Welcome to the delectable world of handmade confectionery! From decadent Chocolate Fudge to light-as-air Strawberry Lemonade Marshmallows Nina Wanat makes making sweets easy for everyone. With step-by-step photos she expertly guides you through readily available ingredients & tools as well as basic techniques such as tempering chocolate h&-rolling truffles & cooking sugar syrup. Once you learn these simple methods youll be ready to create irresistible sweets in your own kitchen. Whether youre looking for a traditional sweet treat or a contemporary confection something for a special occasion or to satisfy an everyday craving there is a delicious & beautiful recipe in Making Sweets thats just right for you! ...

Choosing to make your own soft furnishings is immensely satisfying; not only can you choose your own colour schemes fabric types & trims but these furnishings can usually be made at a fraction of the cost of shop-bought items. Making Table & Bed-Linen contains over 35 beautifully tailored projects to make. There are so many ways to dress a bed with traditional patchwork quilts modern duvets & colourful throws. For the dining area choose from elegant tablecloths quilted placemats or a stylish beaded applique tablerunner. There are ideas as well to co-ordinate chair covers with table decor. Whatever your level of ability Making Table & Bed-Linen contains plenty of projects to inspire your imagination to beautify your home. ...

This is a guide for prospective best men" which aims to answer the anxieties about making the speech. It offers advice on speech-making essentials great openings strong middles big finishes plus putting it all together & delivering the speech itself." ...

You have a wonderful opportunity to add to the magic of your daughter's wedding. Your words will linger in memories
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Making the Future" is the latest collection of essays from Noam Chomsky one of our most vital & provocative voices of political dissent. Taking up the thread from 2007s " Interventions" these penetrating & compelling articles examine numerous topics including the financial crisis Obamas presidency Wiki Leaks & the on-going conflicts in the Middle East. Restating & refining his commitment to democracy & finding inspiration in the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring " Making the Future" is Chomskys fiercely-argued & timely comment on a fast-changing world. Praise for Noam Chomsky: " Chomsky is one of a small band of individuals fighting a whole industry. & that makes him not only brilliant but heroic". (Arundhati Roy). " Noam Chomsky is a global phenomenon.. .he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet today". (" New York Times Book Review"). " Noam Chomsky is an inspiration all over the world
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- for the simple reason that he is a truth-teller on an epic scale". (John Pilger). Noam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political books including " Hegemony or Survival" " Failed States" " Interventions" " What We Say Goes" " Hopes & Prospects" & " Gaza in Crisis" all of which are published by Hamish Hamilton/ Penguin. He is an Institute Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT & is widely credited with having revolutionized modern linguistics."

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Contested the second weekend in April each year since 1934 The Masters is the worlds most prestigious golf tournament. Its the most-watched tournament on television tickets are in such demand that even the waiting list is closed & players value the title above all others. The origin & early years of the Masters make for a fascinating story. In The Making of the Masters" award-winning golf writer David Barrett focuses his attention on how the Masters was conceived how it got off the ground in 1934 & how it fully established itself in 1935. The key figure in the tournaments creation & ultimate success was Bobby Jones who was a living legend after winning the Grand Slam in 1930 & immediately retiring at the age of 28. He went on to found Augusta National & sought a high-profile tournament for his new course. But nearly as important was Clifford Roberts a banker friend of Jones who not only embraced Jones vision but became his right-hand man in working to bring that vision to reality. In " The Making of the Masters" Barrett explores Jones & Roberts built the Masters from scratch to the point where it quickly became a golf institution embellished by the often surprising details of what that entailed as they were trying to establish a golf club & golf tournament in tough economic times. It also vividly chronicles the events of the 1934 & 1935 Masters with Gene Sarazens spectacular victory in 1935 providing the climax. Set against the backdrop of golf & America in the 1930s the book provides an interesting informative & entertaining read for fans of the Masters & students of golf history." ...

This exciting new book in the Making the most of series shows the value of outdoor as well as indoor learning environments ...

A food processor can be one of the most useful appliances in your kitchen if you know how to make the most of it. This book will show you how to do just that whatever your level of culinary skills & however short of time you are. With a simple food processor on-side you can whiz up soups & spreads & purees & all kinds of savoury treats. A simple food processor will give you another level of expertise as a home-baker. Light sponge cakes & melt-in-the-mouth pastry & biscuits which you might have thought too difficult to attempt before are now within your reach. This book will enable cooks to make the most out of their food processor rather than it become an expensive dust collector on the kitchen counter. ...

The transition from primary to secondary school is a time of great anxiety for most children. For children with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) this anxiety can be overwhelming. Fear of the unknown difficulty coping with monumental changes & the inability to imagine a favourable outcome can all combine to make this unavoidable step in school life a time of great fear & dread. This book provides guidance for schools & parents on how to make the transfer from primary to secondary as easy as possible for children with ASDs. The book advocates the need for scrupulous preparation of transfer arrangements because children with ASDs struggle to predict the outcome of any new situation. No matter how much discussion has taken place it is only when the situation has been experienced first hand that they will have a real understanding of it & be able to build up a real life memory bank (RLMB). The authors advice aims to ensure that any preparations lead to a favourable outcome in order to build a positive RLMB. The book outlines term by term preparation in the final years of primary school &

Includes:: photocopiable resources & a Moving to Secondary School" booklet. As most children with ASDs are visual learners & think in pictures the booklet uses symbols to aid understanding. " Making the Move" provides a wealth of effective strategies & resources that will encourage & inspire greater confidence for pupils with ASDs parents & schools."

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Building electronic projects that interact with the physical world is good fun. But when the devices youve built start to talk to each other things really get interesting. The workbenches of hobbyists hackers & makers have become overrun with microcontrollers -- computers-on-a-chip that power homebrewed video games robots toys & more. In Making Things Talk author Tom Igoe shows how to make these gadgets communicate. Whether you need to plug some home sensors to the Internet or create a device that can interact wirelessly with other creations this book shows you exactly what you need. The projects in this book are powerful yet inexpensive to build. Youll become familiar with the Arduino open source electronics prototyping platform as well as networking hardware such as Ethernet Wi-Fi Zigbee & Bluetooth. Get instructions for more than two-dozen simple projects & then customize them with your own designs. * Get an overview of the key concepts you need to work with microcontrollers including basic electronics programming & networking concepts * Make your own game controllers that communicate over a network * Use Zig Bee Bluetooth Infrared & plain old radio to transmit sensor data wirelessly * Write programs to send data across the Internet based on physical activity in your home office or backyard ...