Books with author Editors of Horizon Magazine

There's never been a comprehensive guide to coloring as a hobby—until now! Take your experience to the next level with the first ever comprehensive coloring guidebook: Easy-to-follow tips & tricks for ALL skill levels: Become an accomplished colorista in no time! Master advanced techniques like patterning, blending, layering, cross-hatching, and shading Step-by-step lessons Beautiful examples by top coloring book artists Discover today's coloring tools and how best to use them Advice for your favorite coloring implements: Many types of gel pens, markers, colored pencils, watercolor pencils, & other art media More than 100 ready-to-color designs to help you apply what you've learned Coloring can be a wonderfully relaxing way to de-stress and unwind. But getting great coloring results is not as simple as it looks—from color choices to shading techniques to drawing implements, there's much to consider before you ever put pen to paper. Don't let coloring stress you out! Inside this friendly guidebook you'll find tons of easy-to-follow advice from best selling coloring book artists. Their tips and tricks will have you drawing like an accomplished "colorista" in no time. Discover the differences between gel pens and markers. Learn the best way to use watercolor pencils. Understand why expensive materials are different than the cheaper ones. Master exciting techniques like patterning, blending, cross-hatching, shading, and other cool ways to "up" your coloring experience. Learn all the cool ways you can take your coloring experience to the next level!

Water features are peaceful yet dramatic accents that can transform any backyard into paradise. Rich with inspirational photography and step-by-step building instruction, Outdoor Design & Build Guide: Garden Pools, Fountains & Waterfalls takes you by the hand to select your ideal outdoor project and make it a reality. With a modern and easy-to-follow format, clear instructions, and friendly tone, this book will inspire you to build the backyard of their dreams.Outdoor Design & Build Guide: Garden Pools, Fountains & Waterfalls includes: More than two dozen approachable projects from streams and ponds to fountains and waterfalls How-to photo sequences Tips on choosing not only what fits your style, but what is best for your specific property An additional troubleshooting guide at the end of the book that informs you how to best maintain the projects you have built

In a series of episodes as fantastic as any fiction, a powerful civilization crumbled at the hands of a small band of warriors. Written by one of America's great historians, this gripping chronicle draws upon the firsthand accounts of eminent sixteenth-century captains and statesmen to relate the overthrow of the Inca empire by the Spanish adventurers under Pizarro's command. Author William H. Prescott's immensely readable narrative crackles with drama as he characterizes both conqueror and conquered. Rich in vivid anecdotes, it recaptures the glories of Inca society before European contact, and it paints fascinating portraits of the conquistadors and their courage, cruelty, and pride. Prescott's reconstructions of the attitudes and motivations behind the tumultuous events of the Spanish conquest offer memorable, insightful views of New World history that have made this book a popular classic.

The most complete guide to improving performance in the three most critical areas of your gameThe best players in the world do three things very well: They put the ball in the fairway off the tee, they make the putts they should (and almost never three putt), and get the ball into tap-in range when hitting short shots around the green after an errant approach. These are the key areas to scoring, giving you both the opportunity to make more birdies and keeping big numbers off your scorecard.GOLF Magazine's top-selling Best Ever! series of instruction manuals have individually covered these areas in the past, but never all at once. Now offered as a special three-volume compilation of award-winning instruction from the Top 100 Teachers in America, The Best Instruction Collection Ever! gives you everything you need to drop your handicap in a single set, with nearly 600 pages-and thousands of tips and drills-to take your driving, putting and short game to exciting new levels.The Best Instruction Collection Ever! includes GOLF Magazine's newest title, The Best Driving Instruction Book Ever!, plus it's game-changing The Best Putting Instruction Book Ever! and The Best Short Game Instruction Book Ever! in a specially bound anthology of expert advice from the most sought-after instructors in the game. Three bonus DVDs featuring video lessons that support the book lessons also are included, making the collection golf's most complete guide to improving your game in the three key scoring areas.The Best Instruction Collection Ever!, like all of the magazine's lesson manuals, is backed by decades of experience and the award-winning instruction you can only find in GOLF Magazine. It's the only reference golfers who are serious about improving will ever need, and the fastest way to save strokes and make the game easy.

Did the Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia survive the slaughter of her family, and did Amelia Earhart perhaps survive her famous flight across the Pacific? Where did the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson go when she vanished in May of 1926, and where did the mystery writer Agatha Christie disappear to later that same year? Was Napoleon in fact murdered, and might the same fate have befallen Dag Hammarskjold? Where's all the loot from the Great Train Robbery, not to mention all the spoils that were stashed away by the notorious gangster Dutch Schultz? Did two other mountain climbers reach the summit of Mount Everest before Sir Edmund Hillary, and did a French airplane cross the Atlantic just before Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis? Who was Jack the Ripper, and who was the Axman of New Orleans? All of these questions will be asked anew (and some of them will finally be answered) in the pages of this intoxicating new LIFE book. Here are no fewer than 50 cases from the files, each more baffling than the last. The famous folks are here--from Edgar Allan Poe to Jim Morrison to JonBenet Ramsey--as are equally compelling stories involving people who you have yet to meet. LIFE's editors have unearthed more than a few obscurities for your entertainment. Entertainment? Indeed. As these editors point out in their introductions: "There is something in human nature that draws up to the mysterious. We seek conclusions--but not really. We want answers but are entertained when they prove elusive. A mystery fascinates us, intrigues us, beguiles us. In its uncertainty, it has a softness and a sense of wonder that a solved, buttoned-down case lacks. An unsolved mystery can be romantic." Enter, then, into the romance of The Greatest Unsolved Mysteries of All Time. Puzzle out the possible solutions to these narratives and delight in the extraordinary photographs. Riveting stories and great photography: just what you would expect from LIFE, and the only aspect of this book that is not at all mysterious.

Which celeb was a star six months after working in a car wash? Who once calculated that he had said, "Would you like fries with that?" 4,000 times? Who kept his day job for a year after landing a TV series-just in case it got cancelled? PEOPLE: Before They Were Stars is an A-to-Z look at what your favorite celebs- from Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston to Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie did before you ever heard of them.

Project: Necklaces provides the answers to many questions including how long a lariat should be, how to fit necklaces correctly, and where to find loads of design ideas. In addition to receiving excellent instruction on the basics and tools needed, jewelry makers will create over 25 projects that range from single stitched and combined stitched to stringing and wirework. With projects grouped by technique, it’s easy for bead stitchers, wireworkers, and advanced stringers to dive in to their favorites, plus learn something new. Readers will also find tips for easy construction, detailed illustrations and photos, and a bonus section on “Necklace fitting 101” from Maggie Roschyk to guarantee gorgeous results!