The novel postulates a road that travels through time, with a nexus placed every few years where a handful of specially gifted people are able to get on and off. While there is a plot involving a series of assassination attempts on the protagonist, the novel's main strengths lie in the unique nature of the setting, character development, structure and the short vignettes on each of the would-be assassins.
The Woodturner's Workbook: An Inspirational and Practical Guide To Designing and Making
If you have some woodturning experience and want to begin producing work with a personal stamp, then this is the book for you. Here are all the guidelines and advice you need to tackle anything from batch production items to a unique display piece.
Reflecting a rich technical and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H20 focuses on the properties of water and its interaction with life. The book develops a variety of approaches that help to illuminate ways in which to address deeper questions with respect to the nature of the universe and our place within it.
A knitwear designer since 1986, Jo Sharp draws on a myriad of influences - Chinese, French, Latvian, Scottish, Australian - to create colorful, stylish designs that are both trendy and timeless. Knitting Emporium is her fourth collection of sweaters, each of them hand-knitted using her own unique yarns and photographed against a dramatic Australian background. General pattern instructions, easy-to-read charts, and care information are included.
