Hand Art" is about everything you can make with hand tracings: dragons frogs dogs aliens ducks cats monsters skunks peacocks turkeys & people. Since every creature needs essential details we included essential-detail-makers: googly eyes glue pompoms & crayons. The book itself is crammed with handfuls of inspiration & handy ideas developed by our staff of art experts." ...

Tristram Abberley was an acclaimed English poet of the 1930s whose legendary reputation was sealed when he died fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Nearly fifty years later his sister Beatrix is brutally murdered in her seaside cottage. Her family are stunned by the crime
- especially Beatrix's niece Charlotte Ladram. But Charlotte has little time to mourn her aunt as fifty years of secrets begin to unravel. Beatrix is the victim of a dark conspiracy one that her loved ones are powerless to defeat. A harrowing quest for answers begins one that uncovers a shocking tale of wartime greed & treachery & a vendetta seemingly without end...
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In Cambridge 1355 the colleges of the fledgling university are as much at odds with each other as they are with the ordinary townfolk. This tension has recently been heightened by the return of two well-born murderers after receiving the Kings pardon showing no remorse but ready to confront those who helped convict them. & in the midst of this Bartholomew the physician is called to the local mill to examine two corpses. It is almost a relief to be able to turn his back on the fractious town but as always in Cambridge nothing is disconnected. ...

Moleskine present a catalogue-style book collecting 378 full-colour illustrations consisting of sketches & drawings from a selection of internationally acclaimed architects. Complementing the new A4 Moleskine ' Folio' format the collection also contains interesting & previously unpublished essays that explore drawing & sketching as the most important tools at the architect's disposal as well as being the root of the design process & a metaphor for any creative endeavour.

Includes:: a free 120-page Moleskine sketchbook.

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Winner of the 2010 Costa Novel Award THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE is a gorgeously written story of love & motherhood a tour de force from one of our best loved novelists When the sophisticated Innes Kent turns up on her doorstep Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait any longer for her life to begin & leaves for London. There at the heart of the 1950s Soho art scene she carves out a new life. In the present day Elina & Ted are reeling from the difficult birth of their first child. Elina struggles to reconcile the demands of motherhood with sense of herself as an artist & Ted is disturbed by memories of his own childhood that dont tally with his parents version of events. As Ted begins to search for answers an extraordinary portrait of two women is revealed separated by fifty years but connected in ways that neither could ever have expected. ...

Are you ready for the Cob Cottage? This is a building method so old & so simple that it has been all but forgotten in the rush to synthetics. A cob cottage cobb however might be the ultimate expression of ecological design a structure so attuned to its surroundings that its creators refer to it as an ecstatic house." The authors build a house the way others create a natural garden. They use the oldest most available materials imaginable
- earth clay sand straw & water
- & blend them to redefine the future (and past) of building. Cob (the word comes from an Old English root meaning "lump") is a mixture of non-toxic recyclable & often free materials. Building with cob requires no forms no cement & no machinery of any kind. Builders actually sculpt their structures by h&. Building with earth is nothing new to America; the oldest structures on the continent were built with adobe bricks. Adobe however has been geographically limited to the Southwest. The limits of cob are defined only by the builder's imagination. Cob offers answers regarding our role in Nature family & society about why we feel the ways that we do about what's missing in our lives. Cob comes as a revelation a key to a saner world."

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Handa is searching for her grandmas black hen Mondi. Every morning she feeds Mondi her breakfast but this morning Mondi hasnt come for her food. So Handa & her friend Akeyo begin to hunt for Mondi. While searching they find all sorts of other animals. ...

Handa puts seven delicious fruits in a basket to take to her friend Akeyo. But as she walks carrying the basket on her head various creatures steal her fruits. A monkey takes the banana an ostrich the guava a zebra the orange an elephant the mango a giraffe the pineapple an antelope the avocado & a parrot the passion fruit. Handa walks on wondering which of the fruits her friend will like best oblivious to the fact that her basket is now empty. But then behind her a goat charges into a tangerine tree & fills Handa's basket with the fruit. Hello Akeyo " she greets her friend. "I've brought you a surprise." But when she lifts off her basket it's Handa who gets the biggest surprise. Akeyo meanwhile is delighted because tangerines are her favourite fruit! Eileen Browne also created " Through My Window" which was shortlisted for the Smarties Book Prize (1986) " No Problem" " Tick Tock" & " Where's my Bus?"." ...

This is a bestselling picture book
- brought to life with an animated DVD! Handa puts seven delicious fruits in a basket for her
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Handbag Designer 101 is the bible for handbag designers or women who aspire to make their own bags. Included in the book are instructions for creating the fifteen essential bag styles-clutch hobo tote & more-made simple with easy-to-follow how-to illustrations suggested difficulty levels & color photography. Advice from famous bag designers & today's hottest indie designers accompany each pattern. Also included is the inside scoop on turning your handbag hobby into a successful business. From designing to making to marketing Handbag Designer 101 teaches you everything you need to know. ...