Machine Needle Felting with wool fabrics/felt create stunning live like scenery and pictures. These new techniques allow for hues in color and textures. Full size drawings will show where to place the pieces. Learn how easy it is to transfer patterns, machine felt the pieces and add shading to enhance to the overall look of the project. Shading- and Embroidery Guides increase the dimension of the overall look of the project. Keep the form of art simple or make it as complex as you like. It is limitless once you tried it. The book is sprinkled with "Notes" and pictures to make it easy. A great book for beginners and advanced for all level of artists.

Willow Nook Machine Needle Felting "Impressions" is a collection of tips, techniques and patterns for creating beautiful, dimensional and functional pieces with a needle felting machine. Following her previous releases, Willow Nook Machine Needle Felting "Timeless Collection," and Willow Nook Machine Needle Felting "Wool Images," Isabella provides a new perspective about what's possible with felted wool, and explains her innovative approach to felting with a machine, shading with Copic Markers, and embellishing with embroidery and beadwork.

Isabella's newest creative endeavor, Willow Nook Machine Needle Felting Designs; Wool Images, aims to achieve a more artistically developed, detailed and natural form of design and composition when using a multi-needle Felting Machine to create works of art with felted wool. Using a combination of embroidery, artistic shading and other embellishment, it's simple to create amazing pieces that can be used anywhere in and around the home or office, or in conjunction with other art mediums.

The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of the Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the material world. As such, it provides crucial links and backgrounds, both personal and intellectual, in the tremendous project of remembrance that is Levi’s gift to posterity. But far from being a prologue to his experience of the Holocaust, Levi’s masterpiece represents his most impassioned response to the events that engulfed him. The Periodic Table celebrates the pleasures of love and friendship and the search for meaning, and stands as a monument to those things in us that are capable of resisting and enduring in the face of tyranny.

"A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." — New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.

Bring some good luck along with a little bit of whimsy to your home or that of a loved one with these fun projects featuring gnomes. Find playful designs for all rooms of the house including projects for the kitchen, sewing room, holidays, or a special gift.

'All le Guin's stories are metaphors for the one human story; all her fantastic planets are this one' Margaret Atwood ARMCHAIR TRAVEL FOR THE MIND: It was Sita Dulip who discovered, whilst stuck in an airport, unable to get anywhere, how to change planes - literally. With a kind of a twist and a slipping bend, easier to do than describe, she could go anywhere - be anywhere - because she was already between planes ... and on the way back from her sister's wedding, she missed her plane in Chicago and found herself in Choom. The author, armed with this knowledge and Rornan's invaluable Handy Planetary Guide - although not the Encyclopedia Planeria, as that runs to forty-four volumes - has spent many happy years exploring places as diverse as Islac and the Veksian plane. CHANGING PLANES is an intriguing, enticing mixture of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS and THE HITCH-HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY; a cross between Douglas Adams and Alain de Botton: a mix of satire, cynicism and humour by one of the world's best writers.