Author: Dilip Hiro
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Keywords: uzbekistan, turkmenistan, kazakhstan, kyrgyz, history, cultural, central, asia, political, inside
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2009-06-11
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 159020221X
ISBN-13: 9781590202210

From a critically acclaimed author-a comprehensive history of the part of the world currently making headlines The former Soviet republics of Central Asia comprise a sprawling, politically pivotal, densely populated, and richly cultured area of the world that is nonetheless poorly represented in libraries and mainstream media. Since their political incorporation in Stalin’s Soviet era, these countries have gone through a flash of political and economical evolution. But despite these rapid changes, the growth of oil wealth and U.S. jockeying, and the opening of the region to tourists and

Authors:Milton Glaser,  Judith Thurma,
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Keywords: thinking, drawing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-11-26
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1585679941
ISBN-13: 9781585679942

For more than fifty years Milton Glaser has designed much of the world we experience every day. His posters, books, albums, restaurants, advertisements, and so much more have made him the preeminent force in design in America. Drawing upon an amazing vocabulary of images and techniques, Glaser has now created his most personal book. Based on his view that all art has its origin in the impulse to create--primarily through drawing--he has designed a book that powerfully delineates this idea. In Drawing is Thinking, the drawings depicted are meant to be experienced sequentially, so that the viewe

Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Keywords: weather, heavy
Number of Pages: 321
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1585672300
ISBN-13: 9781585672301

Fans of P. G. Wodehouse’s comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of the hilarity borders on an obsession. It’s Heavy Weather for Lord Emsworth and the Empress, especially with the appalling Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe snooping around with designs on the prize pig.

Author: Erich Kästner
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Keywords: detectives, emil
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1585675865
ISBN-13: 9781585675869

Originally published in 1929, Erich Kastner’s engaging tale has delighted readers young and old, for generations. It’s Emil’s first train ride alone and he’s excited, and a little nervous.On the train, his fellow passengers are impressed with how polite and grown-up Emil is, and the man in the bowler hat offers him some chocolate—but Emil keeps checking his coat pocket, where he’s pinned the money that he is taking to his grandmother. Soon, though, Emil finds himself getting sleepy . . . and the next thing he knows, the man in the bowler hat is gone— and so is the money!

Author: Richard Usborne
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Keywords: sauce, plum
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1585674419
ISBN-13: 9781585674411

In Plum Sauce, Richard Usborne-long regarded as the world’s leading authority on P. G. Wodehouse-brings together the best of his much admired commentary on the great man’s words to form the perfect companion to the nearly one hundred novels of "the most consistently funny writer the English language has yet produced" (The Times). Plum Sauce also contains snippets of Wodehouse’s most outrageously hilarious prose, organized in categories from Animals ("Beach’s bullfinch continued to chirp reflectively to itself, like a man trying to remember a tune in his bath") to mense

Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Keywords: lightning, summer
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 158567477X
ISBN-13: 9781585674770

The fall brings season brings three more antic selections from comic genius, P. G. Wodehouse. In Summer Lightning, the Honorable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoirs and everyone dives for cover; meanwhile, Lord Emsworth’s prize pig has been stolen, and the castle is abuzz with imposters all pretending to be one another.

Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Keywords: wodehouse, collector, jeeves, man
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-05-10
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1585678759
ISBN-13: 9781585678754

Who can forget our beloved gentleman’s personal gentleman, Jeeves, who ever comes to the rescue when the hapless Bertie Wooster falls into trouble. My Man Jeeves is sure to please anyone with a taste for pithy buffoonery, moronic misunderstandings, gaffes, and aristocratic slapstick.