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"Nobody normal ever accomplished anything meaningful in this world." - Jonathan Byers From Hawkins to the Upside Down, explore the strange and spooky world of Stranger Things with this first-ever, official Netflix colouring book.

This revised and expanded second edition of the bestselling The Game Console contains brand new content, with coverage of 50 more consoles, variants, and accessories in 50 added pages. The Game Console 2.0 is a gorgeous coffee table book for geeks and gamers that brings together highly detailed photos of more than 100 video game consoles and their electronic interiors spanning nearly five decades.

A user-friendly guide to the philosophy and practice of one of the most popular types of yoga. Demonstrates the entire Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series in 125 halftone images.

Start a daily creative practice in style. This bold version of the popular One Sketch a Day features gold accents and cover artwork that will inspire new creative journeys.

This sketchbook offers space to doodle, build drawing skills, or document experiences every day for a year. Once completed, it becomes a keepsake archiv

Unlock the mysteries and magic within League of Legends, one of the world's most popular video games, in this encyclopedic and collectible companion book that explores the game's epic lore. Embark on a journey through the realms of Runeterra in this first-ever collectible companion book, published to celebrate the game's tenth anniversary. Spanning the farthest reaches of this universe and ve

Tell your friends and loved ones 'I like you more than pizza' with this charming fill-in book, featuring prompts inspired by the internet's favorite chubby tabby cat. Pairing 46 sweet and endearing fill-in-the-blank prompts with cheeky, humorous illustrations, this book offers a fun way to craft a personal and one-of-a-kind gift for your friend, sister, parent, or significant other. Prompts includ

This treasure trove for the modern knitter presents 150 new and innovative cable stitch patterns (ranging from basic to complex) and offers an enlightening guide on how cables are engineered and how knitters can design their own.

Packaged in a colourful presentation box, these beautiful, intricate patterns by visionary designer William Morris and his company offer the perfect introduction to the V&A's extensive Morris collections. The postcards include wallpaper, textile and tile designs and are a must-have for design fans.

An illustrated guide to the history and evolution of the beloved role-playing game told through the paintings, sketches, illustrations, and visual ephemera behind its creation, growth, and continued popularity.

Join us on a behind-the-scenes tour of the filming locations for the award-winning Netflix series The Crown. The series recreates the romance and intrigue at the heart of our very own royal family and within these pages we seek out the settings so integral to the story, linking each ‘fictional’ site to its real-life counterpart. Covering the first four series, starting with Princess Elizabeth’s

Tips and techniques for spectacular and sustainable gift wrapping From simple bows and neat corners to Japanese fabric wrapping, this book shows how to wow friends and family with beautifully wrapped gifts while minimising waste. You will learn how to master the art of wrapping through easy step-by-step instructions of key techniques. There are ideas for creating both simple and intricat

A saucy, salacious and sometimes hair-raising selection of anonymous postcards, Sex Secrets reveals the bedroom habits of the nation, brought to you by the creator of the bestselling Lockdown Secrets.

Fascinating and richly illustrated stories of flowers for every day of the year. Every day of the year a different species of flower bursts into bloom somewhere in the world. This collection of 366 flowers reveals not only their beauty but the fascinating botanical, literary, folkloric and historical stories behind them.   Discover the magnificent magnolia, which evolved more than 95 million y

Chess takes a lifetime to master . . . but this innovative teaching guide by Brian Byfield and Gray Jolliffe will have you playing the game with confidence in just ten minutes. Armed with this clever advice on moving your pieces, smart strategies and tactics, cautions about common pitfalls, and suggestions for traps to spring on the unwary, you'll be amazed at how quickly your opponents start to l

A compelling collection of anonymous postcards sent during lockdown, revealing hilarious, salacious, relatable and sometimes heartbreaking secret confessions. In the thick of the 2021 coronavirus lockdown, designer and shopowner Eleanor Tattersfield put out a call on Instagram: 'I'll send you a postcard, you send me a secret'. Lockdown Secrets is an astonishing record of what happened next.

A fresh way of approaching drawing, which banishes inhibitions and helps you visualize your thoughts, express your emotions, develop your ideas.

Get the party started with your buddies and a travel-size kit of drinking-game fun! This packed party kit includes everything you need to add excitement to an otherwise run-of-the-mill bar night. Mini kit includes: - Shot glass - Standard dice - "Dirty" dice - Deck of cards with 48 drinking games - 16-page book

An extension of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series, this is the ultimate insiders walking guide to London featuring unusual places not found in traditional travel guides.

This book analyzes the fundamental aspects of graphically depicting a wide variety of jewelry. The relationships of volume, balance between full and empty, treatment of metal surfaces, warm and cool materials and the relationship between the support and the stone are explained in depth along with ways to illuminate jewelry, treatment of light and chiaroscuro play to add depth. The book begins with

A detailed and abundantly-illustrated reference that focuses on the innovative curved score folding for sheet metal techniques to create beautiful, dynamic three-dimensional forms, much like metal origami, in jewellery and metalsmithing. Anastasia Young and Paul Wells, both renowned London-based jewellers, authors and lecturers, have created a practical visual handbook on curved scoring and foldin