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PUBLISHER PRODUCTION Mark Leonard mark.leonard@quarto.com +44 (0) 207 700 8087 Zarni Win zarni.win@quarto.com +44 (0) 207 700 8082 Nicolas Zeifman nicolas.zeifman@quarto.com +44 (0) 207 700 8018
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Mark Searle mark.searle@quarto.com +44 (0) 207 700 8066
Quintet is well known for its delicious food books, from the multi-million selling 500 series of cookbooks (p. 42), sugarcraft titles such as the brandnew Cake Couture (p.58) and books on making drinks, like
The Brewer’s Bible (p. 26). Each of our books feature dozens of original recipes written by authors who know how to appeal to readers around the world, shot by top-class food photographers, and designed with a fresh approach. We’re not just about food and drink though. We also publish inventive new craft books, music and performing arts titles and a wide range of practical lifestyle books. In this catalog we’re proud to show the unusual, like Horror Knits (p. 46); the comprehensive, like The Crochet
Encyclopedia; the fun, like 30 Min-Knits (p. 52); the personal, like Put Your Stamp on it (p. 60)—and that’s just in craft. Whether you want to learn to play the harmonica, discover how type makes poster art work, make the perfect popcorn, or sew that Marilyn Monroe dress, Quintet has a huge range of inspiring new titles for readers looking to do something, just a bit different. Mark Searle Publisher, Quintet
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FOOD & DRINK
Get in line for Quintet’s best-selling cookery series, the “500s,” as well as a kitchen storecupboard-full of other tasty cookbooks, gourmet guides, and companions. Packed with tried and tested recipes, and the must-have utensils and accessories, and laid out with superb design and photography and expert cookery writing, Quintet’s cookbooks are indispensable and irresistible. Try them.
POPCORN! 100 gourmet popcorn recipes to make at home What’s the best thing to snack on while you watch a movie? Popcorn! The world’s favorite snack has been with us for thousands of years, but now it has just got interesting. Popcorn! is packed with more than 100 original, mouth-watering recipes from dark chocolate & whisky popcorn balls to popcorn-coated chicken, from sticky marshmallow popcorn to classic toffee. The perfect book to make this quick, easy, and
fun snack food for yourself or for friends. Each recipe is accompanied by a recommended film (such as the Molly Ringwald film Pretty in Pink for our Pink Mallow Popcorn recipe) and stunning, bright photography. Popcorn is a healthy, sugar-free, wheat-free, dairy-free snack that is ever-present in every food trends survey for 2012. Why buy gourmet popcorn packs when you can make your own a-maize-ing food in minutes at home?
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EVERYDAY COOKING WITH THE HALOGEN OVEN The revolutionary way to cook meals in half the time Combining the speed of a conventional fan oven with the instant heat of the halogen lamp to cook food more efficiently, the halogen oven is a boon to any kitchen. A halogen oven is small enough to sit on your worktop, and large enough to feed a family of four comfortably. A very versatile piece of equipment, it does everything your normal oven would do, quicker, and certainly cheaper. As well as saving you money on electricity, the
halogen oven is a healthy option, using far less fat than a conventional oven. In this comprehensive collection of inventive and delicious recipes for every occasion, you will be able to harness the full potential of this fantastic kitchen appliance. With more than 100 delicious recipes that really work, and stunning photography throughout, this book will inspire you to get the most from your halogen oven.
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SPICE ROUTES 40 spices; 200 recipes; infinite combinations Don’t ignore your spice rack. Spices, used together, bring any dish to life. Spice Routes is all about cooking with flavor. Forty different spices are explored, with tasting notes on their character, strength, and culinary origins. Each spice has several recipes, pairing with different spices to create unique combinations and to encourage you to take your own taste adventures. Pair star anise with Chinese five spice to create zingy pork
belly; make a sweet cinnamon and cassia ice cream; or mix fennel and cardamom for a delicious chai tea. Spice Routes is all you need to start using more adventurous flavor combinations in your cooking to bring your recipes to life. Featuring 40 spices and 200 mouth-watering recipes with unique spice combinations, there are countless ways to infuse your cooking with tastes like never before.
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PIZZAIOLO Over 100 authentic stone baked pizza recipes to make at home If you want to make pizza at home and wish you could recreate the crisp, fine texture of authentic wood-fired pizzas, this kit gives you everything you need. Create the flavors of Napoli wherever you are with this ceramic pizza stone and cookbook with more than 50 original pizza recipes. At last you can cook beautiful handmade pizzas at home. Discover the secrets of Italy’s proud pizza chefs, the Pizzaiolo.
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• Contains an authentic 9-inch pizza stone • Make your own dough and invent your own personal pizza • Secrets from Salvatore, our very own Neapolitan Pizzaiolo • Mouth-watering life-sized pictures of each pizza • Perfect for creating a wood-fired oven feel in your conventional oven
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THE STORE CUPBOARD COOKBOOK Fantastic feasts without going shopping Unlock the potential in your kitchen cupboards and discover the storecupboard way of life. Everyone has days when they can’t get to the shops, but that doesn’t mean you can’t knock up fabulous, fresh-tasting food with what you have to hand. The Storecupboard Cookbook will show you how to load up your larder with essential ingredients, and how to use them to create the most delicious, economical meals and treats.
• With more than 150 recipes for thrifty but delicious meals at a moment’s notice • Includes comprehensive lists of key items to have in stock at all times, and advice on substitution • With ideas for snacks, lunches, and special dinners, there’s the perfect recipe for every occasion
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DELICIOUS GIFTS Edible creations to make and give Delicious Gifts shows you—with easy-to-understand directions—how to create rich, complex flavors using simple techniques and ingredients to make the perfect present. From buying the materials and ingredients, to crafting and cooking the confection, and finally wrapping it in elegant, eye-catching packaging, Delicious Gifts is a real treat.
Handmade, lovingly crafted gifts for friends and loved ones are sure to delight and impress—especially in an age of austerity. When you add natural ingredients to the mix and make them the most mouthwatering confections then they become extra-special offerings.
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THE BREWER’S BIBLE How to brew delicious beers at home From lagers to lambics, porters to pilsners, bocks, bitters, stouts, and saisons, there is a delicious beer for everyone. Varying in taste from light and mild to dark and musky, it is often difficult to find the beer taste you love from limited options at the liquor store. Now there is another way! The Brewer’s Bible is your simple and easy-to-
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follow guide for producing homemade beer. Wanting your own private stash, or a special brew to share with friends? Comprehensive instructions, expert hints and tips, and beautiful illustrations let you become the ultimate brewmaster from the comfort of your own home.
HEAVEN SERIES Hundreds of heaven-sent recipes for the sinfully indulgent Is there anything on Earth more tempting than freshbaked cupcakes? A thick and delicious smoothie? A perfect pastry? A plate of warm cookies? There may not be on Earth but there certainly is in the Heavens. Packed with fresh and delicious ingredient ideas, as well as tips on combinations, preparations, frostings,
and decorations, here are four books designed to lead you into kitchen temptation. From truly sinful cookies to luscious cakes, divine drinks, blessed brownies, celestial shakes, holy hot cocoa, and saintly cereal, the Heavens series takes your tastebuds to paradise!
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THE GOURMET GARDEN An organic gardening book For both novice and experienced gardeners and cooks, here’s how to grow truly organic herbs, fruits, vegetables, and edible flowers. Grow gourmet ingredients in your garden and rediscover real flavor, freshness, nutrition, and taste. The Gourmet Garden is brimming with techniques and a directory of flavorful and healthy vegetables, herbs, fruits, and edible flowers that you can nurture and grow in your garden, greenhouse, window
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box, or allotment. This book takes the reader from potting, pruning, and caring for plants to harvesting, storing, and using the foods in the kitchen. Grow-yourown organically, and you’ll be 100 percent assured that no unwelcome chemicals have made their way into your food. Plus, you can be confident in the knowledge that you’re helping the environment at the same time.
THE COMPANION SERIES Connoisseurs’ guides that bring together the world’s finest foods and beverages—fully illustrated, informative, indispensable, and invaluable Unravel the intricacies of selecting, buying, storing, and appreciating the foods on the finer side. Discover a world of exotic flavors and textures in these authoritative guides that help you assess and enjoy the very finest food products in the world.
Each title includes fascinating insights into: • History & production • Tasting notes & vocabulary • Illustrated global directories • Selection, serving, and storing
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500 SERIES The only cookery compendiums you’ll ever need Quintet’s long-running and solidly successful cookery series, the 500 s, come in a handy-sized, easy-to-use format that puts the fun into cooking. The 500 s series currently comprises more than 30 beautiful, simple, bestselling titles—from appetizers to desserts, pizzas to pies, cookies to cupcakes, barbecues to beers—you’re sure to find something you’re craving. Each recipe comes complete with four tempting variations—so
delicious, you’ll have to make them all. Enjoy finding new ideas from hundreds of tried-and-tested dishes; you’ll be amazed you ever cooked without the 500 s.... From “Appetizers” to “White Wine,” the 500 s are the only recipe books you’ll ever need. Each title contains 500 recipes and variations with special notes on the ingredients and equipment needed, as well as more than 180 beautiful photographs.
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From make-your-own iconic dresses to knitting tiny terrors, right through to the most comprehensive embroidery guide you’ll ever need, our craft titles offer the widest range of skills-set books. All our titles are full-color with crystal-clear instructional step-by-steps, simple-to-follow diagrams and galleries of inspirational designs. Written by experts in their fields, you’ll find something for everyone who wants to try out a new craft or perfect their existing craft techniques.
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HORROR KNITS 20 projects that go bump in the night Fantastical knitting projects to stretch your imagination and your knitting skills. Here are some knitting projects to make your hairs stand on end—or at least your yarns. From freak show oddities to carnival curios, here are all sorts of curiouser and curiouser ideas for the modern knitter in search of something a little… alternative. Horror Knits comes with tips aplenty and easy-to-follow, detailed instructions on anything from creepy clown
cushion covers to an entire haunted house. This essential guide to edgy knits also includes basic knit know-how on yarn types, stitch techniques, creating texture, and how to work from an intarsia chart, as well as some more advanced techniques, such as including simple circuitry in projects. • With 20 projects—suitable for the novice, but not the faint-hearted!
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SEW ICONIC How to make 10 Hollywood dresses Dresses is your stylish guide to sewing the show-stopping outfits you’ve always wanted. Fit them perfectly to your body type and size, add support, and choose your own fabric; the possibilities are endless. Easy-to-follow steps and clear instructions demystify dressmaking for even the novice seamstress. Then when you’ve mastered the famous Marilyn dress from The Seven Year Itch, all you need to complete the look is a steam vent.
Whether it was on Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, or Marilyn Monroe, that stunning dress from the silver screen has always left you enchanted. You’ve been shopping with that dress in mind, searched desperately for something similar, but never found the garment of your Hollywood dreams. Forget endless and disappointing trips to the mall, now you can simply recreate that fabulous gown. Sew Iconic: How to Make 10 Hollywood
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30 MIN-KNITS What can you knit in half an hour or less? Think you’re too busy to knit anything? Think again! Here’s a collection of knitting projects that you really can fit into your spare time, no matter where you are. Designed to knit up quickly, these quick-fix designs will liven up a boring journey to work or give you something to do while dinner’s cooking. Best of all, you won’t need to spend lots of money on new and fancy yarns (unless
you want to), as they can easily be knitted from what you have in your stash of leftovers already. The patterns included in the book assume no knitting skill, and include instructions for casting on and off, knit and purl stitch, increases, decreases, and knitting in the round. As well as this, they introduce a number of new stitches and techniques to keep more advanced knitters interested.
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COOL CAKE TOPPERS Put anything you want on a cake Provoke astonishment, surprise, and delight when you present cakes with your personally hand-crafted cake toppers. Why go for a boring and generic store-bought cake when you can amaze your friends and family with these exciting and memorable creations? Every baker wants to personalize their celebration cakes, and Cool Cake Toppers provides ideas and guidance for
the amateur cake maker as well as inspiration for the professional. Whether you are looking to make toppers to embellish cupcakes for a school fair or an elaborate tiered wedding cake, this book illustrates sensational and innovative designs. Cool Cake Toppers encourages everyone to create quirky cake designs.
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CAKE COUTURE Modern sugarcraft for the stylish baker The ultimate baking and decorating guide to turning cake creations into highly accomplished confections. Modern cake design is a combination of artistry and chemistry, and Cake Couture is your expert guide to the entire cooking and creative process. Using beautiful full-color photography, this masterful companion has easy-to-follow, illustrated step-by-step instructions for
creating delicious cakes with that “wow” factor your friends and family will love—including ingredients and tools, as well as baking, building, decorating techniques, and how best to display your cake creation.Whether everyday vanilla, chocolate, or special occasion creations, you can have your cake and eat it too with Cake Couture.
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LOOM KNITTING SERIES Knit fun and fashionable clothes and accessories for the family—without having to use standard knitting needles Using a loom (which is a knitting board with pegs) is a quick skill to pick up, and fun to do—even if you have never knitted before. You can create almost everything, from knitted tubes for hats to flat panels for scarves, shawls, and sweaters; in just a few hours you can create comfortable, eye-catching socks in every color, texture, and style imaginable. Even fashionable accessories
are within reach of the loom knitter, while baby and toddler clothing and blankets make excellent personal gifts. Complete with color photography, step-by-step illustrations, pictorial charts, at-a-glance panels, and clearly laid-out pattern formats, this series shows you everything from casting on to cabling, embellishing with ribbons, beads, and embroidery.
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CRAFT ENCYCLOPEDIAS The only embroidery, knitting, and crochet references you’ll ever need From beautiful stumpwork and traditional embroidery to soft scarves and exotic knit textures, here is a fabulous selection of styles and projects for the dedicated embroiderer, crocheter, or knitter. All techniques require precision and skill, but with these handy, quality guides you will find them very easy to start and very satisfying to complete. Illustrated with color photography and clear diagrams that accompany step-by-step instructions,
as well as fun projects for all levels, you’ll be amazed you ever picked up a needle without these three comprehensive encyclopedias. • Each title has over 30 easy-to-follow beautiful projects • Each title contains a full-color photographic gallery of ideas and inspirations
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KNITTER’S YARN PALETTE The ultimate visual guide for choosing the right color, texture, and style for every pattern Be inspired by nature’s subtle shadings by choosing yarn in the newest colors and textures, as laid out in this visually inspirational sourcebook. Then delve into the excellent directory complete with 20 beautiful bespoke projects. The original projects are grouped into six themes—for example, choose Enchanted Woodland to echo the palette of the forest early in fall, or select Frozen Monochrome to capture the whites and pale
blues of ice and snow. With every project you can experiment with new yarns, including those made from bamboo, corn fiber, or other natural and synthetic materials or blends.
• More than 200 photos of hundreds of yarns in every color, texture, and fiber imaginable
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HANDBOOKS Simple techniques and step-by-step projects Here is a colorful range of masterclasses for master crafts—on jewelry making, bookbinding, calligraphy, and printmaking—offering novices and experts alike unique sourcebooks for bringing ideas to fruition. Clear step-by-step instructions take you through every stage of the processes involved in mastering these crafts. For example, you can learn about relief printing,
intaglio printing, lithography, screenprinting, and photocomposition in The Printmaking Handbook. • Four handy companions to your favorite crafts, complete with hundreds of useful illustrations and step-by-step advice
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Do you want to design a new logo? Draw manga, graffiti art, and supervillains? Do you want to understand how type makes poster art work? Discover the essential skills for any aspiring artist? Quintet’s art and design titles offer practical insights and techniques across dozens of genres and methods of creating new artwork. From tips and tricks to in-depth exploration, each visual guide is illustrated throughout to the highest standard.
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POSTER FACE How type makes poster art work Most of us have had posters on our walls that are design classics, whether they began life as movie posters (from Gone with the Wind to Scarface), public advice messages such as to “Keep Calm and Carry On,” or even as examples of Soviet Propaganda. Poster Face tells the story of the fonts which have dominated iconic poster art in the last hundred years: how each one came to be invented, its technical aspects and innovations, what gave it its impact, where else it was used, and its lasting influences around the world.
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In a wide-ranging and fascinating overview of the most stylish and effective posters of all time, it will trace the history of the written word as an art form in its own right. • More than fifty classic typefaces explored and explained • Important posters placed in the context of their place and times • An alternative visual history of poster art
THE DESIGNER’S GUIDE TO LOGOS A practical guide to brand identity The comprehensive practical tutorial to take you from logo layman to brand identity expert in easy-to-follow steps. Here’s a hands-on guide to all you need to know about all the elements of iconic logo design, and how to go about creating your own signature logos. Expert advice from a professional and award-winning graphic designer guides you with insider tips and hints on all the processes you need to go through—from pencil roughs to PDFs—to achieve your creative communications.
Find out how logo design is as much about what you leave out as to what you put in, and discover the merits of negative space, how to use colors, and getting the best result for all of your clients in any situation, whether professional, friends, or family. Including helpful advice for the beginner and more seasoned designer alike, this book is a must-have for sharpening those brand identity skills.
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HOW TO DRAW SERIES Everything you need to know about drawing and sketching in a huge variety of styles— plus all the tips, techniques, and tricks of the trade to give your finished artwork that professional touch. From intergalactic villains to Elvish damsels in distress, this series offers endless exciting artistic possibilities. Covering drawing styles from graffiti to manga, as well as genres that include fantasy and science fiction, you can learn to draw, or improve your existing skills, with this dynamic and inspirational collection of titles.
Whether you want to draw them professionally or design special graphics for friends and family, the How to Draws are the books for you. Complete with easy-to-follow steps and guidelines, this series will make you a super-artist in no time!
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TIPS & TRICKS SERIES Colorful starter-artist guides that give you expert step-by-step tips to painting with watercolors, oils, and acrylics and drawing with pencil, charcoal, and ink Tips & Tricks Watercolor, Acrylics, Oil Painting, and Drawing is a series of simple-to-follow, fully illustrated guides that provide all the practical tips and tricks of the trade that any aspiring artist will need—whatever the medium. From buying the right equipment to the knack
of painting people, these guides are designed to help even experienced painters create just the right effect. Each book highlights the basic rules and techniques needed to get started in art, but is also geared to helping each artist develop their own distinctive style.
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Here are a series of innovative and inspiring all-color visual guides bursting with fresh ideas and tried and tested techniques to enthuse and enthral aspiring musicians and performers. Packed with step-by-step photographs, illustrations, and insider tips—and some with accompanying audio CDs— these titles will help would-be creative artists and musicians maximize their potential.
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LEARN TO PLAY HARMONICA Over 100 illustrated chords for blues, rock, country, and soul From beginner to jammin’ the blues in seven chapters. Written with absolute beginners in mind, Learn to Play Harmonica is a foolproof guide to taking your first steps on this unique instrument. Whether you’re already a proficient musician and just want to add another string to your bow, or if you’ve never played any music before, this book will guide you through the first steps.
In a friendly and easy-to-follow style and with color illustrations, it will show you how to: breathe correctly while playing, learn scales and twelve bar blues, create your own licks, and jam with friends. Learn to Play Harmonica will have you sounding like you’re on the Mississippi Delta in no time! • No prior musical experience necessary • Includes CD to use in conjunction with the text • Also includes free ten-hole diatronic harmonica!
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KILLER LICKS & CHOPS KILLER RIFFS & FILLS Learn to play guitar like a pro with these handy guides and CDs Sound just like the guitar greats with these beautifully crafted tuition guides and CDs. Each title contains over 100 key licks, chops, riffs, and fills inspired by the most comprehensive collection of rock and blues guitar heroes—ever! Guitar teacher Phil Capone has distilled his extensive recording and touring experience to break down the essential—and best—killer licks, chops, riffs, and fills for rock and blues guitar. All you have to
do is follow the clearly set-out, easy-to-follow TAB and notation to practise the 100 coolest chops, licks, riffs, fills, and scales. With key explanatory insights and guitarplaying hints and tips you’ll be sounding like a virtuoso in no time. • Each book comes complete with a CD, so you can listen to each lick, then play it back over a professional backing track
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THE PERFORMANCE BIBLE SERIES The complete resource for aspiring perfomers The Performance Bible series offers a complete resource on the craft and business of performance art. These titles are bursting with practical advice and lively, topical tips from the pros. If you aspire to be an actor, dancer, or comedian—and need “hands on” help as well as a helping hand on stage—then this is the series for you. Inside these highly accessible guides you’ll find live stage, screen, and studio work revealed as it really is
—from auditions to audiences, directors to dramatic action, and self-image to selling yourself as a performer. Each title spells out the essential stagecraft principles and techniques you need to develop your raw talent including: • Creating a character • Developing a voice • Mastering movement • Preparing for grueling workouts and rehearsals • Dealing with directors and production teams
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FROM ZERO TO ROCK HERO Learn how to play electric guitar in just six weeks! Here’s a crash course in rock guitar technique which will take you from basic tuning to riffing like a pro in just six weeks! “The only rock book you’ll ever need to get you on the road to rock guitar stardom!” UFO and Whitesnake rock guitar hero Bernie Marsden. Based on expert contemporary guitar workshops and finely tuned one-to-one rock guitar tuition, From Zero to Rock Hero guides you through a simple-to-follow learning progression. Using the book’s clearly laid-out chord charts, musical notation, and tab, as well as a progress
diary and links to an accompanying CD, you’ll master the essential tools and tricks that rock guitarists normally take years to perfect. No longer do you have to struggle through endless exercises and infantile tunes—this six-week fun workout program will soon get you riffing, soloing, revving, and power chording with a genuine rock sound. • Includes a 99-track CD to accompany each exercise so you can hear how your guitar riffs should sound
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Quintet publishes thought-provoking titles on nature, physics, philosophy, paleontology, and more. Each book brings the subject to life with photography and illustration alongside engaging text for the general reader. With a diverse range of new titles and long-standing bestsellers in updated editions, there are plenty of discoveries to make.
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PHILOSOPHY, ILLUSTRATED A visual guide to the big ideas The world-famous theories and paradoxes that fill the history of philosophy can be pretty hard to get your head round. If you’ve ever pretended to understand the concept of Pascal’s Wager or Schrodinger’s Cat, or been interested in philosophy but put off by dense volumes on the subject, this is the book for you.
Explained with ingenious illustrations accompanied by a witty and friendly commentary, Philosophy, Illustrated makes the complex problems that have been troubling mankind for thousands of years easy to grasp. Deliberately designed and written to be the opposite of reading a dry “dictionary of modern thought,” this book will have you well versed in the big questions in no time. A fun and witty guide to a very deep subject.
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HUBBLE The mirror on the universe: third edition, updated, revised, and expanded With 300 astonishing photographs, Hubble transports readers beyond our solar system to galaxies millions— even billions—of light-years away. See the Eagle Nebula and the birth of a star, antennae galaxies colliding, and newly formed stars blowing a cavity in the center of the Small Magellanic Cloud. Dramatic, unforgettable images, some of which are the most recent Hubble has sent to us, bring into sharp focus how the Universe is unfolding in new and spectacular ways.
This new and updated edition of Hubble features: • Over 80 new full-color photographs that uncover previously unseen details and show faraway targets that we once knew only as gray blurs on star maps • The story behind Pluto’s recent demotion to nonplanetary status • The most important and fascinating of Hubble’s recent discoveries and how these are revising scientific understanding of the Universe
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ACCIDENTAL GENIUS • HOW DO ROCKETS FLY? Two highly accessible and appealing illustrated books that bring science vividly to life
Here are the true-life stories behind the great scientific breakthroughs and those fascinating answers to how science really works. Accidental Genius: Rediscover, in “docu-drama” style, the stories of the creative geniuses who gave us—by accident or chance—the gadgets and guesswork of modern science. From gunpowder to gravity, and from vertical takeoff to Viagra, Accidental Genius celebrates the “accidental Einsteins” and “Eureka” moments.
do singers shatter glass? Sometimes the science behind such simple and niggling questions can feel so daunting we don’t bother to find out. How Do Rockets Fly? unravels the answers afresh in a user-friendly style so you don’t have to be dazed and confused any longer.
How Do Rockets Fly?: Why is the sky blue? And just how 227 X 170 MM (9 X 63⁄4 IN) PLC • 256 PP
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PARANORMAL POWERS Discover the secrets of the unexplained This fully illustrated encyclopedia explains the mysterious world of mind readers, mediums, astral projectors, levitators, and other supernatural phenomena. The Encyclopedia of Paranormal Powers is your expert reference guide to all things extra-sensory and psychic—from invisibility to teleportation, and suspended animation to fire-breathing. Delve deeply into paranormal activity, with many case studies, and
explore the scientific theories that have attempted to explain the unexplained. Explore the extreme power of the mind from clairvoyants and poltergeist activity to teleportation and levitation, while learning about psychology and the motives controlling our behavior.
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