Lifestyle and Hobbies

Make this Christmas a watercolor wonderland with this creative guide to painting through the festive season.Christmas is the perfect time to get creative with watercolors with lots of handmade cards to paint - but cards are only a small part of the ideas that you will get from this book. Here you'll find a wealth of inspiration and techniques for all sorts of watercolor projects this Christmas!Fir

The home of trusted full-colour visual dictionaries for everyday use. A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in French. This attractive pocket-sized book is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to France and French language and culture. Everyday words are arranged in themes with carefully selected up-to-date images to illustrate key words and phrases, and an E

The amazing new i-SPY sticker book for kids age 3+ Get little ones started on their very own spotting adventure with My First i-SPY sticker books! With more than 100 things to spot – from seesaws to pedalos, swans to squirrels, children will love learning about nature and the fun things to do at the park. Each colourful, interactive page there are points to collect, fun facts to keep young c

The amazing new i-SPY sticker book for kids age 3+ Get little ones started on their very own spotting adventure with My First i-SPY sticker books! With more than 100 things to spot – from boats to buckets and spades, fish and chips to funfairs children will love learning about the things to see at the seaside. Each colourful, interactive page there are points to collect, fun facts to keep yo

Lose yourself with these challenging number puzzles. Packed full of 300 Su Doku puzzles to test your mental dexterity, powers of logic and deduction. You will find 100 easy, 100 medium and 100 hard puzzles in this collection so you can monitor your progression through the difficulty levels. Keep your mind sharp and test your powers of deductive reasoning. Ideal for whiling away the time whil

Relax with these entertaining word puzzles. Packed full of 300 wordsearches, get ready to tackle this fun collection of word challenges at your leisure. Arranged in themes, they will provide a mental workout and relaxation therapy at the same time. How quickly can you find the words in the grid? Relax and give your brain a workout at the same time. Ideal for whiling away your time while trav

An authoritative guide to reducing household exposure to hazardous chemicals Thousands of household products contain toxic ingredients. Today, more and more people are seeking more natural cleaning methods to reduce their exposure to harsh chemicals. From the kitchen and bath to the living room and laundry, "Green Cleaning For Dummies" provides readers with green solutions to every common cleanin

For fans of Ed Yong, Brian Cox and Carl Zimmer: a dazzling scientific and cultural adventure through our ideas about extraterrestrial life.

The "Art of Calligraphy" rewritten and repackaged in a beautiful new format! Learn the history of elaborate lettering, and make your personal correspondence a treasure worth keeping. Now with 88 pages of calligraphy instruction by a creative lettering artist, anyone can learn this beautiful art with the enclosed practice paper, instructive lettering chart, pen, ink, and calligraphy nib.

This step-by-step manga art course for beginners makes it simple to learn the creative techniques behind the most popular Japanese comic style. One hundred and forty colour illustrations, plus easy-to-follow directions, are divided into three sections: basic tutorials; how to turn raw ideas into finished comics; and projects from the masters, with exhaustive detail on producing professional-grade

Over 200 no-pencil-required brain teasers that take two minutes or less! These completely original brain teasers canAEt be found anywhere else and range from easy to near-impossible.

Joey Green is a cult favourite for his offbeat uses for brand-name products. Here, he turns his attention to the hidden pampering potential of dozens of everyday items found at the local grocery store. With this book, you can do everything from condition your hair with Aunt Jemima Syrup to soothe tired feet with French's Mustard.

Contains 'Frame Games' - a popular form of word puzzle that represent a famous phrase, song, person, place or movie. By looking at the way the letters are formed and where they are placed in relation to the other letters, the reader can piece together a solution.

Sudoku is a number placement puzzle, the aim of which is to enter a number from 1 through 9 in each cell of a grid, most frequently a 9X9 grid made up of 3X3 subgrids, starting with randomly placed numbers given in some cells. This book offers 160 puzzles for the sudoku addict and newcomer alike, in a range of difficulty levels.

The force that powers movement of wind and air, the Spirit of Flight is personified as a luminous goddess surrounded by dynamic elements from nature. Embossed with gold foil. 192 lined pages. 7-1/4? wide x 9? high. Book bound. Hardcover books lie flat for ease of use.

A number one New York Times bestseller Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection Radio Four's 'Book of the Week' The official tie-in edition to the stunningly raw and powerful film adaptation of the bestselling memoir, starring Reese Witherspoon. At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage cru

Hello Happy! is an interactive self-care activity book for children aged 7+ to colour and doodle their way to happiness, calm and confidence. The encouraging and simple activities and exercises tackle anxiety, sadness and stress; children will enjoy using their creativity to combat negative feelings, work out why they feel worried and how to put stress back in its place through writing, colour

Library Cat - the resident cat of Edinburgh University Library - is not like other cats. Hold your breath during his brief encounter with the elusive Puddle Cat and his run-in with the terrifying and mysterious Black Dog.

This is principally the story of Library Cat's search for meaning in a seemingly meaningless world.