This new photographic guide is the first book to cover the Japanese avifauna in English for over 25 years, and the first photo guide to the country in English. It also includes the birds of neighbouring mainland regions of eastern Asia...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:400
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Margo Annett
ISBN:9780713668216
Now in its third edition, this useful guide outlines the techniques needed to achieve success in the challenging process of getting work. It covers all aspects of casting...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Michael Ball
ISBN:9780713683486
The definitive practical guide for sports participants and recreational exercisers who are keen to achieve a level of flexibility to enhance their performance. Now in colour...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Lynn Huggins-Cooper
ISBN:9780713671094
D&T Workshop is a major new series of information books devised to inspire primary-age children to investigate, design and make a wide range of products using different technologies like levers...more details Format:Hardback Pages:32
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Lynn Huggins-Cooper
ISBN:9780713671117
D&T Workshop is a major new series of information books devised to inspire primary-age children to investigate, design and make a wide range of products using different technologies like levers...more details Format:Hardback Pages:32
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Lynn Huggins-Cooper
ISBN:9780713671148
D&T Workshop is a major new series of information books devised to inspire primary-age children to investigate, design and make a wide range of products using different technologies like levers...more details Format:Hardback Pages:32
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Des Pawson
ISBN:9780713681505
Now in a new larger format, this treasure trove of Des Pawson's personal ropecraft recipes contains projects ranging from bellropes, key fobs and fenders to mats...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:96
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Collin PH
ISBN:9780747566342
This new compact dictionary provides clear definitions of over 8,000 terms that nurses and nursing staff will encounter in their everyday work. With definitions written in clear...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
The popular Dictionary of Science and Technologyoffers over 17,000 terms from all aspects of science and technology, including chemistry, physics and biology...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:658
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Gabrielle Zevin
ISBN:9780713678871
How do you describe Elsewhere? A novel so astoundingly original and carefully crafted that its complexities become common place and the common place resounds with poetry? In this delightful novel death is a beginning...more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
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Jennifer Donnelly
ISBN:9780713678888
When Mattie Gokey is given a bundle of letters to burn she fully intends to execute the wishes of the giver, Grace Brown. When Grace Brown is found drowned the next day in Big Moose Lake...more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
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Peter Schweer
ISBN:9780713675702
This practical guide is for owners and crew sailing all types of boats from dinghies to offshore cruisers with either masthead or fractional rigs. It explains what sail trim is all about...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:128
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Kaye Umansky
ISBN:9780713684162
Following his star turn in I am a Tree Tim is back for more comic fun. This time he's spending half term cleaning cars, and screaming toddlers have taken over his home. He's not happy. Luckily his friend Flora is on hand to help out and have a joke with. Things start to look up. Until...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:96
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Keith Johnstone
ISBN:9780713687019
A leading figure in the theatre, Keith Johnstone lays bare his techniques and exercises to foster spontaneity and narrative skill for actors. These techniques and exercises were evolved in the actors' studio...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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John Guy
ISBN:9781851775095
This innovative book, illustrated with the V&A's unrivalled collection of South-Asian sculpture, looks at Indian temple sculpture in context...more details Format:Hardback Pages:192
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Anna Jackson
ISBN:9781851773176
This lavishly illustrated volume presents highlights from the V&A's extensive collection of Japanese textiles and dress, which is one of the finest in the West. Ranging from sumptuous embroidered kimonos and woven actors' robes to the indigo-dyed textiles of rural Japan...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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Cyrus L Day revised by Colin Jarman
ISBN:9780713677485
Knots & Splices is the bestselling truly pocket-sized book on rope and wire work, splices, and all types of knots, and has been continuously in print for almost 50 years. It has become the basic handbook showing how to tie the most useful and indispensable knots...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:64
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A&C Black
ISBN:9780713685497
The Know the Game Skills series is the perfect introduction to a sport for every budding player. Each book aims to teach young players the basic skills they need to start enjoying their sport - by giving plenty of simple practice drills and showing how the star players do it...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:32
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A&C Black
ISBN:9780713685596
The Know the Game Skills series is the perfect introduction to a sport for every budding player. Each book aims to teach young players the basic skills they need to start enjoying their sport - by giving plenty of simple practice drills and showing how the star players do it...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:32
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A&C Black
ISBN:9780713685480
The Know the Game Skills series is the perfect introduction to a sport for every budding player. Each book aims to teach young players the basic skills they need to start enjoying their sport - by giving plenty of simple practice drills and showing how the star players do it...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:32
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Marjorie Trusted
ISBN:9781851775071
Based on the impressive collections at the V&A, this is an accessible and useful guide to the different materials and techniques used in sculpture. Working techniques are looked at in detail...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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Claire Wilcox and Valerie Mendes
ISBN:9781851770328
The creative genius of couturiers from Balenciaga and Balmain to Vivienne Westwood and Yuki is explored through the details of their work, which are arranged in seven sections: seams; gathers; tucks and pleats; collars...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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Linda Rudkin
ISBN:9780713679557
This book is part of the popular Textile Handbook series and is a complete how-to-do-it guide to obtaining a wide range of colours from natural dyes...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:114
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Sonnet Stanfill
ISBN:9781851774999
Focusing on up-and-coming designers and their contributions to the changing fashion industry in the vibrant climate of New York city, New York Fashion explores the city's importance as a fashion capital in the 21st century...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:128
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Lucy Johnston
ISBN:9781851774395
A glorious companion volume to Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries and Modern Fashion in Detail, this book captures the opulence and variety of nineteenth-century fashion through an authoritative text...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
Nuno Feltis an innovative process that combines handmade felt with beautiful woven fabrics. In this book, the author Liz Clay gives clear instructions about how the nuno process works and demonstrates how it can be used on various fabrics and fibres to create very different and beautiful results...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:128
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Jennifer Wearden
ISBN:9781851774104
Oriental Carpets have always been prized in the West as luxury items, and this is a stunning showcase of 100 of the greatest oriental carpets in the V&A...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:144
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Laurie Britton Newell
ISBN:9781851775248
This is a unique look at a group of international artists who place craft at the heart of their practice, transforming everyday subjects and ordinary materials into works that are out of the ordinary. The book features unusual works including the ephemeral ice and chocolate jewellery of Naomi Filmer...more details Format:Paperback Pages:143
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Paul Elvstrom
ISBN:9780713672275
The 15th edition of this bestselling pocket reference for racers has been completely revised to cover the new rules for 2005-2008. It includes the full text of the new racing rules and provides a careful analysis of each rule and the situations likely to be met with in a race...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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McCreight Tim
ISBN:9780713687576
Precious metal clay is a synthetic material developed by Mitsubishi that is increasingly becoming popular with both jewellers and potters. Silver is held in a clay-like suspension. The material can be shaped or attached to other materials as required. When the material is fired...more details Format:Spiral bound Pages:128
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Peter Clothier
ISBN:9780713674903
The aim of this book is to give the beginner a broad basic knowledge of how to sculpt in wood. Step-by-step photos illustrate how to go about it...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:128
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Sasha Wardell
ISBN:9780713676723
In the past, slipcasting was primarily considered an industrial method. Today, however, ceramic artists are adapting its techniques to create a wide range of beautiful and highly individual pieces...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:144
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Potteries Museum
ISBN:9780713678208
Slipware has been the predominant type of ceramics in Britain for the last half century and this work has influence subsequent work in North America and Australia...more details Format:Hardback Pages:192
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Louis Sacher
ISBN:9780713678864
A brilliant, fast-paced adventure story with a vibrant cast of characters, about a teenage boy trying to turn his life around. From the author of the international bestseller Holes.
Upon returning to Austin...more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
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Sally Grindley
ISBN:9780713678857
When her father dies, leaving Lu Si-Yan's family in poverty, her uncle decides to sell her. Lu Si-Yan is eleven, and regarded as 'spilled water' - a waste. From her idyllic home in the Chinese countryside to the smog-wrapped factories of the big city...more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
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Anthony J Blazevich
ISBN:9780713678710
For coaches, athletes and students of biomechanics, Sports Biomechanics: the basics answers real-world questions in sports using easily comprehensible language and clear and concise diagrams...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:212
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Christer Rolf
ISBN:9780713679502
A practical handbook on diagnosis and management of common sports injuries, this handbook is written for GPs, physiotherapists and sports therapists to tailor diagnosis and suggested therapy...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Frank W Dick
ISBN:9780713682786
Written by world renowned coach and President of the European Athletics Coaches Association, Frank Dick, Sports Training Principles is the ultimate reference on training theory and practice for all coaches responsible for developing athletes to fulfill their performance potential...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:387
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Teresa Searle
ISBN:9780713686432
Discover how to combine scraps of silk with vintage fabrics, buttons and a range of inexpensive haberdashery items to create one-off jewellery pieces. Designs include simple accessories...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:128
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Margo Singer
ISBN:9780713669534
A practical look at ways of decorating materials such as silk and velvet by the use of ikat, direct painting, spraying dye, dip dyeing and transfer dyeing. Begins with a brief history of various materials and then covers all the practical requirements and techniques for the surface decoration...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:128
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Matt Lawrence
ISBN:9780713683479
A new edition of the definitive 'core stability' training handbook for fitness leaders and other fitness professionals and enthusiasts in an 'all you need to know' format.
'Core Stability' is a relatively new concept...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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Tim Paine
ISBN:9780713685794
A new edition of the comprehensive, practical handbook for students of sports therapy and anyone wanting a performance advantage. The Complete Guide to Sports Massage has been fully updated...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:192
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Claire Wilcox
ISBN:9781851774050
Vivienne Westwood is a global icon whose career has spanned three decades from the early days of punk to the successful establishment of her own fashion-house. The first ever Vivienne Westwood retrospective...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Terry Deary
ISBN:9780713682205
750 BC. The boys at school are excited. The Olympic Games are coming to the city. They may be too young to compete, but their teacher suggests the school should have its own games. Of course...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:64