been let down by previous owners or unfortunate circumstances, and do whatever it takes to heal the deepest of wounds.In Finding Shelter, award-winning photographer Jesse Freidin shows the softer side of this story. He witnessed firsthand how many of the volunteers were able to mend their own emotional hurts with the love the shelter animals gave back to them, and how the power of these relationships transforms shelters into places where humans and animals can heal together. This realization propelled him to take a two-year journey across the country to document the tenderness and healing, beauty and joy he encountered within the shelter system. The result is a heartwarming inspiration for people to look differently at how to save shelter pets. In Finding Shelter, Freidin sparks a new discussion about animal rescue and what it feels like to truly love an animal.
- First In, Last Out: An American Paratrooper in Vietnam with the 101st and Vietnamese Airborne (John D. Howard)
- Foodie Snob (Kevin Nelson)
Food-lovers will enjoy this fun and lighthearted look at their obsession with trendy food and restaurants. Food Snob is both be a send-up of foodies and an affirmation of certain aspects of the foodie way of life. While laughing at this satire of the habits, attitudes and lifestyle of foodies, foodies will laugh at themselves and also get solid advice and tips on the activity they love.
- Running Snob (Kevin Nelson)
Runners will enjoy this fun and lighthearted look at running enthusiasts who, of course, resemble them in many ways. This is both a send-up of runners and an affirmation of certain aspects of the running life. While laughing at this satire of the habits, attitudes and lifestyle of runners, they are laughing at themselves and also getting solid advice and tips on the activity they love.
- The Long Term Missing: Hope and Help for Families (Sylvia Pettem)
When loved-ones go missing, the lives of their family members are turned upside-down. As the days and months turn into years, some families are caged in by their grief, while others become proactive –– renewing police contacts, keeping up with the latest technologies, and educating themselves as they strive to become their long-term missing persons’ advocates. By inspiring hope, as well as providing answers and practical advice, The Long Term Missing: Hope and Help for Families assists families in navigating the uncharted territory they never chose to enter.
- The Most Low-Down, Lousiest, Loathsome Things Ever Said: 1,292 Cutting and Sharp-Tongued Quotations (Steven D. Price)
A nasty insult (is there any other kind?) can be offensive and infuriating, but we’ve all had those moments when we’ve employed one or just wished we had come up with the perfect nasty thing to say. Even better, having the perfect comeback to one of these rude remarks brings us all the personal satisfaction in the world. The Nastiest Things Ever Said gathers together the very sharpest of these barbs from a wide variety of sources with some of the wickedest put-downs from the literary, political, and entertainment worlds, and everywhere else people say nasty things to each other.
- The Real "Tales of Hoffman": Origin, History, and Restoration of an Operatic Masterpiece (Vincent Giroud and Michael Kaye)
Of all operas in the standard repertory, none has had a more complicated genesis and textual history than Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann. Based on a highly successful 1851 play inspired by the short stories by the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann, the work occupied the last decade of Offenbach’s life. When he died in October 1880, the work was being rehearsed at the Opéra-Comique. At once cut and rearranged, the work was performed from the start in versions that ignored the composer’s final intentions. Only a few decades ago, when previously unavailable manuscripts came to light, it became possible to reconstitute the score in its real form. Vincent Giroud and Michael Kaye’s The Real 'Tales of Hoffmann' tells the full story for the first time in English.
- 30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story that Exposed the Jim Crow South (Bill Steigerwald)
In 1948 most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for the 10 million African Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed after Ray Sprigle, a famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and lived as a black man in the Jim Crow South. Escorted through the South’s parallel black society by John Wesley Dobbs, a historic black civil rights pioneer from Atlanta, Sprigle met with sharecroppers, local black leaders, and families of lynching victims. He visited ramshackle black schools and slept at the homes of prosperous black farmers and doctors. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter’s series was syndicated coast to coast in white newspapers and carried into the South only by the Pittsburgh Courier, the country’s leading black paper. His vivid descriptions and undisguised outrage at "the iniquitous Jim Crow system" shocked the North, enraged the South, and ignited the first national debate in the media about ending America’s system of apartheid. Six years before Brown v. Board of Education, seven years before the murder of Emmett Till, and thirteen years before John Howard Griffin’s similar experiment became the bestseller Black Like Me, Sprigle’s intrepid journalism blasted into the American consciousness the grim reality of black lives in the South.
- Seeing Life through Private Eyes: Secrets from America's Top Investigator to Living Safer, Smarter, and Saner (Thomas G. Martin)
For over three decades Thomas G. Martin has been the secret weapon of choice. Now America’s PI has combined his life experiences, cautionary tales, and insider information into a valuable guide for the rest of us. Seeing Life Through Private Eyes is an invaluable resource for living smarter and safer in today’s complicated world.
- Tyranny of the Textbook: An Insider Exposes How Educational Materials Undermine Reform (Beverlee Jobrack)
Educational reforms and standards have been a topic of public debate for decades, with the latest go-round being the State Common Core Curriculum Standards. But time and again those reforms have failed, and each set of standards, no matter how new and different, has had little impact on improving student achievement. Why? The textbooks. Textbooks sell based on design and superficial features, not because they are based on the latest research on how children learn and how well they promote student achievement. In Tyranny of the Textbook, Beverlee Jobrack, retired from educational publishing, sheds light on why this happens. She gives an engaging and fascinating look behind-the-scenes of how K-12 textbooks are developed, written, adopted, and sold. And, perhaps most importantly, she clearly spells out how the system can change so that reforms and standards have a shot at finally being effective.
- Women Who Surf: Charging the Waves with the World's Best (Ben Marcus and Lucia Griggi)
Mavericks and more, a celebration of feminine beauty, athleticism, wisdom, and skill when the surf is bombing—Women Who Surf profiles some of the world’s most inspiring female surfers ranging from Bethany Hamilton to Wrenna Delgado. Each surfer tells her story, highlighting her personal challenges, accomplishments, and philosophy, as well as inspiring readers and providing them with practical how-to suggestions on maximizing not only their own potential in surfing but in life as they lead the charge and push their limits at infamous big-wave spots like Teahupoo in Tahiti, Waimea Bay, and Peahi/Jaws in the Hawaiian Islands.
- Maxims Minimus: Reflections in Microstyle (T. Byram Karasu, MD)
- Kicking Gas and Taking Charge! (Duane Leffel)
Would you take off on a trip across the U.S. without knowing where you could get gasoline along the way? I did…in a way. Only instead of looking for gas stations, I had to find 220 volts of electricity to charge an all-electric car! With 8 people I had never met! Take a fascinating behind-the-scenes journey across the U.S. using over 600 color photos as I try to set a Guinness World Record in an all-electric Nissan LEAF. Finding 220 volts of electricity is not as easy as it seems! Also, learn why everyone should care about sustainability. I got educated. You should too. You CAN make an impact!
- A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage, and Wisdom in Any Moment (Spring Washam)
Spring Washam is a founder of the East Bay Meditation Center, one of the most diverse and accessible Dharma centers in the United States. In A Fierce Heart, Washam shares her contemporary, unique interpretation of the Buddha’s 2,500-year-old teachings, with short chapters that get to the heart of mindfulness, wisdom, loving kindness, and compassion.