This illustrated guide shows the reader how to choose and fly kites. The book includes a catalogue of classic kites, from simple single-line models to stunt kites with step-by-step demonstrations of how to fly the different kinds, including an introduction to stunt flying. Also featured are instructions and patterns for making kites at home and a list of kite suppliers.

The Book of Kites

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Helene Morgan

Sports & Outdoors

Dorling Kindersley Plc

This guide to the world of fungi combines the accuracy of a fieldguide with mushroom recipes and first-hand foraging information. It provides a photographic recognition guide to a variety of both rare and common fungi species. An amazing diversity of colours, shapes and textures is revealed in close-ups of common and bizarre species - from familiar pink-gilled field mushrooms and spongy giant puffballs, to slimy stinkhorns and bracket fungi. Advice is given on where, when and how to pick and prepare edible fungi and 20 new and traditional dishers are offered to transform your own finds into memorable meals.

The Mushroom Book

Læssøe, Thomas

A guide for parents and carers of young children. Based on research into the types of questions most often posed by young children, the book shows how to give honest, sensitive and accurate answers in a relaxed and confident manner. The children's questions are grouped into common topics, ranging from the body, babies, puberty and sexuality to divorce, drugs, violence, sexual or racial abuse and death. Every model answer is given in alternative versions in language appropriate for the understanding of children of different ages. The guide aims to enable every reader to be responsive to the unique concerns and needs of children getting to grips with changes in their own bodies, as well as with the worlds around them.

Questions Children Ask

Parenting & Relationships

STOPPARD, MIRIAM

Parenting

This revised book on conception, pregnancy and birth includes four new case studies covering conception, diagnostic tests, pre-eclampsia and the importance of folic acid. There is also a new section on assisted fertility that explores the latest findings on the causes of male and female infertility, the tests available and reproduction treatments available. There is also a new chapter especially for expectant fathers, explaining how they can help their partners through pregnancy and the emotional impact of pregnancy and parenthood.

Conception, Pregnancy and Birth (Dorling Kindersley Health Care)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

A holistic approach to cat care, is explained in this book, backed by sound principles and practices of veterinary training. It shows that cats respond to the environment in which they are raised and that their physical well-being is dependent on how they have been raised, fed and looked after.

Natural Cat Care (Natural Care)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

FOGLE, BRUCE

Pets & Animal Care

An introduction to the essential techniques of painting in acrylics in a full range of media. It provides fully annotated, photographic sequences to guide the reader from the first strokes to the final composition, and full-size reproductions allow closer inspections of great masterworks.

Introduction to Acrylics (Art School)

Arts & Photography

Ray Smith

Painting

The Ultimate Motorcycle Book

More than 200 classic, celebrity and contemporary motorbikes from museum and private collections worldwide have been photographed for this book. In over 600 photographs, overhead, side, front and back views of motorbikes are combined with close-ups of special design and performance features.

Hugo Wilson

This is a visual approach to explaining and elaborating upon many of the world's most interesting myths and legends. From the Hindu stories about Rama and his family to the Aboriginal myth of The Rainbow Snake, the book focuses on tales and characters from cultures around the world. Each story is illustrated with a beautiful work of art, while the large format allows the reader to examine every annotated section close-up.

Annotated Myths and Legends (Annotated Guides)

Reports from 150 travel writers provide the basis for this book which illustrates visits to the world's best ports of call. Divided by regions, each section highlights the sights that are unique to the area, as well as offering insightful advice on when to go ashore and what to look-and look out-for.

Voyages

Jay Clarke

This portrait of Britain is intended as a pictorial souvenir and a guide to Britain for the next millennium. Britain is celebrated in all its diversity, from the streets of London to the Lake District. The varied landscape is featured region by region, with picture essays on the most dramatic areas. Every place of interest is visited, from historic towns and cities to castles, cathedrals and stately homes.

DK Millennium: Portrait of Britain (DK Eyewitness Travels Guides)

Leapman, Michael

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