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Learn to Sew in 30 Minutes: Machine Sewing - 30 Quick and Easy Projects to Build Your Skills by Debbie Von Grabler-Crozier
Category: Craft | Series: Learn to Sew in 30 Minutes Ser.
A complete course in sewing, broken down into 25 quick and easy sewing projects under the expert guidance of Debbie von Gabler-Crozier. Discover, or rekindle, a new passion in this learn-as-you-stitch practical course by sewing extraordinaire, blogger and writer, Debbie von Grabler-Crozier. Following h ...Show more
Life Drawing in 15 Minutes - Capture the Beauty of the Human Form by Jake Spicer
Category: Art Instructional | Series: Draw in 15 Minutes Ser.
Drawing expert Jake Spicer introduces you to the most important skill in the artist's repertoire: life drawing. Life class remains a key component of nearly every art degree in the UK. From understanding relationships and proportions and considering basic anatomy, to learning about mark-making and ton ...Show more
Numbers in Minutes by Julia Collins
Category: Science | Series: In Minutes Ser.
The quickest explanation of math, in 200 essential numbers. Why 60 seconds in a minute? Who invented zero? What exactly is pi? Why do mathematicians hunt prime numbers? And how can you get a number bigger than infinity? To find out, take a tour through 200 important, fascinating and unusual numb ...Show more
Quantum Physics in Minutes by Gemma Lavender
Category: Science | Series: In Minutes Ser.
Quantum physics is the most fundamental -- but also the most baffling -- branch of science. Allowing for dead-and-alive cats, teleportation, antimatter, and parallel universes, as well as underpinning all of our digital technology, it's as important as it is mind-bending. This clear and compact book dem ...Show more
Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes: Animals in Watercolour: Build Your Skills with Quick & Easy Painting Projects by Matthew Palmer
Category: Art Instructional | Series: Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes Ser.
An ideal beginner's guide to painting animals and birds in watercolour for artists who are short on time. This comprehensive beginner's guide to painting animals and birds in watercolor is ideal if you want to learn to paint but are short on time. Each of the 26 quick-and-easy exercises is worked at ...Show more
Religion in Minutes by Marcus Weeks
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: In Minutes Ser.
What are the differences between Sunni and Shi'a, Catholic and Protestant, Buddhism and Confucianism? Who were Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, and what did they really preach? Why are the concepts of karma, jihad, and nirvana so important? And what do the religions of the world say about life, death, and ho ...Show more
Solar System in Minutes by Giles Sparrow
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: In Minutes Ser.
The Solar System in Minutes explains the history and features of all the major celestial bodies, including the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, the planets' main moons, the asteroids, comets, dwarf planets, and the Kuiper belt, as well as the birth, evolution, and scie ...Show more
The Ancient World in Minutes by Charles Phillips
Category: History | Series: In Minutes Ser.
From the first cities of Sumeria and Babylon around 3500 BCE to the fall of the Rome and the bloody demise of the Aztecs, here--in 200 mini essays--are the critical leaders and wars; ideas and inventions; myths and religions, and art and architecture of the first 5000 years of recorded history. Discover ...Show more
The Brain in Minutes by Rita Carter
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: In Minutes Ser.
The brain is considered the most complex structure in all of creation. But recent discoveries in neuroscience are now revealing the inner secrets of the brain--how it works, why it makes us who we are and what happens when it goes wrong.The cutting-edge and comprehensive guide explains why the human bra ...Show more
The Future in Minutes by Keith Mansfield
Category: Science | Series: In Minutes Ser.
WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?200 FUTURISTIC CONCEPTS, TECHNOLOGIES, AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES, EXPLAINED IN AN INSTANT How will we live, work, and entertain ourselves? What new technologies will emerge? Will humanity evolve--and perhaps live forever? Or are we facing threats that could end us--and even th ...Show more
The Human Body in Minutes by Tom Jackson
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: In Minutes Ser.
This concise, illuminating guide takes us on a comprehensive tour of our bodies, explaining how they work and why they work that way, from the basic unit of the cell, through the tissues and organs that make up the body's systems, to how these systems work together to form a complete human being, from e ...Show more
World War II in Minutes by R. G. Grant
Category: Military | Series: In Minutes Ser.
The shortest history of our greatest conflict.Clear, concise yet comprehensive, World War II in Minutes is the quickest way to understand the greatest conflict in human history. From its causes to its aftermath, this book details in 200 mini-essays every key event of the war, including the rise of Hitl ...Show more