Creative Coding in Python

Beekeeping is nothing newthe ancient Egyptians were well versed in the benefits of living with beesbut in recent years, there has been a surge of folks struck with the desire to build and nurture a hi

What happens when a storybook character encounters the illustrator who drew himand talks back? In this imaginative series, four animals engage with the illustrator’s hand in amusingand sometimes infur

What happens when a storybook character encounters the illustrator who drew himand talks back? In this imaginative series, four animals engage with the illustrator’s hand in amusingand sometimes infur

In the heart of the Sunshine State, beyond the mouse ears and magic, is a city growing with art and culture. However, in a dark room grows a plot of greed, deception, and revenge twenty years in the m

In small-town suburban Australia, three young men from three different ethnic backgroundsone Samoan, one Macedonian, one not sureare ready to make their mark. Solomon is all charisma, authority, and charm, a failed basketball player down for the moment but surely not out. His half-brother, Jimmy, bounces along in his wake, underestimated, waiting for his chance to announce himself. Aleks, their childhood friend, loves his mates, his family, and his homeland and would do anything for them. The question is, does he know where to draw the line?Solomon, Jimmy, and Aleks are way out on the fringe of Australia, looking for a way in. Hip hop, basketball, and graffiti give them a voice. Booze, women, and violence pass the time while they wait for their chance. Under the oppressive summer sun, their town has turned tinder-dry. All it’ll take is a spark.As the surrounding hills roar with flames, the change storms in. But it’s not what they were waiting for. It never is.

"A romantic, suspenseful, genre-bending debut set in Edwardian London. Amid the sumptuous backdrop of the London season in 1905, headstrong Katherine Sinclair must join the ranks of debutantes vying f

Thorvald Spear wakes in a hospital to find he’s been resurrected, having died in a human-versus-alien war that ended a century earlier. Penny Royal, the AI sent to save a group of besieged human soldi

Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) was one extreme contradiction on top of another. An incredibly influentialbut never profitablecompany in the world of professional wrestling in the 1990s, it portr

In exclusive collaboration with Lionsgate, Assouline presents Tim Palen: Photographs from The Hunger Games. Compiled in one deluxe volume, Palen’s evocative and powerful portraits capture each charact

Ice features fifty-eight of Lynn Davis’s stunning images of the Jakobshavn Glacier facing Disko Bay in Greenland, which she captured over a twenty-year period beginning in 1986. Whether they take the

Winter in the Derbyshire Peaks: months of knee-deep snow , short days, and rocketing crime rates.Detective Sanne Jensen is living in self-imposed isolation and quietly falling apart, while Dr.Meg Fiel

During the Six Day War of 1967, polls showed that Americans favored the Israelis over the Arabs by overwhelming margins. In Europe, support for Israel ran even higher. In the United Nations Security C

As begun in the best-selling Happy Times, her first book with Assouline, Lee Radziwill’s colorful journey continues in the much-anticipated Lee. In this quest or privacy and freedom within a highly pu

Major Sorla Reardon, wounded in Iraq, returns home to the family farm in Australia to heal both her body and her soul. She pushes herself to rebuild her family’s legacy while battling the PTSD that th

A Christmas wedding in Colorado? A two-week celebration for family and friends? Who does that?Photojournalist Reagan Bryant is haunted by the tragedy that ended her last assignment in Afghanistan. She

Phil and Miss Kay present a field guide exploring the joys of Christmas in Duck Commander fashion.

In the age when Savile Row was synonymous with men’s style, Gaetano Saviniput Italy on the map, beginning with the first men’s fashion show at Florence’sPalazzo Pitti in 1952. His legacy as the vision

Movie star Jean Sanders is America’s Sweetheart in 1946. She’s also a lesbian, which she tries to keep concealed from the prying eyes of her public. She’s been very discreet in her encounters until sh

In his hilarious, gritty, and touching debut, Bill Keenana hockey star once on the fast-track to the NHLtells of how he overcame multiple obstacles to find fulfillment and redemption in the strange wo

A Coach in Progress depicts the catastrophe of the Southern Airways flight that crashed en route to Huntington, West Virginia, in 1970, killing all seventy-five passengers on board: players, coaches,

Jason Burke is one of the world’s leading experts on militant Islam. He embedded with the Kurdish peshmerga (currently at war with ISIS) while still in college. He was hanging out with the Taliban in

Order in the Court!Star Wars: the most significant, powerful myth of the twenty-first century or morally bankrupt military fantasy?Six films. Countless books. $20 billion in revenue. No one can questi

In February 2014, Aspen socialite Nancy Pfister was murdered in her own home. Someone bludgeoned Pfister to death, wrapped her in a blanket, and stuffed inside her closet. The question was: Who? Then,

What has happened to men in America? Once upon a time, men in their twenties looked forward to settling down and having children. Today, most young men seem infected by a widespread Peter Pan syndrome

Many of us can recall the targeting of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh people in the wake of 9/11. We may be less aware, however, of the ongoing racism directed against these groups in the past de

From Great Danes to Pomeranians to polydactyl cats, in the rural town of Novi, Michigan, veterinarian Dr. Jaylin Meyers treats them all. But being brought up in the foster care system, she’s learned n

For many hundreds of years Kazakh nomads have been grazing their livestock near the Altai Mountains in western Mongolia. The Altai Kazakhs are unique in their tradition of using golden eagles to hunt

At the time of his death in 1820, Benjamin West was the most famous artist in the English-speaking world, and much admired throughout Europe. From humble beginnings in Pennsylvania, he had become the

In a major reassessment of modern conservatism, noted historian Kathryn S. Olmsted reexamines the explosive labor disputes in the agricultural fields of Depression-era California, the cauldron that in

Cronyism is a serious problem in the United States, but unfortunately it is still not very well understood. In this new essay, Jay Cost explains what it is, and why we should be so worried about it. B

All writers yearn for success and recognition. And now we are entering a golden era in which self-publishers are in the driver’s seat. InThe Author’s Toolkit, aspiring authors, students, and even esta

A compelling case can be made that violent crime, especially in the period after the late 1960s, was one of the most significant domestic issues in the United States, and perhaps in the nations of the

Mary Stoltzfus is thirty years old, splashed with freckles, and unmarried. In her Amish world, that qualifies her to be called an old maid. She is living her quiet schoolteacher life in the Lancaster

“If you don't know by now, we don't deal in happy endings here . . .”Vitus Adamson has a second chance at life now that he’s no longer a zombie, but after killing his brother Jamie, Vitus lands in pri

In 2012, he skewered amateur” Barack Obama. In 2014, he revealed vicious infighting between the Obamas and the Clintons. Now,New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter Edward Klein t

What happens when a storybook character encounters the illustrator who drew himand talks back? In this imaginative series, four animals engage with the illustrator’s hand in amusingand sometimes infur

What happens when a storybook character encounters the illustrator who drew himand talks back? In this imaginative series, four animals engage with the illustrator’s hand in amusingand sometimes infur

Central Market, just off the main square in the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is the oldest continually operating farmer’s market in the US. It absolutely bursts with life every Tuesday, Friday, an

Americans on both sides of the aisle love to reference the Constitution as the ultimate source of truth. But which truth? What did the framers really have in mind? In a book that author R.B. Bernstein

In the Shadow of the Towers compiles nearly twenty works of speculative fiction responding to and inspired by the events of 9/11, from writers seeking to confront, rebuild, and carry on, even in the f