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Quarterback: Inside the Most Important Position in the National Football League

With incredible inside access, New York Times best selling author John Feinstein built this story around five NFL icons: Alex Smith, Andrew Luck, Joe Flacco, Ryan Fitzpatrick and Doug Williams. In Quarterback, readers hear first-hand tales of the spectacular moments and embarrassing defeats, the controversies, politics, and players experience. A must read for true fans of the game.

Handsome Johnny: The Life and Death of Johnny Rosselli: Gentleman Gangster, Hollywood Producer, CIA Assassin

Best-selling biographer Lee Server has delivered another badass book. This time, the incredible biography of the legendary figure at the center of the century’s darkest secrets: an untold story of golden age Hollywood, modern Las Vegas, JFK-era scandal and international intrigue.

Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop

Created by writer Vikki Tobak and featuring a foreword by Questlove, Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop is an inspired collection of photos that span decades of documentation from hip-hop culture. Featuring hundreds of iconic as well as unseen images from photographers like Glen Friedman, Ricky Powell, Lawrence Watson, Angela Boatwright and many more. There are also essays from the likes of DJ Premier, Fab 5 Freddy, and RZA.

Bong Appétit: Mastering the Art of Cooking with Weed

Once you figure out how to handle edibles, it’s a welcome alternative to smoking flower. Inspired by the Vice Channel show of the same name, Bong Appétit the cookbook teaches you how to make your own THC-infused meals, dishes, and munchies. It includes 65 easy-to-follow recipes, techniques, and guidance for cooking with cannabis. It’s also packed with great, full-color photos.

Stan Smith: Some People Think I’m a Shoe

It’s incredibly difficult for an article of clothing to become timeless. Trends fade and designers tinker feverishly, making any semblance of staying power insanely challenging to achieve. That’s why you need to respect a sneaker…

What to Watch This Weekend: Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan

With cable, Netflix, and internet options, finding the best thing to watch during your downtime is difficult. Instead of flipping through menus all weekend and settling on nothing, turn to What to Watch This Weekend,…

Belichick Paints an Intimate Portrait of an NFL Icon

Want to know the whole story behind the New England Patriot’s iconic  5X Super Bowl championship coach? Well, this is it. The definitive biography written by Award-winning columnist and New York Times best-selling author Ian O’Connor, presenting sides of Belichick & insights into his character that have been previously unexplored.

Animal Kingdom : A Collection of Portraits

Award-winning wildlife photographer Randal Ford has created a unique body of work in this collection of portraits—up close & intimate studio portraits that capture the beauty, power, emotion, and even humor of 150 furry and feathered species. Everything from big cats to rare tropical birds. Available October 2018.

Cut in Half: The Hidden World Inside Everyday Objects

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With the help of a high-pressure waterjet cutter capable of slicing through 4 inches of steel plate, designer and fabricator Mike Warren (creator of the Cut in Half YouTube channel) cuts into everything from boom boxes to boxing gloves, oil filters to seashells, describing and demystifying the inner workings and materials of each. The insides of these and dozens of other objects are revealed & explained in this unique photographic exposé.

The Best iPhone Photography of 2018

As the cameras on the back and front of the iPhone get better and better, those “Shot on iPhone” ads become less and less impressive. Still, it’s hard not to still get blown away when…

        

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, New York Times bestselling author Beth Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother’s question—why her only son died—and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy chronicles the devastating opioid crisis in America like no book has done before.

Take A Look Behind The Razor Wire: Inside North Korea

Inside North Korea is a collection of more than 300 photos that artfully document and showcase the country’s capital city of Pyonyang—which was completely rebuilt from scratch after the 1953 bombings that leveled it. This collection features eerie images of the communist-focused architecture with insightful captions, as well as an introductory essay where photographer Oliver Wainwright charts the history and development of Pyongyang, explaining how the architecture and interiors embody the national “Juche” ideology and questioning what the future holds for the architectural ambitions of this enigmatic country.

Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World’s Biggest Sports Scandal

With Red Card, Ken Bensinger has penned the definitive story on the FIFA scandal—one of the biggest international corruption cases in the modern age. Profiling the people at the center of the scandal, and the US investigators that ultimately brought it down, Bensinger reveals that nearly every aspect of the planet’s favorite sport was corrupted by bribes, kickbacks, fraud, and money laundering.

Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons

Four-time Emmy winner Mike Reiss—who has worked on The Simpsons continuously since episode one in 1989—shares stories, scandals, and gossip about working with America’s most iconic cartoon family ever. Reiss explains how the episodes are created, and provides an inside look at the show’s writers, animators, actors and celebrity guests. He answers a range of questions from Simpsons fans and die-hards, and reminisces about the making of perennially favorite episodes. If you’re A Simpson super fan, it’s required reading this summer.

8 Magazines that Prove Print’s Not Dead

It seems like everywhere we look, someone is writing some kind of article about how print media is going the way of the dinosaur. They have a point, but we’re a little more optimistic. Digital…

        

Star Wars Insects

If you’re an entomologist fanatical about Star Wars, holy crap have we found the perfect prints for you. Richard Wilkinson, a UK-based illustrator, created pieces of art that imagine insects as Star Wars characters. Roboduobus…

The ‘Beastie Boys Book’ Is Finally Happening

There’s a lot of music that can get turned on in the office that will make you wish you had a headphones only policy. Throwing on anything from Beastie Boys will always be ok in…