Books

Ever looked at a bridge, building, or even a telephone pole and wondered, "Hey, how does this stuff actually work?" Well, buckle up, my curious friend, because "Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to...

Oh, so you think you're the ultimate DIY master now, huh? The "Ultimate Guide to Home Repair and Improvement, 3rd Updated Edition" is here to test your mettle. This beefy tome is like the holy bible of home improvement...

Happy Halloween, dudes and ladies! My gift to you: Dark Inspiration: Grotesque Illustrations, Art & Design. A coffee table book to scare both the unwelcome trick-or-treaters and your mother-in-law away!...

Surf Porn. Sounds like a mighty fine subgenre of the industry to me. But, alas, if Surf Porn is to be a literal term, it will be up to me and mine, or you and yours (or all of us!) to make it so, because here Surf Porn...

Anyone you know love maps and conflict with equal gusto? Well look no further than Battles Map by Map as the perfect gift for your favorite warmongering cartophile! (Military and history buffs will probably dig it too.)...

When it comes to Best Of lists, video games ranked according to some person's or group's subjective arguments are probably going to get as much backlash and hate as Best Bands of All Time and Best Movies Ever Made compilations...

Nuclear War Survival Skills, what a fun topic! Fingers crossed I can find Civil War Survival Skills, Climate Apocalypse Survival Skills, and AI World Takeover Survival Skills to keep the good times going in the coming...

Savvy Job-Hopper's Guide to Choosing a Career is published by Knock Knock, the same company that also wrote Excuses & Lies: Lines for All Occasions, and makes the Fart Citation Sticky Pad. So while the subtitle of the...

Schwarzenegger said he'd be back, and here he is. In a giant, 2-volume, 800+-page, full-color spread for your coffee table. The ARNOLD. Collector's Edition release from Taschen is a pictorial tribute to the bodybuilder...

Trejo's Cantina is one of Danny Trejo's restaurants and, as of April 18, 2023, one of Danny Trejo's cookbooks. Trejo's Cantina: Cocktails, Snacks & Amazing Non-Alcoholic Drinks from the Heart of Hollywood is a 100-recipe...

Where's Bob?: A Happy Little Seek-and-Find should be called Where's Bob?: Another Happy Little Way for People to Make Money Off Bob Ross...

The more you know, right? Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion is a simple guide to understanding magic mushrooms. Or, if you're totally, fully, my-Aunt-Jan-levels of against magic mushrooms, a simple guide to identifying...

I often find myself at a loss for words, or unable to find the word I'm looking for, so maybe this Little Book of Lost Words can help me out too. By "too," I mean, in addition to all of you dudes and ladies out there...

The Botany of Beer is supposed to be An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 Plants Used in Brewing, but I can't find a single decent image of a single page inside Giuseppe Caruso's publication. So while the title makes...

The Unkillables could be a book about the flies that swarm my mama's house in the summer. All the cheaters in Fortnite. Certain - ahem - dictators and old-ass politicians. Or even just a new team of superheroes or antiheroes...

Edward Powys Mathers (aka Torquemada) wrote Cain's Jawbone in 1934, and to this day, only 3 people have ever solved the 6 murder mysteries hidden within its hundred pages. So, nope, calling it The World's Most Fiendishly...

I don't think many people really need JJ Harlan's How Not to Be Helpful: An Illustrated Guide for Thoughtless Adults. With the exception of my mama and, like, Keanu Reeves, most of us have already got it down pat. But...

No, 100 Games to Play with a Stick is not about your penis. But, like your penis, it does make a great gag gift...

Whoa. Check out The Bartender's Manifesto's Guide to Citrus Garnish Styles section. I am amazed. Not only at the number of citrus garnish styles in existence, but also in how this manual of How to Think, Drink, and Create...

Sarah Knight brings all her F*cks together in No F*cks Given: Naughty Words to Live By. The book is a compilation of the "no-bullsh*t, life-changing advice" she offers in her 5 previous F*ck-filled books: The Life-Changing...

Honestly, The Christmas Movie Cookbook doesn't appear to have many recipes I'll actually want to make - or even request my mama make for me. Old Fashioned Meatloaf from A Christmas Story? Chicken, Broccoli, and Cheddar...

Horizontal is certainly my favorite way to do most things, so why wouldn't it appeal to parents too? Horizontal Parenting: How to Entertain Your Kid While Lying Down is a manual for moms and dads who just need a frikkin'...

But probably not many. ... I joke, I joke. I'm not my Aunt Jan, ladies. When I say there are moms way worse than you, and definitely when author Glenn Boozan says There Are Moms Way Worse Than You, we mean it...