Shirtmaking
With the skills learnt in this book, readers can create elegant, custom-fit garments for either men or women that look like the best money can buy. Using simple tools and techniques any sewer can acquire, you'll discover how to duplicate and even ...
Shirtmaking Workbook
So you've made a basic shirt or two and you are looking for more options and directions. Well, you are in luck! David Page Coffin, author of Shirtmaking, a complete guide to the dress shirt, is back to help you with an amazing collection of custom...
Making Trousers for Men & Women: A Multimedia Sewing Workshop
Comfortable, flattering pants can be challenging to make--but they're wonderful to wear. In this book, David Coffin provides his inventive, sure-fire methods for getting it right. With his characteristic precision and straight talk--and with the h...
Expert Oracle and Java Security
Expert Oracle and Java Security: Programming Secure Oracle Database Applications with Java provides resources that every Java and Oracle database application programmer needs to ensure that they have guarded the security of the data and identities...
Pirro Ligorio
Pirro Ligorio (1510-1583), an Italian architect and antiquarian who designed the Casino of Pius IV and large portions of the gardens of the Villa d'Este, has long been a notoriously elusive subject because of his daunting erudition and because his...
Singer's Repertoire, Part II
A timeless classic. Includes 8,200 songs in 818 lists for nine voice classifications; indexed by composer, title, vocal range, and publisher. The complete work represents the living song repertoire of today drawn from recital programs, recordings,...
Coffin's Overtones of Bel Canto
This book and the accompanying chromatic vowel chart present many exercises that will make the voice stronger and more musical according to the precepts of Bel Canto. Vowel-pitch relationships have been notated in 117 exercises for teachers and si...
Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants
Six years ago at the age of twenty-one, Jaed Muncharoen Coffin, a half-Thai American man, left New England's privileged Middlebury College to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in his mother's native village of Panomsarakram- thus fulfilling a familia...
Geometric Puzzle Design
This book discusses how to design "good" geometric puzzles: two-dimensional dissection puzzles, polyhedral dissections, and burrs. It outlines major categories of geometric puzzles and provides examples, sometimes going into the history ...
Singer's Repertoire, Part III
Now in paperback! A timeless classic. Includes 8,200 songs in 818 lists for nine voice classifications; indexed by composer, title, vocal range, and publisher. The complete work represents the living song repertoire of today drawn from recital pro...
Singer's Repertoire, Part I
A timeless classic. Includes 8,200 songs in 818 lists for nine voice classifications; indexed by composer, title, vocal range, and publisher. The complete work represents the living song repertoire of today drawn from recital programs, recordings,...
Historical Vocal Pedagogy Classics
The late Berton Coffin's considerable research in areas related to the art of singing has resulted in these reviews, with interpretations of vocal pedagogy classics in light of contemporary observations and findings. This volume contains a series ...
Politics of Women's Work
Few issues attracted more attention in the nineteenth century than the "problem" of women's work, and few industries posed that problem more urgently than the booming garment industry in Paris. The seamstress represented the quintessenti...
A Reference Grammar of Modern Hebrew
A Reference Grammar of Modern Hebrew provides a clearly-structured and accessible guide to all aspects of contemporary Hebrew grammar. Systematically organised, it presents the basic structures of the language, looking at grammatical categories, p...
Historical Discourse
'Coffin's functional linguistics perspective provides a rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the texts of secondary school history, both those that students read and those they need to learn to write. This is an original and welcome contribution...
Historical Discourse
This is an important analysis of the language of time, cause and evaluation in historical texts studied by students at secondary school, looking at the implications for making meaning in historical writing."Historical Discourse" analyses...
Analyzing English in a Global Context
Devised in collaboration with the Open University and Macquarie University, Australia, Analysing English in a Global Context is specifically designed for the postgraduate student market, as well as for teachers of English as a second or foreign la...
Singer's Repertoire, Part V
NOW IN PAPERBACK! Designed for use by professional singers, amateurs, teachers, coaches, and students; contains annotations for more than 1,000 songs in the basic vocal repertoire. Invaluable for those who must prepare program notes.
Exploring English Grammar
This engaging textbook bridges the gap between traditional and functional grammar. Starting with a traditional approach, students will develop a firm grasp of traditional tools for analysis and learn how SFG (Systemic Functional Grammar) can be us...
A Reference Grammar of Modern Hebrew
A Reference Grammar of Modern Hebrew provides a clearly-structured and accessible guide to all aspects of contemporary Hebrew grammar. Systematically organised, it presents the basic structures of the language, looking at grammatical categories, p...
Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne
Language as Social Semiotic-Based Approach to Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
This monograph offers research-based perspectives and linguistically informed approaches to supporting language and literacy development in higher education.
Science Formative Assessment, Volume 1
In this essential resource, science educator Page Keeley provides teachers with guidance, suggestions and techniques for using formative assessment to improve teaching and learning in the science classroom.
Science Formative Assessment, Volume 2
This bestselling book offers new strategies on how to use assessment to inform instruction and learning in the science classroom.
Word-By-Word Translations of Songs and Arias, Part I
This classic test first published in 1966 has withstood the test of time as a teaching aid for English-speaking singers, coaches, and accompanists, in order that their art may be more communicative to the public. This word-by-word translation allo...
Sappho and Alcaeus
Sappho and Alcaeus