Renowned embroiderer Trish Burr passes her creative secrets on to stitchers--especially beginners--who want to take their needle painting skills to the next level. In 15 projects organized in three levels from novice to intermediate Trish provides expert easy-to-follow guidance on techniques for surface stitching that provide subtle shadings & a soft paintlike blending of colors. Sections on materials the long & short stitch & helpful practice motifs lead to gorgeous projects like Burgundy Rosebuds a Wild Pansy & a Racquet-tailed Roller. ...

The Needlecraft Style Directory is a comprehensive & accessible guide to stitch craft for crafters of all levels. The book reveals exactly what each type of needlecraft involves the basic stitches needed & the common characteristics of each stitch allowing the reader to select the best technique for their designs. Divided into two main sections the first part of the book explores an extensive variety of needlecraft styles covering everything from candlewicking to crewel sashiko quilting to smocking & needlepoint to needle felting. Galleries of finished pieces provide inspiration & ideas for creative new projects. Outlining the basic technique tools materials & common applications each entry also highlights the most common stitches used for each style while cross referencing these stitches in section two. Guaranteed to prove useful to all crafters the second part of the book is organized as a stitch directory complete with easy to follow diagrams that show readers how to work each individual stitch required for their chosen needlecraft style as well as featuring overviews that present the stitches worked in various styles on finished pieces. An extensive glossary concludes the book clarifying & demystifying a wide range of terms that can often prove confusing to even the most experienced of needlecrafters. The Needlecraft Style Directory is the ultimate reference for embroiderers sewers quilters & needlecraft enthusiasts of all levels. ...

Slip one A year after her husband's death Jo Mackenzie is finally starting to get the hang of being a single parent. Knit two together The boys are thriving in their new seaside home the wool shop is starting to do well & despite two weddings an in-school knitting project & Trevor the Wonder Dog coming to stay she's just about keeping her head above water. Cast off But boys babies & best friends certainly make life a lot more interesting. Can Jo cope when things get really complicated? Because if knitting truly does keep you sane when your life starts to unravel then it looks like Jo is going to need much bigger needles. ...

In the third House of Night novella the secret history we've all been waiting for is finally revealed. Neferet the Tulsa House of Night's darkly seductive High Priestess wasn't always a powerful vampyre but she has always been beautiful. Raised in turn-of-the-century Chicago in a motherless home her beauty makes her the prey of unwanted attention & abuse leaving her with scars that will never heal
- & a Darkness that will eventually need to find its way out. But when she is Marked & gains strength both physical & magickal she turns her anger into power & looks for a way to regain what was stolen from her. From victim to High Priestess beautiful young woman to powerful seductress Neferet's journey begins.. .
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When the Crown Prince of Egypt needs a wife the beautiful charismatic ambitious & connected Nefertiti is his mothers first choice. She quickly becomes accustomed to the opulence of her new life. As Queen of the worlds first great empire at the height of its power all her dreams are realised. Beguiling & wilful Nefertiti is soon as powerful as the Pharaoh himself. But when her husband breaks with a thousand years of tradition defying the priests & the military it will take all Nefertitis wiles to keep the nation from being torn apart. Watching from the shadows her sister Mutny detests the back-stabbing nature of palace life & as she dreams of a simple life in the countryside she records her sisters transformation from teenage girl to living goddess. But Nefertitis star quality can only take her so far & when shes prepared to sacrifice her sister to strengthen her power the two women become locked in a feud which only death can break... ...

Clive James power as a poet has increased year by year & there has been no stronger evidence for this than Nefertiti in the Flak Tower. Here his polymathic learning & technical virtuosity are worn more lightly than ever; the effect is merely to produce a deep sense of trust into which the reader gratefully sinks knowing they are in the presence of a master. The most obvious token of that mastery is the books breathtaking range of theme: there are moving elegies a meditation on the later Yeats a Hollywood Iliad odes to rare orchids wartime typewriters & sharks -- as well as a poem on the fate of Queen Nefertiti in Nazi Germany. But despite the dizzying variety James poetic intention becomes increasingly clear: what marks this new collection out is his intensified concentration on the individual poem as self-contained universe. Poetry is a practice he compares (in Numismatics) to striking new coin; & Nefertiti in the Flak Tower is a treasure-chest of one-off marvels with each poem a twin-sided perfect human balance of the unashamedly joyous & the deadly serious whose play of light pays tribute to the dark. Praise for Angels Over Elsinore: The new poems again apply faultless technique to subject matter that ranges in weight from helium to promethium.. . These poems are dazzling Prospect There is a casually rich mix of cultural allusions but the most important quality is complete clarity Independent ...

This book covers the key themes in Virilios work: speed; society; virtuality; new technology. Negative Horizon" is Paul Virilios most original & unified exploration of the key themes & ideas running through his thought. Provocative & forceful it sets out Virilios theory of dromoscopy: a means of apprehending speed & its pivotal
- & potentially destructive
- role in contemporary global society. Applying this theory to Western political & military history Virilio exposes a compulsion to accelerate & the rise of a politics of time
- encapsulated in the importance accorded to speed
- over territorial politics of space. Moving through human history from the cave paintings at Lascaux that depict the first hunters to the stealth technologies deployed in contemporary warfare Virilio shows how resistance to speed & movement has consistently been eroded & the physical world adapted in order to satisfy the urge to move further & faster. In exposing what he believes to be the consequences of this constant acceleration for human sensory perception & ultimately global democracy Virilio offers a vision of history & politics as disturbing as it is original. These books are seminal works of the finest minds in Western thought including Adorno Badiou Derrida Heidegger & Larkin. They are works of such power that they changed the cultural mind when they were written & continue to resonate today
- landmark texts in the fields of philosophy literature popular culture politics & theology
- strikingly designed accessibly priced."





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At one time during the first half of the twentieth century Marcus Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. Hailed as both the black Moses & merely a Negro with a hat he masterminded the first International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World began the Universal Negro Improvement Association & captivated audiences with his powerful speeches & audacious Back to Africa programme. But he was to end his life in penury ignominy & friendless exile after serving jail time in both the US & Jamaica. With masterful skill wit & compassion Colin Grant chronicles Garveys extraordinary life the failed business ventures his misguided negotiations with the Ku Klux Klan the two wives & the premature obituaries that contributed to his lonely tragic death. This is the dramatic cautionary tale of a man who articulated the submerged thoughts of an awakening people. ...

This book is a practical guide for those seeking to resolve disputes between neighbours who are at war with each other whether it be about noise overhanging branches the position of a fence or some other irritation that has sparked neighbour rage. It draws together the relevant strands of the law on negligence nuisance misrepresentation trespass rights of way boundaries party walls the right to light trees & hedges weeds & pests waste water & drainage. Written by solicitors with many years experience of dealing with such disputes it contains practical hints to hasten resolving difficulties while recognising the desirability of restoring harmony between the disputing parties. It provides an insight into some of the many powers of the local authorities to deal with noise for example which may be invoked to bring to an end the behaviour complained of. The importance of seeking to settle a dispute without having to resort to litigation is a theme running through the book as is the ever-vexing question of costs. ...

From Anne Robinson to the Act of Union Neighbours from Hell?" looks at English attitudes to the Welsh. Drawing on the authors experience of the comedy circuit cartoons; the popular press & postcards; from Tours of the Picturesque to the novels of Niall Griffiths the range of reference is as broad as the writing style is witty. Stereotypes explored include the Welsh character (shifty oversexed or verbose); the Welsh language (dead ugly or secret code for extremists) & the landscape. Mike Parker examines treacherous policy decisions sacrificing communities to reservoirs forestry & military ranges. & he warns of future loss through blinkered tourist & property marketing. This is fine & funny polemic with a purpose by the author of " The Rough Guide to Wales."" ...