Product Description: When Steve Rogers refuses to become a government operative, he is stripped of his uniform, title and shield, and a new Captain America is born! John Walker, the former Superpatriot and future USAgent-along with sidekick Bucky, the future Battle Star-does his best to fill the big shoes Rogers left behind...read more

Product Description: New Orleans jazz thrilled the world in the twenties and traveled around the world in the thirties. In the forties and fifties, the world came to New Orleans to hear authentic New Orleans jazz played by real jazz musicians. The sixties brought Preservation Hall, a musical institution that even a hurricane couldn't kill...read more

Product Description: Change has come to comics! Introducing the life-story of Barack Obama in comic book form, following him from infancy through the first 100 days of his administration as the 44th President of the United States of America. Featuring the smash hit, best-selling comic book Biography of Barack Obama that became a media sensation, this volume also collects the follow up series that detailed the historic Obama campaign from the Democratic National Convention through his election to President on November 4th, 2008, and then until the inauguration...read more

Product Description: We've seen Tony Stark go down and get back up many times - but from the grave?! When his longtime employer and friend seemingly loses his struggle to hold onto life, Jim Rhodes dons the new War Machine armor and shows the world what's black and white and fed up all over! Can even cutting-edge Stark-tech withstand Firepower, Atom Smasher, and the Living Laser? And while Rhodes is filling Stark's boots, what's up with the empty armor zipping around? Guest-starring the West Coast Avengers! Collects Iron Man #281-291...read more

Product Description: In Volume Two of the classic Now Comics series, Speed faces a "Hollywood Challenge," meets "The Captain of Atlantis," sees Speed off to Japan for an extended adventure, and much more. This volume collects issues #6-13 of the series, and features artwork by future Eisner-winning artist Jill Thompson...read more

Product Description: Poetry. ON GOING is a collection of poems, sketches, and writings from a notebook between 2002-2005. During this time, Tom Morgan traveled extensively across the United States, back and forth across the U.S. / Mexican border, and abroad to Thailand and India...read more

Product Description: Poetry. FOR THE TIME BEING brings together for the first time twenty-nine writers from three continents whose work explores and interrogates the genre of the poetic journal. Tracing its roots back to Sei Shonagon and Matsuo Basho through Thoreau's journals and into the work of the New American poets, the poetic journal remains a vibrant and adaptive genre that continues delight...read more

Product Description: ‘Janet & John’ are an irrelevance to ‘Tommy’. Their world has no meaning for him or kids of his time. Tommy tells his story through an open mind, gaping mouth and the glaring eyes of a working-class kid. It is 1939, he goes where he’s sent and stays with whoever will have him...read more

Product Description: Tells the complete story of Honda's remarkable turnaround and unprecedented success in in CART racing through frank interviews with key Honda managers and engineers, as well as champion drivers like Alex Zanardi, Juan-Pablo Montoya, Jimmy Vasser, and Gil de Ferran.

Product Description: Contemporary sport bikes accelerate faster, brake harder, and cut through corners deeper than ever before. These technologically advanced motorcycles are exhilarating to ride, but to really get the most out of a motorcycle’s performance capabilities a rider must develop his or her own personal performance...read more

Presents a day in the life of two brothers living in Danang, discussing the social life, customs, religion, history, and language of Vietnam.

Product Description: Prince Siddhartha Gautama was born in 563 B.C. on the border of India and Nepal. At age 29, he left his family and life of privilege behind to become a wandering ascetic in search of enlightenment. He studied meditation with many teachers, and after six years of seeking, became enlightened under a bodhi tree...read more

A revealing visual biography of one of the world's great spiritual leaders features 150 photographs spanning the fourteenth Dalai Lama's career as well as a series of impressionistic essays designed to capture the essence of his philosophy. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Original.

Product Description: Developments in the worldwide space business. There is information on past, current and future space programmes and the capabilities of space centres, details of launchers, satellites and support systems, as well as information on the commercial contractors...read more

Product Description: Developments in the worldwide space business. There is information on past, current and future space programmes and the capabilities of space centres, details of launchers, satellites and support systems, as well as information on the commercial contractors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Five decades of NASCAR racing roar to life in this beautifully illustrated book of stock car racing memorabilia. It is a visual review of the first fifty years, told through historic photos of great races and racers, with the memorabilia they inspired'

The product of A.I.M., MODOK--the Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing--is out to copy an energy chip Iron Man used to defeat Baron Strucker, but the chip is only the first tool needed to make the ultimate weapon, and Iron Man must recruit his fellow heroes to stop MODOK before its too late. Original.

A bold 3-D adventure pits the gargantuan Godzilla against the three-headed outer-space dragon Ghidorah in a fierce battle from the Golden Gate Bridge to Mount Rushmore to Niagara Falls to New York City.

Tony Stark faces the ultimate challenge when he and the Avengers confront Ultron, an indestructible super robot who has created a doomsday weapon capable of destroying all life on earth. Original.

Two hundred dramatic full-color photographs capture the rich diversity of the sacred city of Jerusalem as it celebrates three thousand years of history, revealing the streets of the Old City, the wilderness of the Judean Desert, the Western Wall, and the beautiful Dome of the Rock. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Lushly illustrated with portraits drawn from medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and contemporary sources, this elegant book offers concise, accessible retellings of more than 120 saints' lives, from the renowned and popular to the obscure, together with a list of their attributes and feast days...read more

When a tropical storm delivers a strange-looking egg to the beaches of their island home, the resident monsters marvel at this latest surprise in their lives