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El cielo de las bestias
La locura del silencio
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Dicen que una imagen vale más que mil palabras, pues ahí os dejo más de 50.000 palabras
El cielo de las bestias contiene ilustraciones de animales extintos como el Velociraptor, el Espinosaurio, o el Triceratops; bestias de la mitología como Golems de piedra, Hidra, Automaton; bestias creadas como el León vampiro, el Dragón de las cuevas o el Tiranosaurio de las cavernas.
by Carmen G. de la Cueva
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 10, 2018
«Por los pasillos de la casa de Simone no caminamos solas ni de puntillas. Vamos todas cogidas de la mano: Simone, vosotras y yo, como unas amigas que después de mucho tiempo vuelven a encontrarse para hablar y saber por fin que otra vida es posible.»
Carmen G. de la Cueva
¿Quién fue Simone...
by A. J. Wace
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
“English Domestic Embroidery” is a detailed account of the history and development of embroidery in England from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. This highly-readable account looks in detail at the emergence and subsequent popularity and influence of needlework in England, exploring notable...
by Philip Schneider, David H. Eberly
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2002
Do you spend too much time creating the building blocks of your graphics applications or finding and correcting errors? Geometric Tools for Computer Graphics is an extensive, conveniently organized collection of proven solutions to fundamental problems that you'd rather not solve over and over again,...
by Alexandra Croom
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
There is plenty of information about military dress in Roman Britain and the rest of the Roman Empire, but the evidence for civilian dress has not been comprehensively looked at since the 1930s. In this richly illustrated survey, Alexandra Croom describes the range and style of clothing worn throughout...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
The usual wide range of approaches to garments and fabrics appears in this tenth volume. Three chapters focus on practical matters: a description of the medieval vestments surviving at Castel Sant'Elia in Italy; a survey of the spread of silk cultivation to Europe before 1300; and a documentation...
Women & Recovery: Sex, Sobriety, & Stepping Up
Practical Suggestions for Quality Living in Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
In Women and Recovery: Sex, Sobriety and Stepping Up, Ann D. Clark, Ph.D, provides readers with a no-nonsense, step-by-step guide to giving up anything. Clark explains how to conquer addictions using a lighthearted approach. Addressing such problems as substance abuse, overeating, shopping, or simply...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Given that institutions of higher education have a predisposition to compartmentalize and delineate areas of study, creative technology may seem oxymoronic. On the contrary, the very basis of western thought is found in the idea of transcendent knowledge. The marriage of opposing disciplines therefore...
Fashion Embroidery
Embroidery Techniques and Inspiration for Haute-Couture Clothing
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This practical step-by-step guide to haute couture embroidery covers everything from machine and hand stitching, to tambour beading, goldwork and monogramming.
Whether you are interested in adding monogrammed initials to your favourite bathrobe, stitching a flower on your favourite jacket,...
Art's principles
50 years of hard-learned lessons in building a world-class professional services firm
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Art's Principles reveals the blueprint behind one of the most successful professional services firms, giving career-minded individuals the tools they need to excel in business. The book covers the essentials of leadership, talent acquisition and operations, while outlining the creative strategies...
Fashion's Double
Representations of Fashion in Painting, Photography and Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Mere clothing is transformed into desirable fashion by the way it is represented in imagery. Fashion's Double examines how meanings are projected onto garments through their representation, whether in painting, photography, cinema or online fashion film, conveying identity and status, eliciting fascination...
Fashioning Identity
Status Ambivalence in Contemporary Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
We dress to communicate who we are, or who we would like others to think we are, telling seductive fashion narratives through our adornment. Yet, today, fashion has been democratized through high-low collaborations, social media and real-time fashion mediation, complicating the basic dynamic of identity...
Being Gorgeous
Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Being Gorgeous explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical tropes of femininity. This is protest through play – a pleasurable misbehaviour that reflects a feminism for the twenty-first...
The Rag Trade
The People Who Made Our Clothes
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This book is about people who worked in the rag trade in the nineteenth century – dressmakers and milliners, tailors, two shoemakers, a framework knitter, a family of corset manufacturers and a lace maker. It deals with the trades and their products, but also with the day-to-day lives of the protagonists,...