This is a gorgeous and practical guide to combining Japanese fabrics and traditional Oriental quilting style with fast, super-easy techniques. All the quilt designs are accompanied with beautiful photography and clear diagrams to support the text instructions.Each of the ten quilts is made up in two different colourways for maximum inspiration, and instructions are shown for how to finish them using

Describes the language of video. This title shows how to think like a director, regardless of equipment (amateurs think about the camera, and pros think about communication). It explains the rules developed over a century of movie-making - which work just as well when shooting a two-year-old\'s birthday

A beautiful full-colour book by Forest School expert and teacher Sara Knight that inspires and encourages individuals of all ages to take an innovative approach to outdoor play and learning. The images throughout the book bring alive Forest School activities and each chapter is accompanied by creative ideas for practice and in depth case studies from across the United Kingdom and Ireland exploring

A unique approach to understanding the plastic problem, with practical actions to help reduce our

What is grammar? Why is it so central to the teaching of English? How can we teach it with confidence in secondary schools? Essential Grammar will provide clarity, meaning and teacher expertise to this much debated area of the English curriculum. By exploring grammar as applied to literary analysis and using a range of examples from commonly-taught and popular texts, this highly accessible book provides

This book highlights the characteristics, aims, and applications of bionanotechnology as a possible solution for sustainable management and bioremediation of environmental pollutants. It covers remediation of toxic pollutants, removal of emerging contaminants from industrial wastewater, eco-design and modification study of bio-nanoparticles and life-cycle assessment, nano-filtration, bio-nanomaterials

\'There\'s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life.\' In Arthur Conan Doyle\'s A Study in Scarlet a popular cultural phenomenon is born. We meet two of the most famous characters in modern literary history: the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, an army doctor home on sick leave, for the first time. Through Watson we learn a little about the eccentric

Even during the artist\'s lifetime, contemporary art lovers considered Rembrandt van Rijn to be an exceptional artist. In this revelatory sequel to the acclaimed Rembrandt: The Painter at Work, renowned Rembrandt authority Ernst van de Wetering investigates precisely why the artist, from a very early age, was praised by prominent connoisseurs. He argues that Rembrandt, from his very first endeavors

Stunning images of mandalas as they appear in our universe illustrate the story of unity, making this book an uplifting visual treat that reveals our connection to the world and to one another. The mandala is an archetypal symbol of wholeness that is replicated on a cosmic scale, not only in art, architecture, and religion, but throughout the universe. The concepts and primal patterns it represents

As heard on The Sean Hannity Radio Show Former US Navy SEAL and FBI Special Agent Jonathan T. Gilliam brings his unique professional perspective to teach you the art of awareness and attack avoidance by sharing unconventional warfare techniques and how to think like an attacker. Fight back, because we are sheep no more This personal safety and security book comes armed to the teeth with empowering

This revised translation of Fritz Graf\'s highly acclaimed introduction to Greek mythology offers a chronological account of the principal Greek myths that appear in the surviving literary and artistic sources and concurrently documents the history of interpretation of Greek mythology from the 17th century to the present. First surveying the various definitions of myth that have been advanced, Graf

Illustrated revision and practiseCovers Paper 3Over 200 marks worth of examination style questionsAnswers provided for all questions within the bookIllustrated topics to improve memory and recallSpecification references for every topicExamination tips and techniquesAbsolute clarity is the aim with a new generation of revision guide for the 2020s. This guide has been expertly compiled and edited by

Step into the mind through others\' eyes, and feel what they feel for a moment. Step in the shoes of a lonely person, isolated from everyone and read their thoughts. Imagine if you could see through the eyes of another, but the person was never able to tell you how they feel? Embrace love, happiness and sadness all at once, and come out the end with a fresh perspective on life!

Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, a notoriously challenging and slippery topic for criticism. Both granular and global, infusing a text with feeling, tone is so difficult to pin down that responses to it often take the vague form of \"I know it when I see it.\" In Tone, a cooperative authorial voice under the name of the Committee to Investigate Atmosphere begins from the premise that

A world of gods and monsters. An elemental power, rising. This is Robin Hood, reborn, as he has never been seen before . .

With deep reporting from America\'s blue-collar heartland coupled with quantitative data analysis explaining how representative each of the people we meet are, Promised Land will provide readers with an ethnography of today\'s working class, introducing them to people across the country--their neighbors--who are fighting tooth and nail for a fair shot at the American

Written by an experienced tutor, Savoir-Faire Plus is specifically designed to meet the requirements of today\'s generation of language undergraduates. Focusing on the life of an Anglophone first year undergraduate studying French in the UK and sharing a house with four francophone students, this engaging textbook provides: a clear, logical structure a blend of communicative, research-based and

All their lives, Yasmine and Djibril Morissette Phan have heard of their mother\'s old country, Vietnam. But it was more a far distant land with lots of folklore more than a real place in their mind. Too often, immigrants bring fragments of their culture with them, pass them on to their seeds, but the reality remains sketchy to those descendants. Yasmine and Djibril decided to reconnect with their