Este autor desvela las posibilidades geométricas y la belleza pura latente en una hoja de papel a través del arte del origami. Con más de tres décadas de experiencia, percibe un profundo potencial en este material sencillo, esperando ser revelado por la mano hábil del plegador. Su obra se nutre de una profunda fascinación por los aspectos táctiles y visuales de la manipulación del papel. A través de sus extensos escritos y enseñanzas, busca compartir esta intrincada y gratificante forma de arte con un público más amplio.
Asi se nenajde nikdo, kdo by ve svém okolí neměl nějakého toho "obtížného" jedince. Nejraději bychom se jim samozřejmě vyhnuli a vůbec se s nimi nebavili, jenže to často není možné. A právě proto je tu tahle kniha - dozvíte se z ní, co má dotyčný problémový jedinec zřejmě za problém a jak s ním jednat tak, abyste si nezničili nervya dostali od něj to, co potřebujete.
Discover how to identify the nine types of difficult people, what they do, and how to deal effectively with them.
Wollten Sie schon immer die uralte Kunst des Origami meistern? Dann ist dieses Buch genau das richtige für Sie. Verständliche Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen, bestehend aus Abbildungen und begleitendem Text, helfen Ihnen dabei ein langweiliges Stück Papier in die verschiedensten Modelle zu verwandeln. Egal ob Anfänger oder Fortgeschrittener - für jeden ist das richtige dabei. Dabei gibt der Autor auch allgemeine Tipps zur perfekten Faltung, dem Erstellen eigener Modelle und was zu tun ist, wenn man mal nicht weiterweiß. So werden auch Sie zum Origami-Meister.
The third book in the Coast Lines Key Ancestors series, Nick Robins and Malcom McRonald take us through the history and development of the alliance of Burns and Laird.
Nick Robins explores the ships that came to the Pool of London throughout history.
Are you ready to flip out? Hexaflexagons are six-sided, flat paper models that can be made to reveal hidden images through a series of flexes and folds. Flexagons were first introduced in a column written by Martin Gardner for Scientific American. From there, people started folding and figuring out creative ways to craft these interesting origami-like objects. Included in this delightful book are instructions and material to create hexaflexagons, tri-tetra flexagons, cubes, flexacubes, and more! Flexing kaleidocycles are shapes formed by taking several tetrahedra (four-sided 3D shapes) and joining their edges to form a ring, which can then be rotated so that it turns inside out to display a multitude different colors, shapes, and designs! This book contains: • A brief introduction on the history of hexaflexagons • Instructions on how to make 13 different fun flexagon models • 40 pages of easy tear-out pages with pieces to assemble your hexaflexagons People are still discovering new ways to innovate with these enjoyable creations—so with some study and practice, you may be able to come up with a unique design and enter the pages of flexagon history! All you need to do is to cut out and assemble the various models in this book to create the most intriguing and entertaining designs available. Start folding your flexagons now!
Coast Lines was for a time one of the great success stories of British shipping. Focussing on the coastal liner trades, the group dominated its chosen sector of business more successfully than almost any other shipping company in the United Kingdom.
The remarkable story of the building of thousands of standard merchant ships in two World Wars