Author: Meg McElwee
Publisher: Interweave Press
Keywords: liberated, sew
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1596681616
ISBN-13: 9781596681613
Resurrecting the art of appliquéa technique in which pieces of fabric are sewn onto clothing, bags, quilts, and other creationsthis enlightening resource provides today’s generation of sewists” with a technique that can be combined with embroidery, beadwork, buttons, ribbons, and more to imbue works with a creative and personal style. Ideal for those with some sewing experience looking to break away from the restrictions of traditional patterns, this guide offers the details for both hand and machine appliqué techniques, as well as a history of appliqué and how it was rediscovered
Author: A. B. Yehoshua
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: bride, liberated
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2003-11-03
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0151006539
ISBN-13: 9780151006533
Yohanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, is a man of boundless and often naïve curiosity. His wife, Hagit, a district judge, is tolerant of almost everything but her husband’s faults and prevarications. Frequent arguments aside, they are a well-adjusted couple with two grown sons. When one of Rivlin’s students-a young Arab bride from a village in the Galilee-is assigned to help with his research in recent Algerian history, a two-pronged mystery develops. As they probe the causes of the bloody Algerian civil war, Rivlin also becomes obsessed with his son’s failed marr
Author: Rex Stephenson
Publisher: I. E. Clark
Keywords: cinderella, liberated
Number of Pages: 39
Published: 1974-06
List price: $3.25
ISBN-10: 0886801087
ISBN-13: 9780886801083
Author: Paula Fox
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: europe, liberated, stringer, winter, coldest
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-10-17
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312426240
ISBN-13: 9780312426248
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year A Washington Post Book World Critic’s Choice of the Year In this elegant and affecting follow-up to her extraordinary memoir, Borrowed Finery, a young writer travels through a Europe ravaged by the Second World War. Paula Fox is the author of one previous memoir, Borrowed Finery, and six novels, including Desperate Characters, The Widow’s Children, and Poor George. She is also a Newbery Award-winning children’s book author. She lives in Brooklyn, New
Author: Cheryl J. Sanders
Publisher: FORTRESS PRESS
Keywords: people, liberated, ethics, empowerment
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1995-11-30
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0800629175
ISBN-13: 9780800629175
Author: Steven L. Davis
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: mind, liberated, dobie, frank
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2009-10-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0292721145
ISBN-13: 9780292721142
The first Texas-based writer to gain national attention, J. Frank Dobie proved that authentic writing springs easily from the native soil of Texas and the Southwest. In best-selling books such as Tales of Old-Time Texas, Coronado’s Children, and The Longhorns, Dobie captured the Southwest’s folk history, which was quickly disappearing as the United States became ever more urbanized and industrial. Renowned as "Mr. Texas," Dobie paradoxically has almost disappeared from view--a casualty of changing tastes in literature and shifts in social and political attitudes since the 1960s.In
Author: Mr. Alan Bartram
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: text, liberated, typography, futurist
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-03-10
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 030011432X
ISBN-13: 9780300114324
In the early decades of the twentieth century, European artists, poets, and designers called for the destruction of outdated assumptions about vision and language. Numerous manifestos resulted, demanding new artistic forms. None of these manifestos was more aggressive and poetic, or wider in scope than Filippo Tomasso Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto of 1909. Painting, sculpture, literature, architecture, theatre, cinema, and music were all caught up in its net. Typography—until then a distant relative in the arts—also played a major role in Marinetti’s program. Written by leading design
