On June 6, 1944, the largest military operation in history got underway in northern France as more than 150,000 Allied troops began the invasion of German-occupied Western Europe. D-Day: The Story of the Greatest Military Operation in History provides bone-chilling detailed information on how Allied Forces got to D-Day through months of meticulous planning for Operation Overlord, the fierce fighting, and the Allied leaders who conceived, shaped, and executed the plan.
Peek inside the life and career of John Wayne, or "The Duke," in this amazingly detailed book, The Story of John Wayne. Read about his humble beginnings, his desire to join the military, be a football pro, and ultimately his rise to stardom in the Wild West movies of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. It features a review of the top 10 Wayne movies for each decade and discusses how he became the star, how he got along with his co-stars and leading ladies. Additionally, included is information about Wayne's political influence and ambitions, his foray onto the small screen, and ultimately with his diagnosis of incurable cancer.
You're finally packed and ready to go on the vacation you've been planning for months. But did you remember to plan for what happens if you get sick or stung abroad? Author Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth is an expert in parasitology, vector ecology, and child health, and she's also traveled around the world to treat the sick. She condenses all her years of medical experience into this incredibly helpful guide that's packed with crucial case histories, advice on immunizations and other precautions to take, tables and maps that match disease risk to countries, tips to protect yourself from insects and worms, and so much more. So before you head to the airport, pack this book along with your first-aid kit and you'll be good to go!
Fun and easy sticker "painting" for little hands, First Fun Sticker Painting: Ocean Creatures includes everything children love about the sea: fish, seashells, an octopus, whale, and more. Each bright and colorful sticker collection has a guide so exacting little ones can create their "paintings" just like the illustration. Stickers help little ones improve their dexterity, learn their colors, and entertain themselves building "paintings" sticker by sticker. This adorable activity book will appeal to toddlers and preschoolers alike. All the pages in the book are perforated for easy removal.
Don't throw your fabric scraps away! Kelly Young will teach you how to make structured improvisational quilts. She starts by blending the old concept of an improv quilt with a newer structured way to do it with tips and techniques on how to get started, how to prepare your fabrics and choose which method you would like to use. Then she offers three ways to organize your quilt: by color, grabbing and sewing, and creating your improv as the background. Perfect for confident beginners and experienced quilters.
Rainbow Quilt Color Method isn't just a collection of 15 beautiful quilts to make, it's also a course study on how to confidently choose fabric for multi-color and monotone designs. Sarah shares her approach to selecting a harmonious palette that achieves design strength through color placement. She then goes on to explain how she uses color saturation and color value to make the same quilt with alternate coloration. Filled with techniques that, in many cases, let the consumers choose their own preferences to achieve their own results, it also includes instruction for basic patchwork, curves, English and foundation paper piecing, and appliqué. Improve your own quilting skills by learning from a master!
Needle felting is a process that uses barbed needles to mash wool fibers together forming a denser material into an endless range of shapes and forms, a great way to make adorable fully dimensional soft sculptures. The Complete Starter Guide to Needle Felting: Enchanted Forest features several favorite beginner needle crafting projects including birds, fairies, unicorns, and many other woodland friends. Learn what needles to use, how to dye custom colors, how to blend colors and shapes, and the materials needed to begin the fulfilling art of needle felting.
The book Proficient Motorcycling, Third Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well is essential reading for all motorcyclists regardless of their years of experience. Author David L. Hough, a revered motorcycle author, columnist, and riding-safety consultant, lays out a clear course for all riders who want to sharpen their handling skills and improve their rides. This third edition has been expanded to include information on getting started riding, general safety, a description of motorcycle gears and types of motorcycles along with equipment that can be added to the bike. Still in full color, this book still offers the sage advice from a riding master on what they need to do to be prepared for anything on the road, how to avoid accidents, and how to handle the unexpected.
Creating bonsai, an ancient art form that encourages meditation and contemplation, can be an intimidating art to start because of its intricate and precise nature. But David Squire's new book, Complete Starter Guide to Bonsai for Beginners, is a gentle but complete beginner's guide to the craft. Starting with the definition of what a real bonsai is, the author discusses the spirit and aesthetics of creating bonsai then continues with the materials needed, how to prune, pinch, water, feed and display your piece. The book also includes a chapter on indoor bonsai and outdoor bonsai, then concludes with a beautiful gallery of bonsai trees. Feel calmer and more focused by learning how to raise bonsai trees.
In the foreword of Planning & Designing Your First Garden: 50 Ways to Add Style for Personal Creativity, P. Allen Smith states, "Helen has outlined 50 ways to add style to express one's personal creativity in the garden--when in fact her 50 will inspire at least 50 more ideas." Rather than force her own creative ideas on you, author, gardener, and horticulturalist, Helen Yoest teaches you how to recognize and act on your own creativity. Sections include Garden Basics, Garden Styles, Garden Elements and Your Garden Environment. Learn about the importance of carving out the perfect space for your needs, how to create rhythm, scale, and balance along with curb appeal to help personalize your space, creating a sustainable garden environment where plants and animals can live together.
Master the art of carving expressive people--with just one knife! Charles Banks, professional carver, longtime instructor, and author of Learn to Whittle Fascinating People in Wood reveals how to take a single blank and turn it into literally hundreds of different characters, both male and female. With illustrated techniques for achieving everything from different hairstyles and facial expressions to painting impressive details without fear, you have everything you need to create showstopping characters with just a knife and a hunk of wood.
As popular as birdhouses are, many are designed with aesthetics in mind, rather than the bird's preferences and needs. Not so for the projects in Making Bird-Friendly Birdhouses. Lifelong birder Melvin "Bird Man Mel" Toellner and pro woodworker Matt Maguire walk you step-by-step through 15+ projects for safe birdhouses that birds find conducive to their natural nesting habitats. Birdhouses include residences for bluebirds, wrens, robins, chickadees, owls, and even a bat house! With additional sections on distribution maps, detailed plans, mounting instructions, and tips on attracting birds to your yard, this book has everything you need to create a successful backyard haven for the winged friends in your life.
Want to learn how to carve a face in wood, but find the process intimidating? Alec LaCasse's Carving Faces in Wood is a comprehensive guide for everything you need to start. Featuring high-quality illustrations that break down each step to wood carving faces, Carving Faces in Wood synthesizes a lifelong carver's tips to shorten your learning curve. To many, producing carved wood faces is daunting. No longer. With Carving Faces in Wood, you'll have everything you need to carve out elegant, beautiful, natural-looking faces--even if you're just starting out!
Learn Your ABCs Flip Book features 3 different beautifully illustrated alphabets showcasing animals and children forming each letter of the alphabet. Each letter of the alphabet can be flipped to show the same letter at the same time or different combinations of letters that will form over 1,000 different words. Bound with a child safe plastic binding, printed on extra thick paper with a backer card will hold up to hours and hours or learning fun.
Based on the award-winning The Paper Girls ShowT that promotes the "maker" mindset to imagine, design and create solutions to overcome daily challenges, Paper Girls Show Origami Craft Book for Kids introduces beginner origami and paper crafts to young readers while simultaneously teaching valuable lessons. This special edition comes complete with 100 paper folding sheets, stickers and detailed step-by-step instructions for 20 super fun paper folding projects. Each project correlates to a Paper Girls Show episode that can be found viewed by scanning a QR code link right in the book.
Despite their best efforts to scare all who meet them, these super silly monster creations from author and artist Marie Browning will end up making kids laugh and smile as they go from page to page in this engaging monster coloring book. This super fun filled activity and coloring book for kids features monster themed coloring pages, word search puzzles, how to draw your own monster activities, seek and find puzzles, word games, all wonderfully themed around positive messages and lessons for young kids that parents will appreciate. Super silly monster stickers also included!
A cuddly toy that you can hardly wrap your arms around because it's so huge and huggable: that's what every child wants! Huggable Amigurumi: Crocheting Teddy Bears and Other Cute, Cuddly Friends contains detailed and easy-to-follow instructions for 14 extra-extra-large crocheted animals--from the funny floppy-eared rabbit to the waddling penguin to the giant teddy bear, kids will have so much fun cuddling their new amigurumi friends. By using a particularly thick crochet yarn, the animals, which are more than three feet tall, don't take much more time to crochet than normal-sized cuddly toys. In addition, the Nordic pastel colors blend wonderfully into every home, so that the big cuddly friends are not only a real eye-catcher in the children's room, but also on the living room sofa.
Aspiring and experienced seamstresses or seamsters in their now have their ultimate guide to sewing. Sewing Workshop for Young Makers features 40 awesome patterns for young people who enjoy sewing including a charm bag, a tied headband, braided bracelets, a cactus cushion, a retro purse, message banners, a maxi sweatshirt and more! Each creation can be made on a sewing machine by following the super simple instructions that are accompanied by illustrated steps and diagrams. In a world where it is increasingly important to be frugal, instead of buying their next wardrobe, kids can now make their own!
Quilters inevitably have short lengths of full fabric widths as well as smaller leftover pieces from creating countless projects. The beauty is those scrap pieces can be tamed for re-use but are often thrown aside into a growing pile of unorganized leftovers. When scraps are methodically organized and stored, quilters are rewarded with more time to spend on designing and quilting verses spending hours searching for the perfect scraps. SusanClaire walks quilters through setting up a pantry, piece by piece, and also what to do with larger fabric yardage stacks up. Includes QR codes to videos from the author demonstrating her highly efficient organization method created exclusively for quilters!
"Pattern designer, teacher, and presenter Sherilyn Mortensen shares her experience and passion for free-motion quilting in the Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Free-Motion Quilting. In this go-to resource, Sherilyn shows off over 150 quilting designs with easy-to-follow guides that can be applied to traditional and modern quilts. The guide details the required tools and materials, tips and techniques, and 12 quilt block projects that each show off three ways to apply quilting designs to the same pattern. Whether you are looking to learn the art of quilting or seeking inspiration, you are sure to find it in the Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Free-Motion Quilting"--
Complete Guide to Natural Home Remedies is a comprehensive guide including 100+ recipes and nearly 70 applications to understanding those herbs and oils to help the mind, body and soul. Herbal remedies include everything from teas to ointments to tonics and tinctures. They help with ailments such as bug bites and stings, food poisoning, insomnia, shingles, sore throat, acne, arthritis and so much more! With the recipes and their uses in the forefront this book is the go-to guide for home remedies.
Complete Guide to Growing and Cultivating Herbs and Spices is a must-have book for all garden aficionados. It's packed with practical information for propagating, growing, using, and preserving herbs and spices in large or small spaces to help make you more self-sufficient. Author Linda Gray emphasizes clay pot and container gardening for small spaces. Each plant profile contains growing advice for each herb or spice including how to prepare the soil, when to sow and plant, when to harvest and gather, and how to use each herb and spice in food. Herbs include aloe vera, basil, bay leaves, lavender, lemon balm, lovage, and more! Spices include caraway, chili peppers, garlic, horse radish mustard, poppies, saffron and others! Be inspired to create new culinary delights with herb and spice infused recipes, complete with beautiful full-color photography. Become more self-sufficient and one with nature when you grow and cultivate your own herbs and spices.
Make anyone look twice, maybe three times, to see if it is a photo or a colored pencil drawing. Photorealistic Colored Pencil Drawing Workbook: Learn Essential Techniques through 16 Projects explains step-by-step how to achieve super realistic results. Over 550 photos will guide you through several technique building projects teaching you how to achieve great results from colored pencils. Learn how to draw different textures from the smooths surface of a grape and apple to the super fine fur texture of a cat or scales of a snake. Tips on blending, selecting colors, with specific focus on how to draw eyes.
Time to Rejoice Coloring Book features inspirational scenes and designs showcasing today's most popular Hymns including Amazing Grace, How Great Thou Art, Doxology in additional to the most recognized and often quoted Bible verses including Corinthians 12:9, John 3:16 and Philippians 4:13. Each page is perforated for easy removal, printed on acid free archival paper.
Enjoy coloring the beautiful flora and fauna of our world including tigers, lions, and leopards; birds, butterflies and beetles; and jellyfish, crabs and seahorses. With tips on coloring techniques and a gallery of completed examples, Animal Kingdom Mandalas Coloring Book: Magnificent Creatures Great and Small will breathe new life into your coloring practice. Designs are printed on acid-free museum quality paper with perforated edges, and the back side of each majestic mandala image has an inspirational quote about animals and the world in which we live.
Kawaii art style is the Japanese artistic and cultural style that emphasizes cuteness, uses bright colors, simple designs and characters with a child-like appearance. Artist Dani Banani shares her super cute Kawaii style mandala designs--true celebration of all that is good in the world--from ice cream, mushrooms and candy to the whimsical happy world of gnomes, sloths and narwhals, in black and white so you can fill in your own bright colors with joy and happiness as you enter the world of intricate but super cute and simple Kawaii designs.
How to Make Backyard Fairy Garden Accessories is a fun and approachable guide to creating adorable little outdoor accessories for your fairy garden including fairy doors, benches, window, chairs and tables Authors Anna-Marie and Andrew Fahmy combine their two passions, the outdoors and nature crafts, providing step-by-step instruction for creating welcoming whimsical fairy-themed spaces for your garden, small yard space or even a container. Over 20 projects are beginner friendly with only one requirement -- bring your imagination. Also included is an inspirational gallery of fairy gardens, houses and hand-made accessories!
Although truck efficiency and performance are priorities for operators and drivers, their pride in their vehicles shows itself in the way that so many are customised and decorated. Ferdy De Martin & Xavier Stefaniak have selected 29 examples of currently working trucks whose decoration is an art form, ranging from the delicate and subtle to transport rococo - a phantasmagoria of images in bright colours. The imaginative designs, high standard of craftsmanship and superb finish create unique vehicles that are immediately recognisable and attract devoted followers. Over 250 fantastic photographs are accompanied by concise captions that are both enthusiastic and illuminating; the authors do full justice to the trucks. The text is in English with synopses in French, and each truck is presented with a number of photographs to show off both the overall designs as well as the details of exteriors and interiors. This is a truly international selection of machines, with eighteen of the twenty-nine trucks featured from Europe, eight from North America and three from the UK. Original manufacturers include Volvo, Scania, Mercedes and Peterbilt.
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