Todays chocolates have gone upmarket mixing flavours such as chile peppers caramel or wasabi with high-quality bittersweet or imported chocolate. Luckily creating such mouth-watering confections at home no longer requires a cooking degree
- Making Fine Chocolates" will teach you all the inside tips techniques & methods for making chocolates like a professional chocolatier at home. Once only available to pastry chefs the techniques shown here will help you create chocolates to rival those found in upmarket retail shops & specialist chocolate shops. Forget milk chocolate bars
- the recipes in this book combine daring & unusual flavours to create truly unique creations. Using ingredients such as vanilla bean mint & fresh raspberries Andrew Garrison Shotts will teach you how to create one-of-a-kind homemade chocolates truffles & confections that will dazzle your friends & family."

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Homemade rules in the kitchen & everyone from bakers to canners & picklers know it. Culinary enthusiasts & hungry home cooks are exploring classic skills again
- & making homemade h&-shaped pasta is on the rise. With the simplest ingredients & easy-to-follow instructions Making Fresh Pasta teaches you how to make your own pasta & noodles by h&. The fully illustrated step-by-step tutorials will walk you through the entire tasty process from mixing dough rolling & shaping pasta through cooking serving & storing pasta later. Going way beyond noodles this book

Includes:: tutorials on gnocchi Chinese pot stickers pierogi & dozens of other world pastas. Through chef Aliza Green's expertise & encyclopedic knowledge of all things culinary you will learn everything there is to know about making fresh delicious pasta in your home kitchen. You'll never look at the supermarket pasta aisle the same way again. Making handmade homemade pasta has never been easier.


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This is an inspirational compilation of projects & plans from Furniture & Cabinetmaking" magazine offering practical guidance refreshing & innovative approaches & tricks of the trade. It

Includes:: 30 varied projects that range from a simple dining table to a grand more ambitious Robert Adams-style breakfront bookcase & cover all tastes & abilities. Plus each appealing project is fully explained & complemented with fine photography & detailed plans. Mark is a member of the Society of Designer Craftsmen & the Hampshire & Berkshire Guild of Craftsmen he exhibits his work widely & his designs have featured in numerous books & magazines."

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No garden is complete without sympathetic furniture. Using simplified woodworking techniques this book covers fourteen pieces ranging from tables & chairs to bird houses & fencing: all are both useful & delightful additions to any garden. Projects ranging in difficulty for novice & experienced woodworkers to enjoy Advice on tools & materials Explanation of jointing techniques Clear step-by-step instructions for each project with cutting lists Supported by over 160 colour photographs & line artwork ...

Following on from his successful Drawing Geometry Jon Allen explores the creation of the many-sided three-dimensional forms known as the Platonic & Archimedean solids. Based on patterns of equally spaced points on a sphere these polyhedra have been the fundamentals of geometric exploration for millennia. Many professionals find they need to be able to build three-dimensional shapes accurately & understand the principles behind them. This unique book shows them how to make models of all the Platonic & Archimedean solids as well as several other polyhedra & stellated forms. It provides step-by-step instructions for constructing the three-dimensional forms as well as showing how to draw out accurately the geometry of the paperfold nets. Beginners & experienced artists & designers alike will find this book a source of practical guidance as well as delight & inspiration which will amply repay the careful attention needed to construct the models. ...

This is a truly comprehensive collection of papercraft ideas designs & techniques with over 300 projects. It features over 300 projects that explore & teach every kind of paper craft & skill shown in over 2400 photographs. This book

Includes:: papercraft projects for all occasions from delightful gifts for family & friends fun projects to make with children & decorative ideas for around the home. You can experiment with the wonderful range of paper available today from humble cardboard boxes & newspaper to delicate handmade Japanese paper. This book

Includes:: traditional crafts such as decoupage paper cutting & quilling plus projects for special occasions such as Christmas Valentines Day & anniversaries. It features the latest ideas & inspirations for contemporary designs & techniques that are explored & made simple. This book explores all the principal papercraft techniques then encourages you to try them out in a range of accessible projects. Exciting paper projects can be completed in no time at all after mastering a few key techniques & everything you need to know about skills such as paper-making decoupage papier-mache & origami is described. The main sections are then packed with more than 300 fun & creative projects to suit all skill levels providing the necessary information to teach you how to design your own unique gift-wrap & tags build collages produce bags boxes dolls toys ornaments decorations & how to create dozens of different types of stationery. This book is proof of the versatility of paper & the fun there is to be had in producing your own results to a professional standard.



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Most of us would love to adopt a new positive habit (an evening run eating a piece of fruit with lunch clearing out the email backlog by the end of the day) but it seems we cant quite muster the self-control to make our resolutions stick. Now psychologist Jeremy Dean shares the new brain science of routine that can improve any persons life every day. Habits are powerful Dean explains because of the way in which the brain runs automatically. Amazingly we spend a third of our waking hours falling into habits without even realizing it
- ruminating over past events or clicking through web sites trawling for updates. Such unconscious thoughts & actions can however be steered to our benefit. Drawing on hundreds of fascinating studies Dean reveals how to take control of your brains auto-pilot" to transform willpower into reality."
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David ' The Hayemaker' Haye is the former WBA world heavyweight champion & the former undisputed (WBA WBC & WBO) world cruiserweight champion. Haye is one of British boxing's most celebrated & successful ring champions of the modern era & has won twenty-three of twenty-five professional fights. He has twice been shortlisted for BBC Sports Personality of the Year & is now recognised as the face of British & world boxing. Haye was involved in the biggest heavyweight title clash for nearly a decade when he fought Wladimir Klitschko in July 2011 with the fight televised live in over 140 countries. Although Haye ultimately lost his belt following a twelve-round points decision his charismatic approach has reminded fight fans of a time when the heavyweight championship was the greatest prize in sport. This is the authorised story of how Haye reached this point & details the ten-year rise of the boxer from a precocious World Amateur Champion. Crafted by close confidant Elliot Worsell Making Haye offers behind-the-scenes never-before-told insights into some of the most pivotal ring wars of David Haye's turbulent & at times controversial professional boxing career. ...

David The Hayemaker Haye is the former WBA world heavyweight champion & the former undisputed (WBA WBC & WBO) world cruiserweight champion. Haye is one of British boxings most celebrated & successful ring champions of the modern era & has won twenty-three of twenty-five professional fights. He has twice been shortlisted for BBC Sports Personality of the Year & is now recognised as the face of British & world boxing. Haye was involved in the biggest heavyweight title clash for nearly a decade when he fought Wladimir Klitschko in July 2011 with the fight televised live in over 140 countries. Although Haye ultimately lost his belt following a twelve-round points decision his charismatic approach has reminded fight fans of a time when the heavyweight championship was the greatest prize in sport. This is the authorised story of how Haye reached this point & details the ten-year rise of the boxer from a precocious World Amateur Champion. Crafted by close confidant Elliot Worsell Making Haye offers behind-the-scenes never-before-told insights into some of the most pivotal ring wars of David Hayes turbulent & at times controversial professional boxing career. ...

Michael Young is convinced his brilliant history thesis will win him a doctorate a pleasant academic post a venerable academic publisher & his beloved girlfriend Jane. A historian should know better than to imagine that he can predict the future. Leo Zuckerman is an ageing physicist obsessed with the darkest period in human history utterly driven by his fanatical hatred of one man. A lovers childish revenge & the breaking of a rotten clasp cause the two men to meet in a blizzard of swirling pages. Pages of history. When they come together nothing
- past present or future
- will ever be the same again.

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