Spectacular Cards

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.

Sure-to-be-Treasured Books You Can Make Today! 22 projects feature lots of inspiration. 3 unique techniques to create a huge variety of books. Go wild with pockets, accordion foldouts, tabs, and closures! Create an unforgettable, personal gift. Get the kids involved-they'll love decorating prepared books. Whether you're an experienced scrapbooker, a paper crafter, quilter, or beginner, you're sure to find a perfect project in Sue's collection of handcrafted books. Choose an occasion or theme, round up fabric, paper, and embellishments, then follow Sue's easy and fun directions.

With this book you can learn how to read the ordinary bridge deck. Based on a European gypsy method, it teaches how to lay out the cards, what they mean, how to choose a personal card, and provides a dynamic way to interpret what you see.

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!

"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.

FASCINATING TOPICS is an exciting, intriguing, non-fiction book about fifty-one, different topics. Topics in this book are wonders of the world, enduring handicaps, glass objects, special hobbies and printing skills. More topics are about Mount Rushmore, artistic decorations, beauty parlor experiences, floral shops and the Nipomo Mesa. More fascinating topics are restaurant secrets, Mexican hospitality, Egyptian Pyramids, gemstones, first class hotels and Hoover Dam. Other worthwhile topics are about Hearst Castle, national parks, playing the piano, northern, continent wonders, Ellen's trip to Asia and important bridges. New Zealand attractions, the Empire State Building, Frank Lloyd Wright, eucalyptus trees, enchantment of flowers, pillow comfort and raising children are intriguing topics. Underground discoveries, sea life in the ocean, excellent teachers, slumber parties, cold drinks, the Sun, candle making and lamps are more, fascinating topics. Religious people, pizzas and crepes, delicious soups, avoid taking pills unnecessarily, Washington, D.C., wonders of photography, Kew Gardens, designing cards, metaphysics, performing vocal solos, deserts of the world, herbs and spices and hospital experiences are some more, exciting topics. You will have an opportunity to learn and to think about many, stimulating topics and issues. So, enjoy FASCINATING TOPICS.

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!

Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.