Category: Art & Craft. Jewelry. Beads. Beading. Beadwork. Bead Embroidery. Accessories
Renowned bead embroidery artists Heidi Kummli and Sherry Serafini share their secrets for creating beautiful beadwork in The Art of Bead Embroidery. Twelve step-by-step projects guide readers from beginner to advanced skills, culminating in a broad collar design from each artist.

Category: Art, Calligraphy, Alphabets. Cards. Paper Art.
A Comprehensive guide to calligraphy. Includes 24 classic alphabets to copy and 50 inspirational project ideas.

It has been eight years since "An Introduction to the Grammar of English" was first published. The second edition is completely revised and greatly expanded, especially where texts, example sentences, exercises, and cartoons are concerned. It continues to provide a very lively and clearly written textbook. The book introduces basic concepts of grammar in a format which inspires the reader to use linguistic arguments. The style of the book is engaging and examples from poetry, jokes, and puns illustrate grammatical concepts. The focus is on syntactic analysis and evidence.

Move your lust life to a whole new level with Tracey Cox's hot new take on the ultimate sex manual. Five steamy sections-Erotic, Emotional, Exotic, Expert, and Exhibitionist-illustrate more than 100 passion positions that will excite, inspire, and heat up the bedroom more than ever before! Tracey's trademark teasing tone reveals why ancient rituals such as "kundalini shaking" and "the lock" are the secret to spicing up a modern relationship.

Category: Art. Drawing and painting. Landscapes. Seascapes. Oil.
Walter Foster's classic How to Draw and Paint series provides aspiring artists with an exceptional array of art instruction books featuring all subject areas and media.

Donald Keyhoe was there first. He didn't invent the UFO phenomenon, but he became its first authoritative private spokesman. In 1949, TRUE magazine asked aviation writer and retired Marine Corps Major Donald Keyhoe to look into the flying saucer enigma, which had burst onto the scene just two years previously. With information from his friends in the military, Keyhoe concluded that the objects came from outer space and that the Air Force was covering up the story to prevent panic.

Sexuality and the occult arts have long been associated in the western imagination, but it was not until the nineteenth century that a large and sophisticated body of literature on sexual magic--the use of sex as a source of magical power--emerged. This book, the first history of western sexual magic as a modern spiritual tradition, places practices in the context of the larger discourse surrounding sexuality in American and European society over the last 150 years to discover how sexual magic was transformed from a terrifying medieval nightmare of heresy and social subversion into a modern ideal of personal empowerment and social liberation.

Category: Craft & Hobby, Knitting, Knitting patterns, Fashion, Accessories
Well-known, definitive guide shows how any circular method knitting technique can yield the popular Fair Isle patterns. More than 70 pages of designs include patterns for mittens, jerseys, jackets, hats, and more. Practical advice on design and color provides endless variations and adaptations.

Category: Arts & Crafts, Jewelry, Beads, Beading, Collars, Neckware, Fashion Accessories
Loosely based on the Egyptian style with additional influences from the Americas and the Victorians. The ladders, the basic structural component I use, are made using the same technique developed by the Egyptians 5000 years ago.

With precise instructions and vivid, four-color photographs, Ayako Brodek shows readers how to create 40 elegant and unusual pieces of jewelry. Each project includes a list of materials, illustrated step-by-step folding and finishing instructions, a beautiful photo of the completed piece, and suggested color variations, paper designs and embellishments to make each piece exciting and unique.