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

Across four centuries, Apache (Nd ) peoples in the North American West confronted enslavement and forced migration schemes intended to exploit, subjugate, or eliminate them. While many Indigenous groups in the Americas lived through similar histories, Apaches were especially affected owing to their mobility, resistance, and proximity to multiple imperial powers. Spanish, Comanche, Mexican, and American

A definitive guide to medical marijuana cultivation and consumption & explains all the essential techniques to grow cannabis. 2,000+ beautiful color images illustrate this book. Medical cannabis history, cannabinoid measurement & medical varieties provide a background for medical patients & caregivers. The Medicinal Concentrates & Cooking with Medicinal Cannabis chapters feature different methods

This user-friendly guide to the basics helps you learn how to speak Chinese quickly and easily by drawing parallels with something you already know--English. Chinese is a fascinating language that can seem impossibly difficult to learn at first, but is relatively easy if you focus on the spoken aspect. This revised edition contains new dialogues, cultural notes, IT and social media vocabulary, and

This is a book about bupkes nothing, zero, zilch. Sometimes, though, what looks like nothing turns out to be the most important thing of all. An empty garden seems like nothing―bupkes! But it means that Zoe and her mom have taken a big basket of fresh veggies to their neighbor. An empty bench at the playground seems like nothing--bupkes! But Zoe has made a new friend and now no one needs to sit on

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

The Gloster Javelin was the UK\'s first line of night and all-weather air defense both at home and in RAF Germany. In the 1950s, when it replaced the Meteor and Venom, this revolutionary bomber interceptor became integral to many great stories told here in terrific detail. With an unorthodox aerodynamic design, the Javelin initially had major production issues, which included a tendency for engines

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

You Spend It. You Save It. You Never Have Enough of It. But how does it actually work? Understanding cash, currencies and the financial system is vital for making sense of what is going on in our world, especially now. Since the 2008 financial crisis, money has rarely been out of the headlines. Central banks have launched extraordinary policies, like quantitative easing or negative interest rates.

A revealing, spirited and fascinating account of what life was really like in Jane Austen\'s

Author Brad Warner (Hardcore Zen, Sit Down and Shut Up, Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate, and Sex, Sin, and Zen) revisits seventeen of his earlier essays on topics ranging from vegetarianism to punk rock, working for Japanese monster movie makers, and the art of Zen writing, complete with all-new analyses, introduction and

The Asetian Bible is an authoritative work on Ancient Egyptian spirituality and real life vampirism that presents the Asetian tradition to the world, developed in a way for both initiates and scholars. After millennia of elitist secrecy, a tradition old as time itself, built before the very foundations of mankind, escapes the void of eternity to be seen throughout the mist. The first dark mystical

The only way to feel fully prepared for your English Literature exam is to practise, practise, practise. This York Notes Practice Tests with Answers book makes it easy and will give you the vital experience you need to properly test your skills, build your confidence and feel

Stays and Corsets: Historical Patterns Translated for the Modern Body goes a step beyond traditional historical costuming texts by not only providing you with historical pattern diagrams and information, but by showing you how to adapt these patterns to the contemporary body shape. Using her original pattern-drafting system, author Mandy Barrington will show you how to draft a historical pattern for

Machi Tawara\'s first book of poems, Salad Annivsersary, combines the classical \'tanka\' form with the subject of a modern love affair. It became a sensation, selling over 2 million copies - and the \'salad phenomenon\' in Japanese culture was comparable to the \'bananamania\' that followed publication of the first novel by Tawara\'s contemporary Banana Yoshimoto. Contains 15 poems: \'August Morning\'

Analyzes the skyrocketing urban land prices driving our global housing market. How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon in Broken City, the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the rich only indulged themselves with gold, jewels, and art, we wouldn\'t have a global housing crisis. But