Ontwerpen van 's werelds beste quiltsters, met tekst en uitleg van de internationaal bekende quiltspecialist Pam Lintott. Grijp uw kans om acht masterclasses te volgen, zonder zelfs uw huis te hoeven verlaten. Quiltexperts leggen u verschillende quilttechnieken uit. Leer meer over bijzonder kleurgebruik, perspectieven en waardevolle stoffen. Ontdek het inspirerende geheim achter de mooiste ontwerpen van hooggewaardeerde quiltsters met de handige stap-voor-stapinstructies.

Create your own gorgeous sampler quilt with this stunning celebration of Lynne Edwards' bestselling books, The Sampler Quilt Book and The New Sampler Quilt Book.

Master a range of patchwork and quilting techniques whilst sewing classic block designs, such as Mariner's Compass, Rail Fence, Monkey Wrench, Celtic Knot, Attic Windows, Tumbling Blocks, Drunkard's Path, Seminole, Bargello, Maple Leaf, Dresden Plate and Courthouse Steps.

Hand and machine techniques - Make the quilt blocks using a range of techniques, including hand piecing, machine piecing, applique, strip patchwork, hand stitching, English patchwork, American patchwork and paper piecing. Colour illustrations guide you through each step, making even the most complicated techniques easy to follow.

Using fabrics - There are 45 quilt designs included to inspire you as you choose your own fabric patterns and handy tips for choosing the best colours for each block design. Select the best wadding (batting) for your quilt and prepare the fabrics for sewing by washing and ironing them first.

Making your quilt - Learn how to finish the blocks with framing and sashing to adjust the size. Discover hand quilting and machine quilting techniques, including quilting in the ditch and free machine quilting. Then join the blocks together to create a gorgeous quilt, adding borders and binding.

Drie maanden lang reisde Paul Theroux langs de kust van Groot-Brittannië, het land waar hij toen al elf jaar woonde. Daarbij deed hij ook Noord-Ierland aan. Zijn reisverslag getuigt van een indrukwekkend observatievermogen en literair schrijftalent. Hoewel hij inhoudelijk niet ingaat op de problemen die spelen en speelden (economische crisis, Falkland-oorlog) geeft hij prachtige typeringen van de bewoners, het verval en het nationalisme zonder daarbij zijn luchtige toon te verliezen. Daarnaast zijn werkelijk treffende landschapsbeschrijvingen opgenomen. De schrijver die het werkelijke Verenigd Koninkrijk wilde ontdekken door per trein, per bus, te voet en liftend de uiteinden te bereizen, heeft een prachtig verslag geschreven van een aftakelend land, dat leest als een trein.

Tells of the author's journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, this work depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip, via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan city of Macchu Pichu.

Steeds meer toeristen ontdekken de pracht die de Turkse stad Istanbul te bieden heeft. Natuurlijk heeft iedereen gehoord van toeristische trekpleisters als de Haghia Sofia en het Topkapi-paleis, maar Istanbul heeft veel meer (verborgen) schoonheid, waar je met een gewone reisgids niet zo makkelijk komt. Zoals de Basilica Cisterne (het ondergrondse paleis), de barokke Cagaloglu hamam, en de Hazzo Pulo Passage.
Danny Post en Marlon Zwier leiden de lezer met hun gids op een unieke manier door het hippe en bruisende Istanbul. Daarbij larderen ze de `gewone' informatie met grappige, sfeervolle verhalen, gedichten en interviews met moderne Istanbulers.

Moon is net verhuisd naar de overkant van de straat. Ondanks haar eigen problemen zet zij zich in voor de 'vreemde vogel' die in het oude huis is achtergebleven.

Visies van de SP-politicus op actuele politieke en maatschappelijke kwesties in binnen- en buitenland.

An in-depth biography of the Queen of Salsa, successful singer, Cuban-American political exile and humanitarian, deeply loved by the Latino community, much of which is based on unpublished personal interviews and conversations with the author. It covers her rise to fame from modest origins in Havana, her contributions to the growth in popularity of Latin music, her marriage of over forty years to Pedro Knight, her extensive charity work, and her final illness.

Biography. The only woman to achieve major success as a songwriter during the golden age of the American musical, Dorothy Fields brought a genuinely feminine point of view to the writing of romantic lyrics. She wrote the words for more than 400 songs, among them unforgettable standards like I'm in the Mood for Love, On the Sunny Side of the Street, A Fine Romance, and The Way You Look Tonight. On the Sunny Side of the Street chronicles Dorothy's start in life as the daughter of vaudeville star Lew Fields, and her determination to break into show busines despite her parents' opposition. It brings to life her experiences working in New York and Hollywood from the roaring twenties to the rocking sixties and seventies, her friendships with legendary figures of the musical theatre, and her parallel existence as a wife and mother. Woven through the text is a generous sampling of her finest lyrics, never before collected in book form. In addition, comments by songwriters such as Fred Ebb, Sheldon Harnick, Burton Lane, and Stephen Sondheim and performers such as Rosemary Clooney and Michael Feinstein help to put the achievement of Dorothy Fields in perspective.

Marian Anderson was a woman with two disparate voices. The first--a powerful, majestic contralto spanning four octaves--catapulted her from Philadelphia poverty to international fame. A second, softer voice emanated from her mere presence: an unwavering refrain of opportunity and accomplishment in the face of racial prejudice.

Allan Keiler chronicles the life of the legendary singer and activist from the childhood manifestation of her musical genius to her worldwide celebrity. As he shows, community and familial support could not shield her from the economic hardship and bigotry she encountered in her early performing days. Early successes in London and Berlin set the stage for her American breakthrough while the triumphant 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert established her immediately as an icon in the struggle against discrimination. Keiler reveals a woman more comfortable as artist than activist. But if Anderson's intense privacy and devotion to her work distanced her from a direct role in the civil rights movement, she remained a powerful symbol of possibility.

Drawing on rare archives and meetings with Anderson before her death, Marian Anderson is a magnificent study of a groundbreaking American artist.

Journalistieke beschouwingen over de positie van Latijnsamerikaanse immigranten in de Verenigde Staten.

This book begins with a pointed critique of the foundations of the understanding of Western music: that music from Pythagoras to the Renaissance has been viewed as the source and model of order in the universe and in society. Unfortunately that order was rigidly hierarchical, so that over the centuries music reinforced established social prejudices, particularly those against women. Nowhere was this more evident than in religious music that was regarded by male ecclesiastics and scholars as the instrument of choice for taming hysterical female eruptions.

Through her mordant commentary on a rich selection of texts by major thinkers from two millennia of Christian theology, Heidi Epstein shows in the first part of Melting the Venusberg that music as the erotic embodiment of human engenderment has been ignored or suppressed, while music as the expression of transcendent harmony, order, and restraint has been extolled.

The second re-constructive part of Melting the Venusberg draws on ignored sources and lost tropes from the Christian tradition as well as on insights from the music and thought of historical and contemporary woman composers and performers from Hildegard of Bingen and Lucrezia Vizzana to Rosetta Tharpe and Diamanda Galas. Through this recuperative synthesis, music's
theological significance changes keys, as it moves beyond its symbolic function as divinely ordained, harmonious microcosm into more dissonant metaphorical registers. Those who have ears to hear will be delighted.

Temoins hallucines du massacre de Setif en 1945, les freres Zagur cherchent a quitter l Algerie et ne revent que de France... 

Facsimile of the famous first edition of 1847.

Red, yellow, blue - and of course black - are the colours that Oliver Byrne employs for the figures and diagrams in his most unusual 1847 edition of Euclid, published by William Pickering and printed by Chiswick Press, and which prompt the surprised reader to think of Mondrian. The author makes it clear in his subtitle that this is a didactic measure intended to distinguish his edition from all others: "The Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners." Byrne is not content to trust solely in the supposed intuitive "logical" structure of Euclid's axioms and theorems - who doesn't know the first famous sentences of Euclid's Elements: "I. A point is that which has no parts. II. A line is length without breadth"? -, but translates them into colourful diagrams and symbols. He thereby thinks in terms of the school classroom: he compares his colours to the dyed chalks in which figures are drawn on the blackboard.

Oliver Byrne (c. 1810-c. 1880) was an Irish author and civil engineer. Little is known about his life, though he wrote a considerable number of books. As Surveyor of Her Majesty's Settlements in the Falkland Islands, Byrne had already published mathematical and engineering works, but never anything like his edition on Euclid. This remarkable example of Victorian printing has been described as one of the oddest and most beautiful books of the 19th century.

Each proposition is set in Caslon italic, with a four-line initial, while the rest of the page is a unique riot of red, yellow and blue. On some pages, letters and numbers only are printed in colour, sprinkled over the pages like tiny wild flowers and demanding the most meticulous alignment of the different colour plates for printing. Elsewhere, solid squares, triangles and circles are printed in bright colours, expressing a verve not seen again on the pages of a book until the era of Dufy, Matisse and Derain.

Portretfotos van de bekende modefotograaf (geb. 1920).

Als een jonge leraar bij een Haagse middelbare school in dienst treedt, wordt hij ernstig in zijn verwachtingen teleurgesteld.

Hoe is het met uw middelbareschoolkennis gesteld? Kunt u de Duitse voorzetsels nog moeiteloos opzeggen? En weet u nog wat de stelling van Pythagoras precies inhoudt? Bekende Nederlanders en Vlamingen hebben in het populaire VARA- en TVI- programma HEREXAMEN die test al ondergaan. Dat ging hun niet altijd even gemakkelijk af. Als u benieuwd bent naar wat u nog weet van de middelbare school, dan kunt u nu zelf thuis HEREXAMEN spelen. Dit boek bevat veel boeiende en leerzame vraagstukken. Met behulp van de handige spelformulieren kunt u het spel alleen, maar ook samen met anderen spelen. U wordt aan de tand gevoeld over elf vakken, waaronder Frans, Engels, wiskunde, geschiedenis en biologie. 'Doe nu zelf HEREXAMEN' is samengesteld door Jan Meulendijks en Bart Schuil, de bedenkers van het programma. Durft u de confrontatie aan? Aarzel dan niet, pak een pen en doe nu zelf HEREXAMEN!