Most Popular Books by Steve Martin

Follow up book to the extremely successful 30 DAYS HAS SEPTEMBER: COOL WAYS TO REMEMBER STUFF. More cool ways to remember stuff! From acronyms to rhyming lists, this book makes remembering facts a breeze. Full of spelling, punctuation, and grammar memory tips, ways to improve vocabulary, geography hints, and much more!

Through a series of fun and challenging tasks, kids will attend "classes" as part of their special training required to become an astronaut on a mission to Mars: Space Pilot, Space Living, Space Engineer, Space Scientist and Space Gym. Each topic is accompanied by missions--physical and mental challenges, as well activities designed to mimic the skills involved in real-life training! Kids will tackle hand-eye coordination exercises and obstacle courses and learn how to build a balloon rocket as well as first aid skills. There are stickers, a poster and even a model space shuttle!In this activity book, through a series of fun and challenging tasks, kids will attend "classes" as part of their special training required to become an astronaut.

So you really love animals... what would it really be like to be a vet and work with animals every day? Let''s find out if you have what it takes...

Since its publication in 2007, Yes! has shown how small changes can make a big difference to everyone''s powers of persuasion - both at work and at home. Every day, we face the challenge of persuading others to do what we want. But what makes people say ''yes'' to our requests? Based on decades of research into the psychology of persuasion, this book reveals many remarkable insights that will help you be more persuasive both at work and at home. Co-written by the world''s most quoted expert on influence, Professor Robert Cialdini, Yes! contains dozens of tips that you wouldn''t want to miss out on - all of them scientifically proven to boost your powers of persuasion.This special tenth Anniversary edition features ten new chapters of updated research and fresh secrets of persuasion. You will find out how to stop your listeners getting bored, what you can do on your commute to increase your influence, and why being second place is worse than being third. Whether you want someone to promote you, take their medicine, reduce their carbon footprint or even give you their vote, Yes! shows how small changes in your approach can have a dramatic effect on your success.

From the authors of the international bestseller Yes!This travel-sized handbook will become your go-to key for ensuring that the world says ''yes'' to you, your ideas and your requests. We all want to hear ''yes''. ''Yes'' connects us to the world, and carries us into the future. So why do we find it so hard to get others to agree? And how can we improve our chances?The Little Book of Yes contains 21 short essays that outline a range of effective persuasion strategies, each proven to increase the chances that someone will agree to your request. That someone could be a friend, a colleague, a partner, a lover, a manager, a sibling, a parent, even a stranger. The timeless principles and practical lessons in this collection can be used to tackle a variety of everyday challenges, from repairing a soured relationship to negotiating a higher fee for your work, from convincing a dithering friend to take action, to building your social network and personal brand. Full of wisdom from the leaders in influence, with carefully curated advice, this little book is essential reading for any freelancer, manager, entrepreneur, parent or person who wants more from their world.

Presents a rhyming couplet featuring each letter of the alphabet, with such characters as David the dog-faced boy, who dons a derby despite being dirty, and Victor, whose frequent victories have made him vainglorious.

This is the essential book for daredevil kids everywhere looking for adventure.

Eric Fischl emerged in the 1980s as one of America''s most important figurative painters. His paintings, many of which show a single intense moment, compel the viewer to participate in a world of middle-class suburban ambiguity and drama. In Fischl''s engaging distinctly American canvases, narrative, morality, sexuality, and psychology are preeminent. This volume, an expanded edition of Eric Fischl 1970-2000, is the most comprehensive examination of this important contemporary painter. More than 250 works, selected in conjunction with the artist, present the full scope of Fischl''s career: the formative work of the 1970s; the breakthrough paintings of the 1980s, including the controversial Sleepwalker and Bad Boy; and the mature work, often of a personal and contemplative nature, of the 1990s and 2000s. In his most recent paintings, Fischl has turned to multipiece cycles: The Bed, The Chair series, starting with The Philosopher''s Chair; canvases inspired by trips to Italy and India; and the paintings--Fischl terms them "narrative fictions"--of the "Krefeld Project." These engrossing images have been accomplished with a mastery that has been compared to that of Caravaggio. The introduction, by philosopher and critic Arthur C. Danto, offers a perceptive study of Fischl''s work over the course of four decades. Commentary drawn from interviews with the artist, conducted by noted writer Robert Enright, accompanies the paintings. Finally, a witty and personal afterword by Steve Martin, best known as a gifted comic actor and author, but also an astute collector of modern art, discusses Barbeque, a famed Fischl painting from his private collection.

The coveted Annie Leibovitz SUMO is now available in an unlimited XXL edition. Drawing on more than 40 years of work, including photojournalism made for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s and conceptual portraits for Vanity Fair and Vogue, Leibovitz selected iconic images and also photographs that have rarely, if ever, been seen before.

A fun-packed activity book filled with cars, buses, trucks, monster trucks, and so much more. This book is bursting with puzzles, quizzes, and drawing activities. All you need to complete the activities are a pen and some coloring pencils, so it''s perfect for on-the-go—you can travel with it anywhere! There are almost 40 original activities to be completed inside, including: Design a poster for a monster truck rally Complete a color-by-numbers Sketch a super-cool sports car Play spot-the-difference in a mechanic''s garage Solve a lorry park sudoku Find the way home in a road maze The perfect companion for a long and short journeys and road trip holidays, this book will keep you busy for hours! In the Car Activity Book is a fun gift for all young readers who love cars and vehicles.

Daniel is 30, 38 or 27, depending on how he feels that day. His life is rich and full, provided he never leaves his Santa Monica apartment. Outside are eight inch curbs, a neighbour''s murder and three women, whom he wants to know much better. The murder TV reconstruction may jeopardise his chances of winning the Most Average American Competition, which he''s already entered twice. Will this neurotic ever break free?