Lifelong rider and author Bob Woods takes readers on a zippy ride through scooter history, stopping off to see how World War II, Audrey Hepburn, and The Who have all played a part in this reoccurring transportation trend. It includes more than 150 colorful photos of scooters, including all the top-selling models, and also features tips about buying, repairing, and maintaining scooters.

“The photographs in Black: A Celebration redefine the black cultural image in America.” --Cheryl Finley, Ph.D.

Photography offers a unique method for capturing the life and soul of a community while it creates a record we can use to understand who we are now and to illustrate the story of who we were. Black: A Celebration looks at the way in which culture is constructed through photographs. Photographing friends, people and places, and family members and their possessions is a transformative act that can instill a sense of joy and dignity in the subject, photographer, and viewer.

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.

“Some of us-hopefully most of us-are trying to understand and appreciate the effect our recent election will have on you, the citizens of the rest of the world.” --James Zetlen, creator of Sorryeverybody.com

Twenty-year-old University of Southern California student James Zetlen launched www.sorryeverybody.com on November 4, 2004, as a way for Americans to express their disappointment, grief, and outrage about the results of the election and how it will affect people around the world for at least the next four years. To date, almost 30,000 people have uploaded their thoughts, images, and opinions to the Web site.

A Field Guide to Monsters, a hysterical spoof on field guides, compiles the world’s scariest and most popular monsters, including Godzilla, Wolf Man, Mr. Hyde, and many others. Filled with fun monster facts, including size comparisons, habitats, and what they eat, this field guide also describes their call, their migration habits, and most importantly, how to protect yourself against them (or, in extreme cases, kill them). This book makes a perfect gift for the casual monster watcher or the more serious monster hunter.

Photographer Carlton Ward Jr. spent over seven months in the field in the Central African country of Gabon, documenting the unique landscapes and biological diversity of Gabon, a magical place where the Congo Basin rain forests meet the Atlantic Ocean and elephants wander the beaches undisturbed. Carlton photographed over 400 species of plants and animals, including many never before photographed alive and several new to science.

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.

The circle of love begins, and ends, with the number-one-screen-kisser in history, Marilyn Monroe, and moves backward and forward through time from 1933 through to the modern day. Timeless photographs of big-screen (and a few real-life) lovers flow from page to page in a virtual orgy of cinematic romance. Marilyn Monroe dips down to kiss Tony Curtis, who is shown on the next page snuggling with Natalie Wood, who in turn cuddles up to real-life lover/husband Robert Wagner, who is shown in the next frame with Janet Leigh, and on and on.

Published in Association with the Smithsonian Institution

500 stunning photographs from the late 1800s to the present day celebrate African-American culture. “It is glorious-this history of ours! It is a great story-that of the Negro in America! It begins way before America was America or the U.S.A. It covers a wide span, our story. Let me tell it to you.”-Langston Hughes

Written by Elwyn Hartley Edwards, the world’s best-selling equestrian author, Wild Horses explores all the world’s wild herds from the rugged ponies of Great Britain to the sublimely beautiful white horses of the French Camargue region and the majestic and athletic Mustangs of the United States. Edwards was the longest serving Editor of Riding Magazine and was Consultant Editor at Horse and Hound for five years.

The Ship brings to life Captain Cook’s famous voyage to the South Pacific aboard the square-rigged ship Endeavor. In 2001 a volunteer crew, sailing an exact replica of Cook’s ship, retraced the most perilous stretch of the original voyage from the Great Barrier Reef to Indonesia. Featuring Cook’s original drawings, maps, and artworks, plus spectacular new photographs, The Ship reveals Cook’s historic voyage and his encounters with indigenous peoples in a new light.

New archaeological evidence suggests that as our ancestors spread out across the planet they did battle with colossal predatory mammals, strange birds, and chilling reptiles. Land of Lost Monsters reconstructs the extraordinary moments when modern humans first encountered these creatures. Land of Lost Monsters looks at what happened when our ancestors met these extraordinary creatures. Did we hunt them or were we hunted? And why did they disappear?

“Crafty kids and their parents will love the projects. They’re greatlooking, useful, and mostly easy, and making them will both create and preserve summertime memories.” --Melanie Falick, author of the best-selling Kids Knitting and Weekend Knitting

If ever there was a great beach read for parents, this is it. Summer Crafts is bursting with beautiful and inventive crafts for the whole family, whether they’re on a waterfront holiday or wishing they were. Make backpacks or beach totes; mermaid dolls; chessboards and backgammon games; a set of building blocks out of driftwood; and lots of inventive projects with seashells and rocks. This book offers easy instructions, tons of photographs, and lots of ideas for customizing creations.