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  100 Ways to Understand Your Cat

  Roger Tabor

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  Learn what makes cats tick—from their whiskers to their tails—with the help of the writer and presenter of the BBC’s Cats and Understanding Cats.   Everything you need to understand about your cat is here in this essential owner’s handbook written by cat expert and biologist Roger Tabor. Discover one-hundred fascinating aspects of your cat’s habits and lifestyle, learn how your cat communicates with both you and their feline friends, and become confident in caring for your cat for a happy and rewarding relationship. This ebook features six major subject areas: how cats work, a cat’s life, cat families, cat behavior, keeping cats, and cat troubles, as well as straightforward cross-referencing to related subjects and fascinating in-depth features that give insight into the mysterious world of the cat.

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  Quick Diamond Quilts & Beyond -...

  Jan Krentz

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  The popular quilt designer and teacher demonstrates beginner-friendly techniques with these 12 new diamond quilt patterns without inset seams!   Quilting with geometric patterns such as diamonds can seem challenging. But in Quick Diamond Quilts & Beyond, award-winning quilting instructor Jan Krentz shares her own classroom-tested techniques that make diamond quilting easy.    Artists new to quilting will enjoy these lighthearted, original patterns featuring large shapes, easy piecing options, and fresh fabric combinations. Jan also offers tips on color value, texture, and contrast to enhance your fabric selection, and shows how using geometric fabrics can make your quilts shine.

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  The Error World - An Affair with...

  Simon Garfield

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  An obsessively readable memoir about the passions—and perils—of collecting, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Just My Type.   From the Penny Red to the Blue Mauritius, generations of collectors have been drawn to the mystique of rare stamps. Once a widespread pastime of schoolboys, philately has increasingly become the province of older men obsessed with the shrewd investment, the once-in-a-lifetime find, the one elusive beauty that will complete a collection and satisfy an unquenchable thirst.   As a boy, Simon Garfield collected errors—rare pigment misprints that create ghostly absences in certain stamps. Then, in his mid-forties, this passion reignited—and it began to consume him. In the span of a couple of years, he amassed a collection of errors worth upwards of forty thousand British pounds. But as he was pursuing this secret passion, he was also pursuing a romantic one—while his marriage disintegrated.   In this unique memoir, Simon Garfield twines the story of his philatelic obsession with an honest, engrossing exploration of the rarities and absences that both limit and define us. The end result is a thoughtful, funny, and enticing meditation on the impulse to possess.    

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  The Joke-Off - A Comedy Knockdown

  Sam Hoffman, Eric Spiegelman

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  Following in the footsteps of the already bestselling (LA Times list) Old Jews Telling Jokes, The Joke-Off is a unique-to-audio collection. 
  OldJewsTellingJokes.com is more than an internet sensation with a devoted, massive audience spanning generations and crossing cultural boundaries. It’s a living, breathing cultural phenomenon that has survived thousands of years: Old friends coming together to share company, memories, and, most importantly, side-splitting laughs. In that spirit, the Old Jews have gathered once again, this time for a face-to-face, smile-to-smile, roundtable session in which they perform all new jokes. With The Joke-Off, there is friendly sense of competition as one joke inspires another, but an even greater sense of delight in keeping a much-loved oral tradition alive.Includes:  “The Pickle Slicer”“The Blonde in First Class”“The Pimple”“Painting the Porch”“The Continuing Adventures of Becky and Jake”and many more.

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  Painting Wargaming Figures

  Javier Gomez Valero

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  The artist known as “El Mercenario” “shares the secrets of his success in this useful guide to painting miniature figures”—includes photos (Stuart Asquith, author and editor of Practical Wargamer).   In this accessible “how-to” guide, Javier Gomez, a highly talented figure painter of long experience and excellent reputation, takes the reader step-by-step through the whole process, from choice of materials (unlike other available guides it is not linked to any specific figure manufacturer) and preparation of the miniatures to basing and even advice on photographing the finished item. Techniques such as dry-brushing, ink-washing, shading and highlighting are all explained clearly with the help of step-by-step photographs and color charts.   Specific case studies tackle a variety of useful subjects across all periods, such as mixing realistic flesh tones for different races; painting horses; guns and limbers; Medieval heraldry; Napoleonic uniforms; WW2 and modern camouflage patterns. Javier also clearly explains how these techniques and processes can be applied to all the major wargaming scales, from 40mm down to 6mm. Whatever historical period (or Sci-fi/Fantasy) and whatever scale the reader is interested in, this book is an invaluable source of practical advice and inspiration.   “Very soon after we started up Perry Miniatures we managed to acquire Javier’s outstanding painting services for our figure collections. He is a true genius with a brush, with a great sense of color that turns figures into masterpieces. His military and uniform knowledge adds a great deal to his ability to produce little painted gems.”—Michael and Alan Perry, Perry Miniatures   “I have used some of the suggestions here as well as the highlights for some of my own figures and they have produced improved results.”—Mataka.org

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  Succulents and All things Under...

  Isabelle Palmer

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  Transform your home with more than 25 innovative and inspiring ideas using succulents and terrariums to create beautiful and stylish indoor gardens.

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