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THE JOY OF ORIGAMI Margaret Van Sicklen THE JOY OF ORIGAMI brings a delightfully fresh twist to the ancient art of paper folding. Traditional in spirit yet contemporary in look and feel, with 100 sheets of paper featuring bold, often whimsical patterns specially designed to complement the models, it’s a jazzy, essential book for every origami hobbyist. Among the 57 models are a Ninja Star from Outer Space and a Tie-Dyed Flapping Bird.
92,000 copies in print. • Selection of Crafter’s Choice Book Club and Kids’ Book Planet. Paper: $16.95/$20.95 Can. ISBN-13: 978-0-7611-3988-1 No. 13988 UPC 0-19628-13988-7 Full-color photographs and illustrations throughout; 160 pages plus 100 sheets of origami models; perforated; 81/ 2" x 8" 8-copy counter display: $135.60/$167.60 Can. ISBN-13: 978-0-7611-4099-3 No. 24099
THE SECRET OF GOLF A Century of Groundbreaking, Innovative, and Occasionally Outlandish Ways to Master the World’s Most Vexing Game George Peper It is the Philosopher’s Stone, the Holy Grail. No, it’s THE SECRET OF GOLF. Culled from teachers, players, pioneers, and the obsessed, here are 47 revolutionary keys to playing golf extremely well. The X-Factor. The Gate. Golf-O-Metrics
and Square-to-Square. Includes hundreds of instructional illustrations. 41,000 copies in print. Paper: $18.95/$23.95 Can. ISBN-13: 978-0-7611-3613-2 No. 13613 UPC 0-19628-13613-8 Photographs throughout; two-color; 416 pages; 7" x 8"
BASEBALL ON THE BRAIN 1,003 Trivia Challenges Dennis Purdy It’s massive. It’s obsessive. It’s mind-boggling fun. Can you name the Hall of Famer who invented the curveball? The only player to hit four home runs in a World Series twice? The beloved catcher who said “All pitchers are either liars or crybabies”? Covering three centuries of players, teams, achievements, statistics, lore, history, terms, nicknames, awards,
ballparks, and even photographs, BASEBALL ON THE BRAIN is an unmatched feast of knowledge dressed up as trivia, in 1,003 challenges and over 6,000 questions. What’s your baseball IQ? Paper: $14.95/$18.50 Can. ISBN-13: 978-0-7611-4034-4 No. 14034 UPC 0-19628-14034-0 Two-color; 500 pages; 51/ 2" x 9"
for your reference • A DISORDERLY COMPENDIUM OF GOLF See page 77.
THE COMPLETE OFFICE GOLF David Owen It’s finally here: golf for the office! From how to set up a course in the conference room to facing a stairwell hazard—make a job seem like something you wouldn’t mind doing for a living. Includes nine punchout, reusable golf holes and more. 75,000 copies in print. Paper: $14.95/$18.50 Can. ISBN-13: 978-0-7611-1593-9 No. 11593 UPC 0-19628-11593-5 Illustrations and photographs throughout; 96 pages with 12 color, die-cut, cardstock boards with punchouts; 81/ 2" x 107/ 8"
THE TEAM-BY-TEAM ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Dennis Purdy, Foreword by Tony LaRussa For every baseball nut, the comprehensive, original, devour-it-like-saltedpeanuts single-volume encyclopedia that marries history and statistics and delivers them team by team. Organizing by teams gives the wide view—how do the Murderer’s Row Yankees compare to the Big Red Machine? The long view—which team has
given the Red Sox the most trouble over the last 100 years? And the hidden view—name the team that went through all the 1990s without a Gold Glove winner. Paper: $22.95/$28.95 Can. ISBN-13: 978-0-7611-3943-0 No. 13943 UPC 0-19628-13943-6 Illustrations throughout; 1184 pages; 6" x 9"
MIND GAME How the Boston Red Sox Got Smart, Won a World Series, and Created a New Blueprint for Winning Steven Goldman and The Writers of Baseball Prospectus M IND GAME relives one of modern baseball’s greatest success stories while revolutionizing the fan’s understanding of how baseball games are really won and lost. Steven Goldman and the writers and analysts at Baseball Prospectus explain why the unenlightened Twins gave up on David Ortiz, what led
the Sox to give Johnny Damon the ideal place in the batting order—and much more. Paper: $13.95/$17.50 Can. ISBN-13: 978-0-7611-4018-4 No. 14018 UPC 0-19628-14018-0 320 pages; 6" x 9"
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