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  Pretty in Punk - 25 Punk Rock...

  Alyce Benevides, Jaqueline Milles

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  Twenty-five knitting projects with an edge: “The knitted Mohawk hat is officially the coolest woolen creation I have ever seen.” —Michele Romero, Entertainment Weekly   Another boring scarf? More mittens? We’re not gonna take it! And neither should you!  Pretty in Punk salutes counterculture style with twenty-five entirely original designs inspired by fashion icons Vivienne Westwood and John Galliano and a variety of punk, rock, and goth legends. Indulge your girly side with the Ready Steady Go mini skirt, rebel with Feel the Pain wrist cuffs, or channel your inner rock star with the very same mohawk hat Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore wears on stage. Whether you’re new to knitting or a veteran desperately seeking patterns with an edge, you’ll find projects here for every mood and every genre. With step-by-step instructions, helpful technical illustrations and intarsia graphs, plus high-fashion photos of all the finished projects, Pretty in Punk is the only authority on anti-authority knitting.

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  Painting with Mixed Media

  Paula Guhin, Geri Greeman

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  A gorgeously illustrated guide to exploring the creative possibilities of multiple materials in your arts and crafts.   Learn how to use painting mediums such as acrylic, watercolor, oil paint, ink, tempera, and pastels in combination with glazes, gesso, wax, and other materials for use in collages, scrapbooks, memory boxes, photo albums, and individual art pieces. For beginners to mixed-media painting as well as those who seek to expand their knowledge and skills with new ideas, techniques, or combinations, this guide opens up new creative paths and possibilities.   Each chapter features a different painting medium, exploring the ways it can be combined with other materials, and ends with spin-off suggestions that challenge you to continue exploring. Also included are a gallery of inspiring artwork from eight mixed-media artists and a list of resources for art materials.

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  Knitspeak - An A to Z Guide to...

  Andrea Berman Price

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  This handy guide unravels the mysteries of terms, symbols, and abbreviations to make pattern reading easy for knitters of all levels. Knitting can be a challenging craft, but even more challenging than knitting itself is the cryptic language—a mix of abbreviations, numbers, jargon, punctuation marks, and other symbols—in which patterns are usually written. It’s no wonder so many beginners (and even some whose skills are quite advanced) are intimidated by the bewildering code—or that so many yarn-shop owners grow frustrated by the amount of time they must spend deciphering patterns for the uninitiated. Enter Knitspeak, a knitter’s dictionary that disentangles the mysteries of pattern language and translates it into plain English, helping knitters to easily transition from confused to confident. Andrea Berman Price’s essential guide—written in a friendly, reassuring tone and formatted for quick reference—begins with an overview of how knitting patterns are organized. It then offers a comprehensive alphabetical listing of all the abbreviations, words, phrases, and symbols typically encountered in patterns.Knitspeak’s many easy-to-understand drawings clarify basic and not-so-basic needle techniques, and a series of sidebars deals with issues ranging from keeping track of simultaneous shaping to substituting yarns and reading a yarn label. The book’s appendix is filled with valuable tips, charts, and worksheets.

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  A Naturalist at Large - The Best...

  Bernd Heinrich

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  From one of the finest scientists and writers of our time comes an engaging record of a life spent in close observation of the natural world, one that has yielded marvelous, mind-altering (Los Angeles Times) insight and discoveries. In essays that span several decades, Bernd Heinrich finds himself at his beloved camp in Maine, plays host to annoying visitors from Europe (the cluster fly) and more helpful guests from Asia (ladybugs), and unravels the far-reaching ecological consequences of elephants in Botswana bruising mopane trees. Heinrich then turns to his great love-the extraordinary behaviors of ravens-before going on to chronicle a magical sighting of hundreds of loons congregated on a lake in Maine and observing that the human species has biological roots as endurance runners. Finally, he asks Where does a biologist find hope? In A Naturalist at Large, Bernd Heinrich delivers an answer.

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  Vegetable Gardening - The Secret...

  Hillary SMITH and EDWARD FOSTER

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  Imagine cooking dinner in your kitchen as you watch the sun start to set on a warm summer night. You take a moment and step outside to your vegetable garden in the backyard and pick some basil for your meal. 
  It sounds pretty great, right? 
  You can have access to fresh, organic vegetables and herbs right in your backyard! 
  Even if you’re a complete beginner and don’t have the gift of a green thumb, Vegetable Gardening is the guide you need to start your own vegetable garden. 
  From start to finish, this guide is complete with step-by-step instructions for getting your garden ready to know when it’s the right time to harvest your vegetables. 
  With this guide in your hands, you will: 
  ●     Learn how to build raised beds to plant your vegetable seeds for optimum growth and juicy vegetables 
  ●     Discover the most effective methods and tricks to having a successful vegetable garden every season 
  ●     Care for your plants in the best way possible and learn exactly how much water and sunlight each plant needs 
  ●     Save money at the grocery store by growing your own vegetables and becoming self-sufficient 
  ●     Eat healthier with homegrown organic vegetables without worrying about harsh and harmful chemicals 
  ●     And Much More! 
   With this easy-to-follow guide, you’ll quickly learn how to become self-sufficient when it comes to growing vegetables. 
  You’ll see your grocery bill decrease as your diet increases in healthy contents. 
   Feel proud and accomplished as you harvest your first fully grown vegetables with the help of this guide. 
  Are you ready to build your own vegetable garden with organic veggies right in your backyard? 
  Then Order Your Copy of the Guide Today!

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  Unvarnished - A Gimlet-eyed Look...

  Eric Alperin, Deborah Stoll

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  A Kitchen Confidential for the cocktail profession, Unvarnished is a fly-on-the-wall narrative peek at the joys, pains, and peculiarities of life “behind the stick.” 
   
  When it opened a decade ago, the acclaimed Los Angeles speakeasy The Varnish—owned, designed, and managed by award-winning cocktail aficionado Eric Alperin—quickly became the stylish standard bearer for modern bars. Unvarnished is a candid, voice-driven, no-holds-barred look at the workings of a bar, and the foundation of The Varnish’s success: attention to hospitality and an abiding belief in the nobility of service.  
  Alperin and veteran bartender and writer Deborah Stoll push back against the prevailing conceit that working in the service industry is something people do because they failed at another career. They offer fascinating meditations on ice as the bartender’s flame; the good, the bad, and the sad parts of vice; one’s duty to their community as a local; the obsessive, compulsive deliberations of building a bar (size matters); lessons from Sasha Petraske—Eric’s late partner, mentor, and the forefather of the modern day classic cocktail renaissance—and the top ten reasons not to date a bartender. At the book’s center are the 100 recipes a young Jedi bartender must know before their first shift at The Varnish, along with examples of building drinks by the round, how to Mr. Potato Head cocktails, and what questions to ask when crafting a Bartender’s Choice.  
  A sexy, gritty, honest look at the glamour-less work of a glamorous job, written with the intimate honesty of The Tender Bar, the debauched inside view of Kitchen Confidential, and the social commentary of Waiter Rant, Unvarnished will take its place among these classics of the service set. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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