Author: Alvin J. Silk
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: marketing
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1422104605
ISBN-13: 9781422104606

In "The Practice of Management", Peter F. Drucker wrote, "There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer!. [Therefore], any business enterprise has two - and only these two - basic functions: marketing and innovation. They are the entrepreneurial functions. Marketing is the distinguishing, the unique function of the business."This book explores what marketing is and how an enterprise can differentiate itself from others in attracting and retaining customers. In general terms, marketing refers to what an organization must do to create and exchange value with custom

Author: Ann Cox
Publisher: Search Pre
Keywords: flowers, ribbon, silk
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1844481999
ISBN-13: 9781844481996

Perfect for beginners, this project guide features step-by-step instructions and stunning close-up photography for more than 30 flowers designs in a wide variety of styles. A comprehensive tutorial on techniques covers all of the basic skills needed to make beautiful ribbon flowers, including how to handle and work with ribbon, transfer a design to fabric using a template, and paint ribbons and backgrounds to achieve different effects. Each design includes a template and diagrams while inspirational ideas for variations on the main design expand the range and style of the projects. Information

Author: Alessandro Baricco
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: silk
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2007-08-28
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0307277976
ISBN-13: 9780307277978

The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for the quality of its silk and its hostility to foreigners: Japan.There Joncour meets a woman. They do not touch; they do not even speak. And he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to his own country. But in the moment he does, Joncour is possessed.

Author: Judith Ivory
Publisher: Avon A
Keywords: silk, black
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0061782122
ISBN-13: 9780061782121

As befitting her name, lovely Submit Channing-Downes was the proper, obedient wife of an aging Marquess--until her husband?s death left her penniless and alone...with one final obligation to fulfill. Entrusted with delivering a small black box to its rightful owner, she calls upon Graham Wessit, the notorious Earl of Netham, whose life has been marred by rumor and scandal. But Graham wants nothing to do w/ her gift. Fate however, has entwined these two lives in astonishing ways neither Submit nor Graham could ever imagine.

Author: Ann Cox
Publisher: Search Pre
Keywords: embroidery, ribbon, silk, handbook
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1844484602
ISBN-13: 9781844484607

Based on material from the author’s previous books, this beautifully presented spiral-bound handbook brings together all the techniques needed to create silk ribbon embroideries. Using just three basic stitches and gathering techniques, embroiderers of all skill levels learn how to stitch more than 35 different flowers, including roses, geraniums, irises, pansies, and sweet peas. For those ready for more extensive projects, more than 15 detailed designs provide templates and full instructions for larger and more intricate pieces. In addition to stitching, the book also teaches how to pai

Author: Sharon Page
Publisher: Aphrodisia
Keywords: silk, black
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0758214715
ISBN-13: 9780758214713

Maryanne Hamilton had expected to be shocked, but the wanton orgy she finds in Mrs. Master’s salon makes her wonder if she has walked into hell. Desperate to escape, she comes upon the master of sin himself - Lord Swansborough. Fascinated by his nakedness, she longs to touch every inch of his long, hard body. And when he bids her come near, she quickly surrenders to his wicked promises of carnal pleasure and sensual ecstasy.

Author: Mark Salzma
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: silk
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1987-10-12
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0394755111
ISBN-13: 9780394755113

In 1982, Salzman flew off to teach English in Changsha, China. He writes of bureaucrats, students and Cultural Revolution survivors, stripping none of their complexity and humanity. He’s gentle with their idiocies, saving his sharpest barbs for himself (it’s his pants that split from zipper to waist whilst demonstrating martial arts in Canton). Though dribs of history and drabs of classical lore seep through, this is mostly a personal tale, noted by the Los Angeles Times for "the charmingly unpretentious manner in which it penetrates a China inaccessible to other foreigners."Salzma