With huge, illustrated color libraries that contain more than 250 needlepoint and embroidery stitches; special techniques such as Florentine and crewelwork; and instructions for planning, finishing and making up, this comprehensive guide is the one-stop needlecraft reference. It will inspire and encourage users, and teach the art of stitching from the most basic skills, such as cross- and satin-stitching, to more complex procedures such as blackwork, beading, tramé, and smocking. There’s also all the advice anyone will ever need ...
Delicious casseroles for every day dining – for that special occasion when you need something easy, flavorful, and fun. Extremely versatile, baked casseroles and their gratin and soufflé cousins allow for savory and sweet dishes, using new ingredients and left-overs from your kitchen.
Tomatoes and Tomato Products: Nutritional, Medicinal and Therapeutic Properties
The book covers emerging fields of science and important discoveries relating to tomatoes and related products. This represents a one-stop shopping of material related to tomatoes. This book will be essential reading for plant scientists, nutritionists, dieticians, pharmacologists, health care professionals and research scientists.
Early Childhood Mathematics Education Research: Learning Trajectories for Young ChildrenThis important new book synthesizes relevant research on the learning of mathematics from birth into the primary grades from the full range of these complementary perspectives. Detailed descriptions of children's thinking as they learn to achieve specific goals in a mathematical domain, alongside a related set of instructional tasks designed to engender those mental processes and move children through a developmental progression of levels of thinking.
Improving Primary Mathematics: Linking Home and School (Improving Practice)How can teachers make use of the mathematics that takes place in everyday life outside school? This practical book provides the answers to key questions that are directly relevant to all primary teachers and to many parents in improving children’s understanding of mathematics. It presents a range of activities that can be used to share knowledge between children, parents and teachers, including teachers and children making videos, parents and children taking photos of the 'everyday' maths etc
