There are tens of thousands of baby names out there—and books that dutifully list them. And then there is 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time—a curated, considered, opinionated, and richly informative guide that winnows down the world of baby names to help moms and dads make smart choices, sidestep the trendiness trap, and avoid the …
A completely revised and updated edition of America’s pregnancy bible, the longest-running New York Times bestseller ever. With 18.5 million copies in print, What to Expect When You’re Expecting is read by 93% of women who read a pregnancy book and was named one of the “Most Influential Books of the Last 25 Years” by USA Today. This …
Celebrate one of the greatest and most beloved baseball players who ever lived—and certainly the most quoted. The Yogi Book is the New York Times bestseller filled with Yogi Berra’s immortal sayings, plus photographs, a career timeline, and appreciations by some of his greatest fans, including Billy Crystal and Tim McCarver. Yogi Berra’s gift for saying the smartest …
The Solar System Calendar is a spectacular photographic tour of the most fascinating planets, moons, and features in space. Each month’s full-color spread is visually stunning and packed with a detailed description and lore, as well as physical data, orbital data, and atmospheric conditions for the featured body. Explore our familiar-yet-mysterious Moon. Learn about Jupiter’s Great Red Spot—which …
Unlikely Loves: 43 Heartwarming True Stories from the Animal Kingdom
Unlikely Friendships is the phenomenal New York Times bestseller that’s spent 44 weeks on the list and has 615,000 copies in print. It’s struck a chord with media, from CBS This Morning to USA Today, and Temple Grandin has praised it as “amazing. It shows the power of friendship.” Now its author, Jennifer Holland, who writes about animal …
Take a stunning journey to the ends of the earth through the colorful, fluid motion of Photicular® technology. A phenomenon first seen in the bestsellers Safari and Ocean, Photicular technology uses sliding lenses and video imagery to display realistic living motion in the pages of a book. It’s like a movie in your hand. Penguins waddle in their …
Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom
Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland, Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after another of animals who, with nothing else in common, bond in the most unexpected ways. A cat and a bird. A mare and a fawn. An elephant and a sheep. A snake and a hamster. The well-documented stories of Koko the gorilla and …
Every day, adorn your desktop with fresh, vibrant flowers. A celebration of nature’s most exquisite blossoms, Flowers showcases a lively assortment of garden shots, wildflowers in their native habitats, studio portraits, vintage botanical prints, and lush bouquets—all in sumptuous full color. Pink rhododendrons abloom in a misty redwood forest. Yellow Persian buttercups on a sunny windowsill. A gorgeous …
The Elements 2016 Calendar: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
It’s a dazzling gift for scientists, students, or anyone fascinated by the diversity and innate beauty of nature. Based on the bestselling book and iPad app, The Elements Calendar presents a dozen elements of the periodic table—lithium to zinc, arsenic to silicon—as gorgeous works of art. Each month’s spread showcases a large full-color photograph of the element in …
We all have our off days. Why should Evolution be any different? Maybe Evolution got carried away with an idea that was just a little too crazy―like having the Regal Horned Lizard defend itself by shooting three-foot streams of blood from its eyes. Or maybe Evolution ran out of steam (Memo to Evolution: The Irrawaddy Dolphin looks like …