A beautifully presented, practical gift guide for all surf seekers. Explained with fascinating, easy-to-understand commentary from surfer and scientist Easkey Britton, each guide helps you soak up maximum vitamin sea. The book is divided into six main sections – each filled with exercises, ideas and fun facts to help you reconnect with your oceanic roots and create special moments by the sea…

Reading the Sea – watch waves, move with the tides, understand rips and currents, getting to know the sea and your limits.

What the Sea Does for Us – appreciate the food, feel-good factors, and even medicines that the sea has to offer. Plus learn about its fundamental role in climate control.

We are Ocean – explore the multi-sensory environment the sea has to offer. The Power of the Sea to Heal – from seaweed and ocean plasma to social change and ocean therapy.

The Sea is Calling – try your hand at beach combing, wave play, rockpooling, bird watching, searching for jellyfish and bioluminescence and swimming in the sea.

Things to Do for the Sea – with guides to beach clean-ups, sustainable foraging, restoring coastal habitats and inclusion and diversity ideas to make the sea accessible to all, you’ll have everything you need to be the hero our seas need. Taking an inclusive global outlook on the subject, and complemented by Maria Nilsson’s captivating drawings, this timely book will show you the benefits of doing things by and for the sea – and how those benefits can spill over into your daily life.

• The ‘Blue Planet Effect’ has created a new era of environmentalism and a sea change in our attitudes towards ocean health. This timely book is the perfect gift for anyone interested in ocean conservation, mindfulness and our connection to the sea. Perfectly times for staycation activities, with things to do along any coastline.
• As surfing is now an official Olympic sport, the book is perfectly timed to complement interest and publicity surrounding the sport, with a champion surfer author.
• Suitable for all ages, with 50 fascinating and easy-to-understand guides – each complemented by smart illustrations.

This deluxe set of playing cards contains two standard 54-card decks with vibrant, colorful brick designs on the backs. Perfect for group or solo play, these playing cards are sure to inspire countless card games and endless ways to play with friends or family. Housed in a collectable keepsake box, LEGO Brick Playing Cards are the perfect gift for the LEGO fan who has it all!

Many wargamers enjoy the challenge of skirmish games where, instead of the strategy of vast armies portrayed by traditional wargames, the focus is on the tactics of a small unit. However, skirmish rules are often so complex that it can take hours of rolling dice, consulting tables and recording data to recreate what would in reality be a fast and furious firefight lasting just minutes. Now these new rules make it possible to recapture the speed and intensity of these actions where every man, and every second, counts. The basic rules are supported by sections which give special rules and scenarios to capture the flavour of a range of different periods, from Napoleonic to Modern Warfare and beyond with Sci-Fi. From the 95th Rifles scouting for Wellington, Western gunfights and WWI trench raids, through WW2 parachute assaults or Special Forces strikes in Afghanistan, or even Space Marines storming a space station, Squad Firefights elegantly simple system allows you to focus on proper tactical decisions rather than rolling buckets of dice or calculating masses of modifiers.

Pinball-ology! For enthusiasts, collectors, or anyone who has flipped, bumped, or banked a silver ball, the 3rd revised edition of pinball amusements has arrived! Extensive historical research details the progression of pinball over the decades, with updated statistics and pricing values. Learn about the historic changes from electromechanical to solid state components, sounds to talking machines, all about flippers and bumpers, and world pinball information for this favorite pastime. Full-color photos of vintage 1930s through and including contemporary pinball machines are shown along with how-to tricks and slingshot treats. Varied themes are explored touching popular icons such as Indiana Jones, Charlie's Angels, and Flash Gordon, but wider topics such as cowboys and Indians, outer space, or beautiful women are here, too. A video-pinball list, video modes, and historical summary are included.Tilt!

Cleve Taylor has traded chaps and spurs for a rod and reel with this new carving book. He captures the foibles and follies of fishermen in four basswood figures, and reveals the subtle secrets of facial expression. Clear instructions take the carver through each step of the project from the initial pattern layout to the final painting and mounting of the finished figure. Over 235 color photographs clearly illustrate the instructions. A photo gallery at the end of the book shows several fishermen caught in situations every fisherman will quickly recognize. This is a perfect book for the intermediate to advanced carver and an inspiring challenge to beginners.

Joining our bestselling On-the-Go series, 50 Bucket List Adventures is a deck of adventure inspiration for the bold!

The activities on the cards are exciting, thrilling, and awe-inspiring. The range of categories includes spending time in nature (deep-sea dive, meditate by a waterfall), thrill-seeking (sky dive, learn to ride a motorcycle, taste a hot pepper), aspirational travel (visit the oldest city you can, travel somewhere during a major local festival), learning something unusual (take instrument lessons, learn a language picked at random), or trying something to push out of a comfort zone (audition for a theater production). Some activities require travel, but many can be done from home.

Each on-the-go amusement in the series offers a different way to interact, connect, and have fun out and about. With a cute and compact format, the tins are easy to carry and perfect for gifting. Great for families, friends, and loved ones!

IRRESISTIBLE TWIST ON CLASSIC PARTY GAMES AND ACTIVITIES: Each miniature deck of cards in the series is packaged in a decorative tin box, charmingly evoking the look of after-dinner mints! Compact and eye-catching, they're the perfect pocket-sized games to bring to a party or add on to a gift.

HANDY PORTABLE SIZE: The compact format lets you take the deck anywhere! These petite tins are perfect for slipping into a purse or pocket for on-the-go fun.

GREAT GIFT OR STOCKING STUFFER: Perfect for families in need of screen-free inspiration, dinner party hosts and partygoers, or couples looking for shared adventure inspiration.

EXPLORE THE ENTIRE SERIES: This game is part of the After Dinner Amusements series, a collection of tiny tins filled with prompts for lively conversation, trivia, icebreakers, and endless laughs.

Perfect for:- Adults looking for exciting post-pandemic adventure ideas - Gift givers shopping for couples, retirees, or graduates

In the first book of miniature decorative bird-carving patterns ever published, William Veasey presents intricately detailed designs for the novice carver. This concise practicable guide will help the amateur carver to develop the basic skills necessary to produce his own realistic miniature birds.

Hordes of the Things is a fast-play heroic fantasy wargame rule set for miniature figures. Using the successful DB rule system, but based on classical fantasy fiction rather than strict history, the rules have been used since 1991 and enjoy an international player base.