Detailed step-by-step instructions show you how to get the most out of your pasta machine & make the perfect sauce to accompany your meal. One hundred recipes for a variety of pasta dishes feature here
- from pasta carbonara to seafood lasagne & chocolate ribbon pasta.
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Discover the unique joys of pastel painting with this easy-to-use guide to one of the most versatile & forgiving mediums. More than 100 visual sequences reveal key techniques such as mixing blending scumbling sgraffito hatching & feathering. This work

Includes:: advice on composing your painting using colour adding highlights & shadows & creating textured effects. Step-by-step demonstrations show how to approach a range of subjects from landscapes & flowers to portraits & still life.

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Create your own Aromatherapy candles with this easy to follow box set. Contents

Includes:: wax granules essential

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Pastoral is a succinct & up-to-date introductory text to the history major writers & critical issues of this genre. Terry Gifford clarifies the different uses of pastoral covering: * the history of the genre from its classical origins to Elizabethan drama through eighteenth-century pastoral poetry to contemporary American nature writing * the pastoral impulse of retreat & return beginning with constructions of Arcadia & using a combination of close reading of"ed texts cultural studies & eco-criticism * post-pastoral texts with a look at writers who Gifford argues have discovered ways of reconnecting us with our natural environment. ...

One of the most common tasks undertaken by all clergy is ministry to the sick & to the bereaved. This essential & easy to use collection of prayers presents material for the most frequently encountered pastoral occasions in a durable & portable format. It

Includes:: liturgies prayers & readings for: Emergency baptism Prayers for the sick & their families Holy Communion at home or in hospital Reconciliation Prayers with the dying & at the time of a death Prayers for use at home before & after a funeral Simple traditional language liturgies for those suffering from dementia

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Pastworld. A city within a city. A city for excursions & outings. Pastworld is a theme park with a difference where travellers can travel back in time for a brush with an authentic Victorian past. But what if the Jack the Ripper figure stopped play-acting & really started killing people? For Caleb a tourist from the present day his visit goes terribly wrong when his father is kidnapped & he finds himself accused of murder. Then Caleb meets Eva Rose a Pastworld inhabitant who has no idea the modern world exists. Both Caleb & Eva have roles to play in the murderers diabolical plans
- roles that reveal disturbing truths about their origins.
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The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 require any electrical system to be constructed maintained & used in such a manner as to prevent danger. This means that inspection & testing of systems including portable appliances is needed in order to determine if maintenance is required. This book explains in clear language what needs to be done &

Includes:: expert advice on legislation as well as actual testing. The book contains an appendix providing the electrical fundamentals needed by non-specialists & also has sample questions (with answers) for the C&G 2377 exam that anyone who conducts this work is required to take by law. It is an affordable & handy reference for electricians who administer PAT. It is also an ideal refesher & revision guide for the non-specialist such as maintenance staff caretakers & charity shop volunteers who carry out these tasks part-time alongside their many other duties. Brian Scaddan I Eng MIET is a consultant for & an Honorary Member of City & Guilds. He has over 35 years experience in Further Education & training. He is Director of Brian Scaddan Associates Ltd an approved City & Guilds & NICEIC training centre offering courses on all aspects of Electrical Installation Contracting including the C&G 2377 series. He is also a leading author on books on electrical installation. This title is fully up-to-date with the 17th Edition IEE Wiring Regulations the 2008 Code of Practice & the C&G 2377-11 & -12 syllabus. It provides all the necessary information on PAT in a user-friendly manner. It

Includes:: expert advice from an engineering training consultant supported with colour diagrams examples & tables.



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Patagonia has long intrigued many an intrepid traveller particularly the Welsh who flock to this area of South America to trace the footsteps of their ancestors founders of a Welsh speaking colony in the area back in 1865 which still survives to this day. Hollywood actor & Welshman Matthew Rhys is one such traveller. Patagonia is a photographic account of his month-long journey on horseback from the Atlantic to the Andes. His co-riders were all descendants of the 30 Welsh-speakers who had made the same gruelling journey 125 years ago. Evocative black-&-white photography features throughout along with extended captions for each of the 90 images. Penned by Matthew Rhys these provide the reader with first-hand insight into the demands of the trek & an overview of the lives of his fellow travellers. The authors introduction will also provide the journeys historical context & will remind the reader of the pioneering courage of those Welshmen who originally established the Welsh colony in Patagonia. ...

Patagonia: one mans fascinating vision of the present which is ever mindful of the past. Weaving harsh yet beautiful landscapes with faces that are hard to forget around a central presence of Welsh communities & culture on a far continent this is a living memoir of life in Patagonia at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Settlers from Wales famously moved to this corner of Argentina to establish a colony in 1865 & now the fourth & fifth generations carry on the story of a unique chapter in Welsh history. In a trilingual volume of striking photographs Ed Gold shows his talent for recording all aspects of life. Inspired by his interest in Wales & in documenting the lives of people connected to historically important culture he spent two & a half years creating a significant body of work in Patagonia. A selection of the best is seen here. ...

The popular view of birdwatchers (or twitchers) is of people who rush madly from one end of the country to another to tick birds off their lists. But behind the headlines are an army of enthusiasts who do quite the reverse
- they stay devotedly within a small local area their Patch & enthuse & obsess about the birds within it. They are every bit as committed & eccentric as their far-travelling counterparts. A Patch Made in Heaven is the diary of a wildlife-watching year in a single square kilometre of southern Engl&. Written in wryly humorous style it details the birds the animals & the human visitors that turn up & use this tiny parcel of l&. It chronicles the delights disappointments & frustrations that go with dedicated patch-watching & also uncovers all sorts of unusual & unexpected details about what we might think are familiar British creatures. Although the book is set on one particular Patch the real location is not revealed because most of its wildlife & most of its events can be witnessed anywhere by anyone making A Patch Made in Heaven a great celebration of the British countryside & its wildlife.
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