A contemporary guide for today's mother of the bride! Congratulations! Your daughter is engaged! Now it's time to start planning the big event. The Mother of the Bride Guide will help you get your dau
From the terrified double-takes of Lou Costello and Bob Hope and the rapid-fire wisecracks of Michael Keaton'sBeetlejuice to the ghoulish sight gags ofShaun of the Dead, horror and humor have been int
A trio of splendid Regency romances from national bestselling author Elizabeth Mansfield A VERY DUTIFUL DAUGHTER Miss Letitia Glendenning has done the unthinkable, turning down a proposal from the m
Here comes the bride! In this latest volume in Karen Bussen’s “Simple Stunning” series, the most important woman at a wedding takes her rightful place—center stage.Over
With the help of this exquisite and instruction-filled guide, anyone can create gorgeous wedding arrangements with ease. It covers all the important points any designer must take into consideration:
In 1865, The Christian Recorder, the national newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serialized The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, a novel written by Mrs. Julia C. Collins, an Afri
Claiming his promised Queen! The long-standing betrothal of Princess Eva and King Paul was a political match. Now he's ready to release her from their promise-until an explosive kis
An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migrati
An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migrati
The most extraordinary living spaces can be created from old silos or depreciated office buildings, vacant churches, former station buildings or obsolete infrastructure buildings with the creative app
In the two decades since its original publication, Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline has become a classic in the fields of anthropology, labor, gender and globalization studies. Based on
This ethnographic study examines the lives of Japanese workers in small firms and analysis their experiences of working life, leisure and education. This unique case study of the Shintani Metals Compa
In China, capitalist development since the 1980s has given rise to an enormous new industrial working class. In the vast export-processing zones along China’s southeastern coast, countless so-ca
This is a paperbound reprint of a 2005 book. Focusing on the shop floor activism of a single strategically important metal factory, Murphy (history, U. of Massachusetts) examines the evolution of work
The journey of Chinese art—from mass-produced propaganda in the Mao era to modern-day market darling—mirrors China’s own momentous changes like few other disciplines. Today, in both contemporary art a
As China has evolved into an industrial powerhouse over the past two decades, a new class of workers has developed: th dagongmei, or working girls. The dagongmei are women in their late teens and earl
There's nothing like the feeling you get when you add a new guitar lick to your musical vocabulary. An encyclopedia of hip lines, Guitar Lick Factory helps beginning and intermediate guitarists build
When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions. But
The factory was an iconic symbol of modernity in early twentieth-century Britain. Epitomising the triumph of rationalisation and technological innovation, factories were lambasted by critics as hazar
If you love the Wild Wild West, you'll love this steamy hot historical set in the Montana Territory! Emma James felt secure in her life. Money, social standing and the protection of her step-brother.
One of the most admired women in the world, Grace Kelly (1929–1982) is remembered for her beauty, poise, and style. Her “fairy-tale” wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956 was
He saved her life…When Annalise Hadley is tossed over the side of her honeymoon barge, the newly minted duchess knows she’s been left for dead—for her husband’s only interest is in her vast dowry, not
Ekinadose wants his Uncle Osaere to get married so he can go to a wedding. When visitors come to see his grandfather and leave with a list, Ekinadose is puzzled. But the mystery is solved when the vi
