Leisure Arts Tunisian Crochet Baby Blankets eBook- Create heirloom blankets for baby with Tunisian crochet. If you love the look of knits, but are an avid crocheter, this is the book for you. Learn to make 8 different Tunisian crochet textures with this stunning collection of patterns. Designs include: basket weave blocks, purple garden, frosted stitch stripes, color waves, bubbling bobbles, telegram, cables & honeycombs, and bright strands. Projects call for size 3 light and 4 worsted wei...

A once-in-a-generation event held every twenty years, the Minnowbrook conference brings together the top scholars in public administration and public management to reflect on the state of the field and its future. This unique volume brings together a group of distinguished authors—both seasoned and new—for a rare critical examination of the field of public administration yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The book begins by examining the ideas of previous Minnowbrook conferences, such ...

Featuring gorgeous yarns from fine weight to bulky, these 8 diverse wraps will take you through the seasons in style and comfort. Their knit look textures are created using Tunisian crochet patterns for skill levels from easy to intermediate. Designs include: expanding vees, cables and hearts, hot pink lace, silver shimmer, and more. Includes step-by-step instructions and full-color photographed diagrams. Projects call for Tunisian hooks in US sizes K-10 1/2 and N/P that are at least 22" l...

With illustrations, step-by-step guides, and bonus online tutorials, you'll be back to your former skill level in no time. Designs include: plaid blanket, waves blanket, baby hat, and more. Projects call for size 4 worsted weight yarn and a variety of crochet hooks ranging between US sizes H-8 and K-10 1/2. Each project includes its own step-by-step instructions, stitch guides and diagrams. Easy skill level.

We are in a spiritual battle that begins in the MIND, however, this battle is not only in our mind, but our entire SOUL: MIND, WILL AND EMOTION which is why SOUL SERIES was created.In this edition of SOUL SERIES, LORD OF OUR MIND, will help you keep a sound mind, stayed on God in troubling times. This book, LORD OF OUR MIND will help you keep a sound mind, stayed on God in these troubling times. It explains how to maintain a clean...

Most public service jobs require interpersonal contact that is either face-to-face or voice-to-voice - relational work that goes beyond testable job skills but is essential for job completion. This unique book focuses on this emotional labor and what it takes to perform it.The authors weave a powerful narrative of stories from the trenches gleaned through interviews, focus groups, and survey data. They go beyond the veneer of service delivery to the real, live, person-to-person interaction...

The author's of the award-winning Emotional Labor now go inside the stressful world of suicide, rape, and domestic hotline workers, EMTs, triage nurses, and agency/deparment spokespersons, to provide powerful insights into how emotional labor is actually exerted by public servants who face the gravest challenges.

Widely interdisciplinary in appeal, this book reports on the successes of innovative training opportunities for non-college women who end up in low-paying, low-mobility, pink-collar jobs. The author examines the relative effectiveness of various programs in helping these women gain access to high-wage, high-mobility employment opportunities. The analysis includes case studies of grant-funded projects, as well as in-depth statistical analysis using ten years of data on women throughout the ...

These little animal children represent life and how we treat each other. Hattie Hedgehog and Polly Porcupine treat everyone with God-given love and respect. And by their example, they can change the hearts of others. And God willing, so can we.

This book covers the basics and advancements in various solar thermal desalination systems that are highly affordable and viable even for applications in low-income countries. Fresh water is an essential natural resource needed for the continuous existence of living organisms on earth. Civilizations have started and flourished along riverbanks which can be understood from historical literature. This precious resource has also been a cause for a lot of past and current wars and conflicts am...

This volume conceptualizes and distinguishes storying from narrative and storytelling to establish itself as a method. It theorizes that storying pertains to ones’ identity, to the unique positions of who one is, how they came to be, and why they came to be (Raj, 2019). Building upon foundational work from Freire, Greene, and Clandinin & Connelly, this book elucidates storying through a new concept “emotional truth”--a deeply personal and authentic experience that builds a tangible connect...

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Perspectives on Emotional Labor in Public Service challenges traditional public administration theory and its disavowal of the emotive component to public service delivery. Providing a comprehensive and comparative overview of the current research in this previously understudied area, this handbook situates emotional labor within public service and establishes emotional labor within individual, organizational, cultural, and situational scenarios. Wi...