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DK Readers: Homes Around the World
Dorling Kindersley 2009; US$ 3.99DK Readers will help your child learn to read and encourage a life-long love of reading whilst learning about other cultures From houses made of mud and reeds, to homes in caves and trees, help your child learn all about different habitats through exciting stories. DK Readers are part of a five-level highly pictorial reading scheme, with lively... more...
Wig Making and Styling
Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 51.95Top off that costume with the perfect accoutrement with this first real guide to creating and styling costume wigs. No longer will you need to comb through old references on hairstyles of different time periods, Wig Making and Styling contains everything you need to be a cut above, offering snippets on styling tools, hair types, wig making and measuring,... more...
Knickers
Souvenir Press 2009; US$ 9.99Humorous and informative, this guide chronicles the history of undergarments, from Queen Victoria and the Quaker reformer Amelia Bloomer to the g-string. Part social history and accompanied by a large helping of humor, irreverence, and evocative illustrations, this intimate look at underwear shows how the developments in knickers reflect the blooming... more...
Fetish
Oxford University Press, USA 1996; US$ 22.99Kinky boots, corsets, underwear as outerwear, second-skin garments of rubber and leather, uniforms, body piercing.... Today everything from a fetishist's dream appears on the fashion runways. Although some people regard fetish fashion as exploitative and misogynistic, others interpret it as a positive Amazonian statement--couture Catwoman. But... more...
Cultivated Plants and Domesticated Animals in their Migration from Asia to Europe
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1976; US$ 210.00New edition, prepared with a bio-bibliographical account of Hehn and a survay of the research into Indo-European prehistory by James P. Mallory. It was Hehn who for the first time combined the tools of comparative linguistics and the direct historical approach in order to discover the origins of domesticated animals and cultivated plants in the ancient... more...
Warman's Shoes Field Guide
F+W Media 2010; US$ 14.99The take-it-with-you collecting resource... Warman?s ® Shoes Field Guide This handy pocket-size resource features more than 400 pairs of collectible, celebrity and contemporary shoes, everything from Dorothy?s Ruby Slippers to Manolo Blahnik. Caroline Ashleigh helps collectors jump feet first into contemporary and vintage flats, mules,... more...
Global Denim
Bloomsbury Publishing 2010; US$ 71.50On any given day nearly half the worlds population is wearing blue jeans. This is entirely extraordinary. Yet there has never been a serious attempt to understand the causes, nature and consequences of denim as the global garment of our world. This book takes up that challenge with gusto. It gives clear, if surprising, explanations... more...
Casting off the Corsets
Andrews UK 2011; US$ 5.99The history of underwear is filled with a pageant of garments that are unhygienic, erotic, uncomfortable, mind-bogglingly impractical and frequently just plain funny. Among them are heavy-duty corsets, liberty bodices, voluminous knickers and knitted bathing costumes which sagged alarmingly when wet. The wonderful photographs and illustrations in this... more...
Die Dessous
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95Worin liegt der Nutzen der Dessous, die heutzutage sowohl in den Magazinen als auch auf großen Litfass-Säulen oder Plakatwände beherrschenden Postern zu finden sind und die Körper formgerechter Models umhüllen? Viele Frauen kaufen Dessous, um ihrem Partner ? oder sich selbst ? eine Freude zu machen. Und dennoch scheinen seit vielen Jahrhunderten die... more...









