Detailed and copiously illustrated, this in-depth handbook offers instruction for constructing more than 50 wooden toys designed to appeal to a child’s sense of imagination and playfulness. A brief introduction covers the basic techniques—gluing, sanding, and making wheels—and each project presents a meticulous diagram, a handy materials list, step-by-step instructions, and a photograph of the completed toy.
Is the most comprehensive and up-to-date swimming-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round swimming-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.
Nikon’s new D3000 is a perfect entry-level DSLR. This book is for anyone who upgrades from their point-and-shoot, or for anyone who wants to jump into photography with the control and capabilities of a DSLR but without the high price. There’s the manual, of course, as well as competing books, and while they all explain, often in 400+ pages, what the camera can do, none of them shows exactly how to use the camera to create great images!
Digital Photo Pro magazine is the professional’s guide to the latest DSLRs, digital photo technology, and professional photo technique.
men’s Health is the must-read magazine for women who want to live life to its fullest. Every issue of the magazine is a manual to better, healthier living in two key respects—physically and emotionally. Women’s Health magazine is your source of information on fitness, nutrition, sex and relationships, style, beauty and more. With success strategies, fitness tips and fashion and career advice, the magazine encourages readers to take charge and conquer all aspects of life. Each issue has something different to offer, such as healthy, delicious recipes and fun weekend activity ideas. Edited for a well-rounded readership, Women’s Health focuses on providing realistic goals and covering the issues most relevant to today’s modern woman.
Improve your memory with the help of self hypnosis!
So, how is your memory? Have you ever read a page in a book only to struggle to recollect what you have just seen? Or just closed your eyes and tried to envision the picture before you, but find yourself unable to put the pieces together? Are you having trouble at school or at work because you can’t seem to remember things?
The world of food and cooking is full of falsehoods—things that are commonly believed to be true, but in fact are not. These kitchen myths may come from a TV chef, a cookbook author, or your mom, and many people find it hard to give up long-held beliefs. The author, a retired medical school professor, punctures and deflates dozens of myths, always with an emphasis on sound scientific principles and credible evidence. Illustrated throughout with the author’s own photographs, this book is an enjoyable read and will surely improve your culinary skills and knowledge.
As a beginning bodybuilder, you are hungry to know the secrets of how to build up, trim down, and look great–fast. With “Beginning Bodybuilding,” John Little gives you the answers. Known around the world for his revolutionary weight-training techniques, Little distills his years of experience and innovation to give you an easy-to-follow manual filled with essential knowledge and surefire routines for building muscle quickly.
Building on a professional photographer’s on-the-job experience using the high dynamic range (HDR) imaging technique, which captures an astounding range of tones that far exceeds the native abilities of any camera, this guide shows serious photographers how a more sophisticated approach to HDR can produce images that lack visual pretense, stand the test of time, and realistically capture details that would otherwise elude the photographer. It demonstrates the basic procedure for creating an HDR image step-by-step, then explores progressively more complex and refined techniques that can be applied as the scene dictates or the artist’s personal aesthetic requires. Ample image sequences with plenty of screen shots let the reader follow the entire process through from start to finish. Unique techniques are presented for the treatment of special subjects, ranging from landscapes to still lifes and portraits. Ultimately, the handbook demonstrates that HDR imaging is a powerful tool and the professional photographers who take the time to fully master its potential can mean substantial rewards, both creatively and financially.
From the mysterious Great Pyramid of Egypt and Turkey’s exquisite Hagia Sofia, to the splendid palace at Versailles and Frank Lloyd Wright’s graceful Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, Great Buildings explores the world’s most stunning buildings and other iconic architectural creations in fabulous visual tours. The history of each building is explained, from the commissioning to how they were built, and is supplemented with 3-D cutaway artworks and pullouts of the exterior, as well as key details of the interior. With features on prominent architects, construction and style, Great Buildings is a comprehensive and excellent introduction to architecture’s greatest achievements.
Research confirms that the teacher makes the greatest difference in the learning success of students, so its important that new teachers get off to a strong start. With help from veteran teacher and mentor Gini Cunningham, inexperienced teachers can better understand and successfully tackle the many daily challenges they will face in the classroom.
If the concept of perspective makes you think of confusing angles, fancy measuring gadgets and complicated theories, get ready for a very pleasant surprise. In this comprehensive guide, Phil Metzger demystifies perspective, presenting it simply as a matter of mimicking the way we see–like the way a distant mountain appears blue, or a road seems to narrow in the distance.
