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Murder comes to Mardi Gras! The seventh in the popular series—including scrapbooking tips.

Jekyl Hardy is hosting a Mardi Gras party in his French Quarter apartment, amid Zydeco rhythms and popping champagne corks. On a wild night like this, anything can happen. The guests—including scrapbook-store owner Carmela Bertrand—never imagine it will be murder. But as the evening progresses, Jekyl’s neighbor, float designer Archie Baudier, is found on the balcony choked to death with a barbed wire garrote. Buried up to her neck in strange clues, Carmela is sure of only one thing: whoever killed Archie is now following her— straight into the madness of Mardi Gras..
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This pocket-sized guide to quick and accurate color mixing is an essential reference for artists of all media. Inside are 2,460 printed color mixes from 12 standard artist paints. Each page features the range you can get from any two of these colors.

Artists can seek out the color they desire, identify the hues they need to mix and then instantly reproduce the color on their palette. They'll also find invaluable information about every color including the strength, transparency and handling qualities of the colors used to attain it.

The book's compact and convenient design lets artists take it anywhere, capturing the color inspiration as it hits them..
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Designed to accompany the 9th Edition of Fabric Science, this Swatch Kit supplements the
study of textiles for students in fashion design, merchandising, product development and
well as home furnishings. Swatches represent the types of fabrics currently available in the
textile industry and sold to apparel, home furnishings and industrial designers..
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Swatches is the ultimate user-friendly guide to anyone looking for design inspiration, taking a less historical but no less expansive view of the world of fabric than Abrams' enormously successful Textile Designs: 200 Years of European and American Patterns. Organized by pattern type, with a particular eye toward colour combinations, Swatches contains more than 400 fabric swatches, each showing a full pattern repeat. The book's intent is to focus more on useable colour and pattern concepts that are relevant across a broad spectrum of purposes, from home decor to fashion to craft, to all manner of personal and professional design. Brief, but informative texts introduce each section, discussing the origins of the patterns and their typical use. Both pattern name and fabric type identifies each swatch..
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In today�s booming economy, there are more jobs than there are qualified people to fill them. Retaining those qualified employees has become a manager�s top priority Today�s managers not only need to make sure their employees are productive, but also need to make sure their employees remain satisfied and motivated�otherwise employees will leave..

. According to recent surveys, what really causes employees to stay or drives them away is �the boss,� and not money or perks. That means that managers need to learn how to manage in ways that will attract qualified workers and make them want to stay. Short on theory . and long on hands-on, real-world advice and guidance, this survival guide:.

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� Tells managers, in plain English, why and how they need to change the way they operate in order to hold on to valued employees.
� Covers all the bases, including hiring and . orientation, team-building, coaching, setting expectations, painless performance appraisals, and other day-to-day issues.
� Features Rosner�s trademark humor�. well-known to the tens of thousands of . loyal readers of his nationally syndicated . column, �Working Wounded�.
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In SWATCH Frank Edwards documents the origins and developments of Swatch designs, and shows some of the very best made since 1983. The core of this book is a gallery of hundreds of the most beautiful designs.

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