Countess Maria Mori, who has for many years been associated with haute couture, has worked out a simple method of pattern cutting, using a series of basic blocks from which the most attractive garments can be adapted.

Basic pattern cutting

Mori, Maria

Taplinger Publishing

The Saluki in History, Art and Sport

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Hope and David Waters

Pets & Animal Care

The Best of Damon Knight

Damon Francis Knight

Although many books on magic and witchcraft have been published in recent years, a good comprehensive history of the subject has been lacking. The gap is now filled by Richard Cavendish's A History of Magic, which deals with magic in the West from prehistoric times to the present. Mr Cavendish does not ask us to believe in magic - though he points out that some of its oldest claims are now widely accepted - but to trace the effects of belief in it on human behavior. Through the centuries magic has been inextricably entangles with the history of religion and is interwoven with art and medicine, folklore and superstition, astrology and fortune-telling, and the daily lives of generations of ordinary men and women. On the way the story takes in elements as diverse as Pythagoras and Orpheus, the Hermetica and the Neoplatonists, amulets and hieroglyphics, sacrifices and dream interpretation, the magic of herbs and healing, the history of astrology, the lore of curses and spells, folk customs, and ceremonies, Christian magic, Jewish traditions and the Cabala, Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais, Nostradamus, Paracelsus and Faust, the witch trials, the Black Mass and Rasputin, Yoga and Tantrism, Madame Blavatsky, W. B. Yeats, and C. G. Jung. Mr. Cavendish brings a balanced sense of order to this complex and often perplexing material. A History of Magic is a lively and penetrating analysis by a leading authority, providing for the first time a clear, accurate account of a complex and fascinating subject.

A History of Magic

CAVENDISH, Richard

Religion & Spirituality

In charge of a ward for the first time, recently graduated Dr. David Campbell tries to cope with medical politics, over-zealous researchers, bewildered patients, and exhaustion, escaping by means of drink and social-sexual encounters with young nurses

The Houseman's Tale

Romance

Douglas, Colin

Historical

Unpleasant fact: Each of us has, variously sitting, crawling and hopping over our body, about as many organisms as there are people on earth. 
The point of Andrews' superb book is that not only are we unable to eliminate most of our fellow travelers, but in most cases it's not even a good idea to try. We and our bugs have evolved together; more often than not this coexistence has been peaceful. Whether at peace or war, however, the relationship is extremely fascinating, and Andrews has done it justice with first-class writing." (Human Behavior) 
"An intriguing voyage, not unlike Gulliver's trip to the land of the Brobdingnagians...Thoroughly enjoyable." (Natural History)

The Life That Lives on Man

MICHAEL ANDREWS

A More Innocent Time

Hill, Eugenie

Gives instructions for making inexpensive toys, hand puppets, marionettes, jumping jacks, and other "paper people" from cut, folded, and molded paper of various kinds.

Paper people

Travel

Grater, Michael

Travel Writing

First Edition - Stated. Some shelf and edge wear to dust jacket/ boards. Tear to DJ. Some creasing to Dust Jacket. Some foxing to end pages. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Solid Book.

The Polar Worlds (The Many Worlds of Wildlife Series, Vol. 2)

Richard Perry

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