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| The Big Book of Baby Animal Butts | | | Myrsini Stephanides | | Hardcover | | ISBN: 1-59258-144-7 | Perfect for animal lovers, The Book of Baby Animal
Butts provides a winning combination of animal
and derrière humor. This one-of-a-kind book contains a
menagerie of little animal butts featuring bubble captions
with witty comments on everything rear-related.
The Book of Baby Animal Butts makes a great gift. Hilarious
color photographs of the cutest and funniest baby
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| A Field Guide to Aliens | | | Dave Elliott, C.J. Henderson, R. Allen Leider | | Paperback | | ISBN: 1-59258-150-1 | A Field Guide to Aliens is a hysterical testament to the power of human imagination and an homage to Hollywood movies. This entertaining spoof of natural-history field guides takes a creative, colorful look at movie aliens, fresh from the kooky mind of the world’s self-described leading alien hunter himself, Dave Elliott. Here’s everything you wanted to know about more than 150 of the most fascinating alien species ever to appear in films. Packed with information about alien behaviors, lethality, weaknesses, powers, habitats, height, weight, and even intelligence levels, A Field Guide to Aliens is a thoroughly researched, brilliantly illustrated, packed-with-facts guide with tongue planted firmly in cheek. | |  | |
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| Photoshop 101 | | A Simple Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners | | Michael Wright | | Paperback | | ISBN: 1-59258-181-1 | Taking photos with a digital camera is only half the fun. Manipulating your images on the computer is the other-and, some say, betterÑhalf of digital photography. Photoshop 101 teaches you everything you need to make your photos really pop using Photoshop 7 or CS or Photoshop Elements. Photography is a visual process. With Photoshop 101 you get pictures first, words second. It’s the best book of its kind on the market, with the most illustrations, the clearest and most detailed instructions, and the best practical advice.
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| Digital Photography | | A Step-by-Step Visual Guide, Now Featuring Photoshop Elements 4 | | Michael Wright | | Paperback with Flaps | | ISBN: 1-59258-244-3 | A unique approach to a hot subject - digital photography and
Photoshop. The only book that shows you how to do it: pictures first, words second.
More than 1,500 color photographs and screen-shots that take you through
the entire process.
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| The Illustrated Human Anatomy | | Published in Association with Primal Pictures, Ltd. | | | Hardcover | | ISBN: 1-59258-183-8 | See the human body from skin down to the bones and every layer in between. Primal Pictures shares its beautiful,
state-of-the-art 3D imaging of the human body with you in book form. Previously sold as computer software aimed at students and health care professionals, these powerful images are now available to everyone in The Illustrated Human Anatomy. Throughout the book, annotated parts of the body are rotated for different viewing angles, and layers of the anatomy are added and removed to reveal veins, ligaments, nerves, arteries, muscles, and bones. Computer-generated from actual medical scans, the images in The Illustrated Human Anatomy are accurate and detailed, and, at the same time beautiful.
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| Dickens | | Public Life and Private Passion | | Peter Ackroyd | | Hardcover | | ISBN: 1-59258-215-X | Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990.
This special abridged edition takes the reader into the fascinating life
of one of the world’s greatest writersDickens’ penurious and
painful childhood, the triumphant reception of his first novel, and other
significant events in the life of this legendary writer. Peter Ackroyd is
a master biographer with a seductive prose style, and this massive volume
is likely to stand as the Dickens biography for decades to come.
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| The History of Weaponry | | From Flint Axes to Automatic Weapons | | Chuck Wills | | Hardcover | | ISBN: 1-59258-127-7 | A comprehensive look at the often deadly, sometimes surprising,
always fascinating tools of battle. More than 600 photographs of an eclectic mix
of weapons were specially commissioned from the 8,000-piece collection of the
Berman Museum of World History. Spanning the globe and more than 3,500 years,
they include a royal Persian scimitar owned by both Abbas I and Catherine the
Great, a sword presented to Napoleon, the traveling pistols of Confederate
president Jefferson Davis, and Heinrich Himmler’s rifle. A variety of rare
weapons of espionage and combination curiosa rounds out the selection.
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| Kings and Queens of England and Scotland: Every Question Answered | | Everything You Could Possibly Want to Know about the English Monarchy | | | Hardcover | | ISBN: 1-59258-235-4 | In the tradition of the bestselling Presidents: Every Question
Answered, Kings and Queens of England: Every Question Answered
is the ultimate source book for answers to just about
any question that you could ask about every single king and
queen in Great Britain, past or present. | |  | |
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| Serial Killer Investigations | | The Story of Forensics and Profiling Through the Hunt for the World’s Worst Murderers | | Colin Wilson | | Hardcover | | ISBN: 1-59258-182-X | Author Colin Wilson takes us along on the trail of dozens of serial killers. ManHunt is not so much about the serial killers themselves but the detectives who track them down and stop them before they kill again. The term “serial killer” was coined in the late seventies by an FBI agent at the FBI Academy in Quantico, VirginiaÑhome of the real-life agents portrayed by Jodie Foster and others in the film The Silence of the Lambs. ManHunt describes in detail the work of forensic detectives and shows how psychological profiling is used to read the “personality fingerprints” left by a killer at a crime scene. | |  | |
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