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Your Dream Wedding on a Budget: 47 Cost-Cutting Secrets from America's Favorite Wedding Planner

by Mindy Weiss & Lisbeth Levine

No one knows how to plan a wedding like Mindy Weiss, the "mega-star wedding planner" (People magazine) whose wide-ranging clientele includes actors, artists, and musicians. In The Wedding Book, she created the...

25,000+ Baby Names

by Bruce Lansky

Select the perfect name for your new baby!

Not sure what to name your child?

Torn between a traditional family name and an up-and-coming name?

Or maybe you don't even know where to start?

Let 25,000+ Baby Names...

Mastering the Thesis Statement

by Steve Sharp

Author Steve Sharp tells his students that the thesis statement is the sun around which EVERYTHING in their paper orbits. Every sentence must fall within its gravitational pull and obey rational orbital laws....

The New Jewish Wedding, Revised

by Anita Diamant

The Definitive, Completely Up-to-Date Guide to Planning a Jewish Wedding

Since its original publication in 1986, The New Jewish Wedding has become required reading, assigned to engaged couples by Conservative,...

The Style Checklist: The Ultimate Wardrobe Essentials for You

by Lloyd Boston

The good news is: the most stylish clothes you can have are probably already in your closet. But savvy women are on a perpetual quest to find the perfect addition to their wardrobe: the perfect bathing suit,...

Star Trek Trivia Book: Star Trek All Series

by Jill Sherwin

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW STAR TREK®? WELL, FIRE UP THOSE NEURONS, BECAUSE HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO PROVE IT!

1. How many tribbles did Spock calculate had bred aboard Deep Space Station K-7?

2. What type of life-form...

How to Organize (Just About) Everything: More Than 500 Step-by-Step Instructions for Everything from Organizing Your Closets to Planning a Wedding to

by Peter Walsh

Professional organizer Peter Walsh presents this witty and enormously practical guide to getting it -- and keeping it -- all together. With more than 500 easy-to-follow how-to instructions, How to Organize (Just...

100 Ways to Improve Your Writing

by Gary Provost

This is the one guide that anyone who writes--whether student, business person, or professional writer--should put on the desk beside pencil, pen, typewriter, or word processor. Filled with professional tips...

New American Roget's College Thesaurus in Dictionary Form (Revised &Updated)

by Philip Morehead

Published in hardcover as The Penguin Roget's College Thesaurus in Dictionary Form, this new paperback edition of the 20-million-copy bestselling thesaurus has been fully revised, expanded, and updated for the...

How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times

by James Wesley Rawles

Read James Wesley, Rawles's posts on the Penguin Blog

In the vein of Sam Sheridan's The Disaster Diaries, a comprehensive guide to preparing for the apocalypse! 

With the recent economic crisis, formerly...

Inspired Creative Writing (52 Brilliant Ideas): Pokes and Prods for Scribblers of All Stripes

by Alexander Smith

52 fresh techniques for putting thoughts into words. For aspiring authors planning an epic novel, plotting a screenplay, or wishing to bare their poetic soul, Inspired Creative Writing offers tactics and exercises...

Cowboy: The Ultimate Guide to Living Like a Great American Icon

by Rocco Wachman & Matthew A. Pellegrini

Celebrity host of CMT's Cowboy U Rocco Wachman's modern guide to being a cowboy

Cowboy: The Ultimate Guide to Living Like a Great American Icon is the first book to explore, through a pop-culture lens, the many...

2009 International Plumbing Codes Handbook

by R. Dodge Woodson

A Complete Guide to the 2009 International Plumbing Codes Fully updated to reflect the changes in the International Code Council 2009 International Plumbing Code, this authoritative volume follows the IPC chapter...

The Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracies

by Monte Cook

Did the noble order of the Knights Templar guard a secret about Jesus' birth?

Was the moon landing faked in a Hollywood movie studio?

Is the government keeping the remains of an alien spacecraft in the top-secret...

Weed

by I.M. Stoned

Weed. Pot. Mary Jane. Grass.

No matter what you call marijuana, it's still dope.

In this irreverent and all-inclusive look at cannabis, you will learn all there is to know about the psychoactive substance Bill...

Wine Secrets

by Marnie Old

Inside Tips from Top Wine Experts

Michael Mondavi, Jacques Pépin, Gina Gallo, and Kevin Zraly are just four of the contributors to Wine Secrets—a compilation of tips and tricks from today’s top wine...

Stone Age Economics

by Marshall Sahlins

This book addresses a central problem of anthropology: the nature and appropriate analysis of economic life. It consists of a set of detailed and closely related studies of tribal economies: of domestic production...

Talking with Confidence for the Painfully Shy: How to Overcome Nervousness, Speak-Up, and Speak Out in Any Social or Business S ituation

by Don Gabor

s much about "speaking in public" as it is about "public speaking, " Talking with Confidence for the Painfully Shy can help even the most shy person speak up and speak out in any business or social situation....

Perfumes: The A-Z Guide

by Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez

I've long wished perfumery to be taken seriously as an art, and for scent critics to be as fierce as opera critics, and for the wearers of certain ""fragrances"" to be hissed in public, while others are cheered....

Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Questions

by New Scientist

How long can I live on beer alone? Why do people have eyebrows? Has nature invented any wheels? Plus 99 other questions answered. Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist, the world's...