If there's no stability in the corporate world, why not do what you love? Creative Girl shows women how to turn their talents into a money-making career...smartly. Whether readers are just tapping into their creativity and want to see where it takes them, or if they're already making a creative livi[...]

History is brought to life in many historic houses, especially at Christmas time, when special decorations help to welcome the social season and visiting guests. Learn history and local customs through this charming book's lively text and over 400 color photos. Costumed guides interpret Christmas tr[...]

Ages 8 to 14 years. In 1519, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan took five ships and 200 men on an epic journey around the world on behalf of Spain. This colourful book follows the world's first circumnavigation by sail through a dramatic passage of disease, starvation, and death. Young readers [...]

In this study of surrealism and ghostliness, Katharine Conley provides a new, unifying theory of surrealist art and thought based on history and the paradigm of puns and anamorphosis. In Surrealist Ghostliness, Conley discusses surrealism as a movement haunted by the experience of World War I and th[...]

A reference and ideas book for those interested in quilting and patchwork, which details a variety of traditional and modern techniques, with a special focus on quick and shortcut techniques plus a gallery of contemporary and historic quilts.[...]

"Not often is a book about a film star more gripping than anything the star has played on the screen, but Barbara Leaming's biography has that distinction...Katharine Hepburn is Ms. Leaming's penetrating look beyond Ms. Hepburn's acting career and into the forces that shaped such an emblematic figur[...]

Published in 1937, twelve years before Orwell's 1984, this novel projects a totally male controlled fascist world that has eliminated woman as we know them.[...]

The first of Jane Austen's published novels, Sense and Sensibility began its life as Elinor and Marianne, which Jane first wrote when she was only 20 years old. Named after its two heroines, Elinor and Marianne, the novel tells the tale of sensible Elinor Dashwood, the older of two sisters, who beli[...]