Everything you need to know to sew your own clothes and home furnishings.Demystify your sewing machine and get to grips with essential techniques with The Sewing Book. This bestselling guide covers over 300 techniques with illustrated step-by-step sequences, showing you how to create everything from seams and hems to darts, gathers, and collars.Discover how to read a pattern and adapt designs to suit your measurements, get to grips with tools and materials,...

Our illustrated guide to the domestic cat, valued by humans for companionship for at least 9,500 years and the most popular pet in the world. This is what you need to know before you accept responsibility for your small and furry “bundle-of-fun”!Contents:All About CatsIntroductionGeneticsAnatomyPhysiologySensesHealth— Diseases— PoisoningBehavior— Sociability— Grooming— Fighting— Hunti...

Despite decades of efforts to combat homelessness, many people continue to experience it in Canada’s major cities. There are a number of barriers that prevent effective responses to homelessness, including a lack of agreement on the fundamental question: what is homelessness?In Multiple Barriers, Alison Smith explores the forces that shape intergovernmental and multilevel governance dynamics to help better understand why, despite the best efforts of community and advocacy ...

The most transformative memoir you will read this year - a radical, fiercely compassionate journey to reclaim the narrative around mental health.UnSound is an astoundingly brave, deeply moving memoir of life as a voice hearer and one woman’s battle to reshape how we understand the human mind. Heartbreaking, raw, and fiercely compassionate, it will challenge everything you thought you knew about hearing voices.“Hearing voices is still treate...

This title was first published in 2000: John Petts (1914-1991) is one of the outstanding wood-engravers of the twentieth century. His stunning prints featuring Welsh mountains and the people who live amongst them reflect his deep concern for the history of the land and are distinguished by his profound understanding of the physical and psychological properties of light. Extensively illustrated, John Petts and the Caseg Press spans the entire career of this reclusive artist and offers the f...

This book is an honest portrayal of the anger, confusion and hurt that follows loss, in a child's life. It serves as a subtle reminder of the different type of grief journey experienced by a child.

"An impressive curriculum in creating beautifully crafted garments ... If you don’t have the opportunity to learn from Alison Smith in person, this book is the next best thing." – ThreadsWhether you want to alter a vintage jacket or create a full-tailored suit, this tailoring reference guide has everything you need to produce elegant, bespoke garments that last a lifetime.With over 80 step-by-step techniques on measuring, cutting, ...

Georges Didi-Huberman is a philosopher of images whose work is overdue for attention from English-language readers. Since the publication of his first book in 1982, he has published 46 essays, mostly with the prestigious Editions de Minuit, on topics ranging from monographs on individual artists to critical excursions into political philosophy. He is recognised in France and elsewhere in Europe as one of the foremost philosophers of the image writing today.In Georges Didi-Huber...

Plant Biology is a new textbook written for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. It is an account of modern plant science, reflecting recent advances in genetics and genomics and the excitement they have created. The book begins with a review of what is known about the origins of modern-day plants. Next, the special features of plant genomes and genetics are explored. Subsequent chapters provide information on our current understanding of plant cell biology, plant meta...

When people think of Russian food they generally think either of opulent luxury, signified above all by caviar, or of poverty and hunger – of cabbage and potatoes and porridge. Both of these visions have a basis in reality, but both of them are incomplete. The history of food and drink in Russia includes hunger and it includes plenty, it includes scarcity and, for some, at least, abundance. It includes dishes that came out of the northern, forested regions and ones that incorporate foods f...

This exciting new textbook presents current knowledge of plant biology, highlighting important topics for future development and research. Starting with the evolutionary history of plants, the book addresses the dynamic nature and regulation of plant genomes, the conversion of products of photosynthesis into the vast diversity of molecules that comprise the plant body, and the nature and coordination of growth, development, and reproduction of the plant. The book next describes how these f...

Cold runs through Russian history and culture as an enemy, an opportunity, an adventure, and a metaphor. Drawing on the expertise of a broad range of scholars, this volume offers new insights into Russia’s sensational history.Early modern European travelers and thinkers found Russia’s cold bewildering as something to experience and something to explain. In the nineteenth century, Russians began to reclaim the symbolism of cold, transforming it from a mark of backwardness or conserv...