Knitting Loves Crochet: 22 Stylish Designs to Hook Up Your Knitting with a Touch of Crochet

Never have knitting and crochet played so well together as they do in Candi Jensen's charming projects, designed to highlight everything you love about each craft. Sweet clusters of cherries gather on a child's cardigan, sueded granny squares add panache to Fido's sweater, and whimsical crocheted flowers put just the right flair in hats, scarves, bags, and pillows. Put your knitting needles and your favorite hook to work stitching up possibilities you never knew existed!

Masters Guide to Wedding Photography: Capturing Unforgettable Moments and Lasting Impressions

From the history of photography and how to shoot wedding portraits to creating stylish albums and working with digital output, everything a wedding photographer needs to know is included in this all-encompassing manual. Photographers are provided with a shooting guide that walks them through the wedding day and offers advice on a variety of topics including integrating detail, capturing the walk down the aisle, working in and out of doors, and finding and illustrating key relationships. Traditional and "in" methods of wedding photography are depicted in an educational timeline that explores past, present, and future trends in the field.

The Art of South and Southeast Asia: A Resource for Educators (TB)

A great and early civilization arose on the subcontinent of South Asia that in time spread northward to the Himalayan region and eastward to Southeast Asia, a vast area including Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Myanmar. This resource introduces works of art from this area selected from the superb South and Southeast Asian and Islamic collections of The  Museum of Art. Fifty-three digital images (of which forty are also reproduced as slides) present examples of Buddhist and Hindu temple art and the later court arts of South Asia; these range from miniature painting and luxurious textiles to elegant personal possessions.

The Ancient Curse by Valerio Massimo Manfredi (Audiobook, MP3)

In the middle of the night at the Museum of Volterra, young archeologist Fabrizio Castellani is immersed in his work - research into the famous Etruscan statue known as The Shade of Twilight. Completely engrossed, he is startled by the phone ringing. An icy female voice warns him to abandon his work at once.
 

The Art of Africa: A Resource for Educators (TB)

By focusing on forty works from the Metropolitan’s collection, this educator’s resource kit presents the rich and diverse artistic heritage of sub-Saharan Africa. Included are a brief introduction and history of the continent, an explanation of the role of visual expression in Africa, descriptions of the form and function of the works, lesson plans, class activities, map, bibliography, and glossary.