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." ...

A perceptive guide
- Publishers Weekly". If you feel drained & debilitated at work or your work doesnt fulfill your creativity
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An unputdownable novel from bestselling author Jill Mansell with plenty of laughs & romance along the way. Lottie Carlyle isn't looking for love when she meets her new boss Tyler Klein. Living in a beautiful cottage with her two adorable
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- kids in an idyllic village in the Cotswolds on good terms with her ex-husband & with friends all around she's happy enough with her lot. But Tyler's perfect for Lottie & quickly she falls for him
- & he for her. Unfortunately there's a problem. For reasons that are totally unfair Lottie's children HATE Tyler. When a rival for Lottie's affections comes on the scene in the shape of charmer Seb the children adore him & he's certainly a distraction. But he's not Tyler
- & he's not even at all what he seems. Lottie's got a problem
- but thanks in classic Jill Mansell style to a tobogganing accident & a delicious series of mix-ups all will be revealed & true love will find a way.




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' Not everyone can keep a cow but everyone can make cheese.' This book shows you the very basic equipment needed to make your own cheese: the ingredients including different milks herbs & flavours; how to make a simple cheese; & how to produce some of the worlds speciality cheeses such as Roquefort Brie & Edam. You will find recipes for making many cheeses at home. Whether you are making a cheese cake a ricotta-based pudding or a stonking salty blue this book is a cheese lover's guide to making their own favourite food
- & there are some recipes for the biscuits to go with it too.
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This is an inspirational self-improvement guide from a leader in personal & organizational accountability. Every day we are faced with decisions from the moment we wake up until the moment we go to bed. Decisions about our families our business our futures. We are accountable for making decision big & small the cast the paths of our lives. So why do we spend so much time finger-pointing & blaming others? Mark Samuel is a master of accountability. In his book teaches us how to go from victim to accountable & how to actually do what we say we are going to do. Taking ownership of the power of personal choice regardless of the obstacles means not only walking the talk but knowing what talk you are going to walk. Faced with fear of blame fear of failure & fear of success Samuel provides inspiration & strategy for impacting the world by achieving your goals. One of Samuels main arguments in owning accountability is recognizing your current reality. He challenges readers to embrace certain tools" that can place us in the right frame of mind to accept responsibility & accomplish all of our set goals both individually & as team members including: Compassion: in taking accountability also creating solutions that consider the welfare of all parties involved & for the entire organization in general. Openness: let each member of the team regardless of rank have a chance to speak up & share their perspective in problem-solving; Sincerity: acknowledge the current reality with honesty yet without judgment. Call it what it is without criticizing at this stage. From identifying the common roadblocks to accountability to focusing on the factor of forgiveness in taking responsibility Samuel shows readers how to effectively stop the cycle of victimhood & blaming & shows us how to engage in the "accountability loop " a process of pragmatic self-examination recognition & owning & action. Using examples from the worlds of business sports parables & his own life story Samuel highly-praised accountability lessons are now available for anyone to learn from." ...

Malagasy the national language of Madagascar has over 10 million speakers. This dictionary & phrasebook provides the traveller to this beautiful island with the means for basic communication as well as an introduction to the country's culture. The compact guide

Includes:: a two-way bilingual dictionary with over 2 000 entries & a phrasebook containing all of the essential topics from introductions & common phrases to accommodations food & drink weather & health among many others.

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Brook High is a great grey concrete ants' nest of a school. John Malarkey is the new kid thrown in at the deep end of Year 11. He's the wrong person in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through what at first appears to be a random meeting he helps a girl called Mary Chase out of a tricky situation but is subsequently accused of stealing report cards to sell to students so they can write their own bogus reports. He quickly realises it was all a set-up & that he's been used to take the fall. The teacher who accuses him of the crime gives him one day to prove his innocence. Malarkey tries to track down Mary Chase but it's difficult in such a huge place. He does however discover strange goings-on beneath the surface of the normal school day. The more questions he asks the deeper he becomes involved in the corrupt under-belly of the school. He's also noticed the peculiar fact that so many kids at Brook wear Adidas trainers
- black with the three white stripes. He realises that these are the badge of membership worn by those involved in the school's 'mafia'. He discovers that the name of the organisation's leader is Freddie Cloth & Mary Chase turns out to be Cloth's girlfriend. Malarkey is soon noticed for asking so many questions & receives warnings & then threats to back down. But with time quickly running out for him he still has to prove his innocence. & the only way to do this is to get to Freddie Cloth.
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Theres more to Malawi than its lake. This fifth edition of the Bradt guide explores the countrys rolling plateaux & massifs & its five national parks & four game reserves. Adventurers meanwhile can discover how to kayak off Cape Maclear hike up Mount Mulanje or cross the wildlife-rich Nyika Plateau on horseback. The book covers the countrys dynamic music scene & uncovers little-visited gems such as Dedza & Elephant Marsh. & if visitors must find a luxury lodge on Lake Malawis palm-fringed shore on whose deck to sip their sundowners
- well this book tells them how to pull that off too. An invaluable guide for visitors to this most explorable affordable & tranquil of African countries whose low-key charm most visitors find thoroughly addictive Bradts Malawi" provides readers with advice on planning their itinerary wildlife & bird species identification conservation areas national parks & a detailed history of the country."
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Flat on your back on the hotel bed you ponder the arrow on the ceiling. Does it point past the minarets to the babbling pasar malam " fragrant with fruit & loud with language? Will it lead you to the shadowy artists of "wayang kulit " or to your guide through underwater paradise? Does it prophesy a meeting with orang-utans in the unrivalled jungle beauty of Borneo? If you meet them what on this lonely planet will you say? Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical & social words & phrases in more than 120 languages. Chat with the locals & discover their culture
- a guaranteed way to enrich your travel experience."
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An intrepid explorer who earned his living by collecting bird skins Wallace also catalogued the vast number of plant & animal species that inhabited this unique geographical area. In addition he

Includes:: numerous observations on the people their languages & ways of living & social organisation as well as geological insights into the nature & activity of volcanoes & the destructive force of nature. Colourful personal anecdotes based on experiences during his travels also pepper the text. First published in 1869 The Malay Archipelago provided some of the initial evidence of the modern theory of evolution. Discursive captivating occasionally offensive but always wonderfully descriptive it remains one of the most extensive works of natural history ever compiled. ABOUT STANFORDS TRAVEL CLASSICS Hailing from both sides of the Atlantic the authors included are as diverse as Edith Wharton Henry James Ernest Shackleton & Alfred Russel Wallace. Every title has been reset in a contemporary typeface & has been printed to a high-quality production

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