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Beautiful Wire Jewelry for Beaders: Creative Wirework Projects for All Levels
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Beautiful Wire Jewelry for Beaders: Creative Wirework Projects for All LevelsBeautiful Wire Jewelry for Beaders: Creative Wirework Projects for All Levels

Beautiful Wire Jewelry for Beaders features projects that combine wireworking skills with beaded jewelry design. The book is technique-driven, with chapters on wire fundamentals, terminology, materials, and basic wireworking techniques, and projects that develop the reader’s skills. The projects incorporate gemstones, crystal, glass, and pearls and are designed for both beaders and wireworkers of all skill levels.
 
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Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and the Sixties
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Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and the SixtiesEscaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and the Sixties

To commemorate the momentous 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering journey into space on 12th April 2011, a series of five books – to be published annually until 2011 – will explore this half century, decade by decade, to discover how humanity’s knowledge of flying, working and living in space has changed. Each volume will focus not only upon the individual missions within ‘its’ decade, but also upon the key challenges facing human space exploration at specific points within those 50 years


 
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Cables Untangled: An Exploration of Cable Knitting
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Cables Untangled: An Exploration of Cable KnittingCables Untangled: An Exploration of Cable Knitting

A comprehensive resource book for knitters of all levels, Cables Untangled features over twenty cabled projects, from simple household items to clothing, fashion accessories, and gifts for virtually everyone on your list. Every project is beautifully photographed and includes useful detail shots of every piece of cabled fabric.
In addition to the projects, Cables Untangled includes an invaluable Cable Stitch Dictionary, giving you the tools to be a skilled and creative cable-knitter. Extra resources include:

 
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Audio Production and Critical Listening: Technical Ear Training
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Audio Production and Critical Listening: Technical Ear TrainingAudio Production and Critical Listening: Technical Ear Training

Making decisions about how and when to apply sound processing effects and recording techniques can make or break your song mix. The decisions you make come down to your listening skills - what you hear and how you perceive it. Your ability to properly discern sound, identify a problem, and act accordingly - especially when the decision often needs to be made quickly - makes all the difference to the success of the final track.

 
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Character Costume Figure Drawing, Second Edition
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Character Costume Figure Drawing, Second EditionCharacter Costume Figure Drawing, Second Edition

Character Costume Figure Drawing will develop your drawing skills to improve your renderings. Not only is this book gorgeous and inspirational, but these comprehensive visual images carefully illustrate--step-by-step--how to successfully render dynamic characters with personality and life. This book presents drawing instruction with detailed breakdowns of various types of characters. Hats, props, fabrics, and choice of medium are all thoroughly covered to ensure the ability to develop convincing lifelike characters.

 
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