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At Dreamspace Publishing we specialize in children's and YA fiction and non-fiction in the Body-Mind-Spirit section to support young readers in maintaining and developing a strong connection to their inner power and source of natural vitality. We provide resources that help young ones, as well as adults who accompany them on their life's journey, to navigate through life in a balanced and grounded way. We draw from a strong link to indigenous worldviews and values. Especially in Western societies where the focus lies on physical and mental development, our publications bring balance and guidance by also including emotional and spiritual aspects and rising awareness of the interconnectedness of all life forms.
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The ArtsDecember 2024Becoming couture
The Italian fashion industry after the Second World War
by Chiara Faggella
Becoming couture is the first book to examine the history of the Italian fashion industry during the global transition brought about by the Second World War. It draws on a wide range of primary sources, some of them newly unearthed, to demonstrate that the Italian fashion industry in the Republican era continued to rely on business practices and professionals established during Fascism. Analysing changes in promotional discourses and press coverage, the book traces the shift that occurred when manufacturers were encouraged to expand their exports of accessories to include sportswear, knitwear and moda boutique. This ultimately led to the legitimisation of Italian dressmaking as creatively independent of French influences and therefore worthy of the label 'couture'.
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October 2022From Dream to Trauma: Mental abuse in partnerships
by Caroline Wenzel
The level of domestic abuse has been increasing for years, but often only cases of physical abuse hit the headlines. Hardly anyone talks about the mental, or psychological, abuse that usually precedes a physical or sexual assault. Those affected do not usually recognise the destructive dynamic in their relationship until far too late. In this book, three case histories illustrate the typical forms of mental abuse in relationships. In addition, experts explain the topic from psychological, therapeutic, political and legal perspectives, and the head of a counselling centre for male victims of mental abuse also has his say. An important and startling book.
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The ArtsFebruary 2022"I am Jugoslovenka!"
Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism
by Jasmina Tumbas, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon
"I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, lesbian activism and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars, the book analyses feminist resistance in a range of performative actions that manifest the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia's anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies. It covers celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, including Marina Abramovic, Sanja Ivekovic, Vlasta Delimar, Tanja Ostojic, Selma Selman and Helena Janecic, along with music legends Lepa Brena and Esma Redzepova. "I am Jugoslovenka" tells a unique story of women's resistance through the intersection of feminism, socialism and nationalism in East European visual culture.
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Children's & YAAugust 2016SEAMSTRESS ABBY
by KAREN SOKLIČ
Abby goes to the city, where she opens her frst sewing salon. She gets visits from Fear, Troubles, and Doubt, which try to make Abby doubt herself and her work. But instead of giving up, Abby remembers the advice of her family, and this helps her to overcome diffcult times. Moral: The story shows how obstacles can always be found on the way to the fulfillment of one’s dreams, but we can overcome them with perseverance, courage and confidence in ourselves.
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March 2020Romantic Dresses: Recipes for Dressing up Your Doll
by Mayura Yoshida
Pretty and Beautiful! How to Make Dresses for Dolls Point! • Efficient and easily enjoyable dressmaking • Provides thorough, step-by-step instructions along with photographs • Allows for the creation of eight different, highly varied, gorgeous dresses From a puffy, princess-like dress to a short-length cocktail dress, this book enables you to make eight types of dress that focus on romantic designs. This book lists three different sizes of dresses: Small, Medium, and Large. The small is made for 22 – 24 cm (8 3/4” – 9 1/2”) tall dolls, the medium is for 27 cm (10 1/2”) tall dolls, and the large is for 50 cm (19 3/4”) tall dolls. Since this book introduces the effective use of fabric glue instead of sewing, it provides ideal dressmaking methods for any beginner. For intermediate level and above, this book allows you to exchange the bodice or sleeves of one dress with the bodice or sleeves of another dress in order to create your own original designs.
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History of fashionMay 2012100 Years of Fashion
by Cally Blackman
This book documents in pictures the most exciting and diverse period in fashion: from 1900 to today, covering high society, uniforms, sportswear, streetwear and couture. It will appeal to everyone with an interest in fashion as well as students. The last hundred or so years bore witness to the transformation of women’s fashion. The restrictive corsetry of the early twentieth century gave way to looser styles such as those made fashionable by French fashion designer Paul Poiret. As women’s lives changed dramatically under the shadow of two World Wars, so the style of female dress was altered beyond recognition. From home dressmaking to couture, from rationing to ‘The New Look’, from the birth of the teenager to mass manufacture, from high society to celebrity culture. Over 400 photographs and illustrations, many published for the first time, tell the stylish story of a fashion revolution.
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Where Dreams live
by Jonas Ribeiro
In one town, there live many people with hidden dreams: The dressmaker dreams of studying fashion design in Paris, the pilot whishes he were an astronaut, the telephone operator dreams of being a radio speaker, and the biologist desires to live in the Amazon rainforest. Then one day the dreams decide to come out of their hideaways and nothing will be as it was before ...
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Handicrafts, decorative arts & craftsSeptember 2013Modern Smocking Part 1
Canadian Smocking Techniques and Patterns
by Debbie Shore
Canadian Smocking Techniques & Patterns Discover the impressive techniques and patterns of Lattice or Canadian smocking, with bestselling author and TV presenter Debbie Shore. Soon you will be pinching, pleating and stitching to create textured fabrics for cushions (pillows), bags, and even clothing. It’s a little like origami with fabric. Go retro with nostalgic velvet smocked cushions, reminiscent of the 50s and 60s. Try the patterns with contemporary fabrics such as denim or hessian. For the fresh country look, select a woven gingham. In Modern Smocking Part 1 and Part 2, Debbie has put together 16 patterns, plus ideas for a whole display of smocked cushion covers. She shows clearly how to mark a grid of lines or dots and stitch over that grid to create the various smocking patterns, and gives instructions for how to make a simple zipped cushion cover. Best of all, in these two enhanced ebooks, there is over an hour of embedded video of Debbie demonstrating the techniques. When you are used to the methods you can experiment with different fabrics, mix designs together, and apply the technique to anything from dressmaking to curtains. Modern Smocking Part 1 includes the basic techniques and eight different smocking patterns, all with video demonstrations. Patterns include: Arrows, Lattice, Bones, Hearts, Leaf, Cobblestones, Waves, Matrix. Part 2 has a further eight patterns with projects and videos: Shells, Lozenge, Diamonds, Bows, Four-point Flower, Four-point Tile, Giftwrap, Windmill.
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Handicrafts, decorative arts & craftsSeptember 2013Modern Smocking Part 2
Canadian Smocking Techniques and Patterns
by Debbie Shore
Canadian Smocking Techniques & Patterns Discover the impressive techniques and patterns of Lattice or Canadian smocking, with bestselling author and TV presenter Debbie Shore. Soon you will be pinching, pleating and stitching to create textured fabrics for cushions (pillows), bags, and even clothing. It’s a little like origami with fabric. Go retro with nostalgic velvet smocked cushions, reminiscent of the 50s and 60s. Try the patterns with contemporary fabrics such as denim or hessian. For the fresh country look, select a woven gingham. In Modern Smocking Part 1 and Part 2, Debbie has put together 16 patterns, plus ideas for a whole display of smocked cushion covers. She shows clearly how to mark a grid of lines or dots and stitch over that grid to create the various smocking patterns, and gives instructions for how to make a simple zipped cushion cover. Best of all, in these two enhanced ebooks, there is over an hour of embedded video of Debbie demonstrating the techniques. When you are used to the methods you can experiment with different fabrics, mix designs together, and apply the technique to anything from dressmaking to curtains. Modern Smocking Part 1 includes the basic techniques and eight different smocking patterns, all with video demonstrations. Patterns include: Arrows, Lattice, Bones, Hearts, Leaf, Cobblestones, Waves, Matrix. Part 2 has a further eight patterns with projects and videos: Shells, Lozenge, Diamonds, Bows, Four-point Flower, Four-point Tile, Giftwrap, Windmill.
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MemoirsJanuary 2014Seen and not Heard
by Jennifer Jane Sherriff
Past generations of Jennifer's family were farmers and that was her life also, until her mid-teens. Despite many childhood adventures it had been a bumpy ride, with heartbreak, umpteen house moves and three mothers. How could she be any other than obnoxious and difficult. Until ultimately, aged sixteen, her father told her to move on. But these were the swinging 6os - rock-n-roll, jazz and flower power. She went in search of love and happiness, but was it just sweet talk? Then her sister got married and Jennifer was left holding the baby. What was she going to do about it? She found herself a charming gentleman, who, unbeknow to her, was a compulsive womanizer with the power to destroy lives. And that is where her writing began and the basis of her next story - titled 'The Promiscuous Husband'
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Women's FictionThe Ironman
by Mairead Rooney
A tender love story set during the building of Dublin’s iconic Ha’penny Bridge in 1816, Mairead Rooney’s debut novel THE IRONMAN is a beautiful portrayal of finding intimacy in the face of grief, and will appeal to readers of the historical fiction of Emma Donoghue or Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn.
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Photography & photographsHands at Work
by Sandra Lousada (author/photographer)
Portrait photographer Sandra Lousada is best known for her iconic photographs of such stars as Laurence Olivier, Vanessa Redgrave, Albert Finney, David Hockney and Julie Christie. Over the years, she has become as intrigued by hands - and what they reveal - as she is by faces. For this book she has photographed hands at work - the hands of dressmakers, gardeners, painters, musicians, potters, sculptors, bakers, factory workers, dancers and nurses.
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PoetryMarch 2020Call to Darkness
by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
With this new collection, Vénus Khoury-Ghata continues and renews her poetic work. War, one of his favourite themes, is present in it in two different facets. The first part, a long poem without scansion that is not lacking in humour, focuses on daily life and characters such as Mansour the grocer or Adèle the dressmaker. The second part is animated by a more tragic breath. Vénus Khoury-Ghata delivers ample poetry of overwhelming beauty, whose images are both concrete and almost magical.
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FictionJanuary 1909Golden Girl
by Augusts Deglavs
His novel Golden Girl is harsh and direct, in contrast with the rest of his work. The main character, Anna Zeltenīte, is a seamstress living on the outskirts of the city. The novel describes the tragic events in the final year of her life, as she falls hopelessly in love with an undeserving lad working at a factory. Anna is not dissimilar to Don Quixote in her role as a “good character” struggling against the evil world. The novel is filled with images of everyday material poverty, as well as the intellectual emptiness of the lives of the workers and other common folk with their cynicism and broken dreams – all of it commonplace in the world in which the author lived.
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FictionJuly 2015Taming Tigers
YA Dystopian/Modern Fairytale
by Daisy White
Seventeen year old Talia is struggling to earn a living as a seamstress, surviving in the infamous refugee Camps of war torn Arista. When her soldier boyfriend, Kellar, suggests a bizarre route of escape - stowing away on the cross-desert frieght train to Leonore, Talia jumps at the chance. In Leonore she can marry Kellar - leaving the war behind. But a freak accident leaves her stranded and alone in the desert. Caught between the two countries, and forced to face her troubled past, Talia is forced to choose between love and revenge, whilst playing the ultimate game of survival. Comforted by The Guardian, and haunted by The Ghost, Talia begins a journey that will change her life forever.
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Women's FictionApril 2021Sira
by María Dueñas
Sira Quiroga—the protagonist of The Time in Between— is back, walking firmly towards maturity Four destinies. Two missions. One woman. Sira again plunges the reader in an unforgettable period. The Great War has comes to an end and the world begins a tortuous reconstruction. After her duties as a collaborator with the British secret services, Sira faces the future longing for serenity. However, this will not be so. Destiny has a misfortune in store for her, which will force her to reinvent herself, to take the reins of her life on her own and courageously fight in order to channel the future.Amid historical events that will mark an era, Jerusalem, London, Madrid and Tangiers will be the settings through which she travels. In them she will face anguish and reunions, risky tasks, and the experience of motherhood.Sira Bonnard—formerly Arish Agoriuq, formerly Sira Quiroga—is no longer the innocent seamstress who dazzled us with patterns and clandestine messages, but her appeal remains intact. Sira returns, charismatic and unforgettable.
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June 2014Apart at the Seams
by Melissa Ford
She had Mr. Right all sewn up . . . until Mr. Wonderful came along. Ethan is smart, funny, kind, gentle, great with Arianna’s toddler son, a fantastic lover, and finally ready to settle down to a teaching job in Manhattan after years of nomadic work as a freelance photographer. Plus he’s the adoring brother of Arianna’s best friend, Rachel.He’s a truly special man, and the time seems right for him to move in to Arianna’s apartment. But traces of the old Ethan exist—there was the much better but stodgy job he turned down and the “let’s take off for Nepal next year” impulses. Arianna is on the verge of graduating from a “finisher” at her fashion job—a highly paid seamstress—and is on her way to having her own designs produced. Suddenly her career is the central focus of her life—and into that focus walks Noah, a worldly, funny, sophisticated, and very successful writer for an award-winning television show. Their instant rapport leads to a design opportunity for Arianna and a friendship that slowly confuses her feelings for Ethan
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Religion & beliefsHistory Of Louisa Barnes Pratt
The Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer
by ed. S. George Ellsworth
Volume 3, Life Writings of Frontier Women series, ed. Maureen Ursenbach Beecher In her memoir, and 1870s revision of her journal and diary, Louisa Barnes Pratt tells of childhood in Massachusetts and Canada during the War of 1812, and independent career as a teacher and seamstress in New England, and her marriage to the Boston seaman Addison Pratt. Converting to the LDS Church, the Pratts moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, from where Brigham Young sent Addison on the first of the long missions to the Society Islands that would leave Louisa on her own. As a sole available parent, she hauled her children west to Winter Quarters, to Utah in 1848, to California, and, in Addison's wake, to Tahiti in 1850. The Pratts joined the Mormon colony at San Bernardino, California. When in 1858 a federal army's march on Utah led to the colonists' recall, Addision—alienated from the Mormon Church after long absences—chose not to go. Mostly separated thereafter (Addison died in 1872), Louisa settled in Beaver, Utah, where she campaigned for women's rights, contributed to the Woman's Exponent, and depended on her own means, as she had much of her life, until her death in 1880.
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RomanceDecember 2015Lee
by Williamson, Beth
When anger and tenacity collide, sparks are inevitable. Devils on Horseback SeriesBook 4 The Civil War took more than Lee Blackwood’s arm. It took his confidence, his pride…and hope that any woman will see him as more than half a man. His friendships helped keep the demons at bay—until now. As each Devil has found happiness, Lee is left alone to cope with the darkness that claws at his soul. Genevieve Blanchard has only one thing going for her: her no-good late husband’s run-down farm. That, and a fancy name no one can spell might get her a cup full of dirt in Tanger. Room, board and seamstress skills aren’t much, but it’s all she can offer any man willing to help her bring in her wheat crop. Reluctantly Lee takes on the job, the widow’s smart-mouthed daughter and his growing attraction to a woman who stubbornly refuses to see him as anything less than whole. Slowly, his bitterness begins to fade under the light of their blooming love.
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PHOTO 51: THE SECRET OF DNA
by Valentina Segré
The story takes place between King’s College London and Cambridge University, from the early 1950s to the present day. London, 1952. Annie, a 14-year-old apprentice dressmaker, finds an envelope on the ground containing some strange photographs. With the help of Mark and other friends, she discovers, through a series of difficulties, adventures, and twists that among those images, there is Photo n. 51, the first photograph of DNA, taken by the scientist Rosalind Franklin. In a noir climate full of emotions, the story is set against the backdrop of academic struggles, fought without exclusions of blows, to secure the paternity of a discovery that revolutionized biology, and that led to James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962. This novel is the fruit of the author’s imagination but set in a well-defined historical context and many of the characters and events related to the discovery of DNA structure are real. Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, Raymond Gosling, and Jennifer Doudna are scientists who existed, as well as photograph number 51 of DNA. DNA has now entered the collective imagination and offers many ideas for highly topical subjects, from genetic manipulation to police investigations. It is curious to know how the discovery of DNA took place in a noir film climate. Segrè’s novel returns its climate, made up of more or less legitimate actions, struggles between scientists, ambitions, low blows, final surprise.
