Abstracting Craft : The Practiced Digital Hand Malcolm McCullough Midwest Book Review: The art of producing digital crafts is analyzed and revealed in a study which uses a personal tone, with examples from various disciplines, to examine new artistic challenges in digital production. From a treatise on how creativity can fit into digital computing to chapters which connections between inspiration and medium choice, this provides an important examination.	ORDER

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The Rock Pack James Henke, Ron Van Der Meer This fetching pop-up book promises readers hours of diversion and entertainment. Pull the compact disc out of the back pocket of the blue jeans that cover the front of The Rock Pack and listen to rock pioneers such as Ray Davies and Martha Reeves discuss their experiences while you interact with more than 50 years of rock-and-roll history. By the time you've finished thumbing through the booklets tucked into artfully designed pockets, peering behind posters advertising Otis Redding and Chuck Berry concerts, greeting the Shirelles (who pop up in the sixties), answering the Jimi Hendrix quiz and playing with models of his guitars, and turning a dial to check out Madonna's various incarnations, you'll have a comprehensive view of the evolution of rock-and-roll--from early blues through the erection of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. All of the elements that make up this book are held together by a time line that combines information about rock icons, from B.B. King and Ruth Brown to Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam, with information that puts the music in historical context.

Gymnastics : Balancing Acts Christina Lessa Gymnastics captivates the hearts and imaginations of millions of spectators and aspiring athletes like no other sport. Featuring portraits and action shots taken exclusively for the book by accomplished photographer Christina Lessa, Gymnastics: Balancing Acts showcases more than 30 gymnastic champions, and features anecdotes by Dominique Dawes, Shannon Miller, Bart Conner, and many others. 200+ color photos.

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The Jewels of Lalique Yvonne Brunhammer

The Architecture Pack : A Unique, Three-Dimensional Tour of Architecture over the Centuries Ron Van Der Meer, Deyan Sudjic At last, a pop-up book for adults! The Architecture Pack is a building lover's dream--delectable paper models of the Roman Colosseum, Chartres Cathedral, the 1972 Munich Olympic Stadium, and the new Getty Museum in Los Angeles are among the architectural wonders that literally leap out from every page. As if these models weren't enough, The Architecture Pack also includes all kinds of unexpected treasures: a Dutch house you can build yourself, transparencies that reveal how cities or buildings grow, and many more objects that instruct even as they delight.

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The Brain Pack : An Interactive, Three-Dimensional Exploration of the Mysteries of the Mind Ron Van Der Meer, A. C. M. Dudink, Pamela Clifford The Brain Pack is an interactive, three-dimensional tour of the ever-convoluted human brain. Egyptians and early Greeks believed that we thought with our hearts. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, said our brain was doing all the work. Medieval scholars disagreed, claiming that we thought with our souls. When Renaissance philosopher René Descartes proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," the world changed, and--more than 350 years later--magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography proved him right.

An Atlas of Rare City Maps : Comparative Urban Design, 1830-1842 Melville C. Branch For the visual historians among us, An Atlas of Rare City Maps is a cartographic feast. It presents 40 map plans of cities in Europe, Russia, the United States, and Asia--all published in the 19th century by England's Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and all commissioned and drawn within a period of 13 years. See Munich, Calcutta, Dublin, and Warsaw, Madrid, Moscow, and New York as they once were, and relish the hand-colored, hand-lettered steel engravings. The maps are artistic gems, representative of an era of skill, and reproduced in fine detail.

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Monet's House : An Impressionist Interior Heide Michels, Guy Bouchet (Photographer), Helen Ivor (Translator) This book is the first to take readers on a tour of the glorious house where Monet and his wife and their eight children lived for 40 years. Exquisite photographs by Guy Bouchet reveal each room, authentically propped to appear exactly as it did when the artist lived there. 200 color photos.

Naked : Flowers Exposed Walter Hubert (Creator) One hundred of the world's foremost photographers and celebrities use flowers to express their fantasies, visions, and dreams in this extraordinarily beautiful collection of images.

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The Design of Everyday Things Donald A. Norman Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans--from physical objects to computer programs to conceptual tools--must read this book, and it is an equally tremendous read for anyone who has to use anything created by another human. It could forever change how you experience and interact with your physical surroundings, open your eyes to the perversity of bad design and the desirability of good design, and raise your expectations about how things should be designed. Highest Recommendation.

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