When I was 17 I went through a big earring phase – I would go so far as to create my entire outfit around my earrings! Can you believe it? But then I went through an earring drought, at most I wore my full-proof pair of silver skull studs from The Great Frog of London, and sometimes (heaven forbid!) I wore no earrings at all. This new me couldn’t even think back to the time that I would base my entire outfit around a pair of earrings, it seemed silly. But this season with the return of the statement earring, specifically tassel earrings, I’m reminded of the power of earrings to complete any outfit.
A few weeks ago I was in my favourite high street store and I got blown away by these bad boys from Topshop; and tentatively dipped my toe back into the earring trend.
I debuted my red tassel earrings with my newly bleached roots and my trusty denim dress, wearing them proudly with a slick of red lippy and a confident smile. And with that one purchase, I was firmly back on ‘team statement earring’.
There’s no denying that earrings are having a big fashion moment right now. If you love luxury, there’s the Maria Tash Studio which has been open in Liberty for almost a year now. Maria Tash’s studio offers up beautiful yet edgy jewelry ranges from 18 carat gold, to diamonds, opals and sapphires, the piercings themselves aren’t for the faint hearted! (Neither is the price, I’m saving up for a special occasion!). While on the catwalk, earrings are all about bigger is better. The long drop earring era has evolved with epic proportions which was very evident in the SS17 catwalks, Gucci and Marni being two main designers showcasing this trend.
And at an affordable price point? Tassel earrings are dominating the high street and ears all around the globe, especially your favourite Instagram influencer’s. Whether they are nude understated tassel earrings, or large tassels in big bold colours, these earrings are out there to suit everyone. Optimistic and on trend colours such as red bring a huge flash of colour to brighten up any outfit.
WGSN colour Editor and expert Hannah Craggs agrees saying: “From a colour perspective I’ve been exploring the triumphant return of red and how, in particular, Scarlet Red is gaining momentum as a sophisticated but still fun fashion choice. Acting as a super bold statement on placement embellishment and hero accessory pieces such as earrings, offers a playful route for brands to incorporate a pop of colour into their ranges. Appearing most directional when applied to high shine or gloss finishes, truly maximizing the impact of this important seasonal colour story.”
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Presenting a study of "The Alchemist", this book documents the production which stars Alex Jennings and Simon Russell Beale. More
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Last mail in, Mis' Bascomb? "Last mail's in, Tony." "Be there anything for me to-night?" Widow Bascomb knew perfectly well there was not, but she reached for a small pile of letters in a pigeonhole on her right and glanced over them rapidly More
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A perfect holiday read with plenty of adventure, Spanish history and romance from the highly praised author of THE PALACE OF HEAVENLY PLEASURE More
Following on from The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist is the second epic novel in the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. The ancient menace has finally escaped from Lalonde, shattering the Confederation's peaceful existence. Those who succumbed to it have acquired godlike… More
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Man's new tools for the manipulation of genetic codes are pushing us in new directions. The story of two families unfolds as a new human species of infinite variety and strengths is born into the mid twenty-first century. After a vulnerable attempt at Washington politics, Alex Claiborne, long… More
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Professor Lucie Green is a solar physicist at UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory and regularly appears on the BBC's Star Gazing Live with Brian Cox, the Today programme, The Infinite Monkey Cage and Sky at Night. She works with the world's major space agencies (including NASA), and speaks regularly at the Royal Society and Cheltenham Science Festival. In 2009 she won the Royal Society's Kohn Award for her work promoting public engagement with science.
Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have long supported a web of relationships that transcend the U.S. and Mexican nations. Yet national histories usually overlook these complex connections. Continental Crossroads rediscovers this forgotten terrain, laying the foundations for a new borderlands history at the crossroads of Chicano/a, Latin American, and U.S. history. Drawing on the historiographies and archives of both the U.S. and Mexico, the authors chronicle the transnational processes that bound both nations together between the early nineteenth century and the 1940s, the formative era of borderlands history. A new generation of borderlands historians examines a wide range of topics in frontier and post-frontier contexts. The contributors explore how ethnic, racial, and gender relations shifted as a former frontier became the borderlands. They look at the rise of new imagined communities and border literary traditions through the eyes of Mexicans, Anglo-Americans, and Indians, and recover transnational border narratives and experiences of African Americans, Chinese, and Europeans. They also show how surveillance and resistance in the borderlands inflected the "body politics" of gender, race, and nation. Native heroine Barbara Gandiaga, Mexican traveler Ignacio Martinez, Kiowa warrior Sloping Hair, African American colonist William H. Ellis, Chinese merchant Lee Sing, and a diverse cast of politicos and subalterns, gendarmes and patrolmen, and insurrectos and exiles add transnational drama to the formerly divided worlds of Mexican and U.S. history. Contributors. Grace Pena Delgado, Karl Jacoby, Benjamin Johnson, Louise Pubols, Raul Ramos, Andres Resendez, Barbara O. Reyes, Alexandra Minna Stern, Samuel Truett, Elliott Young
Samuel Truett is Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Elliott Young is Associate Professor of History at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon; he is the author of Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border, published by Duke University Press.
Chris Impey is a University Distinguished Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona, Tucson. His research interests are observational cosmology, gravitational lensing and the evolution and structure of galaxies. He is a past Vice President of the American Astronomical Society, a Fellow of the AAAS and has been NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar and the Carnegie Council on Teaching's Arizona Professor of the Year. Jonathan Lunine is the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University. His research interests center broadly on planetary origin and evolution, in our solar system and around other stars. He is an interdisciplinary scientist on the Cassini mission to Saturn and on the James Webb Telescope, as well as on the Juno mission to Jupiter. He is the author of over 250 papers and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, as well as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Jose Funes is a Jesuit priest, director of the Vatican Observatory and member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. His field of research includes kinematics and dynamics of disk galaxies and star formation in the local universe. He proposed the Study Week on Astrobiology that was organised by the Pontifical Academy of Science and held in Casina Pio IV of the Vatican City State in November 2009 which led to this volume.
Mark Ladner, the Chef at Del Posto, redefines what excellent Italian Cooking in America can be. With a focus on regional Italian ingredients and tradition, Ladner has chosen recipes that bring together flavors from the old country, but in sophisticated new ways, like: Fried Calamari with Spicy Caper Butter Sauce; Red Wine Risotto with Carrot Puree, Monkfish Piccata, Veal Braciole, and Ricotta-Chocolate Tortino. But what is special is that these recipes will really work in the home kitchen, unlike some ambitious cookbooks like this. And given Del Posto's origin and founders, the book includes recipes by Lidia Bastianich, and forewords by Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich. Plus, the award-winning sommelier at Del Posto offers advice on which Italian varietals to serve with what dishes. All this is complemented by photography that is inspired by 16th century still life paintings. As the New York Times said in their review: "The food bewilders and thrills."
Mark Ladner opened Del Posto with Mario Batali and Joe and Lidia Bastianich in the fall of 2005. The restaurant received a four-star New York Times review in 2010 and was recently honored with a Michelin Star, the Relais & Chateaux Grand Chef Distinction, the Grand Award from The wine Spectator and the Five Diamon from AAA. Ladner is the 2015 recipient of the James Beard Award for Best Chef, NYC.
The Development of a Conceptual Framework: The Stimulation of Coherence and Continuous Improvement in Teacher Education
This book focuses on the development and utilization of a conceptual framework in teacher preparation programs, in particular those seeking national accreditation. The book's aim is to show that a conceptual framework may act, as Goddlad said, "as the stimulation of an ethos- a system or framework within which continuous motivation, renewal and rebirth can occur." The Development of a Conceptual Framework should contribute to helping teacher education units fashion a coherent perspective in their operations by being able, through a conceptual framework, to relate the unit parts into a coherent pattern or whole.