Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them

OK, I need a little help with this one. The dots are immigrants?

Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty

I think focusing more on the wheelchair and pimping it out 60s style -- as long as we're up to Photoshoppery -- would have been stronger.

Exit A

Is there ever a good reason to space letters like this?

China Shakes the World, US and UK versions

It's not often that book covers induce motion sickness. But the US version of China Shakes the World comes close:


I love the UK version, though:

If Minds Had Toes

"Lucy Eyre's If Minds Had Toes is a clever and funny book shows young adults how philosophy can change their lives for the better."

As someone with a highly lucrative graduate degree in philosophy and a 14-year-old who doesn't quite know what I studied -- or rather, why I studied it -- I think I have to buy this.

Here's the full review.

Physical

On top, the new paperback. We looked at the hardcover (directly above) a few months back. I liked the simplicity and humor of the hardcover, but I haven't made up my mind about the paperback. Both hit the medical metaphor pretty hard, but there's nothing explicitly political about the rubber glove version, and I'm guessing that explains the change. What do you think?

The Scientist as Rebel

AKA the scientist as groovy NYC band...

Wrestling with Gravy

Something we don't see enough of -- use of the grid and respect for white space. I like this.

AlternaDad

"Neal Pollack is determined to raise his son with a rock ’n’ roll attitude." And with pretty funny book covers too.

The Blade Itself

Rather well-reviewed by Janet Maslin, this is a book that I wouldn't really be interested in reading - I'm not a thriller kind of guy. I do like the cover, though, and recognize two of the design elements -- the red slash and the cut type -- from recent posts. All that means is that I spend way too much time looking at book covers :-)

PS: Giles at Foreword had a post about yellow covers a few weeks back.