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Florencia Campos Correa 100 Pin Loom Squares ENPortable, easy and fun, pin loom squares can be woven in minutes and require only a handful of materials. You can even weave them on the move! ou can even weave them on the move Included is a practical guide to combining yarns, colours, and weaving techniques to help you achieve exciting results and the comprehensive collection of 100 squares of different yarn and colour combinations will inspire your creativity.…
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100 Writers and Artists ENFounded in 1856, the National Portrait Gallery, London, holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. 100 Writers and Artists from the National Portrait Gallery brings together a huge range of cultural icons - from William Shakespeare to J.K. Rowling and J.M.W. Turner to David Hockney. 100 postcards of authors, poets, painters, sculptors and photographers, in colour and black and white and a wide…
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Alison Jenkins 300 Tips, Techniques, and Trade Secrets for Painting and Decorating ENWelcome to the wonderful world of home improvement! This book is packed with useful tips, techniques, quick fixes, and trade secrets to benefit complete beginners and those more experienced in the art of do it yourself. The chapters are organized to include the basic elements of the home: walls and ceilings, doors and windows, storage solutions, and finally a section on essential maintenance to keep your home in tip…
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Travis Elborough An Atlas of Improbable Places ENIt is perhaps the eighth wonder of our world that despite modern mapping and satellite photography our planet continues to surprise us. Hidden lairs beneath layers of rock, forgotten cities rising out of deserted lands and even mankind's own feats of engineering eccentricity lie in the most unusual of destinations. Travis Elborough goes in search of the obscure and bizarre, the beautiful and estranged. Taking in the…
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Xavier Rivoire Arsene Wenger ENArsene Wenger is credited with revolutionising one of the biggest clubs in Europe - famously bringing free-flowing football to 'boring, boring Arsenal' - and with influencing approaches to the modern game. In an industry of disposable contracts and ruthless sacking, his long tenure is testament to his success and dedication, and to the loyalty of players and fans. Wenger has said he is far too young to write his…
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Chris Fitch Atlas of Untamed PlacesWith beautiful, unique maps and evocative photography, Atlas of Untamed Places is an intrepid voyage to nature’s wildest places. In a world that has increasingly become tamed by human activity, the true wild holds a growing mysticism. Rugged landscapes with unspoilt scenery invoke romantic visions of paradise, but there are also intense and powerful wildernesses that produce fear and awe alike and unexplored zones…
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Will Ellsworth-Jones Banksy ENFor someone who shuns the limelight by concealing his real name, never showing his face and never giving interviews except by email, Banksy is remarkably famous. In his home town of Bristol, in Los Angeles, in London, in New York, where there is a Banksy exhibition there is always a queue – often three hours long. His book of his art, Wall and Piece, has sold over a quarter of a million copies. Such is the…
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Jennifer McLagan Bitter ENJennifer McLagan returns with her new book on one of our least understood flavours. Sparked from memories of eating white grapefruit as a child, this guide has developed into an intricate exploration into the bitter taste experience. The world of the unused and under-loved ingredient is Jennifer's speciality, and with Bitter she opens up her readers' imaginations to the most misunderstood of foods. Her book will not…
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Rod Pyle Blueprint for a Battlestar ENThis beautifully illustrated pop science book which answers the enduring questions raised by science fiction, such as “ Do hoverboards really exist?”“ How can you bring a dinosaur back to life?” and “ Can we really travel in time and space?” Packed with stunning images, including 75 illustrations created exclusively for this book, Blueprint for a Battlestartakes twenty-five remarkable and memorable technologies…
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Steve Parker Body ENBODY: A Graphic Guide to Us is the ultimate visual guide to the human body broken down into thematic sections of the physical, chemical, genetic, sensitive, coordinated, thinking, growing and medical body. Information fathered together by established author Steve Parker, will be beautifully displayed through the striking and accessible graphics with a similar aesthetic of Taste. Moving away from the tired treatment…
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Zuzana Široká, Alfonz Bednár CosmosLife. The Universe. Everything. The human race has always revealed an insatiable hunger to search to infinity and beyond. In this truly mind-blowing book, partners in science Stuart Lowe and Chris North use cutting edge infographics to illuminate - in a new and unique way - the most amazing places and objects that modern science has laid bare. Featuring innovative, inspirational and original designs by leading…
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William Curley Couture Chocolate ENAt one time, cocoa beans were prized so highly they were used as currency and only the privileged could enjoy what the Aztecs knew as 'xocoatl'. Nowadays, high-quality chocolate is widely available in many different delicious forms to an increasingly discerning market. In this delightfully decadent book, the UK's premier chocolatier William Curley presents the ultimate master class for all things chocolate. Couture…
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Holly Becker, Leslie Shewring Decorate with Flowers ENThis unique collaboration between international bestselling interiors author and stylist Holly Becker of the award-winning design blog, decor, and Leslie Shewring, product designer, photographer and stylist, offers advice on selecting, combining and arranging flowers to best complement your decor. Decorate with Flowers contains a host of exciting ideas separated into eight gorgeous styles, showing flowers in relaxed…
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Mark Hodgkinson Fedegraphica ENRoger Federer is almost universally recognised as the greatest tennis player of all time; he might also be the greatest athlete. Adored around the world, Federer has become one of sport's most iconic and popular figures. In this innovative graphic biography, Federer's genius is explored and celebrated like never before, with beautiful infographics looking at his serving patterns, the speed of his shots, the spin he…
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Mark Hodgkinson FedegraphicaA Graphic Biography of the Genius of Roger Federer. UPDATED EDITION Roger Federer's incredible 2017 comeback - which saw him winning Grand Slams in his mid-thirties and reaching new heights most ...
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Ian Hodgson Great Garden Design ENThis book presents the best garden designs of the last ten years from more than 50 top garden designers. It offers design solutions for every situation, every area, all tastes and budgets, and any size of garden. It draws on the talents of celebrated designers such as Tom Stuart Smith, Luciano Giubbilei, Charlotte Rowe, Ian Kitson, John Brookes, Cleve West, Dan Pearson and Andy Sturgeon. It also showcases the work…
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Daniel Knox Home RoboticsLearn to make your own robots with this accessible, illustrated guide for robotics enthusiasts, featuring 13 unique robotics projects suitable for beginner to intermediate level. You’ve seen the sci-fi movies and dreamed of creating your very own robot...
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Matt Fitzgerald How Bad Do You Want it? ENHow Bad Do You Want it? revisits some of the most extraordinary moments from the history of endurance sports to show how mental strength allows some athletes to perform at a level way beyond their physical limits - to will their body to do what was previously thought biologically impossible. Drawing on cutting-edge scientific research it suggests concrete habits and tactics we can use to cultivate our own mental…
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Elizabeth Millard Indoor Kitchen Gardening ENIt takes just a few dollars and a few days for you to start enjoying fresh, healthy produce grown indoors in your own home. Imagine serving a home-cooked meal highlighted with beet, arugula, and broccoli microgreens grown right in your kitchen, accompanied by sautéed winecap mushrooms grown in a box of sawdust in your basement. If you have never tasted microgreens, all you really need to do is envision all the…
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Mark Hodgkinson Ivan Lendl ENWhen Andy Murray broke the news in March 2014 that he was parting company with Ivan Lendl it caused shock waves across the world. In just over two years Lendl had turned Murray from a perennial runner-up into the most successful British tennis player since Fred Perry - a winner of the US Open, Olympic Gold and Wimbledon Champion. However, when Murray - a 4 times Grand Slam finalist - announced, in 2011, that he was…
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Yoko Kawaguchi, Alex Ramsay Japanese Zen Gardens ENThe austere, enigmatic rock gardens of Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital, have never ceased to fascinate garden lovers. Weather-beaten rocks set in an expanse of white sand raked into geometric patterns challenge the idea of a garden as a space chiefly dedicated to the cultivation and appreciation of plants. How did the taste for this kind of garden arise? What do the stones represent? Why aren't there more flowers?…
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J.W. Rinzler Making of Return of the Jedi ENJust as Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi completed the most successful cinematic trilogy of its generation, perhaps of all time, this splendid thirtieth-anniversary tribute concludes New York Times bestselling author J. W. Rinzler's trio of breathtaking books celebrating George Lucas's classic saga. Once again, the author's unprecedented access to the Lucasfilm Archives has yielded a mother lode of…
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J. W. Rinzler Making of Star Wars ENGeorge Lucas spent nearly ten years bringing his dream project to life: a ground-breaking space fantasy movie. It would be a swashbuckling sci-fi saga inspired by vintage Flash Gordon serials, classic American westerns, and mythological heroes. Its original title: The Star Wars. The rest is history. Yet its production is a story as entertaining and exciting as the film itself. Now, recounted in the words of those…
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Alastair Bonnett New ViewsA unique and beautiful collection of fifty maps in which our physical, political and cultural world is visualised, measured and mapped like never before.From charting energy networks to revealing new and emerging lands, measuring human migration to assessing the planet’s ant populations – and including the phenomena we have little control over such as lightning strikes or asteroid impact – each map asks you to…