Designed for crafters, puzzle lovers, and pattern designers alike, Crafting Conundrums: Puzzles and Patterns for the Bead Crochet Artist provides methods, challenges, and patterns that offer a springboard for creative exploration. All are illustrated with beautiful color diagrams and photographs. Experienced bead crochet crafters looking for a proj

The Tapestry of the Gods: 16 Exceptional Mythological Novels gathers classical legend, heroic romance, speculative fantasy, and instructive retelling into a capacious survey of myth's literary afterlives. Its selections move between the grave architecture of ancient tragedy and the vivid narrative freedoms of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century popular fiction. Tales of Olympian power, questing heroes, doomed passion, and encounters between mortals and the divine reveal myth as both in...

Based on current data, descriptive case studies and theoretical perspectives, Exploring Widening Access for Mature Age Students considers international techniques and approaches to non-traditional and mature students in Further and Higher Education.The book provides quantitative and qualitative information regarding contemporary ways of thinking about, and institutional responses to, widening access for mature students (WAMS). It gives an up-to-date assessment of the curre...

Welcome to Volume 2 of The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology!This collection of positive and uplifting works has been created in response to PoArtMo, a year-long movement launched in 2020 by Auroras & Blossoms. PoArtMo stands for "Positive Actions Rally Thoughts & Momentum."The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: 2021 Edition features a variety of different works by 40+ artists, including poetry, short stories, flash fiction, visual art, and six word stories.Co...

**One of Library Journal’s best graphic novels of 2021!Centered around the aspiring actress Becca and her whirlwind rise to stardom, Everyone is Tulip is an original graphic novel that explores what it means to be a "star" in a generation that places more attention and value on YouTube clips and memes than it does Hollywood celebrities.**Becca Harper lands an acting role she didn't think would go anywhere, and suddenly finds herself flung into a "15 minutes of fame...