The fine-tipped soldering iron is one of the most creative tools available to textile artists & embroiderers today. Acclaimed embroiderer Margaret Beal is a pioneer of these techniques & makes the processes simple safe & straightforward. Armed with this book & a soldering iron you will discover how to cut bond seal seam score & make marks on single or multple layers of synthetic fabric creating finished pieces that are beautiful in themselves or make unique surfaces for further stitching whether by hand or machine. Building on the three basic techniques of mark-making cutting & bonding the book covers: * Patterning with metal templates * Sealing items between fabrics * Scrunchy textures * Strips & fancy borders * Hollow 3-D shapes * Intricate patchwork patterns * Cutwork & applique techniques * Working with metal grid & wireform * Incorporating stencil film foil & PVC Once you start experimenting you wont be able to stop. ...

Mealtimes can often be a battleground between parents & kids. As a parent you want your child to have a healthy nutritious & tasty diet but persuading them its a good idea is a different matter! Annabel Karmel is here to convert even the fussiest of fussy eaters & make family meals fun again. With 120 healthy recipes covering everything from breakfasts to suppers to parties Annabel gives tips & advice on improving your childrens diet & encouraging new tastes. She suggests way of sneaking hidden vegetables into familiar foods such as quesadillas & focaccia pizzas & offers a healthy take on fast-food favourites like chicken nuggets with dips & sticky barbecue ribs. Theres plenty to tempt children of all ages including pork & peanut noodles tuna melts cupcakes & ice creams. & for those children with food intolerances there is a whole chapter of recipes covering dairy-free sauces gluten-free pizzas & a wheat-free birthday cake. Annabel has a proven track record in creating delicious nutritious food to tempt even the most stubborn of fussy eaters. Plus with general advice on how best to cope with fussy-eating behaviours & improve mealtimes this is more than just a recipe book
- it will be the answer to many parents prayers!
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In The Future" former US Vice President Al Gore explores the political social & economic forces that are shaping what America & the world will become in ensuing decades. From demographics to democracy Gore explores what he calls the ' Drivers of Global Change' framing the international conversation about the future in fresh & provocative ways. With this new work Gore hopes to help start a conversation about the large-scale drivers of change that are defining & shaping our future
- from the rapid development & integration of radically new technologies to the planet-changing impact of the climate crisis to poverty globalization & the democratisation of knowledge accompanying the emergence of a ubiquitous internet linking ever more intelligent devices."
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Are we looking at the imminent death of religious life in the church at a future full of hope or at something in between? This book based on papers given at a colloquium run by the Religious Life Institute (Heythrop College University of London) addresses urgent questions around the renewal & survival of religious life from a British & Irish religious & lay perspective. Despite recent scandals & a steady diminishment of numbers since Vatican II religious remain a powerful source of inspiration & positive energy within church & society. Some fifty years after the Council todays context & questions are different. Did the Council bring about a renewal or an implosion of religious life? Who is looking at religious vocation today? What are they seeking & what are they finding? With a foreword by former Dominican Master General Timothy Radcliffe leading authors on religious life with lay & religious colleagues explore these questions & propose answers in a book offering material for group & personal reflection. ...

Previously always at the margins of global affairs the Arctic has now found its way to the centre of the issues which will challenge & define our world in the twenty-first century. The region is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet & its future is uncertain with the rush to claim the territory one of the ugliest aspects of the hydrocarbon era. In The Future History of the Arctic" geopolitics expert Charles Emmerson weaves together the history of the region with reportage & reflection revealing a vast & complex area loaded with opportunity & rich in challenges. Travelling from the oil-fields of Prudhoe Bay & the Russian port of Murmansk to the shores of Greenland & the militarised borderlands of northern Norway we learn how the Arctic nations have used the areas resources & how past ideas frame the future." ...

Its 1996 & very few high school students have ever used the internet. Facebook will not be invented until several years in the future. Emma just got a computer & an America Online CD. She & her best friend Josh power it up & log on
- & discover themselves on Facebook in 2011. Everybody wonders what theyll be like fifteen years in the future. Josh & Emma are about to find out.
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Future Systems is an architectural & design practice established in 1979 who have surprised the architectural world with their daring forms & inventive design philosophy that merges modern ideas with natural shapes & technological innovations from other fields. After establishing themselves with creative projects & architectural competitions (2nd Place International Competition Bibliotheque de France Paris 1989) they soon obtained wider recognition with the Lords Cricket Ground Media Centre (1994). They went on to gain other important commissions from fashion names like Comme des Garcons (1998) & Marni (1999) & today are celebrated for their new flagship store for Selfridges in Birmingham (2003) (featured on more than fifteen magazine covers). This book presents a selection of work from the last twenty-five years some previously unpublished. It celebrates the finished accomplishments for which Future Systems are recognized today as well as looking at more recent proposals & concepts that continue their forward-looking philosophy such as the Maserati Museum Modena (2004). Organized according to themes such as objects houses shopping & landmarks this innovative format will also present well-known works in a new light permitting a fresh appreciation of Future Systems oeuvre today at their highest point of public acclaim. ...

Relaunch of spectacular Robert Westall fantasy novel that was way ahead of its time. A fantasy of the near future in which Britain is divided into Zones & castes to which men & women are pitilessly allocated at the end of their schooling. Whether crazed proles in the Unnem zones smug pampered bourgeois Ests or arrogant Techs all are ultimately pawns of the computer that governs it all. One boy penetrates the conspiracy by which the nation is governed & has the knowhow to strike at the heart of evil. This novel was originally published in 1983 & was runner up for the Carnegie Medal. Its a fantastic if bleak vision of the future
- all the more scary because many of its Big Brother elements are so evident in our society today.
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Part of a new range of Enthusiast Manuals" from Haynes this book traces the history & development of the ubiquitous Austin FX4 London Taxi built between 1958 & 1997. From the origins of the Hackney carriage the author follows the evolution of the taxi through early 20th century designs by William Beardmore of Glasgow to the dominance of later vehicles commissioned from Austin by Mann & Overton in 1929. Later designs follow a distinct lineage & despite continual improvement of the design over the years coupled with a succession of more refined & cleaner diesel engines the black cab remains an enduring icon of Britains transport heritage." ...

In this spellbinding finale to an epic series Septimus Heap must decide once & for all where his heart lies
- with Magyk or with
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