This book should be of interest to both the amateur woodworker and the more experienced craftsperson. It shows how to make over 20 classic children's toys, ranging in complexity from relatively simple building blocks, to the more ambitious paddle steamer or shiny red fire-engine. There are toys to sit on and drive, toys to play with in the water, toys to stack and toys to admire. George Buchanan is the author of "The Furniture Repair Manual" and "Garden Furniture".

Traditional Toys

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Buchanan, George

Crafts & Hobbies

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This is a study of the work of nine professional artists who are all practitioners specializing in acrylics, and their work represents a wide variety of styles, subject matter and techniques. By sharing their knowledge and providing insights into their working methods, these artists offer the amateur painter the opportunity to learn and benefit from their combined experience. The master-classes feature the artists' ideas and sources of inspiration, each artist's choice of materials and how they achieve striking effect with them, the wide range of techniques that the artists use, beautiful acrylic paintings showing the characteristic style of each artist and a varied range of subjects. Other chapters describe the various types of acrylic that are available, explain some of the basic elements of technique and demonstrate how the master-class artists handle the medium.

Acrylics Masterclass

Arts & Photography

Sally Bulgin

History & Criticism

Harmony Guide to Dress Making

Guide, Harmony

Home Improvement & Design

Square Octavo, Hardcover, Pictorial Cover, 1999, PP.80, Visual Inspiration With Practical Advice

Herbs and the Kitchen Garden

Hurst, Kim

Gardening & Landscape Design

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, illustrator and writer, was the most notorious and outstanding artist of the fin de siècle. His disturbing erotic drawings shocked the sensibilities of the Victorians and his friendship and collaboration with Oscar Wilde has secured his place in the pantheon of great artists of the 19th century. Jaques-Emile Blanche's portrait of Bearsley, his face 'like a silver hatchet', is the enduring image of this fabulously talented man who died at the age of just 25. Beardsley's most important illustrations were for Wilde's Salome, Popes The Rape of the Lock, The Lysistrata of Aristophanes and Jonson's Valpone. He was art editor of the hugely influential Yellow Book from which he was dismissed following the arrest of Wilde becoming thereafter the creative editor of the 'Savoy' magazine. He went on to write the highly erotic romance The Story of Venus and Tannhauser which was published in an unexpurgated version as Under the Hill. This extraordinary man created some of the most striking and enduring images of the last one hundred years. His influence on Oscar Wilde and his circle was profound and his achievements in such a short life is one of the great literary and artistic stories of the 19th century.

Aubrey Beardsley: A slave to beauty

COLVIN, David

Leopard a division of Random House, UK, London, 1996. The sherlock Holmes Collected Edition

A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes)

Literature & Fiction

arthur-conan-doyle

Classics

BBC Radio 4 dramatizations of four Sherlock Holmes stories, starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams at Watson. The cases featured are "The Dying Detective", "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax", "The Devil's Foot" and "His Last Bow".

His Last Bow

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN

Mystery

This history of the Renaissance surveys the extraordinary impact of the culture which dramatically affected Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. It examines the social, commerical and political background which enabled the arts to flourish in this period in the way that they did, stressing the importance of the great commercial cities of Florence, Bruges and Venice. Beginning with the Florentine Renaissance, the author traces abd development of humanism in art, politics, science and philosophy and discusses the impact of the High Renaissance in Italy on the rest of Europe.

Renaissance

George Holmes

Jesus the Evidence

WILSON, Ian

Religion & Spirituality

Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) is the most famous operatic and symphonic conductor in history. When Harvey Sachs' Reflections on Toscanini was first published in 1978, it was acclaimed internationally as the definitive biography of the extraordinary maestro. Now Sachs has revised and expanded this classic book, further exploring the conductor's controversial musicianship, conducting, recordings, drastic rehearsal methods, and influence on repertory.

Toscanini

Harvey Sachs

Biographies & Memoirs

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