Marvelous Way of Needles
Title | Marvelous Way of Needles PDF eBook |
Author | Shun Fa Jiao |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 74 |
Release | 2019-04-22 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 9780578500577 |
This pioneering work offers readers an entirely new interpretation of acupuncture's Jingmai theories, as postulated by Dr. Jiao Shun Fa. Dr. Jiao's work is based on ancient texts from the famous Chinese text, The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, as well as on 40 years experience developing clinical acupuncture treatments and conducting extensive medical research in the field of Chinese medicine. His medical writings include Head Acupuncture, Jiao Shun Fa Head Acupuncture, Carotid Drip Liquid in the Treatment of Cerebrovascular Disease, Seeking the Truth of Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Soul of Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Acupuncture and Moxibustion Theory and Clinical Practice, Treating Diseases with Acupuncture and more than ten other texts published in China and abroad. This new version of the classic Chinese medical text, the Ling Shu - Nine Needles and Twelve Yuan-Source Points, is his latest work and in many ways his most important contribution to the literature of contemporary Chinese medicine.
Threads of Life
Title | Threads of Life PDF eBook |
Author | Clare Hunter |
Publisher | Abrams |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2019-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 168335771X |
This globe-spanning history of sewing and embroidery, culture and protest, is “an astonishing feat . . . richly textured and moving” (The Sunday Times, UK). In 1970s Argentina, mothers marched in headscarves embroidered with the names of their “disappeared” children. In Tudor, England, when Mary, Queen of Scots, was under house arrest, her needlework carried her messages to the outside world. From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. Clare Hunter, master of the craft, threads her own narrative as she takes us over centuries and across continents—from medieval France to contemporary Mexico and the United States, and from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland—to celebrate the universal beauty and power of sewing.
The Principles of Knitting
Title | The Principles of Knitting PDF eBook |
Author | June Hiatt |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 738 |
Release | 2012-02-14 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 1416535179 |
A revised and updated edition of a popular classic primer shares comprehensive guidelines for beginning and experienced knitters that demonstrate how to approach a full range of techniques, incorporating into the new edition the author's broadened insights from the past 25 years.
Mademoiselle
Title | Mademoiselle PDF eBook |
Author | Rhonda K. Garelick |
Publisher | Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | 610 |
Release | 2015-07-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0812981855 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Certain lives are at once so exceptional, and yet so in step with their historical moments, that they illuminate cultural forces far beyond the scope of a single person. Such is the case with Coco Chanel, whose life offers one of the most fascinating tales of the twentieth century—throwing into dramatic relief an era of war, fashion, ardent nationalism, and earth-shaking change—here brilliantly treated, for the first time, with wide-ranging and incisive historical scrutiny. Coco Chanel transformed forever the way women dressed. Her influence remains so pervasive that to this day we can see her afterimage a dozen times while just walking down a single street: in all the little black dresses, flat shoes, costume jewelry, cardigan sweaters, and tortoiseshell eyeglasses on women of every age and background. A bottle of Chanel No. 5 perfume is sold every three seconds. Arguably, no other individual has had a deeper impact on the visual aesthetic of the world. But how did a poor orphan become a global icon of both luxury and everyday style? How did she develop such vast, undying influence? And what does our ongoing love of all things Chanel tell us about ourselves? These are the mysteries that Rhonda K. Garelick unravels in Mademoiselle. Raised in rural poverty and orphaned early, the young Chanel supported herself as best she could. Then, as an uneducated nineteen-year-old café singer, she attracted the attention of a wealthy and powerful admirer and parlayed his support into her own hat design business. For the rest of Chanel’s life, the professional, personal, and political were interwoven; her lovers included diplomat Boy Capel; composer Igor Stravinsky; Romanov heir Grand Duke Dmitri; Hugh Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster; poet Pierre Reverdy; a Nazi officer; and several women as well. For all that, she was profoundly alone, her romantic life relentlessly plagued by abandonment and tragedy. Chanel’s ambitions and accomplishments were unparalleled. Her hat shop evolved into a clothing empire. She became a noted theatrical and film costume designer, collaborating with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Luchino Visconti. The genius of Coco Chanel, Garelick shows, lay in the way she absorbed the zeitgeist, reflecting it back to the world in her designs and in what Garelick calls “wearable personality”—the irresistible and contagious style infused with both world history and Chanel’s nearly unbelievable life saga. By age forty, Chanel had become a multimillionaire and a household name, and her Chanel Corporation is still the highest-earning privately owned luxury goods manufacturer in the world. In Mademoiselle, Garelick delivers the most probing, well-researched, and insightful biography to date on this seemingly familiar but endlessly surprising figure—a work that is truly both a heady intellectual study and a literary page-turner. Praise for Mademoiselle “A detailed, wry and nuanced portrait of a complicated woman that leaves the reader in a state of utterly satisfying confusion—blissfully mesmerized and confounded by the reality of the human spirit.”—The Washington Post “Writing an exhaustive biography of Chanel is a challenge comparable to racing a four-horse chariot. . . . This makes the assured confidence with which Garelick tells her story all the more remarkable.”—The New York Review of Books “Broadly focused and beautifully written.”—The Wall Street Journal
Needle in a Haystack
Title | Needle in a Haystack PDF eBook |
Author | Ernesto Mallo |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | 214 |
Release | 2010-10-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1458721264 |
This is not simply a triumph of style; it is both a reflection on a time of bloodshed and a raw vision of human misery. Guillermo Saccomanno, winner of the Argentine National Literature Prize. This man knows. He knows about guns, knows about women...
Heirloom Knits
Title | Heirloom Knits PDF eBook |
Author | Judith McLeod-Odell |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 156 |
Release | 2007-05 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 0312359969 |
Contains instruction for creating twenty knitted pieces inspired by different decades, from the 1820s to the early twenty-first century, including a baby blanket, a floor rug, throw pillows, and a quilt.
A Year of Marvellous Ways
Title | A Year of Marvellous Ways PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Winman |
Publisher | Tinder Press |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2015-06-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0755390946 |
From the author of STILL LIFE, TIN MAN and WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT. 'Will stand the test of time' Irish Examiner 'Beautiful prose that ebbs and flows' Independent 'A Year of Marvellous Ways is like Dylan Thomas given a sexy rewrite by Angela Carter' Patrick Gale This is a story about Marvellous Ways, an eighty-nine-year-old woman who lives alone in a remote Cornish creek, spending her days sitting by the river, peering through a telescope. And it's about Francis Drake, a young soldier who washes up in her creek, shattered by war and broken-hearted. It's about the magic in everyday life and the lure of the sea, the healing powers of storytelling and sloe gin, love and death, and how we carry on when grief comes snapping at our heels.