Books published by The Crowood Press Ltd

Explains things you need to know to manage sheep and keep them healthy. This book includes from choosing and buying, through housing, feeding and routine management, to breeding and lambing.

A comprehensive guide to breeding and rearing pigs in natural conditions without compromising their wellbeing. It provides support for novice pig-keepers hoping to breed their own pigs. It offers information about different breeds of pigs and their respective needs.

Provides practical advice that makes you a better sportsperson, whether you are learning the basic skills, discovering advanced techniques or reviewing the fundamentals of your sport.

Tuberous begonias are sensational flowers: their abundant blooms capture everyone's heart and eye. This guide introduces the best varieties and celebrates the great range of colours grown. It offers coverage that both novice and veteran need to know to grow blooms for the home, garden and show bench.

A step-by-step guide which covers various aspects of building a garage from the planning and design stage through to construction and completion.

* Three best-selling and highly acclaimed books condensed into one complete volume. * Tank (the first of the three) was described by The Times as having an authenticity 'which could only come from deep personal experience translated by a lucid pen.' * Graphic, first-hand description of life inside a Sherman tank during the Second World War.

Offers an instructional guide to the art of millinery. This book explains how to go about designing a hat, what equipment and materials you will need, and the techniques required to get started.

Theatre designers need to be proficient in an extraordinarily diverse range of skills to carry out their work. They are expected to be able to draw, both creatively and technically, to be able to use colour imaginatively, to make accurate scale models of their set designs, and to design costumes.

Captures the excitement of working with glass and explains the techniques involved in this sphere of glass making. This book includes practical instruction that is accompanied by visual images of kiln formed glass by established glass artists, as well as snapshots of some of their own making processes.

Featured in this new, substantially revised, and updated edition of Rugby Union are:

Airfix has been commercially producing plastic kits since 1952 and its models have been made by successive generations of young boys and men alike. In the 1960s, a talented graphic artist called Roy Cross was commissioned to paint some of the box art for Airfix, and for a 10-year-period he provided many of the glorious paintings seen on the boxes.

Explains not only how and why the helicopter flies but also on the correct handling techniques needed to master the flying exercises required to obtain a helicopter pilot's licence. This manual is intended for students undertaking their basic helicopter training.

The Rover P5 was the last great representative of traditional British luxury saloon building, with the emphasis firmly on quality rather than sportiness. Its spaciousness, refinement and wood and leather charm still command a considerable classic car following. This book looks at this saloon.

The large section on gas-turbine engines provides essential reading for those pilots wishing to convert to the type. Of primary importance are the chapters on piston and turbine powerplants, airworthiness, flight instruments and hydraulics.

Providing useful tips and information, this book is suitable for archers of various levels. Illustrated with nearly 250 black and white photographs and 80 diagrams, it analyses shooting techniques and tuning, and also emphasizes the development of mental toughness.

Suitable for both recreational and competitive boxers, and all those who wish to take up amateur boxing, or participate in a boxing-based programme. This work offers practical advice on the many crucial factors that need to be taken into account if the boxer is to maximize his, or her, performance and potential.

The martial art of Taekwon-Do was developed by the Korean military in the 1950s and spread internationally with the formation of the International Taekwon-Do Federation. This book gives insights into the performance and application of the first nine patterns (tul) that Taekwon-Do students must master to obtain the rank of 1st degree black belt.

Brings together the early histories of the development of the turbojet, turboprop and turboshaft engines. This work describes the work of twelve nations (Great Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union, the United States, Japan, France, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Hungary) from the earliest days up to the end of the 1950s.

Provides a comprehensive guide to the production of organic pulses and cereals across a range of organic farming systems in northern temperate and maritime regions. This work examines the subject of organic farming in general, and considers market demands and the issues that need to be considered when determining management strategies.

This title takes you through the process of making shows happen from the viewpoint of the production manager, the person responsible for everything on stage that is not an actor. It describes different types of productions, the role, the working life of backstage teams and theatre administration.

This is the first and only book that explains in non-technical terms how to use pocket, portable and laboratory instruments to identify diamonds and coloured gems and to separate them from imitations and 'look-alikes'.