Gifts for Him

The Brick of Dad Jokes is the ultimate collection of puns, quips, and corny one-liners that is sure to get eyes rolling.

Why do melons have weddings? Because they cantaloupe! The Brick of Dad Jokes is an eye-rolling, groan-inducing collection of hundreds of jokes for the dad joke aficionado in your life. This book is jam-packed with clever quips and unbearable wisecracks that are so bad, they’re good. The perfect gift for the dad who thinks he’s heard them all, this book is sure to add even more jokes to his repertoire, for better or worse.

From the best-selling cookbook Rubs comes Rubs Recipe Cards, featuring 60 flavor profiles to maximize your cooking.

Revolutionize your cooking with 60 impactful rubs, marinades, sauces, seasonings, bastes, and glazes. This deck is made to transform the flavor of any dish. The smart design informs readers of flavor profiles—such as “spicy,” “sweet,” “savory,” and “tangy”—and the types of proteins each one works best with. Whether you’re cooking beef, seafood, veggies, or tofu, Rubs Recipe Cards will have something for you. Now it is easy to make a different dish every night as you experiment with new flavor profiles and combinations. Take your cookouts to the next level with your favorite BBQ basics and creative new blends. Rubs Recipe Cards includes:

- Cilantro-Lime Marinade
- Spicy Peach BBQ Sauce
- Hot & Spicy Steak Rub
- Wasabi Butter
- Ginger-Sesame Marinade
- Homemade Maple BBQ Sauce
- Buffalo Dry Rub
- Tabasco Butter Baste 
- Red Wine and Dijon Marinade
- Bourbon & Brown Sugar Glaze
- Southwestern Dry Rub
- Apple-Mustard BBQ Sauce

This deck is easy to use and BBQ-safe—you won’t have to worry about stray marinades or glazes with these spill-proof cards. Keep this deck in the kitchen or by the grill and choose a recipe from the deck or pick one at random for a new experience. Fire up the grill and spice things up with Rubs Recipe Cards.

Pun and joke lovers unite! Punny Jokes is packed with hundreds upon hundreds of hilarious, pun-tastic jokes! 

What’s better than a good pun? Five hundred of the puniest jokes in the universe, of course! Punny Jokes is a gift-worthy hardcover that covers everything from classic puns of yore to brand-new jokes, including: 

- What do you call a cow without legs? Ground beef.
- When does a duck wake up? At the quack of dawn!
- Why are teddy bears never hungry? They’re stuffed! 
- What type of sandals does a frog wear? Open-toad! 
- What’s a pirate’s favorite letter? RRRRRR.
- What did the syrup say to the waffle? I love you a waffle lot!
- What do you call the wife of a hippies? A Mississippi!

And many, many more! With Punny Jokes, you’ll be rolling on the floor laughing—for real! 

The Encyclopedia of Cocktails features over 1,000 cocktails and will have you fashioning memorable cocktails in no time! 

From 3-ingredient drinks to mad-scientist mixology, The Encyclopedia of Cocktails is any bartender’s go-to resource. Clean, uncluttered design and extensive index make finding drinks easy, whether you’re searching by spirit or style. This in-depth guide will provide recommendations, tips, and techniques that will help readers understand how to make the best cocktails at home and features: 

- Over 1,000 cocktail recipes that will have you understanding the craft of mixology
- Necessary tools of the trade and where you can purchase everything you need
- A guide to purchasing the perfect liquor and spirits for your at-home bar
- An in-depth guide to ice, simple syrups, shrubs, and bitters to elevate your cocktails to the next level
- Tips for mixing your drinks like a pro and adding the perfect garnish to top them off
- Chapters dedicated specifically to each type of spirit, mocktails, and other nonalcholic drinks
- The history of over 100 classic cocktails
- Recipes for hundreds of homemade ingredients; from syrups to blends, infusions, tinctures, foams, and more, you’ll be crafting bespoke ingredients in no time

The Encyclopedia of Cocktails is the perfect gift for anyone who likes to mix drinks – it’s the only cocktail book they’ll ever need!

Ribs, Ribs, Ribs will take your next backyard barbecue from so-so to stupendous. 

Ribs, Ribs, Ribs lets you experience the succulent, flavor-packed glory of all things ribs. Featuring over 100 recipes for the grill, oven, and smoker, mouthwatering sides, and delicious desserts to top it all off, family and friends will be giving their compliments to the chef. Popular the world over, these recipes reflect a mouthwatering bounty of international flavors. This is the perfect gift book for barbecue beginners and grilling masters alike. With Ribs, Ribs, Ribs achieve restaurant results from the comfort of home!

See the Enterprise. See the Enterprise go boldly. Go Go Go, Enterprise! Go Boldly! Join Kirk, Spock, Uhura, and the rest of the crew as they boldly go where no parody has gone before

Star Trek fans and geeks alike will want to beam up a copy. A Fun with Dick and Jane parody, Star Trek style. This Prime Directive primer steps through The Guardian of Forever to a simpler time of reading, writing, and red shirts. Fun with Kirk and Spock will help cadets of all ages master the art of reading as their favorite Starfleet officers, Klingons, Romulans, Andorians, and Gorn beam down into exciting adventures. This is the perfect gift for the Star Trek lover in your life. 

"Texas Whiskey Is a Fanatic’s Guide to the Good Stuff" - Texas Monthly

Texas history runs deep, and the history of whiskey in the state is no exception. But the Texas whiskey scene, which emphasizes local corn and barrels made from trees grown in the state, has grown exponentially in the last 10 years, as this coffee table book about whiskey in the Lone Star State details. Locals and tourists alike will discover new expressions that are sure to satisfy tastes as varied as Texas is large. Texas Whiskey features: 

- A collection of over 100 varied distillery profiles
- Interviews with experts 
- All original photography
- Tips on how to determine if a whiskey you love is truly a Texas whiskey

Texas Whiskey tells the story of how whiskey from the Lone Star State is unlike whiskey being made anywhere else on the planet. 

Nico Martini is the co-founder of Bar Draught, mobile draught cocktail solutions, is the founder of Hypeworthy, a digital marketing and branding agency, and is a former lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has taught for the USBG, Bar Institute NYC and Bar Institute Portland.

An expert guide to the American whiskey renaissance.

In American Whiskey, Kentucky-born, internationally recognized whiskey expert Richard Thomas guides readers through the American whiskey renaissance. Featuring over 300 distinctive expressions of whiskeys that embrace both tradition and innovation this book will appeal to obsessive collectors eager to discover the next Pappy Van Winkle as well as those just starting to sample the dynamic flavor profiles of these American spirits. The history of whiskey straddles Kentucky and Tennessee, but American Whiskey proves that today exceptional whiskey is made across the country.

From the author that brought you Grilling and Rubs, this all-in-one cookbook is your one-stop guide for summer cooking.

Learn how to grill any meat or vegetable to perfection with over 100 recipes for grilling, marinating, and basting. Experiment with new flavors, or perfect classics like grilled Buffalo chicken wings with this easy-to-use recipe book. With plenty of sides that can be tossed on the grill, get ready to bring your kitchen into the outdoors. This cookbook is the perfect housewarming gift for the BBQ guru in your life.

"Doucet takes a refreshingly genre-free approach, careening from heady dub reggae to pastoral folk-rock, from unreal disco workouts to mind-bending electronica. His enthusiasm is such that you'll be stopping on every page to track down the songs being discussed." -- Aquarium Drunkard

Let go of your musical biases and dive into the deep cuts that are what music is really about with You’ve Never Heard Your Favorite Song. From underground musicians to passed-over classics, your favorite song is out there waiting for you, you just need to go find it. Relearn what makes a song great and set those played out pop tunes on the back burner once and for all. The latest edition in the Curio series, this pocket-sized book is perfect for referencing on the go. So get reading to find out why you might not even know your favorite song yet, and why you should keep your musical mind open.

"You've Never Heard Your Favorite Song holds an immeasurable amount of unfettered love, passion and knowledge about what I've long considered to be one of the world's only truly universal languages: music." -- Portland Press Herald

Take a stroll through some of the most influential pieces of literature of all time with Read the Classics. 

From Aristotle and Plato to Kerouac and Tolstoy, don’t just read the classics, learn why they hold such a time-honored place in the literary cannon. Each literary masterpiece is broken down into its key components by informative essays sure to pique your interest. The latest edition in the Curio series, this pocket-sized book is perfect for referencing on the go. Whether you’re a college student or a student of life, you’ve never looked at the classics like this before. 

Let your pen fly across the page in this sophisticated notebook, featuring Ernest Hemingway’s most inspiring words.

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” – Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway often could be found jotting in a notebook in cafés, starting drafts in pencil before spending hours typing up his notes. No matter what your writing process is, the Ernest Hemingway Notebook is the perfect place to begin. Perfect for any creative mind or aspiring writer, The Ernest Hemingway Notebook is filled with quotes and excerpts from the celebrated writer to encourage and inspire you as you record your daily musings. 

The Ernest Hemingway Notebook is part of the Signature Notebook series, all of which are filled with inspirational quotes for dreamers, thinkers, and writers of all ages, alongside striking, rarely-seen images throughout. This beautiful, pocket-sized notebook features a moleskin-like binding, cream paper stock, and an elegant ribbon page marker, so you can always pick up where you left off…and Hemingway’s removable portrait wraps around the foil-stamped front cover, which is debossed with his signature. The Signature Notebook series features some of the most prominent figures in our society, from William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, to JFK and Michelle Obama—and Hemingway adds another creative personality to the mix.

A tantalizing collection of over 250 recipes tailor-made for the ultimate cooking tool: a cast iron skillet.

Complete with gorgeous, full-color photographs and a wide range of recipes covering breakfast, lunch, dinner, and everything in between (even decadent desserts!), this definitive cast iron skillet cookbook is a must-have. While the broad variety of original recipes will appeal to seasoned chefs, chapters dedicated to the care and keeping of your cast iron skillet make this cookbook perfect for newcomers to this booming culinary trend, as do the easy to follow step-by-step recipes.

Please your palate and impress your guests with this must-have guide for all things seasoning.

With six tabbed sections for spicy, smoky, salty, sweet, savory, and sour, you’ll never have to worry about a meal falling flat. Whether you’re looking for the right flavor for chicken, steak, pork, lamb, and more, or want to shake up your usual routine, this easy-to-use cookbook features dozens of rub recipes to elevate your flavor game to the next level. This is the perfect gift for cooks of all skill levels, from the beginner baster to the seasoned seasoner. Get ready to take your seasoning game to the next level with Speedy Seasoning.