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Mooch the cat desperately wants to get his friend Earl the dog a gift for the holidays, but Earl already has everything. "What do you give a guy who has everything?! What? What?" Mooch wonders. Then it dawns on him--nothing! Since its publication in 2005, this heartwarming story has become an instant classic, with adults buying multiple copies for "the person who has everything." Now, for under $20, they can purchase Patrick McDonnell's timeless, all-ages tale in a cloth-covered edition with a wrapping paper-inspired slipcase...Perfect for last-minute holiday purchases!Features include: * Elegant paper slipcase designed to look like a high-end gift wrapped item with embossed bow. * Blue and white packaging works for Hanukkah, too! * Unjacketed cloth case with debossing, tipped-on art and foil stamping

Are you a witless cretin with no reason to live? Would you like to know more about every piece of knowledge ever? Do you have cash? Then congratulations, because just in time for the death of the print industry as we know it comes the final book ever published, and the only one you will ever need: The Onion's compendium of all things known.Replete with an astonishing assemblage of facts, illustrations, maps, charts, threats, blood, and additional fees to edify even the most simple-minded book-buyer, THE ONION BOOK OF KNOWN KNOWLEDGE is packed with valuable information-such as the life stages of an Aunt; places to kill one's self in Utica, New York; and the dimensions of a female bucket, or "pail." With hundreds of entries for all 27 letters of the alphabet, THE ONION BOOK OF KNOWN KNOWLEDGE must be purchased immediately to avoid the sting of eternal ignorance.

Photographer Harold Feinstein has an unusual gift for finding exquisite details in nature and turning them into mesmerizing works of art. After years of devoting himself to creating a distinctive form of flower imagery (and to successfully licensing these images through books, calendars, posters, and fine-art prints), Feinstein now turns his lens to a subject of equal beauty and appeal--butterflies. In one hundred photographs he will capture a wide range of butterfly varieties - reflecting the explosion of colors and patterns that occur in nature.

From avalanches to glaciers and seals to snowflakes, from igloos to icebergs, permafrost to hoarfrost, chilblains to frostbite, Bill Streever unearths the consistent, ongoing influence of cold on the planet. Evoking history, myth, geography and ecology, Streever's quest for icy, forty-below cold gains purchase in July, while he's taking a dip in an Arctic swimming hole; in September, while excavating our planet's ice ages; and in October, while exploring animals' hibernation habits, from humans to wood frogs to bears. In March he even does his best to escape it, bundling up in layers of polyester, spandex and Primaloft fill to face thermometers reading twenty-three below. Streever visits an underground Cold War-era tunnel, where preserved remains mingle with new-fangled machinery and gear; weighs in on the scientific quest to reach absolute zero (-459? F); and describes how refrigeration evolved from worldwide ice shipping to the chemical coolants we know today.