“How to Make Knots, Bends, and Splices” is an easy-to-follow, illustrated guide to tying a variety of knots that are commonly used at sea. With step-by-step instructions and helpful diagrams, this volume will have you tying knots like a proficient sailor in no time at all, and it is not to be missed by collectors of related literature. Contents include: “Ropes”, “Splicing”, “Knots and Bends”, “Fancy Knots”, “Wire Rigging”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scar...

While the Nook Simple Touch is somewhat similar to the original Nook its infrared touchscreen makes for a completely different reading experience. The Nook Simple Touch Survival Guide provides you with tips and tricks you can use upon unboxing your new eReader. This guide sorts through all of the unnecessary clutter of the official manual and gives you task-based instructions. Instead of learning which buttons perform which functions you will learn how to use those buttons to navigate your...

The iPad Air Survival Guide organizes the wealth of knowledge about the Fifth Generation iPad and iOS7 into one place, where it can be easily accessed and navigated for quick reference. This guide comes with countless screenshots, which complement the step-by-step instructions and help you to realize the iPad’s full potential. The iPad Air Survival Guide provides useful information not discussed in the official iPad Air manual, such as tips and tricks, hidden features, and troubleshooting ...

Are you struggling with a class paper and confused by the research process? Does the thought of citing research sources overwhelm you? Or are you trying to help a novice writer or struggling student complete a research project and need a helpful guide?The Simple Guide to Using MLA for Research Papers is a straightforward book which explains how to follow the research process and cite research sources using the Modern Language Association (MLA) style guide format.

The strongest influence on whether a student learns (and how much) is the teacher. Never mind fancy facilities, new technology, top curricula, or more school spending—research shows that the intelligence, skill, and dedication of the instructor is two to three times as important as any other contribution to student outcomes. If we want to improve schools, we must raise the quality of teachers.Yet credentials, degrees, years on the job have little to do with classroom excellence. Fa...

Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific protective factors and processes active in the students' lives, several symbiotic relationships between groups of protective factors are documented and explored. A Resilience Cycle ...

This wonderful collection of Des Pawson's personal ropecraft recipes combines an expanded and now full-colour collection of projects from Des's popular Des Pawson's Knot Craft, together with 20 new and brilliant mat designs.Readers can learn how to make 60 different ropework projects, including mats, bellropes, key fobs, fenders and doorstops. Along with fascinating titbits of nautical history as background to many projects and guidance as to how they can be the starting p...

A new reference book that includes knots, turns, bends and hitches together with decorative knots, plaits, sennits and mats.

Getting breakfast, lunch and dinner from tins quickly becomes boring, but it is relatively easy to prepare and cook interesting, varied and delicious meals with the minimum of space, equipment and – most importantly – hassle.This handy pocket-sized reference book is packed with invaluable advice for feeding a hungry crew for a weekend, a week, a month or even a long-term cruise or ocean passage. A third of the book contains simple but delicious recipe ideas, but most of the book is...

This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Dracula is a British-American horror drama television series. The series, a reimagining of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, was produced by London-based Carnival Films; it aired in the United States on NBC and in the United Kingdom on Sky Living. It was created by Cole Haddon, while Daniel Knauf served as showrunner and head writer. This book has been derived from Wikipedia: it contains...

This vintage book is a complete guide to net and netting, with historical information, directions of making and using a variety of nets, helpful tips, and much more. Written in simple, plain language and profusely illustrated, this book is highly recommended for those who require a knowledge of nets for work or pleasure and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: “Preparation”, “Needles”, “Mesh”, “Filling the Needle with Twin”, “The Netti...

"Knott Book" is an easy-to-follow, illustrated guide to tying a variety of knots that are commonly used at sea. With step-by-step instructions and helpful diagrams, this volume will have you tying knots like a proficient sailor in no time at all, and it is not to be missed by collectors of related literature. Contents include: "A Story of Two Knots", "Sheep Shank", "To Stop a Rope Fraying", "Saving a Drowning Man", "The Bowline", "The Bowline on the Bight", "To Make a Rope Fast Quickly", "...