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With step-by-step color photographs, the highly visual Knots: The Complete Visual Guide is a clear, comprehensive, and practical guide to tying more than 100 knots.
From choosing, using, and maintaining ropes, to learning about the different families of knots — from stopper knots; binding knots; bends; hitches; loops; plaits and sennits; and splices and whippings — Knots: The Complete Visual Guide is the ultimate guide to tying knots for every occasion, from outdoor use in a host of recreational activities, to practical functions around the home.

With over a half million copies sold worldwide of the original edition, The Book of Photography is the ultimate book for learning simple techniques for taking better pictures. Revised and updated with 24 new pages that deal with digital photography for the first time and expands on all of Hedgecoe's expert guidance, this book is packed with practical advice from one of the best photographers on the last 30 years.

Covering not only the history of Western thought, but also the traditions of Eastern philosophy and schools of thought from the Indian subcontinent, this companion combines philosophical analysis with historical and biographical information to explain and explore the major issues, theories, and problems at the heart of all philosophies.

Not just another film guide-this is a visual road map to the best cinema has to offer. A comprehensive, fun to browse, and easy-to-use source for everything you need to know about movies and the people behind them. From Hollywood to Bollywood, this book's unique approach will explore every aspect of film and provide pointers on how to watch and understand films of different types, styles, and periods.

Combining a concise practical guide to astronomy with card decks, sky maps, and a flashlight, Starfinder explains how to navigate around the night sky, shows you what you can expect to see, and provides all the tools you need to see the constellations for yourself.

Providing the key to solving a wide range of problems in the home, the Home Emergency Guide features clear, user-friendly symptom charts to help readers determine whether to call an ambulance or a doctor, or to use self-help measures.

Spice up your sex life with 100 erotic tips guaranteed to please! Increase erotic enjoyment with this sexy little book packed with hot ideas to inspire and arouse. Heighten passion and enhance lovemaking skills with Anne Hooper's adventurous guide to erotic tricks and techniques. Guaranteed to tantalize, the tops cover the full spectrum of sexual experience, from saucy seduction to spine-tingling foreplay and fantasy. Fun and sassy with raunchy color photos of techniques in action, Great Sex Tips will encourage you to expand your sexual repertoire and become a bold, provocative, and imaginative lover.

Classic Lovemaking Techniques Reinterpeted For Today's Lovers
Anne Hooper's Kama Sutra updates and reinterprets the 2,000 year–old sexual text in a fully illustrated guide that features specially commissioned photographs and information on ways to enrich and diversify one's sex life. In this classic volume of sexual learning, Anne Hooper brings together the best of the eastern sexual teaching, the Kama Sutra, the Ananga Ranga, The Perfumed Garden, and The Tao to create a new classic that encourages an emphasis on pressure points, manners, artistic freedom, and most of all finding and pursuing a loving sexual relationship. She discourages the focus from accomplishing distorted poses-in actuality, they are advanced yoga positions-and instead has discovered the true spirit of these ancient teachings and applied the teachings to contemporary lovemaking.

This disc reproduces the printed The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones (London, 1856), with supplementary color plates from the 1868 edition. The original printed work was considered a masterpiece of 19th-century color printing, with thousands of examples of ornamental motifs and designs (many from ancient monuments and buildings) from the ancient world through the Renaissance, including both Eastern and Western design motifs.