Travel

In this follow-up to our bestselling Brooklyn Makers, photographer Jennifer Causey returns to her Southern roots to introduce us to a group of artisans with a long tradition of craftsmanship and a wonderfully vibrant cultural history. In communities across the South, amidst breathtaking country landscapes and bustling city neighborhoods, a thriving creative revival is underway.

The ultimate test of city smarts for the Big Apple! This trivia game allows diehard natives, new arrivals, and nostalgic transplants to prove they know the city better than anyone. The game comes with 400 multiple-choice questions spanning all five boroughs; correct answers are counted as IQ points, and the winner is granted NYC insider status. From Harlem to Hell’s Kitchen, the Guggenheim to the Gowanus Canal, Fashion Week to Yankees-speak to Knickerbocker lore and more, this game rewards those truly in the know, while revealing hidden secrets that will surprise even the most knowledgeable New Yorkers. Sleek graphics and game components ensure that this simple but sophisticated package will be displayed on the cityphile’s coffee table, seized at dinner parties, and lingered over for serious fun.

Fixie or Brompton–Pinarello racer or Mongoose BMX–which is the fastest? The most expensive? How about their ride-by kudos, or their crash survival rate?

This fascinating book examines every aspect of airline style, from the company liveries and interior designs of planes to advertising, haute couture, and airborne haute cuisine.

This journal from blogger and cyclist BikeSnobNYC features tips, tricks, and rules for the road alongside classic cycling wisdom from famous bike lovers.

Right in the heart of one of the nation’s most densely populated urban areas sits an idyllic realm of graceful meadows, dense woods, placid lakes, and fresh air. Brooklyn’s 585-acre Prospect Park offers a rural refuge to thousands of visitors every day.

Glam Media presents 100 of the world’s best restaurants, selected by top food critics and foodie editors—including Samir Arora, the CEO of Glam Media; former New York Times food critic Patricia Wells; New York Magazine’s Gael Greene; and Japan’s first food critic, Masuhiro Yamamoto. Presenting the most reservation-worthy cuisine from four continents, Foodie Top 100 Restaurants Worldwide is for foodies who don’t want anonymously compiled directories or crowd-sourced reviews. Detailed accounts of the most innovative menus, ambiance, and service, are accompanied by critics’ tips, color photographs, and bonus lists of the top 100 restaurants in the USA, France, Europe, and Asia.

Featuring colorful beach umbrellas and dreamy blue horizons, this beautiful oversized book offers a breath of fresh air and evokes fantasies of Mediterranean travel. Photographer Christian Chaize returned many times over the course of eight years to shoot an intimate beach in the south of Portugal from the same vantage point.

Featuring over 30 illustrations by artist and comedienne Abbi Jacobson, this coloring book captures the charm and personality of bustling New York City—from cultural attractions and historic sites to quirky shops and everyday street scenes. A great keepsake for visitors and NY natives of all ages, Color this Book offers hours of coloring fun. Includes Artichoke Pizza, Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park, City Bakery, Greenwich Village, the High Line, the Statue of Liberty, and more!

Paris Sketchbook is a stunning gift book from leading international fashion illustrator Jason Brooks. Although he is best known for his beautiful fashion imagery, which has regularly graced the pages of Vogue and Elle magazines, travel has been a recurrent theme in his work and his adventures continue to inspire and inform his visual repertoire.

A fun keepsake for visitors and SF natives of all ages, this coloring book includes over 30 unique illustrations of San Francisco sites by artist and comedienne Abbi Jacobson. From architectural landmarks and cultural attractions to must-see neighborhoods and everyday street scenes, Color this Book captures the beauty and personality of San Francisco. Includes the Castro, the Ferry Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Mission, North Beach, Union Square, and more!

In his new book, BikeSnobNYC reaches the final frontier of cycling: riding with the family. As his choice to take to the road with his toddler son in tow is met with bewilderment and disapproval from onlookers and the occasional motorist, he ponders why it’s such a taboo.

Maddie is a sweet-tempered coonhound who accompanied her owner, Theron, on a year long, cross-country trip while he worked on a photojournalism project. In his spare time, Theron took photos of Maddie doing what she does best: standing on things. From bicycles to giant watermelons to horses to people, there really isn’t anything that Maddie won’t stand on with grace and patience.

A creative renaissance blooms in Brooklyn. At its heart is a thriving community of artisans producing a remarkable variety of handmade goods. In Brooklyn Makers, photographer Jennifer Causey captures the spirit of this homegrown movement by documenting thirty of the borough’s most celebrated craftsmen.

Take a stroll through the real Paris with this beautifully photographed and gorgeously packaged book. Organized by arrondissement, Paris takes readers through the city’s most charming streets, revealing best-kept secrets and little gems at every turn: ateliers overflowing with notions, cafés with their neat rows of macarons, markets abundant with fresh flowers, shaded parks, and creative hotspots. Packed with vibrant color photographs that capture the spirit of Paris and packaged as a hefty flexi-bound paperback with a ribbon page marker, the book is a beautiful object in its own right.

This essential phrasebook collects the most colorful, explicit, and outrageous ways to tell people off in every part of the world. Featuring dozens of different languages, the sayings range from everyday swears to family curses to expressions for X-rated relations with animals.

Sketchtravel is an artistic journey unlike any other. No editorial project has ever before brought together as many visual artists around a common object. Passed between 72 artists over 5 years and across over 35,000 miles, the Sketchtravel sketchbook showcases the creativity of artists in numerous disciplines from around the world. Illustrators, animators, painters, and more each illustrated a page with their unique style before passing the book to the next artist.

Rome as we know it is largely a creation of the Renaissance, restructured and risen anew from a neglected medieval town. This book traces the extraordinary works of painting, sculpture, and architecture commissioned by Rome’s church and civic nobility as part of their rival bids for power and prestige.

Organize travel memorabilia with this handy take-along album.

Citizens of No Place is a collection of short stories on architecture and urbanism, graphically represented using manga-style storyboards.

BMX bikes are iconic. There’s something about them that appeals to kids, adults, cyclists, and more often than not those involved in visual creativity. And of course BMX has just become an Olympic sport. The Best BMX Bikes of All Time is the most in-depth exploration of the world of BMX bikes through their riders, and the culture that surrounds them.

This charmingly illustrated journal encourages users to discover the hidden and extraordinary details of one’s own city. Filled with unique explorations and quirky prompts, it’s the perfect place to keep track of favorite local haunts, as well as a starting point to experience one’s neighborhood in a whole new way.

Take a journey through the world’s most romantic city, traveling from color to magnificent color with this beguiling book.

This lavishly illustrated book reveals the state of the art of the custom racing bicycle. Chapter by chapter, the book builds up the complete guide to specifying and buying your dream bike.

Take a stroll through Édith Piaf’s Belleville, dine at Napoléon’s favorite restaurant, and explore the late-night haunts of Ernest Hemingway, Josephine Baker, and Pablo Picasso.

Take Away invites readers on a visual voyage into open-air markets and food stalls with hawkers and vendors the world over, seen through the lens of acclaimed French chef and photographer Jean-François Mallet.

The joys of commuting by bike attract scores of new converts every year. But as fresh-faced cyclists fill the roads, they also encounter their share of frustrations—careless drivers, wide-flung car doors, zoned-out pedestrians, and aggressive fellow cyclists, to name a few.

Shrouded in mystery and rich with history, Alcatraz draws over a million visitors each year. This enlightening volume provides the first complete history of Alcatraz told through its architecture.

Take a trip to Paris, without leaving your own backyard! Learn to create line drawings of all things quintessentially French with this charming volume filled with easy-to-follow exercises.

The book is about a search for good places authentic ones and wondering about the disappearance of others. While visiting sixteen unique spots around the world, Friedman wondered what made strolling through, sitting in, dining at, or simply being there memorable.

In the early 1990s, celebrated graphic designer Paula Scher (Make It Bigger, 2002) began painting maps of the world as she sees it. The larger her canvases grew, the more expressionistic her geographical visions became. Displaying a powerful command of image and type, Scher brilliantly transformed the surface area of our world.