Author: Terry Taylor
Publisher: Lark Books
Keywords: altered, cards, amp, boxes, creating, art, techniques, books
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1579905501
ISBN-13: 9781579905507

A fast-growing craft trend, handled by experts.Choose an object—a cigar box, playing cards, an old album cover—and use it as a creative starting point to make beautiful and entirely new items to display and use: that’s “altered art,” and it’s the fastest-growing trend in the craft world today. Here is the first book to explore the full range of its possibilities, from turning a vintage board game into a nostalgic wall hanging to creating whimsical art dolls from children’s blocks. Take a look at the artistic traditions that inspired this movement, and see how to use the crafter�

Author: Terry Taylor
Publisher: Lark Books
Keywords: recycling, bin, projects, inventive, books, eco
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-10-06
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1600593941
ISBN-13: 9781600593949

Here are projects for the “pages”: 40 innovative book-making ideas using recycled and green materials! More than just earth-friendly, they’re also beautiful, clever, and witty, stitched with traditional binding techniques.  Egg cartons, wood, beer cans, and cassette tapes morph into covers, while brown bags, coffee filters, and discarded newspapers are transformed into pages. Create a boxed set of cereal box books, an exposed stitch sketchbook out of cardboard and remnants, and even a faux leather journal made from teabags.In addition to how-to drawings, close-up detail photographs, and

Author: Terry Taylor
Publisher: Lark Books
Keywords: ways, decorate, egg, extraordinary, dozen, eggs, six, artful
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-03-28
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1579904637
ISBN-13: 9781579904630

With more than 70 amazingly easy decorating techniques, there’s no “egg-scuse” for letting any egg go naked again, or waiting until Easter, because here are designs that work all year-round. Not one of the crafting skills is beyond a beginner’s grasp: if you can cut, paste, and paint, you can adorn an egg, whether it’s the real thing, or one made from plastic, pâpier-maché, styrofoam, or even wood. Découpage an egg with paper napkins, and finish it with a clear varnish to re-create the look of fine china. Need an attractive door display? Try threading specked quail eggs on silk ri

Authors:Terry Taylor, Dylon Whyte,
Publisher: Lark Books
Keywords: jewelry, techniques, lark, classic, contemporary, mail, chain, designs
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-05-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1579907237
ISBN-13: 9781579907235

Chain mail is enjoying a creative resurgence and this attractive, full-colour book is a valuable resource for beginners and intermediates. This title thoroughly introduces all the key construction procedures with computer-generated illustrations for every step. It includes 30 projects plus a gallery of works by professional jewellers. Thanks to its exquisite, easily mastered techniques and elegant lines, chain mail, the classic art of linking metal rings, is enjoying a creative resurgence among jewellery makers. This attractive, full-colour book is a valuable resource to help beginners and int

Authors:Amy Solomon, Gwenn Wilson, Terry Taylor,
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: success, literacy, information, 100%
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2011-01-13
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 0495913774
ISBN-13: 9780495913771

100% INFORMATION LITERACY SUCCESS teaches you to develop crucial information skills to succeed in college and the workplace. This book is designed to actively help you develop skills beyond the classroom, focusing on those skills necessary for twenty-first-century learners and workers. Using hands-on learning activities and real-world applications, the text will teach you how to determine the nature and extent of information needed to solve a problem, how to access the information effectively, how to evaluate the information found, how to use the information for a specific purpose, and how to

Authors:Brian Taylor, Carrie King Taylor, Naresh Adurty,
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publisher
Keywords: sybase, ase, guide, features, new, official
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1598220047
ISBN-13: 9781598220049

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 is a high-performance, mission-critical database management system designed to meet the increasing demands of large databases and high-transaction volumes, while providing a cost-effective database management system. The Official New Features Guide to Sybase ASE 15 focuses on the many enhancements in Sybase ASE 15 including semantic partitions, computed columns, functional indexes, and scrollable cursors. With this book: Learn about the enhancements to ASE 15, how the new features can increase your efficiency and productivity, and how these features integra

Authors:Terry Patterson, Terry L. Patterso,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: handbook, studio, architect
Number of Pages: 689
Published: 2001-11-20
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0070494460
ISBN-13: 9780070494466

Develop design and working drawings more efficiently Packed with useful hands-on information for both schematic design and computer-assisted working drawings, Architect’s Studio Handbook is the ideal tool for every architect who wants handy rules-of-thumb, convenient graphic conventions, and easy-to-find answers in diagrams, charts, and drawings -- all in a stay-open, flex-binding format. Author/architect Terry Patterson’s complete, up-to-date, information-packed guide helps you: Immediately locate essential building design technical data Recognize code compliance problems typica