Product Description: Atlas of Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, edited by Michael J. Rosen, offers comprehensive coverage on the full range of abdominal wall reconstruction and hernia repair. Master laparoscopic repairs, open flank surgery, mesh choices for surgical repair, and more with high-quality, full-color anatomic illustrations and clinical intra-operative photographs and videos of procedures performed by masters...read more

A fresh step-by-step guide for identifying your nonprofit's planned giving prospects and inspiring them to give generouslyDonor-Centered Planned Gift Marketing helps nonprofit organizations move beyond traditional marketing techniques that have historically yielded only modest results and reveals how putting the focus on the donor can produce the best outcomes for all. Here, nonprofits new to gift planning will learn to market effectively from the start while those with established programs will discover ways to enhance their efforts. You will learn about various donor-centered marketing channels and techniques, as well as how to generate internal support for an improved planned gift marketing effort. Full of useful and proven tips you can implement for immediate resultsOffers practical tools including forms and checklistsIncludes a worksheet to help organizations calculate their planned giving potentialSharing the latest research findings, this book shows you how to identify who your planned giving prospects are. You will learn how to effectively focus on them through meaningful communication that ultimately inspires them to give-and give more.

Product Description: Part brainy quiz book, part brawny stand-up comedy, and all one hysterical anatomy lesson, Any Body's Guess!: Quirky Quizzes About What Makes You Tick poses 100 questions about this amazing machine, the human body, with its hopelessly lousy operating manual...read more

When his parents decide to move to an old house in the country, Chase Riley uses email to his friends back in Columbus, Ohio, and to his sister in college to help him deal with cicadas, deer hunters, and other changes in his life. Originally published as ChaseR. Reprint.

As a young boy and his sister count all of the brilliant lights around them on each night of Chanukah, they revel in the magic of the season and learn what it means to celebrate Chanukah. Reprint.

Looks at the balls used in basketball, soccer, football, tennis, handball, golf, volleyball, and ping pong; explores how they are made and why they look the way they do; and offers facts about their history and the games that use them.

Product Description: Did you know? In just one minute the Earth travels 1,100 miles around the sun. Cartwheel champ Brianna Schroeder turns 48 cartwheels. 28,824 photographs are taken (822 of them at Disney World). Over $60,000 is spent on eBay. You lose 8 brain cells, 40,000 skin cells, and one taste bud...read more

A young boy goes fishing with his father and, as an adult, recalls his dad's fishing secret when he sees him with his grandson.

Tired of always being the smallest one in the family, Little Bear is discouraged and begins to think he will never grow, but during a trip to his doctor's one day, Little Bear realizes that progress is being made and feelings of hope for a tall future are restored!

In a sequel to Cooking from the Heart, fifty of America's finest bakers, including Greg Patent, Gale Gand, Joanna Chang, Jacques Torress, Alice Medrich, and Nancy Silverton, showcase some one hundred of their favorite recipes--along with anecdotes about each--in a cookbook designed to benefit one of the nation's leading antihunger organizations. 20,000 first printing.

An entertaining anthology featuring the work of seventy distinguished literary humorists features the whimsical essays and witty thoughts of drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs, Daniel Radosh's Powerpoint Anthology of Literature, and works by Roy Blount Jr., Henry Alford, P. J. O'Rourke, Phil Austin, and Tom Gliatto, as well as a food section, zany tributes, a timely newscrawl, and other features. Original. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Collects one hundred favorite recipes by such top chefs as Ming Tsai, Lidia Bastianich, and Emeril Lagasse, providing for a range of meals and traditions and offering accompanying stories about why each is special to its contributor.

In the eyes of an imaginative boy, his dog becomes a seal when he is slick with soap, a billy goat when he chews the mail, a croc when he crouches beneath the table stalking a crumb, and other animals.

A second entertaining anthology featuring the work of sixty-five distinguished literary humorists features the whimsical and witty thoughts of Ian Frazier on his marriage to Liz Taylor, Rick Moranis's Internet stock tips, Merrill Markoe's discovery of Buddhism while shopping, and other reflections by Roy Blount Jr., Fran Lebowitz, P.J. O'Rourke, and others. Read by the authors.

Showcases American authors of contemporary humor with works by writers such as Paul Rudnick, Ian Frazier, and Nell Scovell.

A witty, illustrated selection of scrumptious delights for night owls and insomniacs presents such late-night treats as Hot and Sweet Pumpkin Seed Brittle, Choco-Late Night Martinis, Parmesan Wafers, and other easy-to-prepare delicacies to help readers deal with sleepless nights. Original.

The world's top humor writers are featured in a collection of essays, rants, anecdotes, lists, and pet peeves about the things that drive us crazy, with contributions from Kurt Anderson, Patricia Marx, Calvin Trillin, Christopher Buckley, and many others. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: "Deeply I sat, fixed to the slap, slap, slap of her trot, and the counterpoint thud-plod, thud-plod of her heart, enchanted by a soft percussion I felt part of, floating above the syncopated rhythm like a melody." --Diane Ackerman, recalling her beloved Appaloosa mare Horses have inspired devotion, awe, and love in their human companions for millennia; in Horse People more than forty acclaimed writers and artists share their own passion for these magical, mythical animals...read more

Suffering from a rather huge case of culture shock when he moves from a bustling city to a farmhouse in the country, fourteen-year-old Chase Riley seeks comfort in his computer and begins e-mailing his sister and his friends about his crazy new environment, but when a tragic accident occurs, Chase begins concocting The Plan.

Product Description: As Edward Albee puts it in this timeless collection of pieces about dogs, there are "those of us who feel incomplete without the company of a dog or two." Those same people will feel incomplete without this book, now in paperback...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Entertaining prose and drawings from the beloved humorist celebrate canine behavior and quirks in this funny, loving tribute to dogs. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

In a colorful, humorous speculation on the future of 'Dogdom,' the author takes a colorful look the third-millennium canine, covering everything from extreme sports for dogs to reality based programming for pets. (view table of contents)