Manuel pratique de la couture
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
'The Complete Book of Sewing' covers every technique for dressmaking and sewing for the home, from choosing the right fabric, through pleating and lining, to achieving couture finishes.




'The Complete Book of Sewing' covers every technique for dressmaking and sewing for the home, from choosing the right fabric, through pleating and lining, to achieving couture finishes.
Pilates: Body in Motion is a pioneering, step-by-step book for mat-based Pilates. A global best-seller famed for its clear instruction and innovative design, Pilates: Body in Motion clearly explains every exercise sequence with at-a-glance overviews, detailed step-by-step photographs, and a checklist of dos and don'ts.Author Alycea Ungaro pioneered mat-based Pilates and lends her expert advice to help you avoid injury and maximize Pilates' fitness and health benefits. Four program sequences allow you to move from beginner to intermediate to advanced and cover fifty mat-based exercises, from The Hundred to The Wall Sequence, the Open Leg Rocker and Corkscrew to the Swan Dive, Shoulder Bridge, Magic Circle Sequence, and many more.Streamline your body and focus your mind with 50 classic mat Pilates exercises to do at home with Pilates: Body in Motion.Author Bio:Alycea Ungaro is a pioneer of the Pilates method, and the author of bestselling titles including Pilates: Body in Motion, 1st edition, The Pilates Promise, and The Pilates Practice Companion. In addition to serving on the advisory board of Fitness Magazine, Ungaro also travels widely as a guest teacher hosting retreats at world-famous location such as Amangani in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. She has trained celebrities including Madonna, Uma Thurman, Kyra Sedgewick, Claire Danes, and Molly Sims.
The dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees fortune in the recyclable garbage of richer people. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a rural childhood, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to good times. But then, as the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed.--From publisher description
"Zeina est née dans une banlieue française. Elle a été élevée au sein d'une famille musulmane traditionnelle. Elle ne voulait pas porter le voile. Pourtant, elle a dissimulé ses cheveux, son corps, puis son visage, jusqu'à ses yeux. Elle a revêtu le hijab, puis le jilbab et enfin le niqab. Son mari l'y a contrainte, à force de reproches, de blâmes, puis de coups. Sa propre famille l'y a encouragée : pour tous, elle était devenue la fierté de l'Islam. Zeina, elle, se sentait devenir une ombre, un spectre : peu à peu, elle a abdiqué sa volonté, sa dignité, son identité. Pendant des années, elle s'est soumise. Sous son niqab, elle avait peur de se révolter. Hantise des coups, angoisse du déshonneur, terreur de l'Enfer dont la menaçaient les sœurs de la mosquée depuis qu'elle était enfant. Jusqu'au jour où, aidée par une voisine, elle a trouvé le courage de s'enfuir. Elle a alors connu la rue, la misère, la traque impitoyable des siens. Elle a réussi, seule, à s'évader de la prison qui s'était refermée sur elle : aujourd'hui, Zeina a retrouvé un travail, sa liberté, et elle se reconstruit. En butte au mépris des siens, au rejet, à la haine, aux menaces physiques, elle a décidé de raconter l'enfer qu'elle a vécu et son combat pour en sortir. L'histoire de Zeina s'est déroulée en France, au XXIème siècle, à quelques centaines de mètre de chez nous" -- from book cover.