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Woodworking for the Weekend
If you’ve always admired experienced makers’ woodwork but felt too daunted to try wood as a hobby yourself, Woodworking in a Weekend will change your mind. Twenty easy-to-make projects will give you the confidence to give wood a try, and each project gives such good results that even beginners will want to make them all. Projects are laid out like recipes: ingredients, techniques, and steps to follow – and there are fast fixes to cover your back if you make a mistake. So whether you fancy making a Shaker-barn-style chicken house, a sun lounger on wheels or a modern-but-rustic table with bench seats, you’ll find ithere in a truly appealing and achievable form.
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23,99 €
Make A Mobile: 12 Cool Designs
In this beautifully illustrated papercraft title, paper artist and engineer Lydia Crook’s appealing artworks can be cut out to create 12 original paper mobiles. The mobiles are easy to make – clear step-by-step instructions explain the assembly process, offering a wonderful crafting project for children aged 7 and up. There’s a selection of themes to suit any child’s interests, ranging from butterflies and moths, and flowers and leaves, to geometric shapes, and stars and planets. The compact gatefold book design makes the whole package neat and easy to store, too – so any unmade mobiles can be kept tidily on the bookshelf, ready for whenever you next need a rainy-day activity!
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16,50 €
Draw Your Own Fonts
Hand-drawn lettering has never been more popular, and every home designer is in on the act, creating energetic, quirky fonts that seem to jump off the screen, the poster or the page. To the uninitiated this free design can seem a little intimidating - can anyone join in? Can you learn to draw appealing letters without having taken a graphic design course? Draw Your Own Fonts proves that the answer is a resounding 'yes'. A lively mix of inspiration and workbook, it offers 30 complete alphabets, drawn in a variety of styles by an energetic line-up of young artists and illustrators, with tips and demonstrations on how you can copy or adapt them to make them your own. With sections on how to use your fonts online as well as on paper, this is a do-it-yourself book that will appeal to anyone who has ever begun a hand-lettered project (or simply doodled a highly decorated word or two on the cover of a notebook) - then wondered why it didn't have the panache of professional work.
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16,50 €
Mindfulness at Work
Flourishing in the workplace The realities of the modern-day workplace can include stress, pressure and apathy, but with a thoughtful approach and an openness to change, anyone can transform their work experience. In Mindfulness at Work, expert mediator and counsellor Maria Arpa shares her professional and personal insights into ways we can all create positive change at work ways to cut conflict, find contentment and develop an environment where harmony and clarity rule. Learn how to use her meditation practices and mediation tools to enrich your daily life and thrive and flourish, whatever your working circumstances.
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8,99 €
3 Minute JRR Tolkien
A visual biography of the worlds most revered fantasy writer As Peter Jacksons cinematic hobbits set forth, 3-Minute JRR Tolkien celebrates the enduring influence of the worlds most revered fantasy writer. It offers a readable, absorbing structure, dividing J.R.R. Tolkiens life and cultural contribution into 60 neat portions, every one digestible in a mere three minutes: 20 mini-sections each on Life, Work and Influence. From a childhood inventing new languages in the sylvan landscape of the Severn valley, through a First World War that saw him witness the horrors of the Somme, to academic success founded on a passion for Old English tales, we trace Tolkiens life and look at the way in which it informs his creation of imaginary worlds so intricately mapped that modern readers, writers and artists continue to explore them in a quest for their myths, monsters and meaning. Featured in the 7 January 2013New Zealand newsletter.
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16,50 €
Einstein and the Art of Mindful Cycling
Einstein and the Art of Mindful Cycling shines new light onto one of the great scientific icons, and explores how pushing that pedal can nurture mindfulness in a spiritually stressful age. The author steers us through his own perspective on cycling - weaving the philosophical, practical and personal into an elegant balance. Add in a sprinkling of meditative insights, and we can all learn how to experience Einstein's enlightened outlook on life through the simple joy of riding a bicycle.
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8,99 €
Whittling
Whittling is the cheapest and easiest hobby you can imagine: with just a sharp knife, a little practice and the tiniest block of wood, you can make a characterful carving in just an hour or two.Whittling is a modern guide to this very ancient craft. Work through photographic steps to simple techniques, practising each with specific projects and enjoying the increasingly polished results.
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12,99 €
Jane Austen Guide to Modern Life`s Dilemmas
Jane Austen's Guide to Modern Life's Dilemmas is a look at work, domestic and romantic dilemmas, answered using Jane's clear-eyed, witty, unsentimental view of life, love and money. Turn to it as you would a best friend.
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16,50 €
Alien Anarchy
Meet the aliens who have come to fight in the Alien Anarchy Battle Arena. Great glory awaits the winner!Inside this book are 20 alien characters to press out and glue together into awesome 3D toys, each with his or her own personality, strengths, and weaknesses. In addition to the models, there are 36 press-out game cards in the back of the book that can be used to stage an instant paper battle of epic proportions. Let the anarchy begin!
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11,50 €
Steampunk Accessories
Steampunk enthusiasts love accessories, and none better than those they can craft and style themselves. The 20 projects included here are easy to make and readily customized with personal details and keepsakes - they range from the everyday and accessible to the slightly more elaborate for the committed steampunker.
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16,50 €
Mindfulness for Black Dogs & Blue Days
Mindfulness for Black Dogs & Blue Days is an enlightening insight into depression - an experience that will affect one in five of us at some point in our lives. Richard Gilpin shares his ongoing journey with his 'black dog' - shedding light on this often misunderstood subject - and explores how the art and practice of mindfulness can help to train and mind that faithful companion. The book also includes short contributions from internationally recognized experts in the field of mindulfness.
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8,99 €
The Art of Mindful Walking
As an Anglican priest and former Priest-in-Ordinary to the Queen, a lecturer in Buddhism, and a devoted walker, Adam Ford is an inspiring guide with a refreshingly eclectic viewpoint. Contemplating the concept of a purposeful walking, he applies the notion of mindfulness to walks ranging from a simple journey to work to a personal odyssey in the Australian outback. Exploring the idea of the walk as both medium and metaphor, and considering ideas of pilgrimage alongside the notion of the walk in literature, he draws on his personal experience of both spirituality and walking. This book celebrates and enchances those moments: both for the hardened hiker and those who like to contemplate past walks from the comfort of their armchair.
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8,99 €
Robot Rumble
Paper toy books that combine model making and gaming, each with 20 cool characters to fold and glue, and gaming cards for 2 or more players to stage epic battles.
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11,50 €
Wheres Jane
"Lively and entertaining, this is a great, fun introduction to some brilliant classics." - RTE Junior
"This beautiful new book introduces young children to Austen's intriguing Georgian and Regency-era world, filled with all the makings of the best stories-sparky humour, legendary showdowns, secrets, love and triumph." - Read It Daddy!
Can you find Jane Austen hidden in ten scenes from her beloved novels? This beautiful new book introduces young children to Austen's intriguing Georgian and Regency-era world, filled with all the makings of the best stories-sparky humor, legendary showdowns, secrets, love and triumph. Children spot the main characters in ten major scenes from Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, and Mansfield Park. First read a snappy synopsis of the story, then explore key stages through a simple, illustrated narrative as you meet the main characters. Next absorb the wonderfully detailed illustrations as you search for the characters and the elusive author in the big and bustling main artworks. Katy Dockrill creates the fun and engaging scenes that house Jane's immortal characters, from imperious Lady Catherine to timid Fanny Price, wicked Mr Wickham to sensible Elinor Dashwood, and proud Mr Darcy to feisty Elizabeth Bennet. Getting to know them all will keep young readers enthralled for hours.