This book helps you learn how to combine needle-felting free-motion quilting & wet-felting techniques for an amazing finish to any quilt. Now needlecraft artists everywhere can take their designs to the next level with this superb new book. Featuring step-by-step instructions that make mastering the fundamentals quick & easy even if youre a beginner alongside 8 colour-drenched projects
- including a wrap bag & pillow
- this will become a firm favourite with all quilters.

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Kids can journey back to Ancient Egypt to learn the secrets of mummification by embalming a hot dog in an easy-to-assemble sarcophagus. The hieroglyphic curse-o-matic wheel creates warning signs for trespassers into tombs (or even bedrooms) of doom. This title also

Includes:: instructions on carving shrinking heads from apples. Possibly the most out-there Klutz" book yet is the perfect gift for the Haloween season."

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This is a 1901 novel for adults about a young woman who married a Marchioness & the melodrama that follows. Part one the original Marchioness is in the Cinderella tradition while part two called The Methods of Lady Walderhurst is an absorbing melodrama
- a realistic commentary on late-Victorian marriage. Unjustly out of print for years this neglected classic deserves its place alongside Pride & Prejudice" & " Jane Eyre"."
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This anthology illuminates the history practice & wonder of our most elusive art poetry. Intended for all those who love poetry including teachers readers writers & students the book should be valued by those who feel that an understanding of form-sonnet ballad villanelle & sestina would enhance their appreciation of poetry but are daunted by the terms the names & the histories of various poetic forms. The anthology draws the reader in by example & explanation to the excitement & entertainment of these forms. It explains their origins traces their development & shows examples from the past & present. In a feature called the form at a glance" the reader can try his or her own hand writing a particular form. Included are essays by each of the editors describing their own personal journeys toward a form for their poetic voice. Above all this anthology shows that poetic form is a continuing adventure." ...

A wave of internal conquest settlement & economic growth took place in Europe during the High Middle Ages which transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of powerful kingdoms with distinctive cultures. In this vivid & provocative book Robert Bartlett vividly shows how Europe was itself a product of colonization as much as it was later a colonizer & what this did to shape the continent & the world today. ...

In The Making of Modern Britain" Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria & the end of the Second World War the nation was shaken by war & peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known & the episodes of peace among the most turbulent & surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question How should we live? Socialism? Fascism? Feminism?. Meanwhile fads such as eugenics vegetarianism & nudism were gripping the nation while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today & the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches flappers & Spitfires this is a story of strange cults & economic madness of revolutionaries & heroic inventors sexual experiments & raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs nightclubs & celebrities to package holidays crooked bankers to sleazy politicians the echoes of todays Britain ring from almost every page." ...

In The Making of Modern Britain" Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria & the end of the Second World War the nation was shaken by war & peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known & the episodes of peace among the most turbulent & surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question ' How should we live?' Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile fads such as eugenics vegetarianism & nudism were gripping the nation while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today & the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches flappers & Spitfires this is a story of strange cults & economic madness of revolutionaries & heroic inventors sexual experiments & raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs nightclubs & celebrities to package holidays crooked bankers to sleazy politicians the echoes of today's Britain ring from almost every page." ...

The third edition of this successful text has been revised to include a new chapter on the politics of the Second World War & to reflect recent developments in research into the period.* Third edition of this insightful survey of changes in British politics* Now extended to cover the politics of the Second World War & the election of 1945* Extensively revised in the light of recent research* Looks at the Labour Partya s evolution into a national rather than sectional party*

Includes:: updated suggestions for further reading

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Pink Floyds THE WALL is one of the most iconic & imaginative albums in the history of rock music endlessly discussed & dissected. It is loosely based on the life & experiences of Roger Waters & the stage performances & film were created in close collaboration with Gerald Scarfe. Scarfe & Waters worked together on the new version of the stage show. Gerald retains all the imagery & from this massive archive the book

Includes:: hundreds of photographs of the creation staging & filming of The Wall as well as the live stage performances. In addition Roger Waters allowed us to reproduce all the interviews & texts associated with the production of the album the stage performances & the film. This is the authorised definitive book of THE WALL.

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Edgehill 1642: Surveying the disastrous scene in the aftermath of the first battle of the English Civil War Oliver Cromwell realizes that war can no longer be made in the old feudal way: there has to be system & discipline & therefore
- eventually
- a standing professional army. From the New Model Army of Cromwells distant vision former soldier Allan Mallinson shows us the people & events that have shaped the army we know today. How Marlboroughs momentous victory at Blenheim is linked to Wellingtons at Waterloo; how the desperate fight at Rorkes Drift in 1879 underpinned the heroism of the airborne forces at Arnhem in 1944; & why Montgomerys momentous victory at El Alamein mattered long after the Second World War was over. From the Armys origins at the battle of Edgehill to our current conflict in Afghanistan this is history at its most relevant
- & most dramatic.


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