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  Pocket Guide to Crochet -...

  Jen Lucas

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  Never be without crochet guidance. Everything a crochet enthusiast needs--both new and experienced, is right at their fingertips with this handy carry-along crochet guide. Written by five-time author Jen Lucas, she focuses on all you need to get started on your crochet journey or refresh before starting a new project including information on tools, yarns, and popular stitches in an easy-to-follow, keep-in-your-purse guide. You'll always have solid advice at your fingertips.

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  True Facts That Sound Like...

  Shane Carley

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  Prove you are the smartest person in the room with 500 true trivia facts about nature, plants, and animals. These facts are so absurd some might even say that they sound like bull$#*t! Explore the wild and the wacky in this fun addition to the True Facts series that shares all things flora and fauna. Give the gift that keeps giving to friends, family, fathers, or grads and test your knowledge. 
  Say hello to the astonishing natural world with this mind-boggling collection of downright unbelievable facts that will have you doing double-takes at every turn. This captivating compendium is your ticket to exploring the wackiest secrets Mother Nature has up her sleeve. From the outrageous mating rituals of exotic creatures to the perplexing phenomena of Earth's wildest landscapes, True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t: Nature covers a vast array of topics that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about our planet. Each fact has been researched and verified, ensuring that even the most skeptical readers will be left in awe. Perfect for trivia night, nature enthusiasts, and anyone who loves a good laugh, this engaging and entertaining book is an incredible addition to your library. Topics include:AnimalsPlants & FungiThe Watery WorldHuman Anatomy & BiologyThe Natural World 
  Put your game face on and prove once and for all that you are the real know-it-all! Gather your friends and family 'round and get ready to learn some wild and crazy trivia and facts such as:True or False? Mosquitoes have a preference for certain blood types.True or False? Caring for houseplants has been shown to make humans more stressed.Did you know: Fish don't have eyelids, but the giant guitarfish can protect its eyes by retracting its eyeballs nearly 2 inches (5 centimeters) inside its head.True or False? The average adult human has more than 60,000 miles of blood vessels inside their body.Believe it or not: All tea comes from the Camellia sinensis plant. 
  Buckle up and prepare for a wild ride through the most fascinating, outlandish, and utterly mind-blowing corners of the natural world. You'll never look at nature the same way again!

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  The Enduring Wild - A Journey...

  Josh Jackson

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  A galvanizing road trip across California's immense public wilderness from a beloved adventurer. 
   
   
   
  It all began with a camping trip. Outdoor enthusiast Josh Jackson had never heard of "BLM land" before a casual recommendation from a friend led him to a free campsite in the desert—and the revelation that over fifteen million acres of land in California are owned collectively by the people. In The Enduring Wild, he takes us on a road trip spanning thousands of miles, crisscrossing the Golden State to seek out every parcel of public wilderness therein belonging to the federal Bureau of Land Management, from the Pacific shores of the King Range down to the Mojave Desert. Over mountains, across prairies, and through sagebrush, Jackson unravels the stories of these lands. He tells of the Indigenous peoples who have called them home for millennia, of the extractivist threats that imperil them today, and of the grassroots organizers and political champions who have rallied to their common defense to uphold the radical mandate to protect these natural treasures for generations to come. For the adventurers, campers, explorers, map readers, road trippers, nature enthusiasts, and public lands lovers out there, The Enduring Wild is an indispensable invitation to know these places more deeply and to embrace our common inheritance.

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  I Bid You Farewell - The Life of...

  Neil Lanham

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  I Bid You Farewell captures the drama, wit and wisdom of a lifetime in the antiques trade. Set against the backdrop of Suffolk’s market towns and quiet villages, Lanham charts an era of remarkable change in Britain’s auction houses, from the austere post-war years through the booming era of the 1980s.
  This is the story of a young auctioneer, starting at seventeen in a cattle market, qualifying and then buying a rundown rural auction business. Readers will discover how, from a standing start, with no telephone in his hired hall, Lanham achieved over a hundred world-wide record prices of fine art at auction. He explains the complex psychology of dealers and collectors and reveals the stories behind these extraordinary prices. Being on his own, using his personal observation, he was able to speedily change course to rapidly unfolding new markets caused firstly by Harold Wilson devaluing the pound and then Margaret Thatcher selling off ‘the family silver’. It is a true insight into the secrets of the auctioneer’s mind. Written as an amusing whole-life adventure of numerous stories, it shares much knowledge, wisdom and humour.
  Rich in character and incident, with an insider’s eye for detail and a storyteller’s gift for bringing the past to life, Lanham shares the secrets of the trade while documenting a vanishing world of traditional market towns and autonomous local businesses. I Bid You Farewell is not just the story of one man’s career – it’s a love letter to the art of the auction and a valuable historical document of Britain’s antiques trade during a period of unprecedented change.

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  Stay Awhile and Listen - How Two...

  David L. Craddock

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  Two companies. Two opposing cultures. One multi-billion-dollar video-game empire.Stay Awhile and Listen: How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video-Game Empire - Book 1 invites readers to discover the origin of Blizzard North, a studio built by gamers, for gamers, and Blizzard Entertainment, a convergence of designers driven to rule their industry.Composed from exhaustive research and hundreds of personal interviews, the Stay Awhile and Listen series divulges the fated meeting that brought the two Blizzards together, the clashes that tore them apart, and their transformation from grassroots democracy to corporate empire. At the center of it all—Diablo, a hack-and-slash adventure through the darkest recesses of Hell that changed online gaming forever.

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  Aviation for beginners

  facundo Conforti

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  This work has been developed to bring the main aeronautical content to aviation enthusiasts, students and future pilots and to anyone passionate about the aeronautical field who wants to learn a little more about this fascinating world of civil aviation. 
  	We will learn the main theoretical concepts of aviation. A summary of each aeronautical area, explained in a simple and pleasant way to read, but at the same time, developing the most relevant content in a professional and highly educational way. 
  	What are the airport runways like? Why does an airplane fly? How do the clouds form? What are the different parts of an airplane? How do the aircraft's instruments work? All these questions and many more, will be answered in this entertaining mandatory aeronautical manual for all those who take their first steps in aviation, or are about to do so. 
  	The Aeronautical Library has more than 60 books published, which makes it the largest Spanish Aeronautical Library in the world!

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