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A Guide to Craft Brewing Customer Review: A useful guide to craft brewing in the UK
The most recent previous guide to craft brewing in the UK was published in 1993 (”Home Brewing” by Graham Wheeler) and since then there has been a huge growth in the knowledge, ingredients and equipment available to the UK craft brewer so some sort of more up to date publication was probably overdue. John Alexander does not attempt to be a simple update of the Wheeler book, even though by nature of its publication date it does to a large extent achieve this, but has written a guide based on his own long experience of craft brewing.

The science behind the brewing process is researched and described in some detail and I learnt some new facts from reading this book. Brewing beer is such an interesting process that every brewer’s experiences will differ and accordingly there will be differences in opinion on the relative importance of factors such as water quality, sparging efficiency or use of finings but it is interesting to read of one person’s own journey of brewing discovery. As long as the end result is good it hardly matters what route you take to get there although in craft brewing the journey is a large part of the fun. For me, the tendency to use Scottish terminology (”crumbs from a hop picker’s piece bag”) adds to the character of the book.

In spite of a number of small typographical errors, this book is more self-consistent and more scientifically correct than some earlier publications and is a useful addition to the craft brewer’s library.

Living in the Arts and Crafts Style -

Silk Painting: The Artist’s Guide to Gutta and Wax Resist Techniques (Practical Craft Books): The Artist’s Guide to Gutta and Wax Resist Techniques (Practical Craft Books) Customer Review: The first step in successful silk painting!
This book is trully inspiring, the author suggests reading all the way through the book first before starting a silk painting esp if you are a novice, which i found to be good advice and was not difficult as it was excellent, she gives detailed descriptions on various techniques that will give you confidence and encourages you to experiment and adapt them to your own practice, with a number of examples by talented silk painters.
I will be starting my own first silk painting after reading this shortly, and with all I know now I am sure I will have alot of fun doing so.
Customer Review: A Great book to start painting on silk!
I am a beginner, and needed to learn all the different techniques silk painting as to offer.
This book is very good in telling you how to go through alot of different methods to achieve different styles. Lets you go through each style individually and lets you know all the little secrets to achieve the best results.

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The Craft of Editing with Final Cut Pro (Apple Pro Training)

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Craft of the Classroom (Heinemann school management) Customer Review: Read it!!
I’m so glad to see this book is still available. I read it decades ago and benefitted from it. I had been teacher-trained (!?!?!?) by those head-in-the-clouds bods who said “nobody can teach you how to teach”; meaning, they weren’t going to try, though they took the money; and left it to Michael Marland and a handful of others to keep us alive in those dangerous early years. Take it from me, you can learn a few tricks on how to run a happy class, from people who will teach you. Find them, and learn from them, starting with MM.
Customer Review: Distilled wisdom
18 years down the line I find myself still recommending this book. My copy is a slim, faded and well-thumbed first edition, but the advice is timeless. The author is an experienced teacher who is simply happy to pass on what he has learned from a lifetime developing his craft, and that is what teaching is - an apprenticeship in the company of many wiser colleagues.

A Building Craft Foundation: Level 1 & 2 (Nelson Thornes Construction NVQ): Level 1 & 2 (Nelson Thornes Construction NVQ) -

On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells

Redoute’s Finest Flowers in Embroidery (Milner Craft Series) (Milner Craft Series) -

Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts! Lacy Crochet (Crafts) (Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts)

Wicca: A Year and a Day - 366 Days of Spiritual Practice in the Craft of the Wise -

The Craft of Tattooing Customer Review: This guy knows his audience.
So you just got your tattoo gear & you’ve set everything up. You’re ready to tattoo but your not too sure what to do. STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING!!

Get this book & read it cover to cover. The way Alayon writes you won’t find it difficult to follow & his advice is just what you want to know when starting out as a tattoo artist.

It’s not a definitive guide to tattooing, but he tells you that himself. It’s what you need to read when you start to learn about tattooing. What equipment you need, what techniques to use, how to make stencils, how to be safe. It’s all here. He doesn’t go into every little aspect of tattooing or advanced information, it’s the BEGINNERS guide so he writes to beginners.

If you’re a tattoo rookie or just thinking of getting a tattoo kit, buy this book now!!

101 Songwriting Wrongs & How to Right Them: How to Craft Songs That Sell -

Mat, Mount and Frame It Yourself (Crafts Highlights) (Crafts Highlights) Customer Review: It does what it says
If you ae looking for answers to framing and mounting your art,photos or memorabelia then this is the book for you. It is wriiten in simple terms and the advice in my eyes has been invaluable. This book has been the best purchase I have made in a long time. It has made me look at framing photos in a new free way. The chapters are clear and cover every topic related to framing and mounting in an exciting fresh approach.

Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts! Embroidery (Crafts) (Crafts) -

Decorative Wrought Ironwork: Projects for Beginners (Dover Craft Books)

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Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing: The Craft of Caring Customer Review: essential reading
this is a very comprehensive text-a must have for any student or nurse
I find it reassuring that my dissertation supervisor also has a copy in his office!
Customer Review: BARKER AT HIS BEST
I always hesitate to look at a new Barker book in the shops, as I am inevitably drawn to purchase. This was one of those fateful journeys.

Since then I have used the book to prepare lectures, to inspire students and to show service users some of the advances coming in mental health care.