Contested the second weekend in April each year since 1934 The Masters is the worlds most prestigious golf tournament. Its the most-watched tournament on television tickets are in such demand that even the waiting list is closed & players value the title above all others. The origin & early years of the Masters make for a fascinating story. In The Making of the Masters" award-winning golf writer David Barrett focuses his attention on how the Masters was conceived how it got off the ground in 1934 & how it fully established itself in 1935. The key figure in the tournaments creation & ultimate success was Bobby Jones who was a living legend after winning the Grand Slam in 1930 & immediately retiring at the age of 28. He went on to found Augusta National & sought a high-profile tournament for his new course. But nearly as important was Clifford Roberts a banker friend of Jones who not only embraced Jones vision but became his right-hand man in working to bring that vision to reality. In " The Making of the Masters" Barrett explores Jones & Roberts built the Masters from scratch to the point where it quickly became a golf institution embellished by the often surprising details of what that entailed as they were trying to establish a golf club & golf tournament in tough economic times. It also vividly chronicles the events of the 1934 & 1935 Masters with Gene Sarazens spectacular victory in 1935 providing the climax. Set against the backdrop of golf & America in the 1930s the book provides an interesting informative & entertaining read for fans of the Masters & students of golf history." ...

This exciting new book in the Making the most of series shows the value of outdoor as well as indoor learning environments ...

A food processor can be one of the most useful appliances in your kitchen if you know how to make the most of it. This book will show you how to do just that whatever your level of culinary skills & however short of time you are. With a simple food processor on-side you can whiz up soups & spreads & purees & all kinds of savoury treats. A simple food processor will give you another level of expertise as a home-baker. Light sponge cakes & melt-in-the-mouth pastry & biscuits which you might have thought too difficult to attempt before are now within your reach. This book will enable cooks to make the most out of their food processor rather than it become an expensive dust collector on the kitchen counter. ...

The transition from primary to secondary school is a time of great anxiety for most children. For children with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) this anxiety can be overwhelming. Fear of the unknown difficulty coping with monumental changes & the inability to imagine a favourable outcome can all combine to make this unavoidable step in school life a time of great fear & dread. This book provides guidance for schools & parents on how to make the transfer from primary to secondary as easy as possible for children with ASDs. The book advocates the need for scrupulous preparation of transfer arrangements because children with ASDs struggle to predict the outcome of any new situation. No matter how much discussion has taken place it is only when the situation has been experienced first hand that they will have a real understanding of it & be able to build up a real life memory bank (RLMB). The authors advice aims to ensure that any preparations lead to a favourable outcome in order to build a positive RLMB. The book outlines term by term preparation in the final years of primary school &

Includes:: photocopiable resources & a Moving to Secondary School" booklet. As most children with ASDs are visual learners & think in pictures the booklet uses symbols to aid understanding. " Making the Move" provides a wealth of effective strategies & resources that will encourage & inspire greater confidence for pupils with ASDs parents & schools."

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Building electronic projects that interact with the physical world is good fun. But when the devices youve built start to talk to each other things really get interesting. The workbenches of hobbyists hackers & makers have become overrun with microcontrollers -- computers-on-a-chip that power homebrewed video games robots toys & more. In Making Things Talk author Tom Igoe shows how to make these gadgets communicate. Whether you need to plug some home sensors to the Internet or create a device that can interact wirelessly with other creations this book shows you exactly what you need. The projects in this book are powerful yet inexpensive to build. Youll become familiar with the Arduino open source electronics prototyping platform as well as networking hardware such as Ethernet Wi-Fi Zigbee & Bluetooth. Get instructions for more than two-dozen simple projects & then customize them with your own designs. * Get an overview of the key concepts you need to work with microcontrollers including basic electronics programming & networking concepts * Make your own game controllers that communicate over a network * Use Zig Bee Bluetooth Infrared & plain old radio to transmit sensor data wirelessly * Write programs to send data across the Internet based on physical activity in your home office or backyard ...

This is a sharp focused & brilliant survey of the innovative filmmaking of the 1960s. The 1960s was famously the decade of sex drugs & rock n roll. It was also a decade of revolution & counter-revolution of the Cuban missile crisis American intervention in Vietnam of economic booms & the beginning of consumerism (and the rebellion against it). It was a decade in which the avant-garde came out of the closet & into the street expressing itself on album covers & posters as much as in galleries. & it was a decade in which the old popular art
- crooners & show bands Hollywood musicals & melodramas
- seemed destined to be swept away by the tide of novelty emerging across the world. The cinema was central to this atmosphere of cultural ferment. Hollywood was in decline both artistically & commercially. The genres which had held audiences captive in the 1940s & 50s
- musicals Westerns melodramas
- were losing their appeal & their great practitioners were approaching retirement. The scene was therefore set for new cinemas to emerge to attract the young the discriminating the politically conscious & the sexually emancipated. The innovative features of the new cinemas were not the same everywhere. Common to most of them however were a political & aesthetic radicalism & a break with the traditions of studio filmmaking & its cult of perfect illusion. Making Waves" is a sharp focused & brilliant survey of the innovative filmmaking of the 1960s placing it in its political economic cultural & aesthetic context
- capturing the distinctiveness of a decade which was great for the cinema & for the world at large. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith pays particular attention to a handful of the most remarkable talents (Godard Antonioni Bunuel) that emerged during the period & helped to make it so special."




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Discover the traditions behind making wines nectars & cordials & how easy it is to make them in your own home. As the environmentally friendly lifestyle becomes increasing popular what better way to celebrate your self-sufficient successes than with a glass of home-made wine? In Making Wines Nectars & Cordials self-sufficiency expert Beshlie Grimes provides 100 recipes & variations for everything from a classic lemonade through to apple wine sloe gin & rhubarb liqueur all of which use up those extra fruits & vegetables you have grown in the garden. Divided into five chapters start by learning the basic techniques you will need to produce your own drinks. Next comes Wines which covers traditional fruit wines made from strawberries ginger & more. The Nectars & Cordials chapter has recipes using passion fruit pears & raspberries plus interesting additions like rosemary lovage & angelica. In Lemonades there are ideas for perennial favourites such as limeade & pink lemonade all the perfect accompaniments to a summer picnic. Finally in Liqueurs & Spirits you will find classic recipes for fruit liqueurs & digestifs including blackberry whiskey & lemon liqueur. Whether your preference is for an indulgent rose petal liqueur a refreshing strawberry & mint nectar or a celebratory glass of elderflower champagne you are sure to find lots of recipes here to suit your taste buds! ...

In recent years there has been a rapid growth in the popularity of wines of all sorts. & although commercially produced wine has become less expensive it is always a challenge to turn your own hand to reproducing the flavour & quality of commercial wines in your own home using easily-obtained ingredients. Sauternes Hocks Moselles Chianti Madeiras Champagnes & Liqueurs can all be made at home cheaply from easily available ingredients
- are all possible with the help of this book. You can become a wine connoisseur on a shoestring budget! The line illustrations are all based on photographs from the Radio Times Hulton Picture Library.
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This title presents twenty-five bright & lively wire projects made with accessible materials that are designed for broad appeal. Get wrapped up in The Absolute Beginners Guide: Making Wire Jewelry" the fourth book in the successful " Absolute Beginners Guide" series. This user-friendly wireworking primer takes readers through the basics of wire types tools findings & more. Then it's on to progressive fun-to-make projects designed to teach fundamental techniques & build confidence every step of the way. Wireworkers will learn how to open & close jump rings make head pins & earring wires create wire spirals wrap coil & more! Variations for each project give readers the chance to experiment with many techniques. Aspiring wireworkers will learn practice & reinforce skills with a rewarding result: fun wearable wire jewellery." ...

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- Publishers Weekly". If you feel drained & debilitated at work or your work doesnt fulfill your creativity
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