Renowned bead embroidery artists Heidi Kummli and Sherry Serafini share their secrets for creating beautiful beadwork in The Art of Bead Embroidery. Twelve step-by-step projects guide readers from beginner to advanced skills, culminating in a broad collar design from each artist. An illustrated guide to stitches, fringes, and finishing techniques, plus tools and materials, of...(展开全部)

Rozsika Parker's re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of female domesticity into the fine arts, created a major breakthrough in art history and criticism, and fostered the emergence of today's dynamic and expanding crafts movements. "The Subversive Stitch" is now available again with a new Int...(展开全部)

Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. -- Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially pe...(展开全部)

The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, " The Glass Bead Game" is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature Set in the 23rd century, "The Glass Bead Game" is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellec...(展开全部)

The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, " The Glass Bead Game" is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature Set in the 23rd century, "The Glass Bead Game" is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellec...(展开全部)

"The Croods" takes us back to a previously undiscovered era known as the Croodaceous period, when Mother Nature was still experimenting. Trying to find their evolutionary niche are The Croods family. "The Art of The Croods" traces the evolution of the comedy adventure movie with over 400 pieces of concept art, character sketches, storyboards and digital paintings, and key talen...(展开全部)

The Art of the Steal is the only book that tells the whole truth about the price-fixing scandal that rocked the auction world and put one of America's richest men behind bars. It's the story of billionaire tycoon Alfred Taubman; the most powerful woman in the art world, Dede Brooks; and the wily British executive Christopher Davidge-who cheated their clients out of millions un...(展开全部)

A new product, a new service, a new company, a new division, a new anything---where there's a will, Guy Kawasaki shows the way with his essential steps to launching one's dreams.

A new product, a new service, a new company, a new division, a new anything---where there's a will, Guy Kawasaki shows the way with his essential steps to launching one's dreams.

"The Croods" takes us back to a previously undiscovered era known as the Croodaceous period, when Mother Nature was still experimenting. Trying to find their evolutionary niche are The Croods family. "The Art of The Croods" traces the evolution of the comedy adventure movie with over 400 pieces of concept art, character sketches, storyboards and digital paintings, and key talen...(展开全部)