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This is a fascinating & superbly illustrated look into the amazing world of steampunk. From a fantasy fiction genre steampunk has grown into a broad pop culture aesthetic with its own art fashion home decor music & events. Influenced by 19th-century steam-age industrial imagery the Wild West & science fiction followers modify modern objects such as computers to resemble path-not-taken" machines & filter fashion through a Victorian lens. The latest technologies are mixed with period styling to create a romantic neo-Victorian sepia-toned universe. " The Steampunk Gazette" chronicles this burgeoning international subculture with an illustrated newspaper-style design that reflects the vintage aesthetic. Reports from the forefront of the steampunk movement & a high percentage of specially commissioned photographs make the book a unique record of this diverse & influential movement. Steampunks current influences on fashion design television drama & film will be evident from these pages." ...

Learn to infuse the popular Steampunk style into your wardrobe. Offers do it yourself-ers & crafters an easy & comprehensive step-by-step guide to capturing a steampunk aesthetic in their fashions. Included are projects for steampunk jewelry accessories & clothing. Learn to infuse the popular Steampunk style into your wardrobe with easy & inexpensive techniques for garments & accessories. Steampunk your Wardrobe offers do it yourself-ers & crafters an easy & comprehensive step-by-step guide to capturing a steampunk aesthetic in their fashions. Start with simple easy to do projects such as embellishing clothing you may already have & proceed to more complicated alterations. Included are projects for steampunk jewelry accessories & clothing. ...

This is a reissue of the first major YA steampunk anthology; fourteen top storytellers push the genres mix of sci-fi fantasy history & adventure in fascinating new directions. Imagine an alternate universe where romance & technology reign. Where tinkerers & dreamers craft & re-craft a world of automatons clockworks calculating machines & other marvels that never were. Here fourteen masters of speculative fiction including two graphic storytellers embrace the steampunk genres established themes & refashion them in surprising ways & settings as diverse as Appalachia Ancient Rome future Australia & alternate California. The result is an anthology that defies its genre even as it defines it. This is the first YA anthology to focus exclusively on steampunk; genre defining & genre defying
- with steampunk settings as diverse as Canada New Zealand Wales Ancient Rome future Australia & alternate California. This title features a top contributor line-up & editors with established adult/YA/cult following. This title

Includes:: a B-format edition of this first-rate literary sci-fi/fantasy with crossover appeal.


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One city. Two football clubs. One mutually shared hatred... Football rivalry is a common factor anywhere in the world where the sport is played. But some take it far more seriously than others. In Sheffield the traditional capital of Britains steel manufacturing industry there is no greater tribal divide than that between fans of Sheffield United & Sheffield Wednesday. The two clubs supporters berate each other with a venomous passion their long-running feud intense enough to divide families & workplaces from 1889 to the present dat. But why? How does a natural rivalry that in the 1960s saw supporters from both clubs going to Hillsborough Stadium (Wednesdays ground) one week then Bramell Lane (home to United) the next turn to such enmity? In Steel City Rivals authors Cowens (a United suported) & Cronshaw (Wednesday) combine their insider knowledge & fan anecdotes with a dark humour & bitter fascination with football violence. For the struggle for supremacy between red (United) & blue (Wednesday) blade versus owl is absolute. To the people of Sheffield Britains fourth largest city its never just a game. ...

Now in its eleventh edition Steiner & Woods EU Law is rightfully regarded as one of the best & most trusted EU law textbooks available. The book

Includes:: a well-balanced range of topics for students taking undergraduate courses on EU law. It offers a careful blend of institutional & substantive coverage & focuses on explaining the law clearly for an undergraduate readership as well as raising areas for debate. The end of chapter further reading lists highlight where to go for more in-depth research & flowcharts help to visually represent the workings of the EU to give a clear understanding of these processes. Online Resource Centre The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre offering teaching & learning support including a customisable test bank of multiple choice questions & answers electronic copies of the figures from the book for use in lectures & as handouts as well as links to student resources including a glossary web links interactive map of Europe & a timeline showing major events in the development of the EU.

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Stella the Star Fairy is all in a flutter trying to put the sparkle into Christmas. Stella looks after all the special Christmas lights
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The Sten submachine gun
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Make beautiful stenciled designs in a few simple steps. Stencil Art" comes with four plastic stencil sheets containing a wide range of stencils from aliens to ladybirds to abstract shapes plus a vibrant 8-colour ink pad & 8 colour-coded foam-tipped dabbers. The book contains child-friendly instructions tips & technique hints plus loads of photos & artwork to inspire." ...

Hannah Kirk & Alice Moran have been friends since childhood. Growing up in the backstreets of historic Chester at the beginning of the 1900s they are used to supporting each other when family life gets tough... Tom apart through circumstance will the two girls ever be free of the weight of the past or will the years of guilt & pain that now separate their lives become too much of an obstacle to overcome? ...