Most Popular Books by Nick Robinson

Foolproof origami—now in paperback! More than 30,000 copies sold Love origami, but frightened off by those strange dotted lines and shaded areas that make it seem like a bizarre geometry exercise? Absolute Beginner’s Origami calms those fears, using a remarkable three-step system and step-by-step full-color photos to guide readers into the basics of folding, through intermediate steps, and on to putting it all together to make real origami. Twenty enchanting designs are presented in three easy-to-follow stages: first, bases and folds. Next, combining bases and folds and learning to interpret those line drawings. Finally, learning to fold origami paper into real, elegant origami animals and objects: butterflies, swans, dogs, and more! By the end of the book, readers will understand how to read those line drawings and explore the wonderful world of origami with excitement and confidence. • Color photos and clear three-step method make anyone into a foldin'' fool

Are you ready to flip out? Hexaflexagons are six-sided, flat paper models that can be made to reveal hidden images through a series of flexes and folds. Flexagons were first introduced in a column written by Martin Gardner for Scientific American. From there, people started folding and figuring out creative ways to craft these interesting origami-like objects. Included in this delightful book are instructions and material to create hexaflexagons, tri-tetra flexagons, cubes, flexacubes, and more! Flexing kaleidocycles are shapes formed by taking several tetrahedra (four-sided 3D shapes) and joining their edges to form a ring, which can then be rotated so that it turns inside out to display a multitude different colors, shapes, and designs! This book contains: • A brief introduction on the history of hexaflexagons • Instructions on how to make 13 different fun flexagon models • 40 pages of easy tear-out pages with pieces to assemble your hexaflexagons People are still discovering new ways to innovate with these enjoyable creations—so with some study and practice, you may be able to come up with a unique design and enter the pages of flexagon history! All you need to do is to cut out and assemble the various models in this book to create the most intriguing and entertaining designs available. Start folding your flexagons now!

A collection of poems and artwork inspired by birds and the wild places of the North.

Create your own individually colored origami creations by coloring in beautiful designs and patterns and following the instructions to create intricate works of art. Featuring 24 tear-out sheets of bonus patterns for you to color and fold, you won''t need any origami or coloring-expertise as this simple, step-by-step instruction book will teach you everything you need to get started.

English Unlimited for Spanish Speakers is a six-level goals-based course for Spanish-speaking adult learners. Centred on real-life objectives, it prepares learners to use English independently and confidently for global communication. The Self-study Pack (Workbook with DVD-ROM and Audio CD) enables learners to consolidate and build upon work done in class including extra ''Explore Writing'' tasks and a complete ''Explore Reading'' syllabus. ''Over to you'' exercises personalise the practice. ''Get it right!'' pages give Spanish-speaking learners practice of the language explored in the Coursebook Tips. A self-study Audio CD features Spanish speakers using the language in context as well as pronunciation models. The DVD-ROM features a range of practice activities, video interviews with international speakers, a self-recording and playback tool, animated clips offering speaking practice in everyday situations, and customisable ''QuickCheck'' tests.

The Spinward Marches awaits your exploration in this huge poster map, featuring every system, trade link and starbase in the sector. Beautifully illustrated in full colour, this map is the first in a series that will allow you to explore the entire Third Imperium and beyond, joining posters together to form one gigantic map! Includes a full key to aid navigation.

The Marketing Tool Kit is an encyclopedia of hundreds of innovative and tested marketing ideas to improve your business. This extremely practical book provides a great selection of ingenious ways for an organization to quickly increase sales and profits. We all know that marketing is the key to business success, and with this recently updated title you will have at your disposal a fantastic resource. It reveals highly effective direct marketing methods to quickly help you boost your direct mail and direct response advertising. It details effective advertising approaches across the full range of media including the internet, displays, classified and loose inserts, directory, product cards, local radio and more. It also gives specific step-by-step guidance in planning, budgeting and executing sales lead programs. Within this book are hundreds of profitable ideas for your discovery and implementation. Any organization or individual can profit from these ready-to-go plans no matter what the business may be. If you are looking to give your business a boost with some great marketing ideas then this is the book for you.

Enjoy the classic tradition of folding paper into beautiful and decorative shapes. The Geometric Origami kit is designed for paper folding novices providing everything you need to create beautiful geometric origami art. Nick Robinson provides eye-catching papers that feature mesmerizing patterns to make your creationvisually stunning. A unique gift, this all-inclusive kit is a great value! Perfect to get you started in a lifetime hobby of origami folding. Includes: - 64 page full-color instruction book - 70 pieces of bright and graphic illustrated origami paper Enjoy the classic tradition of folding paper into beautiful and geometric creations.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it''s the BIGGEST book of paper air planes ever made, the greatest origami air show on earth, the supersized collection of models for your paper hangar. Paper planes hold a stratospheric appeal for every generation and for all ages from a child enjoying the wonder of folding his or her first model to a grandparent streamlining the latest record-breaking creation. And there''s no shortage of books on paper planes out there, but they''re all so, well... small! THE BIGGEST EVER BOOK OF PAPER PLANES changes all that. It''s the jumbo of the paper plane world, with giant templates for instant monster models. Designed to supersize your paper plane passion, it contains everything you need to create the Vulcans and Stealth bombers of the paper plane world. There is a manual of full folding instructions, with step-bystep illustrations, folding and flying tips, performance stats and charts, plus a dozen dazzlingly designed templates, not to mention the giant poster photographs. So, start folding, look to the skies, and beware of disrupting local air traffic. If you think the book looks impressive, wait till you see the planes! To enormity, and beyond!

Videogames matter and they matter for world politics. The aim of this book is to demonstrate the way in which games contribute to the evolution of global politics and to show how global politics contributes to the development of games. Robinson seeks to achieve this in two ways. First, he offers a ¿macro-approach¿ which explores the political economy of videogames, their role in the militarisation of society and politics, and their soft power role as a source of both cultural attraction and repulsion. Second he offers a ¿micro-approach¿ which applies theory to the reading of key games so demonstrating both the politics within videogames but also the impact of politics on the very understanding which we have of the games we play. This book makes a compelling case that videogames matter for politics and that politics matters for videogames. Given the global reach and value of the videogame industry this is highly important. More specifically, this book departs from the existing literature in two ways. First, it argues that in order to understand the implications of videogames for popular culture and world politics we need a clear sense of the importance of the way in which games resonate around the world. At present too many accounts of cultural globalisation and/or soft power overemphasise the centrality of North American-centric pressures (frequently termed ¿Hollywoodisation¿). This study of games makes it clear that flows from East to West are potentially just as important as those from the West and that such flows are very different in character. Second, in terms of the literature on understanding the messages within games, the book contends that such literature plays insufficient account to the need for a clear understanding of the link between macro-level developments (e.g. militarisation, the political economy of games and cultural flow), and how those developments are mediated by the player within individual games. Seeking to develop a new understanding of gaming and global politics, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, military and security studies, videogame studies and popular culture.

"En trente ans de pliage du papier, mes créations ont été toujours plus loin dans la quête de la sobriété. Chaque pli doit avoir sa raison d''être, pour aboutir à un résultat élégant, réfléchi, épuré. L''origami consiste, selon moi, à réduire un sujet à ses éléments fondamentaux, pour saisir son essence avec aussi peu de plis que possible. La technique ne devrait jamais constituer un obstacle à l''expression artistique ! Ce livre présente une sélection de mes réalisations qui illustrent ma vision de l''origami. J''apprécie un grand nombre de styles, mais je pense qu''il faut toujours suivre son instinct pour créer et ne pas céder à la tentation de créer pour impressionner les autres. Vous découvrirez inévitablement beaucoup de modèles qui vous sembleront inhabituels. Mettez-les de côté, pour y revenir éventuellement plus tard. Seule une sérieuse remise en question permet de s''améliorer. Avec l''âge, j''ai passé plus de temps à réfléchir et parler d''origami qu''à plier. Un sujet fréquemment évoqué est celui de l''origami en tant que processus ou résultat final. En d''autres termes, doit-on concevoir l''origami comme un cheminement ou comme une destination ? Pour les origamistes, le processus de pliage est directement lié au papier. Une fois achevé, on ne peut pas faire grand-chose du modèle, hormis l''exposer ou l''offrir. Il constitue d''une certaine manière un sous-produit du pliage. Voilà pourquoi j''accorde beaucoup d''attention au processus. J''évalue les différentes façons d''accomplir chaque étape, en choisissant celle qui rend le pliage plus fascinant, plus élégant, plus gracieux. Ce n''est pas toujours possible, mais je me tiens à ce principe. Je pense également que le travail des créateurs devrait refléter des aspects de leur personnalité et de leur vie. Il n''y a aucune raison pour qu''un modèle ne puisse pas exprimer quelque chose, de l''humour ou une passion quelconque. Mon objectif est de concevoir des modèles qui " parlent " aux gens, pour les faire sourire, leur rappeler une expérience vécue, ou tout simplement leur faire profiter d''un moment d''humanité partagée". Nick Robinson.

Has instructions on how to make paper aeroplanes using origami techniques. Many different types explained from the classic dart tothe Art deco wing.