The #1 New York Times Bestselling edition of the classic Night Before Christmas poem is now available in a board book format with beautiful, original illustrations by award-winning illustrator Charles Santore. This special format showcases the best-selling features of the original classic edition on board stock that will withstand repeated handling without tearing or fraying.

This beautiful board book edition of the #1 New York Times best-selling Night Before Christmas is the ultimate addition to any family home library for Christmas time reading. Full-color, original artwork by award-winning illustrator Charles Santore is faithfully reproduced on sturdy board stock that will withstand rereading and repeated handling without tearing or fraying. Reading this most-loved poem is a classic family tradition and adds a magical component to every child’s Christmas!

FROM HELL occupies a monumental place in the history of the graphic novel: a Victorian masterpiece of murder and madness which has won numerous awards, spawned a major Hollywood film, and remained a favorite of readers around the world for over two decades. Now, Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Comics present THE FROM HELL COMPANION, an astonishing selection of Alan Moore's original scripts and sketches for the landmark graphic novel, with copious annotations, commentary, and illustrations by Eddie Campbell. Here for the first time are a set of pages, including some of Moore's greatest writing, which have never been seen by anyone except his collaborator. Joining them are Campbell's first-hand accounts of the project's decade-long development, complete with photos, anecdotes, disagreements, and wry confessions. Arranged in narrative order, these perspectives form a fascinating mosaic, an opportunity to read FROM HELL with fresh eyes, and a tour inside the minds of two giants of their field.

Il volume racconta la scoperta, da parte del capitano di marina Charles Moore, di una enorme massa galleggiante di rifiuti in pieno Oceano Pacifico. Moore vi incappò con il suo catamarano nel 1997 e da quel momento non ha più smesso di denunciarne l'esistenza agli enti preposti alla salvaguardia dell'ambiente e alle accademie scientifiche. Per farlo però è dovuto ritornare più volte in loco per raccogliere quante più evidenze scientifiche possibili perché la sua denuncia fosse presa seriamente. Questa specie di discarica fluttuante, chiamata Great Pacific Garbage Patch, ha l'estensione del Canada. È composta di rifiuti plastici, alcuni integri, altri ridotti a 'zuppa' per l'azione dei raggi UV e dei processi chimici. Insomma, una distesa infinita di plastica, ormai sbriciolata in molecole sintetiche, intorno a cui nuotano e vivono milioni di pesci e animali marini di ogni genere, il cui nutrimento inevitabilmente si compone anche di quegli elementi tossici. Il racconto di questa scoperta permette a Moore di descrivere la vita segreta e le nascoste proprietà della plastica. Dai cartocci del latte alle molecole di polimeri, piccole abbastanza da penetrare la pelle umana o da essere inavvertitamente inalate, la plastica è sospettata di contribuire a una serie di malattie gravi tra cui infertilità, autismo, disfunzione della tiroide e alcune forme di cancro. Un libro che nell'ammonirci a ripensare radicalmente la nostra civiltà della plastica, al contempo ci sprona a una mobilitazione ecologista radicale.

This box set includes the cherished poem in an illustrated book format, accompanied by three ornaments replicating those in the illustrations. The poem is faithfully reproduced and accompanied by Charles Santore’s lavish illustrations on every spread. The special gatefold is so spectacular you won’t want to turn the page. Five-color printing on the cover and interior pages.

From renowned author Clement C. Moore comes a keepsake edition of the holiday classic featuring a lavish gatefold spread and three ornaments printed with the original illustrations from the book. Read this illustrated gift book as a family, and hang these keepsake collectors items right on the branches of your tree year after year.

“Santore has illustrated many classic stories, including Snow White, The Wizard of Oz, and The Little Mermaid, and he now brings to life Moore’s ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas’ in characteristically elegant and detail-rich paintings. His is a very traditional vision, as he brings readers inside a stately colonial home, tastefully appointed with wreaths, garlands, and stockings. In a particularly nice bit of design, when the narrator ‘Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash,’ readers can do the same, opening a double-page gatefold that reveals a quiet village blanketed by snow—and a sleigh silhouetted against the moon. It’s a gorgeous interpretation of a beloved holiday classic. All ages.” —Publisher's Weekly, starred review

Since it was first published anonymously in 1823, the poem “The Night Before Christmas” has enchanted children with the story of St. Nicholas climbing down the chimney and filling all the stockings before springing back to his sleigh. Many families read the poem every year, and now they have an edition to treasure. The poem, faithfully reproduced here, is accompanied by Charles Santore's lavish illustrations.

Doing the Right Thing explores the ethical and moral breakdown that is hitting culture from all sides. Through panel discussions, interviews, and live student questions it raises ethical issues in a non-condemning but challenging way, stimulating thought, discussion, and action. The DVD sessions and accompanying participant's guide encourage viewers to examine themselves and how ethical and character issues relate to their lives at home, school, and the workplace.As a result of this discussion and self-examination, participants will exhort each other and promote an ethic of virtue in their spheres of influence and in the culture at large. This examination of ethics consists of six sessions, each designed to be completed in approximately one hour. Each session consists of approximately thirty minutes of video and thirty minutes of discussion.Session topics include:-How did we get into this mess? -Is there truth, a moral law we all can know? -If we know what is right, can we do it? -What does it mean to be human? -Ethics in the market place -Ethics in public life

Since it was first published anonymously in 1823, the poem “The Night Before Christmas” has enchanted children with the story of St. Nicholas climbing down the chimney and filling all the stockings before springing back to his sleigh. Many families read the poem every year, and now they have an edition to treasure. The poem, faithfully reproduced here, is accompanied by Charles Santore's lavish illustrations.

Places--buildings, neighborhoods, landmarks, and cultural and commercial institutions--help define a city's unique character, its 'sense of place.' This is the key concept behind Placenotes, a wholly new type of travel guide that features the 'one of a kind' places that make a city distinctive. Not a conventional travel book, Placenotes is a set of individual cards that describe specific places. The front of each card has a color photograph that captures the spirit of a particular place. The back of the card tells the story of the place, often with commentary by a local expert. It also provides all the practical details you need to plan your visit. A map, index of places, and key to symbols comes in the set. The cards are contained in a sturdy box with a lid that snaps shut with invisible magnets.Selected Placenotes-PortlandPioneer SquareHillsdale LibraryThe Pearl DistrictIra Keller FountainChapman Elementary SchoolThe Rebuilding CenterThe Lovejoy PlazaAce HotelHoyt ArboretumSilver Falls State ParkTimberline LodgeJean Vollum National Capital CenterMt. Angel Abbey LibraryInternational Rose Test Garden

Places--buildings, neighborhoods, landmarks, and cultural and commercial institutions--help define a city's unique character, its 'sense of place.' This is the key concept behind Placenotes, a wholly new type of travel book that features the 'one of a kind' places that make a city distinctive. This set of Placenotes guides you to places where you can experience the authentic culture of Fort Worth. For visitors, these are the must-see places. For residents, Placenotes offers the perfect opportunity to become deeply acquainted with the places that distinguish their city from all others--an opportunity to invest in the life of the place. Not a conventional travel book, Placenotes is a set of individual cards that describe unique places in the city. The front of each card has a color photograph that captures the spirit of a particular place. The back of the card tells the story of the place, often with commentary by a local expert. It also provides all the practical details you need to plan your visit. A map, index of places, and key to symbols comes in the set. The cards are contained in a sturdy box with a lid that snaps shut with invisible magnets.Selected Placenotes-Fort WorthFort Worth Water GardensKimbell Museum of ArtFort Worth Botanic GardenSid Richardson MuseumAmon Carter MuseumTandy HillsBass Performance HallBotanical Research InstituteFort Worth ModernMarty Leonard ChapelNational Cowgirl Museum & Hall of FameThe StockyardsSundance SquareCaddo-LBJ National Grasslands

Representing the perspectives of several different specialties, Moore (Emery University Medical Center; otolaryngology, Grady Memorial Hospital) discusses issues pertinent to pediatric facial trauma from the viewpoint of the oral surgeon, neurosurgeon, dentist, ophthalmologist, otolaryngologist, radiologist, plastic surgeon, and craniomaxillofacial surgeon. The reference compiles current concepts and procedures in the examination, diagnosis, and treatment of these injuries in pediatric patients, with chapters on airway issues, the use of restorable material in surgery, soft tissue and bony injury, orbital trauma, mandibular fractures, trauma to developing teeth, frontal sinus fractures and neurological issues, and injuries related to facial growth and fracture patterns. A final chapter covers imaging. The art program includes b&w medical images and color clinical and surgical photos. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

In the summer of 1947 something mysterious crashed in the New Mexican desert near the town of Roswell. Whether it was an alien spacecraft manned by tiny humanlike beings or—the US government's official explanation—a scientific research balloon has long been a subject of passionate debate. Transcending the believer-versus-skeptic debate, anthropologists Benson Saler and Charles A. Ziegler contend that the Roswell story is best understood as a modern American myth. They show how the story—and its continual retelling—tap into modern fears about the power of technology, the duplicity of the government, and the power of the media. UFO Crash at Roswell also includes physicist Charles Moore's meticulous account of how 1947 experiments to launch balloon-borne radar reflectors may have led to the Roswell UFO myth.

Unmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski?America's 'Ultimate Outsider'

• Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation
• Insights into the author of Tales of Ordinary Madness, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and Run with the Hunted
• Insights into Sheri Martinelli: the protege of Anais Nin, an accomplished painter, and the mistress of Ezra Pound Charels Bukowski's persona as the Dirty Old Man of American Literature is just that: a persona, a mask beneath which there was a man better read and more cultured than most people realize.

Sheri Martinelli was one of the favored few for whom Bukowski dropped the mask and engaged in serious discussion of literature and art, and for that reason the discovery and publication of his letters to her give us a more complete picture of this complicated man.

This collaboration between two distinguished architects and former colleagues is a joyous celebration of admired places and a thoughtful consideration of the role that design has played in giving these places their memorable qualities. It is also an invitation to readers to inhabit the chambers of the book with their own imaginations to join in the making of the Memory Palace proposed. The authors' informal, witty, and anecdotal style extends to the illustrations - the freehand travel sketches, line drawings, and watercolors of places they have remembered and enjoyed.Chambers for a Memory Palace consists of an exchange of letters in which one author recalls and the other responds to the elements considered essential to the art of successful place-making. Each of the book's chapters forms a chamber, and each chamber is inscribed with personal observations on the composition of places and the architectural elements central to each building, garden, court, monument, or open space described. The examples considered in these dialogues range from classic Western tradition to Asian temples and Islamic tombs, from ancient ruins to modern cities. In 'Axes that Reach/Paths that Wander,' Lyndon and Moore discuss the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, the Taj Mahal in Agra, Vaux le Vicomte in France, the Beverly Hills Civic Center, and the Kimbell Museum in Forth Worth. In 'Orchards that Measure/Pilasters that Temper,' they consider the rhythmic spacing of elements in the Mosque at Cordoba, the Cathedral at Bourges, the thousand-pillared mandapas of South Indian temples, the facades of Schauspielhaus in Berlin, and the Seagram building in New York City. They use these and many other examples to illustrate the ways in which architecture, experience, and memory intertwine to help us experience events and places.

This meticulous reprint of the Plan of Chicago reproduces all 142 plates from the original, 48 of which are in color. It also contains a color plate of the City Hall that was omitted from the 1909 edition. A new introduction by Kristen Schaffer details those parts of Burnham's draft that were excluded from the published book. The most visible document of the City Beautiful movement, this reprint still holds valuable lessons for today's architects and planners.

Princeton Architectural Press's Reprint Series was established in 1981 to make rare volumes on architecture available to a wider audience. The books' beautiful reproductions and finest quality printing and binding match those of the originals, while their 9-by-12-inch format makes them accessible and affordable. New introductions bring a modern voice to these classic texts, updating them to become invaluable contemporary resources. These critically acclaimed books are an essential addition to any library.

One day in 1943, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, something happened . . .
Suddenly the U.S.S. Eldridge, a fully manned destroyer escort, vanished into a green fog, within seconds appeared in Norfolk, Virginia, and then reappeared in Philadelphia!
For over thirty-six years officials have denied this, have denied any experimentation to render matter invisible -- have denied the reality of THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT.
If so, why --
* were all the men aboard ship who survived discharged as mentally unfit?
* did a scientific researcher on the project meet a mysterious death?
* were identities hidden, documents lost, and amazing connections between UFO sightings and events in the Bermuda Triangle denied?
THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT -- the first full-length documented report on a chilling unsolved mystery that's been discussed for years. Now, official documents and first-hand stories have been revealed. Here is the truth in a report so shattering it is difficult to believe it's NOT fiction.