Take a bow and start playing tunes with this friendly guide! Whether you're an aspiring classical musician or you just want to fiddle around, Violin For Dummies will have you making music in not time. This interactive book makes it easy with step-by-step instruction on everything from simple tunes to show-stopping techniques. With coverage of musical styles including classical, country, and jazz, this is the ultimate guide to the violin.
Beautiful Embroidery with Judith & Kathryn: over 70 inspirational ideas and projects
Judith and Kathryn invite you to dream of the past. As children, the shapes and shadows, sounds, spaces and smells of our surroundings were invitations to explore. These things now have an influence on the creativity of our needlework. With 23 beautiful projects and countless inspirational ideas, this book will excite and inspire you.
Create your own masterpiece following the clear instructions, full-size pattern sheet and warm detail-rich color photographs. There are 19 beautiful projects for novice and experienced needleworkers in this delightful volume.
Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue now tells the fascinating social history of the color black in Europe.
During the seventeenth century, England was beset by three epidemics of the bubonic plague, each outbreak claiming between a quarter and a third of the population of London and other urban centers. Surveying a wide range of responses to these epidemics—sermons, medical tracts, pious exhortations, satirical pamphlets, and political commentary—Plague Writing in Early Modern England brings to life the many and complex ways Londoners made sense of such unspeakable devastation.
