A Step by Step Guide. The definitive text on wood turning. Reissue.
Woodturners learn how to cut and combine pieces of wood to produce multicolored geometric designs in turned bowls and vases in this highly illustrated book. Techniques are provided to achieve the accuracy required in segmented work, and professional tips reveal how to create preliminary blueprints. [...]
Electronic composer and sound artist Florian Hecker (born 1975) has made inventive use of contrasting and conflicting auditory illusions or chimeras--perhaps most famously on his recent acclaimed Mego album "Acid in the Style of David Tudor," which brilliantly and bizarrely merged the two soundworld[...]
Emphasising form over detail, the five step-by-step stylised carving projects in this resource offer techniques and patterns for creating abstract pieces out of untreated natural wood. The designs range in size and subject, from a canvasback duck and dolphin to a rainbow trout, and follow a carving [...]
Offers a comparative study on teacher education across ten major English-speaking regions of the world. This book contains chapters, which focus primarily on pre-service teacher education at the primary and post-primary levels, although some reference is also made to continuing professional developm[...]
Where people live, trees live. They provide shade, beautify our neighborhoods, filter our water, and clean our air, but when they die, we often don't know what to do with them. More and more, that is changing as we learn the skills to reclaim those trees as lumber. Aimed at the woodworking hobbyist [...]