The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny
in Business and in Life

by Jim Loehr

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The "New York Times" bestselling co-author of "The Power of Full Engagement" provides a compelling and powerful program
to revolutionize the stories people tell about their lives and how they approach success.

How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself:
Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects

by Nita Engle

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Award-winning artist Nita Engle’s breakthrough approach to watercolor shows readers how to combine spontaneity and control
to produce glowing, realistic paintings. Her method begins with action-filled exercises that demonstrate how to play with paint, following no rules. Subsequent
step-by-step projects add planning to the mix, demonstrating how to turn loose washes into light-filled watercolors with textural effects achieved by spraying,
sprinkling, pouring, squirting, or stamping paint. Engle’s approach, and her results, are dramatic and dynamic; now watercolor artists can create their own
exciting paintings with help from How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself.

Drawing Dragons and Those Who Hunt Them

by Christopher Hart

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From Smaug to Puff, from wyverns to Hungarian Horntails, dragons are everyone’s favorite mythological beasts. In Christopher
Hart’s new book Drawing Dragons and Those Who Hunt Them, he brings more power, drama, and depth to dragons than has ever been seen before. Towering,
fierce, and merciless, yet devoted to their young, these dragons prey upon the medieval villagers of fantasy’s Dark Ages. Hart masterfully unfolds a story
of dragon against man, illustrated with remarkable splash pages and two lavishly illustrated fold-out gatefolds of action-packed battles. Step-by-step how-tos
on drawing a dragon’s fire-breathing head and awe-inspiring body, dragon horns, fire, attacking dragons, dragon flight patterns, dragon birth and death, dragon
catacombs, baby dragons, hunting dragons, weapons, and even the mysterious dragon graveyard show fantasy artists how to create their own stunning, startling dragon
worlds.

Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than
We Think

by Brian Wansink

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In this illuminating and groundbreaking new book, a food psychologist will help readers change the way they look at food,
and the facts needed to easily make smarter, healthier, more mindful and enjoyable choices at the dinner table, in the supermarket, in restaurants, at the office--even
at a vending machine.

Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the
World

by Bill Clinton

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Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First,
it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations—and by individuals—to solve problems and save lives both “down
the street and around the world.

In the Beat of a Heart: Life, Energy,
and the Unity of Nature

by John Whitfield

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For centuries, scientists have dreamed of discovering an underlying unity to nature. Science now offers powerful explanations
for both the dazzling diversity and striking similarities seen in the living world.

Discover Your Roots: Dig Up Your Family
History and Other Buried Treasures

by Paul Blake

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Genealogists Loughran and Blake reveal 52 inspiring ideas to help even absolute beginners on the road to genealogical
discovery: It contains insider tips and techniques to help researchers easily dig into the past and open a door to an earlier time.

Think India: The Rise of the World's
Next Superpower and What It Means for Every American

by Vinay Rai

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Steel tycoon-turned-educator Rai, one of Indias wealthiest men, gives an insiders view into his country's dynamic transformation,
revealing the forces and unique characteristics behind Indias meteoric rise.

The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945

by Geoffrey C. Ward

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Enriched by maps and hundreds of photographs, the companion volume to the forthcoming PBS series, The War is the
story of World War II captured in the hearts, minds, words, and deeds of those who made history at its most essential level: on the battlefields and on the
homefront.

The Asia Book

by Lonely Planet

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The comprehensive coffee-table book of this beautiful, magical continent includes journeys and itineraries across Asia with
a personal account by a Lonely Planet author/photographer. The volume contains multi-page spreads for each country and describes how the geography defines
the continents exoticism.

Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire
and the Fate of America

by Cullen Murphy

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Esteemed editor and author Murphy draws nuanced lessons about how America might avoid Rome's fate. In lively, richly detailed
historical stories based on the latest scholarship, the ancient world leaps to life and casts the contemporary world in a provocative new light.

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster
Capitalism

by Naomi Klein

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The neo-liberal economic policies—privatization, free trade, slashed social spending—that the Chicago School and the economist
Milton Friedman have foisted on the world are catastrophic in two senses, argues this vigorous polemic. Because their results are disastrous—depressions, mass
poverty, private corporations looting public wealth, by the author's accounting—their means must be cataclysmic, dependent on political upheavals and natural disasters
as coercive pretexts for free-market reforms the public would normally reject.