[PDF] Skirtworking eBook

Author : Michelle Alberda
Publisher : Bush Street Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 2008-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0979424518

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After honing their business networking skills and building on referrals, the authors present a program for building a business entirely through networking by capitalizing on contacts already in one's database.

Author : Lynn MacIntyre
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781600850721

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Presents an illustrated guide to sewing tops, T-shirts, skirts, and pants with tips on measuring, patterns, materials, construction, customizing, pleats, zippers, hems, and more.

Author : Reyna Grande
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 2009-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439149607

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In Dancing with Butterflies, Reyna Grande renders the Mexican immigrant experience in “lyrical and sensual” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) prose through the poignant stories of four women brought together through folklorico dance. Dancing with Butterflies uses the alternating voices of four very different women whose lives interconnect through a common passion for their Mexican heritage and a dance company called Alegría. Yesenia, who founded Alegría with her husband, Eduardo, sabotages her own efforts to remain a vital, vibrant woman when she travels back and forth across the Mexican border for cheap plastic surgery. Elena, grief-stricken by the death of her only child and the end of her marriage, finds herself falling dangerously in love with one of her underage students. Elena's sister, Adriana, wears the wounds of abandonment by a dysfunctional family and becomes unable to discern love from abuse. Soledad, the sweet-tempered illegal immigrant who designs costumes for Alegría, finds herself stuck back in Mexico, where she returns to see her dying grandmother. Reyna Grande has brought these fictional characters so convincingly to life that readers will imagine they know them.

Author : James Brennan
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 998708107X

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From its modest beginnings in the mid-19th century, Dar es Salaam has grown to become one of sub-Saharan Africa?s most important urban centres. A major political, economic and cultural hub, the city stood at the cutting edge of trends that transformed twentieth-century East Africa. Dar es Salaam has recently attracted the attention of a diverse, multi-disciplinary, range of scholars, making it currently one of the continent?s most studied urban centres. This collection from eleven scholars from Africa, Europe, North America and Japan, draws on some of the best of this scholarship and offers a comprehensive, and accessible, survey of the city?s development. The perspectives include history, musicology, ethnomusicology, culture including popular culture, land and urban economics. The opening chapter offers a comprehensive overview of the history of the city. Subsequent chapters examine Dar es Salaam?s twentieth century experience through the prism of social change and the administrative repercussions of rapid urbanisation; and through popular culture and shifting social relations. The book will be of interest not only to the specialist in urban studies but also to the general reader with an interest in Dar es Salaam?s environmental, social and cultural history.