More than 2000 full-color drawings the result of extensive research into paintings, photographs, and the accessories themselves reproduce each original item in meticulous detail, accompanied by a complete description. The book covers every kind of high-fashion male and female accessory for both day [...]

Fashion Sourcebooks is a series of beautifully illustrated paperbacks presenting the renowned costume drawings of John Peacock. Fashion in the 1980s tended towards the functional and the formal. The typical 'power dressed' woman of the period wore her shoulders wide, her skirts short and her heels h[...]

An expanded edition of the BBC Television costume designer's historical guide to English costume design includes examples from more than one thousand years of history, in an illustrated reference that is organized by monarchy periods and offers insight into specific analogous developments in the U.S[...]

This book - according to the Antiques Roadshow's jewelry expert Geoffrey Munn - is 'an essential for every student and collector of jewelry, irrespective of their particular interest or budget'. Featuring over 1,500 colour, specially commissioned illustrations of all kinds and styles of jewelry from[...]

This bumper edition combines all seven books in John Peacock's renowned "Fashion Sourcebooks" series, which charts in meticulous drawings the development of women's and men's clothing in the 20th century. It will become an indispensable part of the library of fashion students, historians and collect[...]

This revised edition of John Peacocks classic book has been updated to include 155 entirely new drawings. From the styles of the early 1900s to those of the 21st century, Peacock traces the development of womens fashion in all its aspects: couture wear, underwear, leisure wear, day wear, evening wea[...]

When Phyllis Webb published Wilson's Bowl in 1980, Northrop Frye hailed it as "a landmark in Canadian literature": landmark, an event that marks a turning point in something (in this case, Canadian literature); and an instantly recognized feature of a landscape (in this case, the landscape of Canadi[...]

The digital revolution has brought with it a wider range of options for creating and producing print on paper products than ever seen before. With the growing demand for skills and knowledge with which to exploit the potential of digital technology, comes the need for a comprehensive book that not o[...]

The number of non-native students studying in English-medium universities has increased over the past decade. Paralleling this growth is the interest in English for Academic Purposes (EAP). No one research-based volume has yet investigated the theoretical issues and pedagogical concerns of the area.[...]