This title helps you become a MasterChef in your own kitchen. Impress your friends and family with “MasterChef at Home,” the fantastic follow-up to “The MasterChef Cookbook.” With over 200 recipes from the three 2010 series, as well as nine complete menus from the winners, and top tips on how to present your food, for a real show-stopping feast.
The Arts and Crafts movement began as an instinctive reaction against the new industrial age. Seeking a return to simple craftsmanship, with traditional materials, its influence spread both to Europe and North America where the term craftsman denoted a traditional style of architecture and interior design prevalent before the 1920s.
Men’s Fitness celebrates an upbeat, optimistic, proactive lifestyle. Recognises that every man carries the key to living more sucessfully, enjoyably and completely. Health and fitness articles abound for the man to improve physique and stamina.
Lark Jewelry challenged some of its best designers to create a pair of fantastic earrings in 30 minutes flat, and they enthusiastically delivered beyond our wildest expectations. This fantastic 60-piece collection of projects showcases an array of inspired, stylish, and just plain fun jewelry. They don’t demand a large investment of time or money, but do give jewelers the pleasure of sharpening their skills and enjoying spectacular results. The imaginative and diverse designs feature everything from elegant gold, pearls, and sterling silver to nontraditional and repurposed materials. Every one is gorgeous!
For anyone looking at starting their career, or changing jobs, the “A-Z of Careers and Jobs” is a goldmine of highly relevant data on todays career opportunities. Looking at over 300 occupations, the book not only tells you about the jobs available but also describes the skills employers are looking for and the type of qualifications and training you need to succeed in your chosen career path. Editor Susan Hodgson, formerly Head of Careers Service at London South Bank University, provides a host of background detail including sector information, useful websites for further research, details on starting salaries and valuable contact data. She ensures that the book provides in one source all the information you need to make an informed career choice. Published in association with “The Times”, and now in its 15th edition, the “A-Z of Careers and Jobs” is the reference source of choice for anyone who is starting out on – or looking to change – their career.
Shooting film is not for the faint of heart–or at least that’s what many photographers who have grown up shooting digital think. But maybe you’re ready to set aside your trepidation and take the leap into the mysterious world of film. If so, let Fearless Photographer: Film in the Digital Era be your guide. This is not a book on how to develop and process film, although those topics are covered to an extent
What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world’s most popular job-hunting guide with more than ten million copies sold. Now, no matter what your circumstances, every job-hunter can find help with up-to-the-minute information on what has changed about the job-market, plus strategies for finding jobs even when everyone tells you there are none. And if you are a returning vet, there is a new twenty-page appendix this year, specifically addressing your unique needs.
Why bodybuilding? Put simply, lifting weights – or resistance training – is one of the best ways to achieve total body health and fitness. Research has shown time and again that pumping iron provides a host of benefits: Bigger muscles, of course, but also greater strength, higher bone density, and improved cardiovascular capacity. Adding muscle also naturally ignites your body’s internal fat-burners, increasing your metabolism while lowering your blood pressure and cholesterol. Oh yeah, and you’ll look terrific.
Intelligence Quotient (IQ) tests are standardized tests designed to measure human intelligence, and they are a commonplace feature of the educational system and recruitment and selection procedures.
The techniques featured in this book will give beginning and experienced photographers alike new ideas for each step of the photographic process. Every aspect of the 60 featured images is described in detail including the concept development, the composition of the shot, the lighting set-up, and the darkroom techniques used to finish the photo. The author also presents many methods for altering images in the darkroom-including sandwiching negatives, texturing and toning prints, and the art of combining different images into one composite print.
An innovative collection of 40 stitch and 12 garment patterns from best-selling author Kristin Omdahl, The Finer Edge demonstrates various techniques, construction methods, and versatile applications for crochet edgings.
