This sketchbook endeavours to show every single style of blind imaginable. From Roman to Roller & from London to Australian blinds - all squeezed into this compact sketchbook. Although blinds are mainly used as an alternative to curtains they do work very well together. Also included are panels & po[...]
The final effect of any room scheme can often be spoilt by adding the wrong accessories or perhaps too few or too many. Trying to get the balance just right even for an interior designer can be difficult, so in this sketchbook we have added some room sets" with & without" accessories to illustrate w[...]
This is a compact, take-anywhere guide to more than 180 stitches and stitch combinations for hand embroidery, silk ribbon embroidery, and crazy quilting. It is beautifully illustrated in full colour for both left- and right-handers. The alphabetical stitch listing and illustrated category index make[...]
Create your own heirloom crazy quilt with help from world-famous expert Judith Baker Montano.
Ginger tells his story for the first time. It's often harrowing but outrageously honest as he journey's from war-torn south London to his adopted home in South Africa's beautiful Western Cape - where he has his own polo club. Along the way he tells of his life-long love of jazz, how he discovered t[...]
The Life Legend of Londons Lost Artist. Austin Spare was described as the greatest draughtsman in England and was the enfant terrible of the Edwardian art scene but by the time of his death he was living in squalor and all but forgotten. This engaging biography charts the rise and fall of British ar[...]
Whimsical and wild, these 31 full-page illustrations feature dreamlike scenarios of fantastic creatures. Colorists of all ages will appreciate a lively landscape of cartoon dogs, a portrait of a frog prince amid his leaping court, fanciful scenes of flamingos, peacocks, and parrots, and other imagin[...]
An elemental journey through the Labyrinth of Sexuality.
Remember when flying was glamorous and sexy, even fun? When airline food was gourmet, everyone dressed up for a flight, and stewardesses catered to our every need-at least in our imaginations? This classic memoir by two audaciously outspoken young ladies, who lived and loved the free-spirited stewar[...]
Profiles unhappiness as a chemical brain response that helped early humans survive, introducing six key "Happiness Tools" and offering advice on how to achieve happiness by retraining brain activity, accepting a painful past, and designing a future. Reprint.[...]
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows the career of baseball player Roy Hobbs, a natural with a bat whose dreams of playing in the big leagues are deferred by a youthful indiscretion, but who finally becomes a hero. Reprint.[...]
Praise for the previous edition of the Encyclopedia of Translation Studies: 'Translation has long deserved this sort of treatment. Appropriate for any college or university library supporting a program in linguistics, this is vital in those institutions that train students to become translators.' - [...]
The book explores how implementation strategies engage sub-national, regional and local actors in the promotion of sustainable development. Following the obligations incurred at the Rio Earth Summit and the related UNCED process, European states began to produce sustainable development strategies i[...]
Contract in Context provides an easy to read, in depth analysis of the purpose and role of contract law and the theories that surround it. It looks at the historical development of contract law as well as providing detailed analysis of some of the leading theoretical explanations and how they are ap[...]
This book explores the alternative futures of political community and moves beyond the critique of what is wrong with existing, state-based forms of political community. It does so not with the defence of a particular normative model of political community in mind, but rather in the quest for new wa[...]
Instructions, over 300 illustrations for creating boards and playing pieces for 39 games -- many over 5,000 years old. Directions for Pachisi, Alquerque, Solitaire, Queen's Guard, 35 others. Lexicon of game terminology, rules of gamesmanship, suggested strategies, list of tools and supplies, more.[...]
In A History of Thailand, Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit reveal how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree labour evolved into a rural society of smallholder peasants and an urban society populated mainly by migrants from southern China. They trace how a Buddhist cosmography adapted to new ideas [...]