Let it be flour babies. Let chaos reign. When the annual school science fair comes round Mr Cartwright's class don't get to work on the Soap Factory the Maggot Farm or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babies
- sweet little six-pound bags of flour that must be cared for at all times.
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What really makes people glad to be alive? What are the inner experiences that make life worthwhile? For more than two decades Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi studied those states in which people report feelings of concentration & deep enjoyment. His studies revealed that what makes experience genuinely satisfying is 'flow'
- a state of concentration so focused that it amounts to complete absorption in an activity & results in the achievement of a perfect state of happiness. Flow has become the classic work on happiness & a major contribution to contemporary psychology. It examines such timeless issues as the challenge of lifelong learning; family relationships; art sport & sex as 'flow'; the pain of loneliness; optimal use of free time; & how to make our lives meaningful.
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Jason Taverner is a Six the result of top secret government experiments forty years before which produced a handful of unnaturally bright & beautiful people
- & he's the prime-time idol of millions until inexplicably all record of him is wiped from the data banks of Earth. Suddenly he's a nobody in a police state where nobody is allowed to be a nobody. Will he ever be rich & famous again? Was he in fact ever rich & famous?
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This is a book about flowers & about painters. The author has chosen forty of her favourite flower paintings & as she is both expert gardener & art historian she has all manner of fascinating things to say about the flowers the artists & the contexts of the paintings. Manets mysterious Still Life with Rose & Brioche records the arrival of the new hybrid tea rose in all its perfection. Vanessa Bells Red Hot Pokers & Artichoke came in the wake of Roger Frys Post-Impressionist exhibitions in London & at a time when Bell had found refuge & creative energy with Duncan Grant at Charleston. The paintings are not always the most obvious
- Van Gogh is here represented by a ravishing branch of almond blossom. But Monet has his waterlilies & Rennie Mackintosh his delicate fritillaries & there is a feast of glorious Dutch bouquets. There is old & new known & unknown in this wonderful collection. Each painting has been chosen both to delight the eye & to offer a source of lively stories & intriguing facts.
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This is a dazzling sensuous celebration of color & form by the photographer whom Architectural Digest" described as the love child of Georgia OKeeffe & Robert Mapplethorpe. When I agreed to write an essay for Beanes book recounts Anthony F. Janson esteemed curator & professor I had no idea I would be writing about one of the greatest photographers I have ever run across. It was easy enough for me to locate his position in the history of photography & art as a whole. I saw its importance immediately. Such an approach hardly begins to meet the challenge of explaining his work. With intensity vision & expressiveness Christopher Beane captures the beauty & the bizarre of the botanical. He concentrates on the overlooked detail: the veins of dehydrated petals the textures of poppy stamens the infinite compositions vines create & the multiple layers that constitute a ranunculus. In 150 photographs " Flower" explores the precious & perishable nature of flowers
- seed pods burst open withered leaves curl & frilly petals unfurl. Anthony F. Janson contributes a rich & engaging overview of the core ideas that define Beanes art offering the reader a context for thinking about this unique work while he chronicles its development. A thing of beauty " Flower" is the gift book everyone will welcome
- a testament to the remarkable talent of Christopher Beane & his passionate vision."

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This title features over 150 innovative flower designs in traditional & contemporary styles by a leading floral designer. It teaches the full range of flower arranging techniques in an easy-to-follow format enabling the reader to create all the designs from the very simple to the elaborate. You can make a classic Tulip Arrangement Blue & White Tussie Mussies a Red Tied Sheaf & Ornamental Cabbage Tree. Ideas for special occasions include wedding nosegays buttonholes & posies Easter bouquets Christmas swags & Valentine's circlets. It

Includes:: displays using fresh & dried flowers & foliage with designs to suit every room of the house & for every season & celebration. It offers over 700 beautifully-crafted images including step-by-step photographs of each display. This beautiful book is a complete guide to creating innovative flower designs for any occasion or setting. The 150 step-by-step projects are organized within sections on Fresh Flowers Dried Flower & Flowers for Special Occasions. The designs use every kind of flower foliage or natural decoration & range from simple & restrained to rich & flamboyant. Projects include an Aurum Lily Vase a Bride's Victorian Posy & a striking Flower Cone. Accessible to beginners the range of ideas will challenge the most experienced flower designer. Over 700 photographs by the lifestyle photographer Debbie Patterson show how to use the right setting for every arrangement. There is also advice on basic equipment harvesting seasonal availability & containers. Whatever the occasion you will find the perfect arrangement here.

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The Flower Arranging Expert shows you how to make the most of cut or dried flowers in your home with expert advice on: The basic ingredients
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The Flower class corvette was one of the most famous & numerous of all escort vessels & the corvette Agassiz is the most representative of the Canadian Flowers which were thrown into the thick of the bitter Atlantic convoy battles of 1941--2. Derived from a whalecatcher hull design & intended as a cheap coastal escort that could be built by non-specialist yards the Flowers were the only class available in large numbers when the submarine war flared up in earnest in 1941. As a result they were used on rigorous ocean convoy duties for which they were barely adequate & their crews suffered greatly in one of the harshest arenas of the second world war. This is a superb description of the ship & her career. The Anatomy of the Ship series aims to provide the finest documentation of individual ships & ship types ever published. What makes the series unique is a complete set of superbly executed line drawings both the conventional type of plan as well as explanatory views with fully descriptive keys. These are supported by technical details & a record of the ships service history. ...

This is a great new colouring book for botanists & artists alike. A simple introduction to flowers informs readers on why they're so colourful how they reproduce & what each part of a flower is called. Each left-hand page shows a number of beautifully illustrated coloured flowers with simple facts to learn about each one including where they grow best when they flower & more. The accompanying right-hand page hosts the same flowers ready to be coloured in with the left-hand page illustrations acting as a colour guide. ...

The Flower Expert is the worlds best-selling guide to the worlds favourite types of plant
- garden flowers. No garden can afford
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