Yousuf Karsh's (1908-2002) lifelong ambition was to search for a form within a face, one that could become a symbol for a life that was purposeful, meaningful, and generally virtuous. This large-format volume brings together one-hundred of Karsh's most iconic images, including Muhammad Ali, Brigitte Bardot, Fidel Castro, and, Albert Einstein.

The way we use our language to convince and cajole is based on timeless principles - on repetition and variety, suspense and relief, expectation and satisfaction - that have been employed by writers and speakers since the Golden Age of Greece. This title presents an overview and analysis of the uses of rhetoric in the English language.

In 1961, Jane Jacobs' book The Death and Life of Great American Cities , revolutionized the fields of city planning and city architecture. Jacobs perceived that the new structures being built to replace the aging housing of older cities were often far worse. This book reveals the story of how Jacobs changed the way the world thought forever.

The timeless circle game 'The Farmer in the Dell' is one of the first that American children learn to play, and its happy, lilting song is among the first they learn to sing. This book includes a musical transcription, lyrics, and directions for playing the game.

Tom is so good at fooling around that he does little else. His Aunt Fidget Wonkham-Strong, who thinks this is too much like having fun, calls upon the fearsome Captain Najork and his hired sportsmen to teach him a lesson. So the Captain challenges Tom to three rounds of womble, muck, and sneedball, certain that he will win.

Trained early as an engraver, Hokusai studied under the master Sunsho, producing illustrated volumes of verse. His life was unsettled, his marriages uncertain, and his business affairs irregular, but his energy was boundless. This book looks at the life of Japanese illustrator and printmaker Hokusai.

An illustrated version of Stevenson's popular poem in which a child tells about her relationship with her shadow.

Longfellow's happiest hours were spent writing on the cluttered desk by the south window of his beloved Craigie House. This book aims to captures the happy atmosphere of that house, the author's affections for his daughters, and the painterly quality of his verse. It presents one of the sweetest poems in the English language.

Offers a call for the return to simple, straightforward words that say what they mean and mean what they say. This volume cuts a swath through the thickets of popular jargon, casting daylight on such linguistic deformities as 'interrogate with prejudice', 'unforeseen geological event', and 'critical power excursion'.

Focuses on those members of the animal kingdom whose habits are disagreeable, whose appearances are repellent, and whose continued existence need not necessarily be a foregone conclusion.

Barry Moser is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed wood engravers in the world. Portraits have long been a staple of his career, from his first book in 1970 onwards. This title brings together a collection of fifty of Moser's best known portraits, and includes portraits of: Charles Dickens; Edgar Allen Poe; and Jane Austen.

Rene Descartes was a highly influential philosopher, mathematician, and scientist and is regarded as the Father of modern philosophy and mathematics . This is the biography of Descartes, and it describes the life of Descartes, in the flesh and blood, rather than a technical analysis of his philosophical, scientific, and mathematical ideas.

This retelling of The Turnip , originally a Grimm's tale, first appeared in Walter de la Mare's well-known Tales Told Again . Here are two brothers: one greedy and duplicitous, the other selfless, poor. Their fates are forever altered by a giant turnip that springs from the good brother's field.

Suitable for those sharp-witted sleuths who love to wrestle with fiendishly clever puzzles and murderous mysteries, this title features a collection of brain-teasing detective investigations. Each case is presented as a brief dossier studded with clues, followed by a handful of questions designed to lead armchair investigators to the solution.

Catherine, the eponymous heroine, spent her childhood in Paris. In her youth, she lived with her gentle father, Georges Certitude. The real partners in this story are the father and daughter who share the simple pleasures of daily life: sitting in the church square, walking to school, and going to her ballet class every Thursday afternoon.

Catie Copley has a very special job - she is canine ambassador at a big, beautiful hotel in Boston. People are always coming and going, and sometimes they require her special skills to help them out. When a guest at the hotel loses her favorite bear, Catie knows that her moment of canine glory has come.

Housed at the Library of Congress, the archives of the Farm Security Administration are home to a unique visual record of American life from the late 1920s through the onset of the Second World War. Featuring 175 duotone photographs, this title offers the chance to see a selection of the famous and little-known images.

The circle-game The Farmer in the Dell is one of the first that children learn to play, and its happy lilting song is among the first they learn to sing. This work features a fresh setting for the lyrics - a farmstead in the Pennsylvania Dutch country. It includes drawings inspired by the folk art and decorative motifs of the Pennsylvania Dutch.

Aims to create an Italian Renaissance setting for the lyrics of The Twelve Days of Christmas . This book includes sheet music and lyrics for the home musician.