"Carlsen sees a world of wonder hiding in plain sight and may just change how you look at the world around you." —TODAY ShowA simple walk around the block set journalist Spike Carlsen, bestselling author of A Splintered History of Wood, off to investigate everything he could about everything we take for granted in our normal life—from manhole covers and recycling bins to bike lanes and stoplights.In this celebration of the seemingly mundane, Carlsen opens our...

Volume one of Spike Milligan's legendary memoirs is a hilarious, subversive first-hand account of WW2'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense' Guardian______________'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a trav...

VOLUME FOUR OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times______________A voice is calling across the land, 'Bombardier Milligan.' 'Bombadier Milligan is dead,' I replied in a disguised voice. The voice replied, 'The...

"With The Good Stuff Cookbook, Spike Mendelsohn applies his limitless imagination to classic American comfort food" (Tom Colicchio, chef and owner of Crafted Hospitality)."Spike knows how to bring the fun to bun." —Rachael RayOne of the most popular contestants ever on the hit television show Top Chef, Spike Mendelsohn is now one of the hottest celebrity chefs on the scene. His restaurant in Washington, DC, Good Stuff Eatery, has been a re...

VOLUME FIVE OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard______________'Back to those haunting days in Italy in 1944, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, with lava running in great red rivulets down the slope towards us, and Jock taking a drag on his cigarette and saying, "I think we've got grounds for a rent rebate."'Where ...

DISCOVER PUCKOON, SPIKE MILLIGAN'S CLASSIC SLAPSTICK NOVEL'Pops with the erratic brilliance of a careless match in a box of fireworks' Daily MailIn 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State. Through incompetence, dereliction of duty and sheer perversity, the border ends up running through the middle of the small town of Puckoon.Houses are...

From the acclaimed author whose beloved books inspired the hit television show, The Deadliest Catch, comes a thrilling true adventure tale in the Alaskan seasA Malaysian cargo ship on its way from Seattle, Washington to China ran aground off the coast of western Alaska's Aleutian Islands on December 8, 2004 during a brutal storm, leading to one of the most incredible Coast Guard rescue missions of all time.Two Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopte...

The Ship Captain’s Medical Guide is intended primarily for use onvessels where there is no medical professional, such as a doctor,on board. It provides assistance and direction for crew memberswhen it becomes necessary for them to assess and treat traumaand medical illness. Ships and fishing vessels which carryCategory A or Category B stores are required also to carry acopy of the guide.This new guide, the 24th edition, continues to k...

The ultimate teenage murder game continues!Based on Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, the sequel to the original Danganronpa, the manga series Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair contains many scenes only hinted at in the game!The conclusion! Caught in the execution procedure by mistake, Fuyuhiko desperately requires emergency aid. Due to the school rules, Monokuma has no choice but to save Fuyuhiko's life. But never one to let an ev...

Dr. Tiffany Vance's world is built on a single principle: information must be protected. Her life's work, the Silicon Archives, is a digital fortress—impenetrable, orderly, and absolute.But someone just picked the lock.The vandal is Julian 'Jax' Thorne, a brilliant, anti-establishment hacker who sees her fortress as a cage and its data as something that yearns to be free. He didn't come to steal; he came with a warning. A shadowy conspiracy is exploiting th...

High school student Hajime Hinata must be the "Ultimate" at something--after all, he got accepted to Hope's Peak Academy, which takes only the nation's elite teens (whether they're elite at being gangsters, gymnasts, or hamster breeders!).But he doesn't know what his special talent is...only that he and his classmates have been given a surprise summer vacation on Jabberwock Island. It may be a tropical paradise, but their sinister teddy bear headmaster Monokuma sti...

This lavishly illustrated monograph is the definitive publication on the internationally renowned Canadian artist Marcel Dzama. Characterized by an immediately recognizable cast of fanciful and frightening characters, Dzama’s work draws from a diverse range of influences, including Dada and Marcel Duchamp. While the artist is best known for his delicate psychosexual drawings, his work also includes sculpture, painting, and film. More than 500 color images from the late 1990s through the pr...