Souvenir

Douglas Coupland's valentine to Canada looks at how it feels to be a Canadiannow and imagines what it might feel like to be a Canadian in the future.

Pack your bags and get ready to take a quilt tour through Europe! Over a dozen eye-catching memory quilts in vibrant colors capture the color, texture, diversity, and grandeur of her travels, and her journey to create unique vacation memory quilts. Her beautiful quilt patterns are presented with easy to understand instructions, clear illustrations, and an engaging writing style. Above all, the author shares her love for quilts and her sense of adventure and fun while providing many suggestions for creating a tangible quilted souvenir to enjoy long after the vacation is over and the suitcases are unpacked! The book contains a balanced mix of precision piecing methods, fanciful machine applique, and stunning hand or machine embroidery scattered throughout, which is sure to appeal to many. The quilts can be sewn by using the most basic of sewing machines. Dozens of suggestions and helpful hints are included for using the many wonderful features and decorative stitches available on today's mid-range and high-end sewing machines. In each chapter, there is a special 'Try This' section that encourages the reader to learn a new technique or to try stepping beyond his or her quilting comfort zone.

This guide provides Caribbean food processors and artisans with practical information on how to effectively position their products in the tourism market using design and packaging. The guide is written in a reader-friendly format with easy to follow instructions and contains basic information on packaging, labelling, materials and processes.

What if the only person who could help was the one whose heart you'd broken? A captivating and heartrending novel of lost love, family secrets and betrayal from a major new talent.

For many the postcard may seem trivial, little more than a mundane souvenir or a way to keep in touch with friends and relatives while on vacation. But if we look carefully, postcards offer valuable insights into the time periods in which they were created and the mentalities of those who bought or sent them. Frank Marhefka, while serving in the U.S. Army Motor Transportation Corps during the First World War, amassed a collection of more than 150 postcards and photographs while in France, and bound them into a souvenir album. Marhefka’s collection provides a diverse and vivid look into a period of history that – in many soldiers’ accounts – is not usually visualized with all its cruelties. Emphasizing the pictorial turn of the Great War, this album offers personal insight into a conflict that caused so much death and destruction. The book begins with an introduction providing a history of postcards and their extensive use by soldiers during the Great War. Then, after a biography of Marhefka, his postcard collection is presented in its entirety. Accompanying the images are brief texts that place them into historical context, as well as suggestions for further reading. As a visual artifact of the First World War and the perspective of one U.S. soldier, this book is aimed at students, scholars, postcard collectors, and general readers alike who have an interest in military history and popular culture.

96 captioned photographs of Ontario's Algonquin Park, selected from the best work by an award-winning naturalist and nature photographer. Every facet of the park and its wildlife is captured.

'The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s' Neil Tennant 'I loved Souvenir . . . it rescued some things for me - a certain aesthetic, a philosophical engagement with time and poignant beauty and lived history that I have found myself looking for, and not finding, elsewhere in recent years . . . the book gave me new hope' John Burnside 'A suspended act of retrieval, a partisan recall; a sustained, subtle summary of our recent past, and an epitaph for a future we never had' Philip Hoare 'Michael Bracewell proves himself to be nothing less than the poet laureate of late capitalism' Jonathan Coe A vivid eulogy for London of the late 1970s and early 80s - the last years prior to the rise of the digital city. An elliptical, wildly atmospheric remembrance of the sites and soundtrack, at once aggressively modern and strangely elegiac, that accompanied the twilight of one era and the dawn of another. Haunted bedsits, post-punk entrepreneurs in the Soho Brasserie, occultists in Fitzrovia, Docklands before Canary Wharf, frozen suburbs in the winter of 1980...

Souvenirs are part of global and local travel and tourism in all corners of the world. This book portrays souvenirs as expressions of culture and as triggers of cultural change. The volume provides critique and theorisation of souvenirs of places, people and experiences in the context of lives lived at the margins of society, politics, tourism flows and urbanisation. Case studies in sustainable tourism illustrate dynamic ways that consumers and suppliers use souvenirs to respond to, resist and (re)interpret global and local influences upon cultures across informal, hybrid and formal economies.