Crystal Brilliance delivers a collection of over 30 beautiful, creative projects that showcase the brilliance and hues of Swarovski crystals, along with inspiring variations on each. The projects feature gorgeous colorways and innovative variations on basic stitches. Pulished in association with Swarovski Elements, the book is filled with stylish and innovative ways to use the Swarovski product line. These truly are elegant, wearable jewelry designs.

Diane Whiting presents the idea that convertibility isn’t just about using pieces in multiple ways; it is also about using your skills and creativity in multiple ways. Using ever-popular, sparkling crystals, Diane showcases design elements through various techniques, for fun, easy, fashionable jewelry. With 25 projects, the reader can choose from bracelets, necklaces, and earrings that match any outfit or style.

Building on the success of her other shaped beads book, Great Designs for Shaped Beads, Anna Elizabeth Draeger is back with 24 all-new projects that add some of the newest bead shapes on the market as well as perennial favorites. Creative Designs Using Shaped Beads features beaded beads, rings, earrings, bracelets, and necklaces, and also includes a design option for each project so everyone will find something they want to create!

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The trilogy deemed "mesmerizing" and "brilliant" is finally delivered in one sinful package.... It all started with a note, just a simple note hand written by a woman I didn't know, never even met. But in that note is perhaps every answer to every question I've ever had in my life. And because of that note, I look for her, but find him. I'm drawn to his passion, his talent, a darkness in him that somehow becomes my light, my life. Kace August is rich, powerful, a rockstar of violins, a man who is all tattoos, leather, good looks and talent. He has a wickedly sweet ability to play the violin, seducing audiences worldwide. Now, he’s seducing me. I know he has secrets. I don't care. Because you see, I have secrets, too. I’m not Aria Alard, as he believes. I’m Aria Stradivari, daughter to Alessandro Stradivari, a musician born from the same blood as the man who created the famous Stradivarius violin. I am as rare as the mere 650 instruments my ancestors created. Instruments worth millions. 650 masterpieces, the brilliance unmatched. 650 reasons to kill. 650 reasons to hide. One reason not to: him.

Beaders will relish having the best designs from one of the art’s most popular figures – Anna Elizabeth Draeger – all in one handy, timeless volume. Anna offers 25 designs for many classic bead stiches, including herringbone, ladder, peyote, right-angle weave, crossweave, and more. These fashionable cuffs, bangles, necklaces, and earrings incorporate a wide variety of styles and materials. Classic Stitching also includes plenty of tips and advice from the popular “Ask Anna” advice columns, 10 pages of mini stitch workshops, and a gallery showcasing art glass beads. As always, Anna’s elegant designs lend themselves well to variation and experimentation, so beaders at every level will find something to try!

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Endless Sparkle includes clear, easy to follow instructions and a great sense of color and style throughout. This book appeals to both beginner and intermediate beaders as the detailed illustrations are easy to follow and the patterns are very simple. With 12 different styles of crystal components and 15 main projects, readers will learn how to make rings, pendants, earrings, bracelets, and necklaces. Author Aimee Carpenter’s sparkly creations will appeal to any taste.

By addressing the enigma of the exceptional success of Hungarian emigrant scientists and telling their life stories, Brilliance in Exile combines scholarly analysis with fascinating portrayals of uncommon personalities. István and Balazs Hargittai discuss the conditions that led to five different waves of emigration of scientists from the early twentieth century to the present. Although these exodes were driven by a broad variety of personal motivations, the attraction of an open society with inclusiveness, tolerance, and – needless to say – better circumstances for working and living, was the chief force drawing them abroad. While emigration from East to West is a general phenomenon, this book explains why and how the emigration of Hungarian scientists is distinctive. The high number of Nobel Prizes among this group is only one indicator. Multicultural tolerance, a quickly emerging, considerably Jewish, urban middle class, and a very effective secondary school system were positive legacies of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Multiple generations, shaped by these conditions, suffered from the increasingly exclusionist, intolerant, antisemitic, and economically stagnating environment, and chose to go elsewhere. “I would rather have roots than wings, but if I cannot have roots, I shall use wings," explained Leo Szilard, one of the fathers of the Atom Bomb.

The last several years have produced the largest explosion of new seed bead shapes, sizes, and colors in the history of modern beading. Jewelry artists are craving expert guidance on how to use these unique new bead shapes to their best advantage. Enter Anna Elizabeth Draeger! This adored author has developed over 50 creative ideas for stitching with Tilas, peanuts, and daggers and collected them all in her exciting new book, Great Designs for Shaped Beads. Stay on the cutting edge of this trend with Anna’s new collection.