Julia L Gray

The Beginner's Guide to Traditional Japanese Embro

Beginner's Guide to Traditional Japanese Embroidery

For Julia Gray, silk is the finest of natural fibres and is full of life and shine. Embroidery on this beautiful fabric has been worked in many countries, but Julia finds the perfection aspired to in traditional Japanese embroidery a wonderful challenge. She learned in Japan by copying the work of a...

The Book about James: The Fourth Book in Betty Collier’s Living Inside the Testimony Book Series

Julia Gray shares a very enlightening, refreshing, and inspirational story about her youngest child, James, who was born with Down syndrome. Julia's purpose for sharing her innermost thoughts is simply to challenge people to have the courage to see things without preconceived notions and prejudices....

The Crystal Desert (Guardian Cycle)

THE CRYSTAL DESERT is the third book in the Guardian Cycle, a sweeping fantasy epic from one of the best new storytellers in the genre.Terrel's destiny is far from clear. In exile from his home, he journeys through a hostile world, with only the spirits from an earlier life and his instincts to guid...

The Company States Keep: International Economic Organizations and Investor Perceptions

This book argues that investor risk in emerging markets hinges on the company a country keeps. When a country signs on to an economic agreement with states that are widely known to be stable, it looks less risky. Conversely, when a country joins a group with more unstable members, it looks more risk...

The Otherlife

I always get away with it when I try stuff like this. Partly it comes down to sort of assuming that I'm going to. I've got loads of confidence. And Loki got away with everything. Well, almost everything.When troubled, quiet Ben begins at the ruthlessly competitive Cottesmore House, school to the ric...

The Jasper Forest (Guardian Cycle)

THE JASPER FOREST is the second book in the Guardian Cycle, a sweeping fantasy epic from one of the best new storytellers in the genre.Exiled from Vadanis, the homeland he risked his life to save, Terrel finds himself adrift on the ocean. Delirious with hunger and exhaustion, he is on the point of g...

The Complete Book of Oriental Designs: A Source Book for Craftspeople and Artists Plus a Gallery of Inspirational Finished Pieces (Design Source Books)

Figures, birds, flowers, stylised motifs, borders and symbolic patterns abound in this inspirational sourcebook which contains over 300 specially commissioned black and white line illustrations for use in projects and artwork.