Complete Book of Tailoring
In this classic guide, acclaimed sewer and writer Adele P. Margolis offers expert advice for the home sewer who wants to take his or her skills to the next level and not only 'make clothes,' but to tailor one's creations to fit in that way that off-the-rack almost never can. Fashions change, but tailoring remains a timeless skill. From beginning to finished product, this essential primer covers every step you need to know to create successful and custom-fitted fashion. Featuring 340 drawings, Margolis' must-have guide includes both classic and contemporary tailoring--from pinning, cutting and marking to installing zippers, button holes and pockets. Within, you will learn to make suits, coats and ensembles that are well-constructed and expensive-looking, but affordable and approachable enough to make at home. One of the most valuable references of its kind, The Complete Book of Tailoring belongs deserves a spot on every sewing table.
How to Make Clothes That Fit and Flatter
How to Make Clothes That Fit and Flatter
Make Your Own Dress Patterns
This profusely illustrated primer in pattern making is great for creating fashionable clothing as well as pretty necklines, pockets, and sleeves. Nationally acclaimed sewing expert Adele Margolis provides simple, step-by-step directions and more t...
Guest Spot
(Music Sales America). Step into the spotlight and play along with ten of the best hits from Adele. This pack includes a book with alto saxophone arrangements and a CD of 'soundalike' backing tracks.
Adele for Piano Solo - 3rd Edition
Adele for Piano Solo - 3rd Edition
Best of Adele for Big-Note Piano - 2nd Edition
(Big Note Personality). Now even beginners can enjoy playing their favorite Adele songs This collection features 12 of her greatest hits arranged for big-note piano with lyrics. Songs include: Chasing Pavements * Easy on Me * Hello * Hold On * Make You Feel My Love * Rolling in the Deep * Send My Love (To Your New Lover) * Set Fire to the Rain * Skyfall * Someone like You * To Be Loved * When We Were Young.
Adele
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This definitive songbook presents, for the very first time, all the songs from Adele's four chart-topping albums in a single volume. Other bonus tracks and the massive Skyfall theme are included, all arranged for piano, voice, and guitar with chord symbols and full lyrics. 62 songs, including: All I Ask * Chasing Pavements * Crazy for You * Cry Your Heart Out * Easy on Me * Hello * I Drink Wine * Love Is a Game * Make You Feel My Love * Rolling in the Deep * Rumour Has It * Send My Love (To Your New Lover) * Set Fire to the Rain * Skyfall * Someone like You * When We Were Young * Woman like Me * and more
What, After All, Is a Work of Art?
What, After All, Is a Work of Art? directs our attention toward historicity, the inherent historied nature of thinking, and the artifactual, culturally emergent nature of both art and human selves. While these are familiar themes in Margolis's wel...
Selves and Other Texts
Extending his well-known investigations into the nature and logic of art and history in the cultural world, Joseph Margolis here offers a sustained account of how selves and the cultural phenomena they generate (language, history, action, art) can...
Basic Yiddish
Basic Yiddish: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar with related exercises in a single volume. The workbook is structured around 25 short units, each presenting relevant grammar points which are explained using multiple...
Interpretation Radical but Not Unruly
With this challenging work, Joseph Margolis continues the project begun in The Flux of History and the Flux of Science (California, 1993). Tackling one of philosophy's master themes, he develops the controversial thesis that the world is a flux. H...
Cultural Space of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism
Joseph Margolis, known for his considerable contributions to the philosophy of art and aesthetics, pragmatism, and American philosophy, has focused primarily on the troublesome concepts of culture, history, language, agency, art, interpretation, a...
Introduction to Philosophical Problems
This is a classic introduction to philosophy in the tradition of Bertrand Russell's "The Problems of Philosophy" and A.J. Ayer's "Central Questions of Philosophy". As in those books, here Margolis focuses on the core of Western...
Arts and the Definition of the Human
The Arts and the Definition of the Human introduces a novel theory that our selves-our thoughts, perceptions, creativity, and other qualities that make us human-are determined by our place in history, and more particularly by our culture and langu...
Pragmatism's Advantage
This book addresses the rift between major philosophical factions in the United States, which the author describes as a "philosophically becalmed" three-legged creature made up of analytic philosophy, continental philosophy, and pragmati...
Presidents' Day
For readers of David Baldacci and Brad Meltzer comes a timely political thriller from the bestselling author of Losing Isaiah. In this twisting, ferocious novel of suspense, the presidential race has a number of men all clawing to get to the top. ...
Inre visdom : lär dig lyssna till din intuition
Är det här beslutet riskfritt? Är den här mannen eller kvinnan den rätta för mig? Vilket anställningserbjudande ska jag tacka ja till? Dessa och många andra frågor kan Char Margolis ge dig svar på genom att avläsa dina energier. Men Char önskar oc...
Secret Life of Uri Geller
For over 60 years, spanning from his childhood to the Cold War to the current day, former Israeli paratrooper and Six Day War veteran Uri Geller has been a major enigma. Is he merely one of the most convincing stage magicians in history, a multimi...
Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition - A Theory of Judgment
What happens when we think? How do people make judgments? While different theories abound-and are heatedly debated-most are based on an algorithmic model of how the brain works. Howard Margolis builds a fascinating case for a theory that thinking ...
We Only Dated for 11 Instagrams
We Only Dated for 11 Instagrams: And Other Things You'll Overhear in LA is a collection of the hilarious, absurd, sometimes even poignant snippets overheard on the streets -- and in the juiceries -- of Los Angeles. It's a tribute to the one and on...
The Complete Book of Tailoring
In this classic guide, acclaimed sewer and writer Adele P. Margolis offers expert advice for the home sewer who wants to take his or her skills to the next level and not only 'make clothes,' but to tailor one's creations to fit in that way that off-the-rack almost never can. Fashions change, but tailoring remains a timeless skill. From beginning to finished product, this essential primer covers every step you need to know to create successful and custom-fitted fashion. Featuring 340 drawings, Margolis' must-have guide includes both classic and contemporary tailoring-from pinning, cutting and marking to installing zippers, button holes and pockets. With this book you will learn to make suits, coats and ensembles that are well-constructed and expensive-looking, but affordable and approachable enough to make at home. One of the most valuable references of its kind, The Complete Book of Tailoring belongs deserves a spot on every sewing table. This book is also available from Echo Point
Bible and Cinema
Bible and Cinema: An Introduction is a comprehensive examination of how the Bible has been used and represented in mainstream cinema to develop its plots, characters, and themes. The book considers two general types of films: Bible movies that ret...
Museums and the Working Class
Museums and the Working Class is the first book to take an intersectional and international approach to the issues of economic diversity and class within the field of museum studies. Bringing together 16 contributors from eight countries, this boo...
Jane Campion's The Piano
Jane Campion's The Piano is one of the most unusual love stories in the history of cinema. The film swept the world upon its release, winning awards for its performances, script, and direction, including prestigious Cannes and Academy Award prizes...
Constructions at Work
This book investigates the nature of generalization in language and examines how language is known by adults and acquired by children. It looks at how and why constructions are learned, the relation between their forms and functions, and how cross...
Hidden World of the Fox
'A lovely little book ? quietly lyrical, often funny and gently persuasive' Sunday Times 'Succinct, clear, sophisticated. I couldn't stop reading it' Jeff VanderMeer We've all seen the fox. A flash of his brushy tail disappearing between the gap o...
The Emotional Intelligence Activity Book: 50 Activities for Promoting Eq at Work
"We've all heard of ""IQ""...but what's ""EQ?"" It's ""Emotional Quotient"" (aka Emotional Intelligence), and experts say that EQ is a greater predictor of success at ...
Both of You
In a marriage built on lies, the truth will destroy BOTH OF YOU. 'Absolutely gripping' Richard Osman 'Chilling ? and entirely unputdownable' Lisa Jewell 'Had me gasping at the twist' Ian Rankin 'Ambitious, nail-biting, darkly voyeuristic' Louise C...
EQ Difference
Co-published with SHRM. Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a strong indicator of individual, team, and organizational success. But stocking up on emotionally intelligent employees isn't enough: you need a concrete plan for putting this valuable resour...
Cast Out of the Covenant
The Gospel of John presents its readers, listeners, and interpreters with a serious problem: how can we reconcile the Gospel's exalted spirituality and deep knowledge of Judaism with its portrayal of the Jews as the children of the devil (John 8:4...