(Paperback)

A handy guide to creating your own handmade paper and exploring the potential of this magical craft.

(Hardback)

A Passion for Mountains presents a compilation of stories written by members of the British Mountain Guides. Documenting both personal climbing and mountaineering adventures as well as those shared with clients, the stories in this book represent the diversity of the mountain activities these professionals thrive on.

(Hardback)

Best-selling author, Max Reilly, is still recovering from the hole left in his life caused by the car crash that killed his wife. So when he meets Emma - who is waiting for a divorce from her violent husband - and is pulled back into the world of desire, it is hard to reconcile with his grief.

(Paperback)

A complete and compact guide to patchwork knitting and how to build colourful, customizable and structurally intriguing pieces of knitting.

(Paperback)

Shares the trade secrets from the world of bespoke tailoring and haute couture, alongside procedures from the ready-to-wear industry. This book explains how to make a basic pattern for a jacket by flat pattern cutting or draping on the dress form. It introduces a broad range of techniques with clear detailed instructions.

(Paperback)

Pearls are one of the oldest precious gemstones. They have been revered through history and the best reserved to adorn royalty and their favourites.

(Hardback)

A comprehensive guide to those ingenious amusements, which delighted visitors to the seaside, showground, penny-arcade or amusement parlour for over a century.

(Paperback)

Provides an overview of how nutrition can be used to maximize human performance. This book shows how nutrition can be used to: reduce the risk of injury and illness for athletes; maximize strength gains in the gym; adapt effectively to endurance training; minimise the negative effects of concurrent training; and improve competition performance.

(Paperback)

Performance Psychology for Dancers is an accessible and practical guide to talent development, offering dancers and those around them support to navigate the challenges of training and the psychological strategies that underlie success.

(Paperback)

The authors provide a practical guide to organic pest and disease management practices. They advocate a whole-farm approach too pest and disease management, which uses rotations and the full farm landscape to manage pest and disease outbreaks.

(Hardback)

Shows smallholders how to deal with the various pests that are capable of decimating crops, degrading pasture, stealing produce, contaminating animal feed and killing valuable livestock. This book provides the smallholder with the knowledge and the information about the skills to meet this challenge in an effective and humane way.

(Hardback)

Presents a definitive guide to the Peugeot 205, the unassuming car that saved Peugeot in the 1980s and went on to become a rally-winning legend. This book is suitable for enthusiasts of the car.

(Paperback)

Bird photography is one of the most challenging genres of photography, and can test even modern high-specification cameras to their limits. This practical book guides you through both how to understand your camera and how to develop your own style and approach. It also emphasizes the importance of fieldcraft and understanding your subject.

(Paperback)

Shows you how to make the most of natural light when photographing children on location or at home and to take beautiful pictures to cherish. Focusing on the fundamentals of traditional portraiture, this book emphasizes the importance of understanding the qualities of natural light at certain times of the day and in different seasons.

(Paperback)

Explains how to take shots of animals moving in water, land and air, as well as perhaps less obvious plant movement. This title covers main topics such as the functions of your camera, and the fundamentals of good photography; setting up and taking photos in the field, as well as using a flight tunnel, and aquariam and microscope.

(Paperback)

For the first time of its invention, photography has been used to visualize events that are either too fast or too slow for the eye to perceive, or subjects that are outside the spectral range of the human eye. This book shows how you can photograph a range of subjects and see the world as never before.

(Paperback)

Explains the process of landscape photography, leading you easily through the stages of editing an image to lift your photographs and bring out the image you captured at the taking stage. This book covers topics such as: screen grabs; black and white landscapes; combining photos into realistic high-dynamic-range images; and Photoshop shortcuts.

(Hardback)

This clearly written, non-technical book is useful reading for all those who own, or care for pigs. It covers all the principal diseases and abnormalities that occur in pigs.

(Hardback)

Suitable for all those interested in pigeon shooting, whether for pest control or for sport, this book examines the use of decoy pigeons, the control of feral pigeons, shooting around buildings where birds are roosting and the use of shotguns. It also covers pigeon shooting with air rifles and live fire rifles.

(Hardback)

Small-scale pig keeping is expanding, not only in the countryside but also in urban areas. However, at the outset the prospect of owning pigs can be frightening for the uninitiated. This title guides the reader through the day-to-day routine of looking after pigs and provides essential information.

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

Provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of pig-keeping: how pigs have developed, the influence of the market on the breeds and pig-keeping systems, nutrition, the pig and its environment, reproduction, piglet birth, survival, growth and development, and the important place of artificial insemination.

(Paperback)

A practical guide to exercises designed specifically for dance students and professionals.

(Paperback)

Plants are a major part of most gardens and fulfil many roles within them, providing colour, shade, scent, form, texture and more. Choosing the right plants can be a challenge. This book provides a step-by-step guide for successful long-term planting, using design techniques and good horticultural practice.

(Hardback)

Filled with biological information about plants as well as practical and instructional advice about how to grow and nurture them, this work covers soft plants, shrubs and woody climbers and discusses a range of both British native and exotic plants found elsewhere throughout the world. It also gives an introduction to the diversity of plants.