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Tuberous begonias are sensational flowers: their abundant blooms capture everyone's heart and eye. This guide introduces the best varieties and celebrates the great range of colours grown. It offers coverage that both novice and veteran need to know to grow blooms for the home, garden and show bench.

A step-by-step guide which covers various aspects of building a garage from the planning and design stage through to construction and completion.

Offers an instructional guide to the art of millinery. This book explains how to go about designing a hat, what equipment and materials you will need, and the techniques required to get started.

Theatre designers need to be proficient in an extraordinarily diverse range of skills to carry out their work. They are expected to be able to draw, both creatively and technically, to be able to use colour imaginatively, to make accurate scale models of their set designs, and to design costumes.

Captures the excitement of working with glass and explains the techniques involved in this sphere of glass making. This book includes practical instruction that is accompanied by visual images of kiln formed glass by established glass artists, as well as snapshots of some of their own making processes.

Featured in this new, substantially revised, and updated edition of Rugby Union are:

This book gives a detailed technical analysis of the bikes, and charts the development of the range from its introduction through to its heyday in the late 1960s. It looks at the development of the range, and covers the various models produced including a restoration of probably the best model produced - a 1970 T120R Bonneville.

Explains not only how and why the helicopter flies but also on the correct handling techniques needed to master the flying exercises required to obtain a helicopter pilot's licence. This manual is intended for students undertaking their basic helicopter training.

Designed to take the student through the various levels of kickboxing training, from the very early stages right through to black belt, this book is an ideal aid for anyone wanting to train in the comfort of their own home, or to improve their kickboxing skills in the gym or the dojo.

The Rover P5 was the last great representative of traditional British luxury saloon building, with the emphasis firmly on quality rather than sportiness. Its spaciousness, refinement and wood and leather charm still command a considerable classic car following. This book looks at this saloon.

The large section on gas-turbine engines provides essential reading for those pilots wishing to convert to the type. Of primary importance are the chapters on piston and turbine powerplants, airworthiness, flight instruments and hydraulics.

Comprehensively sets out the ground rules for Mediterranean gardeners. This book talks about the range of plants to consider growing, what they offer and what they demand.

Providing useful tips and information, this book is suitable for archers of various levels. Illustrated with nearly 250 black and white photographs and 80 diagrams, it analyses shooting techniques and tuning, and also emphasizes the development of mental toughness.

Suitable for both recreational and competitive boxers, and all those who wish to take up amateur boxing, or participate in a boxing-based programme. This work offers practical advice on the many crucial factors that need to be taken into account if the boxer is to maximize his, or her, performance and potential.

Brings together the early histories of the development of the turbojet, turboprop and turboshaft engines. This work describes the work of twelve nations (Great Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union, the United States, Japan, France, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Hungary) from the earliest days up to the end of the 1950s.

Provides a comprehensive guide to the production of organic pulses and cereals across a range of organic farming systems in northern temperate and maritime regions. This work examines the subject of organic farming in general, and considers market demands and the issues that need to be considered when determining management strategies.

This title takes you through the process of making shows happen from the viewpoint of the production manager, the person responsible for everything on stage that is not an actor. It describes different types of productions, the role, the working life of backstage teams and theatre administration.

This informative book explains everything which needs to be considered when managing grasslands to benefit the horse, the vegetation and the environment. The book examines the horse's grazing habits and its requirements when at grass, and presents an overview of the types of grasslands found in Britain and their suitability for the horse.

Profiles over 4,000 varieties of this popular and striking plant. Illustrated with over 2,200 colour photographs, each entry includes: a description of the plant and flower colour; notes on hardiness, height and spread, and flowering time; advice on cultivation and proven performers; the name of the parent plants, the raiser and similar varieties.

Gives an illustrated overview of the webbing straps, holsters, carriers and haversacks used by American combat troops from before World War One to the Vietnam War. This book is useful for students of American uniform and equipment, modellers, re-enactors and collectors.

"Chess Openings" explains the principles which underlie correct opening play and shows how they can be developed to produce strong positions for attack and defense in different situations. Mike Basman consolidates these lessons by investigating five classic openings--the Queen's Gambit, Giuoco Piano, Nimzo-Indian, Morra Gambit, and Sicilian Dragon--which together can be used to form the basis of a formidable opening repertoire.

The Complete Guide to Living with Thatch contains a wealth of practical information and advice for all those who live in or who are contemplating buying a thatched house, old or new. It also provides a unique reference guide and record of the hundreds of attractive thatched villages and curiosities- to visit in the British Isles.

In this title "Master Craftsman" Gerald Wingrove discusses many of the techniques and potential pitfalls of the advancing modeller's skill.

On 20 August 1980 Reinhold Messner reached the summit of Everest - alone and without the use of oxygen. This is an account of his extraordinary achievement. Messner describes his journey through Tibet and identifies with mountaineers who went before him, such as Mallory, Irvine and Wilson.

This practical manual takes you through the period approaching, during and immediately after lambing. Advice is given on how to deal with a range of situations, from normal and malpresentations, and the sick in-lamb ewe to abortion and the health of the newborn lamb.

Royal Enfield was one of the best-known names of the British motorcycle industry, but curiously its products have never received the adulation bestowed on the products of Triumph, BSA and others. In this complete history, Mick Walker looks at all aspects of these good-looking, innovative machines.

Provides a summary of essential information for the violin maker and player. This book is divided into three parts: The Violin Makers; The Workshop, Tools and Materials; and, Violin Construction. It also provides a record of the history, social background, lives and work of the great violin makers of the past.

The outbreak of WW1 in 1914 found the British Army unready in many respects for a new age of warfare. However, the British led the world in the personal equipment worn by the infantryman thanks to an American officer named Anson Mills and the skills of the company created to produce his design - the 1908 equipment set made in woven cotton web. By the outbreak of WW2, the British infantry had new 1937 pattern equipment, whose design reflected a new generation of weapons and tactics. This proved unequal to the special demands of jungle warfare in the Far East: so 1944 saw yet another set of kit. In this book the author offers collectors and students of militaria a detailed review of these infantry equipments which spanned the British soldier's combat experience throughout most of the 20th century.

Whether you are an established smallholder, or just starting to take the first tentative steps towards farming at your home, this book contains a wealth of useful information on all the key aspects of small-scale agriculture.

This manual is intended as a primer for the newcomer or those taking up a class of study. The book contains information on reading patterns, on mounting lace and advice on changing the scale of the lace. Ideas are given for coloured lace and a number of projects are included.