Product Description: Beat boredom, boost brainpower, and bring fun to family festivities with 50 exciting and entertaining card games perfect for kids. Everything is included here, from simple card recognition games for the very young to fiendishly competitive ones for preteens and teens...read more

Product Description: If you want to build custom controls with C# but you don't know where to start, or you are intimidated by the huge amount of information that needs to be absorbed, then this book is for you. This friendly tutorial is based on numerous examples with real-world applicability, and includes a case study featuring the development of a fully functional PieChart control...read more

From the most basic and single and double-chain techniques to advanced decorative patterns, this comprehensive handbook provides detailed step-by-step, illustrated instruction in a variety of crochet patterns and stitches.

Product Description: Journalists from 30 international magazines have judged these ads the best. Taken from print, publications, Internet sites, direct marketing organizations, and packaging design projects, they are the winners, finalists, and high scorers of the Epica competition, Europe’s premier creative awards show...read more

Product Description: English soccer fans from Cape Town to Chicago follow their teams religiously. This all-inclusive guide — featuring John Motson, a highly esteemed international soccer commentator — puts a feast of facts and trivia at the fingertips of North American fans, divulging all that's weird and wonderful about the English game: Where all the famous Celtic 'Lisbon Lions' were born in Glasgow; why the England team gave the Nazi salute in 1938; quotes from Sven Goran Erikson, the England team manager; and commentary on how Americans view the game...read more

Instructs children on such card games as 'Go Fish,' 'Rummy,' 'Twenty-one,' and 'Sweet Sixteen,' with the games arranged by number of players and rated by age and skill level.

Product Description: Spanning the diverse realm of mammals, this informative pocket guide includes sections on carnivores, sea mammals, primates, large herbivores, small mammals, marsupials, and monotremes. Find out about large carnivores, as well as smaller animals like the weasel and otter, the famous humpback whale, African and Indian elephants, the strange platypus, and our close cousins the gorillas...read more

Product Description: Dinosaur fans will delight in the 120 major dinosaur species and other prehistoric animals showcased here, ranging from Alamosaurus to Zephyrosaurus. Fact-filled charts cover means of movement as well as ways of obtaining food—and ways to keep from being eaten...read more

Product Description: This pocket-size survey presents more than 100 extinct or endangered animals from around the world. Find out why each is threatened or has disappeared, and about conservation efforts. The featured animals include mammals (Giant Panda, Killer Whale), amphibians (Golden Toad), fish (Masked Angelfish), birds (California Condor), reptiles (Gila Monster), insects, and invertebrates...read more

Product Description: More than 100 different birds, from the tiny hummingbird to the huge emu, from the tern to the penguin, are showcased in this fascinating directory. All major groups of birds are represented, including water- and seabirds, hunter-scavengers, large ground birds, and songbirds, as well as threatened and localized ones such as bald eagles and whooping cranes...read more

Product Description: The pitfalls of throwing a boomerang, the world’s first feature film (1906), the largest coral reef in the world — these are just some of the subjects in this lively fact book sampling every aspect of Australian culture. Answers to such pesky questions as "Who holds the Australian Test Cricket team in-flight beer drinking record?" and "How do you play a didgeridoo?" provide hours of fun for tourists and armchair travelers...read more

Offers advice on coaching children's soccer, covering practice drills, basic skills, individual skills, goalkeeping, tactical play, and fitness.

Product Description: Budding soccer stars--follow these training secrets that will amaze your teammates and baffle your opponents. Skills and fitness regimes of the professionals are your models. Start with the basics of how to strike the ball correctly...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)