Twenty magnificent quilts from the master of color. Kaffe Fassett shares his remarkable sense of color with readers as he shows them how to combine fabrics to create stunning quilts. Quilters at every level will find a favorite among the twenty spectacular projects, created with designers Janet Bolton, Keiko Goke, Hilda Krohg, and Roberta Horton. Join Kaffe Fassett as he travels this enchanting quilt road!
How to be a Brilliant Thinker: Exercise Your Mind and Find Creative Solutions
Leading speaker on innovation and creativity Paul Sloane helps readers think in powerful new ways. It shows how to harness techniques in lateral thinking, analytical thinking, problem analysis, idea generation, and other areas to become more creative. Readers will be able to conceive, evaluate and implement great ideas as well as improve their memory, sell their ideas, and win arguments. The book is packed with practical methods to put to immediate use, backed up by exercises, puzzles, quizzes, graphics, and illustrations.
Fatal women of romanticismCraciun's book does a good job of drawing together a variety of writings to illustrate her thesis ... As more and more women writers are admitted to the 'canon', and as traditionally canonical male writers and traditional formulations of Romanticism are reviewed in light of this work, a book like Craciun's is timely and welcome ... It is a strength of Craciun's book that she has taken the time to investigate this writing and formulate a useful and interesting theory about their significances ... its breadth of coverage is impressive...
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Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen
The process of translating works of literature to the silver screen is a rich field of study for both students and scholars of literature and cinema. The fourteen essays collected here provide an up-to-date survey of the important films based on, or inspired by, nineteenth-century American fiction, from James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans to Owen Wister's The Virginian.
A Kick in the Attitude: An Energizing Approach to Recharge your Team, Work, and Life
"Good old fashioned advice on how to have a great attitude, delivered in a pithy andinteresting way."? —Karen Leland, bestselling author of Watercooler Wisdom: How Smart PeopleProsper in the Face of Conflict, Pressure and Change? "Sam Glenn is known for his funny and motivational presentations and for his ability to give people a kick in the attitude. Now he has done it in print." —Stewart Clifford, Enterprise Media
