A comprehensive guide to taking fantastic landscape photographs using the digital SLR. It contains professional photography from Darwin Wiggett, David Noton, William Neill, Tom Mackie and Tony Worobiec.

Shows how to create over 40 simple yet stylish cakes for various occasions, from weddings and anniversaries, to birthdays, christenings and Christmas. This title presents a variety of cake designs in various colors, shapes and sizes. It includes a selection of sweet cupcakes and gorgeous minicakes to make when time is short.

Features identification and details on lifestyle and habitat for 216 species of bird commonly found in Britain, and a further 117 rarer species whose irregular visits add excitement to the birdwatcher's year.

A gardening guide to fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables. It guides you step-by-step through every stage of choosing varities, planting, growing and harvesting. There are tips for using fresh ingredients in your cooking. It contains dozens of tempting recipes for preserving a glut of produce as delicious chutneys, jams, and wines.

A do-it-yourself guide to choosing, raising and training an adorable puppy of any breed or background. It provides instructions on basic puppy care and training, housebreaking, and solving behavioural issues, such as barking and the chewing furniture.

Including guest exercises by leading equestrians such as Missy Clark, Hap Hansen and James Wofford, this work contains 101 jumping exercises for horse and rider. It starts with basic work to help horse and rider establish a dialogue with each other. Exercises progress in complexity teaching the rider correct technique, balance and confidence.

This book has everything you need to create unique afghans, wall hangings and accessories; from knitting techniques and step-by-step instructions for 200 decorative blocks to inspiration and advice for creating a finished piece.

Provides the reader with an insight into the life and work of one of history's most intriguing figures, Leonardo Da Vinci. Almost all of his work is presented in this volume - from his paintings and frescos, to detailed reproductions of his remarkable encrypted notebooks.

A mysterious collection of photographs depicting ghosts and other phenomena from around the world.

Nothing could be easier to serve than a whole meal in one dish. This book helps to discover that one-dish cookery can be healthy too. It offers various recipes that can be cooked in just one pan, pot or tin. It covers delicious recipes from casseroles, curries, roasts and oven-baked dishes to grills, stir-fries and salads.

Helps to create yuletide accessories that enhance your home using simple techniques. This title includes 35 projects. It contains instructions, colour photographs and illustrations that accompany each project.

A guide to Britain's monarchs and their chequered histories, from pre-Roman times onwards. It explores lives and personalities of each monarch, their involvement in and effect on events in their reign. It provides information on the spirit, traditions and innovations of the nation at the time, including politics, arts, architecture and fashions.

A guide to the world's most popular imaging software, Adobe Photoshop. It is organised around accessible projects that show the reader how to acheive specific end results. It also covers commonly used versions of Photoshop, including notes on changes in later versions and tips on how the techniques can be adapted to Photoshop Elements.

A collection of classic and contemporary papercrafting ideas. It contains over 40 fresh designs for greetings, gifts and decorations, including colourful cards and tags and gorgeous garlands and wrapping. It provides versatile techniques, a range of yuletide papers and an array of embellishments, including beads, wire, ribbon, stitching and more.

An easy-reference guide to landscape photography.

Helps to discover a variety of techniques and methods. This work teaches how to work these in blocks to build up a sampler quilt, and provides the information needed to produce a sampler quilt that is both an heirloom and a testament to developing skills. It explains a variety of blocks to be made either by hand or machine.

A guide to keeping chickens for people who are as interested in them as pets as they are in eggs and other poultry produce. It reveals how chickens are interesting and colourful characters that can enliven any garden. It also includes chapters on using feathers and eggs in art and craft projects, as well as delicious egg recipes.

Shows how to achieve perfect calligraphy. This work features a 'three-stage' approach designed to build up confidence and ability. It demonstrates the basic letter formation techniques behind each alphabet, then asks readers to practise writing the letters and simple sentences. It also introduces some advanced practices and techniques.

Takes the reader on an odyssey around Britain in pursuit of the lost railways. This title focuses on the 10,000 miles of lines closed in Britain since the 1950s. It documents the forgotten aspects of railways, including timetabled journeys, stations, tunnels, staff and railway vehicles.

Helps readers create beautiful and intricate pieces of pure silver jewellery with no silversmithing skills and very few tools and equipment using metal clay. This book features photography, which demonstrates the techniques needed to set with stones, decorate with enamels, create textural effects using engraving and more.