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All the life lessons, values, and advice from pop culture that parents need to raise geeky children.It takes a starship to raise a child. Or a time machine. Or a tribe of elves. Fortunately, Geek Parenting offers all that and more, with thoughtful mini-essays that reveal profound child-rearing advice (and mistakes) from the most beloved tales of geek culture. Nerds and norms alike can take counsel from some of the most iconic parentchild pairings found in pop culture: Aunt May and Peter Parker, Benjamin and Jake Sisko, Elrond and Arwen, even Cersei and Joffrey. Whether you're raising an Amazon princess, a Jedi Padawan, a brooding vampire, or a standard-issue human child, Geek Parenting helps you navigate the ion storms, alternate realities, and endless fetch quests that come with being a parent.Includes parenting experts from across time and space, such as:Luke and VaderKorra and TenzinWednesday and Morticia AddamsFrodo and BilboRose and Jackie TylerCarl and MichonneThor, Loki, and OdinStarbuck, Apollo and AdamaStewie and LoisSarah Manning and Mrs. S.T'Challa and T'ChakaSpock, Sarek, and AmandaClaudia and LestatSan and MoroPerseus and ZeusDorothy and Auntie EmBruce Wayne and AlfredBuffy and GilesMeg Murry and Aunt BeastOrpheus and MorpheusPaul Atreides and Lady JessicaKal-El and Jor-ElChakotay and KolopakScott and Dr. EvilDiana and HippolytaAlexander and Worf

From the bestselling STUFF series comes this pocket-sized guide to eating a fresh, plant-based diet.

Celebrating the weird, gory, freaky, amazing horror fiction of the 70s and 80s. With vintage art, hilarious commentary, recommended reading, and poignant creator biographies.

Arriving just in time for the 35th anniversary of the film, this picture book adaptation will introduce everyone s favorite alien to a new generation of fans!

From the team that brought young readers KID ATHLETES, KID PRESIDENTS, and KID ARTISTS comes KID AUTHORS, a lively look into the childhoods of the world s most beloved writers.

This handy little gift book is the perfect pocket guide to your garden!For the green thumb in your life, this delightful companion is blooming with fun facts and helpful ideas for everything from indoor seed-starting totips for hassle-free roses. What's the difference between heirlooms and hybrids? How can I stop weeds from invading myflowerbeds? And what's the best way to attract helpful, beneficial insects? All these questionsand more are answered for gardeners of all ages and experience.Topics include:*;Tips for Hassle-Free Roses *;How to Grow Perfect Tomatoes *;How to Start Seeds Indoors *;How to Extend the Growing Season And more!

A perfect gift for hungry dorm-dwellers, this must-have pocket guide will help students make and eat healthy snacks, meals, and other tasty bites. Discover quick breakfasts to help you makeit to class on time, backpack-friendly lunches, dormmate dinners for a crowd, study breaksnacks, and of course an infallible recipe for microwave mug cakeplus basic tools, terms, nutrition,budgeting guides, and safety tips for novice cooks. No matter if you've got a microwave and an electrickettle or a full-sized kitchen, this book will have you well-fed and back to studying (or videogames) in no time. Recipes include:*;Breakfast Burritos *;Hummus and Veggie Wraps *;Healthy Avocado and Sunflower Seed Sandwich *;Bacon: Microwaved or Panfried *;Chocolate-Covered Popcorn *;And more!

Cinderella meets cosplay in this geeky YA romance that takes place once upon a con

An easy, elegant, and pocket-sized gift book packed with everything a bride needs to plan her dream wedding. This petite handbook is a personal wedding planner you can carry in your pocket! The perfect engagement present or planning handbook for any soon-to-be bride, this manual is packed with tips to plan, execute, and enjoy the perfect engagement and wedding, including: *; How to Set a Budget *; How to Select Your Attendants *; How to Find the Dress *; How to Make Your Guests Comfortable *; How to Handle Showers and Parties

Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations reveal how Leonardo da Vinci, Beatrix Potter, Keith Haring, and other great artists in history coped with regular-kid problems.Every great artist started out as a kid. Forget the awards, the sold-out museum exhibitions, and the timeless masterpieces. When the world's most celebrated artists were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you.Jackson Pollock'sfamily moved constantlyhe lived in eight different cities before he was sixteen years old.Georgia O'Keeffelived in the shadow of her ';perfect' older brother Francis. AndJean-Michel Basquiattriumphed over poverty to become one of the world's most influential artists.Kid Artiststells their stories and more with full-color cartoon illustrations on nearly every page. Other subjects includeClaude Monet,Jacob Lawrence,Leonardo da Vinci,Vincentvan Gogh,Pablo Picasso,Frida Kahlo,Beatrix Potter,Yoko Ono,Dr. Seuss,Emily Carr,Keith Haring,Charles Schulz, andLouise Nevelson.

Introduce your baby to a world of flavors with easy-to-make recipes for homemade baby food, featuring healthy ingredients, baby-friendly spices, and cuisines from India, China, France, Mexico, Morocco, and the rest of the globe. Baby food is a terrific way to share the flavors you love, nurture development through wholesome ingredients, and encourage lifelong adventurous eating. So why limit your options to just bland mush? It's time to think outside the jar! With Around the World in 80 Purees, you can create baby food inspired by the cuisines of India, China, France, Mexico, Morocco, and the rest of the globe. The recipes are quick and easy, with imaginative variations featuring your favorite spices and flavors. Continue the culinary adventure as your little one becomes a toddler by offering a range of internationally inspired simple solids. Broaden your baby's palate by the spoonful! Selections from the Table of Contents: Baby-Friendly Spices First Foods around the World Equipment A Whole Wide World of Purees - For Babies 6 Months and Up: - Indian Saag Masala - Nigerian Isu - Moroccan Figs and Apricots with Aniseed - Chinese Congee - English Peas with a Hint of Mint A Spoonful of Flavor - For Babies 7-9 Months and Up - Iranian Rosewater Vanilla Smoothie - Ethiopian Niter Kibbeh - Egyptian Fava Beans - Japanese Carrot Soba - Turkish Seasoned Lamb Kebabs The Well-Seasoned High Chair - For Babies 10 Months and Up - Mexican Atole - Italian Pastina with Parmesan and Nutmeg - Spanish Pasta Romesco - Lebanese Muhallabia - Taiwanese Lou Rou Fan

Abeautifully illustrated, action-packed middle grade adventure in the spirit of Edward Gorey and Lemony Snicket.With fantastic Victorian-esque design, fast-paced action, and plenty of puzzles to solve, this middle grade mystery is a fun and engaging read for even the most reluctant readers.Warren the 13th is the lone bellhop, valet, groundskeeper, and errand boy of his family's ancient hotel. The strange, shadowy mansion is full of crooked corridors and mysterious riddlesand it just might be home to a magical treasure known as the All-Seeing Eye. But if Warren is going to find the hidden treasure, he'll need to solve several other mysteries first: What is the strange creature lurking in the hotel boiler room? Who is the ghostly girl creeping around the garden's hedge maze? And why is the hotel's only guest covered in bandages? Full of puzzles, secret codes, outrageous inventions, and hundreds of intricate illustrations,Warren the 13th and The All-Seeing Eyewill delight and confound readers of allages.

Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations show how Tiger Woods, Gabby Douglas, Bruce Lee, Billie Jean King, and other budding sports champions faced kid-sized challenges growing up. Forget the gold medals, the championships, and the undefeated seasons. When all-star athletes were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you. Baseball legend Babe Ruth was such a troublemaker, his family sent him to reform school. Race car champion Danica Patrick fended off bullies who told her ';girls can't drive.' And football superstar Peyton Manning was forced to dance the tango in his school play.Kid Athletestells all of their stories and more with full-color cartoon illustrations on every page. Other subjects include Billie Jean King, Jackie Robinson, Yao Ming, Gabby Douglas, Tiger Woods, Julie Krone, Bruce Lee, Muhammad Ali, Bobby Orr, Lionel Messi, and more!

Celebrate man's other best friendthe catin this delightful gift book for pet lovers, feline fans, and anyone who appreciates cats and the dudes who love them.Countless books and blogs have extolled the virtues of the Cat Ladynow photographer David Williams celebrates cat-owning men and the precious kitties who have stolen their hearts. His subjects represent a cross-section of American societymusicians and artists, soldiers and CEOs, truck drivers and tattoo artistswith one very furry common denominator. These fun, fuzzy, and offbeat portraits are full of personality, and the accompanying stories share everything from ';how we met' to how the cats earned their names.

Yum-Yum Bento is back with 52 more easy seasonal-themed bento lunches. From the depths of winter to the height of summer, a beautiful lunch can brighten any day. Japanese bento boxes are portable and pretty meals packed with healthy portions and plenty of cheer. And they're outrageously cute! With Yum-Yum Bento All Year Round, you'll fall in love with 52 tasty, in-season lunches. Spring into make-ahead action with packing tips, tutorials, side dish recipes, and more. From summer Sunshine Smiles to Christmas Gingerbread Friends, there's a bento just perfect for your lunchbox today. Selections from the Table of Contents: Springtime Fun: Easter Chicks Dainty Daffodils Green Pea Brothers Summertime Splash: Rainbow Sushi Cheerful Crab Seashell Fun Fall Frenzy: A Pear Anywhere Fried Rice Jack-o-Lantern Pumpkin Twins Winter Wonderland: Tomato Santas Rudolph the Red-Nosed Bagel Penguin Elves

TheNew York Timesbest seller makes the perfect graduation gift for young adults in the real world! This ultimate pocket-sized guide for life after school is filled with information for every step of the road to adulthood. Just because you've got a diploma in hand doesn't mean you know everythingespecially if it's doing laundry, cleaning your house, or acing an interview. Topics include: How to Find Your First Apartment How to Write the Perfect Resume How to Survive Living with Your Parents How to Make (and Stick to!) a Budget How to Build A Professional Wardrobe

Expert cooking tips and timeless kitchen wisdom make this culinary how-to handbook a must-have for home cooks of all skill levels. You don't need expensive gadgets, cutting-edge cutlery, or a rack of exotic spices to be a great cook. You just need the timeless wisdom found in Stuff Every Cook Should Know. You'll learn *; How to Care for Cast Iron *; How to Sharpen a Knife *; How to Reduce Waste *; How to Make Meals Ahead Plus measurement conversions, kitchen organizing tips, basic knife cuts, how to stop onions from making you cry, and much more. Now you're cooking!

Grab a handful of glitter and get your girl power on with 25 subversive and easy-to-make projects. This is what a feminist crafter looks like! Crafting with Feminism features 25 irreverent and easy-to-make projects that celebrate everything that rocks about girls, gals, and badass women. Wear your ideology on your sleeve by creating fierce custom merit badges. Prove that the political is personal with DIY power panties. Get cozy with a handmade Huggable Uterus Body Pillow, or craft heroine finger puppets to honor great women like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Frida Kahlo, and bell hooks. Featuring tips on everything from beginner sewing stitches to building a kickin' party playlist, and a totally empowering forward from ';Queen of Geeks' Felicia Day, this book has everything you need for an awesome crafternoon.

A fun and feminist look at forgotten women in science, technology, and beyond, from the bestselling author of THE FANGIRL'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY You may think you know women's history pretty well. But have you ever heard of. . . Alice Ball, the chemist who developed an effective treatment for leprosyonly to have the credit taken by a man? Mary Sherman Morgan, the rocket scientist whose liquid fuel compounds blasted the first U.S. satellite into orbit? Huang Daopo, the inventor whose weaving technology revolutionized textile production in Chinacenturies before the cotton gin? Smart women have always been able to achieve amazing things, even when the odds were stacked against them. In Wonder Women, author Sam Maggs tells the stories of the brilliant, brainy, and totally rad women in history who broke barriers as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers, and inventors. Plus, interviews with real-life women in STEM careers, an extensive bibliography,and a guide to women-centric science and technology organizationsall to show the many ways the geeky girls of today can help to build the future. Table of Contents: Women of Science Women of Medicine Women of Espionage Women of Innovation Women of Adventure

A darkly clever take on Agatha Christie s And Then There Were None and other classics of the genre, Ten Dead Comedians is a marvel of literary ventriloquism, with hilarious comic monologues in the voice of every suspect. It s also an ingeniously plotted puzzler with a twist you ll never see coming!

Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose, and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, it's up to Jacob Portman to channel his newfound abilities and defeat Caul before he loses his friends--and their world--forever. This action-packed adventure features all-new Peculiar photographs from times and places all over the world.

Courtroom sketch artists have been documenting trials for the media since the mid-twentieth century. This book presents the accomplishments of Marilyn Church who has covered many infamous trials, from Woody Allen and O J Simpson to Martha Stewart. It focuses on 30 sensational trials and includes brief summaries, and caption commentary by Church.

The perfect gift for the golf lover in your life, this handbook is a pocket-sized companion ready to go out on the green. Tips and tricks include: How to Calculate Your Handicap How to Play in the Rain How to Keep Fit for Golfing Games to Play within the Game The Best Golf Travel Destinations

Abby embarks on a quest to save her best friend Gretchen when she realises a demon has taken hold of her

In the twenty-first-century economy,there's only one way to guaranteeyour child a bright and happyfuture: make that baby an Internetcelebrity. But how? In How to MakeYour Baby an Internet Celebrity,you'll learn to assess your baby'sbest attributes (is she smarter thana chimp?), assign a compellingscreen persona (clumsiness =on-screen gold), and plan theultimate viral Internet video. Makeyour baby an Internet celebrity . . .because the world needs cutenessnow more than ever!

';A genre-defying blend of crime writing and science fiction.'Alexandra Alter, The New York TimesNominated for the 2015 Edgar Award for Best Paperback OriginalCritically acclaimed author Ben H. Winters delivers this explosive final installment in the Edgar Award winning Last Policeman series.With the doomsday asteroid looming, Detective Hank Palace has found sanctuary in the woods of New England, secure in a well-stocked safe house with other onetime members of the Concord police force. But with time ticking away before the asteroid makes landfall, Hank's safety is only relative, and his only relativehis sister Nicoisn't safe. Soon, it's clear that there's more than one earth-shattering revelation on the horizon, and it's up to Hank to solve the puzzle before time runs out...for everyone.

The Internet offers an unprecedented opportunity for cats to become superstar ';personalities' with revenue-generating multimedia brandsbut only if you know how to cash in. WithHow to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity, readerscan unlock the secrets of grooming your kitty for success, creating a terrific viral video, managing your cat's burgeoning stardom, and much more. Packed with practical tips and helpful diagrams, this indispensable resource shows how ordinaryhousecats can follow in the venerable pawprints of the Internet's brightest stars.

For many years, television comedy was an exclusive all boys' clubuntil a brilliant comedian named Carol Leifer came along, blazing a trail for funny women everywhere. From Late Night with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live to Seinfeld, The Ellen Show, and Modern Family, Carol has written for and/or performed on some of the best TV comedies of all time. This hilarious collection of essays charts her extraordinary three-decade journey through show business, illuminating her many triumphs and some missteps along the wayand offering valuable lessons for women and men in any profession. Part memoir, part guide to life, and all incredibly funny, How to Succeed in Business without Really Crying offers tips and tricks for getting ahead, finding your way, and opening locked doorseven if you have to use a sledgehammer.