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Zombie Nation: From Folklore to Modern Frenzy E. R. Vernor. Go on a hunt for the facts, folklore, and fiction about zombies from the 1800s to popular culture. Zombie related research, interviews, themed goods, movie and TV stories, and other mania culture features. Learn to use make- up to become a zombie! In all, it’s a good day to be undead. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 80 b/w & color images • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-4450-3 • HC • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD The Big Book of Flax: A Compendium of Facts, Art, Lore, Projects and Song Christian and Johannes Zinzendorf. Learn the fascinating story of the flax to linen process in history, legend, song, crafts, lesson plans, and recipes. With 414 images, this comprehen- sive book offers suggestions for flax projects, collect- ing flax-related tools and clothing, and planting and harvesting flax • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 414 im- ages • 240 pp. • 978-0-7643-3715-4 • HC • $59.99 / £54.99 / 85.00 CAD Down by the Feed Mill: The Past and Present of America’s Feed Mills and Grain Elevators David Hanks. Covering a time frame of more than 150 years, illuminating text explains what feed mills and grain elevators do, and their traditional importance to American townspeople, economies, and heritage. More than 240 evocative photos create a visual record of a changing, and passing, American institution • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 305 images • 208 pp. • 978-0- 7643-5293-5 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD Linen: From Flax Seed to Woven Cloth Linda Heinrich. Follow the saga of this remarkable fiber from seed to woven fabric. Learn about flax cultivation, processing and spinning, natural and synthetic dyeing, and weaving and finishing linen cloth. 233 color and 156 black-and-white photos and drawings reveal the characteristics of linen • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 233 color photos 156 b/w photos & drawings • 232 pp. • 978-0-7643-3466-5 • HC • $49.99 / £45.99 / 72.00 CAD Living Crafts, Historic Tools: The Craftspeople and Collections of the Landis Valley Museum Michael Emery and Irwin Richman. This book celebrates the hand tool as a medium of expression and salutes those who wield it with skillful pride. Simple but re- sourceful, each tool was a beautiful, clever marriage of form and function endowed with a life of its own and uniquely forged and perfectly suited for its purpose. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 592 images • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-4297-4 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD The Farm: An American Living Portrait Joan and David Hagan. Beautiful images capture glimpses of everyday chores, the bountiful land, the unique and varied architecture, and the lives of the people, animals, and crops they support • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 225 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-88740-259-3 • PB • $29.95 / £27.99 / 42.95 CAD This Was Wheat Farming Kirby Brumfield. The lore of the harvest is the keynote of Brumfield’s presentation. He approaches this vast subject with considerable fa- cility, lifting farming right out of the soil into fascinating history, with an accent on the Northwest. Wheat in the Northwest? Yes, it’s all here: acres of it in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, all graded and sacked • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 293 vintage photos • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-0188-9 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / 28.95 CAD Yesterday’s Farm Tools & Equipment Irwin Richman and Michael Emery. Hundreds of old farm tools and equipment from America’s past. Major chapters cover haying, grains, tobacco, orchards, poultry, dairy, and horses and mules in farm practices. These objects are preserved at the Landis Valley Museum in PA, where they tell of American farm history. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215mm) • 614 images • 208 pp. • 978-0-7643-3603-4 • HC • $39.99 / £36.99 / 56.99 CAD Aerial Firefighting Wolfgang Jendsch. The aircraft used around the globe to fight forest and open-range fires are presented here in more than 400 color photos, many showing them in action. Includes airtankers, firefighting helicopters, transports, and direction and command planes. The text provides tactical descriptions of actions taken in the field • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 415 color photos • 352 pp. • 978-0-7643-3068-1 •HC• $39.99 / £36.99 / 56.99 CAD Cut & Run Logging Mike Monte. Between the 1880s and 1940s, the wooded landscape in the northern Great Lakes region of America was irreversibly and completely changed, along with the society and ecology. Meet the lumberjacks, river pigs, and railroad loggers • 11"x81/2" (279 x215mm) •168b/wphotos•128pp. •978-0-7643- 1529-9 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Early Logging Tools Kevin Johnson. More than 330 photos display collectible logging equipment, including axes, saws, filing tools, springboards, oil bottles, un- dercutters, wedges, marlin spikes, drag saws, and chainsaws. Historical photos show loggers at work • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 333 color & 12 b/w photo • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-2740-7 • PB • $29.95 / £27.99 / 42.95 CAD Glory Days of Logging RalphW. Andrews. Chronicles logging in the Northwest US and Canada. This book contain the best photographs of a dozen famous collec- tions: Davis and Benson rafts, river drives, hand logging spar topping big wheels in the pine, saw mills of 1890– 1915, historical ox teams, tractors, and blumes. In this chronicle of bunk house ballads, humorous sketches, and eyewitness accounts the reader will feel the old logging atmosphere. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 213 pho- tos • 176 pp. • 978-0-88740-593-8 • PB • $15.99 / £14.99 / 22.99 CAD Who Are They Really?: New Discoveries and Ap- proaches Identifying UFOs, Abductions, and Ex- traterrestrials Daniel Harran PhD. UFOs and extrater- restrial beings have been visiting Earth regularly for ages—but not in the way you might think. And abductions are terrifyingly real, too. These "space travelers," or visi- tors, or kidnappers conduct themselves as neutral observ- ers of the progress of Earth’s affairs. Even more surprising, they can be human beings like us or elementals (such as fairies and elves), and some of them live among us. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 6 charts • 224 pp. • 978-0-7643-6190-6 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Vampire Evolution: From Myth to Modern Day E. R. "Corvis Nocturnum" Vernor &, L. E. Carruba. Vampires are folkloric creatures who live off the blood of the living and have been recorded in nearly every culture around the world since the beginning of man. This work traces the evolution and popular culture surrounding the vam- pire today. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 61 b/w & color images • 144 pp. • 978-0-7643-4841-9 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Vampires of Lore: Traditional Tales and Modern Misconceptions A. P. Sylvia. A new way of looking at our modern understanding of vampires through traits rooted in historical folklore and the modern misconcep- tions that result. You may be surprised to learn that there are big differences between the realm of folklore and what modern media has taught us. To unearth the answers, we must delve into the past and explore beliefs from around the world. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) • • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-5792-3 • HC • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD UFO Conspiracy Carmen McLaren. The US government has hidden the proof of the existence of UFOs since 1947. Read the evidence showing that they consider them real. Learn how authorities have created a ministry of misin- formation by setting up pseudo-investigatory groups to discredit witnesses and fool the public, while creating military regulations on how UFO sightings/interceptions would be handled. • 7" x 10" (177 x 254mm) • 352 pp. • 978-0-7643-3893-9 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD UFOs Above the Law: True Encounters with Law Enforcement Frank Soriano & Jim Bouck. A collection of UFO reports from law enforcement officers and other government officials that prove that UFOs are not only real, but are here en masse. Experience abductions, learn investigative procedures, read transcripts of radio chas- es, track strange lights, and investigate things that most people would run from! • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-3920-2 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD UFOs Over America: Scariest Cases Joseph Flammer. Follow a New York field Investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) as he investigates more than 70 im- portant Ufology topics that gravely affect the US. Broken into three parts—The Biggest, Baddest, Scariest UFO Events In America; Crashes, Chases, Shoot-downs, and Mysteries; and Alien Abductions • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) • 17 b/w images • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-5099-3 • HC • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD UFOs Over Colorado: A True History of Extrater- restrial Encounters in the Centennial State Pres- ton Dennett. UFO encounters from the early 1900s through contemporary times. This is the first book to present a comprehensive history of extraterrestrial encounters in the Centennial State. Arranged by decade, read a dazzling array of sightings, landings, face-to-face encounters, onboard experiences, and UFO crash/retrievals • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 12 b/w images • 224 pp. • 978-0-7643- 5424-3•PB•978-1-5073-0045-9 (E-book) •$19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD THE UFO Phenomenon: Should I Believe? Robert Davis. Evidence, new perspectives, and detailed analysis make this a thought provoking study for those at every level of knowledge and belief. Learn about pilot and as- tronaut UFO experiences, strange encounters with UFOs, alien abductions, official government and military declas- sified UFO documents, and future directions and research needed to better understand the phenomenon • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) • 208 pp. • 978-0-7643-4764-1 • PB • 978- 1-5073-0009-1 (E-book) • $16.99 / £15.99 / 23.99 CAD Unidentifiable Flying Objects: The Dwindling Probability of Solving the UFO Enigma Jordan Hofer and David Barker, Foreword by Mack Maloney, author of UFOs in Wartime and radio host of Mack Maloney’s Military X-Files. UFO research in the twentieth century was daunting, fraught with misidentification, blurry photos, and fraud. Now, with millions of drones in our skies and superb computer graphics, the twenty-first century threatens to overwhelm ufology with trickery and truly unidentifiable flying objects. Discover new challenges and whether we will ever understand the truth • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) • 22 b/w images • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-5423-6 • PB • $16.99 / £15.99 / 23.99 CAD ZOMBIES FARMING LOGGING VAMPIRES 144 | UFOs • VAMPIRES • ZOMBIES • FARMING • LOGGING