New Books for 2007 at Bored Feet Press
Chugach State Park/Chugach Mountains, Alaska Topographic Recreation Map
Imus Geographics
The beautiful full-color map is suitable for framing, but even more useful for anyone who plans a visit. The map's back side has detailed park information on winter and summer recreation.
Alaska Topographic Travel and Reference Map
Imus Geographics
This beautiful and detailed, full-color map entirely depicts the vast state of Alaska, showing national parks and monuments, national and state wildlife refuges, glaciers, roads, cities, towns and villages, islands, airports, rivers and lakes, the Iditarod Trail, and more.
Great Day Hikes in and around Napa Valley
Third Edition
Ken Stanton
Ken Stanton has fully expanded and updated his popular guide to trails around Napa Valley. His captivating,detailed trail reports, featuring many little known hikes, include entertaining tales of Napa's colorful past.
Shakespeare Playing Cards
Prospero Art
These quality playing cards feature splendid full color designs in the style of the Renaissance with a quote on each card, totalling 54 quotes in each deck. The aces, face cards, and jokers use images from old masters such as Michelangelo and Rembrandt.
The High Sierra of California
Poems and Journals by Gary Snyder, Woodcuts by Tom Killion
Working from sketches made on mountaineering trips over a period of thirty years, Tom Killion uses traditional woodcut techniques to create riveting images of the Sierra. Adding poems and excerpts from Snyder's journals, Killion has created a stunning fine art book about the High Sierra.
What Is Peace?
by Etan Boritzer, Illustrated by Jeff Vernon
This thought-provoking book will help children cultivate the thinking required for peaceful actions.
What Is Death?
by Etan Boritzer, Illustrated by Nancy Forrest
This sensitive book introduces children to the various concepts of death, grief and loss. Using a gentle and comforting tone with an honest approach, the book addresses children’s natural curiosity about one of life’s gratest mysteries.
What Is Right?
by Etan Boritzer, Illustrated by Graham Sale
Helps children develop ethical thinking skills. This interactive title promotes the consideration of decisions and choices in various situations requiring integrity and wholesome social reasoning abilities.
Pomegranate Roads
A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden
Gregory M. Levin, translated by Margaret Hopstein
A Man who fell in love with pomegranates and risked his life to protect their biodiversity tells his adventurous story in Pomegranate Roads. Ignoring threats, the scientist trekked across Central Asia and the Trans-Caucasus to collect 1,117 varieties of the fruit.
Southeast Alaska's Natural World
Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Insects, Mammals, Plants, Other Natural Things
Robert H. Armstrong & Marge Hermans
Discover the fascinating secrets of the unique natural world found in Southeast Alaska. This beautiful book by two residents and naturalists explores both spectacular and subtle and hidden creatures that inhabit this natural world.
Dragonflies of North America
Coloring & Activity Book
Kathy Biggs, illustrated by Tim Manolis
Color & learn about the gorgeous dragonflies & damselflies of North America. Coloring pages for 37 common species of Dragonflies and Damselflies.
Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada
Written and Illustrated by John Muir Laws
The astonishing natural diversity of the Sierra Nevada comes alive in this great field guide, at once comprehensive and yet small enough to fit in your pocket or pack.
Kangchenjunga
Guardian of the Eastern Himalaya
Photography by Tim Hauf; Text by Conger Beasley Jr.
Photographer Hauf and writer Beasley blend their superb talents to capture the legendary mountain and the remote terrain of the eastern Himalaya.
Cartwheels on the Faultline
WORKS BY 27 SONOMA COUNTY WOMEN
various authors
Writing and art that dare acrobatics on the edge. This engaging collection features short stories, memoirs, essays, and poetry by writers such as Fionna Perkins, Robin Beeman, Elizabeth Herron, Sara Peyton, Simone Wilson, Barbara Baer and Ianthe Brautigan.
Citizen Moore
By Roger Rapaport
This definitive biography traces the untold story of the 30 years of struggles and failures that led to Michael Moore’s “overnight” success. Investigative reporter Roger Rapoport interviewed 200 people who played key roles in Michael Moore’s life.
What Is Money?
by Etan Boritzer, Illustrated by Jennifer West
Examines the history of money, as well as the realistic applications and moral questions associated with its use, helping children to learn about and understand the true value of one of civilization’s most intriguing inventions.
Dinkey Lakes Wilderness Trail Map
Tom Harrison
This map covers the 30,000-acre wilderness near Huntington Lake east of Fresno. Covers 16 small lakes and two prominent peaks.
What Is Funny?
by Etan Boritzer, Illustrated by Jeff Day
Addresses the subject of sensitivity and awareness in children’s humor. Teasing and laughing at others lead to bullying and aggression. The book addresses an important concern in an amusing manner with serious subtext.
What Is Beautiful?
by Etan Boritzer, Illustrated by Nancy Forrest
Encouraging kids to consider what makes a person truly beautiful—qualities such as tolerance, generosity, bravery, and peacefulness—What Is Beautiful? is a useful tool in giving children a sense of identity and worth.
Alice in Wonderland Playing Cards
Created by Jan Padover & Rick Ellis
with the original John Tenniel illustrations
Every card features a quote from Lewis Carroll's original Alice in Wonderland tale or his companion book, Through the Looking-Glass, with the full-color artwork of famous English illustrator Sir John Tenniel as featured in the classic original edition.
Clueless George Presidential Library
by Pat Bagley
Three clever Clueless George titles in an irreverent gift set with a special, moneysaving price. NOW 50% OFF!
Big Rock Ridge-Indian Valley Trail Map
Tom Harrison
Together these three maps (this, San Rafael-Central Marin and Novato-North Marin) complete Harrison's coverage of Marin County. This north central Marin map covers the popular Big Rock Trail, McInnis County Park, and the following Open Space Preserve lands: Marinwood, Terra Linda-Sleepy Hollow Divide,Lucas Valley, Ignacio Valley, Loma Alta, Loma Verde, Pacheco Valle, Indian Valley, San PedroMountain, and more.
Dragons in the Ponds
Robert H. Armstrong, John Hudson, & Marge Hermans
Children will learn fascinating facts about dragonflies and why we should appreciate them and not fear them. Text by three naturalists talks about the dragonflies' life cycle, what they eat, and what eats them. Full of useful information presented clearly for kids.
101 Ways to Survive George W. Bush
Pat Bagley
Before you flee to Canada to avoid rampant Bushification, here are 101 clever ideas from The Salt Lake Tribune's award-winning political cartoonist, Pat Bagley.
Novato-North Marin Trail Map
Tom Harrison
Detailed map includes Olompali State Park, Stafford Lake County Park, Petaluma Marsh, and the following Open Space Preserves: Mount Burdell, Rush Creek, Deer Island, Indian Tree, Little Mountain, Verissimo Hills, and more.
Whistlers on the Mountains
Robert H. Armstrong & Marge Hermans
This educational and entertaining book tells all about marmots. Full of useful information clearly presented for kids with fascinating and adorable photos of these shy mountain creatures.
San Rafael-Central Marin Trail Map
Tom Harrison
Marin's most populous quadrant still has ample public spaces to explore, as this map shows. Includes China Camp State Park, Barbier Memorial Park, McNears Beach County Park, Corte Madera Marsh, and the following Open Space Preserves: Terra Linda/Sleepy Hollow, San Rafael, Sun Valley, Baltimore Canyon, Blithedale Summit, King Mountain, and more.
Understanding Chinese Characters by their Ancestral Forms, 4th edition
by Ping-gam Go
This handy book reveals the meaning of Chinese characters through their ancestral forms. Readers will discover that it takes little effort and imagination to understand the common and widely used characters.
Jasmine Nights & Monkey Pluck
Love, Discovery and Tea
Writings Collected by Marylu Downing, Faith Morgan, & Ellen Galford
Women writers and poets celebrate small pleasures and life’s secrets over a steaming cup of tea.
To Travel Hopefully
Footsteps In The French Cévennes
by Christopher Rush
Journeying along the road taken by Robert Louis Stevenson in his famed book Travels with a Donkey, fellow Scotsman Rush has written a modern classic.
The Digested Read
By John Crace
Literary ombudsman John Crace never met an important book he didn’t like to deconstruct. He retells the big books in just 500 bitingly satirical words, pointing his pen at the clunky plots, stylistic tics, and pretensions to Big Ideas, as he turns dream books into dross.
Understanding Kanji Characters by their Ancestral Forms
Learning Kanji through Pictures
by Ping-gam Go
This handy book includes a full lesson plan to learn written Japanese. it analyzes 313 Kanji characters by revealing the hidden art, myth, and culture within the characters of the written language through ancestral forms.
What Is Love?
by Etan Boritzer, Illustrated by Robbie Marantz
This book is a way for children to discover how we all share many of the same needs and concerns in life, especially the need for love. It communicates a message of multiculturalism and diversity as the means by which goals of understanding and tolerance may be reached.
A sincere yet playful message for appreciating one of life’s tenderest emotions through which children can ponder the total human experience of honest caring and brotherhood.
". . . how people’s need for each other can be met through faith and trust in each other."
~ Redbook
What Character Is That?, 2nd edition
An Easy-Access Dictionary of 5,000 Chinese Characters
by Ping-gam Go
A Chinese dictionary for the Western mind. The unique feature of this dictionary is its arrangement: first by the English word of the character’s root or “radical,” and then by the number of strokes.
Dateline Mongolia
An American Journalist in Nomad’s Land
By Michael Kohn
Kohn’s book is an irresistible account of a nation where falcon poachers, cattle rustlers, exiled Buddhist leaders, death-defying child jockeys and political assassins vie for page one.
