After the fantastic success of Knitty Gritty: Knitting for the Absolute Beginner Aneeta Patel is back to teach knitters how to advance to the next stage. With detailed instructions & photographs to accompany you at every step Knitty Gritty: The Next Steps shows you how to knit lace how to use beads & how to read & create charts to knit Fair Isle & intarsia patterns using different colours. You will also learn the secrets of knitting in the round so you too can knit socks like a pro! Once again using only plain English Aneeta teaches budding knitters all the tips & tricks of the trade so that these patterns are accessible to anyone who has mastered the very basics of knitting. With projects including jumpers for adults & kids gloves hats socks & an array of seasonal knits Knitty Gritty: The Next Steps is everything you need on the road to advanced knitting. ...

Knock em Cold Kid is the autobiography of award-winning Welsh writer Elaine Morgan. Born in the Rhondda Valley in 1920 Elaine vividly describes the relationship between her father & mother as they coped with life on the dole. Her grammar school decided to groom her for the Oxford entrance exam & she entered Lady Margaret Hall in 1939. It was a very different world from the one she knew but she enjoyed the experience. In 1945 she married Morien Morgan a Welsh schoolmaster & embarked on a full time role of wife & mother when rationing was at its tightest & the housing shortage was acute. After 7 years as a housewife she claimed some time for herself & took up pen & paper. Initially the new medium of TV could not coax serious writers to feed it & so Elaine got in at the ground floor & started a prolific career as a TV dramatist. She wrote for programmes such as How Green Was My Valley (1975) & Testament of Youth (1979) winning two BAFTAs two Writers Guild awards the Prix Italia & the Writer of the Year Award from the Royal Television Society along the way. In 1972 in a change of direction she wrote The Descent of Woman an account of human evolution seen from the perspective of the female of the species. This became a bestseller & the next forty years of her life were dedicated to defending the controversial theory of the Aquatic Ape as put forward in her book. Knock em Cold Kid is Elaines account of her life & looks at how her career & the Aquatic Ape Theory impacted on her family life. ...

Brilliantly funny Louise Rennisons fabby third book on the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson. Now in gorgey new paperback & guaranteed to have the nation laughing their knickers off! Jas said Well what happened?" & I said " Well it was beyond marvy. We talked & snogged & then he made me a sandwich & we snogged & then he played me a record & then we snogged." " So it was like!" " Yeah! a snogging fest." " Sacre bleu!" Jas looked like she was thinking which is a) unusual & b) scary. I said " But then this weird thing happened. He had his hands on my waist standing behind me." " Oo-er!" "D-accord. Anyway I turned round & he sort of leaped out of the way like two short leaping things." " Was he dancing?" " No! I think he was frightened of being knocked out by my nunga-nungas!" Then we both laughed like loons on loon tablets (i.e. A LOT)." ...

Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2011. We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) & cosmology (the study of the largest) & when these breakthroughs come they will revolutionise what we think we know about the universe & the modern world. Lisa Randall guides us through the latest ideas charting the thrilling progress we have made in understanding the universe
- from Galileo & Newton to Einstein & the Large Hadron Collider & the search for the Higgs boson. Yet its about more than just physics
- Randall explains how we decide what questions to ask; how risk beauty creativity & truth play a role in scientific thinking; & how answering the big questions will ultimately tell us who we are & where we came from.

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The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the universe: its make-up its evolution & the fundamental forces that determine its operation. Knocking on Heavens Door is an exhilarating & accessible overview of these developments & a rousing defence of the role of science in our lives. There could be no better guide than Lisa Randall: the bestselling author of Warped Passages is an expert on both particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) & cosmology (the study of the largest) & is one of the most highly regarded theoretical physicists in the world. In Knocking on Heavens Door she recounts the thrilling progress in our understanding of the universe from Galileo & Newton to Einstein & Feynman; she explores how we decide which scientific questions to study & how we go about answering them; & she examines the role of risk creativity uncertainty beauty & truth in scientific thinking. Throughout Lisa Randall explains with wit & clarity the latest ideas in physics & cosmology including the aims of the biggest & most expensive machine ever built: the Large Hadron Collider the enormous particle accelerator situated over a 100 metres below the French-Swiss border. More than 27 kilometres in circumference it has within it the hottest spot in the galaxy as well as the coldest & features the most powerful supercomputer system of all time. One of the most illuminating science books in years Knocking on Heavens Door makes clear the biggest scientific questions we face & reveals how answering them could ultimately tell us who we are & where we came from. ...

Dominic Kitchen is a wedding photographer. Every Saturday since his career began in the sixties he has photographed a bride & groom on the happiest day of their lives captured the moment they tied the knot forever & then faded away into the background. But throughout his life Dominic has felt a knot inside him tighten threatening his own chance of a happy ever after. & as the years go by it becomes more difficult to ignore until the ties that bind threaten to tear him apart... ...

A clear introduction to the world of knots from the practical to the decorative. Illustrated step-by-step instructions on how to master over 50 knots. Step-by-step instructions to tying over 50 knots from the essential to the decorative. A practical guide for sailers moutaineers & campers as well as those who would like to try their hand at more decorative knots. ...

Once John Rebus was a Para served in the elite SAS. Now hes an Edinburgh policeman who spends time evading his memories & missing promotion opportunities. Then there is the small matter of the brutal abduction & murder of two young girls & a third missing. Detective Sergeant John Rebus smoking & drinking too much his own daughter spirited away by his estranged wife is one of many policemen hunting the killer. Then. The messages begin: knotted string & matchstick crosses taunt Rebus with a puzzle only he can solve. So begins the case that introduced the crime world to one of its most compelling characters. ...

And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh do you...? That sort of thing is the brutal abduction & murder of two young girls. & now a third is missing presumably gone to the same sad end. Detective Sergeant John Rebus smoking & drinking too much his own young daughter spirited away south by his disenchanted wife is one of many policemen hunting the killer. & then the messages begin to arrive: knotted string & matchstick crosses
- taunting Rebus with pieces of a puzzle only he can solve.
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Get yourself in the perfect knot with this ultimate guide to knots for every occasion Knots Step by Step" is the essential guide to knowing & tying knots for every purpose. From figure-of-eights to reef knots & highwayman's hitches to monkey's fists it

Includes:: every knot you ever thought you needed to tie & more. The book comes with a handy rope so you can practice every knot as you learn. Covering more than 100 knots for climbing sailing horse-riding survival & fishing as well as for gardening DIY medical & decorative purposes the clear layout & photographs of every step will move you on from knot-tying novice in no time. You'll also learn all about the different types of knots & the fascinating stories behind how many of these came into being. " Knots Step by Step" is the ideal book to have to hand for whenever a knot is needed. Previously published as the " Handbook of Knots"."

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