Pottery, ceramics and glass crafts

'A thrilling celebration of lighthouses' i newspaperAn enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited themLighthouses are enduring monuments to our relationship with the sea.

In this revelatory book, Callum Roberts uses his lifetime's experience working with the oceans to show why they are the most mysterious places on earth, their depths still largely unexplored.

'What a fun book!

Dive in.

A scientific expedition into unknown parts of the Caribbean to study the tectonic plates of the region answers the intriguing question: Is there a language of fish?

Discover how to create stunning jewelry using sea glass found on the beach.

Who knew that discarded bottles and glassware could become treasures of such rare beauty?

Sea glass connects civilization and nature, often in surprising ways.

Transform areas and items in your home into beautiful works of art!

Stunning to look at and exciting to make, stained glass work is perennially popular.

';The sea is as near as we come to another world.

Do you love to be by the coast, walks along the beach, fishing in the sea, or hiking through the cliffs?

Many fishermen will acknowledge that the brown trout (Salmo trutta) and the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) are the world's most intriguing, beautiful and noble fish.

This is the black and white paperback edition of Pattern, published in hardback in 2016 by Saltyard Books.

'Emma Bridgewater, queen of kitchenware, proves herself to be queen of the memoir too.

Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water?

A lavish and definitive view of the oceanic world - accompanying the landmark 7-part BBC series narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

New York Times bestselling author Susan Donovan welcomes you to Bayberry Island, a special place where a bronze mermaid statue promises to grant true love to anyone who asks with an open heart.

The biggest-ever selection of first-hand accounts and news reports of shark attacks, both recent and historical, shows how sharks are masters of the ocean and how we enter their domain at our own risk.

This is the black and white paperback edition of Pattern, published in hardback in 2016 by Saltyard Books.

Emma Bridgewater's cheerfully distinctive kitchen pottery - manufactured and traditionally hand-decorated in the Staffordshire Potteries, just as it would have been 200 years ago - has found its way onto the dresser shelves and kitchen tables of homes all over Britain and beyond.

'Clay contains infinite possibilities in its transmutations, evidenced on the shelves of our homes, our galleries and museums.

This is the beautifully told tale of Norton's growing love of the sea, from family holidays in Whitley Bay as a boy, to his first over zealous attempts at diving.

THE ULTIMATE SURVIVAL GUIDE for anyone who thinks they'd survive the world's most hostile environments - or at least imagine they could do.

20 original patterns for common North American seashore birds, including sandpipers, gulls, terns, pelicans, plovers, and loons.

25 full-size realistic patterns for common North American songbirds.

25 full-size realistic patterns for common North American garden flowers.

A great selection of 25 patterns for making beautiful stained glass panels of backyard birds.

A great selection of 25 patterns for making beautiful stained glass panels of leaf shapes.

Whether you are new to glass fusing or a veteran glass crafter, you will find fresh ideas in this book.

38 patterns for beautiful botanical and traditional designs for the home.

From Stackpole's bestselling Basics series, this book presents a fun, growing trend in glass crafts.

Creative techniques to go beyond the fundamentals.

*; Creative ideas for making glass beads *; 8 skilled beadmakers are given the challenge to create beads based on an inspiration--a color, a season, a painting, an emotion--to see what they will create *; Resulting beads show the variety of creative responses *; Includes step-by-step techniques for using other materials with the glass to create unique beads

Louise Mehaffey is a master with the torch, melting glass and wrapping it around a metal rod called a mandrel to create beautiful glass beads.

Illustrated, step-by-step instructions.

Step-by-step color photos illustrate the entire lamp-making process, from cutting the pattern and selecting glass to assembling tiles and soldering a shade.

Basic skills from an expert.

Step-by-step photos illustrate the entire lamp-making process.

Illustrated step-by-step instruction on techniques to make a variety of beautiful and practical stained glass boxes.

Discover the fascinating world of Japanese rice wine in *"e;Sake: The Art of Japanese Rice Wine - The Culture of Japan's National Drink"e;*.

There's simply no limit to the sins people will commit for a tasty meal.

The Folk Classification of Ceramics: A Study of Cognitive Prototypes provides a general understanding of folk classification that compares cognitive structures across cultures through anthropological field studies.

As the owner of one of the world's most elaborate sea glass collections, Mary Beth Beuke gets to talk about these prized ocean gems on a daily basis.

'A warm, funny, uplifting writer to celebrate!

'I absolutely loved it - what a wise, brilliant book - so well observed on families and love and the secrets we keep.

The gripping story of the lure of porcelain, or 'white gold', from the Number One bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes.

The story behind the major motion picture from Disneystarring Chris Pine, Eric Bana, and Casey Affleckwritten by a recognized master of the genre';a blockbuster account of tragedy at sea' (The Providence Journal).

Discover the enthralling story of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy's largest ever aircraft carrier and SUBJECT OF THE MAJOR NEW BBC DOCUMENTARY SERIES THE WARSHIP'Fascinating, often funny and sometimes moving .

Conus is the largest genus of animals in the sea, occurring throughout the world's tropical and subtropical oceans and contributing significantly to marine biodiversity.