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Explains things you need to know to manage sheep and keep them healthy. This book includes from choosing and buying, through housing, feeding and routine management, to breeding and lambing.

Feltmaking is a popular medium for craftsmen, but few have explored its potential as an art form. This book demonsrates the scope of pictorial feltmaking and explains how to create felt pictures with the depth and atmosphere usually associated with a graphite drawing or a watercolour painting.

A comprehensive guide to breeding and rearing pigs in natural conditions without compromising their wellbeing. It provides support for novice pig-keepers hoping to breed their own pigs. It offers information about different breeds of pigs and their respective needs.

Since its introduction in 1950, the Volkswagen Transporter has become legendary for its versatility and adaptability to many commercial uses. Known originally as Sonderausfuhrungen, abbreviated to SO, these Special Models were usually converted by specialists, companies and coachbuilders approved by VW.

Chinese brush painting is an ancient art, steeped in history, symbolism and ritual, and closely linked to Chinese calligraphy. This book takes you on a journey through the history, techniques and materials that can enable you to produce stunning paintings of flowers, birds, animals and landscapes.

Guides the reader through the process of acquiring and subsequently re-training a racehorse. This book looks at what life was like for the horse at the racing yard and how through correct training and education you can train your horse to become a happy adjusted athlete ready for everyday equestrian activities.

Provides practical advice that makes you a better sportsperson, whether you are learning the basic skills, discovering advanced techniques or reviewing the fundamentals of your sport.

Locomotive and layout maintenance is an essential aspect of the railway modelling. This title shows you various techniques required to introduce models to your layout, run them in, fit various parts supplied with them and undertake repairs where necessary.

Tuberous begonias are sensational flowers: their abundant blooms capture everyone's heart and eye. This guide introduces the best varieties and celebrates the great range of colours grown. It offers coverage that both novice and veteran need to know to grow blooms for the home, garden and show bench.

A step-by-step guide which covers various aspects of building a garage from the planning and design stage through to construction and completion.

Offers an instructional guide to the art of millinery. This book explains how to go about designing a hat, what equipment and materials you will need, and the techniques required to get started.

Theatre designers need to be proficient in an extraordinarily diverse range of skills to carry out their work. They are expected to be able to draw, both creatively and technically, to be able to use colour imaginatively, to make accurate scale models of their set designs, and to design costumes.

Captures the excitement of working with glass and explains the techniques involved in this sphere of glass making. This book includes practical instruction that is accompanied by visual images of kiln formed glass by established glass artists, as well as snapshots of some of their own making processes.

Featured in this new, substantially revised, and updated edition of Rugby Union are:

Airfix has been commercially producing plastic kits since 1952 and its models have been made by successive generations of young boys and men alike. In the 1960s, a talented graphic artist called Roy Cross was commissioned to paint some of the box art for Airfix, and for a 10-year-period he provided many of the glorious paintings seen on the boxes.

Since its first flight on 27 April, 2005, the Airbus A380 has been one of the largest passenger airliner in the world. Instantly recognizable with its full-length upper deck, it represents the pinnacle of modern airliner design.

This book gives a detailed technical analysis of the bikes, and charts the development of the range from its introduction through to its heyday in the late 1960s. It looks at the development of the range, and covers the various models produced including a restoration of probably the best model produced - a 1970 T120R Bonneville.

Explains not only how and why the helicopter flies but also on the correct handling techniques needed to master the flying exercises required to obtain a helicopter pilot's licence. This manual is intended for students undertaking their basic helicopter training.

Designed to take the student through the various levels of kickboxing training, from the very early stages right through to black belt, this book is an ideal aid for anyone wanting to train in the comfort of their own home, or to improve their kickboxing skills in the gym or the dojo.

The Rover P5 was the last great representative of traditional British luxury saloon building, with the emphasis firmly on quality rather than sportiness. Its spaciousness, refinement and wood and leather charm still command a considerable classic car following. This book looks at this saloon.

The large section on gas-turbine engines provides essential reading for those pilots wishing to convert to the type. Of primary importance are the chapters on piston and turbine powerplants, airworthiness, flight instruments and hydraulics.

Comprehensively sets out the ground rules for Mediterranean gardeners. This book talks about the range of plants to consider growing, what they offer and what they demand.

A guide to cacti and other succulents, describing more than 250 different species or genera, and their natural habitats. Topics covered include: the unique nature of succulents; the natural environment; history, classification and nomenclature; watering, feeding, general care and propagation; pests and diseases; and more.

Providing useful tips and information, this book is suitable for archers of various levels. Illustrated with nearly 250 black and white photographs and 80 diagrams, it analyses shooting techniques and tuning, and also emphasizes the development of mental toughness.

Suitable for both recreational and competitive boxers, and all those who wish to take up amateur boxing, or participate in a boxing-based programme. This work offers practical advice on the many crucial factors that need to be taken into account if the boxer is to maximize his, or her, performance and potential.

Brings together the early histories of the development of the turbojet, turboprop and turboshaft engines. This work describes the work of twelve nations (Great Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union, the United States, Japan, France, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Hungary) from the earliest days up to the end of the 1950s.

Provides a comprehensive guide to the production of organic pulses and cereals across a range of organic farming systems in northern temperate and maritime regions. This work examines the subject of organic farming in general, and considers market demands and the issues that need to be considered when determining management strategies.

This title takes you through the process of making shows happen from the viewpoint of the production manager, the person responsible for everything on stage that is not an actor. It describes different types of productions, the role, the working life of backstage teams and theatre administration.

This informative book explains everything which needs to be considered when managing grasslands to benefit the horse, the vegetation and the environment. The book examines the horse's grazing habits and its requirements when at grass, and presents an overview of the types of grasslands found in Britain and their suitability for the horse.

Profiles over 4,000 varieties of this popular and striking plant. Illustrated with over 2,200 colour photographs, each entry includes: a description of the plant and flower colour; notes on hardiness, height and spread, and flowering time; advice on cultivation and proven performers; the name of the parent plants, the raiser and similar varieties.