Teach children to sew on a machine with kid-friendly, boredom-busting projects!Start off your kids on a lifelong sewing adventure with simple projects they'll love to make. Starting with basic handmade cards and accessories to learn their machine, they'll work their way up to challenging projects like a notebook cover and drawstring backpack. With safety tips, skill-building games to play, and puzzles to practice and remember all they've learned, this updated secon...

A University of Texas at Austin art student comes home to find police on her doorstep. They tell her that her microbiologist mother and engineer father as well as all of her parents' coworkers are dead. Isa wants to understand what happened. She enlists the assistance of an investigative journalist to find out. The pair have no idea where this search will take them.This book is first in a trilogy called After Normal. It takes place in a period from the year 2003 to 2045. W...

“A memoir with the fierce narrative force of an eastern Montana blizzard, rich in story and character, filled with the bone-chilling details of Blunt’s childhood. She writes without bitterness, with an abiding love of the land and the work and her family and friends that she finally left behind, at great sacrifice, to begin to write. This is a magnificent achievement, a book for the ages. I’ve never read anything that compares with it.”—James Crumley, author of The Last Good Kis...

Today’s highly industrialized and technologically controlled global food systems dominate our lives, shaping our access and attitudes towards food and deeply influencing and defining our identities. At the same time, these food systems are profoundly and destructively impacting the health of the environment and threatening all of us, human and nonhuman, who must subsist in ecological conditions of increasing fragility and scarcity. This collection examines and exposes the myriad ways that ...

This lively survey of the peoples, cultures, and societies of Southeast Asia introduces a region of tremendous geographic, linguistic, historical, and religious diversity. Encompassing both mainland and island countries, these engaging essays describe personhood and identity, family and household organization, nation-states, religion, popular culture and the arts, the legacies of war and recovery, globalization, and the environment. Throughout, the focus is on the daily lives and experienc...

This lively survey of the peoples, cultures, and societies of Southeast Asia introduces a region of tremendous geographic, linguistic, historical, and religious diversity. Encompassing both mainland and island countries, these engaging essays describe personhood and identity, family and household organization, nation-states, religion, popular culture and the arts, the legacies of war and recovery, globalization, and the environment. Throughout, the focus is on the daily lives and experienc...

Friends at a volleyball party by the Firebrand River, discover strange, green pollution and a human finger bone. Mira Cash, the owner of the land, works with police and an EPA investigator to help solve both this new mystery and a twenty-year-old cold case.The Firebrand River is Book Two of the trilogy: After Normal. This trilogy describes current times crumbling into ruin through the year 2045. It's about people living with love and hope after the world's devastation. The books ar...

Discover the transformative power of Divine Love Affair: An Akashic Journey, the award-winning and bestselling audiobook by Nancy Smith, expertly narrated by Lisa Daley and Published by Audiobook Publishing Services. This spiritual guide is your key to unlocking your soul’s purpose and living a life filled with divine love, fulfillment, and self-discovery.Are you feeling lost, overwhelmed, or disconnected ...

An incredibly convenient tool for learning and practicing the Golden Dawn-recommended daily rituals.While meditation is an excellent way to change your reality, ceremonial magick incorporates so much more than just visualization. Magick (as opposed to slight of hand techniques known as "magic") incorporates, the vibrations of your voice and movements, breathwork and tactile sensations in addition to visualization to manifest your goal.The daily rituals of ceremonial magick ...

Saint Anthony of Padua is especially invoked and venerated all over the world as the patron saint for the recovery of lost items and is credited with many miracles involving lost people, lost things and even lost spiritual goods. The names and places in these stories are fiction; the incidents, however, are real. They were sent to the Editor by clients of the Saint in their accounts of thanksgivings for favors received through St. Anthony's intercession and for which most of them had promi...

A Short History of Bali covers the entire history of this intriguing and mysterious island from before the Bronze Age to the presidency of Megawati Sukarnoputri and the tragedy of the Kuta bombings on 12 October 2002. It looks at the arrival of Indian culture early European contact the role of anthropologists and taste-makers of the 1930s in romanticising the island and the complex legacies of Dutch control. It tells of the Japanese Occupation the Indonesian Revolution the massacres of 196...

What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of cultures, developing friction as a metaphor for the diverse and conflicting ...