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  Dog Years - Faithful Friends...

  Amanda Jones

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  The photographer behind Unleashed combines man’s best friend with time in this touching portrait collection capturing dogs as puppies and as older dogs. 
   
  Dog Years is a heartwarming look at the lives and stories of thirty dogs. By presenting portraits of each dog as a puppy and again as an older dog, photographer Amanda Jones reveals the unique spark of personality that lasts a lifetime. These beautiful images of breeds ranging from golden retrievers and Great Danes to pugs and French bulldogs are accompanied by reflections from loved ones on the lives they share with their furry companions. The result is a celebration of each dog and a tribute to the relationships we share with our four-legged friends.

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  United States Navy Submarines...

  Michael Green

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  A “brilliant history of the USA’s underwater exploits,” filled with photos (Books Monthly).   In 1900, the US Navy took its first submarine, the Holland VI, into service. With a single torpedo tube, it had a crew of six, weighed eighty-two tons, and traveled submerged at 6.2mph at a depth of up to seventy-five feet.   Contrast this to the 18 Ohio Class nuclear-powered submarines that entered service in 1981. Weighing 21,000 tons with a crew of 155, its underwater speed is estimated at thirty mph at a depth of some one thousand feet. It carries sixteen nuclear warhead ballistic missiles with a range of 4,600 miles.   This photographic history in the Images of War series provides detailed insight into the many US Navy submarine classes. Particularly fascinating is the post Second World War program of nuclear powered submarines stating with the Nautilus and progressing to the Skate, Thresher, Sturgeon, Los Angeles, and George Washington. Admiral Hyman G Rickover’s role as father of the nuclear navy is also examined in detail.

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  Textile Portraits - People and...

  Anne Kelly

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  SHORTLISTED in The Creative Book Awards 2024.
  A creative and beautiful book packed with inspiring ideas to help you capture likenesses and explore personalities in stitch, from a well-loved textile artist.
  Anne Kelly's evocative and nostalgic work often incorporates portraits – of friends, family, historical figures and even pets. Within these pages she shares her approach to textile portraiture, bringing in a wealth of different embroidery techniques, including hand and machine embroidery, quilting and appliqué, to render in cloth the nuances of facial expressions and the personalities of her subjects. The book covers:
  • Selfies at Home: making the perfect self-portrait in cloth.
  • Representation and Culture: how portraits have been used in textile art for cultural expression around the world.
  • Stylized Imagery: going beyond the traditional portrait into abstraction.
  • Place and Time: creating a sense of place with portraiture, sometimes incorporating photographs.
  • Narratives: how to create a fuller story using deeply personal ephemera and related imagery.
  • Pet Projects: immortalising your pets in your textile work.
  Beautifully illustrated with stunning examples of her own work and that of intriguing textile artists who specialise in portraiture from around the world, this is the ideal book for embroiderers and textile artists who want to introduce this often tricky subject area into their work. 

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  How To Make Handmade Jewelry -...

  HowExpert, Genny Wilson

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  If you want to learn how to make handmade jewelry, get "How To Make Handmade Jewelry" written by a person who has real life experience creating many different types of handmade jewelries. 
  Ever wanted to make your own jewelry? Well now you can with this detailed and instructive guide. You’ll amaze your friends and family when you tell them that amazing jewelry piece was made by you. Complete with full color photos the author guides you through step-by-step. Even if you’ve done some jewelry making before this guide is chock full of great information. In this guide you will: 
  - Learn the tools of the trade and the correct and incorrect way to use them. As well as safety precautions you should take when dealing with certain materials or tools. 
  - Learn how to incorporate different materials into your jewelry such as clay, buttons, sequins and chains. 
  - Learn how to make and use your own beading loom. 
  - Learn to bead off the loom using both large and teeny tiny beads. 
  - Make earrings, necklaces, bracelets, anklets, rings, pins, and pendants. 
  The guide is specifically designed so you can jump right in to a specific project or start from the beginning. The author even gives you a list of places to find specific tools and supplies that you may need, as well as tips to help you save money in your jewelry making endeavors. 
  About the Expert 
  Genny Wilson has been making jewelry for about six years and has no plans to stop anytime soon. Originally starting to make a little extra cash at a local festival, she found it so enjoyable she decided to give her creations away as door prizes. “I was immediately hooked.” She says,“From the moment that I finished my first piece there was no going back.” When asked why she loved it so much the hobbyist replied, “I’ve always loved making things, I love the idea of taking a bunch of things and making something. 
  HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z.

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  The Women Who Make Our Novels

  Grant M. Overton

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  ”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely unfitted to write about women who are novelists.” The author is a literary reporter and from that perspective he offers a short biographical sketch “of all the living American women novelists whose writing, by the customary standards, is artistically fine . . . [or] whose writing has attained a wide popularity.” This book was published in 1918. (Summary taken from the Introduction by MaryAnn)

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  The Wackiest Joke Book Ever! -...

  Press Editors of Portable

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  A compendium of nearly 500 giggles, groans, and belly-laughs for the whole family!Whether you’re a kid or just a kid at heart—chances are you love a good joke—and you can never have enough on hand to share at the right (or wrong) moment. That’s why you need The Wackiest Joke Book Ever!The editors at Portable Press stuffed the pages of this little book with the silliest jokes they could find. Old favorites, new favorites, and a few festering stinkers—all guaranteed to make kids laugh out loud. Here’s a sampling:Q. Why was the skeleton afraid to cross the road? A. He had no guts.Q. What did the lips say to the eyes? A. Between you and me, something smells. Q. Why did all of the students eat their homework? A. The teacher said the questions were a piece of cake.

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