For those not in the know, Blue Bottle Coffee is one of the highest-regarded coffee roasters in the business. They have unrelenting passion and focus when it comes to serving up high quality coffee, so their reputation is well deserved. Whether or not you've had the opportunity to try their coffee, their book, The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee is a fascinating…
Published in October 1997, Appledesign: The Work of the Apple Industrial Design Group is a 288-page book that looks at the design languages Apple used up until that time. With 400 color photos, this coffe-table book documents the industrial design that even then was ahead of its time — and remember, this is before things like the iMac and iPhone came along.…
The Sketchnote Handbook is a in-depth guide to how to use sketches to capture and share information. The book includes guides to draw faces, shapes and simple objects easily and without the fear many people have of drawing. This edition includes access to 70 minutes of video tutorials where viewers can see the author demonstrating drawing techniques discussed in the book. Homework:…
This book provides a unique, behind-the-scenes of the newest James Bond film, Skyfall. Photographer Greg Williams worked during the shooting of the film to capture the crew, actors and scenes that make up what looks like a killer new film. Skyfall is the twenty-third Bond film and marks the fiftieth anniversary of the movie franchise. If you want to add something to…
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…
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…
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.
Written and self-published by Denver author, Michael M. Young, The Swiss Army Knife Owner's Manual is the book that should have been written long ago. This 223-page manual has all you ever wanted to know about your SAK and more. Including how to straighten a bent corkscrew, how to use your fishscaler as a range finder, and how to properly use your…
In 2007 when I took the job as director of marketing for the International House of Prayer, the first books I read was Good to Great by Jim Collins. I was confident in my ability to run and plan marketing campaigns and ideas, but I was very new to leading and managing a team. This book was a fantastic resource to me,…
The Big Red Fez by Seth Godin is the first book I ever read on website design. Yet it is so much more than just about pushing pixels and hypertext. This book is a very fast and fun read. Each spread offers a screenshot of a web page on one side, and an explanation of what is right or wrong about it…