The best-selling guide to decorating with fabric, revised and updated with new photographs and techniques, including: Transforming fabrics by layering, joining, pleating, stitching, adding edgings, and inserting borders. Coloring fabrics by painting, patting, daubing, spattering, stenciling, tie-dye, and wax-resist. Making roller, Roman, Austrian, and inverted-pleat shades. Making lined and interlined curtains using pencil pleat, French pleat, box pleat, gathered, bunch, slot, scalloped, and goblet headings. Draping and dressing sheers and curtains with swags and tails, tie-bands, cornices, and valances. Making bed linen for a wide range of bed styles -- duvets, pillowcases, dust ruffles, and bedspreads. Covering screens. Making box, throw, and "hamburger" cushions. Making table cloths. Basic sewing techniques, from mitering corners to inserting zippers.

The New Fabric Magic

Arts & Photography

Paine, Stefani

Architecture

Pantheon

The World of the Sea Otter

Long admired by nature lovers and marine scientists, the sea otter is extraordinarily well adapted to the sea, where it can spend an entire life span eating, sleeping, giving birth, and rearing its young without ever coming ashore. Richly illustrated, The World of the Sea Otter is both an authoritative natural history and a visual celebration of this playful creature.
"This book is a work of art -- from the attractive format, to the superb color photos, to the clear writing ... the love that both author and photographer obviously have for their subject makes this book a delight to any reader.... Highly Recommended" -- The Book Report
"This graceful weaving of text and photography combines the natural history of the sea otter with the story of the species' struggle for survival.... The end result is a call to action for this endangered species." -- Animals
"The World of the Sea Otter is both a scientific look into the life of the sea otter and a pictorial showcase of the creature's habits, hunting methods, and social behavior, including its fight for survival."
-- Outdoor Travel &amp; Photography

Science & Math

Sierra Club Books

Combining an engaging and informative text with a superb collection of full-color photographs, The World of the Arctic Whales reveals the amazing story of three unique whales - the snow-white beluga with a permanent smile, the girthy, mostly black bowhead, and the corpse-colored narwhal with the distinctive unicorn tusk. Of all the whales and dolphins in the world, only these three can live their entire lives surrounded by ice. Why do these whales live where no others can? How do they keep warm in subzero water temperatures? How do they navigate and communicate under the ice? In the opening chapters of the book, Stefani Paine tackles these and other questions as she explores the extraordinary natural history of the Arctic whales. We discover how they give birth to their single, fragile young in the frigid water, how their thick layer of blubber serves as insulation and as a travelling food cache, and why the bowhead has no teeth. Paine then describes the whales' role in Arctic history and their relationship with human beings, beginning with the northern native people who hunted them for food, clothing, and other materials, followed by European whalers, government agents, and explorers looking for oil, gas, and minerals. Every human encounter has had a profound effect on the whales. The book ends with a thoughtful exploration of the threats facing the Arctic whales today.

The World of the Arctic Whales: Belugas, Bowheads, and Narwhals

Describes the lives of arctic dwelling whales by season, including courtship in the spring, birth and feeding in the summer, fall migration, and living in a winter world of ice

Nature & Ecology

Book by Naito, Hiromi, Paine, Stefani

Sockeye Salmon: A Pictorial Tribute

Naito, Hiromi

Biological Sciences

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The New Fabric Magic

The World of the Sea Otter

The World of the Arctic Whales: Belugas, Bowheads, and Narwhals

The World of the Arctic Whales: Belugas, Bowheads, and Narwhals

Sockeye Salmon: A Pictorial Tribute