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Shapeshifting, co-edited by Jeanine Leane and Ellen van Neerven, is a wide-ranging collection of nonfiction by First Nations writers that breaks new ground. These lyric essays push the boundaries of nonfiction beyond the biographical or the academic, with pieces that experiment with form and embark on carefully crafting and re-crafting interventions that both challenge and expand existing genre structures. Shapeshifting brings to the fore a whole new genre waiting to take shape, to be formed, informed and re-formed by First Nations Australian writers. Contributors include Charmaine Papertalk Green, Jim Everett, Jenni Martiniello, Natalie Harkin, Mykaela Saunders, Daniel Browning, Evelyn Araluen, Alison Whittaker, Rhianna Patrick, Melanie Saward, Timmah Ball and Hugo Comisari.
Tapestry Conservation: Principles and Practice explores current practice and recent research in tapestry conservation, promoting awareness of recent developments among conservators and custodians of tapestries. The book facilitates more informed conservation practice and decision-making, and helps custodians to select the most appropriate method of intervention.
Wise Her Still Three-Fold is a compelling follow-up to the Wise Her Still series. This phenomenal book is a must-have guide for single and not-so-single Christian women. Wise Her Still Three-Fold contains a compilation of fictional stories written to bring revelation and restoration to women. Each story is followed up by hard-hitting facts and truths so potent, they will change the way you view life, relationships and God.
Discover Math Matters! With over 15 million books sold worldwide, this award-winning series of easy-to-read books will help young readers ages 5–8 approach math with enthusiasm. Great for fans of MathStart or Step into Reading Math. Tina's had a growth spurt. Will she get used to being Too-Tall Tina in time to avoid disaster on Sports Day? With engaging stories that connect math to kids’ everyday lives, each book in the Teachers’ Choice Award–winning Math Matters series focuses on a single concept and reinforces math vocabulary and skills. Bonus activities in the back of each book feature math and reading comprehension questions, and even more free activities online add to the fun! (Math topic: Comparing Measurements)
This volume focuses largely on the British Isles, with papers on dress terms in two major works of literature, the Welsh Mabinogion and the Middle English Pearl; a study of a 13th-century royal bride's trousseau.
Filled with expressive sentiments and beautifully simple illustrations from award-winning artist and best-selling author Joanne Fink, "When You Lose a Beloved Pet" offers healing comfort with all who are grieving and dealing with loss. Affirming and cathartic, this comforting book will help bring healing without sugarcoating the sadness of losing a pet. Everyone who has lost a pet--whether recently or years ago--will connect with the thoughtful sentiments and beautiful illustrations. "When You Lose a Beloved Pet" is a sweet sympathy gift of comfort for anyone who endures the journey of losing a special friend. Joanne Fink is an award-winning designer, calligrapher, best-selling author and founder of Zenspirations. She has spent 20 years designing and developing products for the gift, stationary, craft, and faith-based markets. She is an inspirational speaker and has given workshops all over the world. Joanne is the author of 20 books at Fox Chapel Publishing, including "When You Lose Someone You Love."
A guide to the fundamentals of the materials and techniques used to create textiles.
A couple adjusting to differing ideas for retirement. A woman who receives a phone call from the mother who abandoned her. A man who is inadvertently drawn into his ex-wife’s wedding, and many more. It has been said that truth is stranger than fiction. Indeed, the real world presents endless fascinating stories of people struggling through the unique and challenging experiences of their everyday lives. In this anthology of short fiction, author Linda M. Carpentier looks to the real world to draw startling and affecting conclusions about modern-day reality. Each story opens a window into the mindset of people’s daily obstacles, telling the stories of those who may as well be your own friends, family, or neighbours just down the street. In these dramas, you will find encouragement to face life’s journey with strength and hope. Stories of Our Time is sure to captivate and draw you out of your home—and into the homes of others.
Dandelions Are Nice, But Roses Are Better tells about the humorous adventures of Eric and his wife Tina Kane who own a famous restaurant and belong to a motley group called the Springvine Irregulars in a small town in Georgia. With the help of Lotty Dotty, Hitching Post, Loony Evans, and other colorful friends with specific habits, they enjoy helping others and sticking up for one another.
Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinction. Yet, as the essays in this collection make clear, the term ‘luxury’ is one that can be fraught with difficulties for historians. Focusing upon the consumption, commercialisation and production of luxury textiles in Italy and the Low Countries during the late medieval and early modern period, this volume offers a fascinating exploration of the varied and subtle ways that luxury could be interpreted and understood in the past. Beginning with the consumption of luxury textiles, it takes the reader on a journey back from the market place, to the commercialisation of rich fabrics by an in...