With the second week of No Shave November underway, we though you could you use a little encouragement. The Book of Beards is a $45 showing off 86 beards on 125 pages with 18 written contributions. The man on the cover of the book is fighting testicular cancer without health insurance, so the proceeds of the book are going to him to…
If iPhoto photo books aren't your thing, Mosaic's new service is something you want to check out. To create a new book, fire up the iOS app, lay out your book and order it. For $20, your 20-photo book will show up on your door 4 days later. The 7-inch square book features a unique cover design and great paper. If you're…
Amazon's sweet new Kindle is for sale. The 9.1mm thick, 7.5 ounce Kindle Paperwhite features a backlit, 221 PPI e-ink display with better contrast than ever before and a new touch layer that allowed Amazon to make the bezel smaller. It gets 8 weeks of battery life, even with the light on. Borrowing from the Kindle Fire, this new Kindle includes a…
Matt Marrocco is a artist from Chicago who wants to teach people how to draw comics. His Kickstarter project is a guide to not only drawing comics, but understanding the terminology and more when it comes to sketching masked heroes. The book includes "Non-Photo Blue" templates that are designed to help with learning perspective and scale. When scanned, the templates are easy…
I spend way too much time in meetings. I've created several different versions of a [form]http://512pixels.net/2011/09/the-capture-form) to take meeting notes, but I still struggle to keep my notes neat and organized. The Rhodia Meeting Book sets out to solve this problem. The 6.5" X 8.3" book has 80 sheets prepared just for meetings notes. Each page has space for the date, notes…
Droidmaker is a book that takes a detailed look at George Lucas' career from the early days, through Star Wars and on to Pixar. The book is a must-read for Lucas fans and critics alike. Unlike other books, however, Droidmaker looks at Lucas' career through the lens of the technology used by Lucas and those around him to create the movies that…
Last year at NAB, Apple announced Final Cut Pro X, a rebuilt version of the company's venerable video editing software. While not everyone was happy with the change, the new version of Final Cut Pro was designed to bring the power of video editing to the masses in a whole new way. The Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X paperback…
Andy Selsberg, former staff writer for the Onion, wrote a book — nay, a checklist — filled with thousands of random and unrecognized talents. Things such as "having very specific ideas about how you like your tea" or "catching drifts". Maybe you're good at spotting books which you know will make the perfect companion to your coffee table or gift for your…
I read this book on my Kindle while flying to WWDC last week, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. There are 88 chapters, some as short as a single paragraph, and they cover all manners of questions, challenges, tips, and goals that entrepreneurs and business owners face. It's written by Felix Dennis, the founder of Dennis Publishing. Dennis is an interesting character, and…
What if Darth Vader had been an involved father? Jeffrey Brown illustrates a slew of father-and-son moments (such as "Take Your Child to Work Day on the Death Star") comically showing what life might have been like for Luke had Darth been a dad like any other. "When I was your age, we didn't even have Star Destroyers..."
The Information Diet is a book for the modern man (and woman). Through television, movies, newspapers, magazines, Websites, apps, ads, Twitter, Facebook, RSS, and email (to name a few) we are barraged and inundated with continual information. Clay Johnson's book is aimed to help us consume content better. Though I personally am not a fan of the phrase "consume content", it's likely…
A new style book by Bernhard Roetzel (who has written quite a few fashion guides) is due out on May 15. A Guy's Guide to Style is 240 pages of "practical tips for all situations from business meetings and festive occasions to recreational activities". The only thing left for you to do will be to dress like you mean it. For a…
And speaking of favorite children's books, Amos: The Story of an Old Dog and His Couch, is another one of my favorites. This one was published in 1992, and 20 years later it's is still hilarious — even for adults (trust me, I've still got my copy, and Anna and I read it just a few weeks ago).
The Eleventh Hour is a hardcover, fully-illustrated, children's mystery book that was one of my favorites growing up. Written and illustrated in 1988 by Graeme Base this is an entertaining and puzzling work of art. Each page has clues hidden within the text and in the drawings and the borders as to what curious case took place on Horace the Elephant's 11th…
Inside Apple is a new book by Adam Lashinsky, the senior-editor-at-large for Fortune. His book is about the inner workings of Apple, primarily the company's very secretive nature, but also the work ethics, productivity values, salaries, and more. (Also available on the iBookstore.)
My wife and I were fortunate enough to spend nearly two weeks on The Big Island of Hawaii last spring. And this book was our tour guide. In fact, it was better than a tour guide because we could fit the book in our backpack and explore the Big Island just the two of us. Hawaii, The Big Island Revealed, has information…
Malcolm Gladwell's 3 books, The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, have sold more than 10 million printed copies combined (I know I own all three). They have been redesigned to include color illustrations throughout the books, and they have been repackaged into hardcover box set that sports gray cloth binding and foil stamping.
And speaking of Dr. Seuss, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is my favorite Seuss book of all time. The story is great, and the illustrations — which are all in black and white except for the red hats — are so great.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas is an oldie and a goodie and perfect reading for this time of year.
Made from solid steel and finished in hammered black, what better way to prop up all the books you've bought from A Book Apart?* If you prefer geek rather than nerd, fear not, they've got that too. * These bookends will hold non-nerdy books, too.