Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run. Today, he is considered one of the greatest influences in all art history. This edition offers a neat and comprehensive Caravaggio catalogue raisonne. Each of his paintings is reproduced from recent top-quality photography, allowing for a vivid encounter with the artist's ingenious repertoire of looks and gestures, as well as numerous detail shots of his boundary-breaking naturalism. Five accompanying chapters trace the complete arc of Caravaggio's career from his first public commissions in Rome through to his growing celebrity status and trace his tempestuous personal life, in which drama loomed as prominently as in his canvases. About the series TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program-now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.

Ask and it is answered with this 13-card pocket oracle deck featuring beautiful, nature-inspired artwork and straightforward answers to yes or no questions.

While tarot and oracle decks offer the possibility of subtle and complex readings, sometimes all you want―or need―are simple, straightforward answers to your questions to help guide your path. The Crystal Ball Pocket Oracle offers just that. This 13-card deck is a divination tool that features a mystical image on each card along with straightforward answers to your questions. Using the deck is easy: simply pose a question, gently shuffle the deck as you hold the question in your mind, and when you feel you’ve shuffled enough, draw a single card to reveal your answer.

The beautiful, evocative artwork by artist and creator Athene Noctua features animals, plants, moon phases, and other nature-inspired imagery that adds depth to the answers written on the cards. Small enough to fit in a purse or pocket, this adorable deck can travel with you wherever you go, offering answers to all of life’s questions, big and small.

My Best Friend is a: Giraffe is a fantastic touch-and-feel title in a brand new series by Priddy Books. With a padded, embroidered character on the cover and a unique touch-and-feel to discover on every spread, this sturdy board book is ideal for babies who love exploring the world with their hands. The simple rhyming text and playful artwork invites baby to join the mischievous giraffe and see all the silly scenarios she finds herself in.

Into every generation, a slayer is born. One girl in all the world . . . sort of.

Frankie Rosenberg is the world's first slayer-witch, but she doesn't have that slay-life balance figured out just yet. She's still reeling from the deadly explosion at the anual slayer retreat--and new evidence that some slayers may have survived. And while she's defeated her first Big Bad, Frankie soon realizes it was just a warm-up act. Bigger, badder forces of evil are just getting started.

The Hellmouth has been reawakened and is calling old friends home. Portals are opening between Sunnydale and other dimensions. And the Scooby Gang has too many demons to contend with--real, metaphorical, and sometimes absurdly hot.

Then an oracle warns of a new foe on its way: the Darkness. Could this be what attacked the slayers? And is it coming for Frankie?

In pursuit of both knowledge and delight, the craft of botanical illustration has always required not only meticulous draftsmanship but also a rigorous scientific understanding. This new edition of a TASCHEN classic celebrates the botanical tradition and talents with a selection of outstanding works from the National Library of Vienna, including many new images. From Byzantine manuscripts right through to 19th-century masterpieces, through peonies, callas, and chrysanthemums, these exquisite reproductions dazzle in their accuracy and their aesthetics. Whether in gently furled leaves, precisely textured fruits, or the sheer beauty and variety of colors, we celebrate an art form as tender as it is precise, and ever more resonant amid our growing awareness of our ecological surroundings and the preciousness of natural flora. About the series TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program-now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.

Calm your own sleepy dinosaur and count down to bedtime with this new board book edition of Ten Minutes to Bed Little Dinosaur, part of the no. 1 bestselling Ten Minutes to Bed series. Muddy puddles, tropical birds, erupting volcanos... the jungle is full of so many exciting things, how can Rumble the dinosaur possibly go to sleep? Weaving a journey from lively beginning to gentle end, the ten-minute countdown to bed is at the heart of this adorable, heartwarming story. Now available as a gorgeous board book, this durable format is perfect for younger fans of the Ten Minutes to Bed series. This bestselling bedtime series has sold one million copies worldwide! Do you have all the books in the Ten Minutes to Bed series? Ten Minutes to Bed: Little Unicorn (also available as a board book) Ten Minutes to Bed: Little Mermaid (also available as a board book) Ten Minutes to Bed: Little Monster (also available as a board book) Ten Minutes to Bed: Little Dinosaur Ten Minutes to Bed: Little Dragon Ten Minutes to Bed: Little Unicorn's Christmas Ten Minutes to Bed: Little Unicorn's Birthday Ten Minutes to Bed: Baby Unicorn

In Healing from Depression, Douglas Bloch shares his struggle to stay alive amidst overwhelming despair and out-of-control anxiety attacks, and explains how the power of prayer and other holistic approaches ultimately led to his recovery. As one of the millions of Americans who suffer from depression, Bloch could not be helped by so-called "miracle" drugs. Therefore, he had to seek out conventional and alternative non-drug methods of healing. The result is a 12-week program that combines his inspirational story with a comprehensive manual on how to diagnose and treat depression, offering new hope and practical strategies to everyone who suffers from this debilitating condition. Complete with worksheets and goal sheets to customize individual plans, Healing from Depression is an accessible self-guided program for managing and recovering from depression. Acclaimed as a "life-line to healing," this important book stresses the importance of social support, on going self-care activities like relaxation, nutrition, exercise, prayer, meditation, support groups, therapy and keeping a daily mood diary and gratitude journal. 26 graphs & diagrams

A book of actionable self-love and self-care rituals, ceremonies, and celebrations based on the goddesses of the African diaspora and black people around the world written by spiritual teacher, intuitive coach, and author, Abiola Abrams. Imagine being able to welcome ancient African goddess magic into your dailylife to dissolve your fears, limiting beliefs,and shadow blocks as you learn how the principles of conjuring in African traditions can help you to become the person you were born to be. When Africans were kidnapped and brutally brought to "The New World," they hid their deities and rituals in stories of saints, angels,and legendary characters. Their deities included a powerful cadre of orishas, lwas, goddesses. From Egypt to South Africa, Cuba to even indigenous Australia, we chant their names then and now: Yemaya, Odudua, Erzulie, Ala, Isis, Maat among others. Each chapter of the book is dedicated to an African goddess. We learn about the deity, how to invoke and honor her energy, and how she honors you. In addition to an accompanying declaration, there will be a self-love, self-care,or manifesting ritual related to each goddess. Consider AFRICAN GODDESS RISINGto be an initiation into your own power. This is our time to rise and to shine. Here is your crown. You are power and magic: fearfully and wonderfully made.

Peppa and her friends are celebrating their mummies at playgroup and share all the reasons their mummies are amazing! All their mummies are different and special in their own way but what is one thing they will all share? Peppa loves her amazing mummy, EVERYONE loves amazing mummies!

On the first day of Christmas, Verandah Santa gave to Bluey . . . A fruit bat in a mango tree! Join Bluey and friends and count down the 12 days of Christmas! Want more Bluey? Also available: Bluey: Christmas Eve with Verandah Santa Bluey: Hooray It's Christmas Sticker Activity Bluey: Christmas Swim Bluey: Merry Christmas: A Colouring Book

- Eager young treasure hunters can search for the hundreds of hidden things in this bright, engaging seek-and-find book.

- The fun and colourful scenes include beach, jungle, farm, pirates, space, princesses and dinosaurs!

- Children will have hours of fun searching the pages, while developing key skills including sorting, counting and matching

See Touch Feel: Love is a fun first sensory book, especially designed for very young children. It features tactile pages for babies to touch and feel and sweet artwork created from handprints and footprints, which parents can then create together with their own child. Another title in the successful Priddy Books See, Touch, Feel series, this is an ideal Valentine's gift to share with your loved one. Also available in the See, Touch, Feel series: See, Touch, Feel, See, Touch, Feel: Spring, See, Touch, Feel: ABC, See, Touch, Feel: Halloween, See, Touch, Feel: Christmas, See, Touch, Feel: Roar and See, Touch, Feel: 123.

Enhance your divination practice with this 24-card pocket oracle deck featuring Nordic rune interpretations and majestic animal companions. Owls, ravens, snakes, and other magical animals dance across these cards. Each animal embodies the meanings, qualities, and energies of the various runes they have been chosen to symbolize. These cards are perfect for daily divination practice or as a tool to focus energy during rituals and ceremonies. Ask the cards for guidance, luck, protection, or new love. Author Athene Noctua provides a helpful introductory guide to the featured runes and their interpretations. Small enough to fit in a purse or pocket, this compact deck can travel with you, offering divine guidance wherever life may take you.

It started in 1978 with an ordinary coffee shop near Kyoto. Word spread that the waitresses wore no panties under their miniskirts. Similar establishments popped up across the country. Men waited in line outside to pay three times the usual coffee price just to be served by a panty-free young woman. Within a few years, a new craze took hold: the no-panties "massage" parlor. Increasingly bizarre services followed, from fondling clients through holes in coffins to commuter-train fetishists. One particularly popular destination was a Tokyo club called "Lucky Hole" where clients stood on one side of a plywood partition, a hostess on the other. In between them was a hole big enough for a certain part of the male anatomy. Taking the Lucky Hole as his title, Nobuyoshi Araki captures Japan's sex industry in full flower, documenting in more than 800 photos the pleasure-seekers and providers of Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood before the February 1985 New Amusement Business Control and Improvement Act put a stop to many of the country's sex locales. Through mirrored walls, bed sheets, the bondage and the orgies, this is the last word on an age of bacchanalia, infused with moments of humor, precise poetry, and questioning interjections. About the series Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe!

Pop artist, painter of modern life, landscape painter, master of color, explorer of image and perception-for six decades, David Hockney has been known as an artist who always finds new ways of exploring the world and its representational possibilities. He has consistently created unforgettable images: works with graphic lines and integrated text in the Swinging Sixties in London; the famous swimming pool series as a representation of the 1970s California lifestyle; closely observed portraits and brightly colored, oversized landscapes after his eventual return to his native Yorkshire. In addition to drawings in which he transfers what he sees directly onto paper, there are multiperspective Polaroid collages that open up the space into a myriad of detailed views, and iPad drawings in which he captures light using a most modern medium-testaments to Hockney's enduring delight in experimentation. This special edition has been newly assembled from the two volumes of the David Hockney: A Bigger Book monograph to celebrate TASCHEN's 40th anniversary. Hockney's life and work is presented year by year as a dialogue between his works and voices from the time period, alongside reviews and reflections by the artist in a chronological text, supplemented by portrait photographs and exhibition views. Together they open up new perspectives, page after page, revealing how Hockney undertakes his artistic research, how his painting develops, and where he finds inspiration for his multifaceted work. About the series TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program-now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.

Help your child to learn the reasoning and problem solving skills they'll use in everyday life with this Reasoning and Problem Solving Wipe Clean Workbook. Through everyday activities, such as going to the store, children will learn first maths skills, including money, estimations, addition and subtraction. Children are encouraged to show their reasoning and to explain how they have reached their answer, which helps to reinforce a better understanding. Included with this workbook is a wipe clean pen, and the wipe clean pages enable children to practice over and over again until they have mastered each skill. With bright photographic images to engage and encourage, this early-learning workbook will support your child during their early school years.

This wipe-clean activity book with dry-wipe pen is packed full of seek-and-find puzzles, mazes, picture puzzles, number fun, and more. The colourful illustrated pages wipe clean, so that children can complete and repeat the puzzles time and time again excellent for developing their problem-solving and observational skills, as well as their fine-motor control. This is a perfect book for use at home or on the move.

The 12th installment in the New York Times best-selling series asks: What if Rapunzel's mother drank a potion from the wrong flower?

Desperate to save the life of their queen and her unborn child, the good citizens of the kingdom comb the land for the all-healing Sundrop flower to cure her . . . but someone mistakenly picks the blossom of the Moondrop instead. This shimmering flower heals the queen and she delivers a healthy baby girl―with hair as silver and gray as the moon. But with her mysterious hair comes dangerous magical powers: the power to hurt, not heal. For the safety of the kingdom, Rapunzel is locked away in a tower and put under the care of the powerful goodwife, Mother Gothel.

For eighteen years Rapunzel stays imprisoned in her tower, knowing she must protect everyone from her magical hair. When she finally decides to leave the only home she's ever known―to see the floating lights that appear on her birthday―she gets caught up in an unexpected adventure with two thieves: a would-be outlaw named Gina, and Flynn Rider, a rogue on the run. Before she can reach her happy ending, Rapunzel learns that there is far more to her story, and her magical hair, and her future than she ever knew.