Spectacular Cards!


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Everyone Loves to Get Cards — Especially When They're Works of Art. More than 40 knock-your-socks-off card ideas and techniques. Snip, stamp, embellish, and paint your way to stand-out cards. Create keepsake greetings for any occasion with fabric and paper. Transform old game boards into spectacular gift cards that will amaze your loved ones. From playful to sophisticated, something new for every crafter! Finalist in the "Hobby/Crafts/How-To" category of the USA Book News "Best Book Awards" contest for 2005.




Pop-Up Cards


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The Amazing Book of Magic & Card Tricks


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Demonstrates how to perform a wealth of tricks using everyday props as well as a variety of card tricks, illustrating each in color photographs that reveal hidden details of sleight of hand.




CardMaker's Sketch Book


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Card sketches have quickly become a favorite creative resource among card makers. Your interpretation of these 45 sketches, along with your extensive stash of supplies results in a one-of-a-kind statement of your affection. We've included more than 220 projects to jump-start the creative process.




A Collection of Amazing Magic and Card Tricks


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This book contains a collection of mystifying magic and card tricks. Great as a gift, this book will dumfound friends and family and have them on their knees begging for the secret behind these mind-boggling tricks.




Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Sports Spectacular


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New from the Bathroom Reader: a grand slam, hole-in-one, hat trick collection of sports lore and trivia. Hey, sports fans: Sports Spectacular is bigger and better than ever! The not-so-dumb jocks at the BRI have packed in all the best sports and games articles from the wildly successful Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader series--and then bulked the whole thing up with more than 50 fan-tastic new pages. So place the ball on the tee, square up to the basket, and make sure your laces are laced tight, because it’s time to throw the dice through the goalposts for a home run! You’ll feel the thrill of victory and laugh at the agony of defeat as you read about… * The origins of all the major sports (and a bunch of minor ones) * Classic games, from poker and pinball to Monopoly and Donkey Kong * How to play bathroom blackjack * The world’s worst matador * The Goodyear Blimp * Mascots gone wild * Olympic scandals * NASCAR’s illegal origins * Dodging the cow pies when you play pasture golf * Finnish wife-carrying, gerbil racing, flagpole sitting, and other bizarre sports And much, much more!




Archie Digital Comics Presents: Betty & Veronica Christmas Spectacular


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Join Betty and Veronica for the jolliest ALL-NEW Christmas stories of the year! Veronica's got quite a collection of cards -- no, not Christmas cards, credit cards! But who knew they could provide more than just a form of payment? Find out the other use of credit in "It's in the Cards." Then, Santa is reviewing his gift list and his elves are working overtime to supply him with spreadsheets regarding the behavior of kids of all ages. But something's weird in one of his Riverdale spreadsheets: Betty Cooper—naughty? Veronica Lodge—nice?? Santa’s puzzled—usually it’s the other way around! St. Nick decides to go undercover to learn what is behind the Betty and Veronica turn-around in the best possible disguise—as a shopping mall Santa! Find out what caused this merry mix-up in “Naughty or Nice?” Unwrap these stories and MORE in this collection of ALL-NEW holiday fun!




The Cardmaking Kit


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With The Cardmaking Kit you'll be able to create more than 25 handmade cards and envelopes -- and have fun in the process. All the materials you need are included: gorgeous patterned and colored papers, a stencil with 22 designs, stickers, scissors, and a selection of templates. The enclosed booklet offers tips and step-by-step instructions for 10 card projects. Make cards for any occasion!




Make it You(tm)-Your Space


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Use fabric and simple sewing to transform the space you live in with projects ranging from bedroom ensembles to wall treatments to coordinating accessories.




The Spectacular Favela


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"This book examines the political economy of violence in the Rio de Janeiro favela of Rocinha. Based on over two years of research and residence in the community, it offers an ethnographic account of how entangled forms of violence become essential forces shaping everyday social relations in the favela. The first part of the book shows how armed actors--drug traffickers and police--use spectacle to perform power. Yet despite the prevalence of physical violence, the favela has itself become a valuable global brand, consumed in disembodied fashion through media and in embodied fashion through tourism. Exploring media and favela tourism, the second part of the book demonstrates how the social relationships that arise from ongoing favela violence have a direct relationship to the market economy"--Provided by publisher.