Use your favorite fabric scraps to make beautiful quilts Originally, scrappy quilts were born of necessity and the need to make do with fabrics on hand. Today, the love of designer fabrics make scrappy quilts as popular as ever. Here, you'll find 29 heirloom-quality projects, hand-selected by the ed[...]

20 projects for quilting with applique"Applique Class" gives you clear, easy-to-follow instructions on all of the many applique methods, all shown using beautiful full-color photography and illustrations. You'll get an overview of all main applique techniques with information on the best application[...]

"First Cut 2: More Conversations with Film Editors" presents a new collection of twelve interviews with award-winning film editors who discuss the art and craft of editing in the twenty-first century. As a follow-up to the successful "First Cut: Conversations with Film Editors" (now celebrating its [...]

This book re-examines the most traditional area of classical scholarship, offering critical assessments of the current state of the field, its methods and controversies, and its prospects for the future in a digital environment. Each stage of the editorial process is examined, from gathering and eva[...]

Prayers and inspirational writings offer answers to problems concerning finances, health, family life, marriage, and faith[...]

From the Editors of Webster's New World(R) DictionaryThe Clearest, Most Concise Definitions Over 35,000 Entries The Most Up-to-Date, Comprehensive Language Coverage The Ideal Portable Companion to Webster's New Pocket Thesaurus Portable--ideal for school or workClear, concise definitionsDesigned and[...]

Essential English is an indispensable guide to the use of words as tools of communication. It is written primarily for journalists, yet its lessons are of immense value to all who face the problem of giving information, whether to the general public or within business, professional or social organis[...]

Now available in a convenient pocket-sized mini format, this is the essential illustrated reference book for everyone interested in houses. Following the popular format of The Art Book, this title is a new and innovative presentation of houses and dwellings from all periods and all corners of the gl[...]

Born of the traditions of fine art and printing, graphic design is a form of visual communication that seeks to inform, identify or promote through the combination of word and image. But unlike the written word or a work of art, a graphic design operates exclusively in the context in which it will b[...]

This book looks at the best houses of the twenty-first century. Focusing on privately commissioned homes, this is a well-informed survey of the best residential architecture to be built in recent years. Selected from Phaidon's extensive research into contemporary global architecture, each project is[...]

A 'design classic' is an industrially manufactured object with timeless aesthetic value. This collection of three volumes presents objects chronologically, beginning with an elegant pair of Chinese bonsai scissors from early 1800s, and ending with Jasper Morrison's 'brunch set'.[...]

From the first compact disc to the lap top computer, digital design opens up a conscious investigation of even newer and more unusual materials, technologies and inspirations. This book presents design products have changed the way we communicate, the way we travel and the way we make ourselves at h[...]