MiChelle Jones
Content by MiChelle Jones
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Thomas L. Friedman has moved on, though people are still talking about - and buying, to the tune of 3 million copies - his seminal work The World Is Flat.
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From 1929 to 1934, Florence Wolfson faithfully recorded the details of her life in a diary she received on her 14th birthday - and what a life it was.
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There’s nothing like seeing Buzz Aldrin’s name on one’s caller ID.
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In her previous book, architectural historian Judith Paine McBrien guided readers through Chicago; she heads west in the follow-up, Pocket Guide to Los Angeles Architecture, illust
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In 1946, Paula Fox boarded a converted Liberty Ship and sailed to Europe, following a well-worn trajectory of young Americans seeking to find themselves.
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One of the captions in America in Space: NASA's First Fifty Years, tells readers that Photography was not a priority for NASA in the beginning, so while becoming the first American to or
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New York City is understandably a top destination for design aficionados.
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Can't get e-nough of Europe DK offers a new approach to "old Europe" (and NYC) with its e>> guides, a series of Internet-synched books.
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Can't get e-nough of Europe DK offers a new approach to "old Europe" (and NYC) with its e>> guides, a series of Internet-synched books.
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Can't get e-nough of Europe DK offers a new approach to "old Europe" (and NYC) with its e>> guides, a series of Internet-synched books.
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Fabulous foodie favorites If travel for you is merely an excuse to try out new restaurants, tuck into Langenscheidt's Insight Guide Eating in Paris.
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Fabulous foodie favorites If travel for you is merely an excuse to try out new restaurants, tuck into Langenscheidt's Insight Guide Eating in London.
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Eric Carle celebrates two milestones this year: his 80th birthday and the 40th anniversary of one of his beloved little creatures.
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For many readers, the most interesting thing about former GE CEO Jack Welch's new book, Winning, is that it was written with his wife, Suzy.
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If you've ever laughed at those of us compulsive enough to shred our grocery lists, you'll think again after reading Bill Keaggy's Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found.
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The Fun Seeker's Guide to Chicago by Alan S.
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Perhaps nothing says holidays in New York like the subject of The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree: The History & Lore of the World's Most Famous Evergreen.
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The fact that weather can affect everything from creaky joints to the appearance of celestial bodies is old news. But what about the effect of weather on culture, politics, language?
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Cool Stuff and How It Works has got to be one of the most aptly named books ever.
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Infused with an unflinching blue-collar spirit, Chicago is also a hip design destination.
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It seemed like every Apollo fan's dream: tracking down the surviving nine men who walked on the moon to discuss the landings and their lives since returning to Earth.
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Father and son Nathaniel and Andrew Lande's The 10 Best of Everything: An Ultimate Guide for Travelers begins with a compendium of lists, covering everything from airlines, cat
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<B>Echoes of the South's troubled past</B> The central story of <B>Blood Done Sign My Name</B> sounds distressingly familiar the murder of a young man by a reputed Klansman
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A visit to San Francisco, always appealing to design travelers, is even more exciting right now with the Victoria ∧ Albert Museum's art deco show in town.
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There is a certain armchair-traveler appeal to Lonely Planet's The Perfect Day, in which LP contributors (see the mug shots at the end of the book) each get a page to tell how they'd spend
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The bright colors in Journey to the Moon by husband-and-wife graphic designers Lucio and Meera Santoro give it a storybook quality.
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The photographs in Annie Griffiths Belt's memoir, A Camera, Two Kids and a Camel, are stunning, which is no surprise given her 30 years as a National Geographic photographer.
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Mary Childers' large, fatherless family moved from one dilapidated apartment to another.
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If you've been in a bookstore or museum gift shop recently, you've probably seen the simple, colorful jackets of the Wallpaper City Guides.
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Travel + Leisure The 100 Best Trips is really not a guidebook at all, but a hardbound collection of pieces and photographs from the magazine.
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Sue Macy's Swifter, Higher, Stronger: A Photographic History of the Summer Olympics is classified as children's book, but it will appeal to readers of all ages.
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Many of filmmaker and fashion photographer Jerry Schatzberg's images in Paris 1962: Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior, the Early Collections are purposely blurred or grainy, suggesting the
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One name that comes up repeatedly in the shared cast of characters of these books is Wernher von Braun.
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If you were in London at just the right time this fall, you were able to see both Queen Elizabeth's wedding gown at Buckingham Palace and the opening of the Victoria and Albert Museum's lat
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Should your copy of Lorna Goodison's From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island fall open at part II, you will find yourself reading about the arrival of a cricke
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When it was announced that the black Givenchy evening gown Audrey Hepburn immortalized as Holly Golightly would be auctioned off this month, many fans mused about owning it.
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As far as author Greg Klerkx is concerned, NASA has been milking its three-decade-old Apollo success far too long.
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If you've hitherto resisted the knitting craze, Knitted Icons may convert you yet.
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What's in your wardrobe?
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A special holiday gift from a picture-book master, Eric Carle's Dream Snow Pop-up Advent Calendar.
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If lunch was your favorite subject in school, or if you are a lifelong student of pop culture, don't miss Lunchbox Inside and Out: From Comic Books to Cult TV and Beyond.
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<B>NPR's Bob Edwards on Edward R. Murrow</B> There was broadcast news before Edward R. Murrow it just wasn't very good.
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Space fans are probably already familiar with Jay Barbree's work, either from his years as an NBC radio and TV reporter or through Moon Shot (1994), his collaboration with Mercury 7 astronaut
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Life in the hills of Italy seems so fulfilling for Frances Mayes, one might wonder why she would ever leave, even if, as she says, she can no longer sit quietly reading at the local trattorias an
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The last time I saw Paris all right, the only time I saw Paris was a few years ago in April.
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The last time I saw Paris all right, the only time I saw Paris was a few years ago in April.
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To save time, you should probably put in a quick call to your travel agent before setting off to read Dutch photographer Iwein Maassen's The Contemporary Cruise.
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Simon Loxley's witty Type: The Secret History of Letters was released in Britain last winter, so it is possible that some clever television exec is already working on an adaptation.
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A discreet option is the New York City Pocket Guide. Writer Douglas Stallings and editor Kathy Novak have packed a lot into this little book.
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Together or separately, Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart have popped everything: classic stories (Alice in Wonderland, The Jungle Book), Christmas scenes (The 12 Days of Christma
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British author Sara Wheeler sets a daunting task for herself in her latest book, Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton to wrest her subject from the enduring
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Journalist Leon Wagener faced the daunting task of chronicling a subject famously shy of the limelight when he took on One Giant Leap: Neil Armstrong's Stellar American Journey.
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The tiny Eyewitness Travel Pocket Map & Guides look as though a harried traveler accidentally put a full-sized Eyewitness guide through the laundry and ended up with these pocket- or pu
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For those who want one exhaustive guide to where they're going, Fodor's new Essential line is the ticket.
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Hepburn was never one of Hitchcock's leading ladies, though he worked with several other fashionable actresses.
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Given the growing popularity of television in the mid-1950s, it may have seemed an inauspicious time to launch a weekly sports magazine.
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As architectural critic for the New Yorker, Paul Goldberger has followed plans for rebuilding the World Trade Center site since early 2002.
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Is it possible to cover the entire country in one guidebook? Dorling Kindersley is up to the challenge in the first edition of USA Eyewitness Travel Guide, edited by Mary Sutherland.
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If self-proclaimed lazy environmentalist Josh Dorfman isn't the Earth-friendly being of the future, he certainly is the eco-guy of the moment.
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Steven Heller's Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State concentrates on the aesthetic programs of the Nazis, Italy's fascists, Russia's Marxists and China's
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Mid - April 1961: the Bay of Pigs Invasion. May 5, 1961: Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space. Late May 1961: President and Mrs. Kennedy travel to Paris.
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Nightmare before Christmas
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<B>The spy who didn't love it</B> Lindsay Moran's resignation from the CIA didn't cause the furor that George Tenet's did, but don't let that stop you from reading <B>Blowing My
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The appeal of a book like Bound for Glory: America in Color 1939-43 is that it can literally change our view of history.
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Annie Leibovitz has photographed some of the most famous faces of our time, creating iconic portraits in her work for Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Gap, American Express and others.
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The Home Owner's Manual is a straightforward guide to taking care of house and home. Sort of.
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The little figures on the cover of Christen Haden's Creepy Cute Crochet: Zombies, Ninjas, Robots, and More! look so darling, even the Grim Reaper - but beware, scarier creatures lurk insid
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Every once in a while a book comes along that is everything one wants it to be; such is the case with Marjorie Hart's Summer at Tiffany.
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If you're in the mood for something lighter than an alien invasion, check out the film version of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
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If you're big on sumptuous photography and itineraries to the far corners of the globe, you'll love The New Traveler's Atlas, a sort of wishbook, reference book and coffee table
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National Air and Space Museum curator Von Hardesty and journalist Gene Eisman offer a history of both sides of the Space Race in Epic Rivalry: The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space
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Journalist Michael D'Antonio presents an in-depth look at the beginning of the Space Age in A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957 The Space Race Begins.
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Only Earthlings based in deep space could have escaped the excitement over Mars this past summer, as the Red Planet made its closest Earth pass in 60,000 years.
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In the decades since the publication of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, the title character has become almost as much a part of the holiday season as Santa Claus.
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When British journalist Andrew Eames set off from a London suburb to Baghdad via train in 2002, he wasn't merely following in the tracks of Paul Theroux and Michael Palin, he was tracing the life-cha
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Take a spooky concept by Arthur Yorinks (Hey, Al), flesh it out with Maurice Sendak's muted palette of watercolor and pen and ink, and bring it all to three-dimensional life with paper engineerin
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Margaret Timmers' A Century of Olympic Posters, the image-filled companion volume to the Victoria ∧ Albert Museum exhibition, explores a variety of themes related to the Games.
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What would the holiday season be without a new offering from pop-up wizard Robert Sabuda? This year, Sabuda celebrates nature in Winter's Tale.
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Loads of spice with a dash of sugar Just when you thought you'd seen every imaginable cake, pie or sugar rush-inducing treat, Sweet Memories: A Gingerbread Family Scrapbook will hav
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The airlines are getting chintzier all the time, but for the moment there's still at least 15 minutes of diversion provided by the well-worn in-flight magazine and SkyMall catalog found in the seat p
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Editor's note: Each month we see lots of books. Some of the curiouser arrivals are featured in this space.
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