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The Pedant's Revolt
This intriguing book sets the record straight, exposing misconceptions that have become entrenched in everyday thought.
Easy to Make Dolls' House Accessories
Over 80 projects show how to furnish a dolls' house with custom creations. Styles include Georgian, Victorian, and Art Deco, and materials often can be found at home among collectibles and throwaway odds and ends. Making items with which to furnish a lovely dolls' house is the ideal gift for any little girl or hobbyist.
Dolls' House Accessories, Fixtures and Fittings
"Dollhouse furnishings ranging from architectural features...to metal working for miniature furniture and kitchen accessories to art objects. All 32 projects outline the creation of professional quality furniture and accessories with the use of basic skills."--"Doll Castle News." "Decorate your dollhouse in a unique style without spending a lot of money."--"Doll World."
Making Period Dolls' House Accessories
Imagine looking inside a Victorian house bedroom, and on the vanity you see a comb and brush set, a nail buffer, and curling tongs, each so tiny you can barely make them out. How do you make such delicate pieces? With these imaginative techniques you use ordinary tools and items you find around the house, such as thin wood strips, fine-design fabrics, buttons, beads, and bric-a-brac, as well as earrings, feathers, flowers, shells, and even a sloughed-off snakeskin. Using the standard inch-to-a-foot scale, accessorize a dollhouse with dainty items you can sell today because their antique counterparts are all but nonexistent. Here are just a few of the 85 projects and over 200 pieces you can make by following the simple instructions: ladies' and gentlemen's accessories: silver pocket watch, brandy decanter and glass, silk shoes; Food: cakes on cake stands, strings of garlic; Bedroom: chamber pot, writing slate, wax doll; Sitting room: porcelain figures, gramophone. Bonus: How to make dollhouse Oriental objets d'art, below-stairs brooms and brushes, gas wall lamps, and much more.
The Pedant's Return
In The Pedant's Revolt you learned that you were wrong about everything you thought was right. Now the Pedant returns--with a twist. The Pedant's Return is an addictive collection of outlandish assertions that are so absurd...they must be true. Prepare to discover that you're wrong about, well, even the things you think are wrong. Apple seeds are poisonous? An electric eel can actually electrocute you? The S in Harry S. Truman doesn't stand for anything? Everyone knows those are old wives' tales...or are they? Luckily the Pedant has returned to rescue you from your ignorance and to explain to you why: -Eating too many carrots can turn you orange -Bone china contains actual bones -Men have a ...
Oil Paintings from the Landscape
Now withe large images for tablets. Generously illustrated explanations and step-by-step demonstrations enable budding oil painters to improve and develop their skills and unique style. The many facets of the landscape, including water, skies, shadows, trees, and buildings are covered, with discussions on capturing even the most subtle variations in light and weather. Work with versatile techniques such as impasto, glazing, loose brushwork, wet-into-wet, and more to achieve stunning effects and different moods. Make the most of photographs and enjoy painting in the open air. An overview of materials and their basic usage will be especially helpful to the true novice.
Information Literacy in Music
Information Literacy in Music: An Instructor’s Companion is a practical guide to information literacy instruction for busy librarians and music faculty. This book contains examples of course-integrated assignments designed to help postsecondary music students develop foundational skills in information literacy. These assignments have been solicited from experienced librarians and faculty across the United States, and they represent a broad spectrum of approaches to music research, from historical to applied studies. Be inspired by new and creative solutions to students’ information literacy challenges and by the many examples of successful collaborations between librarians and music faculty.
The Annotated Reader
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The Pedant's Revolt
Pedants, revolt! In this irreverent, smart, obscenely entertaining book, Andrea Barham shatters the myths, misconceptions, fallacies, and falsehoods about all the things you thought you knew (and a few you never considered). Lead pencils can give you lead poisoning.… Newton discovered gravity when an apple fell on his head….One dog year equals seven human years….Marie Antoinette said “Let them eat cake!”…Spelling Christmas “Xmas” is disrespectful….Fact or fiction?The Pedant’s Revolt: Know What Know-It-Alls Knowsets the record straight on everything from the truth about starving a fever to why you shouldn’t “go for the burn.” In chapters literary, medical, grammatica...
Making Dolls' House Furniture
Offers ideas for furnishing a 1900s style doll house using such items as cardboard, costume jewelry, and buttons.
