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Farm Animals

Robyn Hardyman · Bellwether Media
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

How can you raise farm animals without acres of land? This childrens title has the answer, showing readers how to mountain-fold and valley-fold a cow, horse, sheep, goat, pig, chicken, and other livestock. Animal herds and flocks can form with additional paper and repeated folding.
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Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History

Ulrich Raulff · Liveright
Pages: 449
Format: Hardcover

A surprising, lively, and erudite history of horse and man, for readers of The Invention of Nature and The Soul of an Octopus.Horses and humans share an ancient, profoundly complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build...
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Easy Layer-Cake Quilts 2: More Simple Quilts from 10" Squares

Barbara Groves · That Patchwork Place
Pages: 48
Format: Paperback

Introducing more sensationally simple quilts from Me and My Sister Designs--Layer-Cake style! Sisters Barb and Mary are famous for sharing little sewing tricks that make quilts look more complex than they truly are. In Easy Layer-Cake Quilts 2, they're at it again! Put your Layer Cakes...
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Drive: The Definitive History of Driving

Giles Chapman · DK
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

Charting the 130-years from the arrival of horseless carriages to the advent of driverless vehicles, celebrate the automobile and the romance of the open road.Beginning with the development of the first vehicles powered by an internal combustion engine, Drive explores the early glamour...
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Do-It-Yourself Stitch People

Elizabeth Dabczynski-Bean · Beanski LLC
Pages: 192
Format: Spiral-bound

With the 2nd edition of "Do-It-Yourself Stitch People," you'll benefit from the experiences of literally thousands of other cross-stitchers who have created cross-stitch family portraits! We took their ideas and opinions into account very seriously as we created this second...
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DIY Circus Lab for Kids: A Family- Friendly Guide for Juggling, Balancing, Clowning and Show-Making

Jackie Leigh Davis · Quarry Books
Pages: 151
Format: Flexibound

DIY Circus Lab for Kids gives families everything they need to produce their own circus Author Jackie Leigh Davis invites the you into the international youth circus community, then dives into the circus skill families: juggling, acrobatics, manipulation, balance, and clowning. The book...
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Dinosaurs

Robyn Hardyman · Bellwether Media
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

In nature, extinction is an irreversible process. Animal species that die off cannot be brought back to life. This origami how-to, however, gives young dinosaur lovers the opportunity to resurrect a stegosaurus, a triceratops, and more with paper. Making each species is as easy as 1-2-3
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Detox Your Home: A Guide to Removing Toxins from Your Life and Bringing Health into Your Home

Christine Dimmick · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 196
Format: Hardcover

Cancer affects 1 in 2 persons, and nearly everyone has an autoimmune-related disease or allergy. We live in a world where the incidence of illness grows as fast as the GDP. Industrialization has created a world that puts products before human and environmental health. Exercise and eating...
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Craft Like the Ancient Greeks

Jillian Powell · PowerKids Press
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Describes how arts and crafts were created in ancient Greece, and offers instructions for twelve craft projects, including a an Olympic torch, a golden wreath, pan pipes, and a discus.
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Construct It! Architecture You Can Build, Break, and Build Again

Jessie Alkire · Checkerboard Library
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Makerspaces are places designed to inspire creativity and collaboration. In Construct It! Architecture You Can Build, Break, and Build Again, kids will build a working wrecking ball, pulley elevator, bridge, and more! Colorful step-by-step photos bring each project to life. Techniques and tips...
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