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

\"The Only Investment Guide You\'ll Ever Need . . . actually lives up to its name.\" -- Los Angeles Times \"So full of tips and angles that only a booby or a billionaire could not benefit.\" -- New York Times For nearly forty years, The Only Investment Guide You\'ll Ever Need has been a favorite finance guide, earning the allegiance of more than a million readers across America. This completely updated

What exactly do vegans believe? Why has veganism become such a critical and criticized social movement, and how does veganism correspond to wider debates about sustainability, animal studies, and the media? Eva Haifa Giraud offers an accessible route into the debates that surround vegan politics, which feed into broader issues surrounding food activism and social justice. Giraud engages with arguments

Maggie Crozat has the Halloween heebie-jeebies in USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Ellen Byron\'s howlingly funny sixth Cajun Country mystery. Maggie Crozat, proprietor of a historic Cajun Country B&B, prefers to let the good times roll. But hard times rock her hostelry when a new cell phone app makes it easy for locals to rent their spare rooms to tourists. With October--and Halloween--approaching,

This beautiful coffee table book is the companion to the nationally distributed IMAX film of the same name. Wings Over Watercelebrates and promotes the preservation of the prairie wetlands and the birds that live and breed there through inspiring text from some the nation\'s foremost conservations of bird habitat and more than 300 stirring images. The Prairie Pothole Region is critical breeding and

A unique first introduction to the phases of the moon for the very young! Learn the phases of the moon and look for Moon Buggy as he travels across the night sky in this sparkly, shiny, high-contrast buggy

Kenneth Sillito is internationally recognised as one of Britain\'s most distinguished musicians. Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he studied with David Martin at the Royal Academy of Music, and in Rome with Remy Principe. His first major appointment was as associate leader of the newly created English Chamber Orchestra in 1960. He was subsequently appointed leader and remained with the orchestra until

The definitive pilgrim\'s guide to the sites visited by St Paul on his missionary journeys. This new edition has been fully updated and redesigned with new maps and plans, and many new colour photographs. Expanded, with new sections on St John and his writing of the Book of Revelation on the island of Patmos, together with other Greek

The latest in this charming series of rhyming tales, Ava and her invisible cat perform at the circus \'In a change to our scheduled programme tonight, I proudly present, for your joy and delight . . .\' (in the glare of the bulbs, Ava tipped her tall hat) \'AMAZING AVA AAAAAAND . . . HER INVISIBLE CAT \' Ava and Squishy are going to see the circus, but when one of the acts doesn\'t turn up they

This sixth edition of what was previously known as the Brief Teaching Edition of Volume A provides an introduction to the basic crystallographic data for space groups found in Volume A, for symmetry relations between space groups in Volume A1 and for subperiodic groups in Volume E of International Tables for Crystallography, to magnetic space groups and to the symmetry database that forms part of International

*As featured in a BBC documentary*Born in Milan, Anna del Conte grew up in Italy in a gentler time. Her story is informed and enlivened by the food and memories of her native land - from lemon granita to wartime risotto with nettles, from vitello tonnato to horsemeat roll, from pastas to

Welcome to the hidden world of the most popular bugs on Earth. Opening the beautiful and accessible pages of this book is like turning over a series of stones under which you\'ll find a fascinating array of the world\'s coolest creepy-crawlies. This fully photographic book profiles bugs, beetles, wasps, bees, ants, caterpillars, butterflies, dragonflies, spiders, flies, crickets and grasshoppers, and

Discover the origin, design, range, and function of arms including stone axes, swords, machine-guns, and sniper rifles, and meet the warriors who wielded them. An epic, 4,000-year illustrated volume, Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor traces the evolution of the entire spectrum of weaponry through stunning photography and authoritative coverage. All the major arms through the ages including

This is the latest release in Enduring Word Media\'s commentary series by David Guzik. David Guzik\'s commentaries are noted for their clear, complete, and concise explanation of the Bible. Pastors, teachers, class leaders, home study groups, and everyday Christians all over the world have found this commentary series remarkably

In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth \"surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties...James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Nina Simone\" (New York magazine)--in a vibrant, lost era of New York City.In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures? Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets

Modern risk studies have viewed the inhabitants of the ancient world as being both dominated by fate and exposed to fewer risks, but this very readable and groundbreaking new book challenges these views. It shows that the Romans inhabited a world full of danger and also that they not only understood uncertainty but employed a variety of ways to help to affect future outcomes. The first section focuses

If you think baby brain is bad for you, think again - because neuroscientist Dr Sarah McKay (author of The Women\'s Brain Book) has looked at studies and talked to experts from all over the world and the proof is in: giving birth is one of the best things to ever happen to a woman\'s brain. Moreover, the positive effects of baby brain last well beyond the baby stage - even into old age, with elderly

Analyzes the skyrocketing urban land prices driving our global housing market. How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon in Broken City, the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the rich only indulged themselves with gold, jewels, and art, we wouldn\'t have a global housing crisis. But