Sophie Elliott had everything to live for - good looks, intelligence, friends, a loving family, a degree under her belt and a new job at the Treasury in Wellington. And then, the day before she left Dunedin to take up that job, she was brutally stabbed to death in her own home by her former boyfriend, Clayton Weatherston. He was much older and one of her lecturers at the university. When the public came to take his measure at his high-profile trial in 2010, his narcissitic, manipulative personality stunned the nation.
This is a realy unique find... Very in style now... This is a Lisette pattern design book published in 1969. Design and sew your own wardrobe quickly and easily drafting patterns to any size. It is complete with the original booklet that explains how to use the Lisette patterns by using the Lisette-o-graph tape measure which is included. The book also includes all patterns. The designs are of late 1960's vintage.
Why Pi?, the entertaining follow-up to the popular Go Figure!, presents even more mind-bending ways to think about numbers. This time, author Johnny Ball focuses on how people have used numbers to measure things through the ages, from the ways the ancient Egyptians measured the pyramids to how modern scientists measure time and space. Why Pi? includes games, puzzles, brainteasers, and fun facts, plus answer key.
'The Tempest', 'The Winter's Tale', 'Measure for Measure', and 'All's Well That Ends Well' have fascinated scholars for centuries for, among other aspects, the ways they resist an obvious genre classification. While these stories of love and familial recognition bear elements of romantic conflict, Shakespeare integrated aspects of the comedic and tragic as well in these complex works. Renowned Shakespearean scholar Harold Bloom introduces this volume of critical essays about the Bard and his romantic plays, and a chronology of his life, a bibliography, and an index will be helpful to researchers.
