The Art of Couture Sewing, 2nd Edition is a practical guide to custom techniques in the construction of couture garments. Beginning with a brief history of haute couture, the book moves on to cover tools and supplies, matching fabrics with the appropriate needles and threads, pressing, and construction techniques. Basic draping skills, corset construction, and tailoring, as well as the variety of closures, hems and finishes used in couture are discussed. The text is filled with st...

Singing “John Brown’s Body” as they marched to war, Union soldiers sought to steel themselves in the face of impending death. As the bodies of these soldiers accumulated in the wake of battle, writers, artists, and politicians extolled their deaths as a means to national unity and rebirth. Many scholars have followed suit, and the Civil War is often remembered as an inaugural moment in the development of national identity.Revisiting the culture of the Civil War, Franny Nudelman ana...

On April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mall, wondering whether they would be arrested by daybreak. Veterans had fought the courts for the right to sleep in public while demonstrating against the war. When the Supreme Court denied their petition, they decided to break the law and turned sleep into a form of direct action.During and after the Second World War, military psychiatrists used sleep therapies to treat an epidemic of "combat fatigue." In...

Courageous and astute, this collection of poems, written in varied styles, explores the emotional upheavals caused by the death of a son. Weaving together complex layers of personal history, these poems capture the poet's personal grieving process, displaying how loss can act as a catalyst in one's creative life.

The poems in this book trace the emotional and spiritual journey of a woman whose beloved son dies after an arduous battle with cancer. Nudelman explores the nexus between art, healing, and truth. As the woman gradually climbs out of grief's darkness she reclaims her own life's purpose. Confronting her losses, she heals. This collection is about strength, survival, love, and the healing that comes from self-empowerment through speaking one's own truth and releasing the past. Inspired by ar...

Cherished for their sensitive and detailed depictions of children, the works of Jessie Willcox Smith are some of the most recognized and remembered images of youth for adults today. One of America's foremost book and magazine illustrators of the early twentieth century, Smith saw in children a unique quality of innocence that she brilliantly portrayed through the creative use of color and a keen sense of the personality of the child.This edition of The Jessie Willcox Sm...

The second volume of Frontiers in European Radiology covers two very promising techniques in diagnostic radiology, namely digital radiography and nuclear mag netic resonance imaging. Leading experts in both fields from Europe and the Unit ed States were invited to give a critical overview; digital fluoroscopy is reported on mainly by American scientists since this technique has been developed primarily in the United States, while the results of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging are pre se...

An inspiring book about San Francisco Bay Area punk rocker, David Nudelman, exiting the California “rat race,”after throwing a farewell Hawaiian themed toga party, with his new wife Luz and one cat. Leaving family and friends behind they made their adventurous move to the island of Hawai’i. Dave shares quirky tales of his soul-searching experiences shifting from big city life opting for a new reality. Dave explores his newfound love of Hawaiian culture through music, food, and the laid-bac...

Weaving together complex layers of personal and political history, this collection of poems traces a Jewish family's path from 1930s Europe to 21st-century Canada. Recalling the delicate, enduring family bonds that have held fast through war and peacetime, these poems find lyric expression for the past century's traumas, large and small.

For-Profit K-12 Educational Excellence presents a structured approach to building academically rigorous, financially viable, and globally scalable education businesses, emphasising compliance with local regulations, cultural adaptation, and technological innovation.For-profit education is a rapidly expanding global industry, offering solutions to the growing demand for high-quality and scalable education. As governments struggle to provide adequate educational opportunities, privat...

The transformative power of love and spiritual awakening are explored in this richly textured second collection from award-winning poet Merle Nudelman. With imagery that is at once startling and evocative, poems of layered scenes of domesticity and the natural world border on the elegiac. Nudelman artfully probes the nuances and vagaries which define relationships and the shifting moments of lover, abuser, victim, and healer.

The image of Hollywood often translates as some otherworldly dreamscape filled with fantastic lives and fantasy fulfillment. The real deal was carved from the Southern California desert as an outpost northwest of Los Angeles. The movie industry arrived when tumbleweeds were not simply props and actual horsepower pulled the loads. Everyday workers, civic management, and Main Street conventionalities nurtured Hollywood�s growth, as did a balmy climate that facilitated outdoor photography and...