Provides instructions for making and using instant puppets, rainy day puppets, professional puppets, special puppets, and novelty puppets. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art. This new edition of a classic brings the original text back to life, including four additional essays and a new introduction, edited and translated by leading puppetry scholar Penny Francis...read more

In this unique and beautiful book, beloved doll-designer Barbara Willis guides readers through various approaches to doll design and basic and advanced construction techniques. Through the creation of three complete step-by-step projects, readers will develop color boards, learn to use vintage images, create both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional cloth dolls, learn sophisticated costuming techniques, and gain knowledge of elaborate soft sculpting. A gallery shares the inspirational work of several well-known doll artists who have created their own versions of each project. Complete patterns and templates are included.

Product Description: Are you harnessing the power of a journal?If you are going through life right now feeling like everything is out of control or that things are not happening the way you planned, you need a journal. I don’t mean to be too direct, but it is time for you to discover why you feel the way you do and then figure out what to do about it...read more

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Product Description: This cool and creepy box contains everything you need to start making an adorably horrifying army of scary felt creatures! Featuring a book with illustrated step-by-step instructions and all of the materials you need to make eight delightfully scary monsters...read more

Product Description: Grab your crochet hooks and prepare to stick and stuff a collection of adorable donut projects with Donut Shop Crochet Kit. Inside you'll find an accordion style instruction guide coupled with 5 easy to follow project cards with step-by-step patterns...read more

The essential guide to blending safety and health with economical engineeringOver time, the role of the engineer has evolved into a complex combination of duties and responsibilities. Modern engineers are required not only to create products and environments, but to make them safe and economical as well. Safety and Health for Engineers, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide that helps engineers reconcile safety and economic concerns using the latest cost-effective methods of ensuring safety in all facets of their work. It addresses the fundamentals of safety, legal aspects, hazard recognition, the human element of safety, and techniques for managing safety in engineering decisions. Like its successful predecessor, this Second Edition contains a broad range of topics and examples, detailed references to information and standards, real-world application exercises, and a significant bibliography of books for each chapter.Inside this indispensable resource, you'll find:* The duties and legal responsibilities for which engineers are accountable* Updated safety laws and regulations and their enforcement agencies* An in-depth study of hazards and their control* A thorough discussion of human behavior, capabilities, and limitations* Key instruction on managing safety and health through risk management, safety analyses, and safety plans and programsAdditionally, Safety and Health for Engineers includes the latest legal considerations, new risk analysis methods, system safety and decision-making tools, and today's concepts and methods in ergonomic design. It also contains revised reference figures and tables, OSHA permissible exposure limits, and updated examples and exercises taken from real cases that challenged engineering designs. Written for engineers, plant managers, safety professionals, and students, Safety and Health for Engineers, Second Edition provides the information and tools you need to unite health and safety with economical engineering for safer technological solutions.

Product Description: This zombielicious box contains everything you need to start making an adorably horrifying army of scary felt creatures! Featuring a book with illustrated step-by-step instructions and all of the materials you need to make eight delightfully scary monsters...read more

Product Description: I need not explain how these Shadows were suggested, to any one who has seen WILKIE'S picture, "The Rabbit on the Wall." But by what pains they were invented can never be revealed; for it is known to my tortured digits alone, and they, luckily for me, are dumb...read more

Product Description: 12 amazing moving animals to press out, slot together and play!From flapping penguins to swimming turtles, and everything in between, create fantastic moving animal 'parionettes' to play with. Each parionette comes with easy-to-follow assembly instructions, and no scissors or glue required!Contains nine ready-to-play animals, plus three to color in with your own fantastic designs...read more

Product Description: Celebrate the decorative intricacy of tiled mosaics in your next quilting or sewing project. Author Paula Doyle proves how easy it can be to get perfect precision patchwork on a small scale with her piecing techniques. Create more than 30 different complex-looking blocks that make for wonderfully colorful patterns...read more

Product Description: Put on your very own origami finger puppet show!You can create your own origami theater by making a full range of finger puppet characters! Origami Finger Puppets includes 25 adorable and entertaining step-by-step designs and 25 sheets of origami paper to practice with! Recreate the characters from your favorite movie or Broadway show, or let your imagination guide the characters you create - the possibilities are endless...read more

Product Description: Arnoldi (associate curator of African Ethnology and Art, Smithsonian Institution) weaves a vivid account of a West African theater tradition from the perspectives of the performers, the audiences, and the local youth associations who make elaborate puppet masquerades and sculpted masks...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)