Smart, helpful, and honest, THE BRIDESMAID HANDBOOK lets you be your most brilliant bridesmaid self with lots of tips, advice, interactive materials, and a healthy dose of self-care strategies.There's nothing quite like being a bridesmaid. From throwing love-filled celebrations to wearing fabulous outfits, it can be one of the most unique and rewarding experience of your life. Just as important, it is a beautiful expression of your commitment and love for your best...

Ascension: Awakening in 5D is a type of guide book for those who are ready for their next step in their ascension journey. Since 2012 humans have been aligning with higher consciousness which is moving the Earth into the 5th dimensional realm and out of 3D which has had a strong hold on us for the last 13,000 years. Learning how to expand your awareness to live in your heart centered bliss and harmony with the cosmos is a lifelong journey but here Heather takes you through step by step to ...

This Moment of Retreat is a companion guide to spiritual growth and healing. Over the course of seven chapters, readers are encouraged to retreat into the present moment to listen to the healing guidance that is being sung in the voices of Scripture, prayer and meditation, journaling, poetry, and song. Each chapter features a theme of healing and offers an opportunity for personal or group retreat through prose, poetry, prayer, or reflection activities that help the reader claim beauty in ...

Rocky is a young parakeet with a loving family and nice life. There is only one problem, Rocky wants to be a Cockatoo! What happens next might change her mind or make her desire to be a Cockatoo even stronger

A collection of biographical poems with authors from over 10 countries. With this book, we have expanded our reach to Tanzania and Greece. There are nearly 60 authors in this book. Get a glimpse of some non fiction poems.

Clothing and fashion accessories can serve as valuable primary sources for learning about our history. This unique book examines daily life in 20th-century America through the lens of fashion and clothing.This collection explores fashion artifacts from daily life to shed light on key aspects of the social life and culture of Americans in the 20th century. Artifacts from American Fashion covers forty-five essential articles of fashion or accessories, chosen...

A poetic, rhyming story about the profound way books shape us and become part of who we are, featuring clever nods to the most classic children's books of all time. A true love letter to the power of creating readers at the youngest age and the magic that happens when you love a book.A book is a friend found in all shapes and sizes,a buddy who's bound to be full of surprises.And when you grow bigger your books grow big, too....

A crafty little witch and cast of distracting ghosts give knitting advice in this sweet and funny story that includes step-by-step instructions so little ones can knit their very own ghost!Knitting a ghost is easy.To knit a ghost, you need to cast on some stitches.Cast? Like a spell?Nope. Different kind of casting.Join a little witch on her knitting journey as she navigates ghostly distractions, a hungry cat, ...

Clean Language Interviewing is a landmark publication that defines the field for this important practice; it is essential reading for all researchers who seek to obtain data that are faithful to the experience of the interviewee. Clean language interviewing aims to improve the ability of academic and applied researchers to minimise the introduction of the interviewer’s own assumptions, to avoid ‘leading’ questions and instead to ask ‘clean’ questions.Heather Cairns-Lee, Ja...

This unique four-volume encyclopedia examines the historical significance of fashion trends, revealing the social and cultural connections of clothing from the precolonial times to the present day.This sweeping overview of fashion and apparel covers several centuries of American history as seen through the lens of the clothes we wear—from the Native American moccasin to Manolo Blahnik's contribution to stiletto heels. Through four detailed volumes, this work delves...

Scholars, journalists, and policymakers have long argued that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act dramatically reshaped the demographic composition of the United States. In A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered, leading scholars of immigration explore how the political and ideological struggles of the "age of restriction"--from 1924 to 1965--paved the way for the changes to come. The essays examine how geopolitics, civil rights, perceptions of America's role as a humanitarian s...

I knew him only as Van Gogh.A tortured artist who owned the night as he moved through the shadows, cloaked in hate and madness.He was a vicious vigilante—a serial arsonist who thrived on the fear he triggered with a single match between his tattooed knuckles.We were told to lock our doors and stay inside. I wanted to. I really did.But then I saw his eyes, burning like embers as he watched me through the smoke. And like the flames at his feet...