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Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire
In late-eighteenth-century India, the glory of the Mughal emperors was fading, and ambitious newcomers seized power, changing the political map forever. Enter the legendary Maharajah Ranjit Singh, whose Sikh Empire stretched throughout northwestern India into Afghanistan and Tibet. Priya Atwal shines fresh light on this long-lost kingdom, looking beyond its founding father to restore the queens and princes to the story of this empire’s spectacular rise and fall. She brings to life a self-made ruling family, inventively fusing Sikh, Mughal and European ideas of power, but eventually succumbing to gendered family politics, as the Sikh Empire fell to its great rival in the new India: the British. Royals and Rebels is a fascinating tale of family, royalty and the fluidity of power, set in a dramatic global era when new stars rose and upstart empires clashed.Read more
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Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Adults and Youth
Do you long to drive a Ferrari at top speed on the open road, but find yourself always stuck on the freeway during rush hour? Do you wonder how you can feel like “not enough” and “too much” at the same time? Like the rain forest, are you sometimes intense, multilayered, colorful, creative, overwhelming, highly sensitive, complex, and/or idealistic? And, like the rain forest, have you met too many chainsaws?Enter Paula Prober, M.S., M.Ed., who understands the diversity and complexity of minds like yours. In “Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Youths and Adults,” Paula explores the challenges faced by gifted adults of all ages. Through case studies and extensive research, Paula will help you tap into your inner creativity, find peace, and discover the limitless potential that comes with your Rainforest Mind.Read more
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Public Law: Text, Cases, and Materials
Public Law: Text, Cases, and Materials offers a fresh approach to the study of constitutional and administrative law by exploring how the law works in practice.The inclusion of extracts from key cases, government reports and academic articles demonstrates the law in action and the incisive commentary that accompanies them explains the significance of each. The expert authors have distilled their knowledge of the institutions and legal principles into concise, focused prose, and they encourage reflection through regular questions and hypothetical examples.
This leading text provides students with a thorough and wide-ranging knowledge of public law, together with a full understanding of the theoretical and political debates in this fascinating and dynamic area of law.
Digital formats and resources
The fifth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.
– The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
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Shit Just Got Real Wedding Planner Checklist: Funny Wedding Planner Organizer – Budget, Timeline, Checklists, Guest List, Table Seating Wedding Attire … Great engagement gift…
This Comprehensive Beautifully Designed Wedding Planner Has Everything You Need To Make It Easy For You To Organize And Plan Your Perfect Wedding!
This Ultimate Wedding Planner got you covered every step of the way and guide you step by step to plan an unforgettable wedding while not going bridezilla! 🙂
★WHAT WILL YOU FIND IN THIS UlTIMATE WEDDING PLANNER?
- Wedding Expense Trackers for EVERY aspect of wedding planning.
- Guided prompt pages that cover 12 months prior, 9 months, 6 months, 4 months, 1 month, 1 week and 1 day before wedding to-do checklist pages and planning guidelines.
- Weekly wedding planning.
- Wedding attire.
- Personal pages (Bride’s Check List, etc).
- Bachelorette/Bachelor party
- Party Planning (for both the Bride & Groom).
- Guest Lists.
- Pages to keep track of all vendors, photographer, Catering, DJ and Entertainment, Florist, Wedding Cake, Transport, etc.
- Table Seating Planner
- Vendor Contact Sheets and much more!
♥ It makes the perfect engagement or bridal gift for the stylish bride to be!
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Eat Sleep Audition Rehearse Rehearse Freak Out Kill it On Opening Night Repeat: Musical Theatre Journal with Blank Pages to Write in – Theater … Acting Notes: Broadway Gift…
Broadway musical theater journal notebook with blank pages to write in. Take acting notes, stage cues, and dramatic instruction down in this cute actor gift.Read more
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Our Adoption Journey: A journal keepsake for adoption families
Chronicle every progressive happening from start to finalization of your adoption journey!You can choose to use 120 pages as you see fit:
– the decision to adopt
– journal entries of the adoption process
– drawn/written entries
– etc.!The sky is the limit to make this journal reflect your beautiful journey!
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NCFE Level 1/2 Technical Award in Food and Cookery
Trust highly experienced teacher and author Helen Buckland to guide you through the latest NCFE Level 1/2 Technical Award in Food and Cookery (for first teaching from 2022 onwards). This resource will strengthen your understanding of the content and boost the skills required to tackle the external exam and NEA with confidence.
This Student Textbook is:
>> Comprehensive – gain in-depth knowledge with clear explanations of every concept and topic with easy-to-follow chapters.
>> Accessible, reliable and trusted – structured to match the specification and provide you with the information you need to build knowledge, understanding and skills.
>> Designed to support you – boost your confidence when tackling the internal and external assessment with plenty of activities to test and consolidate knowledge.
>> Your go-to guide – an expert author has carefully designed tasks and activities to build your skillset in order to aid progression and questions to assess understanding.Read more
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Nursing Adults with Long Term Conditions (Transforming Nursing Practice Series)
This book provides an accessible overview of the care and management of people living with a long-term condition. Develop your skills and knowledge of the particularities of working with this group, including supporting self-care and self-management as well as providing care for those with complex needs, comorbidities and palliative care.
Key features
- Each chapter is mapped to the 2018 NMC standards
- Structured sequentially to follow the journey an individual with an LTC might take, from diagnosis through to palliative care
- Case students and activities relate theory and research to your own experiences and practice
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Harry Potter: Hogwarts Trunk Collectible Set
This high-quality collectible replica of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts trunk from the Harry Potter films includes a keepsake box, wand pen, interactive journal, enamel pin, Marauder’s Map and more! A perfect gift for fans of the Wizarding World. Kit includes:
* SPECIFICATIONS: This deluxe collectible includes a replica of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts trunk measuring 12 inches long by 6-3/4 inches wide by 3-3/4 inches high, complete with a journal, Harry’s wand-pen, a chocolate frog enamel pin, replicas of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts acceptance letter, train ticket on the Hogwarts Express, Marauder’s map, and ticket to a Quidditch match
* AUTHENTIC REPLICA: This trunk is a molded replica of Harry Potter’s trunk used for the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
* KEEPSAKE TRUNK: Full-color printed box modeled on the trunk seen in the Harry Potter films featuring two metal closing locks and handle, to transport anywhere
* JOURNAL INCLUDED: Record your magical thoughts in this Hogwarts-themed journal, measuring 4-1/4 inches by 7 inches, complete with quotes, writing prompts, and photos throughout
* PERFECT PRESENT: This one-of-a kind, ultra-deluxe, Wizarding World kit is a perfect gift or self-purchase for the Potter fan or collector
* OFFICIALLY LICENSED: Authentic Harry Potter Collectible
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African Origins of Major “Western Religions”
Dr. Ben critically examines the history, beliefs, and myths that are the foundation of Judaism. Christianity, and Islam.Read more
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BECOME A MASTER OF CLOSING SALES: The Ultimate Course on Closing Deals
Sales is one of the oldest professions in the world.
Millions of people on this planet are dependent on selling skills to earn their livelihood.
No business can survive without sales.
Unfortunately, almost 1/3rd of salespeople quit this lucrative career every year.
And 50% of companies shut their doors within the first 5 years.
This trend will go on and on and on until we realize how important it is to learn and master the art of selling if we want to survive and thrive in the ruthless world.
And the companies, who don’t realize, will keep hiring new people and firing old ones.
Similarly, the salespeople who don’t realize how important it is to learn salesmanship will keep changing jobs… places… industries… until they decide one day to leave the sales career forever. Succeeding in sales will become sour grapes.
However, one can always find some businesses, entrepreneurs, self-employed, and salespeople who love to challenge themselves that no matter how broke they are… how weak they are… how small they are… they will keep learning and growing until they become Champion of Champions.
This book is written for these ‘Never give up salespeople and marketers.
In this ultimate course, you’ll discover and learn many powerful closing techniques to close one sale after another.
What You Will Learn
- A type of communication with the prospect where the more the salesman and the prospect talk to each other the further they would move away from closing the deal.
- 10 essential steps in the entire sales process and out of these 10, these 3 are the most important.
- 20 most powerful closing techniques to close one sale after another
- How to establish your superiority against your competitors while closing the sales
- 29 questions to find out the prospect’s most hidden objections
- What is the highest-paid salespeople’s favourite strategy to sell more and more and more with lesser and lesser and lesser efforts, time, energy, and resources
- A type of communication with the prospect where even if the prospect loves the salesman’s product then also he may never give the order
- How by simply understanding this Triangle Theory could make one a successful salesman in his organization even if he has never sold a single thing in his life
- 42 most seductive words in the world of selling and how to use them in the sales pitch
- How to lower the price resistance in the prospect’s mind
- How one businessman’s creative selling idea was responsible for skyrise buildings all across the world? Any smart entrepreneur could use this strategy to sell the most sceptical prospects
- A type of communication with the prospect where the prospect is buying on salesman’s terms without raising any objections. It’s a dream sale for every salesman
- If one knows these 85 words while speaking and writing to three kinds of prospects, he could take attention of any prospect
- 8 fears of prospects which stop them from buying
- 4 steps a salesman needs to follow in every sales call if he doesn’t want to lose the deal to competitors
- How to treat customer’s objections
- 9 ways to detect the prospect’s buying signals
- A type of communication with the prospect which may bring sales most of the times but also keeps the salesman struggling to get the most profitable deals
- Which is the toughest objection to deal with
- How to create value in the prospect’s mind
- 58 question to gain agreement from prospects
- How small businesses could defeat giant organizations if they are competing for the same deal
- 6 reasons why your existing customer may leave you FOREVER
- 3 most common buying signals given by a prospect
- 175 Hard-Hitting Closing Questions Every Salesperson Should Remember to Close More and More Deals Everyday
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The Little Green Box of Bright and Early Board Books: Fox in Socks; Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?; There’s a Wocket in My Pocket!; Dr. Seuss’s ABC
Four of THE most beloved Dr. Seuss Bright and Early Board Books in a sturdy box with a plastic handle!Inside this cheery green box are abridged board book editions of the Dr. Seuss classics Fox in Socks, Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?, There’s a Wocket in My Pocket!, and Dr. Seuss’s ABC. Secured by a tuck closure and perfect for travel, this cute set makes a literacy-nurturing gift, perfect for babies and toddlers.
And if you are looking to give a really special gift, pair this collection with The Little Blue Box of Bright and Early Board Books by Dr. Seuss!
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Nordic Religions in the Viking Age (The Middle Ages Series)
The popular image of the Viking as a horn-helmeted berserker plying the ocean in a dragon-headed long boat is firmly fixed in history. Imagining Viking “conquerors” as much more numerous, technologically superior, and somehow inherently more warlike than their neighbors has overshadowed the cooperation and cultural exchange which characterized much of the Viking Age. In actuality, the Norse explorers and traders were players in a complex exchange of technology, customs, and religious beliefs between the ancient pre-Christian societies of northern Europe and the Christian-dominated nations surrounding the Mediterranean.
DuBois examines Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, and Mediterranean traditions to locate significant Nordic parallels in conceptions of supernatural beings, cults of the dead, beliefs in ghosts, and magical practices. These beliefs were actively held alongside Christianity for many years, and were finally incorporated into the vernacular religious practice. The Icelandic sagas reflect this complex process in their inclusion of both Christian and pagan details.
This work differs from previous examinations in its inclusion of the Christian thirteenth century as part of the evolution of Nordic religions from localized pagan cults to adherents of a larger Roman faith.
Thomas DuBois unravels for the first time the history of the Nordic religions in the Viking Age and shows how these ancient beliefs and their oral traditions incorporated both a myriad of local beliefs and aspects of foreign religions, most notably Christianity.Read more
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Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language
Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people.The ensuing debate over sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from “savages,” humans from animals, men from women, the natural from the unnatural, and the normal from the abnormal. An advocate of the return to sign language, Baynton found that although the grounds of the debate have shifted, educators still base decisions on many of the same metaphors and images that led to the misguided efforts to eradicate sign language.
“Baynton’s brilliant and detailed history, Forbidden Signs, reminds us that debates over the use of dialects or languages are really the linguistic tip of a mostly submerged argument about power, social control, nationalism, who has the right to speak and who has the right to control modes of speech.”—Lennard J. Davis, The Nation
“Forbidden Signs is replete with good things.”—Hugh Kenner, New York Times Book Review
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Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic by Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as “ideas” but as “signs,” external to the self and without meaning unless interpreted by a subsequent thought. His general theory of signs — or semiotic — is especially pertinent to methodologies currently being debated in many disciplines.This anthology, the first one-volume work devoted to Peirce’s writings on semiotic, provides a much-needed, basic introduction to a complex aspect of his work. James Hoopes has selected the most authoritative texts and supplemented them with informative headnotes. His introduction explains the place of Peirce’s semiotic in the history of philosophy and compares Peirce’s theory of signs to theories developed in literature and linguistics.
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All-American Ads of the 40s
At the beginning of the decade, America was at war. Patriotism was an integral part of everyday life, with the sentiment mirrored in advertising. As America emerged victorious out of the darkness of World War II in 1945, the economic boom of the era helped usher in the most dramatic rise in quality of life, excess, and consumerism. The war’s end also brought unprecedented pride and prosperity to the American people, and nothing reflects the new wave of consumerism and progress more than the ads of the time. Spending power dramatically increased in the decade’s second half, with plentiful jobs and higher wages. Because of the new GI Bill, affordable housing was made available to returning war veterans for the first time. People were ready to embrace the idea of the American Dream.
The postwar era represented a flood of products and services for every need and occasion, reaching every corner of society. Everything from entertainment to travel and automobiles, alcohol and tobacco, fashion and beauty, and food and beverage was in high demand and within reach. This period opened the floodgates of buying as advertisers sought to meet the needs of a population recovering from years of rationing. This engaging collection edited by Jim Heimann dives into the frenetic, lively, and brilliant era of American life and advertising in the 1940s.
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Throwing the Book
Wayne Barnes – one of the most-experienced international referees in history and criminal barrister to boot – uniquely lifts the lid on a lifetime of trying to keep the biggest names in the sport on best behaviour.
There aren’t many people who can say they’ve been the thirty-first man on the pitch during a World Cup humdinger, Grand Slam decider or Premiership and European Cup final; listened to the sobs of a 20-stone prop as he tries to belt out his national anthem; heard the crunch of bones after some of the mightiest hits known to the game; or been yards away from the greatest players of the last twenty years, doing almost impossible things with a rugby ball – especially when you’re a working-class lad from the Forest of Dean, wondering how you ever got there in the first place.
Candid, humble and warmly told, Throwing the Book is a definitive account of what it means to be a rugby referee and a love letter to the sport that has provided Wayne with so much. Covering his childhood days, family life, career highs and lows, side-step into law, as well as what’s next in store for Wayne both on and off the pitch, this book reveals the man behind the referee for the very first time.
Serious when it needs to be, but also rich in good humour and humanity, Throwing the Book is a memoir to remember.
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Living the Beatles Legend: The new biography revealing the untold story of Mal Evans, the perfect 2023 Christmas gift for fans of the Beatles and music history
The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles’ beloved roadie, assistant, confidant and friend
A towering figure in horn-rimmed glasses, Malcolm ‘Mal’ Evans was an invaluable member of the Beatles’ inner circle. Serving as their long-time roadie, personal assistant and protector, he was a sometime lyricist, occasional performer and regular fixer at the height of the group’s fame and beyond.
But Mal’s dedication to his beloved ‘boys’ and his own desire for stardom took its toll, leading to the dissolution of his marriage and his untimely death in January 1976.
Until now, Mal’s extraordinary life has remained shrouded in mystery. Drawing on hundreds of exclusive interviews and with full access to Mal’s unpublished archives – including his personal diaries, manuscripts and memorabilia – renowned Beatles scholar Kenneth Womack paints the first complete portrait of this complicated figure at the heart of the Beatles’ story.
Living the Beatles Legend is a fascinating but ultimately tragic tale about life at the edges of superstardom.
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Descriptosaurus: Supporting Creative Writing for Ages 8–14
Now in a fully updated third edition, Descriptosaurus is the first book for creative writing that is a thematic expansion of a dictionary and a thesaurus; it provides children with a comprehensive resource with which to expand their descriptive vocabulary, experiment with language and sentence structure and build up narratives based around settings, characters and creatures.
Descriptosaurus positions the word, zooms in on it to examine the meaning, expands it into phrases, and then provides alternatives in words, phrases and sentences; the model was created and refined over a number of years as a result of feedback from children inside and outside the classroom as to the resources they required to inspire and assist them with their writing. For reluctant writers or those faced with blank page syndrome, it provides essential starting points to encourage putting pen to paper, not only inspiring children, but also building their confidence, encouraging them to use, apply and create using the correct grammatical structures, and adding colour to their writing through evaluation and experimentation.
New features for this updated third edition include:
- Sample poems
- Word banks and model sentences to provide a step-by-step process for development of vocabulary and understanding of phrase, clause and sentence structure
- Contextualised grammar and punctuation instruction and guidance
- Units of work where the models can be incorporated in a creative focus
- A companion website containing all the features of the book, games, planning sheets and vocabulary builders
This is an ideal resource to dramatically improve children’s creative writing for all KS2 primary and KS3 secondary English teachers, literacy coordinators and parents. It would also make an excellent classroom book for PGCE students, particularly Primary PGCE with English specialism.
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A Therapeutic Treasure Deck of Feelings and Sentence Completion Cards (Therapeutic Treasures Collection)
The perfect tool to add to any ‘therapeutic treasure box’, this set of 68 cards provides a way to help open conversations and structure discussions with children and adolescents aged 6+.
The treasure deck offers a fun, non-threatening way to help to build understanding and forge relationships. It also provides a safe, playful way for children to articulate and make sense of their feelings, thoughts, experiences and beliefs. The deck comes with two different types of card – the ‘feelings cards’ and the ‘sentence completion cards’ – which can be used separately or together, and the cards are accompanied by a booklet which explains some of the different ways in which they can be therapeutically used.
Designed and tested by specialist clinical psychologist, trainer and author Dr Karen Treisman, this deck is a little treasure that will have great value for anyone working with children and adolescents aged 6+.
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Sierra Simone Priest Trilogy Collection 3 Books Set (Priest, Sinner, Saint)
Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:Sierra Simone Priest Trilogy Collection 3 Books Set (Priest, Sinner, Saint):
Priest:
He’s a priest, and here is his confession. There are many rules a priest can’t break. A priest cannot marry. A priest cannot abandon his flock. A priest cannot forsake his God. Tyler Bell has had no problem playing by the rules for the last three years after a family tragedy set him on the path to priesthood. That all changes when the delicious, sultry voice of Poppy Danforth sinks its claws in him through the screen of his confessional booth, and he can’t get her sins out of his head.Sinner:
He leads a life of sin, and she’s committed to a life of virtue. Sean Bell is not a good man, and he’s never pretended to be. He doesn’t believe in goodness, God, or any happy ending that isn’t paid for in advance. There are words for men like him: playboy. Womanizer. Skirt-chaser. Sinner. When he meets a gorgeous college girl at a fundraiser, he has no problem telling her exactly what filthy things he wants to do to her-until he realizes she’s his best friend’s little sister, Zenobia “Zenny” Iverson, all grown up. Worse than that…she’s also about to become a nun.Saint:
It would take a saint to resist Elijah Iverson. Aiden was the last person in the world anyone expected to become a monk. But the decision to become a monk saved his life, and he’s determined to do it right, even if it’s taken him from his millionaire party-boy lifestyle…and the love of his life, Elijah Iverson. Four-plus years haven’t made letting Elijah go any easier, but at least Aiden hasn’t had to come face-to-face with those whiskey eyes and soft mouth since he left.Read more
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Banksy
The largest presentation of works by Banksy, the world’s most enigmatic yet highly sought-after artist, including iconic works, installation objects, ephemera, and memorabilia all in one volume.Banksy is the world’s most discussed artist of recent decades, and this seminal collection features hundreds of works including Girl with Balloon, Pulp Fiction, Love Is in the Air, Barcode, and Monkey Queen. It also includes scores of paintings, serigraphs, stencils, and installation objects as well as a selection of memorabilia―many of which have never been published previously. Created with the cooperation of Pest Control, the group that manages all things Banksy, this is as official and authorized as any Banksy publication could be.
Banksy is the world’s greatest practitioner of street art. His work has always been political, involving pointed critiques of inequality, injustice, consumerism, and the establishment, yet no one knows his identity. He is an exemplary case of fame and notoriety built upon absence and anonymity. His relationship with the art market is also complex: marked by mocking hostility while being one of the most marketable and most collected contemporary artists.Read more
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The Story of Contemporary Art
What does it mean?
Is it really art?
Why does it cost so much?
While these questions are perpetually asked about contemporary art, they are not the questions that E. H. Gombrich set out to answer in his seminal book The Story of Art. Contemporary art is very different from what came before. From the 1960s, where Gombrich’s account concludes, artists began to abandon traditional forms of art and started to make work that questioned art’s very definition. This is where Godfrey picks up the story.Developments in contemporary art have followed no straightforward line of progress or sequence of movements. Recognizing this, Tony Godfrey creates a narrative from a series of often dramatic creative conflicts and arguments around what art is or should be. From object versus sculpture and painting versus conceptual to local versus global, gallery versus wider world, The Story of Contemporary Art traces a history in terms of drastic changes in social and political life over the last sixty years.
How do we experience being human in a world that seems to change so quickly? In exploring art’s relationship to this question, Godfrey asserts that multiple voices must be heard: critics, theorists, curators and collectors, but also audiences and artists themselves. Key to the book is the story of how a perception that art was made almost exclusively by white men from North America and Western Europe has been radically overturned. Compelling and intelligent, but never academic, this book tells us how.
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Bold British Design: Modern Living Spaces to Inspire Fearlessness and Creativity
Bold British Design sees tastemakers at the epicentre of British interior design share their exclusive vision and inspiration for achieving a bold interior, inspiring you to create your own original, fearless home.
Designers the world over are increasingly looking to British creatives to combine heritage and history with wit, modernity and attitude. Interiors Editor Emilio Pimentel-Reid and photographer Sarah Hogan have gained exclusive access to the studios, homes and mood boards of 20 top British creatives.
With the interiors creating a visual conversation through the rooms of the houses and creative spaces, the authors reveal the history, craftsmanship, key elements and inspiration that went into creating these very personal and stylish spaces.
Featuring the studios and relaxed family homes of artists including furniture designers Sebastian Cox and Bethan Gray, ceramicist Hitomi Hosono, interior designer Lucy Hammond Giles, names to watch Yinka Ilori and Hal Messel and antiques dealer Guy Tobin, Bold British Design shows how a new generation is breaking new ground in interior style and decor.
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Eileen Gray: Her Life and Work
The definitive biography, thoroughly updatedOne of the most important designers and architects of the 20th century, Eileen Gray (1878–1976) wielded enormous influence – though often unacknowledged, especially in her lifetime – in a field largely dominated by men. Today, her original furniture sells for dizzying sums and her iconic designs, including the luxurious Bibendum chair and the refined yet functional E.1027 table, are renowned throughout the world.
Resolutely independent and frequently underappreciated, Gray evolved from a creator of opulent lacquer furniture into a pioneer of the modernist principle of form following function. Remaining separate from major schools or movements such as Bauhaus and De Stijl, she developed her own distinctive take on the forms and materials favoured by fellow International Style designers such as Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Mies van der Rohe.
This definitive new edition of the biography by Peter Adam, one of the few people close to Gray during her reclusive later years, is a uniquely intimate survey of her life and work. Comprehensively updated and illustrated with material drawn from Gray’s personal archives – correspondence, journals, photographs and architectural sketchbooks – it tells the full story of her life from aristocratic beginnings in Ireland, through the extravagance of Art Deco-era Paris, relationships with lovers, male and female, and her productive years in southern France. It reveals fresh details about her elegant, largely overlooked paintings; tense exchanges with Le Corbusier; and the fate of E.1027, the home that she designed and furnished herself, and which set a new standard for radically modernist living.
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Holbein at the Tudor Court
Holbein at the Tudor Court focuses on the internationally significant collection of portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger in the Royal Collection. These portraits, in drawing, miniature and painting, date almost exclusively from Holbein’s period as the pre-eminent artist at the court of Henry VIII.This richly illustrated publication has essays on the artist, his sitters and on the history of his work in the Royal Collection, and a series of entries on individual works – looking at both on the work of art and on the identity of the sitter featured, and uses, where possible voices from the period (as found in letters, poems, administrative records and diplomatic accounts) to bring alive the world of the sixteenth-century English court.
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Producing Bollywood: Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry
Producing Bollywood offers an unprecedented look inside the social and professional worlds of the Mumbai-based Hindi film industry and explains how it became “Bollywood,” the global film phenomenon and potent symbol of India as a rising economic powerhouse. In this rich and entertaining ethnography Tejaswini Ganti examines the changes in Hindi film production from the 1990s until 2010, locating them in Hindi filmmakers’ efforts to accrue symbolic capital, social respectability, and professional distinction, and to manage the commercial uncertainties of filmmaking. These efforts have been enabled by the neoliberal restructuring of the Indian state and economy since 1991. This restructuring has dramatically altered the country’s media landscape, which quickly expanded to include satellite television and multiplex theaters. Ganti contends that the Hindi film industry’s metamorphosis into Bollywood would not have been possible without the rise of neoliberal economic ideals in India. By describing dramatic transformations in the Hindi film industry’s production culture, daily practices, and filmmaking ideologies during a decade of tremendous social and economic change in India, Ganti offers valuable new insights into the effects of neoliberalism on cultural production in a postcolonial setting.Read more
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The Autobiography of Peter Hall: Making an Exhibition of Myself
The story of a railway worker’s son who became one of the most powerful, outspoken and charismatic figures in European theatre. Sir Peter Hall has been director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, artistic director of Glyndebourne, and director of Britain’s National Theatre from 1973 to 1988. He has directed over 150 productions of plays, operas and films, and now runs his own acclaimed theatre company.Read more
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Medieval Woodcut Illustrations: City Views and Decorations from the Nuremberg Chronicle (Dover Pictorial Archive)
The Nuremberg Chronicle, a 1493 history of the world, contains some of the most beautiful woodcuts ever designed. This splendid selection depicts 91 locales ― Athens, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Jerusalem, Venice, Prague, Munich, Nuremberg, Florence, and many others, plus 143 illustrations of figures and decorative objects. 194 royalty-free black-and-white illustrations.Read more
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Komorebi: The Art of Djamila Knopf
Illustrator Djamila Knopf leads us through her world, where anime-influenced characters, exquisite settings, and the process of creating fantasies enchant her fans worldwide. Having settled on her own authentic, creative style, featuring line art and a palette of delicate, yet impactful, colors, Djamila has decided to write a book that charts her journey. Japanese art was a key influence from an early age, and the book illustrates how Djamila has fused her favorite aspects of anime with her own, the result being a unique style that has captured the attention of both art fans and the industry. Her approach to storytelling and ideation are covered in depth; although artists have different approaches, Djamila shares her own experiences and insights to help readers fine-tune their own early stages of creation. As a fantasy artist, symbolism and fantastical scenes have always been part of Djamila’s world, and here she shares how she works with these, as well as finding very personal connections to even the most general of concepts. The final leg of the journey is visiting Djamila’s own studio, where she discusses being an independent artist, her daily routine and workspace, and the practical aspect of time management and motivation.Read more
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Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989
With 25 albums of pop music, 5 of classical – a total of around 500 songs – released over the course of more than half a century, Paul McCartney’s career, on his own and with Wings, boasts an incredible catalogue that’s always striving to free itself from the shadow of The Beatles. The stories behind the songs, demos and studio recordings, unreleased tracks, recording dates, musicians, live performances and tours, covers, events: Music Is Ideas Volume 1 traces McCartney’s post-Beatles output from 1970 to 1989 in the form of 346 song sheets, filled with details of the recordings and stories behind the sessions. Accompanied by photos, and drawing on interviews and contemporary reviews, this reference book draws the portrait of a musical craftsman who has elevated popular song to an art-form.Read more
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Yokai Museum: The Art of Japanese Supernatural Beings from Yumoto Koichi Collection (Pie Yokai Festival)
Yokai are a class of supernatural monsters in Japanese folklore. Yokai have attracted the artists and have been a common theme in art works until these days because of their unique forms and their mysterious behaviours. This book is a visual collection of art works of Yokai in Japan since the Edo period (1603 – 1868). The works are not only paintings but also wood block prints, ceramics, kimonos, children’s playthings such as board games, and more. All items that are featured in the book come from personal collections by Koichi Yumoto, who has the largest Yokai art collection in Japan.Read more
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Ukiyo-e: The Art of the Japanese Print
The art of Japanese woodblock printing, known as ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”), reflects the rich history and way of life in Japan hundreds of years ago. Ukiyo-e: The Art of the Japanese Print takes a thematic approach to this iconic Japanese art form, considering prints by subject matter: geisha and courtesans, kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, erotica, nature, historical subjects and even images of foreigners in Japan.An artist himself, author Frederick Harris–a well-known American collector who lived in Japan for 50 years–pays special attention to the methods and materials employed in Japanese printmaking. The book traces the evolution of ukiyo-e from its origins in metropolitan Edo (Tokyo) art culture as black and white illustrations, to delicate two-color prints and multicolored designs. Advice to admirers on how to collect, care for, view and buy Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints rounds out this book of charming, carefully selected prints.
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Gordon Ramsay’s Passion for Seafood
Good: A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dust cover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include “From the library of” labels.Some of our books may have slightly worn corners, and minor creases to the covers. Please note the cover may sometimes be different to the one shown.Read more
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Dublin Murder Squad Series 6 Books Collection Set by Tana French (In The Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour, Secret Place & The Trespasser)
Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:Dublin Murder Squad Series 6 Books Collection Set by Tana French:
In the Woods:
When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood.The Likeness:
Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad and starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam O’Neill. When he calls her to the scene of his new case, she is shocked to find that the murdered girl is her double.Faithful Place:
The course of Frank Mackey’s life was set by one defining moment when he was nineteen. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as they had planned.Broken Harbour:
In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin – half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned – two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad’s star detective.The Secret Place:
Even in her exclusive boarding school, in the graceful golden world that Stephen has always longed for, bad things happen and people have secrets. The previous year, Christopher Harper, from the neighbouring boys’ school, was found murdered on the grounds.The Trespasser:
Being on the Dublin Murder squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed. Her working life is a stream of thankless cases and harassment. Antoinette is tough, but she’s getting close to the breaking point.Read more
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The Puffin Classics Story Collection 10 Books Set (The Extraordinary cases of Sherlock Holmes, jungle book, Peter Pan, A Little Princess, Alice’s adventures Wonderland, More…)
Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:The Puffin Classics Story Collection 10 Books Set:
Titles in this Set:
The Extraordinary cases of Sherlock Holmes
The jungle book
Peter Pan
A Little Princess
Alice’s adventures Wonderland
The Railway children
The Wind in the Willows
The call of the wild
The Wizard of Oz
Black beautyRead more
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Trinity College London Acoustic Guitar Exam Pieces From 2020: Grades 6-8 (Notation & Guitar Tab): Fingerstyle & Plectrum Pieces for Trinity College London Exams 2020–2023
Trinity’s new Acoustic Guitar syllabus reinvents the popular Plectrum Guitar syllabus, keeping it vital and relevant to today’s guitarist by giving teachers and learners the flexibility to develop fingerstyle and plectrum playing. A selection of the best-loved pieces from the previous syllabus has been retained at every grade for continuity.
This book contains all the exam pieces for Grades 6-8, covering a wide range of styles at each grade folk, acoustic, rock and pop styles, jazz, blues, country allowing candidates to follow distinct stylistic pathways as they progress. All pieces are printed in both tablature and standard notation so are accessible for any learner.
Note: As of April 2023, Trinity’s Acoustic Guitar 2020-2023 Syllabus will no longer operate with an end date. Therefore, Trinity’s Acoustic Guitar Exam Pieces 2020-2023 books will be valid indefinitely (subject to copyright) and any planned updates will be announced at least 12 months in advance. Trinity will be gradually amending the covers on these books upon reprint to ‘from 2020’, however there are books in circulation with the previous date range. In those cases, the change to syllabus arrangements overrides the dates printed on the cover of the book.
Contents:
Country Pickin’ (Chilton)
Here, There and Everywhere (Lennon & McCartney, arr. Adie)
How Do I Live (Warren, arr. Walker)
Minor Swing (Reinhardt & Grappelli, arr. Walker)
Never So Close (Chilton)
Over the Hills and Far Away (Page & Plant)
Ruby Blue (Walker)
Swing Thing (Powlesland)
You’ve Got a Friend (King, arr. Morandell)
Alien Waffle House (Dawes)
Anji (Graham, arr. Carroll)
Ballad (Chilton)
Be Deedle De Do (Kessel)
Classical Gas (Williams)
Fly Me to the Moon (Howard, arr. Jones)
Hole Hearted (Bettencourt & Cherone)
(Somewhere) Over the Rainbow (Arlen & Harburg )
Soul Agent (Chilton)
Blue Boy (Barney)
Deep River Blues (Trad., arr. Watson)
For My Father (McKee)
Mister Punch (Chilton)
Mister Sandman (Ballard)
Night and Day (Porter, arr. Leduc)
Overlap (Chilton)
Solo no. 2 (Elden)
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Dr Alex George Collection 2 Books Set (The Mind Manual, Live Well Every Day)
Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:Dr Alex George Collection 2 Books Set (The Mind Manual, Live Well Every Day):
The Mind Manual:
Mental health matters! Learn how to assess your mental health today – and understand what’s normal for you. Discover the seven universal truths that everyone should remember, and the mental fitness foundations that will boost you. And exercise your mind with the mental health toolkit that will help you thrive. Contents include -Part One: Your Mental Health Today-You are not alone-Know what feels normal for you. Part Two: The Seven Universal Truths-Boundaries are beautiful-Mistakes are a must-have. Part Three: Mental Fitness Foundations-It’s good to talk-Why medical help matters. Part Four: Mental Health Toolkit Resources.Live Well Every Day:
Dr Alex is on a mission to empower us to make our own health choices, take positive control and feel equipped and inspired to make those small changes today that energise and future-proof for life. ‘Health and happiness come from the cumulative effects of many small and positive daily changes to our lifestyle. It’s about building sustainable and healthy habits – taking small and purposeful steps to a healthy future. By the end of the book, I hope my readers have developed their own “bespoke health toolkit” to be used across every aspect of their lives, and to make long-lasting and meaningful change.’Read more
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Starting a Business in Ireland (8th edition): The Guide & Directory
For over 30 years, STARTING A BUSINESS IN IRELAND has been THE book that would-be entrepreneurs are advised to read before setting out on their entrepreneurial journey.
Updated for its 8th edition, STARTING A BUSINESS IN IRELAND takes readers through all the stages in starting a business, including:- Getting Started
- Researching Your Idea – and Market
- Writing Your Business Plan
- Financing Your Start-up
- Implementation.
A final chapter, Moving to Ireland to Start a Business, offers advice to non-residents on business incentives, business structures and taxation, and residency requirements.
The book also includes the most comprehensive directory available of State, EU and private sector organisations that provide assistance to start-ups and small businesses.Read more
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UK Politics Annual Update 2022
This UK Politics Annual Update will help students:
– Review all the developments relevant to A-level specifications in UK politics from the last year, with examples linked closely to specification points, strong links between topics and focused suggestions for further reading
– Develop their confidence with expert analysis they can draw on throughout their course and in the exams
– Enhance their knowledge of the news to build a bank of up-to-date examples linked to the specifications, helping them to develop persuasive arguments for their essays
– Learn more about the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and other up-to-date political developments, and how to put them into context
– Use our updated exam skills feature to clarify how to use the information they have just learned in their examUK Politics Annual Update 2022 chapters:
1. Pressure groups: Lobbying in the 2020s – methods and controversies
2. Rights in context: Campaigns to protect liberties and to extend the franchise
3. Political Parties: Old, new or in between? What does Keir Starmer’s Labour Party stand for?
4. The constitution: The Johnsonian constitution ‘in flux’
5. Devolution (Part 1): See no EVEL: what is the future for English representation in Westminster?
6. Devolution (Part 2): What does the government’s ‘levelling up’ agenda mean for devolved government in England?
7. Parliament and the executive: The changing relationship between Parliament and the executive
8. The House of Lords: Peers in the 2020s: The composition and legislative influence of the House of Lords
9. The UK Supreme Court: Redefining judicial power in the 2020sRead more
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Political Theory and Architecture
What can political theory teach us about architecture, and what can it learn from paying closer attention to architecture? The essays assembled in this volume begin from a common postulate: that architecture is not merely a backdrop to political life but a political force in its own right. Each in their own way, they aim to give countenance to that claim, and to show how our thinking about politics can be enriched by reflecting on the built environment. The collection advances four lines of inquiry, probing the connection between architecture and political regimes; examining how architecture can be constitutive of the ethical and political realm; uncovering how architecture is enmeshed in logics of governmentality and in the political economy of the city; and asking to what extent we can think of architecturetributary as it is to the flows of capitalas a partially autonomous social force. Taken together, the essays demonstrate the salience of a range of political theoretical approaches for the analysis of architecture, and show that architecture deserves a place as an object of study in political theory, alongside institutions, laws, norms, practices, imaginaries, and discourses.Read more
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Explaining Primary Science
Successful science teaching in primary schools requires a careful understanding of key scientific knowledge. This book covers all the major areas of science relevant for beginning primary school teachers, explaining key concepts from the ground up, helping trainees develop into confident science educators.
This new edition comes with:
· New guidance on teaching primary science today
· Activities to enhance your understanding of key teaching topics
· Links to national curricula for England, Scotland, Australia and New Zealand
· Videos of useful science experiments and demonstrations for the primary classroom
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The Greedy Panda Cookbook: Essential Rice Cooker Recipes For Rice Cooker Enthusiasts
You love rice and need some inspiration to get cooking? This cook book covers the most popular rice dishes using a variety of grains and techniques along with some extra treats. When cooked correctly, rice on it’s own can be delicious. Add good rice to your favourite main meal and it instantly becomes more interesting.This book is about making great, simple and tasty food with the help from a rice cooker but the recipes can be made using normal everyday tools in a kitchen such as pots and pans. We would, however, advise that to get the best from your rice and the recipes in this book, having a good rice cooker would be helpful. Some recipes can be done entirely in a rice cooker whilst other recipes explain how to make perfect dishes that are usually served with rice. Basically, if you love rice then there will be a lot here for you.
We take you on a journey through a world of flavours from Indian dals to spicy, sweet and savoury Thai dishes to Chinese favourites and the sushi shores of Japan. We explore Mexican and Brazilian dishes, some European favourites, Middle Eastern delights, and everything in between. Along the way we give guidance and explain food tricks to get the most flavour from your cooking. We add information on how to pair dishes with rice, how to elevate rice to a higher level and explain how rice should be eaten!
We include recipes for interesting desserts you can make in a rice cooker, yes desserts! Whilst rice cookers are very good at cooking rice, the way that they operate means that they are also good at cooking specific key dishes that are more than just rice. We show how these can give variety to your cookery skills and maximise the potential of rice cooking.
Finally, we give interesting facts about rice, rice cookers, grain guides, handy tips and other useful information to help you on your journey to a healthier way to eat!
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Textiles of the Middle East and Central Asia: The Fabric of Life (British Museum)
From the intricate embroidery on a Palestinian wedding dress to the complex iconography on an Afghan war rug, textiles reflect the beliefs, practices and experiences of people from across the Middle East and Central Asia. This book explores the significance and beauty of textiles from across this vast area, and is arranged thematically to enable cross-regional comparisons of the function and symbolic meaning of textiles. Each chapter relates to a facet or phase of a person’s life in which textiles feature prominently: childhood, marriage and ceremony, status and identity, religion and belief, and house and homestead. The book also includes contemporary works that grapple with modern political issues.The textiles featured include men’s, women’s and children’s garments, hats and headdresses, mosque curtains and prayer mats, floor coverings, tent hangings, hand towels and cushions, storage sacks, purses and cosmetic pouches, dolls and souvenirs, animal trappings and amulets. Focusing on the British Museum’s remarkable collection, this book offers a wealth of creative inspiration and will be essential reading for anyone interested in textiles and the cultures of the Middle East and Central Asia.
Table of Contents
Introduction • 1. Childhood • 2. Status and Identity • 3. Marriage and Ceremony • 4. Religion and Belief • 5. House and Homestead • 6. Politics and Conflict
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Rumi Illustrated (Chinese Bound)
JalÄl ad-DÄ«n Muhammad RÅ«mÄ« (1207–73) was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Iran. This Chinese-bound volume offers a selection of his many poems with a variety of themes, including love, marriage, life and death, passion and mysticism, as well as his religious collection, Rubaiyat, and his long poem, Masnavi, one of the most influential works of Sufism, an Islamic form of mysticism.
Rumi’s reach transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: his poetry has influenced not only Persian literature, but also the literary traditions of the Ottoman Turkish, Chagatai, Urdu, Bengali and Pashto languages.Read more
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Peter May Collection, China Thrillers 6 Books Box Set
Peter May Collection China Thrillers 4 Books Set Titles in the Set are The Firemaker, The Fourth Sacrifice and The Killing Room, Snakehead.Read more
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The Little Book of Wedding Checklists: All the Lists and Tips You Need to Plan the Big Day
Practical checklists and advice to plan the wedding you wantThe question has been popped, and now it’s time for the planning–from your budget to the bridal party to bouquets, you may be wondering how to distill all the to-dos of your big day into small, digestible pieces. This portable wedding planner provides all the tools and tips you need to stay organized and stress-free.
Streamlining the planning process into easy-to-navigate sections, this wedding planner provides essential checklists on fundamentals, like accessories and attire, venues and vendors, and flowers and décor. You’ll also find plenty of trusted advice to keep you on track, including must-ask questions, comparison charts, timelines, and much more.
This wedding planner includes:
- Low-key or lavish–Customize checklists to suit your wedding size and budget, whether it’s a traditional ceremony, distant destination, backyard bash, or something completely different.
- Portable plans–Perfect for on-the-go planning, this wedding planner has all the checklists, tips, and questions you’ll need condensed into one place.
- Wedding roadmap–From creative inspiration to custom invitations, this wedding planner walks you through the process of planning, prepping, and putting on your dream wedding.
The Little Book of Wedding Checklists offers guidance for every big decision for your big day–packed neatly into a petite-sized wedding planner.
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