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  The Complete Bag Making...

  Samantha Hussey

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  Learn to sew bags for all occasions with this ultimate reference guide to the latest bag making techniques, featuring eight full-size bag patterns. 
   
  Includes a comprehensive techniques section cover everything from zips, pockets, piping, and how to use the latest bag hardware to get you started, even if you’ve never sewn a bag before. 
   
  As well as all the core skills, expert bag designer, Mrs. H., shares her tips for getting a professional finish on your handmade bags and how to resize patterns to get the perfect fit. 
   
  Also includes patterns and instructions for eight fantastic bag projects like clutches and hold-alls so can start your bag making journey now!

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  Utamaro

  Edmond de Goncourt

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  If sensuality had a name, it would be without doubt Utamaro. Delicately underlining the Garden of Pleasures that once constituted Edo, Utamaro, by the richness of his fabrics, the swan-like necks of the women, the mysterious looks, evokes in a few lines the sensual pleasure of the Orient. If some scenes discreetly betray lovers’ games, a great number of his shungas recall that love in Japan is first and foremost erotic.

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  HowExpert Guide to Knitting...

  HowExpert, Jeanne Torrey

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  If you want to learn how to knit socks, then get "HowExpert Guide to Knitting Socks" now. 
  Whether you are a beginning knitter, one with several thousand yards under your belt, or looking for a gift for the knitter in your life, this is the book for you! Sock knitting is broken down piece by piece into easy-to-follow steps and pictures. 
  Multiple methods are covered to ensure that knitters of all experience levels and styles reach their goals in knitting socks. From Toe Up to Cuff Down, Magic Loop to Double Pointed Needles, and one sock at a time to TAAT (Two At A Time), everything is deconstructed and simplified for the knitter. Different types of Cast Ons, Bind Offs, and each of their purposes are explained; this is especially helpful if you’re looking to mix things up! 
  Included in the book are multiple sock “recipes”, all you need to get started is needles and yarn. We also cover the different weights of yarn and sizes of knitting needles if you need those before you can consider casting on a pair of socks. While breaking down each section of a sock (cuff, leg, heel, gusset, foot, and toe), additional recipes are included to aid the knitter in deciding what they might like or for swatching purposes. If you’ve been looking for a Choose Your Own Sock Knitting Adventure type book, look no further! 
  HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts. Visit HowExpert.com to learn more.

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  Knitalong - Celebrating the...

  Larissa Brown, Martin John Brown

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  An inspiring history of communal knitting events—from circles to online meet-ups to socially conscious knit-ins. Includes 20 projects.  The immensely popular knitalong—an organized event where people knit together for a common goal—has only grown with the explosion of the Internet. Yesterday’s wartime Red Cross sock drives have evolved into today’s meet-ups at locales as diverse as cafes, state fairs, and major league ballparks, as well as international online gatherings; in fact, at any given time tens of thousands of people worldwide are involved in knitalongs, organized around a particular yarn, a favorite social cause, an intriguing project, a special event, or myriad other themes. Authors Larissa Brown and Martin John Brown present an inspiring look at centuries of people knitting together, and why knitters find the interaction so meaningful and worthwhile. Along the way, they offer 20 projects especially suited for different types of knitalongs. The Barn Raising Quilt and the Traveling Scarf, for instance, call on individual knitters to collaborate on a single project; while the Pinwheel Blanket and the Meathead Hat encourage a community of knitters to improvise on the same pattern to come up with a variety of results. Also included is essential information about finding, joining, and starting knitalongs. Hundreds of knitters participated in the knitalongs hosted by the authors as part of their research, and this book will inspire thousands more to get involved in the knitalong movement. The only book that celebrates this tradition of community and purpose, Knitalong is sure to have a powerful impact.

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  Brain Training: How To Improve...

  Introbooks Team

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  Brain training, which is also known as cognitive training, is a memorandum of normal activities to retain or enhance one's cognitive skills. Typically the term cognitive skills apply to flexible intelligence elements such as working memory function and professional memory. Cognitive training represents the idea that by exercising the brain, cognitive abilities can be retained or improved, similarly to how the exercise of the body enhances physical health.  
  Brain training can take place in several ways, such as physical fitness training, engaging in online games or performing cognitive assignments in conjunction with a training schedule, playing video games involving visuospatial thinking, and participating in distinct activities such as dance, music, and painting. Numerous surveys have shown that life-long facets of brain structure remain plastic to the core. Brain plasticity represents the brain's aptitude to adapt and evolve as an environmental response.  
  Reports in cognitive training often decipher neuroanatomic ideologies like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to research how training influences the structure and function of the brain. There is a broad discourse within the scientific clan about the feasibility of brain training systems and controversy as regards the ethics of applying brain training technologies to prospective undefended topics.

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  Scotland

  Peter Waller

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  “Waller dips successfully into the social history north of the border during the first half of the twentieth century, when trams were the urban transport kings.” —Evergreen   Focusing on Scotland, this book provides an overview of the history of tramways north of the border from the 1940s, when the first horse-drawn service linking Inchture village to Inchture station opened, through to the closure of the last traditional tramway—Glasgow—in 1962.   Concentrating on the big city systems that survived the Second World War—Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, and Glasgow—the book provides a comprehensive narrative, detailing the history of these operations from 1945 onwards, with full fleet lists, maps, and details of route openings and closures.   The story is supported by some 200 illustrations, both colour and black and white, many of which have never been published before, that portray the trams that operated in these cities and the routes on which they operated. Bringing the story up-to-date, the book also examines the only second-generation tramway yet to be built in Scotland—the controversial system recently constructed in Edinburgh—as well as informing readers where it is still possible to see Scotland’s surviving first-generation trams in preservation.  “An outstanding book . . . To leaf through the pages of this book is therefore to take a journey back in time, to an era that can now be remembered by a diminishing number of people. To see that era brought to life in such a vivid and immediate way is a real joy . . . a superbly researched history of trams in Scotland.” —Undiscovered Scotland

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