Dr. Stanley Burns has collected over 1-million medical photographs from the 1800s and early 1900s, when posing for a professional portrait in the style of a painting was trendy.

History of the World in 1000 Objects opens up with a simple stone handax for cutting and digging made around 1.65-million years ago and ends, 999 artifacts later, with satellites… Read the rest of the article: History of the World in 1,000 Objects

Imagine Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer told in Family Circus comic strip style, Alice in Wonderland's Alice as a rude fat brat with a Valley-girl accent, Little Red Riding Hood as… Read the rest of the article: The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature

Although the No Nukes slogan hearkens back to a louder, more passionate era of demonstrators of the 1970s, To the Village Square is a stark reminder that nuclear disasters are… Read the rest of the article: To the Village Square – a photojournalist's collection of anti-nuke images that span the last 40 years

Pop-Up Op-Art is more a piece of 3D art than it is a book. With each turn of the thick cardboard pages pops a bold and modern structure created by… Read the rest of the article: Pop-Up Op-Art book is more a piece of 3D art than it is a book

Leif Erikson, the Viking explorer, is usually just briefly touched on in elementary school classrooms. But his rich story is a captivating one that any child – or adult –… Read the rest of the article: Leif the Lucky – A gorgeously illustrated bio on Leif Erikson, the first European to set foot in America

Mike Davis, owner of the well-known Everlasting Tattoo shop in San Francisco, is also a surrealist artist whose rich and dreamlike oil paintings look as if they've been plucked right… Read the rest of the article: Dreamscapes of marching military eggs, animated skeletons, anthropomorphic insects and other phantasmic scenes

Just released today is Pippi Won't Grow Up, Drawn and Quarterly's third volume of Pippi Longstocking comics. Last spring I reviewed the hilarious second volume, Pippi Fixes Everything, and this… Read the rest of the article: Pippi Won't Grow Up – Whimsical, charming and wonderfully absurd

In May I reviewed Charles Burns' surreal and darkly realistic graphic novels, X'ed Out (2010) and The Hive (2012), and now the eerie trilogy is complete with the release of… Read the rest of the article: Sugar Skull – nightmare continues in Charles Burns' grotesquely fantastic trilogy

When we talk about George Washington, how many of us think about his dentist, John Greenwood, who crafted four sets of dentures during the first U.S. president's career. Were it… Read the rest of the article: The secret sidekicks of history

Corrine Maier and Anne Simon, the duo who brought us the historical graphic novel Freud, are at it again with Marx, a graphic bio of the father of communism, Karl… Read the rest of the article: Marx – A graphic bio of the father of communism

I'm a huge fan of the Game of Thrones HBO series, and yet I admit I don't retain half the details in this richly layered, complex, many-threaded fantasy series. Which… Read the rest of the article: This book is an enthralling recap of Game of Thrones to prepare you for Season 5

Written by pop-culture authors Buzz Poole and Christopher D. Salyers (who is also a toy camera collector), Camera Crazy is an attractively photographed collection of functioning toy cameras, which were… Read the rest of the article: A history of functional toy cameras

I haven't recently run across a children's book that has excited me as much as No Such Thing (see Cory's review here). Usually I see books for young children with… Read the rest of the article: No Such Thing – charming kids' ghost story with a deadpan sense of humor

"Put information in the right visual form and your audience will immediately get the gist." – Gareth Cook

Open the pages of Cosmic Tourist and journey across the universe with 100 thrilling pit stops along the way. Your itinerary starts with Planet Earth, makes stops on the moon,… Read the rest of the article: The Cosmic Tourist: Visit the 100 Most Awe-Inspiring Destinations in the Universe

For anyone learning how to speak Japanese, this is a fun illustrated "picture dictionary" with over 1500 words that will help build up your Japanese vocabulary. Designed like some of… Read the rest of the article: Let's Learn Japanese – an illustrated dictionary with over 1500 Japanese words

Great Maps is a visual treat that begins with one of the world's earliest existing maps – the Bedolina Petroglyph (1500 BC) – found in a valley in northern Italy… Read the rest of the article: Great Maps – Over 60 of the world's most fascinating and significant maps

The term bitter, when associated with food, has never whet my appetite. Bitter, like sour, leans towards the negative. "She made a sour face." "He is a "bitter" person. Unlike… Read the rest of the article: Bitter: one of the most interesting and exciting cookbooks I've ever read

A few weeks ago while strolling through a farmer's market in Los Angeles, I came across a vendor cart selling exotic plants that looked like they belonged on another planet.… Read the rest of the article: Air plants look and act like they belong on another planet