From the magazine synonymous with looking sharp and living smart comes the definitive handbook of skills for the modern man. Based on interviews with the world's foremost authorities, and wisdom from GQ's editors, step-by-step guides show you how to win at fashion, sport, food and drink, work, romance, travel and more... Entries include: » How to mix an unimpeachable dirty martini » How to pack a suit » How to spot a fake Rolex » How to get quality sleep on a night flight » How to dance without looking like dad » How to hit an evil squash serve » How to ace an interview » How to give a killer foot massage » How to escape from a sinking car

GQ How to Win at Life: The expert guide to excelling at everything you do

Burton, Charlie

Self-Help

Conran

This title provides professional techniques and tips to make any project seem possible. Decorating ideas and step-by-step artworks show how to set about everything from standard tasks to decorative techniques such as mosaic and customizing fabrics.

The Ultimate Home Design Sourcebook

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

PARIKH / ROBERTSON / LANE / HILLIARD / PAINE

Home Improvement & Design

Ice cream is a versatile dessert, perfect for enjoying on its own or flavored with exotic fruits, spices, and wine. This tempting cookbook offers a wide variety of recipes for making it at home, along with ideas for producing a range of other, related treats straight from the freezer. It includes classics such as traditional vanilla ice cream and fresh fruit sorbets, but also ventures into more intriguing territory with the sophisticated Zabaglione Semi Freddo and an indulgent Baked Alaska. And, for the diet-conscious, the health chapter combines taste and the calorie counter in recipes like Peach Freezes and a light Honey Yogurt and Cinnamon ice cream.

Ice Cream (Conran Kitchen)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Poole, Shona Crawford

Main Courses & Side Dishes

The sight of a graceful birch; the delicious scent of honeysuckle; the soft caress of billowing grass; the soothing trickle of a fountain; the sweetness of peas fresh from the pod: gardens excite all our senses and bring us into close contact with nature. Make the most of the sensory opportunities provided by every element in the garden, from the soil itself to the plants and wildlife to the walls, surfaces, and structures. Through evocative, sometimes startling photographs, along with highly personal and poetic writing, you'll become vividly aware of seasonal changes; of the agave as an astonishing piece of living sculpture; of light diffused through leaves; of the smoothness of seed beans ready for planting; of the raging red that brightens autumn leaves and ripe berries; of the crisp chill in the garden asleep for the winter. The words and images will resonate long after the covers are closed. A Selection of Garden Book Club.

The Sensuous Garden

Don, Monty

Gardening & Landscape Design

A home that’s a relaxed and comfortable refuge from the world outside: that’s what we increasingly want as the pressures of modern life accelerate. And that’s what you’ll create with this sumptuous guide as your personal designer, providing inspiration and advice on every page. Featuring gorgeous images by leading interiors photographer Hotze Eisma—whose work appears in numerous international magazines—it takes a simple approach that emphasizes real homes for real living. You’ll explore the elements of four key styles—Natural, New Classical, Soft Design, and Color &amp; Contrast—and see how they look in whole room schemes. Space, light, textures, and furnishings are all covered, as are issues such as planning and home security. The approach is fresh, uncontrived, and a harmonious blend of aesthetics and practicality.

Contemporary Chic

De Witte, Rozemarijn

Eisma, Hotze

Crafts & Hobbies

Children's Rooms is the comprehensive guide to planning, designing and decorating children's spaces. Whether you want to plan a nursery, transform a spare room into a den or turn your garden into a playground, this innovative book provides you with all you need to know for living simply, well and in style with your children. Chapters cover key design subjects such as planning and decorating. There is also a chapter on storing all the clutter that children accumulate at each stage of their development. Organic Living is increasingly important and this chapter offers ideas on organic food, eco-friendly paints and decorating materials and natural fabrics, together with environmentally friendly furniture and recycling guidance. Packed with 13 practical project ideas and 5 case studies, this book will show you how to make your child feel at home, and live easy, every day.

Children's Rooms: Practical Design Solutions for Ages 0-10

Copestick, Joanna

From the fiery, 3-star Michelin chef on Fox's new hit, "Hell's Kitchen" comes 100 fantastic recipes for fish and shellfish. Includes complete instructions on filleting, skinning, trimming, preparing, flavoring, marinating, cooking, and freezing all kinds of seafood. Each recipe includes instructions for substituting alternative fish, as well as tips for the perfect wine. Includes sections on Stocks and Sauces, Soups, Starters, Salads, Risottos and Pastas, Homestyle Fish, Dinner Party Fish, Barbecues and Casual Occasions, and Side Dishes. Recipes Include: Salmon Fishcakes with Brioche Crumbs; Crab Ravioli with Lemongrass Vinaigrette; Fennel Soup with Roasted Cod; Roasted Bream with Citrus and Basil Sauce. Published in Hardcover in 1997.

Passion for Seafood

Ramsay, Gordon

DENNY, Roz

Cooking by Ingredient

An informative volume on decorative techniques, offering ideas on how to revitalize your old walls, create an eye-catching or simple background, or merely add a touch of visual interest to your room, this title serves as a comprehensive guide to decorating, disguising and transforming your walls. Walls define a room and mark out separate zones within a home. In addition, they are also blank canvases that can define or enhance a room design, and we are now beginning to pay them due attention and consideration. Alongside this is a revival of decorating techniques and styles that, until recently, were thought of as old-fashioned and fussy paint techniques such as sponging, colour washing, textured cork tiles, and, at the forefront, wallpaper. "Wall Effects" shows you how to use these techniques with confidence and style and in a contemporary manner.

Wall Effects

Ebben, Katie

The choice and arrangement of furniture is what transforms a house into a home, and while much has been written about the classics of the past, it can be harder to identify the qualities that make a modern piece a timeless classic. Demystifying the often confusing world of contemporary furniture, this guide—by two major interior designers—looks at new manufacturing methods and the latest materials, to explain how pieces are made in the 21st-century. Taking a tour of a home room by room, you’ll see how designers are using modern technologies to create stylish, yet extremely functional furniture, and develop the knowledge to make an informed choice and select today’s pieces that are bound to become tomorrow’s collectibles.

Contemporary Furniture

Conran, Sebastian

Bond, Mark

Antiques & Collectibles

Lighting has a crucial effect on any room. Deciding how to light a home or office requires decisions about the desired atmosphere, the preference for functional as opposed to ambient lighting, and the possibilities for enhancing the décor. This illuminating manual from two renowned designers will help you make these choices and select the best solutions from the wide and changing range available today. Starting with the basics, like the distinction between halogen and fluorescent bulbs, and how down-lighting differs from spot-lighting, this designer resource examines all kinds of fixtures in detail. Whatever your requirements—from information about individual items that inspire or a whole scheme that brings a room to life—you’ll get the help to analyze your needs and identify how to meet them.

Contemporary Lighting

Arts & Photography

Architecture

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