Tarcherperigee imprint: 1144 books
The Trickster's Hat
A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
The act of creating art, in all its forms, offers us a path to our souls. But the path can be confusing, and getting lost along the way is inevitable. However, maybe that’s the point.
In The Trickster’s Hat, bestselling author of the Griffin & Sabine cycle Nick Bantock invites you to...
Micromastery
Learn Small, Learn Fast, and Unlock Your Potential to Achieve Anything
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Want to be a lifelong learner? Think small.
Forget spending 10,000 hours in the pursuit of perfecting just one thing. The true path to success and achievement lies in the pursuit of perfecting lots and lots of small things--for a big payoff.
Combining positive psychology, neuroscience,...
Naked
Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
Provocative essays on body image by black women.
Candid, witty, and insightful, Naked is a compelling collection of essays that captures what today's black women think about their bodies-from head to toe.
Tackling such issues as hair texture, skin color, weight, and sexuality,...
A Message to Garcia
And Other Classic Success Writings
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
This tale of a soldier’s self-reliance during the Spanish American War is history’s greatest motivational lesson, now collected with Elbert Hubbard’s most treasured inspirational works.
A Message to Garcia touched so profound a chord in readers that, after its publication in 1899, it...
by Tom Cutler
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
For everyone who loved The Dangerous Book for Boys-an oddly useful and hilarious handbook for the mischievous child in all of us.
If you've reached adulthood without knowing how to spin a rope like a cowboy, cure a hangover, or make a citizen's arrest, this is the book you've been waiting for....
I Saw Mommy Kicking Santa Claus
The Ultimate Holiday Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2004
The hilarious holiday handbook for those who are starting to see Scrooge's point of view.
Let's face it-sometimes the joys of Christmas are enough to make us want to run away from home-with all of the eggnog, of course. But with a little wry humor, Ann Hodgman is here to tackle Christmas...
Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day
One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Prepare to Get Lost on the Beaten Path...
When Doug Mack picked up a 1963 edition of Europe on Five Dollars a Day, he stumbled on an inspired idea: to boldly go where millions have gone before, relying only on the advice of a travel guide that's nearly a half century out-of-date. Add to the...
by Marc Hartzman
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2006
A fascinating look into the history of the American sideshow and its performers. Learn what's real, what's fake, and what's just downright bizarre.
You've probably heard of Tom Thumb. The Elephant Man. Perhaps even Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins. But what about Eli Bowen, the legless...
The Art of Creative Thinking
89 Ways to See Things Differently
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Get ready to get inspired
In short and engaging entries, this deceptively simple volume presents examples of creative thinkers from the worlds of writing, music, architecture, painting, technology, and more, shedding light on their process, and showing how each of us can learn from them to...
The Secret History of Magic
The True Story of the Deceptive Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Pull back the curtain on the real history of magic – and discover why magic really matters
If you read a standard history of magic, you learn that it begins in ancient Egypt, with the resurrection of a goose in front of the Pharaoh. You discover how magicians were tortured and killed during...
Who Was Dracula?
Bram Stoker's Trail of Blood
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
**The acclaimed author of The Last Greatest Magician in the World sleuths out literature's iconic vampire, uncovering the source material—from folklore and history, to personas including Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman—behind Bram Stoker's lord of the undead.
Praise for Who Was Dracula?**
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The Book of Mastery
The Mastery Trilogy: Book I
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The first book in channeler Paul Selig’s widely anticipated Mastery Trilogy leads you into an unprecedented journey of self-development, at once building your personal excellence and your ability to improve life for others.
The channeled literature of Paul Selig -- who receives clairaudient...
by Jeff Guinn
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
In Our Land Before We Die, Jeff Guinn traces the little-known history of the runaway slaves who fled to the Florida Everglades to live alongside the Seminole Indians. Deeply rooted in tribal oral history, and based on extensive interviews with descendants, this book describes the incredible circumstances...
Holy Ghosts
Or, How a (Not So) Good Catholic Boy Became a Believer in Things That Go Bump in the Night
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
In this remarkable true story, the haunting of a Long Island household forces a respected writer and editor to reevaluate the mysteries of life and death as he struggles with the frightening truths of his childhood home and his town's past.
Growing up in Rockville Center, Long Island, Gary...