Cricket for Dummies

Whether you’re a weekend cricketer or aspiring armchair expert, Cricket For Dummies helps you make sense of this fascinating sport. Not just a jargon busting guide to cricket’s laws, techniques and tactics, it also contains advice on kitting yourself out and provides lessons on playing the game and improving your batting, bowling and fielding skills. For the budding fan, there’s a guide to the greatest players, the memorable matches, and a tour through the cricketing scene  giving you the knowledge you need to fully appreciate this special game.

Based on Practise Your Grammar series. Features: Clear and concise presentation of grammar rules, Variety of exercises practicing grammatical structures, Helpful tips and contrastive analysis, Vocabulary suitable for each level, Check Yourself sections offering review, error correction and mixed practice, From Grammar to Reading - sections using grammar as an aid to reading comprehension, From Grammar to Writing sections - using suitable grammatical structures in writing, Help section with rules in student's mother tongue and charts, games and self-check tests

Jeff Smith's Senior Portrait Photography Handbook

With detailed, informative instructions for capturing personable and memorable yearbook photos, this reference presents step-by-step demonstrations on advertising, talking to clients, producing outstanding images, and finalizing a sale. Noting the delicate balance of pleasing parents and teens alike, this resource illustrates how to marry the latest fashion-oriented photography trends with the needs of the family member who is paying for the session.
 

Painting Do-It-Yourself For Dummies

Painting your home yourself can be faster, more affordable and even easier than hiring professionals—but only if you get it right the first time. Painting Do-It-Yourself For Dummies, helps you do just that with easy-to-follow, step-by-step procedures for giving your, floors, walls, and ceilings the extreme makeover of your dreams.

More than 500 photos and illustrations show you exactly how to perform each step of each procedure the right way and avoid drips, smudges, and ugly surfaces.

American Writers, Volume 2The American Writers book series, a collection of critical and biographical articles, now covers 219 notable authors from the 17th century to the present day. Signed essays of 12-15 pages in length, by noted scholars, provide thought-provoking insights into the lives, careers, and works. The essays are written in an appealing style, include numerous quotations, and conclude with bibliographies for further study.

 

VOLUME II: Ralph Waldo Emerson to Carson McCullers