Watchmaking
Discribes and illustrates the making of the precision timekeeper, at each stage with line drawings and brief explanatory captions. This handbook provides an insight to the enthusiast and watch-collector who, until its publication, had often been a...
Amateur watchmaking
The purpose of this book is to help you to the skill level where you can start to disassemble and re-assemble a watch movement by understanding the different parts, their names, and functionality. After having read this book you will not...
Online Matchmaking
Online Matchmaking examines the joys, fears, and disappointments of hooking up with people in cyberspace. Unlike many other books in the field, this collection includes studies by experts from a range of disciplines including Communications, Cultu...
Bridgerton Matchmaking
Whether it be Daphne Bridgerton and the Duke of Hastings, Queen Charlotte and King George, or Kate Sharma and Anthony Bridgerton, you'll need to use your wits to successfully matchmake all of the ton's most infatuated couples, while avoiding scandal and side-stepping suitors in this fun, simple memory game based on Shondaland's hit series Bridgerton on Netflix.FEATURING 40 CHARACTERS from Shondaland's beloved showINCLUDES A BOOKLET detailing all the scandal and intrigueBEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED by Manjit Thapp, illustrator of Laurence King Publishing's The World of Bridgerton puzzle
A Matchmaking Mother
A Matchmaking Mother
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking
A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: her role as matchmaking grandmother. In the late nineteenth century, Queen Victoria had over thirty surviving grandchildren. To maintain ...
Matchmaking For Psychopaths
The stunning new thriller from bestselling author Tasha Coryell -- completely original and full of twists.Alexandra was expecting a nice evening with her fiance for her birthday. Instead, her best friend is sitting next to her man, and what's worse: They're in love.To escape her relationship troubles, Alexandra throws herself into her job where she works as a matchmaker for psychopaths-a label that the clients themselves are unaware of-and becomes entangled with two of her most recent clients, both of whom have mysterious pasts that inspire Alexandra to breech work protocol and spend time with them outside of the office.One of them, Rebecca, becomes a candidate to take on the role of Alexandra's new best friend, while the other, Aidan, claims that he's her soulmate, despite her insistence that her significant other is going to return in time for their scheduled wedding.When her fiance goes missing and threatening packages begin arriving at her doorstep, Alexandra has to figure out who is trying to target her and how it relates to her own dark past. Can she trust her instincts as a matchmaker or has she set herself up with her enemy?Matchmaking for Psychopaths is an unbelievably twisty and gripping read about obsession, filled with Tasha Coryell's signature observational humour and satirical slant. Perfect for fans of Butter. Read what everyone is saying about Tasha Coryell :'Fresh, insightful and wonderfully dry in tone... impressively original' The Guardian'Sparky one-liners... irresistible.' Jo Leevers, bestselling author of BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick, Tell Me How This Ends'Witty, shocking, and wild.' Library Journal (starred review)'Part romcom, part thriller, part sad girl novel... clever, compulsive.' Red Magazine'Compulsive, twisted and darkly funny.' Sally Hepworth, New York Times and #1 bestselling author of The Soulmate'Utterly brilliant.' Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers'Superbly refreshing' Carol Wyer, #1 bestselling author of An Eye for an Eye'Coryell's fiercely witty, intoxicating prose hooked me on page one and never let go.' Ana Reyes, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Pines
Satan in America
Satan in America tells the story of America's complicated relationship with the devil. "New light" evangelists of the eighteenth century, enslaved African Americans, demagogic politicians, and modern American film-makers have used the de...
Living in the Eighties
Some see the 1980s as a Golden Age, a "Morning in America" when Ronald Reagan revived America's economy, reoriented American politics, and restored Americans' faith in their country and in themselves. Others see the 1980s as a new "...
A Different Mirror
Ronald Takaki's "brilliant revisionist history of America" (Publishers Weekly) is a landmark work of American history retells American history from the bottom up, through the lives of many minorities - Native Americans, African Americans...
MATCHMAKING PACT_AFTER STO5 EB
Lily Marstow and Alyssa Cane think they have the perfect plan. After all, helping their single parents fall in love shouldn''t be that hard. But Silas Marstow wants nothing to do with the woman who lost track of his child for precious minutes in t...
Matchmaking at Port Willow
'I absolutely fell in love with Port Willow and its gorgeous residents...Simply wonderful.' ***** Reader Review Beatrice found love at Port Willow now she's helping others Since arriving in the Scottish Highlands village of Port Willow six months ...
Matchmaking Can Be Murder
Matchmaking Can Be Murder
Queen Victoria''s Matchmaking
A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: her role as matchmaking grandmother In the late nineteenth century, Queen Victoria had over thirty surviving grandchildren....
Adam & Evie's Matchmaking Tour
Adam & Evie's Matchmaking Tour [Bok / Häftad]
Native American History For Dummies
Call them Native Americans, American Indians, indigenous peoples, or first nations - a vast and diverse array of nations, tribes, and cultures populated every corner of North America long before Columbus arrived. Native American History For Dummie...
Many Thousands Gone
Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after almost two hundred years of African-American life in mainland North America...
Taste of America
America is a melting pot, a fact reflected nowhere better than in kitchen pantries. The American palette is as diverse as the cultures that make it up. So, what does America taste like? The Taste of America is an anthology of edible Americana, the...
Adam and Evie's Matchmaking Tour
'Cinematic, spicy and emotionally wise' Annabel Monaghan 'Contemporary Romance at its best' Sarah Adler 'Romantic, funny, tender, sexy' Meg Shaffer 'The perfect match for any Romance lover' Jamie Harrow A rollicking, unforgettable romance about tw...
State of the American Mind
In 1987, Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind was published; a wildly popular book that drew attention to the shift in American culture away from the tenants that made America-and Americans-unique. Bloom focused on a breakdown in the Ame...
Beginner Watchmaking: How to Build Your Very First Watch
Beginner Watchmaking: How to Build Your Very First Watch
The Narcissism of Minor Differences
There is much heated rhetoric about the widening gulf between Europe and America. According to the American right, Europeans are lazy, defeatist and irreligious, while Americans are entrepreneurial, optimistic, and pious. And according to European...
Travels In A Strange State
By most people's standards, Josie Dew is hugely adventurous. By American standards, she is completely insane. For Americans drive everywhere: through cinemas, restaurants, banks, even trees. But driving past Josie as she pedalled across America wa...
Matchmaking the Cowboy
What's a little covert matchmaking between friends? Lucy Aveline's ex has a knack for making her feel small and helpless. She'd avoid him entirely, but he still owns a piece of her heart in the form of the pets he purchased for her but kept for himself. She visits Rosie and Jasmine when she can, vows to avoid another controlling boyfriend by staying single, and focuses on her large animal veterinary practice. Or that's the plan until some longtime family friends attempt to set her up with former rodeo star Hollis Price. Lucy convinces them to drop the plot only when she promises to find Hollis a good match herself. Hollis is more concerned with surviving his first Christmas after losing his dad than with finding love. Dad's champion horse is aging, and rumors started by an unhappy client threaten the horse training business Hollis inherited from his father. When the kind and talented Lucy offers friendship, he accepts simply to add cheer to the season. It's not long before his
Matchmaking For Psychopaths
'I LOVED this book. I tore through it in a day. I think it's even better than Love Letters! Absolutely loved the clever twist on the matchmaking-romance trope. It was so up my street, it was practically parked on my drive! Gripping, tense and funny in all the right ways, I couldn't put it down.' Katy BrentLike every good romance, this story ends with a wedding. And like every good mystery, it begins with a murder...When Alexandra's fiance runs off with her so-called best friend, her life veers sharply away from the romance films she's obsessed with. She's worked so hard to get her fairytale ending after the horrors of her past, and despite this setback, she's determined she'll still find her happy ever after.To distract herself, Alexandra tries to focus on her job where she has a secret specialty: matchmaking psychopaths. But in losing the two people closest to her, she's unignorably lonely. So when a hot, overprotective new client wants to date her, and another gorgeous new client wants to become her best friend, she can't help but find the attention a little comforting.Things take a turn the day the human heart is left on Alexandra's doorstep. But is the culprit one of her new admirers, or has a monster from her past returned to destroy her happy ending forever?Matchmaking for Psychopaths is an unbelievably twisty and gripping read about obsession, filled with Tasha Coryell's signature observational humour and satirical slant.What people are saying about Matchmaking for Psychopaths:'A brilliant blend of dark humour and gripping suspense, delivering a fresh and thrilling exploration of obsession and identity' Joanna Wallace'Bloody brilliant. A wildly original take on the difficulties of love and friendship in today's society. Coryell masterfully weaves a thrilling dark romance that will make you believe some psychopaths deserve a happy ending.' Asia MackayWhat everyone is saying about Tasha Coryell:'Fun, sassy, confident' Reader Review,'You won't stop laughing' GLAMOUR'Completely original' Reader Review,'Fresh, insightful and wonderfully dry' THE GUARDIAN'Funny, twisting, enthralling' Reader Review,'Clever, provocative satire' Pandora Sykes'Irresistible' Reader Review,
100 Native Americans Who Shaped American History
Amazing stories of 100 extraordinary indigenous Americans, for kids 9 and up This fascinating and fact-filled biography collection includes: * 100 easy-to-read one-page biographies: Find out how these incredible individuals changed the course of history * Illustrated portraits: Each biography includes an illustration to help bring history to life * A timeline, trivia questions, project ideas and more: Boost your learning and test your knowledge with fun activities and resources From Squanto to Sacagawea, Sitting Bull to Crazy Horse, Louise Erdrich to Deb Haaland and many more, readers will be introduced to artists, activists, scientists, and icons throughout history. Organized chronologically, 100 Native Americans Who Shaped American History offers a look at the prominent role these men and women played and how their talents, ideas, and expertise have influenced the country from its very beginnings all the way through the present day.
African American Contributions to the Americas' Cultures
This book is a critical edition of six lectures by Alain Leroy Locke, the intellectual progenitor of the Harlem Renaissance. In them, Locke offers an Inter-American philosophical account of important contributions made by Afrodescendant peoples to...
Street Cat Tales and Tangled Times
In his award-winning book, American/True Colors, Stephen Marc presents one of the most comprehensive photographic surveys ever conducted about America and Americans. For his efforts - the survey includes both the Obama and Trump presidencies - for...
Matchmaking- The Jane Austen Memory Game
PUT YOUR MEMORY SKILLS TO THE TEST as you pair up Austen's most famous couples.SIMPLE GAME PLAY that everyone will understand and enjoy.THE PERFECT GIFT for fans of Jane Austen!LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CHARACTERS and their relationships in the accompanying booklet'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife'! Help Jane Austen's most eligible characters find their perfect partners in this matchmaking memory game. With all the cards face down, you must turn over two at a time in hopes of pairing up Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, Emma Woodhouse and Mr Knightley, and many more couples besides. Put your literary knowledge and memory skills to the test as you piece together romantic courtships, rash, ill-advised matches, long, comfortable marriages and everything in between.
Consumer Society in American History
Consumption has often been called America's true national pastime. From the earliest European explorers trading with Native Americans to today's Internet shoppers, consumerism has driven American society. Until recent years, however, consumerism h...