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Idiot's Guides: Tiny House Designing, Building, & Living

ALPHA. · Alpha
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Do you have what it takes to live tiny? Take the first step to achieving the dream of designing, building, and living in a tiny house (typically between 100-400 square feet) . Idiot's Guides: Tiny House Designing, Building, and Living is the one-stop guide into this innovative concept...
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Acting Shakespeare is Outrageous!: Playing the Bard for Beginners

Herb Parker · Focal Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover

Performing the work of William Shakespeare can be daunting to new actors. Author Herb Parker posits that his work is played easier if actors think of the plays as happening out of outrageous situations, and remember just how non-realistic and presentational Shakespeare's plays were...
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Branding: A Very Short Introduction

Robert Jones · Oxford University Press
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback

Branding is possibly the most powerful commercial and cultural force on the planet. Iconic names such as Coca-Cola, Nike, Manchester United, Harry Potter, and Google are known and recognized by millions of people worldwide. As the market economy spreads across the world, brands are becoming...
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

CLEMANTINE WAMARIYA · Crown
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not - could not - live in that tale."

Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors...
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100 Years, 100 Artworks: A History of Modern and Contemporary Art

Agnes Berecz · Prestel
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

This dazzling book showcases the history of modern and contemporary art using one hundred of the most significant art works--one per year--of the past 100 years.Starting with Marcel Duchamp's 1919 whimsical, brilliant L.H.O.O.Q., this compendium offers a year-by-year tour of iconic...
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Hope in the Struggle: A Memoir

Josie R. Johnson · Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover

How a Black woman from Texas became one of the most well-known civil rights activists in Minnesota, detailing seven remarkable decades of fighting for fairness in voting, housing, education, and employment Why do you continue to work on issues of justice? young Black people ask Josie Johnson...
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Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme, Hybrid

Robert K. Wysocki · Wiley
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback

The popular guide to the project management body of knowledge, now fully updated Now in its eighth edition, this comprehensive guide to project management has long been considered the standard for both professionals and academics, with nearly 40,000 copies sold in the last three editions!...
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Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy

MICHAEL PERRY · Harper
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he's learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne.

"The journey began on a gurney," writes Michael Perry, describing the debilitating kidney...

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Financial Freedom: A Proven Path to All the Money You Will Ever Need

Grant Sabatier · Avery
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Money is unlimited. Time is not. Become financially independent as fast as possible.

In 2010, 24-year old Grant Sabatier woke up to find he had $2.26 in his bank account. Five years later, he had a net worth of over $1.25 million, and CNBC began calling him "the Millennial Millionaire."...
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Meet the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living

ELIZABETH WILLARD THAMES · HarperBusiness
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The deeply personal story of how award-winning personal finance blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames abandoned a successful career in the city and embraced frugality to create a more meaningful, purpose-driven life, and retire to a homestead in the Vermont woods at age thirty-two with her husband...

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Los Romeros: Royal Family of the Spanish Guitar

Walter Aaron Clark · University of Illinois Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Spanish émigré guitarist Celedonio Romero gave his American debut performance on a June evening in 1958. In the sixty years since, the Romero Family -- Celedonio, his wife Angelita, sons Celín, Pepe, and Angel, as well as grandsons Celino and Lito -- have become preeminent in the world...
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How to Color Like an Artist: Colored Pencil Techniques including Blending & Shading

Veronica Winters · Dover Publications
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

"A great guide." - Jo's ReviewsImprove your coloring skills with these simple, step-by-step instructions for techniques using colored pencils. Intended for beginning artists and coloring book enthusiasts, this guide is ideal for those without formal training but with some...
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Best Perennials for Sun and Shade

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

A quick-reference guide to planting perennials for gardeners with little experience and time

Choosing perennials for a garden can be a daunting task, considering that there are thousands of choices. Yarrow? Columbine? Aster? To make the selection easier, this guide profiles the easiest-to-grow...
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Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us

Donald Trump Jr. · Center Street
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover


In Triggered, Donald Trump, Jr. will expose all the tricks that the left uses to smear conservatives and push them out of the public square, from online "shadow banning" to fake accusations of "hate speech." No topic is spared from political correctness. This is the book...
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Leaders: Myth and Reality

Stanley McChrystal · Portfolio
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Team of Teams dismantles the Great Man theory of leadership, by profiling leaders whose real stories defy their legends.

Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has studied leadership his whole adult life, from his first day at West Point to his most...
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