Learn the essential skills behind exceptional results now in paperback. Winner of Great British Menu Best Dessert Marcus Wareing guides you through 80 enticing recipes offering a chefs level of understanding with completely step-by-step recipes so that you can achieve perfect results
- everytime. Every recipe has a Key to Perfection with all the need-to-know tips & techniques that promise success plus All-Is-Not-Lost advice to rescue you from mistakes. Inspired by his mothers home cooking Marcus draws on his experience as Chef Patron at the Savoy Grill in London & as a father teaching his young sons to cook food for the family. This book will give you the confidence to tackle any dish
- knowing you will get perfect results everytime.

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This book shows those embarking on an illustration or graphic design career how best to put together an effective professional portfolio. It discusses what to include & how to organize & display the work & also advises on presentation techniques & self-promotion. Both print & virtual portfolios are covered. Deciding who to approach for work is of key importance whether you are looking for a full-time position or freelance work & the book maps out the creative marketplace examining the main areas of work & describing the types of position available in each & how the commissioning process works. Tips are included from commissioners & practitioners working in magazine & book publishing design advertising TV/film & beyond as well as agents & educators. The book also features a listings section detailing online resources & publications to aid research; suppliers; specialist libraries; industry-related trade fairs; & professional organizations. ...

Make a stunning heirloom quilt & learn over 35 creative machine techniques in the process. This award-winning heirloom quilt ...

This is the story of how Thomas Day a young man of means decided he could never marry a woman with brains spirit or fortune. Instead he adopted two orphan girls from a Foundling Hospital & set about educating them to become the meek docile women he considered marriage material. Unsurprisingly Days marriage plans did not run smoothly. Having returned one orphan early on his girl of choice Sabrina Sidney would also fall foul of the experiment. From then on she led a difficult life inhabiting a curious half-world
- an ex-orphan & not quite a ward; a governess & not quite a fiancee. But Sabrina also ended up figuring in the life of scientists & luminaries as disparate as Erasmus Darwin & Joseph Priestley as well as that pioneering generation of women writers who included Fanny Burney Maria Edgeworth & Anna Seward. In HOW TO CREATE THE PERFECT WIFE Wendy has found a story that echoes her concerns about womens historic powerlessness & captures a moment when ideas of human development & childraising underwent radical change.
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Beaded tube crochet jewelry is a mix of crochet & beadwork. While it looks complicated it really isnt as it uses only the most basic stitches. The basic bead tube crochet is done with five beads pattern. All bead tube crochet is worked the same way the only difference is how many beads are used perrow determines how many chain stitches needed to join rounds. As each round is stitched the beads lay on top of each other making each row stand" on each other creating a tube. How to Bead Tube Crochet Jewelry

Includes:: instructions & projects for 13 projects including a ring & a broach 6 necklaces 2 earring & 3 bracelets using 3 4 5 7 & 9 beads plus a handy DVD with up-close getting started views & tips to a make crocheting bead tube jewelry even easier!"

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In How To Cure a Fanatic" Amos Oz analyses the historical roots of violence & confronts truths about the extremism nurtured throughout society. By bringing us face to face with fanaticism he suggests ways in which we can all respond. In " Help Us to Divorce" he convinces irrefutably that the Israel-Palestinian conflict is primarily a dispute over whose house this is. In his characteristically lucid intelligent & inspiring prose Amos Oz is unafraid to advocate solutions to the dispute & to espouse his belief that there will one day be a resolution to the conflict. Im no longer a European in any sense except through the pain of my parents & my ancestors who left forever in my genes a sense of unrequited love for Europe... But if I were a European Id be careful not to point the finger at anyone. Instead of calling the Israelis this name or the Palestinians that name I would do anything I could to help both sides because both of them are on the verge of making the most painful decision of their history... You no longer have to choose between being pro-Israel or pro-Palestine you have to be pro-peace." ...

Whether you want to find the best bargains when buying antiques & collectables as a hobby or whether you want to turn your interest in antiques into an extra income stream or full-time career this book will help you make better deals & maximise your profits. You'll discover:
- what to buy & sell
- where to buy & how to get bigger discounts
- where & how to sell
- using the internet for both buying & selling Antiques expert Fiona Shoop highlights the tricks of the trade to help you avoid making common but costly mistakes
- & ensure that you get the best out of the antiques world.




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Every beader knows the seductive pleasures of the bead store. & once you've got your purchases home: what then? How do you put it all together to create a beautiful piece? What shapes fit? Will crystal go with wood? Can you set lustre aginst lustre or will lustre against matte work better? How many spacers between statement beads? Should you go symmetrical? Does red go with green? Malachite with metallic? & what about the rhythm of the piece? Will it sit still or shift & shimmy? Will it shout or whisper? Do you want glam or boho? Drama or harmony? Big clasp or small clasp? & what the heck is negative space? This book answers all of these questions & a whole load of others that bead jewellery designers are likely to encounter. It is the must-have guide to the key design principles for beautiful bead jewellery. & what's more the book lets you test all this out with 20 wonderful projects. ...

How to survive an earthquake. How to make an invisibility cloak. How to turn lead into gold. How to read someone's mind. Physics = tedious & unfathomable right? No longer. If you thought physics was all about measuring the temperature of an ice bucket or trying to understand complicated equations think again. How to Destroy the Universe will make you see the world around us through fresh eyes. ...

Few would disagree that improving our memories can enrich our lives in countless little ways
- from ensuring that we remember birthdays
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