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Quilt and Sew Country Style
Anne-Pia presents a beautiful collection of country-style projects, using traditional sewing techniques combined with fresh ideas and fabrics. Simply stitched rustic apples, buttoned quirky birds, beautiful bunnies, a family of teddy bears, cute cats, country dolls and homespun hearts are just some of the designs in this book, all created with flair and originality by Anne. These charming projects and Anne's easy-to-follow instructions make this book a must-have for anyone looking for unusual gift ideas, or something special for the home.
Women, the Recited Qur’an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia
"Rasmussen has written a classic study of the world of Islamic soundscapes, performances and forms of musical piety in that most complex of societies, Indonesia. With great sensitivity, an alert musical response to players, reciters and audiences, a keen practitioner's ear and eye for subtlety as well as for the complexities of 'noise', she changes common assumptions about Muslim music and, not least, gender in changing Islamic ritual cultures. Her own political awareness and her professional as well as personal relations with women Qu'ran reciters contribute to an exciting an original volume that I recommend to any one exploring the riches of Islamic performances and debates in the contemporary world."—Michael Gilsenan, author of Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society
Flower Power Patchwork
Create beautiful items for you and your home using the delightful projects in this book. There are 23 to choose from, including bags, notebooks, pin cushions, pillows, placemats and a handy holder for pens and pencils, all designed and lovingly made by the author, Anne-Pia Godske Rasmussen. Her fresh, contemporary designs and distinctive use of colour have a strong Scandinavian feel, and her techniques are clearly and simply explained through the use of step-by-step instructions, beautifully hand-drawn diagrams and gorgeous photographs. Drawing on traditional patchwork and quilting methods, all the basic techniques, tools and equipment you need are explained fully at the beginning of the book, and there are full-size templates at the back of the book for all those projects that require them.
There was Once a Time
Anne-Marie Rasmussen grew up on an island in the North Sea and left Norway for Manhattan in 1956, at the age of eighteen. Speaking only a few words of English, she nevertheless found prompt employment as a domestic servant in Nelson Rockefeller's household. Exactly three years later, in a village church on the Norwegian mainland, Anne-Marie was married to one of Nelson's sons, Steven Clark Rockefeller. Her memoir relates fourteen years of events before and after a wedding that captured the imagination of the world. Cinderella stories do not necessarily end happily--in fact, Anne-Marie's and Steven's courtship was periodically troubled, and their marriage, though it produced a son and two dau...
The Role of Political Parties in the European Union
At the national level, political parties play an important role in making representative democracy work. They help to aggregate and communicate policy preferences, link decision-making between different legislative bodies and hold politicians accountable. In the European Union, however, the electoral connection is weak. This casts doubt on the impact of partisan politics at the European level. Are political parties able to fulfil their role as ‘transmission belts’ ensuring political accountability and consistent decision-making in the European Union? To answer this question we look at the micro foundations of partisan politics in the European Union. The contributions in this volume all d...
Legal Language
This history of legal language slices through the polysyllabic thicket of legalese. The text shows to what extent legalese is simply a product of its past and demonstrates that arcane vocabulary is not an inevitable feature of our legal system.
Accidents and the State
The beginning of the twentieth century saw a reinterpretation of the concept of the accident. The contributions in this volume explore social, cultural, political, administrative, and medical responses to accidents in modern states. The case studies include British, French, German, Italian, Chinese, and Chilean experiences.
Medieval Woman's Song
The number of surviving medieval secular poems attributed to named female authors is small, some of the best known being those of the trobairitz the female troubadours of southern France. However, there is a large body of poetry that constructs a particular textual femininity through the use of the female voice. Some of these poems are by men and a few by women (including the trobairitz); many are anonymous, and often the gender of the poet is unresolvable. A "woman's song" in this sense can be defined as a female-voice poem on the subject of love, typically characterized by simple language, sexual candor, and apparent artlessness. The chapters in Medieval Woman's Song bring together scholars in a range of disciplines to examine how both men and women contributed to this art form. Without eschewing consideration of authorship, the collection deliberately overturns the long-standing scholarly practice of treating as separate and distinct entities female-voice lyrics composed by men and those composed by women. What is at stake here is less the voice of women themselves than its cultural and generic construction.
The War of Guns and Mathematics
For a long time, World War I has been shortchanged by the historiography of science. Until recently, World War II was usually considered as the defining event for the formation of the modern relationship between science and society. In this context, the effects of the First World War, by contrast, were often limited to the massive deaths of promising young scientists. By focusing on a few key places (Paris, Cambridge, Rome, Chicago, and others), the present book gathers studies representing a broad spectrum of positions adopted by mathematicians about the conflict, from militant pacifism to military, scientific, or ideological mobilization. The use of mathematics for war is thoroughly examin...
France on Display
Explores national identity in twentieth-century France.
