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Goldsmithing & Silver Work
Hundreds of color photographs detail the procedures and display a breathtaking assortment of pieces by talented artists. Each innovative project introduces techniques that range from casting and stamping to hand engraving, electroplating, and more specialized methods. The chapter on gems alone--featuring the work of Bernd Munsteiner, considered the world's best gem cutter--makes this source book invaluable.
The New Jewelry
Featuring such contemporary alternative materials as wood, paper, polymer clay and glass, describes jewelry making techniques demonstrated in a single, finished project.
Basic Metal Jewelry Techniques
"... explains the fundamentals of metallurgy and basic formulas that every jeweler should know and master. It shows, in great detail, the essential procedures involved in basic jewelry making, from soldering and sanding to making clasps."--Page 4 of cover.
Antique Furniture Expert
How you can identify, date and authenticate antique furniture. Comprehensive survey of the development of styles, guide to recognizing woods. English, European and New World furniture.
Management by Missions
A few decades ago, management thinking started to embrace the idea of purpose. The first edition of this book marked an important step in this trajectory; it drew attention to the need for managers to relate the concepts of ‘purpose’ and ‘missions’ to strategy, culture and leadership. In the years since, purpose and missions have become business imperatives – not only in terms of remaining competitive but as core in the attempts to have a sustainable impact on the world. The second edition of Management by Missions is an open access book based on substantially more research carried out over fifteen years, involving more than 200 organizations around the world. All of this resear...
Jewellery and Silversmithing Techniques
In this companion volume to a previous publication, Handbook ofJewellery techniques", Carles Codina takes his readers further alongthe jewellery-making process. He discusses such topics as how to goabout designing a piece of jewellery; how to implement the design;photographing work; making mixed media pieces; and how to achievespecial techniques such as different texture surfaces and filigree.Codina also discusses the use of precious metals and gems, givingcareful guidance so that the reader doesn't make costly mistakes withexpensive materials."
How to Skip Stones
An enchanting guide to appreciating the little things in life, this delightfully illustrated gift book offers simple instructions for skipping stones and 43 more "little things" that bring simple pleasures.
Permafrost
"Permafrost es el sorprendente debut de Eva Baltasar, una historia contundente, íntima y carnal de una protagonista con pulsiones suicidas que se protege del exterior pero se entrega con intensidad al sexo con otras mujeres, la literatura y el arte. El permafrost es esa capa de la tierra permanentemente congelada y es también la membrana que cubre a la protagonista de esta novela. Escrita en primera persona, nos presenta a una mujer en etapa de formación que se protege del exterior, que percibe la superficialidad en todo cuanto la rodea y huye de un entorno que nada tiene que ver con su manera de entender la vida: una madre obsesionada con la salud, omnipresente y controladora, y una herm...
Sagnier
"The aim of publishing this book is to recover the name of the architect Enric Sagnier I Villavecchia (Barcelona, 1858-1931) for the history of Catalan architecture in general, and that of Barcelona in particular. He was the architect who designed some of the city's most important and recognisable public buildings, amongst them the Customs House, the Law Courts and the Church on the summit of Tibidabo."--BOOK JACKET.
Breeding Research on Aromatic and Medicinal Plants
The field of medicinal/aromatic plant breeding is growing and changing?this resource will help you stay up to date! In this essential book, researchers from large and small laboratories and institutions throughout Europe and the Mediterranean region explore recent developments in the selection and breeding of aromatic and medicinal plants. They take varied approaches?from traditional breeding to the use of molecular markers?and complement them with up-to-date information on biodiversity and resource conservation. From the editors: ?It is widely recognized that a strategy of `conservation through use,? by which plant collection via wild harvesting is replaced by controlled cultivation, is the...
