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  The Error World - An Affair with...

  Simon Garfield

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  An obsessively readable memoir about the passions—and perils—of collecting, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Just My Type.   From the Penny Red to the Blue Mauritius, generations of collectors have been drawn to the mystique of rare stamps. Once a widespread pastime of schoolboys, philately has increasingly become the province of older men obsessed with the shrewd investment, the once-in-a-lifetime find, the one elusive beauty that will complete a collection and satisfy an unquenchable thirst.   As a boy, Simon Garfield collected errors—rare pigment misprints that create ghostly absences in certain stamps. Then, in his mid-forties, this passion reignited—and it began to consume him. In the span of a couple of years, he amassed a collection of errors worth upwards of forty thousand British pounds. But as he was pursuing this secret passion, he was also pursuing a romantic one—while his marriage disintegrated.   In this unique memoir, Simon Garfield twines the story of his philatelic obsession with an honest, engrossing exploration of the rarities and absences that both limit and define us. The end result is a thoughtful, funny, and enticing meditation on the impulse to possess.    

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  Furniture Makes the Room -...

  Barb Blair

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  Fifteen before-and-after furniture projects to create statement pieces—and tips on how to build a room around them: “As useful as it is beautiful.” —Justina Blakeney, New York Times–bestselling author of Jungalow 
   
  Knack Studio founder Barb Blair is famous for her knack with furniture—spotting classic pieces and transforming them into modern showstoppers. In this inspiring book, Blair goes beyond the nuts and bolts of furniture refinishing to show how to style rooms with each customized piece. For instance, she transforms a well-worn coffee table with a painted ombré design, and then reveals how to incorporate it into a bright and sunny den, a cozy reading nook, and a cheerful bedroom.  
   
  With instructions for fifteen before-and-after furniture projects—dressers, tables, beds, armoire, and more—in Blair’s signature bold style, a “toolbox” section detailing her favorite techniques and materials, and photos of dozens of inspiring interiors, Furniture Makes the Room unlocks the secrets to decorating livable rooms around statement pieces.

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  Abbott and Costello: Lou tries...

  John Grant, Bud Abbott

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  Lou tells Bud he spent the afternoon at the movies - sat through the same one 15 times because he couldn't remember where he had come in. Lous nephew Norman shows up for some jokes. Lou tries to ocnvince Veola to marry him.

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  $100M Leads - How to Get...

  Alex Hormozi

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  You can get two times, 10 times, or 100 times more leads than you currently are without changing anything about what you sell.... 
  This book contains the playbooks that took me from sleeping on my gym floor to owning a portfolio of companies that generate $200 million per year in less than a decade. Want to know the biggest difference between those two time periods? How many leads I was getting. 
  The problem is—most business owners don’t know how to get leads. 
  I wrote this book to solve your leads problem. 
  Today, our companies generate 20,000+ new leads per day across 16 different industries. And they do it using the eight “never-go-hungry” playbooks inside. Once you see them, you can’t unsee them. They’re so powerful, they work without your permission. 
  Inside you will find:The easiest way to get another five customers tomorrowThe hook-retain-reward system to transforms content into leadsThe six-part ad framework that gets more people—especially strangers—to want what you sellThe one question that immediately turns any stranger (no matter how cold) into a hot leadThe seven direct referral methods responsible for 30 percent of my salesThe affiliate playbook that gets hundreds of other businesses to advertise your stuff for freeThe agency agreement that gets them to teach you their lead-getting secrets at no costThe how-to-get-people-off-the-streets-and-getting-you-leads-in-less-than-two-weeks frameworkAnd everything else that got our companies boatloads of leads...fast 
  And the best part is...you can use these playbooks to get more leads within an hour of listening to this book. You just have to know where to look...and the first place is inside. 
  If you want to get more leads for your business...then buy now, use its contents.

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  Leonardo da Vinci and artworks

  Gabriel Séailles

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  Leonardo’s early life was spent in Florence, his maturity in Milan, and the last three years of his life in France. Leonardo’s teacher was Verrocchio. First he was a goldsmith, then a painter and sculptor: as a painter, representative of the very scientific school of draughtsmanship; more famous as a sculptor, being the creator of the Colleoni statue at Venice, Leonardo was a man of striking physical attractiveness, great charm of manner and conversation, and mental accomplishment. He was well grounded in the sciences and mathematics of the day, as well as a gifted musician. His skill in draughtsmanship was extraordinary; shown by his numerous drawings as well as by his comparatively few paintings. His skill of hand is at the service of most minute observation and analytical research into the character and structure of form. Leonardo is the first in date of the great men who had the desire to create in a picture a kind of mystic unity brought about by the fusion of matter and spirit. Now that the Primitives had concluded their experiments, ceaselessly pursued during two centuries, by the conquest of the methods of painting, he was able to pronounce the words which served as a password to all later artists worthy of the name: painting is a spiritual thing, cosa mentale. He completed Florentine draughtsmanship in applying to modelling by light and shade, a sharp subtlety which his predecessors had used only to give greater precision to their contours. This marvellous draughtsmanship, this modelling and chiaroscuro he used not solely to paint the exterior appearance of the body but, as no one before him had done, to cast over it a reflection of the mystery of the inner life. In the Mona Lisa and his other masterpieces he even used landscape not merely as a more or less picturesque decoration, but as a sort of echo of that interior life and an element of a perfect harmony. Relying on the still quite novel laws of perspective this doctor of scholastic wisdom, who was at the same time an initiator of modern thought, substituted for the discursive manner of the Primitives the principle of concentration which is the basis of classical art. The picture is no longer presented to us as an almost fortuitous aggregate of details and episodes. It is an organism in which all the elements, lines and colours, shadows and lights, compose a subtle tracery converging on a spiritual, a sensuous centre. It was not with the external significance of objects, but with their inward and spiritual significance, that Leonardo was occupied.

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  Whelmed…But Not Overly

  Kevin Nealon

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  With his unique sense of humor, profound dry wit, and likeable demeanor, Kevin Nealon brings his jazzy cool style to Whelmed... But Not Overly. He's like a big kid as he delights in stories of messing with celebrities and embarrassing moments.

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