Since the first time we heard Luke Skywalker ask Obi-Wan Kenobi "You fought in the Clone Wars!?" in Episode IV: A New Hope, fans the world over have been wondering exactly what the Clone Wars were and what clones in combat would look like. On August 15th, 2008, with the theatrical release of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, much will be explained. The Clone Wars take place between Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Lucasfilm is now bringing the wars to life in an all-new CGI animated series.

The theatrical release will launch this groundbreaking computer-generated animated series, which will then debut on Cartoon Network and TNT in the fall. New characters like female Padawan Ahsoka Tano join old favorites Anakin Skywalker, Yoda, Count Dooku, General Grievous, and others as the Jedi cross lightsabers with the dark side yet again.

 

In the 1970’s, the Swedish musical phenomenon known as ABBA—Agnetha Fältskog, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad—succeeded in reinventing the world’s perception of pop. They produced hit after catchy hit, each one instantly recognizable, infectious, and irresistible. Nearly a quarter of a century later, these beloved songs gave birth to the blockbuster musical MAMMA MIA!, which became a legend in its own right. It opened in 85 cities and has since been seen by more than 20 million people throughout the world. This officially sanctioned book tells the double story of the band and the play—and it’s told by those know it best: two of the group’s singer/songwriters and MAMMA MIA! producer Judy Craymer. It’s colorful literally and figuratively, and jam-packed with illustrations from the group’s own archives. Through first-person recollections from ABBA members, intertwined with commentary from the MAMMA MIA! team, Thank You for the Music cuts through the thicket of myths and misconceptions that have grown up around ABBA to reveal what actually happened.

* Hardcover
* 264 Pages

 

Based on the blockbuster Warner Bros. Pictures film starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger.

Allied with both the police department and the district attorney's office, the vigilante known as Batman continues to bring justice and hope to Gotham City.

But one man dares to mock Batman's mission. A man with a twisted sense of humor. A man whose grotesque smile is reflected on the calling card he leaves at the scene of his crimes: The Joker.

 

Can you gallop like a horse? Can you strut like a rooster? Can you run like a dog? Can you spring like a cat? Can you soar like an eagle? Can you swing like a chimp? Can you flutter like a butterfly? Can you swim like a turtle? Then take a bow and smile: you twinkle, like a star! Then take a bow and shine: a star is what you are.

 

Synopsis
In a totally fresh and appealing take on the subject, SEX is a completely new kind of sex book. This is a sex book for people who like having sex, who want to have more, and want to know how to do everything better. Unlike other sex manuals, which try to solve problems with sex, this is a book for people who love sex and want to expand their horizons. Written by the young, hip "super-sexpert" duo Em and Lo of nerve.com notoriety, this book promises to be as witty and cool as it is instructive. It's a fun and energetic romp with over 300 explicit and authentic, but beautiful, "live" shots by renowned fashion and portrait photographer, Rankin.

Publishers Weekly

This latest, full-color installment from former Nerve.com "sex advisers" Em & Lo (The Big Bang) bemoans sterile sex manuals that take all the fun and mystery out of sex. Their latest and most comprehensive guide tackles every variety of sexual congress and the minutiae of seduction, fantasy, filming erotic videos and capped with the obligatory public-service "sexual health" section. The text is concise and clear, replete with (fairly familiar) puns ("there's the rub," "the ties that bind")-but the real draw isn't the information, all of which is available elsewhere in more detail-it's the pictures. The images shot by the influential British fashion and portrait photographer Rankin feature a range of aesthetically pleasing yet satisfyingly real-looking and ethnically diverse-although exclusively heterosexual-couples that are soft-core, but still racy enough to inspire "naughty ideas," one of the authors' stated aims. (May)

Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Biography
Em & Lo (aka Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey) are the self-proclaimed Emily Posts of the modern bedroom. They have co-authored Rec Sex and Sex Toy, the sex manual The Big Bang: Nerve's Guide to the New Sexual Universe, and The handbook Sex Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen. They have also contributed to numerous publications, including Glamour, New York, Cosmo, GQ, The Boston Globe, ReadyMade, Men's Health, Marie Claire, and, in the UK, The Times, The Observer, The Financial Times, The Telgraph, Arena, FHM, Metro, Cosmo, Scarlet, , and GQ. After four years as Nerve's resident advice gurus they now write about all things love- and sex-related on their own website. They have also written a sex column for the UK newspaper The Guardian and currently write the Mating column for New York magazine.

* Format: Hardcover, 192pp

 

These brothers are already a tween sensation!

Girls can't get enough of these adorable boys who have recorded two successful albums, guest starred on Disney's Hannah Montana, are special guests on Miley Cyrus's Best of Both Worlds Tour, and have just filmed a pilot for a Disney Channel series. We've got the inside scoop on these crooning cuties from their younger years to their current star status-complete with four pages of color photos!

* 128 Pages Paperback

 

Synopsis
A playful take on bedroom talk—a smart, funny encyclopedia with entries written by notable contemporary writers.
This witty reference steps in where time-honored discussions of the birds and the bees typically fall short. All of the 100-some entries are formally defined and further explained through reflective and ribald definitions, essays, and stories by some of today's most exciting writers. Everything from celibacy to promiscuity, hand jobs to sex toys is tackled by everyone's favorite writers including Steve Almond, Patricia Marx, Phillip Lopate, and Antonya Nelson. From sexual relationships (monogamy, one-night stand, ménage à trois) to sexual positions (doggie style, 69), from age-old practices (prostitution) to contemporary twists (cybersex), this alphabetical encyclopedia includes everything you need to know about the language of love and more.

Biography
Ellen Sussman is the bestselling author of On a Night Like This and editor of the anthology Bad Girls. She lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

 

Yesterday: The Beatles Once Upon A Time documents the Beatles and the city of their birth during the making of their first film, A Hard Day's Night, in 1964. It captures the rhythm and texture of the tough English port city where the smell of cigarettes and seawater mingled and the strains of pop music were transformed by an early 1960s music scene that gave birth to the Mersey Beat and the greatest band of all time.

Before they achieved world fame, the Beatles perfected their craft in another port of call, the northern German city of Hamburg. There they met Astrid Kirchherr, a budding photographer who became close friends with the band and later was engaged to the Beatles' original bass player, Stuart Sutcliffe. Some four years later—by which time the Beatles had conquered the world—Kirchherr with Max Scheler visited the band and took the photographs that appear in this book. Kirchherr and Scheler focused on the Beatles in private and public moments, during the filming, and also on the city itself, on the streets, the music scene, the people, evoking for us today the gritty humor and passion of 1960s Liverpudlians.

This book offers a moving testament to the inspirational effect of the Beatles' success on their hometown as well as an important chapter of the Beatles' almost- mythic story.

 

Zac Efron: Me & You reveals everything fans want to know about this young superstar. His adoring admirers can learn how he got his big break and how he won the lead in High School Musical. They’ll find out about his pets and hobbies; take a quiz to see if they might be his perfect date; and gaze at 120 breathtaking photos. Plus, there’s a full-size poster just right for pinning up on the wall!

 

Nostalgic, informative, and sometimes tongue-in-cheek, WHAT A YEAR IT WAS! is a fascinating look back at the headline events of 1968. In these pages you’ll find compelling pictures and words covering the year’s big stories—the news, entertainment, sports, fashion, fads, and people that changed our lives forever. Where were you in 1968? Was that the year you were born, married or graduated? Whatever personal meaning it holds for you, WHAT A YEAR IT WAS! 1968 will bring a sentimental smile to your face as you relive that very special time.

176 pages, hardcover 8 5/8" x 11 1/8"

 

Nostalgic, informative, and sometimes tongue-in-cheek, WHAT A YEAR IT WAS! is a fascinating look back at the headline events of 1958. In these pages you’ll find compelling pictures and words covering the year’s big stories—the news, entertainment, sports, fashion, fads, and people that changed our lives forever. Where were you in 1958? Was that the year you were born, married or graduated? Whatever personal meaning it holds for you, WHAT A YEAR IT WAS! 1958 will bring a sentimental smile to your face as you relive that very special time. 176 pages, hardcover 8 5/8" x 11 1/8"

 

Nostalgic, informative, and sometimes tongue-in-cheek, WHAT A YEAR IT WAS! is a fascinating look back at the headline events of 1948. In these pages you’ll find compelling pictures and words covering the year’s big stories—the news, entertainment, sports, fashion, fads, and people that changed our lives forever. Where were you in 1948? Was that the year you were born, married or graduated? Whatever personal meaning it holds for you, WHAT A YEAR IT WAS! 1948 will bring a sentimental smile to your face as you relive that very special time.

176 pages, hardcover 8 5/8" x 11 1/8"

 

FROM THE PUBLISHER
A backstage pass to the Rolling Stones from Bill Wyman, founder of the Rolling Stones.

The Rolling Stones, commonly referred to as the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band, epitomize everything that's excessive, lavish, exciting, and powerful about rock music. Now, founding member and bass player Bill Wyman presents an honest and humorous account that serves as a backstage pass to the band's history, from drug busts, to tax exile, to solo careers. Straight from Wyman's huge personal archive, Rolling with the Stones features previously unreleased letters, photographs, memorabilia, and personal journals. With over 2000 photographs, more than 45 beautifully designed tour spreads, song lists from every show, and biographies on each band member, there is no need for any other Stones book to be written.


FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
Wyman's obsession makes for a Rolling Stones fan's delight. While this tome has the visual treats of a coffee-table book, categorizing it as such betrays the rich text within. The Stones' bassist for nearly four decades, Wyman appears to have ruined it for all Stones biographers past, present and future. A tireless collector, he offers rare photographs and letters, press clippings, tour posters and record sleeves. And thanks to either reams of diaries or marvelous powers of recall unaffected by decades spent in a hard-partying rock band, he provides copious historical and observational data as well. Wyman, teaming up again with Havers (Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey), gives even short-tenured band mates commensurate face time and portrays the good times, like the band's first visit to America in 1964, and the bad, such as the time Wyman went out to score heroin for a sick-and recently busted-Keith Richards in 1977. Among the memorable photographs are a fit and trim Richards in swimwear on a 1968 Australia tour and a three-shot sequence of Mick Jagger, Jerry Hall and a paparazzo, during which Jagger confronts the shutterbug and ends up on his back on the sidewalk. Wyman shows humility and humor by including his quote from '67: "It's alright leaping about the stage when you're 20, but when you get to 25 or 26 it gets a bit embarrassing." It's too bad the book stops in 1990, when Wyman, well past the age of embarrassment, stopped touring with the band. (Oct.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

 

The Cosmo Kama Sutra: 77 Mind-Blowing Sex Positions

FROM THE PUBLISHER
No one covers sex better than Cosmo, and these 77 fully-illustrated passion positions, adapted from the magazine's hugely popular Kama Sutra series, will take readers' lust lives to a whole new level. Cosmo's steamy how-to guide is no ancient text: it's modern, it's all about pleasure (for both partners), and it couldn't be more fun. Replete with newly commissioned drawings and instructions that explain exactly how to master each move, this carnal collection is destined to be a staple on nightstands across the nation. All 77 positions--from the Wanton Wheelbarrow to the Passion Pretzel to the Romp with a View--come with a "Wild Rating" to indicate the degree of difficulty. Add to that a slew of sex tips and you've got a torrid tour-de-force that will be as much fun to give as to receive!

 

With annual sales of 200,000 copies, The Top 10 of Everything is clearly the place people go to get the lowdown on what or who was the best, worst, richest, fiercest, deadliest, or simply biggest of practically anything. It features 600 lists on a diverse range of subjects, from blockbuster movies and music to stellar universities, from crime and punishment to popular drinks. Find out which stars of stage and screen shone the brightest and which terrestrial animals weigh the most. See which habitable buildings are the tallest and which bodies are the largest in the solar system. Check out stats on airlines, crops, natural disasters, and sports. Some of the lists are entirely new; some are updated with the latest news, and all appear on attractively illustrated spreads with excellent background information. “First” and “Fast” fact boxes pinpoint the pioneers and the most recent achievers in various endeavors. It’s entertaining and educational!

“Stuffed with interesting facts…a browser’s paradise.”—The Sunday Times
“Appealing graphics and fun facts…Sure to satisfy.” —Library Journal

 

A deceptively simple game rich in subtleties, baseball, more than any other sport, is passed down parent to child, one generation to another. In every era, fans have found heroes to cheer, and in part our attachment to the game has been fueled by hotly contested efforts to measure the superstars of the present against the titans of yesteryear. Greats of the Game fondly contributes to the nostalgic appeal of the national pastime by celebrating-in a subjective, engagingly outspoken text and dazzling, rarely seen photographs-the game's greatest players, teams, managers, games, and colorful personalities.

Here are a century's worth of stars and highlights: Babe Ruth and Nolan Ryan, Jackie Robinson and Barry Bonds, Don Larsen's perfect game, Willie Mays's catch of Vic Wertz's 450-foot drive in the 1954 World Series. Ray Robinson, author of the definitive biography of Lou Gehrig, shares more than 70 years of memories, while fellow baseball maven Christopher Jennison describes the stunning photos he has selected-in a lavish, opinionated treasury that is certain to inspire passionate debate. AUTHOR BIO: Ray Robinson has followed baseball since the heyday of Ruth and Gehrig. His books include Iron Horse: Lou Gehrig in His Time, The Home Run Heard 'Round the World, Knute Rockne of Notre Dame, and Will Rogers: An American Original. Christopher Jennison, who has chosen the photographs for this book and written the captions, is the coauthor (with Ray Robinson) of Pennants and Pinstripes and Yankee Stadium.

 

Marilyn "Fur Trimmed" Zippered pocketbook with Jewels. Shows apicture of marilyn on Both sides wit 3d Pear and diamond Earringd and Beaded dress. Comes w/Long Strap

Size: 10" x 9.5" x 4"

 

From the makers of the cult classic Pop-Up Book of Phobias comes a satirical celebration of celebrities gone wild. Everyone has a bad day now and then. But when superstars fall apart in public, it's international news! The Pop-Up Book of Celebrity Meltdowns puts you front and center as ten of the most spectacular public crack-ups of our day unfold before your eyes. Open the page to trigger a wardrobe malfuntion and watch as Janet Jackson bares all at the Super Bowl . . . Pull the tab and see Tom Cruise leap up on Oprah's couch like an excited puppy . . . From the aerial view of a news copter, watch as a phalanx of squad cars pursues O. J. Simpson's Bronco in slow motion. . . . Brought to life with hilariously humorous caricatures and stunningly ingenious paper engineering, this deluxe, handcrafted gift book proves once and for all that celebrities are just like the rest of us, only much, much more so. AUTHOR BIO: Heather Havrilesky is the TV critic for Salon.com. She co-created Filler, a popular cartoon on Suck.com, with illustrator Terry Colon. Her writing has appeared in Spin, New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Bookforum, and NPR's All Things Considered. She also maintains the Rabbit Blog, through which she dispenses free bad advice to total strangers. Bruce Foster has created numerous children's pop-up books, including Charles Schulz's Peanuts: A Pop-Up Celebration and Marjorie Priceman's Little Red Riding Hood. Bruce has also engineered moving books and cards for The Museum of Modern Art and other clients. Bruce snips, clips, and glues his movable paper constructions in Houston, Texas. Mick Coulas has parodied celebrities and politicians for publications like The Wall Street Journal and Maxim. His skewed perspective also helps sell mustard, pudding, pickles, and glue. His satirical images are created with digital photography, digitizing pens, chewing gum, bailing wire, and a big Mac. He lives in Toronto with his partner, Candace Lourdes.

 

The debonair and daring James Bond has captivated audiences around the world for more than 40 years, his 007 films setting the standard for movie blockbusters. The Art of Bond gives readers an insider’s look at the Bond evolution, from storyboard to screen, through all-new interviews with the series’ creative talents, as well as previously unseen art and behind-the-scenes photography from all 21 films. Actors—including the newest Bond, Daniel Craig—producers, directors, writers, and designers share their stories about the making of the films, and how their groundbreaking work has influenced other prominent filmmakers.

Published to coincide with the fall 2006 release of the newest Bond film, Casino Royale, and profusely illustrated with exclusive images from the Eon Archive, this book is a visual tribute to an incomparable cinematic icon.

About the Author
Director and producer Laurent Bouzereau has collaborated with Martin Scorsese, Mel Brooks, Steven Spielberg, and Clint Eastwood—among other Hollywood legends—on more than 60 documentaries about classic films. The author of six books, he is based in Southern California.

 

Great Frame for your Great Friends

* 9" x 7" wood frame
* Embellished with ribbons, buttons, metal & other trims
* 4" x 6" picture