Gillian: 813 books

Book cover of Bias-Cut Dressmaking
by Gillian Holman
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015

Bias-cut Dressmaking is the best easy-to-follow guide to bias-cut clothes. It provides step-by-step instructions and diagrams for making over 40 items of clothing that are cut on the bias. The bias-cut technique is used by designers for cutting clothing to utilize the greater stretch in the bias or...
Book cover of Pioneering Women: Riddel Hall and Queens University Belfast
by Gillian McClelland, Diana Hadden
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012

Few topics have produced more heroines than the struggle of women for their right to education. Foremost amongst the pioneers of third-level education for women in the north of Ireland were Eliza and Isabella Riddel. Never themselves having had the opportunity of university education, in 1913 they...
Book cover of Art History for Filmmakers

Art History for Filmmakers

The Art of Visual Storytelling

by Gillian McIver
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017

Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche to describe visual things. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its relationship with the visual arts – mainly painting,...
Book cover of Moving On… From Victim to Survivor
by Gillian Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014

If you, or someone you know, has been subjected to sexual abuse in childhood then this book is for you. It has an easy-to-read format and is presented in a simple way, cutting through jargon to offer down to earth help and support. Moving On From Victim to Survivor has been born out of the...
Book cover of 100 Things Beatles Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
by Gillian G. Gaar
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

Few music groups have been able to sustain a fan base over half a century that is as significant and devoted as those of the Beatles, and this entertaining guide to all things Fab Four rewards those fans with everything they need to know about the band in a one-of-a-kind format. Packed with history,...
Book cover of 100 Things Elvis Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
by Gillian G. Gaar
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

With 2014 marking the 60th anniversary of the release of Elvis Presley’s first record, “That’s All Right,” this book makes the perfect companion for celebrating the life and music of one of the world’s most popular entertainers. Packed with history, trivia, lists, little-known facts, and...
Book cover of Nirvana's In Utero
by Ms. Gillian G. Gaar
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006

Though Nevermind was Nirvana's most commercially successful album, and the record that broke them - and the grunge phenomenon - internationally, In Utero has increasingly become regarded as the band's best album, both by the critics and the band members themselves. Instead of sticking to the "grunge...
Book cover of Dirty Girls

Dirty Girls

The Naked Truth about Our Guilty Secrets (Unpretty, Unclean, and Utterly Horrifying)

by Gillian Telling
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010

The Naked Truth Isn't Always Pretty. A no-holds-barred look at the hilarious underbelly of what it means to be female, Dirty Girls lays bare the secrets of the fairer sex. Women don't come from a different planet than men. In fact, both sexes want the exact same things: success, friendships,...
Book cover of Guernsey Evacuees
by Gillian Mawson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

In June 1940, 17,000 people fled Guernsey to England, including 5,000 school children with their teachers and 500 mothers as 'helpers'. The Channel Islands were occupied on 30 June - the only part of British territory that was occupied by Nazi forces during the Second World War. Most evacuees were...
Book cover of Venus in Winter

Venus in Winter

A Novel of Bess of Hardwick

by Gillian Bagwell
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013

The author of The September Queen explores Tudor England with the tale of Bess of Hardwick—the formidable four-time widowed Tudor dynast who became one of the most powerful women in the history of England.   On her twelfth birthday, Bess of Hardwick receives the news that she is to be a waiting...
Book cover of The Good Sister
by Gillian McAllister
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019

An electrifying novel about the unyielding bond between two sisters, which is severely tested when one of them is accused of the worst imaginable crime. Martha and Becky Blackwater are more than sisters--they're each other's lifelines. When Martha finds herself struggling to balance early motherhood...
Book cover of The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed
by Lynn Kaufmann, Lynn Knight, Jacqueline Kudler
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018

The poems in this anthology embody what it's like to live in the astonishing weave of cities and towns, landscape and language, climate and history that make up the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Selected by the members of Sixteen Rivers Press, a regional poetry collective named after the web of...
Book cover of History and Fiction

History and Fiction

Writers, their Research, Worlds and Stories

by Gillian Polack
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016

Shortlisted for the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review Fiction plays a vital role in describing history and transmitting culture. How writers understand and use history can play an equally important role in how they navigate a novel. This book explores the nature of the author’s...
Book cover of Orient
by Gillian Wigmore
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015

orient is the third collection from one of Western Canada's most accomplished poets. Composed mainly of three long poems—an extended meditation on the connection between man and fish, the lament of a big-souled cowboy poet looking up from rock bottom, and a historical envisioning of an intimate...
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