Harry N. Abrams

You may have wondered why it is that pillows are always hanging out in bed. It's because they are sex-crazed fiends, ready to partake in a steamy pillow orgy the minute you close the door. The celebrated children's book author ("My Cat", "The Silliest Cat in the World") takes us on a decidedly adults-only voyeuristic peep-show into the dirty doings...

Both tantalizingly similar to and eerily different from our planet, Mars has fascinated the scientific mind and the popular imagination for hundreds of years. Thanks to robotic exploration missions by NASA over the past 20 years, we now have an increasingly sophisticated understanding of our neighboring planet, and a multitude of images to help...

Mythologized since the days of Aristotle, few animals have captured the popular imagination as the great apes, here identified as gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans. Yet, our understanding of these apes as the 'blood kin' of humans - nearly identical in biological composition and strikingly similar in some behaviours - has been much...

New Yorker cartoonist Danny Shanahan wittily portrays litigious living in this hilarious volume of 120-plus cartoons on lawyers, legal matters, and courtroom antics. From corporate contretemps to judicial jujitsu, Innocent, Your Honor, a new addition to Abrams' popular line of books by New Yorker cartoonists, covers a wide compendium of colorful...

Building on more than twenty years' experience travelling and photographing in some of the world's remotest places, Gilles Martin offers in his new book a magnificent photographic collection of some of the most charismatic birds on the globe. Through this book, the reader is invited to plunge into the incredibly rich universe of our feathered...

In "Vanity Fair's Presidential Profiles", each of America's presidents, from George Washington to Barack Obama, is presented in an incisive visual portrait and a brief but sharp biographical essay. The illustrations, by celebrated artist Mark Summers - created especially for this project - capture the men beneath their familiar historical visages....