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"This book examines advances in architecture, design, and painting in a region widely recognized for its contribution to the Arts and Crafts and Prairie School movements. It features the work of many well-known American artists, including the architects Cass Gilbert, Harvey Ellis, Frank Lloyd Wright, Purcell and Elmslie, ceramicist and Arts and Crafts philosopher Ernest Batchelder, and the painters Homer Dodge Martin and Alexander Fournier. The six essays also focus on the ceramic and metalwork production of the Handicraft Guild of Minneapolis, the Craftshouse of John Bradstreet, and American Indian art and artifacts created both for native and white use at the time." "Alan Lathrop discusses...
This book is a practical guide to the basics of surgery for interns, residents and practising surgeons. It serves as an instruction manual on best practice and preparations for surgery. Comprising 45 chapters, the text begins with discussion on duties and responsibilities of house surgeons and residents, before detailing different techniques for best practice in a variety of areas, including sterile hand washing and gloving techniques, resuscitation of a patient, insertion of IV cannula, Ryles tube and Foley Catheter, local anaesthetics and nerve blocks, and minor surgical procedures. Other important chapters include discussion on the MRSA super-bug, and the ‘Safe Surgery Saves Lives’ in...
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Reflections: Handicrafts, Sustainability, and Livelihoods is a collection of the author’s previously published essays on arts, crafts, traditions, and anecdotal imagery inspired by nature. The work attempts to amalgamate the author’s observations from her field experiences with some of her interpretations, as those have evolved over the years. The contents of this collection have previously appeared in various fora such as Down to Earth, and the online editions of publications such as Hindustan Times, and The Indian Express. Primarily, the work attempts to showcase the potential of artisans and the self-help groups (SHGs), their human and creative capital using the principles of entrepre...
" ... Contains nineteen chapters dealing on Philippine craft-activities, simple handtools, and Philippine industrial materials and craft articles."--X.
Detailed in this text are a variety of leatherworking techniques and guides that will instruct the reader on how to make plethora of serviceable and decorative items. Accessible and detailed, this compendium comes complete with helpful illustrations and photographs which will enable even the amateur to create a range of attractive and useful items out of leather. Chapters contained within this text include: 'History of Tanning', 'The Sources of Hides and Skins', 'Preparation of Hides and Skins for Tanning', 'Tanning or Making into Leather', 'Dyeing Leathers', 'Staining and Finishing Leathers', and 'General Notes on Leathers'. This text has been elected for modern republication due to its immense educational value, and is proudly republished here with a new introduction to the subject.