Product Description: From the editors who have previously brought forth bestselling illustrated biographies on the Beatles as a group and John Lennon in particular, now comes Remembering George Harrison: 10 Years Later.He was the quiet Beatle only in that he was standing alongside two louder-than-life characters and in front of a guy playing drums...read more

Product Description: Can a still image change the way people feel and act concerning the world they live in? It surely can, often has, and still does today. The power of pictures is celebrated in this portfolio of the most forceful still images of all time...read more

Product Description: In this expanded tenth-anniversary edition of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling book, LIFE returns to the story that it chronicled with such immediacy following the devastating, heartbreaking, and inspiring events in New York, Washington, D...read more

Product Description: @font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }@font-face { font-family: "HelveticaNeue-Thin"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } When Pope John Paul II died in 2005 some four million pilgrims made their way to Rome to celebrate his extraordinary life...read more

Product Description: LIFE has covered all of the lavish royal weddings since even before Queen Elizabeth II wed in 1953, and of course the magazine documented in splendid, intimate detail the "wedding of the century," that of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, years later...read more

Product Description: Henry David Thoreau is one of those authors that readers think they know, even if they don't. He's the solitary curmudgeon with the shack out in the woods, the mystic worshipping solemnly in the quiet church of nature. He's our national Natural Man, the prophet of environmentalism...read more

Product Description: A New York Times Editors' Choice Most readers think they know Henry David Thoreau: the solitary curmudgeon with the shack out in the woods. In this delightfully engaging book, Robert Sullivan gives us the Thoreau we don't know: the gregarious adventurer, the guy who liked to go camping with friends (even if they sometimes accidentally burned the woods down)...read more

Product Description: “This is the sweetest, funniest, cleverest piece of whimsy . . .”—USA TodayChildren have believed the legend forever: On one evening each year a jolly old elf and eight reindeer fly all night long to deliver gifts around the world...read more

Product Description: Here we have an endless stream of exotica-exotic living things growing from the ground and exotic critters of all shapes and sizes, crawling, bounding and flying around. As LIFE's editors put it in their introduction: "This is a wild book...read more

Product Description: The title says it all: This is the original, the best, the most fun, the most visually splendid-the only essential-picture puzzle series and it is now in it's 11th volume. When LIFE invented Picture Puzzle books a few years ago with the Number One New York Times bestseller, it was followed on the charts by a succession of fan favorites such as Picture Puzzle: Vacations and Picture Puzzle: Holidays...read more

Product Description: Royals features the most famous portraits of the royals, taken by such photographers as Cecil Beaton, that first appeared in LIFE magazine, as well as candids that were shot behind-the-scenes and on-the-sly at the marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana by the ultimate insider, Lord Snowden...read more

Product Description: Did the Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia survive the slaughter of her family, and did Amelia Earhart perhaps survive her famous flight across the Pacific? Where did the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson go when she vanished in May of 1926, and where did the mystery writer Agatha Christie disappear to later that same year? Was Napoleon in fact murdered, and might the same fate have befallen Dag Hammarskjold? Where's all the loot from the Great Train Robbery, not to mention all the spoils that were stashed away by the notorious gangster Dutch Schultz? Did two other mountain climbers reach the summit of Mount Everest before Sir Edmund Hillary, and did a French airplane cross the Atlantic just before Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St...read more

Product Description: The idea of choosing the Wonders of the World can be traced all the way back to the 5th century, B.C., when the Greek historian Herodotus of the Halicarnassus listed seven must-sees, the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt and six other constructions that long ago vanished from the earth...read more

Product Description: With the passing of Edward Moore Kennedy on August 25, 2009, a climactic chapter in a thunderous American political saga came to an end, a chapter that featured the very greatest triumphs and the darkest tragedies. In this commemorative book, the Kennedys' remarkable story is retold-the clan's rise from the grinding poverty of America's immigrant stock to the highest reaches of power and influence...read more

Product Description: An entertaining collection of facts, trivia and stories about Ireland and Celtic culture. With unusual Irish quotations, proverbs, a guide to Irish baby names and stories about Craic, Celtic Knots, Strawboys and other Celtic traditions.

Product Description: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Product Description: Our world is surprising, confounding, remarkable, unpredictable - and sometimes, pretty darn strange. The editors of LIFE explore the true stories behind history's most astonishing places, people, and events. Teen readers will be astounded by this colossal compendium of crazy coincidences, wild weather, peculiar people, and astounding animals...read more

Product Description: Dogs - and cats, and hamsters, and even monkeys and tigers - are our best friends. And so, with the sixth book in the phenomenally successful "Life Picture Puzzle" book series, we offer a menagerie of animal puzzles - 176 pages of them - that will challenge even as they delight...read more

Product Description: In Liberalism and Crime, Robert Sullivan offers an alternate way of looking at liberalism, using the usurpation of the welfare state in Britain by a free market-oriented economy as his crucible. Not content with the academic interpretation of liberalism as an offshoot of analytic philosophy, Sullivan has woven together a convincing demonstration that liberalism is born out of an alternative approach—one based in active thought and reasonable argument...read more