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Popular artist Gretel Lusky welcomes readers into her fantastical world in this high-quality art book.This is an artist who loves fantasy and all things magical: fairies, mermaids, mythical creatures, knights, and more. She creates characters that are colorful yet mysterious and places that feel otherworldly, always pretty yet sometimes bordering on unsettling. Gretel fans will love delving into the story of her creative early years, discovering why she chose art as a career, and following her development timeline. She presents two exclusive ga... + Read More
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Series: Frank Frazetta: An Artists' Tribute12 art projects inspired by the icon. With an introduction by Sara Frazetta.Hardcover
3dtotal Publishing9781912843817
$56.95ART
Mar 01, 2024
A selection of incredible artists pay tribute to Frank Frazetta by creating new art inspired by his work, accompanied by in-depth interviews with members of the Frazetta family.Frank Frazetta is often referred to as the "Godfather of Fantasy Art" and one of the most renowned illustrators of the 20th century. His epic ink and pencil drawings, oil paintings, and watercolor illustrations have defined the aesthetics and look of fantasy and science-fiction for decades. In this high-quality book, you can discover more about the man behind the art thr... + Read More
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Series: Inspired By NatureDesigning botanical charactersPaperback
3dtotal Publishing9781912843848
$74.95ART
Jan 12, 2024
Character designers take inspiration from beautiful botany and, in this project-focused title, each create a brand-new character based on nature, with step-by-step tutorials allowing readers to follow along.From mushroom fairies to swamp-dwelling beasts, and Mother Nature herself, we have seen countless characters inspired by the delicacy and harshness of the natural world.The projects include notes on the ideation, research, design, and creation of the characters, leading to a stunning final image, plus a gallery from each artist showing more ... + Read More
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Series: Draw!Brett Bean breaks down the art of drawingPaperback
Brett Bean9781912843787
$56.95ART
Mar 29, 2024
Become a better artist with this immersive visual masterclass in drawing, created by industry expert, Brett Bean. Simply pick up a pen or pencil and start practising, following the captivating illustrated steps and easy-to-digest text prompts along the way. Learn about construction lines, warm-up exercises, and line weight, before diving into lessons on how to build up characters, vehicles, buildings, and environments with basic shapes. Next, soak up Brett's unique way of building up detail and interest in drawings, and how he researches and ... + Read More
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Series: Emergent StrategyAll InCancer, Near Death, New LifePaperback
Caitlin Breedlove9781849355308
$26.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jan 26, 2024
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Series: Anarchist InterventionsDefying DisplacementUrban Recomposition and Social WarPaperback
Andrew Lee9781849355247
$25.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Feb 16, 2024
A revolutionary new study of gentrification ... and how to stop it.Cities around the world are in the midst of a profound transformation as the wealthy price out the remnants of the urban working class, especially people of color. Displacement is neither accidental or inevitable. It happens because a whole range of people and institutions profit handsomely. Defying Displacement, focused on the US but informed by global examples, investigates gentrification from the perspective of the people fighting it, members of communities whose survival is ... + Read More
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Series: Constructing Worlds OtherwiseSocieties in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin AmericaPaperback
Raul Zibechi9781849355421
$26.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Apr 26, 2024
A new collection from one of Latin America's most dynamic radical thinkers-in the tradition of Frantz Fanon and Eduardo Galeano. Constructing Worlds Otherwise sets itself against the recolonization of Latin America by one-dimensional, ethnocentric perspectives that permeate the North American left and block fundamental social change in the Global South. In a provocative mix of polemic and on-the-ground analysis, Raul Zibechi argues that it is time for radicals in the Global North to learn from the people their governments have colonized and opp... + Read More
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Series: Springwood StarsPaperback
Barry Hines9781913505882
$29.95FICTION
Apr 12, 2024
The previously unpublished last novel by Barry Hines, Springwood Stars tells the story of a village soccer team during the hardships of a 1920s miners’ strike. They struggle, for the sake of their village's spirit, to keep the squad together. In the guise of a historical novel, Springwood Stars is a powerful and nuanced reflection on strike action and how it plays out in a working-class community. Meanwhile the long shadow of the Great War looms over all, aristocrat and worker alike. Due to the changing character of Hines' erstwhile publisher M... + Read More
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Series: VerdigrisPaperback
Michele Mari9781913505905
$29.95FICTION
Jan 12, 2024
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Series: InlandPaperback
Gerald Murnane9781913505820
$29.95FICTION
Jan 19, 2024
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Series: TrondheimPaperback
Cormac James9781954276239
$26.95FICTION
Feb 16, 2024
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Series: Flight of the Wild SwanPaperback
Melissa Pritchard9781954276215
$28.95FICTION
Mar 22, 2024
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Series: Point ZeroPaperback
Seicho Matsumoto9781913394936
$25.95FICTION
Apr 05, 2024
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Ward Clayton9781958888179
$29.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 12, 2024
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Series: No Shelter But the StarsPaperback
Virginia Black9781612942797
$31.95FICTION
Feb 02, 2024
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Series: On Women and HandbagsHardcover
Mylo Freeman9781913175665
$31.95DESIGN
Mar 08, 2024
Heis always by her side. He's got everything she needs. She strokes him lovinglyand breathes in his scent. And yet she'll eventually trade him for a new one:the lady and her handbag.Inthis book, Mylo Freeman introduces fifty inspiring women from all over theworld. From big names such as Queen Elizabeth II, Jane Birkin and Paris Hilton, to lesser known women such asSouth African fashion designer PalesaMokubung, Hello Kitty designer Yuko Yamaguchi and journalist-explorer Nellie Bly. For each of them, their handbagcarries a different meaning: acce... + Read More
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Series: The World Was in Our HandsVoices from the Boko Haram ConflictHardcover
Chitra Nagarajan9781913175566
$31.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Apr 05, 2024
While the Boko Haram conflict has reached a certain level of culturation saturation, what is known about theconflict remains patchy. This collection, featuring interviews with 47 peopleof all genders, ages and a variety of religious backgrounds, foregrounds the realities of those who are living through the conflict and presenting thehumanity of all concerned. Even as they discuss the conflict, their narratives also reflect realities beyond violence,making this an essential cultural archive. From age hierarchies and the culture of deference to e... + Read More
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Series: The German RoomPaperback
Carla Maliandi9781999859336
$23.95FICTION
Feb 02, 2024
How do you will a life into order? Adrift in Germany, a pregnant, aimless Argentine and her small circle of friends try and fail to find out.Fall in Heidelberg, and in a student residence a not-student, a woman from Argentina, is busy not figuring out what to do next. She’s pregnant. Shanice, a Japanese student she had barely befriended, has died. Shanice’s mother has arrived from Tokyo and will not leave. And Javier Miguel, a fellow Argentine, is frantic that his sister back home might be overly involved with a local psychic. The German Room i... + Read More
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Series: The Dark Side of SkinPaperback
Jeferson Tenorio9781913867737
$25.95FICTION
Mar 01, 2024
Life under Brazil’s brutal “cordial racism” comes painfully alive in this novel of fathers and sons.How do you become the protagonist of your own life? For Pedro, it means searching for his murdered father in the objects he left behind—an archeology of affections. Investigating and retracing his family’s trajectory through the streets of the city of Porto Alegre and the morass of Brazil’s pervasive racism, violence, and bankrupt institutions, Jeferson Tenório takes on fathers and sons, Shakespeare and Cervantes, and the inescapable bonds and b... + Read More
Essential radical texts by enslaved, jailed, and imprisoned Americans, edited by renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and activist-scholar Jennifer Black. “Martin Luther King told us what he saw when he went to the mountaintop....But there’s also the foot of the mountain, and there are also the regions beneath the surface. I want to try to tell you a little something about those regions.”—Angela Y. Davis Beneath the Mountain is a reader’s guide for understanding the evolution of anti-prison tenets. This essential core of primary texts... + Read More
Featuring critical essays, erotica, and stitched-up memories, Gender/Fucking explores sexual arousal as a site of knowledge about the self and world.Taking the idea of intellectual masturbation a bit too literally, Florence Ashley draws on their experiences as a transfeminine activist, academic, and slut to interrogate what it means to live in a gendered body in our difficult yet occasionally loving world. With personal essays about the fetishization of trans bodies, recovering from surgery, and losing hope, Florence’s collection celebrates the... + Read More
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Series: Violent FacultiesPaperback
Charlene Elsby9781955904940
$25.95FICTION
Mar 08, 2024
A philosophy professor tests the limits of the soul and body by performing dehumanizing experiments on unwilling subjects, after the department is closed due to budget cuts.Violent Faculties follows a philosophy professor influenced by Sade and Bataille. She is ejected by university administrators aiming to impose business strategies in the interest of profit over knowledge.She designs a series of experiments to demonstrate the value of philosophy as a discipline, not because of its potential for financial benefit, but because of its relevance ... + Read More
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Series: Storming BedlamMadness, Utopia, and RevoltPaperback
Sasha Warren9781942173892
$35.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Mar 29, 2024
Storming Bedlam reimagines mental health care and its radical possibilities in the context of its global development under capitalism.The contemporary world is oversaturated with new psychiatric programs, methods, and reforms promising to address any number of "crises" in mental health care. When they fail, alternatives to the alternatives simply pile up and seem to lead nowhere. In Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt, Sasha Warren suggests that the intense contradictions that animate psychiatric care can only be conceptualized by situ... + Read More
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Series: UnboundNarrative Art of the PlainsHardcover
Emil Her Many Horses9781913875480
$59.95ART
Mar 15, 2024
New publication celebrates the dynamic tradition of narrative art among Native nations of the American Great Plains.Unbound shows the full expression of Plains narrative art, from historical hides, muslins, and ledger books to contemporary works. Illustrating everything from war deeds and ceremonial events to family life, Indigenous identity, and pop culture, the artworks are as diverse as the individuals who created them.Early narrative warrior-artists recorded their battle exploits on buffalo-hide shirts, and robes. In the late nineteenth cen... + Read More
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Series: Short WarPaperback
Lily Meyer9781646053155
$25.95FICTION
Apr 12, 2024
Told in three distinct voices, Short War brings together a rapturous teenage love story set in Chile, the hunt for the author of an eye-opening literary detective story, and a complex reckoning with American political intervention in South America. When sixteen-year-old Gabriel Lazris—an American in Santiago, Chile—meets Caro Ravest, something clicks. Caro, who is Chilean, is charming, curious, and deeply herself. Gabriel dreams of their future together. But everybody’s saying there’s going to be a coup—and no one says it louder than Gabriel’s... + Read More
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Series: The Villain's DancePaperback
Fiston Mwanza Mujila9781646051274
$25.95FICTION
Mar 01, 2024
Following the international success of his debut novel Tram 83, Fiston Mwanza Mujila is back with his highly anticipated second novel, which follows a remarkable series of characters during the Mobutu regime. The Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as Congo-Kinshasa or DRCongo, has had a series of names since its founding. The name of Zaire best corresponds to the experience of the novel’s characters. The years of Mobutu’s regime were filled with utopias, dreams, fantasies and other uncontrolled desires for social redemption, the ques... + Read More
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Series: Wrong Is Not My NameNotes on (Black) ArtPaperback
Erica N. Cardwell9781558613812
$26.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 22, 2024
A dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as a means to explore loss, legacy, and the reclamation of life through art.At the age of twenty-one, Erica Cardwell finds herself in New York City, reeling from the loss of her mother and numb to the world around her. She turns inward instead, reading books and composing poetry, eventually falling into the work of artists such as Blondell Cummings, Lorna Simpson, Lorraine O’Grady, and Kara Walker. Through them, she communes with her mother’s spirit... + Read More
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Series: The Weird Sister CollectionWriting at the Intersections of Feminism, Literature, and Pop CulturePaperback
Marisa Crawford9781558613003
$40.95LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Feb 23, 2024
Collecting the best of the underground blog Weird Sister, these unapologetic and insightful essays link contemporary feminism to literature and pop culture.Launched in 2014, Weird Sister proudly staked out a corner of the internet where feminist writers could engage with the literary and popular culture that excited or enraged them. The blog made space amid book websites dominated by white male editors and contributors, and also committed to covering literary topics in-depth when larger feminist outlets rarely could. Throughout its decade-long ... + Read More
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Series: I'll Give You a ReasonStoriesPaperback
Annell Lopez9781558613126
$25.95FICTION
Apr 19, 2024
This shimmering debut short story collection intimately explores race, identity, and the pursuit of the American Dream in the Ironbound, an immigrant neighborhood in New Jersey. I'll Give You a Reason explores the lives of immigrants and first-generation Americans searching for their American Dream in the Ironbound, an ethnic enclave and immigrant haven in Newark, New Jersey, a place once best known for its high murder rate. This story collection illustrates the complicated beauty of Newark and the lives of its diverse residents. A young widow ... + Read More
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Series: Mia Zapata and The GitsA True Story of Art, Rock, and RevolutionPaperback
Steve Moriarty9781627311502
$43.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Feb 23, 2024
Just Kids for the grunge era. Seattle band, The Gits and their charismatic front person Mia Zapata were on the verge of international rock stardom but on July 7, 1993, days before their third US tour, Mia Zapata, The Gits 27-year-old singer-songwriter, was brutally assaulted and murdered by a stranger. Zapata’s death sent chilling ripples through progressive communities throughout the United States. She became a cause-celebre for women’s rights activists outraged by the brutal killing and lack of law enforcement support. This book reclaims Zap... + Read More
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Series: Good TasteA Life of Food and PassionHardcover
Alain Ducasse9781913547677
$34.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 26, 2024
A memoir and manifesto from the world’s most Michelin starred chef, Alain Ducasse, with introductions by internationally renowned writer Jay McInerney and chef Clare Smyth. At twelve years old, Alain Ducasse had never been to a restaurant. Less than fifteen years later, he received his first Michelin star. Today he is one of just two chefs to have been awarded twenty-one stars. Now, for the very first time, Ducasse shares a lifetime of culinary inspirations and passions in a book that is part memoir and part manifesto. Good Taste takes us on a ... + Read More
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Series: All the Way to SummerStories of Love and LongingPaperback
Dame Fiona Kidman9781913547646
$23.95FICTION
Feb 23, 2024
A powerful collection of stories exploring love and longing from the award-winning author of This Mortal Boy.Two mothers fight over who will wear a hat on their children's wedding day. A needle is lost somewhere in a woman’s body. A writer waits with a suitcase for a man who never comes. This collection brings together Fiona Kidman’s finest and most scandalous stories, vividly depicting the joys of female desire and the pain of heartbreak, the thrill of illicit liaisons and the twists and turns of unconventional love. Sometimes joyful, often de... + Read More
The hotly anticipated follow-up to The Tumbling Girl, The Innocents follows Minnie and Albert on a new crime-solving quest in the world of a Victorian music hall.A string of murders has torn through London, throwing together the now notorious Minnie Ward and Albert Easterbrook once again. It seems that the crimes all link back to a tragedy fourteen years ago that left 183 children dead. But given that the incident touched so many people’s lives, everyone is a suspect . . .
'Splendid' Wall Street Journal'A wry, warm and proper rib-tickling slice of dirty Victorian gothic’ Julia Crouch 1876, Victorian London. Minnie Ward, a feisty scriptwriter for the Variety Palace Music Hall, is devastated when her best friend is found brutally murdered. She enlists the help of private detective Albert Easterbrook to help her find justice. Together they navigate London, from its high-class clubs to its murky underbelly. But as the bodies pile up, they must rely on one another if they’re going to track down the killer – and make i... + Read More
'It is that rarity, a first novel that smacks of not merely confidence, but authority.' The ScotsmanFrom the excoriating heat of the Arizona desert to the misty flow of a north-west Highland sea-loch, Sharon Blackie's first novel presents us with landscape in all its transformative power. An honest and moving exploration of the complexities of mother-daughter relationships, The Long Delirious Burning Blue is above all a story of courage, endurance and redemption.'Hugely potent. A tribute to the art of storytelling that is itself an affecting an... + Read More
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Series: Wanderers in the New ForestPaperback
Juliette de Bairicli Levy9781915068187
$29.95NATURE
Apr 12, 2024
Known as the ‘grandmother of herbalism’, Juliette de Baïracli Levy travelled throughout Europe and North America in pursuit of her passion for herbs and holistic medicine, living mostly in rural places whose nomadic communities helped expand her knowledge of plants and living from the land. In the early 1950s, she settled in a thatched ‘cabin’ in the New Forest for three years and raised her children in the woods. Originally published in 1958, Wanderers in the New Forest describes an extraordinary family life living wild: drawing spring... + Read More
Since the advent of agriculture and animal husbandry, the human population has multiplied by about one thousand in a `demographic explosion'.However, in recent years, global fertility rates have begun to decrease significantly, and this is one reason to make a case for humans being becoming an endangered species. Many of the possible interpretations of this dramatic U-turn in the history of mankind may be found in modern ways of being born. For example, where caesarean rates are high, the average number of babies born per woman is very low. Dur... + Read More
Grandmothers are coming into their own. There have never been so many of them. As Naomi Stadlen explains, they have always mattered, especially in helping their families to survive. Drawing on grandmothers' own words, Why Grandmothers Matter describes the experience of having grandchildren across many cultures, and discusses the sometimes delicate relationships between grandmother, parent-child and grandchild. This warm and thoughtful book has much to teach us about family dynamics and the role grandmothers play in wider society, and will be va... + Read More
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Series: The Wagner GroupFrom Savage Global Mercenaries to Putin's Unlikely NemesisPaperback
Owen Wilson9781783342563
$25.95HISTORY
Apr 12, 2024
This is the first book on the Wagner Group, the shadowy Russian paramilitary organisation that fought in Ukraine and staged a surprise uprising against Vladimir Putin on 23-24 June. It has been involved in conflicts in Syria, Libya, the Central African Republic, Venezuela and Mali, committing war crimes, rape, robbery of civilians, and torture. Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman with close links to the Kremlin, admitted in September 2022 that he founded" the paramilitary group. Owen Wilson investigates its history and who is really behind the gro... + Read More
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Series: Environmentalism from BelowHow Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our PlanetPaperback
Ashley Dawson9781642599701
$34.95SCIENCE
Jan 26, 2024
A global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis.Environmentalism from Below takes readers inside the popular struggles for environmental liberation in the Global South. These communities—among the most vulnerable to but also least responsible for the climate crisis—have long been at the forefront of the fight to protect imperiled worlds. Today, as the world’s forests burn and our oceans acidify, grassroots movements are tenaciously defending the environmental commons and forging just and sustai... + Read More
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Series: Our History Is the FutureLessons from the MovementPaperback
Rachel Herzing9798888900833
$28.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Apr 19, 2024
An incisive guide to abolitionist strategy, and a love letter to the movement that made this moment possible.Critics of abolition sometimes castigate the movement for its utopianism, but in How to Abolish Prisons, long-time organizers Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché reveal a movement that has made the struggle for abolition as real as the institutions they are fighting against.Drawing on extensive interviews with abolitionist crews all over North America, Herzing and Piché provide a collective reconstruction of what the grassroots movement to a... + Read More
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Series: The Case for Open BordersPaperback
John Washington9798888900727
$29.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Feb 16, 2024
A beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration crisis: open the gates.Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die. Closed borders force migrants seeking safety and dignity to journey across seas, trudge through deserts, and clamber over barbed wire. In the last five years alone, at least 60,000 people have died or gone missing while attempting to cross a border. As we deny, cast out, and crack down, we have stripped borders of their creative potential — as lines of contact, cat... + Read More
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Series: Absinthe: The Forbidden SpiritAn Intoxicating History of the Green FairyHardcover
Tania Brasseur9783039640195
$52.95COOKING
Mar 08, 2024
A journalist and photographer set out to the "absinthe valley" in search of the history, the botany and the illicit mysteries of the "Green Fairy"Invented in a small valley in Switzerland, absinthe was the drink of choice for 19th century Bohemians. Van Gogh, Picasso and Oscar Wilde swore by its creative powers. But by the early 20th century, the drink was prohibited around the world. This “other prohibition” lasted nearly 100 years. Only in 2005 was it legal to make absinthe again in Switzerland. This is the story of the invention and rei... + Read More
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Series: Conflict Communication SeriesBIFF for Lawyers and Law OfficesYour Guide to Respectful Written Communication with Clients, Opposing Counsel and OthersPaperback
Bill Eddy9781950057399
$29.95LAW Jan 12, 2024
This book provides a simple and proven method for lawyers to use in ethically responding to hostile communications, correcting misinformation by others, and initiating productive correspondence. The BIFF Communication method can be used by all law office personnel (paralegals, administrative assistants, receptionists, and others), with 30 sample responses to common situations involving hostile or misinformed emails, text messages, and other forms of communication. BIFF stands for Brief, Informative, Friendly, and Firm. The BIFF Communication ... + Read More
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Series: How Ideas are BornArtists on Creative ProcessesPaperback
Miguel Angel Arteaga9788419220479
$52.95ART
Feb 23, 2024
This book should serve as a source of inspiration to help creative people overcome the obstacles that can appear during the production process. Featuring 25 genre-defying artists working outside the mainstream, it takes readers inside their work spaces and challenges them to focus on details that help reveal some of the secrets of their creative activity. In addition to the many images of their work, the artists, in their own words, shed light on the creative processes that made them possible. They explain why they create, what they are trying ... + Read More
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Series: New Earrings400+ Designs in Contemporary JewelleryHardcover
Nicolas Estrada9788419220516
$52.95DESIGN
Mar 22, 2024
Part of a well-known book series on contemporary art jewelry by jeweler Nicolás Estrada, this completely new edition of New Earrings (not a single piece from the 2013 edition has been included) highlights the work of some of the most exciting and innovative international jewelry artists working today. The more than 550 pieces featured by 198 jewelers from all over the world break away from the traditional notion of jewelry making to stake out new terrain. They represent a variety of creative approaches and methods, from more traditional to stri... + Read More
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Series: Sneakers ArtFrom Inspiration to CustomizationPaperback
Claudia Ausonia Palazio9788419220240
$59.95DESIGN
Feb 23, 2024
This book is a great way to get started creating your own custom sneakers. Up your creative game as you learn quick and easy ways to turn a pair of regular trainers into one-of-a-kind works of art. 1000 inspiring sneaker designs and 18 step-by-step tutorials will help you create your own projects that reflect your personal tastes. By mastering the basics along with some design skills, you´ll soon have the tools and techniques you need to design and paint custom sneakers with style and soul. Street, pop, fluor, metal and camouflage are just som... + Read More
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Series: Constructing Base Patterns.Patternmaking for Womenswear, Vol 3Basic Bodices and Sleeves, Bustiers, Dresses, Knitwear and SwimwearPaperback
Dominique Pellen9788419220257
$59.95DESIGN
Feb 09, 2024
This third volume of our Patternmaking for Womenswear series contains the ideal method for creating bustiers, bodices, sleeves, knitwear dresses and swimwear for womenswear. It covers the information necessary for drafting flat patterns for nearly every style there is. Developed by fashion designer and teacher Dominique Pellen after countless years of experience in the studio and the classroom, the fresh and modern approach to the creation and adaptation of flat patterns shown here make the book suitable for a wide audience, including professio... + Read More
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Series: Fashion PalettesColor Inspiration, Meaning and MoodPaperback
Lauren Wager9788419220509
$44.95DESIGN
Jan 26, 2024
Color consultant and curator Lauren Wager, author of the best-selling Palette Perfect volumes, and colorist, designer and trend forecaster Sophia Naureen Ahmad, team up in this practical and inspirational compendium that examines how colors can be used and combined to achieve specific effects in fashion. We learn what each color means, where the color name comes from and color combinations that go well with each color, as well as different fabrics and decorative elements used in fashion in relation to color. Quick and easy explanations reveal w... + Read More
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Series: Strength from WithinPersonal insights on how to cope, grow, and flourish during life's trials based on my life with physical disabilitiesPaperback
Sa'diyya Nesar9781847742230
$19.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 12, 2024
This book is the fulfilment of my promise to Allah, the One that heard, answered, and released that eight-year-old-girl from the hospital. It contains the most challenging encounters from my life with physical disabilities. It delves into the struggles that I faced both externally and internally, and how I coped. It delves into the reality of how we all face adversities and the beauty that can be found within these hardships.It uncovers lessons that will allow us to appreciate life on a whole different level. This book contains the hidden gems ... + Read More
"His life suggested that one could be spiritually grounded and thriving in more than one tradition at the same time.” —Marcus Braybrooke, for the Interfaith ObserverThis pioneering work harmonizes Hindu Vedanta philosophy with the Christian vision of the Word made flesh through the Spirit of God's love.An introduction to the Vedic scriptures and Christian mysticism that reveals how God lavished his riches on both Christians and non-Christians alike and the importance of our unity as a people if we are to become whole. “Without Christianity I do... + Read More
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Series: Essential Chan BuddhismThe Character and Spirit of Chinese ZenPaperback
Chan Master Guo Jun9781958972182
$23.95RELIGION
Jan 19, 2024
In this highly readable book, Master Gou Jun brings Chan's powerful and profound teachings to the page in a way that is accessible and warm. This is a book for those new to Chan, and for seasoned practitioners. Essential Chan Buddhism is the rare unearthing of an ancient and remarkable Chinese spiritual tradition. Master Guo Jun speaks through hard-won wisdom on Chan's spiritual themes familiar to Western readers, such as mindfulness and relaxation in meditation, as well as profound, simply expressed teachings and insightful explorations of rel... + Read More
“Myra Sack’s memoir is a deeply personal look at her family’s resilience in the face of the unimaginable. Fifty-seven Fridays will help so many others find strength.” —Sheryl Sandberg, former COO, FacebookSack is a 30-year-old new mom, married to the love of her life, Matt Goldstein, who is a doctor. They live in Boston because Matt’s residency in internal medicine took them there. She has just finished her MBA. They’ve bought a house. Life is unfolding beautifully.Then one day their beautiful 1-year-old daughter Havi is diagnosed with a debili... + Read More
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Series: The Hebrew TeacherPaperback
Maya Arad9781954404236
$26.95FICTION
Mar 29, 2024
Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a Midwestern college who has built her life around her career. When a young Hebrew literature professor joins the faculty, she finds his post-Zionist politics pose a threat to her life’s work. Miriam, whose son left Israel to make his fortune in Silicon Valley, pays an unwanted visit to meet her new grandson and discovers cracks in the family’s perfect façade. Efrat, another Israeli in California, is det... + Read More
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