"Haute homespun out of the Deep South." That's how Vogue magazine has described the fashion of Natalie Chanin. Alabama Stitch Book brings us a collection of projects and stories from her clothing and lifestyle company, Alabama Chanin, known for the cutting-edge twist it puts on tried-and-true sewing, quilting, and embroidery techniques, applied mostly by hand to recycled cotton jersey.

This long-awaited book from Chanin begins with her story. After living in New York and Vienna for over 20 years, she began to transform cotton T-shirts into high fashion using the needlework...

Route 64 is a personal memoir based on the author's thirty-year involvement with competitive chess as a player, coach and parent. Both humorous and tragic, Route 64 explores the intensity, passion and motivations that lead both children and adults to pursue the game with an almost religious fervor. As the son of a single mom in San Antonio, the author gravitates to chess as a means of shielding himself from pain and isolation after his parents' divorce. Through his devotion to the game, he learns that chess offers much more: a chance for recognition and success. The Fischer-generation of...

Wissenschaftliche Studie aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Klinische u. Gesundheitspsychologie, Psychopathologie, Note: 1, Universitat Wien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Drogenabhangigkeit eines Menschen beeinflusst immer auch dessen soziales Umfeld. Aufgrund bislang fehlender Studien in diesem Bereich untersuchte die vorliegende Arbeit daher Lebensqualitat, Lebenszufriedenheit und Stressverarbeitung von Angehorigen Drogenabhangiger. Es zeigte sich ein signifikant schlechteres Befinden, gemessen mit dem SF-36-Fragebogen zum Gesundheitszustand, in allen Dimensionen der...