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Wise Craft Quilts: A Guide to Turning Beloved Fabrics into Meaningful Patchwork

Blair Stocker · Roost Books
Pages: 173
Format: Hardcover

Infuse your quilts with love--how to add your personal story and more meaning to your handmade quilts.In Wise Craft Quilts, celebrated quilt designer and crafter Blair Stocker shares ways to use cherished fabrics to make quilts with more meaning. Each of the twenty-one quilts featured here...
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War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century

David Patrikarakos · Basic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A leading foreign correspondent looks at how social media has transformed the modern battlefield, and how wars are fought Modern warfare is a war of narratives, where bullets are fired both physically and virtually. Whether you are a president or a terrorist, if you don't understand how to deploy...
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The Meaning of Science: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

Tim Lewens · Basic Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Science has produced explanations for everything from the mechanisms of insect navigation to the formation of black holes and the workings of black markets. But how much can we trust science, and can we actually know the world through it? How does science work and how does it fail? And how can the work...
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Creative Living Country

Chloe Grimshaw · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

An intimate look at the interiors and lifestyles of young creatives who have taken their studios, practices, and creativity to the calm of the English countrysideThe countryside has always been a breath of fresh air for those trapped in the urban jungle. With a greater appetite for "authentic"...
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The Thieves of Threadneedle Street: The Incredible True Story of the American Forgers Who Nearly Broke the Bank of England

Nicholas Booth · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The greatest untold crime saga of the Victorian Era: the extraordinary true story of four American forgers who tried to steal five million dollars from the Bank of England. In the summer of 1873, four American forgers went on trial at the Old Bailey -- London's iconic law court -- for the greatest...
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A-Z of Ribbon Embroidery: A comprehensive manual with over 40 gorgeous designs to stitch

Country Bumpkin · Search Press(UK)
Pages: 132
Format: Paperback

The appeal of ribbon embroidery is timeless and thousands of embroiderers have been captivated by its ease of use and fabulous results. Here you will find every stitch and technique fully explained with step by step photographs and clear instructions. Accomplished embroiderers have compiled...
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Getting Grit: The Evidence-Based Approach to Cultivating Passion, Perseverance, and Purpose

Caroline Adams Miller · Sounds True
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback

Grit - defined as our perseverance and passion for long-term goals - is now recognized as one of the key determinants of success and life satisfaction. So, how do we build this essential quality? "First we have to understand what authentic grit is," writes Caroline Adams Miller....
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Good Friday on the Rez: A Pine Ridge Odyssey

David Hugh Bunnell · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Good Friday on the Rez follows the author on a one-day, 280-mile round-trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown of Alliance to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he reconnects with his longtime friend and blood brother, Vernell White Thunder. In a compelling mix of personal...
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Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction

Mary Ellen Hannibal · The Experiment
Pages: 423
Format: Print book

In the vein of H Is for Hawk and the work of Rebecca Solnit and Elizabeth Kolbert - a masterful consideration of the profound, urgent necessity to bear witness to life and loss Here is a wide-ranging adventure in becoming a citizen scientist by an award-winning writer and environmental...
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Turned Boxes: 40 Inspiring Boxes by Expert Makers

GMC.

Turned Boxes is a must for all avid woodworkers. Packed with over 40 projects, there are designs to suit all levels of ability as well as taste---from simple boxes with an elegant lid to more intricate designs incorporating screw threads and exotic timbers - there are a wealth
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The Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central

Christine Pelisek · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 325
Format: Print book

Christine Pelisek - petite, blonde, Canadian - seems the least likely reporter to have broken the story on the longest running serial killer west of the Mississippi. But in 2008 she did just that with her cover story for LA Weekly, shedding light on a suspected killer of women in South...
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BrandED: Tell Your Story, Build Relationships, and Empower Learning

Eric C Sheninger · Jossey-Bass
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

Praise for BrandED "Branding instead of being branded. Defining instead of being defined. Innovative educators must stand up for their ideas and actions instead of being judged and branded by external agencies using standardized measures. Eric Sheninger and Trish Rubin present an excellent...
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Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe

JOHN JULIUS NORWICH · ATLANTIC MONTHLY
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

John Julius Norwich -- who the Wall Street Journal called "the very model of a popular historian" -- has crafted a big, bold tapestry of the early sixteenth century, when Europe and the Middle East were overshadowed by a quartet of legendary rulers, all born within a ten-year...
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Rossen to the Rescue: Secrets to Avoiding Scams, Everyday Dangers, and Major Catastrophes

JEFF ROSSEN · Flatiron Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

NBC NATIONAL INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AND HOST OF "ROSSEN REPORTS" ON TODAY BRINGS THE ULTIMATE HANDBOOK TO LIFE.Do you know where to take shelter in an earthquake? How to bust a lying car mechanic? Save money at the store?You'll know now.Every morning, millions of Americans...
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