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Simple Soldered Jewelry & Accessories: A Crafter's Guide to Fashioning Necklaces, Earrings, Bracelets & More
Soldering has moved out of the garage shop and taken the crafting world by storm! It’s a fabulous, easy-to-learn technique for creating jewelry, decorative accents, and keepsakes, and this comprehensive guide takes beginners step-by-step through all the basics: glass cutting, working with copper foil, and the actual soldering itself. Easy-to-trace patterns with glass cutting lines are included, along with vintage photos and decorative paper. Make a mini scrapbook fold-out frame to hold cherished photos and mementos. Learn to work with curved surfaces on projects such as a playful Turquoise Swirl Cuff. A comprehensive techniques section helps novices learn the basics and trouble-shoot potential problems as they work. .
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Multicultural Education In A Pluralistic Society
This well-respected book helps readers understand pluralism and the complexities of cultural backgrounds and how to use this knowledge successfully in the classroom. It appropriately describes seven critical microcultures to which students and teachers belong: class; ethnicity and race; gender; exceptionality; religion; language; and age. These microcultures form the foundation for understanding pluralism and multicultural education. A focus on current issues features sections on hate groups, school violence, social justice, culturally responsible teaching, and teaching for democracy. Video insights incorporated into each chapter promote stimulating social and cultural discussions around video segments from ABC News. For teachers striving to deliver an equitable education to all students..
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Foundations Of Education Ninth Edition
Foundations of Education provides comprehensive and substantive coverage of all foundational areas, including social, philosophical, historical, political, economic, curricular, and legal foundations of education The text incorporates relevant interdisciplinary perspectives and emphasizes significant contemporary issues in education. It has a solid research base drawn extensively from primary sources, current references, and documentation. - The "Technology@School" feature updates students on relevant developments regarding educational technology and provides information that students can apply during their teaching careers.
- The authors added information about standards and accountability to address the growing emphasis on holding students, teachers, and schools accountable for meeting local, state, and national standards.
- "Refocus Questions" help reinforce students' comprehension by reviewing information learned in the chapter and applying concepts to students' own personal situations.
- Chapter-opening "Focus Questions" provide students with an advance outline of each chapter's material.
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Price: $9.83
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Reece, Effective Human Relations 10e
This comprehensive text covers the key human relation skills students need to be successful managers in the workplace Ideal for both two- and four-year programs, Effective Human Relations uses an organizational perspective to help students understand the disparate factors that influence employee behavior. The Tenth Edition focuses more directly on chapter objectives, establishing them around the seven themes of the text--communication, self-awareness, self-acceptance, motivation, trust, self-disclosure, and conflict resolution--so that the students absorb and connect the concepts. New areas of coverage include goal-setting principles; root causes of negative attitudes; introduction of the Reiss Profile instrument used to classify our basic desires; the use of "branding" to achieve greater visibility in a crowded job market; discrimination based on a person's religious preference; new ways to classify various forms of technostress; and new support for the importance of emotional intelligence. Throughout the text, major themes are supported by a multitude of real-world examples and emotional intelligence checkpoints..
Price: $42.98
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Food & Wine Annual Cookbook 2005: An Entire Year of Recipes (Food & Wine Annual Cookbook)
Every recipe from every 2004 issue of Food & Wine, the top-selling cuisine magazine--all in one beautiful volume. More than 900,000 subscribers heartily agree: there's always something delicious going on at Food & Wine. And it's all here in the annual cookbook, which includes every recipe published in the magazine during the year 2004--more than 500 dishes accompanied by scrumptious-looking photographs. But that's not all: the volume will include 50 all-new kitchen tips, as well as an extensive glossary of readily-available wines. The contributors remain absolutely stellar, cuisine's finest, including Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Jacques Pépin, and Paula Wolfert. Such recipes as the mouthwatering Fettuccine with Mushrooms and Prosciutto, Beef Tenderloin with Bacon and Creamed Leeks, and Double Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Filling are kitchen-tested on home equipment, making them easy to re-create. Here's real food that real people who want to eat well can actually prepare, dishes that reflect the many ways we cook today. .
Price: $4.00
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Beyond Beading: Jewelry Projects to Instruct and Inspire
Natural, playful, or vintage? No matter what your outfit calls for, Beyond Beading has an answer. A trip to the seashore can end in a beautiful shell necklace. An afternoon antiquing can mean a mother of pearl bracelet by tomorrow. With eclectic materials and a few simple pages of instruction, any adornment is possible. Create stylish adornments for your neck, your wrist, your handbag, and your clothing with these 25 creative jewelry projects from renowned crafts consultant and designer Erika Knight. For novice jewelry makers and anyone who covets the hottest must-have accessories, Beyond Beading is Erika Knight’s latest contribution to the craft world. In it, she turns her skilled aesthetic eye—honed for years in her sumptuous, timeless knitted and crochet designs—to the art of jewelry making. Working with fellow craft practitioner Joy Fox, and using materials as diverse as driftwood and pebbles, pom-poms and crocheted flowers, antique glass and vintage buttons, Knight has created projects themed as “Natural,” “Playful,” and “Vintage.” These themes make it possible for women of varied tastes to find—and fashion—the perfect accent for different outfits and occasions. Most of the 25 pieces (including 8 from Joy) involve only easy techniques for threading and knotting in a variety of fibers, such as cord, wire, suede, hemp, ribbon, or leather—while a few also include other clearly explained craftwork such as basic wrapping, knitting, and crocheting. All of them are showstopping..
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Easy Card Tricks
Mathematical dupes, sleights of hand, shady shuffles, and impossible predictions: these are just a few of the 80 ways to use a pack of cards to dazzle and baffle everyone. Mastering the tricks of the magician's trade is effortless with these instructions and illustrations by your side. Written by the coauthor of the highly successful The Complete Book of Card Games, this is the guide that will teach you all the basic skills and provide invaluable advice on how to practice and perform. All the routines unfold in order of difficulty: begin with simple sleights and shuffles (the glide, double lift, palming). Move on to easy tricks, like the entertaining "four burglars," where the Jacks represent thieves who must end up on top of the pile of cards. Then try ones with prepared packs and more advanced magic, including a variation of three-card monte. It's the ultimate instruction manual for budding magicians!
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Price: $4.24
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