Housed in a keepsake box, this luxe set of playing cards features artwork inspired by the 1913 sheet music for California's official state song, "I Love You, California." With top-quality cardstock, charming bear-themed images, and hand-drawn details throughout, this portable 54-card deck will be a win with Golden State fans.

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The quirky inspiration of the 642 series takes flight in this collection of fiction-writing prompts that will make anyone want to grab a pen and write what happens next.

642 Stories To Write

Graphic design guru Tim Leong presents Star Wars trivia in an all-new way—through playful pie charts, bar graphs, and other data-driven infographics.
From a Venn diagram of Yoda’s idiosyncrasies to an organizational chart of the Empire to a line graph of Grand Moff Tarkin’s management decisions, Star Wars Super Graphic shines a new light on the much-adored universe. Equal parts playful and informative, this visual love letter to the vast Star Wars universe will enchant fans of all ages.

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Star Wars® Super Graphic

For the first time in 3,300 years, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day: The Papyrus of Ani is showcased in its entirety in seventy-four magnificent, large-format, color pages.
Maybe the most stunning presentation of this book in 3300 years: Upon death, it was the practice for some Egyptians to produce a papyrus manuscript called the Book of Going Forth by Day or the Book of the Dead. A Book of the Dead included declarations and spells to help the deceased in the afterlife. The Papyrus of Ani is the manuscript compiled for Ani, the royal scribe of Thebes. Written and illustrated almost 3,300 years ago, The Papyrus of Ani is a papyrus manuscript with cursive hieroglyphs and color illustrations. It is the most beautiful, best-preserved, and complete example of ancient Egyptian philosophical and religious thought known to exist.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead is an integral part of the world's spiritual heritage. It is an artistic rendering of the mysteries of life and death. For the first time since its creation, this ancient papyrus is now available in full color with an integrated English translation directly below each image. This twentieth-anniversary edition of The Egyptian Book of the Dead has been revised and expanded to include:

Significant improvements to the display of the images of the Papyrus.
A survey of the continuing importance of ancient Egypt in modern culture.
A detailed history of Egyptian translation and philology since the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799.
And, a state-of-the-art Annotated Bibliography and Study Guide for Ancient Egyptian studies.

As the third revised edition, the entire corpus of this critical work is given its most accessible and lavish presentation ever.

The Egyptian Book Of The Dead

This shimmering matchbox contains 50 faux matchsticks with prompts for appreciating your surroundings, expressing thanks, and giving back. ItÆs a unique way to light up the everyday.
BEAUTIFUL BOX: Slide open the shimmering foil box to reveal faux decorative matchsticks. It's an eye-catching package that looks gorgeous on your nightstand or desk.
BE HAPPIER AND HEALTHIER: A regular gratitude practice can improve overall well-being. This box makes it easy! And if youÆre already keeping a gratitude journal, Spark Gratitude can enhance this habit with new, fresh ideas.
A GREAT GIFT: Full of ways to practice gratitude, this unique, beautiful box makes a sweet stocking stuffer, thank-you gift, or a thoughtful way to kick off the New Year—for both men and women.
SAMPLE PROMPTS: Start each morning with a list of three things you are thankful for. Think about the things, pastimes, or people that give your life meaning. Call someone for no reason other than to thank them for being in your life.

INCLUDES: 50 kraft-paper faux matchsticks in foil-stamped box tray with sleeve

Spark Gratitude

Play cards . . . the Martian way! Featuring amazing photos from the archives of NASA! Each card features an iconic NASA photograph of Mars spanning craters, volcanoes, and dust storms, and its many celebrated rovers and landers. 
- Complete playing card deck (52 cards and 2 jokers) 
- For ages 4 and up 
- Great for gift collectors and space enthusiasts 
- Space lovers will adore this astronomical, Martian gift! 
- Perfect for any child interested in the curious world of science and physics

Mars Playing Cards

Explore Anthropologie's unique collection of women's clothing, accessories, home décor, furniture, gifts and more. 24/7 free shipping on orders $150+.

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Mykonos Muse

Distinguished by signature pops of accent color and designs by beloved artist Molly Hatch, Journey in Color coloring books provide an immersive creative escape in a uniquely elegant package. This new book in the series features designs inspired by art, embroidery, and textiles from Norway and Sweden, printed in both black and brilliant neon red inks. The outlines print single-sided so there is no risk of show-through for those who are coloring with markers or pens. With richly detailed designs and eye-catching neon accents on every page, this is a coloring experience as beautiful as it is relaxing.

Journey In Color: Scandinavian Designs

From Jennifer Scott—author of the New York Times bestselling Madame Chic series and founder of the Daily Connoisseur blog—comes this playful take on manners and being a good global citizen. Parents and younger children work together to read about a wide range of topics: communication, table manners, tidiness, thinking of others, grooming, and health. Activities, learning games, fill-in-the-blanks, letter-writing exercises, recipes (for food and for slime!), and some fun songs and rhymes help kids learn concepts and practice good behaviors. Featuring charming illustrations and go-to advice from a trusted source, this is a timely guide for raising well-mannered, neat, and gracious children for parents, grandparents, and children of reading age.

Connoisseur Kids

At a time when a bit more listening might serve us well, Do Listen is a handy guide to the art of communication. For anyone who wants to hold meaningful conversations, speak with eloquence, and build community, here is an accessible handbook with tips on how to listen skillfully, take a discussion deeper, and speak about difficult topics with respect. Full of exercises and practices that can be applied in the workplace, at a social event, or around the dinner table, Do Listen provides readers with the tools to hold engaging conversations and create profound personal connections.

Do Listen

Say it with flowers. This visual bouquet includes a photographic glossary of popular flower types and their Victorian meanings, followed by step-by-step instructions for creating 25 beautiful arrangements. From Celebration and Luck, to Happiness and Forgiveness, each bespoke bunch of flowers suits an important occasion or recipient. Blooming with inspiring lifestyle photography and watercolor botanical illustrations throughout, Meaningful Bouquets brings a truly personal touch to flower arranging.

Meaningful Bouquets

Always open, always awesome. Clothing, accessories and apartment items for men and women.

Urban Outfitters

The One With All The Stickers: An Unofficial Sticker Book For Fans Of Friends By Ulysses Press

Doodling boosts creative thinking, confidence, and memory retention! This addictively entertaining drawing pad is filled with squiggles that kick-start the doodling process. With a sturdy backing board for easy on-the-go doodling and prompts and encouragement sprinkled throughout, this portable boredom buster sparks imagination—and endless fun—for kids and adults alike.

Doodle Theory

Take a stroll through Édith Piaf’s Belleville, dine at Napoléon’s favorite restaurant, and explore the late-night haunts of Ernest Hemingway, Josephine Baker, and Pablo Picasso. From the author of the best-selling City Walks: Paris deck, this lively collection of walking adventures follows in the footsteps of more than 25 of the city’s iconic former residents. Throughout, Paris is seen from the intimate vantage point of those who loved it best, from the bars where authors penned classic works to the markets and patisseries where food lovers indulged. Including photos and full-color maps throughout, each walk in this book guides visitors and locals through the city that inspired some of the world’s most famous artists, writers, chefs, musicians, politicians, and more.

Forever Paris

Celebrating the 75th anniversary of DC Comics, these 100 all-different postcards feature the incredible art of DC's comic book covers from the 1930s through the 1980s.

The Art Of Vintage Dc Comics

The lush beauty of Floret Flower Farm is captured in these beautiful cards featuring photographs of magnificent dahlia blooms. A lovely greeting for birthdays, a thank you, or a cheerful hello to a friend, these garden-fresh cards are sure to brighten any recipient's day.

Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden Dahlia Notes

Fall in love with these funny, striking, and surreal pups. William Wegman's whimsical photographs of his Weimaraner dogs have been celebrated in the art world and enjoyed by pet lovers for nearly four decades. In this entirely new volume, renowned photography curator William A. Ewing presents more than 300 images from the artist's personal archive, unearthing previously unseen gems alongside the iconic images that have made Wegman—along with dressed-up dogs Man Ray, Fay Ray, and others—beloved worldwide.
Presented in sixteen thematic chapters, William Wegman: Being Human foregrounds the photographer's penchant for play and his evergreen ability to create images that are at once funny, striking, and surreal. Audiences of all ages will fall in love—for the first time, or all over again—with Wegman and his friends.

William Wegman: Being Human

This booklet is Mom's ticket to some much-deserved quality time and care. The 12 shimmering foil-stamped tickets inside can be redeemed anytime for the gifts she really wants—ranging from fun family activities to favors that let her take a load off. Perfect to give one at a time or as a set, these tickets are a sweet and thoughtful way to let Mom know sheÆs the best on Mother's Day—or any day.
GREAT FOR THE MOTHER WHO HAS EVERYTHING: Can't think of the perfect present for Mom? This ticket booklet is a unique and fun gift, and also a fabulous way to give experiences—like a family fun activity or a favor that lets her take a load off—that sheÆs sure to love.
EASY BUT THOUGHTFUL GIFT: Gifting gold! This is a perfect last-minute gift for moms, whether for birthdays, Mother's Day, or just because.
ADD YOUR OWN PERSONAL TOUCH: All 12 tickets offer space on the back to add a personal touch, and the booklet includes one blank ticket that you can fill in with your own gift idea.
GIFT ALL AT ONCE, OR THROUGHOUT THE YEAR: This booklet for Mom is full of the gifts she most wants to receiveûand they can be gifted all together or individually one at a time. Either way, sheÆll feel like a winner with a Lucky Ticket in hand.
INCLUDES: booklet with 12 gold foil-stamped perforated tickets

Lucky Tickets For Mom

Including 75 colorful sheets of origami paper and illustrated instructions for making 25 projects, this craft pad is sure toinspire hours of folding fun!

Creatures & Critters Origami Craft Pad

To coincide with the 2016 centennial anniversary of the National Parks Service, the Creative Action Network has partnered with the National Parks Conservation Association to revive and reimagine the legacy of WPA travel posters. Artists from all over the world have participated in the creation of this new, crowdsourced collection of See America posters for a modern era. Featuring artwork for 75 national parks and monuments across all 50 states, this engaging keepsake volume celebrates the full range of our nation's landmarks and treasured wilderness.

See America

Studio Ghibli comes to life as pop-up notecards! Showcasing classic scenes from the studio's revered film My Neighbor Totoro, these cards add a pop of whimsy to any correspondence—a joyful note to send and receive for Totoro and animation fans of every age.
-Box with hinged lid.
-10 pop-up cards (5 designs repeating twice).

My Neighbor Totoro © 1988 Studio Ghibli

My Neighbor Totoro Pop-up Notecards

Gjelina - The new way to cook. Travis Lett's new American cuisine: Gjelina in Venice Beach is Los Angeles's most talked-about restaurant, lauded by critics from London to New York to San Francisco and beloved by stars, locals, and out-of-towners alike for its seductive simplicity and eclectic Cal-Med menu created by talented chef Travis Lett. Gjelina: Cooking from Venice, California is a standout cookbook featuring 125 of the rustic and utterly delicious salads, toasts, pizzas, vegetable and grain dishes, pastas, fish and meat mains, and desserts that have had fans clamoring for a table at Gjelina since the restaurant burst onto the scene in 2008. Gjelina evokes the Southern California lifestyle: More than 150 color photographs from acclaimed photographer Michael Graydon and stylist Nikole Herriott, plus a tactile, artisanal package, evoke the vibe of Venice Beach and the Gjelina (the G's silent) aesthetic, and showcase the beautiful plated food of Lett's ingredient-based, vegetable-centric cooking. Much like Yotam Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem, Plenty , and Ottolenghi, Gjelina is the cookbook for the way we want to eat now.

Size: 7 1/2 x 11 in; Pages: 288 pp; Format: Hardcover Publication: October 2015 ISBN: 9781452128092 Travis Lett is the chef at Gjelina, GTA, and Gjusta. He lives in Venice Beach, California. Michael Graydon and Nikole Herriott are a food, lifestyle, and interiors photography team based in Toronto.

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Gjelina Cooking From Venice, California By Travis Lett

Velvet is odd. Instead of dolls that talk and cry, Velvet brings a milkweed pod for show and tell. She wins the class art contest using only an eight-pack of crayons. She likes to collect rocks. Even her name is strange-Velvet! But as the school year unfolds, the things Velvet does and the things that Velvet says slowly begin to make sense. And, in the end, Velvet's classmates discover that being different is what makes Velvet so much fun.

Odd Velvet

Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes have reluctantly agreed to act as social chaperones and undercover bodyguards for Princess Lurelia of Betrovia, who has arrived in London to deliver a letter that details the secret location of an ancient chess queen that's been missing for centuries. But when the letter—which will heal a centuries-old rift between England and the Betrovians—is stolen out from under Evaline and Mina's watchful eyes, the two girls are forced into a high-stakes race to ensure they find the chess queen before anyone else does.

The Chess Queen Enigma

This writer's block-busting workbook from the team behind National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) guides authors through planning and plotting a novel before writing it from the initial idea generation and brainstorming through character, setting, and story development. Full of helpful lists, plot maps, character Q&As, field trips, writing exercises, inspiring quotes, and plenty of space to write and outline, Ready, Set, Novel! provides ample inspiration and guidance to first-time novelists and more seasoned scribes alike.

Ready, Set, Novel!

Which Side of History? offers a collection of bold essays on how technology is affecting democracy, society, and our future. Featuring prominent national voices such as Sacha Baron Cohen, Marc Benioff, Ellen Pao, Ken Auletta, Chelsea Clinton, Tim Wu, Khaled Hosseini, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Jaron Lanier, Willow Bay, Sal Khan, Sherry Turkle, Shoshana Zuboff, Vivek Murthy, Geoffrey Canada, and many more. The essays focus on the extraordinary impact of technology on our privacy, kids and families, race and gender roles, democracy, climate change, and mental health. This groundbreaking book challenges opinion leaders and the broader public to take action to improve technology's effects on our lives.

Featuring notable journalists, engineers, entrepreneurs, novelists, activists, filmmakers, business leaders, scholars, and researchers, including: Thomas Friedman, Kara Swisher, Michelle Alexander, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Jenna Wortham, Cameron Kasky, Howard Gardner, and Tristan Harris.
Explores the ethical behavior of Big Tech, or the lack thereof.
Offers roadmaps for constructive change and thought-provoking perspectives.

With the rise of cyberbullying and hate speech online, issues around climate change and technology, and the "move fast and break things" mentality of tech culture, Which Side of History? will urge readers to draw the line.

This book will help shape the conversations we have around technology in our society and our future for years to come.
A smart gift for anyone who approaches tech and the future with a healthy skepticism
Edited by James P. Steyer, the CEO and founder of Common Sense Media.
Add it to the shelf with books like Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff.

Which Side Of History?

From Jeffrey Brown, the creator of the New York Times bestselling Darth Vader and Son series.
What if Rey hadn't grown up all alone on dusty planet Jakku, but instead had a galaxy of friends to play with?
Rey and Pals is a collection of adventures starring young Rey and Kylo, Finn and Poe, Hux and Phasma, Rose and BB-8—all under the watch of Luke, General Leia, Han, and Chewie.

- Features an exciting cast of characters (as well as some old friends) from the new Star Wars® film trilogy 
- Filled with silly antics like Kylo trying to use the Force to cheat at Go Fish, Poe bowling with BB-8, or Rey lifting rocks to play hide and seek 
- Includes fan favorites like R2, Yoda, and 3-PO
Jeffrey Brown's charmingly hilarious vision is sure to delight Star Wars® fans of all ages.
Rey and Pals joins the collection of perennial favorites like Goodnight Darth Vader, Darth Vader and Son, Vader’s Little Princess, and Darth Vader and Friends.

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Rey And Pals

Turn sending snail mail into a delightfully inventive activity with these customizable postcards. Just draw the wild and wacky things suggested on each card, then drop in the mailbox to bring smiles to the faces of friends and family.

642 Things To Draw: 30 Postcards

Play The Forest School Way

Happiness in a box: Full of inspiring ideas for sharing and cultivating moments of joy, appreciating bright spots, and celebrating the everyday. This petite and sweet box of prompts makes an excellent gift. It’s the gift of inspiration, with prompts that will inspire a joyful outlook and everyday wonder- making it a great way to affordably give the gift of a new perspective and fresh discoveries. Includes 50 faux matchsticks with printed prompts.

Spark Happiness

The Hindenberg disaster. Andy Warhol's Campbells Soup Can. Marilyn Monroe standing over the subway grating. The first step onto the Moon. These powerful images have left an indelible impression in our collective mind's eye. This mesmerizing little volume celebrates these and hundreds of other artistic and cultural touchstoneswithout actually reproducing them. Each page is devoted to a single image, with a caption providing its title or description and the date that it was created. Just that information evokes the image vividly. The page itself is blank. Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother. The album cover of Sgt. Pepper. A man facing a row of tanks in Tiananmen Square. Arranged in chronological order from 1900 to the present, these images are a testament to the enduring impact of photography, art, and the imageas well as to the graphic precision of our shared memory bank. It's also a great pop quiz on cultural literacy.

Unforgettable

In this eagerly awaited follow-up to the international bestseller Fantastic Cities, artist Steve McDonald uses his unique large-format approach working from actual photographs to create beautifully detailed line drawings of amazing buildings and other structures from around the world. The globe-trotting selection includes buildings from six continents—including Prague's Astronomical Clock, Russia's St. Basil's Cathedral, a Florentine bridge, a Romanian castle, an Indian palace, and many dozens more—alongside fun-to-color details from iconic structures such as the Eiffel Tower, London's Tower Bridge, and the Chrysler Building. The crisp white pages are conducive to a range of applications, and a middle margin keeps all the artwork fully colorable. A dozen imaginative architectural mandala illustrations round out this gorgeous adult coloring book.

Fantastic Structures

Pixar Animation Studios presents The Art of Cars 3, a behind-the-scenes look at the concept art from the latest film in the popular Cars series. Fascinating storyboards, full-color pastels, digital paintings, and more offer a unique perspective into the beloved world of Lightning McQueen and his friends, new and old.
With a preface by John Lasseter, foreword by director Brian Fee, and an introduction by pro¬duction designers Bill Cone and Jay Shuster, The Art of Cars 3 is a scenic road trip through a masterfully animated film.

Copyright ©2017 Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Pixar. All rights reserved.

The Art Of Cars 3

20 blank folded cards (5 images repeating 4 times), 20 envelopes.

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From co-star and co-creator of Comedy Central’s Broad City, Abbi Jacobson! A fun keepsake for visitors and SF natives of all ages, this coloring book includes over 30 unique illustrations of San Francisco sites by artist and comedienne Abbi Jacobson. From architectural landmarks and cultural attractions to must-see neighborhoods and everyday street scenes, Color this Book captures the beauty and personality of San Francisco. Includes the Castro, the Ferry Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Mission, North Beach, Union Square, and more!

San Francisco Coloring Book

Featuring delightfully irreverent phrases, lovely calligraphy, and illustrated backgrounds, this coloring book invites adults to color their f*cking stress away! With a range of profanity from upbeat sweary affirmations to hilariously sassy sayings, 30 different expletives offer creative stimulation and cathartic release for any mood. Designs are printed on thick, removable, frame-worthy pages—with metallic ink patterns on the back of each page—making them easy to share and display.

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