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"Blend a love of collage with a love of quilting, and you get beautifully collaged quilts dedicated to preserving a moment of time in your life. Use your memories, photos, or other images to create captivating pieces of art that you can hang on a wall, wear, or give as a gift. Internationally known author Jane Haworth guides you through the process in a very straightforward and approachable way and includes a beautiful gallery of not only her own...
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"Patty Lyons is an expert in all things knitting related - she will help you sort out your gauge, unpick problems like twisted stitches and generally spruce up your knitting know-how in this pocket-sized reference book packed full of her purls' of wisdom. Patty is a well-known knitting 'agony aunt' and she will hold your hand as you tackle the problems that often beset knitters and get in the way of beautiful finished projects. This handy guide will...
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Intarsia Woodworking Made Easy is a skill-building compendium of useful tips, techniques, and projects that will take your intarsia woodworking skills to the next level! Opening with beginner-friendly overviews on blade selection, wood preparation, the stages of shaping, applying a finish, budget-friendly tips, and more, this complete guide then presents 11 step-by-step projects and intarsia patterns that range in difficulty, from a simple succulent...
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"Floral Embroidery reawakens the age-old practice of embroidery, giving to it a new and modern twist. In this book, you will find 10 embroidery patterns that weave together stunning colors, ancient stitches, and florals picked from your grandmother's garden. From simple patterns, to more complex and intricate pieces, your creativity will grow and flourish. You will learn to stitch dusty pink roses, leaves and stems that will trail to the edges of...
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The author guides you through the process of setting up your property (no matter how small or large), establishing a garden, welcoming animals into the fold, living more resourcefully, and expanding your homestead kitchen tools and skills with grace and confidence. Iincludes chapters on raising chickens, animal husbandry, growing a garden, home dairy production, bee keeping, resourceful living and homestead kitchen skills.
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"Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies offers 5 books in 1 and takes the pain out of wading through those incomprehensible manuals, or waiting for a high-priced geek to show up days or weeks after you need them. Arming you with everything you need to get that pesky PC working for you ASAP, this handy guide walks you through all the steps to restoring whatever's making your PC go rogue ?so you can get back to making it work for...
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"Written and illustrated by Yasmina Mattson of Yasmina Creates, You Can Draw Cute Animals features her beginner-friendly, three-step drawing method: observation, simplification, and exaggeration using simple shapes and refining and adding details." -- Back cover.
"You Can Draw Cute Animals shows easy ways to draw adorable animals such as foxes, monkeys, cats, hedgehogs, owls, seals, snails, and more, using enjoyable techniques that guarantee cuteness...
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"In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realization: their rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving scores of animal species to extinction. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the history of the movement to protect and conserve other forms of life. From early battles to save charismatic species such as the American bison and bald eagle to today's global effort...
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"Humans have spent so much of our history drawing a hard line between human spaces and wild places. When animals pop up where we don't expect or want them, we respond with fear, rage, or simple annoyance. It's no longer an animal. It's a pest. At the intersection of science, history, and narrative journalism, Pests is a story about human nature, and how we categorize the animals in our midst. Bethany Brookshire's deeply researched and entirely entertaining...
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Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We have worshipped birds as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves with their feathers, studied their wings to engineer flight, and, more recently, attempted to protect them. In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on a dazzling epic journey through our...
14) The state must provide: why America's colleges have always been unequal--and how to set them right
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Presents a definitive chronicle of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher education, weaving through the legal, social, and political obstacles erected to block equitable education in the United States.
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"Parenting for Liberation: A Guide for Raising Black Children is Trina Greene Browne's debut nonfiction work, and addresses the subject of how to raise Black children in a world of systemic racism, violence, and inequality. Pairing personal stories with open-ended prompts for reflection, this book serves as a support for people seeking to root their parenting techniques in practices of liberation"--
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"Building and retaining physical strength is integral to living a fuller, longer life. Lifting weights can reduce the symptoms of everything from osteoarthritis and back pain to depression and diabetes. In Strength Training for Seniors, certified personal trainer Paige Waehner provides a detailed twelve-week strength program to help you safely and gradually build power, balance, and resistance with simple, easy-to-follow exercises"--
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In Creative producing, Carol Baum provides a crash course in the frequently misunderstood producer's role and the many skills needed to survive and thrive in Hollywood. Readers receive a master class in production--from pitching, script development, and packaging, to working with stars, directors, and difficult executives. Enhanced with behind-the-scenes stories from Baum's illustrious career, Creative producing offers an intimate look behind the...
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"When Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a Grammar Table sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. Jovin soon took it on the road, traveling across the US to answer questions from anyone who uses words in this world. Here she tackles what is most on people's minds, grammatically speaking: from the Oxford comma to the places prepositions can...
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Designed for adults with limited learning time, this concise and easy-to-use guide enables language students to grasp the fundamentals of Russian quickly and easily. Focusing on the grammar needed to speak and understand the language, the text emphasizes comprehension rather than memorization of grammatical constructions. Author Brian Kemple uses an efficient and systematic approach to instructing students in the use of all the grammar that's needed...
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"Using FBI documents, Bongino unspools a complex sequence of corruption behind desperate multimillion-dollar plans to stop Trump's re-election. He reveals the outrageous actions of Robert Mueller's investigators, delves into the disturbing presence of Obama's fixer, and shows that the case against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was stoked by a Flynn-fixated paid operative. In the final chapter, Bongino shows how COVID-19 mutated from a killer plague in Wuhan...
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