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How can you tell someone is lying without looking at them? Which words make the funniest jokes? What’s the “luckiest” month? Author Wiseman spent 20 years roaming the back alleys of human behavior to draw the illuminating, thought-provoking conclusions in this wonderfully weird waltz through the quirks of everyday life. Subtitled “The Big Truths About The Small Things,” it’s fun, fascinating and full of surprises.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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For almost a century, Vanity Fair has chronicled the rich and famous. This stunning collection of more than 300 large-format color and black-and-white portraits from the magazine make for a star-studded stroll across time with an A-list cast of movie stars, pop tarts, politicians, writers, business titans and others from all walks of celebrity life. Your coffee table will look like a VIP stage just by having Portraits sitting on it.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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What are life’s most important lessons? Photographer and filmmaker Zuckerman logged 65,000 miles to pose the question to dozens of well-known people over the age of 65, all of them trailblazers in their respective fields. The result: this landmark coffee-table book of large-format portraits and first-person essays from Nelson Mandella, Henry Kissinger, Billie Jean King, Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Buzz Aldrin and 45 other iconic contributors, plus an accompanying DVD. If you could bottle up the been-there, done-that between these pages, you’d have an elixir for the ages.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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More than just a handsome coffee-table book, this “museum in a box” is super-packed with photos, artwork and more than 25 removable archival reproductions—like a Wonder Woman mask and a Justice Society decoder ring from 1942—that unfold the colorful history of the hands-down granddaddy of all comic book companies.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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One hundred experts from all walks of life share tips for doing all sorts of things quicker and more efficiently. Billionaire business mogul Richard Branson tells you how to apply for a loan. Oprah Winfrey’s favorite event planner, Colin Cowie, advises on throwing a dinner party. Broadcaster Hannah Storm offers her tips for getting going in the morning. Practical, entertaining and bearing the stamp of authenticity from a wide spectrum of people who certainly know what they’re talking about, this Guide has something for just about everybody.
Neil Pond, American Profile

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Vampires are in vogue again on TV and in the movies, and this interactive mystery puts you backtracking a “missing chapter” in the well-known tale of the most famous fictitious bloodsucker of them all. Eight removable clues, including a 1905 newspaper, a death certificate and a madman’s journal, all help lead you to the long-buried truth about the celebrated Count. Perfect bedtime reading for a dark, stormy night!
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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Rose, a former photographer for Los Angeles Times, snapped thousands of photos during the late 1970s and early ’80s of Southern California’s rich and famous at work and at play. This collection of more than 125 of his black and white prints transports you back to a freewheeling, not-that-distant era when movie stars, rock singers, athletes, club hoppers, dealmakers and politicians all rubbed glamorous elbows on the West Coast—and Rose was there, watching through his camera as the spectacle unfolded.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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Put your observational powers to the test with these three collections of picture puzzles, side-by-side photographs identical in almost every way—except the handful of teeny differences that your eagle eyes must spot. Originally published by LIFE magazine, which ignited the picture-puzzle craze you see in various other magazines today, these delightfully addictive visual challenges, in varying levels of difficultly, will provide hours of enjoyment for all ages.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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The essays from 20 experts are informative. The explanations of weather phenomena, mysteries and mechanisms are fascinating. And the evidence for global warming and climate change are impossible to dismiss. But the photos—Wow. More than 100 large-format color images capture the awesome, fleeting grandeur of tornadoes, floods, lightning storms, icebergs and other meteorological marvels. Weather will turn your coffee table into a window that brings you up close and much more personal with the raw recklessness of the elements than you’ll probably ever find yourself in real life—you hope.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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Christmas wasn’t always the warm-and-fuzzy holiday we know today. This colorful collection of antique illustrations from 19th century postcards, advertisements and storybooks reveal the season’s much darker roots, with depictions of creepy Santas, rat-roasting fairies, bawdy carolers and bawling children getting their bundle-of-switches comeuppance. For anyone who likes the smorgasbord of holiday sweetness tempered with a little pinch of seasoning salt, Christmas Curiosities makes a perfect stocking stuffer.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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