Felt Style: 35 Fashionable Accessories To Create and Wear
From a flirtatious flower evening bag to a subtly colored and textured stole, a colorful striped satchel to some striking contemporary jewelry, this book is full of felted accessories that will delight and inspire. The three methods of felting -- wet fiber felting, dry felting, and felted knitting -- are all covered with step-by-step techniques and each project has further steps showing you exactly how to make it.
Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 60 Delicious Cheeses
The classic home cheese making primer has been updated and revised to reflect the increased interest in artisanal-quality cheeses and the availability of cheese making supplies and equipment. Here are 60 recipes for cheeses and other dairy products that require basic cheese making techniques and the freshest of ingredients, offering the satisfaction of turning out a coveted delicacy. Among the step-by-step tested recipes for cheese varieties are farmhouse cheddar, gouda, fromage blanc, queso blanco, marscarpone, ricotta, and 30-minute mozzarella.
The Paper Boomerang Book: Build Them, Throw Them, and Get Them to Return Every Time
When it comes to lightweight avionics, there’s no beating a paper boomerang. Let all the others chase after their dull folded airplanes--you can now build a flying device that comes right back to you, every time! And unlike expensive, heavy wooden boomerangs, you won’t endanger windows and skulls with paper boomerangs.
Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content
When it comes to creating ideas, we hold ourselves back. That’s because inside each of us is an internal editor whose job is to forever polish our thoughts, so we sound smart and in control, and so that we fit into society. But what happens when we encounter problems where such conventional thinking fails us? How to get unstuck?
A Little Book of LanguageStarred Review. In the mode of Yale's successful publication of E.H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World, one of the world's leading linguists introduces us to our most critical mode of communication. Crystal (The Story of English) fills this exhilarating romp through the mysteries and vagaries of language, from how infants acquire language to how many words the average adult knows (40,000) and slang (Linguists love collecting slang. It's a bit like collecting stamps).
