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  The Physics of NASCAR - The...

  Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, Ray...

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  Every NASCAR fan—at one time or another—asks the same question: Why isn't my favorite driver winning? This is your chance to discover how much more there is to NASCAR than "Go fast, turn left, and don't crash." If you've ever wondered why race cars don't have mufflers, how "bump drafting" works, or what in the world "Let's go up a pound on the right rear and add half a round of wedge" means, The Physics of NASCAR is for you. 
   
   
   
  In this fast-paced investigation into the adrenaline-pumping world of NASCAR, a physicist with a passion uncovers what happens when the rubber hits the road and 800-horsepower vehicles compete at 190 miles per hour only inches from one another. 
   
   
   
  Diandra Leslie-Pelecky tells her story in terms anyone who drives a car—and maybe occasionally looks under the hood—can understand. How do drivers walk away from serious crashes? How can two cars travel faster together than either car can on its own? How do you dress for a 1800°F gasoline fire? In simple yet detailed, high-octane prose, this is the ultimate thrill ride for armchair speed demons, auto science buffs, and NASCAR fans at every level of interest. 
   
   
   
  Listeners, start your engines.

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  Where Beau the Beach Bunny Burrows

  Lolisa Marie Monroe

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  Beau watches rockets soar, crabs scuttle, and stars shimmer—and wonders if he will ever be enough. He digs deep, not knowing that each paw-full of sand, each quiet kindness, is shaping the Space Coast shore in ways no one else can. 
   
  Where Beau the Beach Bunny Burrows is a story of longing, listening, and helping others. A bunny’s journey of learning that he is enough, just the way he is. It’s for every child who watches the world and wonders where they fit in, and for grown-ups, like me, who may remember that feeling. Let me tell you a secret- 
  “You are enough, ten times more than you know!”

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  Learn to Sew

  CICO Books

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  Learn how to sew as you make fabulous toys, gifts, cards, bags and many more items you will be proud of!
  These 35 brilliant sewing projects have been specially designed for children aged 7 and upwards. In the Terrific Toys chapter, you'll find juggling animals, sock monsters and rag dolls, while in Fashion Fun, there are gorgeous bags, hair accessories and more. Next, discover some Delightful Decorations – from hanging felt stars to pretty lavender bags. Finally, Gifts and Cards is packed with ideas, such as the finger puppet cards, felt egg cosies or the sausage dog draft excluder. The sewing techniques explain every stitch you'll need and all the instructions and cute step-by-step artworks are easy to follow. Plus, each project has a grade so that you can start with easy sewing and move on to using more advanced stitches as you get better at it.

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  Wild Yarn - Creating hand-spun...

  Imogen Bright Moon

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  A practical and inspirational guide to choosing, blending and spinning richly textured artisan yarn for weaving, knitting and other textile art applications.
  Imogen Bright Moon is a British Romani textile artist who creates richly textured, highly tactile woven textile works from yarn that she spins and blends herself. In this elegantly designed book Imogen reveals the secrets of her practice. In evocative, engagingly written text accompanied by sumptuous images of her work in her studio throughout the year, she explains:
  • How to choose raw fibres for use in your work: the author's are ethically sourced from various ecologically responsible sources, including a rescue flock of sheep on the South Downs.
  
  • How to put together different types of fibres – raw sheep's wool, plant fibres such as hemp, soya and wild silk, alpaca hair and much more – to create richly textured yarn.
  
  • The delicate art of blending naturally occurring pigments, working with shade and tone to create subtle and nuanced colours, a process that Imogen likens to a painter mixing paints on a palette.
  
  • The principles of hand-spinning, from a simple single spun thread to more complicated yarns such as triple-chain ply yarn, using a traditional floor spindle.
  
  • How to skein, soak and wet-finish your yarn, and how to store your yarn stash.
  
  • Ideas for taking your yarn into finished craft and art projects, with details of the author's own work.
  With an emphasis on engagement with nature, the rhythms of the seasonal craft cycle, ethical making, sustainability and mindfulness, this book is ideal for weavers, textile artists and anyone seduced by the joys of yarn.

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  The Elegant and Edible Garden -...

  Linda Vater

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  Discover how to partner ornamental plants with edible ones for a garden that offers both storybook appeal and a plethora of culinary delights. Stylish and celebratory, The Elegant and Edible Garden takes food growing to a higher plane. Host of The Potager Blog (@potagerblog), author and garden stylist Linda Vater, shares her vision for creating a garden space where food and flowers grow side by side. Known as a potager, these gardens are formal in their framework yet flexible and personal in their edible yields. A potager garden is both lovely to look at and productive. Doubling as an outdoor living area, it is also the perfect place to entertain family and friends.  Inside you’ll learn: How to grow flowers, fruits, veggies, and herbs together en masse  The function of symmetry in a potager garden Ways to create visual harmony and match the style of the garden to its surroundings Tips for blending your family’s needs and lifestyle into the garden  Advice on how to utilize focal points and garden ornaments in your garden’s layout  The importance of rhythm, repetition, and harmony in potager designHow to position garden structures with practicality and purpose in mind  Where to put your potager for not just convenience but also to create a destination Best practices for growing your beautiful new garden organically Create a garden that rejoices in seasonality while still allowing your style and personality to shine. The Elegant and Edible Garden is a vision of the very best things a garden can offer: food, beauty, connection, and a place to breathe.

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  Crash and Burn - A CEO's crazy...

  Glenn Orsmond

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  In the cut-throat world of low-cost airlines, competition is the name of the game. Not only up in the air but also on the ground.
  Crash and Burn is an insider's tale of the South African airline industry over the past thirty years and the dramatic collapse of Comair in 2022, as told by Glenn Orsmond, twice CEO of Comair and the founder CEO of 1time. Orsmond takes the reader on a wild ride through the ultra-competitive sector of low-cost airlines that boomed after South African Airways' stranglehold on the skies was loosened in the 1990s. Comair – which operated both Kulula and British Airways – and 1time were at the forefront of this new wave of airlines that saw domestic flying and tourism take off.
  But after some incredible highs and lows, Comair crashed under Orsmond's watch despite the company's 75-year unblemished profit history. The pandemic's impact, the grounding of aeroplanes after a questionable regulator investigation and poor management decisions all contributed to its downfall.
  Expect tales of industry legends and innovation, but also of competitors trying to gut each other, battles between pilots and accountants, unions and bosses at loggerheads, and warfare between shareholders and directors in boardrooms. You'll never think of flying in South Africa in the same way again.

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