This is a gorgeous and practical guide to combining Japanese fabrics and traditional Oriental quilting style with fast, super-easy techniques. All the quilt designs are accompanied with beautiful photography and clear diagrams to support the text instructions.Each of the ten quilts is made up in two different colourways for maximum inspiration, and instructions are shown for how to finish them using

\"The Only Investment Guide You\'ll Ever Need . . . actually lives up to its name.\" -- Los Angeles Times \"So full of tips and angles that only a booby or a billionaire could not benefit.\" -- New York Times For nearly forty years, The Only Investment Guide You\'ll Ever Need has been a favorite finance guide, earning the allegiance of more than a million readers across America. This completely updated

The Bletchley Park codebreakers who solved the Enigma Cipher and the Double Cross system that \"turned\" German secret agents helped cut the war by years and ensured the success of D-Day. Historian Michael Smith thrillingly recounts new details about these operations, with stories that range from extraordinarily courageous to bizarre, with desperation driving intelligence services to recruit astrologers

This was the first philosophy textbook in moral psychology, introducing students to a range of philosophical topics and debates. This new edition includes a chapter on the question of whether morality is innate or learned. The bulleted summaries, study questions, and lists for further readings have been

Corporate entrepreneurship involves new business creation within established companies, the strategic renewal of existing business, and, ultimately, the search for sustainable competitive advantage in an increasingly globalised economy. Yet it remains elusive for many firms. In a collaboration between a practitioner and academic, Joe J. Amberg and Sara L. McGaughey explore corporate entrepreneuring

Vanguard Publications presents \"The Three Sources & Three Component Parts of Marxism\" and \"Karl Marx.\" In these works, Lenin dissects the most essential parts of Marxism and how it became a new form of political, economic, and philosophical theory. Along with explaining the nuances of Marxism, Lenin also lays out a coherent and easy-to-read summary of what Marxism

Encourages growing up and letting go Reveals, in a fable-like manner, how easy it is to be overprotective The simple and colourful shapes of Giordan\'s illustrations and his graphic landscapes render his unique style immediately recognizable Giordano\'s previous work has been selected and featured in American Illustration Annual, Communication Arts Illustration Annual, 3x3 illustration Annual, and

Despite Princess Kaguya\'s claims, everything in Yamato appears wonderful to Tsukasa and the other Prodigies. Could a nation living beneath the heel of the Freyjagard Empire truly be happy, or is there more to the seemingly idyllic situation than meets the eye? Meanwhile, the Republic of Elm\'s election has begun, and tensions between the Principlists and Reformists continue to escalate. To hold the

Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm\'s Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new preface and an appendix featuring translations of six tales with commentary by Maria Tatar. Throughout the book, Tatar draws on the disciplinary tools

From Hitler\'s vast Chancellery to Saddam Hussein\'s Mother of all Battles mosque, from Olympic stadiums to Donald Trump\'s excesses, the author examines the murky relationship between buildings, money and politics, revealing the power of architecture - and the architecture of

This book gathers together some of the most up-to-date thinking in the growing field of innovation in services and more particularly, in financial services. It explores the peculiarities of innovation in financial services firms and surrounding market players, discusses the open nature of the innovation process, and analyses its success factors and its interplay with strategy and performance. This

How do you get rid of the elephant that scared off the alligators that chased away the dogs that frightened the cats that got rid of the mice? There\'s only one thing that will scrare an elephant Playful and fast-paced, this comical caper is perfect for reading together.EDITORIAL REVIEW: A playful caper follows a group of mice as they attempt to scare off the elephant who scared off the alligators

In A Theory of Environmental Leadership, Mark Manolopoulos draws on his original model of leading outlined in his cutting-edge book Following Reason to derive and develop the first properly systematic model of eco-leadership.Suppose humanity\'s relation with the Earth may be described in terms of leadership \"stages\" or modalities: once upon a time, the Earth led or ruled humanity, and now we humans

In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth \"surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties...James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Nina Simone\" (New York magazine)--in a vibrant, lost era of New York City.In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way

With deep reporting from America\'s blue-collar heartland coupled with quantitative data analysis explaining how representative each of the people we meet are, Promised Land will provide readers with an ethnography of today\'s working class, introducing them to people across the country--their neighbors--who are fighting tooth and nail for a fair shot at the American

The winner of multiple Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Matsumoto explores the relationships between a manga editor, manga creators, art, and the rhythm of life these days. After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly quits. Although he feels early retirement is the only way to atone for his failures as an editor, the manga world isn\'t done with him. Shiozawa forges ahead with an independently

Modern risk studies have viewed the inhabitants of the ancient world as being both dominated by fate and exposed to fewer risks, but this very readable and groundbreaking new book challenges these views. It shows that the Romans inhabited a world full of danger and also that they not only understood uncertainty but employed a variety of ways to help to affect future outcomes. The first section focuses

In her lifetime, African American composer Margaret Bonds was classical music\'s most intrepid social-justice activist. Furthermore, her Montgomery Variations (1964) and setting of W.E.B. Du Bois\'s iconic Civil Rights Credo (1965-67) were the musical summits of her activism. These works fell into obscurity after Bonds\'s death, but were recovered and published in 2020. Since widely performed, they

How the mess we are in started. How risk, disasters and pollution were managed and made acceptable during the \'industrial revolution\' Why do we accept pollution in the name of progress? Why has the pursuit of modernity permitted increasing exposure to environmental catastrophe. In Happy Apocalypse, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, co-author of the highly successful The Shock of the Anthropocene, shows how