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  Judith Baker Montano's Essential...

  Judith Baker Montano

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  From best-selling author Judith Baker Montano  Globally recognized needlework expert Judith Baker Montano shares 180 stitches and 70 combinations in this must-have stitch guide featuring the best from Elegant Stitches and Floral Stitches. With even more traditional embroidery stitches, silk ribbon stitches, and crazy quilting combinations, this beautiful handbook has an updated section of free-form inspiration for improvisational work. With full-color illustrations and advice for left-handed stitchers, the essential reference goes far beyond the basics! • Full-color illustrations of 180+ stitches including embroidery, silk ribbon stitches, crazy quilt combinations, and advice for left-handed stitchers • From best-selling author and globally recognized needlework expert Judith Baker Montano • Hidden wire-o binding makes for easy reference use

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  Quilter's Academy Vol 1–Freshman...

  Harriet Hargrave, Carrie Hargrave

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  This comprehensive beginner’s guide to quilting skills covers everything from setting up a sewing area to designing your own quilts.   Harriet Hargrave has taught quilting all over the world. Now, with the Quilter’s Academy series of coursebooks, you can learn from her mastery and decades of experience. Volume one of the series welcomes freshman quilters with classes, lessons, exercises, and projects that will build your skills from one project to the next.    Arranged in order of complexity, each quilt offers new challenges and involves new techniques that will help you continually build your skill level. By mastering the techniques presented in Quilter’s Academy Vol. 1, you will be on your way to creating your own quilts with precise, high-quality piecing.  Includes compete instructions for making 13 classic quilts!

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  The Canal Pioneers - Canal...

  Anthony Burton

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  This is the story of canals used for transport and the men who built them from the earliest times, up to the end of the ninteenth century. This is a very long history: stones for the pyramids of Egypt were brought to the site by canal and one of the most imposing canal systems ever built, the Grand Canal of China, was begun in the sixth century BC.Development after the end of the Roman Empire was slow, but saw the steady improvement of river navigations through locks  the mitre gates were actually first designed by Leonardo da Vinci.  The modern age of canals that cross summits began in France, and the most famous of these early waterways was the magnificent Canal du Midi, the brainchild of Pierre-Paul Riquet, completed in 1681. It was a visit to this canal, when he was a teenager on the Grand Tour, that inspired the Duke of Bridgewater to build his famous canal that inspired a rush of canal construction in Britain.  Britains canals became the essential transport route that made the countrys industrial revolution possible, thanks to engineers such as James Brindley, William Jessop and Thomas Telford. It was a period of intensive construction that lasted for fifty years from 1760. It saw many innovations from the use of cast iron for bridges and aqueducts, to inclined planes and vertical lifts to move boats from one canal level to another. The nineteenth century also saw extensive canal systems developing in North America, such as the famous Erie Canal, and culminated in two great ship canals at Suez and Panama. The book tells an exciting story of canal development and the many men who made it possible.

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  TIGHT FLOATS and TAILWINDS -...

  W.T. (Tim) Cole

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  The story of a Canadian farm boy and his life’s journey as a bush pilot and then as a bureaucrat, and how he found his way back to his aviation roots. This collection of stories describes the progress of Tim Cole through one half of the history of aviation in Canada.  
  Tim worked as a bush pilot in Northern Quebec and Labrador. As a commuter captain he flew Twin Otters into Montreal’s downtown STOLport, and later flew these float-equipped aircraft on Canada’s West Coast.  
  Working as a Civil Aviation Inspector for Transport Canada he became “The Queen's Bush Pilot in British Columbia.” During his thirty-one-year rise to management levels in the federal Government, he experienced the perils of both the wilderness and the boardroom.  
  An active pilot in retirement, Tim continued to serve the aviation community in BC as a director for the Canadian Owner’s and Pilots Association and the British Columbia Aviaton Council.  
  Take a peek into the inner workings of Transport Canada in its heyday, when it was not only a regulator but also when it operated the air navigation system, air traffic services and most of the airports in Canada. 

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  The Restaurant - A 2000-Year...

  William Sitwell

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  The acclaimed food critic’s two-thousand-year history of going out to eat, from the ancient Romans in Pompeii to the luxurious Michelin-starred restaurants of today.Starting with the surprisingly sophisticated dining scene in the city of Pompeii, William Sitwell embarks on a romp through culinary history, meeting the characters and discovering the events that shape the way we eat today. The Daily Telegraph restaurant critic and famously acerbic MasterChef commentator, Sitwell discusses everything from the far-reaching influences of the Muslim world to the unintended consequences of the French Revolution. He reveals the full hideous glory of Britain’s post-WWII dining scene and fathoms the birth of sensitive gastronomy in the counterculture of 1960’s America. This is a story of human ingenuity as individuals endeavor to do that most fundamental of things: to feed people. It is a story of art, politics, revolution, desperate need, and decadent pleasure. The Restaurant is jam-packed with extraordinary facts and colorful episodes; an accessible and humorous history of a truly universal subject.

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  Bears - The Mighty Grizzlies of...

  Julie Argyle

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  The mighty North American brown bear is an iconic symbol of power and strength. Mostly found in the Western United States and Canada, the still-endangered bruin has made strides into tenuous sustainability. The strikingly beautiful photography, and the essay woven through the pages of Bears, showcases this beautiful, smart, and incredible species.

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