Focuses on an everyday item - blue jeans - to learn what one simple article of clothing can tell us about our individual and social lives and challenging, by extension, the foundational anthropological presumption of the normative.[...]
This fresh and accessible ethnography offers a new vision of how society might cohere, in the face of on-going global displacement, dislocation, and migration. Drawing from intensive fieldwork in a highly diverse North London neighborhood, Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward focus on an everyday item-[...]
Weddings CollectionEight billionaire grooms and breathtaking bridesHIS RUNAWAY BRIDE by Liz FieldingWillow and Mike can't decide who's more relieved when each jilts the other at the altar! Having got cold feet, they've now decided to pursue their dream jobs rather than marry....THE BRIDE WORE BLUE J[...]
Praise for the U.K. edition:
"Thoroughly satisfying."
-- Crafts "All those working with indigo or merely interested in the cultural history of that dye must read this book."
-- Textile Forum "Indigo: Egyptian Mummies to Blue Jeans" tells the compelling story of the world's oldest and [...]
Reviews:
"This is the best little "how-to" book for starting and running a small business I've come across. Don't even think about going into business without it. And if you are already in business, this book is a must-read."
-Larry Winget, television personality and 5 time bestselling a[...]
Son chicos incomprendidos a los que nadie entendia, a los que nadie queria, hasta que se fueron uniendo unos a otros en el camino. Hace dos anos se conocieron cuando mas se necesitaban y formaron el Club de los Incomprendidos. Sin embargo, algo ha cambiado y ahora ya no saben si pueden contar los un[...]
"Decia un amigo mio que las casualidades no existen. Que todo esta escrito entre las nubes y las estrellas con tinta invisible. Es una bonita manera de hablar del destino. No creen?." Hasta hace unos meses formaban El Club de los Incomprendidos. Cada uno con su personalidad y su caracter, eran los m[...]
Atras quedaron los malos momentos que hicieron peligrar el futuro de el club de los incomprendidos. Valeria, Raul, Maria, Bruno y Ester vuelven a estar muy unidos, gracias sobre todo al empeno de Alba, quien se esta ganando con creces formar parte del Club. Pero despues de la calma, la tormenta: mal[...]