Checkmate! This origami chess set is tough to beat. Chess: A game of strategy, intellect, and…paper folding? Add a new element of fun to any game of chess with Origami Chess: Cats vs. Dogs. A 112-page book tells the history of the game of chess, gives a brief description of each of the six cat breeds and six dog breeds represented, provides brief instructions for playing the game, and offers complete instructions for folding your chess pieces. This kit is all you'll need to play out one of the world’s greatest rivalries: cats vs. dogs! In addition to a chessboard, this entertaining kit comes with enough specially printed paper to make two complete 32-piece chess sets. Plus, the instructions apply to any 6” x 6” sheet of paper, so you can assemble enough chess sets to host your very own origami cats vs. dogs chess tournament. Purrfect for origami masters and chess players alike, Origami Chess: Cats vs. Dogs is one paper-folding collection that keeps the fun rolling long after the creases fold.

Fold yourself into a game of wizard’s chess with this Harry Potter-themed origami kit! Chess is a game of strategy, intellect, and…paper folding? Inspired by the Harry Potter films, Harry Potter Origami Chess adds a new fun element to any game. The included 112-page book offers brief instructions for playing the game and provides complete step-by-step directions for folding each of the chess pieces. Not for the faint of heart, these origami projects are for intermediate or expert paper folders and showcase twelve characters—including Harry, Hermione, Ron, Dobby, Dumbledore, Voldemort, Draco, Lucius, and more—as the game’s kings, queens, rooks, knights, bishops, and pawns. In addition to a double-sided printed chessboard, this entertaining kit comes with 110 sheets of specially printed paper to make two complete 32-piece chess sets. Play a rousing game of wizard’s chess, or put your Wizarding World origami characters on display.

If rounding up your thoughts is like herding cats, try the relaxing, meditative art of origami. The 80-page instruction book offers information about the history and personalities of your favorite felines, while the step-by-step directions and detailed diagrams ensure you don't miss a crease.Specially designed folding sheets give your sculptural projects an added touch of class, and the 80-page instruction book offers detailed diagrams to make sure you don't miss a crease. The specially designed folding sheets offer two different fur patterns for each of the ten breeds, allowing you to create twenty unique models. These kitties will be the cat's meow in your collection!

In the origami world, cats were traditionally under-represented, and the few existing models were rather flat and lifeless. But thanks to modern folding techniques, it's possible to recapture the true charm of our feline companions. This book for origamists of all skill levels offers 20 original designs that range from a grinning Cheshire cat and a snoozing feline to a walking cat, a seated cat, a Halloween cat, and the smug cat that got the cream, as well as cats on an envelope, a bookmark, a greeting card, and other figures. Along with step-by-step directions and diagrams, each model features a full-color image of the finished cat. Projects are rated according to difficulty, and a brief introductory chapter explains folding techniques and suggestions for how to choose the most appropriate origami paper. These cute kitties, in addition to being fun to fold, make great little gifts for cat-fanciers.

Introducing fold-by-number, a revolutionary origami new concept in paper folding. Created by the founder of Taro’s Origami Studio, Origami City marries the joy of paper folding with the foolproof appeal of paint-by-number with the imaginative play of LEGO or Playmobils. This ingenious book is an all-in-one kit for a complete origami metropolis: 75 realistic pieces to fold with step-by-step instructions; an illustrated paper play mat; and over 100 sheets of preprinted origami paper with numbers and lines for folding. The models—houses, office buildings, cars, emergency and construction vehicles, an airport, even dogs and squirrels to run in the parks—are meticulously detailed, illustrated by Brooklyn-based artist Simon Arizpe. For ages 7 and up.

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Finley Finds Heaven is the story of how an eight -year- old boy handled the loss of his beloved pet, Finley. Through dreams about Finley, Jackson discovers that Finley is fine as he has found Heaven.

Suitable for folders of intermediate to advanced skills, the book presents step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs for more than two dozen breeds ranging from the familiar to the more exotic.

Provides instructions for folding a variety of birds, mammals, and other creatures of varying degrees of difficulty, from a simple fish to a more complex crab.

No two dogs are the same, and this winsome collection of canine origami models offers a fun-filled variety of pooches, each with a distinctive personality. Twenty original designs include such familiar breeds as a hound, a bulldog, and an Alsatian as well as plenty of lovable mutts. As with most origami projects, these figures allow for a virtually limitless number of variations — with a little tweaking, you can customize your origami dogs to give them unique characteristics. Along with step-by-step directions, easy-to-follow diagrams, and links to video tutorials, each model features a full-color image of the finished dog. Projects are rated according to difficulty by means of a one-to-five paw rating, and a brief introductory chapter explains folding techniques and suggestions for how to choose the most appropriate origami paper. In addition to your own pack of playful pups, you can create charming handmade gifts for friends and family.