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Create beautiful, layered paper dioramas with this clever art activity book. With a combination of drawing, colouring and craft skills, children are taken page-by-page through creating four seasonal landscape scenes. The front of the pages contain line illustrations, created by Anouck Boisrobert, to which children can colour in and add detail. On turning the page to view the reverse side, cut lines will become visible, with instructions on which area of the page to cut away. As each page is finished in turn, a layered landscape is slowly created. Flipping back to the first page will reveal the completed seasonal scene in all its glory! The activities will help children develop scissor skills, as well as offering a magical new twist on colouring books.

The Book of Frogs : A Lifesize Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World

Finding the perfect font is tricky, and in an increasingly digital age, the options seem endless. This handy volume takes the mystery out of font selection by displaying the entire alphabet and numerals for 1000 unique typefaces, making it easy for designers—or anyone who works with type—to find the perfect face for any job. An easy-to-understand icon system organizes hundreds of fonts, making searching and cross-referencing easy. And, an additional feature, color photos offer real-world examples of many of the fonts in action, showing how they translate from screen to final layout. Accessible and thorough, 1000 Fonts is an indispensable tool for novice and expert designers alike.

How do you like your tea? An ethereal infusion, the ghost of a scent wafting across your taste buds? Or a mug of traditional brew, so strong that a spoon can stand up in it? We've been drinking tea for thousands of years, yet few of us realize that all tea from elegant lapsang to pungent pu-erhcome from the same source. The taste is down to science: geography, chemistry, and physics, the application of heat and pressure, and the magic of time and enzymes. How to Make Tea lays out the principles for the tea-loving nonscientist; extract the best from every cup.

The bestselling 30-Second series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Every idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words and one image, all digestible in just 30 seconds. 30-Second Wine uses this unique approach to decant the subject for everyone. Compiled by wine experts, not elites, this beginners guide serves up all you need to read the message in the bottle in 50 small sips or rather, a mere 300 words and one picture. Here it shows how to enjoy wine without the waffle, all the way from Appellations of the old world to Zinfandel of the new.

Think like an archaeologist with this fun paper-craft title! Readers are given information about how archaeologists uncover remains, and use secondary sources. They are then given visual and textual clues about the site of a medieval castle, which was the location of a sieged battle. The final part of the book contains the press-out pieces to recreate a paper model of the castle and the historic battle, complete with siege engines and defending and attacking forces. The reader must use their new-found knowledge of how the castle was laid out, and what siege engines looked like to figure out how to piece the paper scene together.

Calligraphy can seem rather daunting, but there’s no need to study for years if you just want to produce beautiful decorative lettering good enough to enhance your gifts and personal stationery. A friendly and approachable how-to guide, everything you need is in Practical Calligraphy.

Spot Will Shakespeare and a selection of colourful characters from ten of his best loved plays! Can you pick out Puck in the magical midsummer night? Will you spy Cecilia hidden in the Forest of Arden? And can you see Shakespeare making a cameo in every scene? First, get to know each play by reading a snappy synopsis of the plot, and meeting the main characters. Next, hunt for the characters, who are hidden in the detailed and beautifully illustrated pictures of the plays’ settings

Watercolour is such a rewarding medium for the artist that it’s well worth mastering – it offers both portability and gorgeous, rich, mutable colours. This is the perfect introduction for anyone who’s thought about painting in watercolour but isn’t sure where to start. Unintimidating and accessible, it will help you to get the pictures in your head onto the page – without losing anything in the translation.

Enjoying cocktails remains a timeless pleasure. With so many classics already on the menu, though, it can be hard to come up with new ideas. 10,000 Cocktails will satisfy anyone’s thirst. Its pages are split into three sections?flick through to select your spirit, browse the bottom section to add your mixers, then add a flourish at the top. With over 10,000 possible cocktails to serve up, whether you combine carefully or prefer to raise spirits with something anarchic, you’re sure to be the toast of any party.

For thousands of years, flags have been used to identify countries and cultures, people and places. Today, the flags of the world can still provide a key to discovering national identity and history of each and every country in the international community. Presented in a neat directory format, this book offers nearly 300 flags, each alongside the story of its provenance and design

This beautiful papercraft title is packed with fun festive things to make and do, from Christmas decorations, to mini-crackers. Every page can be used as the basis of an activity, craft, or game, and all you need is a pair of scissors, some colouring pencils and the odd dab of glue. Illustrated with artist and paper engineer Lydia Crooks delightful artwork, it is a perfect present to keep kids entertained over the holiday period.

A 3-part split page cupcake book. Flip through the bottom section for your cake recipe, the middle section of icing and the top section for decoration.

Who invented photography first, Fox Talbot or Louis Daguerre? Who got the patent? Who made the most money? Who are the greatest photographers and what have their contributions been?This book takes the 50 most important aspects of photography both the major styles and the key technical aspects that make them possible and explains each in two pages, 300 words and one picture. The book also includes six profiles of the greatest names in the history of photography and shares their contributions.Whether you pick it up for 30-seconds at a time or read it from cover-to-cover, this book is guaranteed to have you thinking about your own and other people’s photography in a whole new way.

10,000 Salads: Combinations to Create 10,000 Meals Spiral bound | 10,000