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Learn to make your own beautiful paper flowers from crepe paper and get creative ideas for inventive colour combinations and how to style your flowers.   Almeja Space is known for their beautiful and unique paper flowers, which elevate floral decorations and styling to a higher level. This beautifully illustrated book includes 15 flower projects of varying degrees of difficulty, ranging from a simple poppy to an impressive parrot flower. Learn...

Organized by theme, this comprehensive encyclopedia examines all aspects of life in Japan, from geography and government to food and etiquette and much more. Japan, or the "Land of the Rising Sun, " is home to more than 126 million people, nearly 10 million of whom live in Tokyo alone. How did this tiny island nation become such a powerhouse in the 21st century, and where will it go from here? Modern Japan examines history and contemporary li...

How design can empower communities, foster social change and cultivate conditions for positive societal impact Are you interested in making a positive social impact? In his book "Society Driven Design" Judah Armani explains the role of design in community development and the role of the designer in the process of social change. In doing so, the book demystifies how design can foster social change and community development. Based on Armani's...

Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood.The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages.In Towles's novel Rules of Civility, the indomitable...

Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood.The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages.In Towles's novel Rules of Civility, the indomitable...

Prepping for Musical Theatre auditions can be stressful and confusing... but not any more. How do you find the right songs, in multiple genres? Where do you get the sheet music? How do you edit it down to your 16- or 32-bar cut? What even is a 16-bar cut?! Relax, diva: The Rep Book has the answers to all these questions and so many more. Author Adam Wachter has spent years accompanying and sitting on the panel at auditions for everything fr...

Prepping for Musical Theatre auditions can be stressful and confusing... but not any more. How do you find the right songs, in multiple genres? Where do you get the sheet music? How do you edit it down to your 16- or 32-bar cut? What even is a 16-bar cut?! Relax, diva: The Rep Book has the answers to all these questions and so many more. Author Adam Wachter has spent years accompanying and sitting on the panel at auditions for everything fr...

The Serpent and the Wings of Night is The Hunger Games with vampires and the first book in the BookTok phenomenon and international bestselling Crowns of Nyaxia series by Carissa Broadbent - perfect for fans of From Blood and Ash and A Court of Thorns and Roses.

How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter todayThe study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which each generation has reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contemporary world, through times of revolution, conflicting ideologies and war...

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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Levy's lyrical, pitch-perfect prose is an exploration of our reasons for living, the forces that drive us and the inner music that controls the rhythms of our dance through life and love' IndependentThe mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming HomeAt the height of her career, concert pianist Elsa M. Anderson - former child prodigy, now in her thirties - walks off the stag...

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Katherine Brading and Marius Stan provide a new framing of natural philosophy and its transformations in the Enlightenment and propose an account of how physics and philosophy evolved into distinct fields of inquiry.

Quiet Pictures approaches the films of Joanna Hogg, Lynne Ramsay, Céline Sciamma, and Lucile Hadzhalilovicthrough the lens of silence as a motif and texture. This book takes up the question of different uses of silence in the work of these directors and how this creates a space for foregrounding innovative practices that establish new ways of looking, staring, and gazing. Sarah Artt discusses how the deliberate deployment of silence creates s...

Defining Cinema: Rouben Mamoulian and Hollywood Film Style, 1929-1957 takes a holistic look at Mamoulian's oeuvre by examining both his stage and his screen work, and also brings together insights from his correspondence, his theories on film, and analysis of the films themselves. It presents a filmmaker whose work was innovative and exciting, who pushed hard on cinema's potential as an artform, and who in many ways helped move cinema towards ...

Defining Cinema: Rouben Mamoulian and Hollywood Film Style, 1929-1957 takes a holistic look at Mamoulian's oeuvre by examining both his stage and his screen work, and also brings together insights from his correspondence, his theories on film, and analysis of the films themselves. It presents a filmmaker whose work was innovative and exciting, who pushed hard on cinema's potential as an artform, and who in many ways helped move cinema towards ...

Grandad, Tell Me contains all the questions you always wanted to ask your grandfather. What was your first job and how did you get it? Can you recall the first time you fell in love? What are the best decisions you made in your life? - any many, many more.From the favourite flavours and mundane chores of his childhood to the hopes and dreams he holds today, these prompts will piece together a deeply personal keepsake, one that reminds us what ...

A New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventually made their way to the UK, Africa and beyond. The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as "his" slave. In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, ...

On a freezing January afternoon in 1992, Deng Xiaoping - China's former paramount leader and now a revered elder statesman - set off on a month long trip around China's south in defence of the reforms he had set in motion to open up China's economy and transform the country into the political and economic powerhouse we know today. In this book Jonathan Chatwin charts the story of Deng's legendary "southern tour" of China and the legacy of his...

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