Insectpedia introduces you to the wonders of the insect world while inviting you to make discoveries of your own. Featuring dozens of entries on topics ranging from murder hornets and the insect apocalypse to pioneering entomologists such as Margaret James Strickland Collins and Douglas Tallamy, this beautifully illustrated, pocket-friendly encyclopedia dispels many common myths about…
This book is like a hug from a friend when you need it most: It s both a reminder that it s normal to feel things deeply and a companion for actually feeling better. With tons of empathy and a touch of humor, artist Carissa Potter offers wisdom on how to move through difficult emotions…
A celebration of the myriad roles plants play in religious, cultural, and national festivities across the globe. Whether they’re used as visual decoration in wreaths, garlands, and religious shrines, or deployed for their rich scents and flavors in festive recipes, plants are integral to a multitude of religious, cultural, and national festivities around the world….
Part of our everyday lives, filled with flavor and delivering seasonal joy throughout the year, fruits offer a carnival of color and taste in addition to many fascinating forms and varieties. From grapes and bananas to citrus, pomegranate, and avocadoes, a wealth of delicious and beautiful plants from around the world are celebrated in Kew Pocketbooks:…
Rather more closely related to animals than plants, the Fungi occupy their own completely distinctive kingdom in the natural world. These spore-producing organisms—which have long been prized for both their culinary and medicinal powers—play vital roles in the health and ecology of their habitats, roles that are still not fully understood by scientists. This pocketbook…
A zesty compendium of spices and herbs, both familiar and obscure. Hot, spicy, aromatic, zingy, floral, earthy, and fragrant: herbs and spices are integral to our daily meals and drinks, delivering flavor and color in abundance. Kew Pocketbooks: Herbs and Spices offers a glimpse into this lively world with forty stunning paintings from the Kew…
The Sicilian mafia is probably the most famous criminal organisation in the world. It’s been known to exist at least since the 1870s, when a Sicilian landlord documented how a local group of mafia members threatened and harassed his business to the point that he had to escape from the island. Over the years, the…
LETTING YOUR SHADOW INa mindfulness deck for exploring big emotions Letting the shadow in is about listening. Instead of trying to overcome the parts of ourselves we deem unlovable, we welcome them so that we can transform.Letting Your Shadow In contains 18 shadow prompts, 18 mindfulness exercises, 9 insights, and 9 affirmations to help you explore your…
Lichenpedia is a delightfully entertaining and beautifully illustrated A–Z treasury about the strange, obscure, and remarkable world of lichens, from their unique and essential roles in nature and the ways they are used in dyeing, brewing, and drug-making to how they have inspired writers and artists, from Henry David Thoreau to modern painters. In 100 brief…
President John F. Kennedy’s rousing “We will go to the Moon” speech in 1961 before the US Congress catalyzed the celebrated Apollo program, spurring the US Geological Survey’s scientists to map the Moon. Over the next eleven years a team of twenty-two, including a dozen illustrator-cartographers, created forty-four charts that forever changed the path of…
Magic lives within all of us. It is our intuition, our power, our inner wisdom, and the energy we put out into the world. You don’t need to have a special gift to practice magic. You also don’t need to be defined as anything other than yourself to practice magic. Magicka demystifies the world of magic, making…
Potato Bones is a illustrated collection of text works, poems, and prose that In t Veld wrote between 2016 and 2024. During this period, he published a wide variety of books under the name Happy Potato Press. Those books, or better said, potatoes, took many forms and ranged from poetry to picture books and from…
If we say ‘menrui’ we are saying ‘pasta’ in Japanese and, just like in Italy, this word encompasses a vast and varied world of types, recipes and occasions in which this much-loved dish is cooked. In this book, illustrator Yocci and Aya Yamamoto, founder of Gastronomia Yamamoto, both born and raised in Japan, take us…
Kurashima’s interactive book objects feature graphic patterns that are animated by the reader viewer with a special foil contained within the book, so that figures and forms are created out of optical overlays, set in motion and then disappear again. Here, an astonishing panorama of unseen moiré effects (i.e. interference patterns produced when an opaque…
This beautifully designed gift book contains many of the best-loved inspirational quotations and passages from Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh. Basic meditation instructions and messages of peace, love, insight, understanding, and compassion accompany two-color illustrations throughout, with blank pages for personal reflections and inspiration. Moments of Mindfulness is a perfect journal for spiritual exploration. Moments of Mindfulness is…
MOON CYCLES GUIDED JOURNAL It s A Phase We re Moving Through Use this guided journal to follow the shifting phases of the moon and to chart your emotions as you move through time and space. The moon is always up to something—connect the dots between your experience in the world and the moon s…