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A Year of Gingerbread Houses: Tips and Tricks for Baking, Assembling, and Decorating
by Kristine SamuellGingerbread houses seem to come straight from a beloved fairy tale with their fanciful piping and bright candy decorations! Guided by, Kristine Samuell, you&’ll see how to make the magic happen right in your own kitchen. Delight everyone with six exquisite gingerbread house projects to take you through and then beyond the traditional Christmas season: a Winter Wonderland, Haunted Hideaway, Kari&’s Ski Cabin, Louisa&’s Bakery, Sweet Retreat, and Birthday Picnic. Kristine offers recipes and project templates; expert advice on planning, baking, and assembling a gingerbread house; and invaluable tips about techniques and decorating, from roofs to landscaping.
Environmental and Technological Threats in the Arctic Region: Infrastructures, Geopolitics and Strategy (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies)
by Mathieu Landriault Magali Vullierme Michael DelaunayArctic subregions have undergone major structural changes in the past few decades. Looking past traditional military and geopolitical understandings of these regions, this book focuses rather on climate change and on the emergence of the digital economy and its infrastructures as two of the most fundamental challenges for Arctic communities and inhabitants.To this end, Section I, on Arctic (re)newned environment, focuses on the acceleration of permafrost thaw, protection of submarine cables, and the importance of an all-domain military approach. Section II analyses infrastructure challenges linked to this “new” Arctic environment, providing examples within maritime, transportation, and digital-physical infrastructures. Finally, Section III provides results of research focusing on the emerging geopolitical and strategic threats posed by data routes, technological dependencies, cryptocurrency mining, and disinformation. Over the course of the book, authors offer practical insights into how to tackle these threats, lessons learned, best practices, and recommendations. By bringing together analyses from a range of authors from different interdisciplinary backgrounds, the book provides a holistic understanding of these phenomena.This volume will be useful for students, scholars, and researchers of Arctic studies, environmental governance, and environmental security.
Healthy Landscapes: Theory and Design Approaches to Promote Health in Urban Communities
by Bin Jiang Lan Luo Xueming LiuThis book responds to the need for a comprehensive and detailed theoretical framework and systemic design approaches to improve mental, physical, social, behavioral, and ecological health in urban environments.Although rapid urban development has created enormous economic and social value, it has also brought problems that have posed serious threats to the health of urban residents. Healthy Landscapes begins by reviewing practical experience, as well as theoretical and scientific evidence, from several related disciplines around the world. This is used to construct a provisional framework consisting of ten theoretical pathways for the environment to promote mental, physical,social, behavioral, and ecological health: Relieving mental stress; restoring direct attention; promoting environmental preference; promoting sublime and transcendent perceptions; promoting active lifestyles; preventing the spread of infectious diseases; promoting ecological services; enhancing social support; promoting the sense of belonging; and improving the sense of security. From these 24 theoretical pathways, the authors go on to identify 67 critical environmental characteristics for creating healthy communities, which are used to inform the design guidelines they go on to apply to community environment scenarios.This book will be an invaluable resource for students of landscape architectural design, architecture, and urban design. It will also be an essential tool for design professionals and urban administrators who want a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental theories of healthy communities with design guidelines supported by scientific evidence.
Making Meaning in Puppetry: Materials, Practice, Perception
by Dassia N. PosnerFrom ice puppets to robots, from intricate marionettes to abstract forms, Making Meaning in Puppetry investigates the elusive and multifaceted how of how puppets make meaning in performance.This engaging collection develops a vocabulary for understanding and articulating how the puppet’s meaning-making systems work across the book’s three distinct parts. Part 1 on Materiality illuminates how materials are chosen and dramaturgy is crafted into a puppet’s design; Part 2 on Practice investigates the interresponsive collaboration between puppet and puppeteer; and Part 3 on Perception considers how spectators understand and read a puppet production. The volume thus traces the full evolution of a puppet, from its raw materials, to its performance possibilities, to the moment it comes to imagined life. The seventeen chapters, authored by experts in the field, build bridges between puppetry and related fields, such as robotics, phenomenology, cognitive science, and queer theory, while using the puppet as their primary anchor of analysis.Making Meaning in Puppetry is ideal for students of theatre and performance studies, theatre artists, scholars, and anyone who is fascinated by this rich performance form and wants to understand it more deeply.
Assembling the Archipelago: Heritage in Energy Transitions and Climate Action (Routledge Environmental Humanities)
by Marilena MelaThis book explores the potential of heritage to enact sustainable human–environment relationships across geographical differences. It does so by travelling to four archipelagoes: the Wadden Islands in the Netherlands, the Cyclades in Greece, Shetland in Scotland, and the Aeolian Islands in Italy. In the face of planetary socioenvironmental crises, the reliance on sustainable development strategies, including the energy transition, on technocratic, top-down solutions fail to counterbalance global agendas of extraction and growth and address environmental injustices in "peripheral" places. This book stresses the need to "think small," arguing that seeds for meaningful change exist in such places and the geographically and historically situated relationships between people and environments. Islands, interconnected yet autonomous places with unique histories, are good places to start. In four archipelagoes, frictions produced both by climate change and climate mitigation ―the fragile consensus around a solar park in the Wadden Sea, conflicts around wind turbine towers in the Aegean, experiments with the tides in Shetland, and volcanic episodes in the Aeolian―come in dialogue with the learning potential of their environmental and cultural heritage. The counterposing of these stories renegotiates established discourses of heritage and sustainability and the associated courses of action in policy and planning.This contribution will resonate with academics, students, policymakers, and activists in heritage studies, environmental humanities, landscape studies, science and technology studies, and sustainability. Readers are invited to participate in the life and troubles of four island landscapes, and to think along on emergent, archipelagic claims towards sustainable and just futures.
Plant Biotechnology: The Medicinal and Phytopharmaceutical Aspects
by Durgesh Nandini Chauhan Nagendra Singh Chauhan Deependra Singh Manju Rawat SinghThis book explores our knowledge of biotechnology and its application to improving the quality of medicinal plants. With its unique and sustained focus on medicinal plant biotechnology, it offers an essential guide and a systematic reference for the development of medicinal products with the help of biotechnology from natural sources. With contributions from world-renowned experts in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceutical biology, pharmacognosy, chemistry, and pharmaceutical biotechnology, Plant Biotechnology was written while keeping in mind the requirements of botanists, the pharmaceutical industry, biotechnologists, microbiologists, and specialists working on plant biotechnology. It can serve as either a textbook or a reference work for students, teachers, or scientists working in the field of medicinal plant biotechnology, and its readership also includes natural product chemists, biotechnologists, pharmacognosists, and pharmacologists, as well as academic and industry researchers.Features: Provides essential evidence for all specialists overseeing supportive biotechnology on its utility Discusses the fundamental techniques in biotechnology and their implementation with medicinal plants
Sweet Excess: Crafting Mishti in Bengal (Ethnographic Innovations, South Asian Perspectives)
by Ishita DeyThis book is an ethnographic work on excess. Based on a decade-long field work of a single food substance — sweets — it follows sweet-making in sweetshops, domestic spaces, fairs, festivals and its representation in recipe books to understand how caste, religion, science and law inform the life of a food item with an extremely short shelf life. It shows how food items of conspicuous consumption find a meaning in everyday lives of people through its socio-cultural meanings - ritual, pride of craftsmanship, heritage and cultural identity. It also shows how sweets continue to be a ubiquitous part of ‘Bengali’ diet in a geography that has been witness to acute hunger, starvation, food movements and social welfare programmes to ensure food security.As a multi-sited ethnography on sweetness in diverse settings and its associated meanings in West Bengal and Bangladesh, this book explores everyday workplace hierarchies between artisans that reveal how caste and religion inform the choice of who is hired into this line of work. It also highlights how discourses on food safety and the overpowering presence of World Trade Organization have affected the life of the Bengali mishti.The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of ethnography, sociology, history, and South Asian studies. And if you, dear reader, love mishti, you will love this, too!
Natural Theology: A Reassessment (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies)
by Andrew Ter LokeNatural Theology: A Reassessment offers corrections to widespread misinterpretations of the authoritative sources of Christian theology and shows that these sources affirm a traditional view of natural theology that refers to what can be rationally believed about God without using religious doctrines as premises. Contrary to popular misconceptions, Hume and Kant did not successfully rebut the arguments of natural theology, which are still being defended today. This book develops a more rigorous deductively valid formulation of the Cosmological, Teleological, and Moral Arguments for the existence of God and shows how the truth of their premises can be defended, thus demonstrating the soundness of these arguments which show that God exists. Using a unique approach which engages with philosophical theology of both analytic and continental traditions, it offers new arguments to address long-standing problems in epistemology of theology concerning foundationalism, epistemic circularity, divine transcendence, the culturally variant notion of human reason, the lack of consensus among experts, and the accusation of anthropomorphism and ontotheology and provides a thorough response to theological objections, the god-of-the-gaps objection, and the objection that arguments are open to revisions. The author develops an interdisciplinary approach involving theology, philosophy, and science to move the discussion ahead in a new and significant way.
Essentials of Elementary Social Studies
by Stewart Waters William B. Russell IIIEssentials of Elementary Social Studies is a teacher-friendly text that provides comprehensive treatment of classroom planning, instruction, and strategies. Praised for its dynamic approaches and a writing style that is conversational yet professional, this book enables and encourages educators to effectively teach elementary social studies using creative and active learning strategies. This seventh edition has been refined with new and relevant topics and strategies needed for effectively teaching elementary social studies. Updates include: A refreshed chapter on technology designed to better prepare elementary teachers to effectively incorporate technology, including artificial intelligence, into social studies instruction while understanding the benefits and dangers New classroom-tested, elementary-appropriate lesson plans for each grade level (K-6), in keeping with the book’s emphasis on planning and teaching New discussions on promoting inclusive practices in the classroom and supporting neurodiverse students and students with learning disabilities Additional attention to discussions around citizenship for younger grades New and revised case studies New "Checking for Understanding" sections at the end of each chapter that offer comprehension, application, and reflection on key concepts throughout the chapters Supplemental digital and video sources related to various topics throughout the chapter Full of practical guidance for K-6 teaching, Essentials of Elementary Social Studies is essential reading for pre-service teachers in Social Studies Education and Elementary Education as well as in-service elementary social studies teachers.
Liabilities and Modern Artificial Intelligence: A Tri-Phase Model (Law and Change)
by Estelle WallingfordThis book addresses how private law liability should be assigned in contexts where modern forms of AI are deployed.AI as a technology holds the potential to radically improve global society, yet the pace of its advancement far outstrips the pace at which legal systems are responding. This book explores legal approaches to AI, how AI should be legally characterised, and proposes an overarching theoretical liability framework termed the Tri-Phase AI Liability Model. This framework is flexible in nature and considers the type of AI, the context in which it is deployed, who has the most control over the AI system and the capacity of a deployed AI. In response, this book brings greatly needed clarity to the evolving landscape of AI governance, aiding in resolving existing and emerging private law challenges.This book is a timely response to the urgent need to resolve private law liabilities and will appeal to legal professionals, policy makers, and scholars looking to understand or contribute to the current and future governance of AI within private law.
Understanding Threats to Space Systems and Space Assets: Strategic Challenges in The New Space Environment (Space Power and Politics)
by Jakub PražákThis book explores the current space threat profile in an increasingly contested, congested, and competitive space environment.This work looks at the conflictual nature of space relations and highlights various issues resulting from great‑power competition in the space domain. This book recognizes non‑state entities’ increased engagement in this domain, including their different roles, and consequently incorporates commercial actors into space strategic thinking. It also discusses the perils of the space environment, political conflicts, space weapons, malicious space operations, and the risks stemming from potentially hazardous dual‑se technology. Finally, this book outlines the means to improve the protection of space systems with an emphasis on the inclusion of a broad spectrum of stakeholders and offers arguments for the establishment of new norms to strengthen the responsible use of outer space. This book will be of much interest to students of space power, security studies, and international relations.
All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
by Ruby TandohFood dominates our every waking minute: Hype restaurants. Allrecipes. The Great British Bake Off. In this dazzling cultural history, bestselling food writer Ruby Tandoh (author of Cook As You Are) traces how—and why—we&’ve all become foodies.&“Ruby Tandoh is a genius and All Consuming is everything.&” —Bryan Washington, author of Family Meal&“A fascinating, sometimes shocking, eye-opener that is also brilliantly funny.&” —Claudia RodenHow, in the space of a few decades, has food gone from fact of life to national past time; something to be thought about—and talked about—24/7? In this startlingly original, deeply irreverent cultural history, Ruby Tandoh traces that transformation, exposing how cult cookbooks, bad TV, visionary restaurants, and new social media have all wildly overhauled our appetites. All Consuming explores:•The rise of the TikTok food critic•What makes a hype restaurant go viral•Bubble tea&’s world domination•The dream of the modern dinner party•The limits of the cookbook•The history of the supermarket•Wellness drinks—and where they come from•The rise and fall of the automatOur tastes have been radically refashioned, painstakingly engineered in the depths of food factories, and hacked by craveable Instagram recipes. They&’ve been pulled into supermarket aisles and seduced by Michelin stars, transfixed by Top Chefs and shaped by fads. A deep dive into the social, economic, cultural, legislative, and demographic forces that have reshaped our relationship with food, All Consuming questions how our tastes have been shaped—and how much they are, in fact, our own.
Death in the Aviary: The Charlotte Blood Chronicles
by Victoria DowdA &‘locked lift&’ mystery for Golden Age crime fans, from award-winning author Victoria Dowd.New Year&’s Eve 1928 – In the grand residence of Ravenswick Abbey, isolated in the wilds of Dartmoor, nine members of the household step into an ornate lift. The power fails. The lift stops. In the darkness, a single shot is fired.When the light returns, Charles Ravenswick — the heir to the Ravenswick fortune — is dead on the floor. No one could have got in or out. All have motives, and none have alibis.A year later under the pretence of reporting on the family&’s infamous ravens, sparky Charlotte Blood investigates. She finds a house haunted by suspicion and secrets. She must unravel the mystery and with it the terrible truth behind the entire Ravenswick family. Her search will not only lead her down a dangerous path, it will reveal dark secrets that lurk in her own life...
Dropbear
by Philip BuntingUp there! Gray hair! Grim stare! Beware . . . Dropbear!A humorous and heartfelt picture book perfect for 2 to 5 year olds, this rhyming romp through the outback teaches preschoolers and their grown-ups that things aren't always as they seem, and that all creatures deserve the benefit of the doubt.Hold your breath and count to three as woodland creatures share spooky stories about Dropbear, the rumored meanie who lives way up in an old gum tree. But when one little birdie decides to investigate the truth, it turns out that maybe Dropbear just wants . . . something special.Perfect for repeat read-alouds, this playful rhyming story will have readers dropping in for more Dropbear.
Clown Town (Slough House)
by Mick Herron"May be the best Slow Horses book to date."—The Wall Street JournalTHE NEW NOVEL IN THE SERIES BEHIND SLOW HORSES, AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+Jackson Lamb and the bad spies of Slough House are caught in a deadly battle between MI5's secret past and its murky future in this gripping, hilarious, and heartbreaking thriller by Mick Herron, &“the le Carré of the future&” (BBC).&“Old spies grow ridiculous, River. Old spies aren&’t much better than clowns.&” Or so David Cartwright, the late retired head of MI5, used to tell his grandson. He forgot to add that old spies can be dangerous, too, especially if they&’ve fallen on hard times—as River Cartwright is about to learn the hard way.David Cartwright, long buried, has left his library to the Spooks&’ College in Oxford, and now one of the books is missing. Or perhaps it never existed. River, once a &“slow horse&” of Slough House, MI5&’s outpost for demoted and disgraced spies, has some time to kill while awaiting medical clearance to return to work, and starts investigating the secrets of his grandfather&’s library.Over at the Park, MI5 First Desk Diana Taverner is in a pickle. An operation carried out during the height of the Troubles laid bare the ugly side of state security, and those involved are threatening to expose details. But every threat hides an opportunity, and Taverner has come up with a scheme. All she needs is the right dupe to get caught holding the bag.Jackson Lamb, the enigmatic and odiferous head of Slough House, has no plans to send in the clowns. On the other hand, if the clowns ignore his instructions, any harm that befalls them is hardly his fault. But they&’re his clowns. And if they don&’t all make it home, there&’ll be a reckoning.
People Watching: A Novel
by Hannah Bonam-YoungIn this sexy and emotional romance from the acclaimed author of Out of the Woods and Out on a Limb, a small-town woman&’s journey to spread her wings intertwines with the arrival of an adventurous newcomer who brings out the best in her.Prudence Welch has found solace in her introverted life in Baysville, a charming tourist town in Northern Ontario. Despite once dreaming of a life beyond its borders, she now finds contentment in her routines: working at her father&’s gas station, writing poetry, and caring for her mother, who was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer&’s disease shortly after Prue&’s nineteenth birthday. But as her mother&’s condition worsens and her father&’s concerns about her own future intensify, Prue feels her world slipping further out of control.Enter Milo Kablukov, an enigmatic wanderer whose beat-up van covered with ill-advised bumper stickers rolls into town just when Prue needs a change. It&’s all too easy to let go with him, and Prue can&’t help but strike up an unlikely friendship with Milo, which leads to a wild and sexy agreement between them.Milo, a man of many adventures and countless stories, is not one to settle down. However, his brother&’s urgent need for help has brought him to Baysville, and now the intriguing Prue has given him more reason to stay—especially once they start spending more time together, their chemistry intensifying, and casual-sex lessons begin at Prue&’s request.But as their temporary arrangement blossoms into something deeper, Prue and Milo discover that getting out of their comfort zones is one thing . . . taking that leap together is something else entirely.
Touch Me, I'm Sick: A Memoir in Essays
by Margeaux FeldmanReject the stigmas of trauma and chronic illness by fostering queer forms of intimacy—and embracing the many ways humans can care for one another.The writer behind the popular @softcore_trauma Instagram offers a deeply personal memoir for folks seeking healing and better care.The forms of intimacy and care that we&’ve been sold are woefully inadequate and problematic. In a world that treats those who are sick and traumatized as problems in need of a cure, nonbinary writer, artist, educator, and Instagram creator Margeaux Feldman offers a different story.Trauma, which all too often manifests as chronic illness, tells us that there is something deeply wrong with the world we live in. A world that promotes individualism, fractures us from community through violence and systemic oppression, and leaves us traumatized. That is what we need to cure.While unveiling their own lived experiences caregiving for their sick father, losing their mother, surviving sexual abuse, and grappling with their own chronic illness, Feldman provides roadmaps for embracing queer modes of care, or &“hysterical intimacies,&” that reject the notion that those who have been labeled sick are broken. Feldman looks at the lengthy history of branding girls, women, and femmes–and their desires–as sick, from the treatment of hysterics by Jean-Martin Charcot and Sigmund Freud in the 19th and 20th centuries. What emerges is a valiant call for rethinking the ways we seek healing.This compelling blend of theory, personal narrative, and cultural criticism offers a path forward for reimagining the shapes and forms that intimacy, care, and interdependence can take.
Why School Boards Matter: Reclaiming the Heart of American Education and Democracy
by Scott R. LevyHow school boards are uniquely positioned to strengthen our public education system and our democracy.In Virginia, a contentious school board meeting led to an arrest and trespassing summons. In Utah, eleven people were charged with disorderly conduct after a board meeting turned chaotic. Not long ago, school boards conducted mundane district business. Understudied and underreported, they were an afterthought of centrally driven education reform efforts. Now, across blue, purple, and red states, school boards have become the epicenter of heated debates, reflecting society&’s deep divisions. In Why School Boards Matter, Scott Levy challenges conventional wisdom by reminding us of the essential role school boards play.While battles in the boardroom may be uncomfortable, they exemplify how passionate Americans are about education. As policymakers debate the federal government&’s role in K-12 and states pursue sharply divergent policies, Levy offers a roadmap that empowers school boards to tackle intractable public education challenges, including initiative fatigue, district climate, and accountability. School boards are where theory meets practice, where federal and state requirements converge with local policies, and where constituents can advocate for important issues affecting our children today. Every K-12 stakeholder—administrators, teachers, parents, and students alike—has a vested interest in understanding how school boards shape education.
Think, Act, and Feel Better with CBT: Practical Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Tools for Life's Ups and Downs
by Gianna LaLota LMHC, LPCSimple, effective CBT skills tailored for common challenges like anxiety, perfectionism, procrastination, insomnia, and moreCognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a powerful, evidence-based psychotherapy for managing mental health conditions like anxiety disorders, depression, and ADHD. However, it&’s also popular for coping with daily-life issues, like procrastination and insomnia, because its structured, goal-oriented approach and focus on problem-solving can offer rapid relief to anyone facing tough times. By helping people think through the connections between their thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and physical reactions, CBT helps them act in ways that make them feel better. With Think, Act, and Feel Better with CBT, you can achieve measurable relief from chronic stress, anger, overthinking, people-pleasing, and other barriers to good mental health and greater well-being This collection of CBT guides features: Accessible, beginner-friendly explanations that don&’t require familiarity or prior experience with cognitive behavioral therapy.Concise, action-oriented CBT toolkits packed with therapeutic insights, CBT skills, and practical strategies customized for everyday challenges.Insightful guidance by a licensed CBT expert who has helped hundreds of clients overcome mental and emotional issues to live happier, fuller lives.Additional skills and strategies from DBT and ACT, two popular, newer approaches to therapy that build on the foundational CBT model.
Godly Ambition: Unlocking the Full Potential of Your Time, Talent, and Treasure
by Ruslan KDAmbition isn&’t the enemy—it&’s the answer.Ruslan KD went from refugee to success story. Now the influential YouTuber, artist, and entrepreneur shares his playbook for building a career that leverages your gifts, serves your community, and glorifies God.Trying to make our way in a fast-moving world, we can often feel overwhelmed, ill-equipped, and unsure of next steps. And ambition? Many times, it&’s mistaken for selfishness and gets a bad rap. But what if ambition, rooted in faith, is exactly what you need to uncover your purpose, sharpen your skills, and make an impact for God's kingdom?In Godly Ambition, hip-hop artist, entrepreneur, and popular YouTuber Ruslan KD shares his story—from growing up as a refugee with a single mom to facing a future headed for trouble. Instead, faith and hard work led him to a life filled with purpose, impact, and peace.In this book, you'll learn how to• understand the difference between selfish and godly ambition• clarify your identity and purpose in Christ• make the most of where you are right now while building toward your future• develop skills that set you apart• take simple, actionable steps to move forward in your lifeNo fluff. No hype. Just practical insights to help you chase the right goals and live with deeper purpose. Wherever you are today, Godly Ambition will challenge and inspire you to live boldly for God, using your gifts to make a difference.
Rebel Girls 5-Minute Stories
by Rebel GirlsRead these short stories and go on exciting adventures with 10 unforgettable Rebels.Presented in a beautiful gift book, each story in Rebel Girls: 5-Minute Stories is perfect to pick up and read before bedtime, or for sharing together with friends and family! Featuring a diverse range of women across sport, entertainment, science, and more, every story has been adapted to be suitable for younger readers. Gorgeous illustrations appear alongside the stories to engage and inspire children while they learn.Here’s what readers can expect from this singular short story book for girls:Write enchanting melodies with Taylor Swift.Dance across the stage with Alicia Alonso.Rescue elephants in Thailand with Lek Chailert.Start a tree-planting movement with Wangari Maathai.Invent computer coding with Ada Lovelace.Climb Mt. Everest with Junko Tabei.Race through Italy on a bicycle with Alfonsina Strada.Build a booming business with Madam C.J. Walker.Protect the environment with Autumn Peltier.Leap, flip, and twist to Olympic gold with Simone Biles!Uplifting and enlightening, Rebel Girls: 5-Minute Stories highlights the incredible stories of ten influential women in a collection of bite-sized but riveting five-minute tales. With a padded cover and gorgeous illustrations throughout, this beautiful keepsake is full of inspiring stories, making for a wonderful gift for kids of all ages.© 2025 Rebel Girls, Inc.
The Quilting Book: A Step-by-Step Guide to Quilting and Patchwork
by DKThe ultimate guide to quilting, from the first cut to the final stitch. The Quilting Book contains everything you need to know to create your own stunning quilt designs. This essential guide includes more than 200 step-by-step techniques, from measuring and cutting to quilting and binding, along with different styles including improv and foundation paper piecing. Once you have practiced the basics, try out your newfound skills with 13 quilting projects, or design your own with 85 classic pattern blocks. Whether you’re curious about quilting but don’t know where to start, or an experienced quilter looking for a handy reference as you build on your skills, The Quilting Book makes it easy to create quilts that will be loved for a lifetime.
Candace, the Universe, and Everything
by Sherri L. SmithA speculative middle grade novel about three generations of Black girls connected across time and space through a wormhole in their school locker.What if your locker was a wormhole to the past?On the first day of eighth grade, Candace Wells opens her locker and is astonished when an unusual bird flies out. Soon after, a notebook mysteriously appears on the top shelf, labeled Tracey Auburn, 1988. Stranger still, as Candace reads the notebook, new messages start to appear.Professor Tracey Auburn only vaguely remembers a bird flying into her locker in eighth grade, way back in 1988, and losing a notebook she could have sworn she put on the top shelf. Until Candace shows up at her office with the missing notebook forty years later.Quantum physicist Loretta Spencer will never forget the bird flying out of her locker in eighth grade in 1948. Her life&’s work has been to study the portal and others like it, and now she needs Tracey&’s and Candace&’s help to complete her research.So begins an unlikely friendship and a hunt around Chicago and the state of Illinois to uncover the secrets of the locker, the universe, and everything. One thing&’s for sure: Eighth grade will never be the same again.
The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, and Yourself on the Caregiving Path
by Emma Heming Willis"This book is a game changer for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. It comes out of Emma&’s pain, which she has turned into a purpose bigger than herself. I couldn&’t be prouder of her and the courage it took for her to write this. This book will help millions of families, like hers, like yours, like mine, like everyone&’s. It&’s a book for our time.&” —Maria ShriverFrom Emma Heming Willis, wife of Bruce Willis, a deeply personal and richly compassionate supportive guide that helps caregivers care for themselves while they navigate a loved one's dementia. AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVERThe day Emma Heming Willis&’ husband, Bruce Willis, was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), all they were given was a pamphlet and told to check back in a few months. With no hope or direction, Emma walked out of that doctor&’s appointment frozen with fear, confusion and a sense that her world had just fallen apart.In fact, it had. Bruce and Emma had their story written, their future mapped out. Yet all those dreams crumbled with that diagnosis, and Emma felt alone and more isolated than ever. How would she care for her husband while parenting their young daughters?At that devastating time, Emma just wanted someone who'd been through it to tell her, &“This feels terrible right now. Your life is in shambles. But it&’s going to be okay. Here are some things to think about and put in place so you cannot just survive but thrive.&”With The Unexpected Journey, Emma has written the book she wishes she&’d been handed on the day of Bruce&’s diagnosis: a supportive guide to navigating the complicated, heartbreaking, and transformative experience that is caregiving for your loved one. Weaving her personal journey as a care partner with the latest research and insights from the world&’s top dementia, caregiving, and integrative experts she offers the guidance and wisdom caregivers everywhere so desperately need to hear, including:A diagnosis isn&’t just a label, it&’s a starting point. It helps you better understand your person&’s behavior and respond with more clarity and compassion.Taking care of yourself is not optional; it's mandatory. It will make you a better care partner. It&’s not selfish, it&’s self-preserving.You don&’t have a choice about being on the dementia caregiving journey. But you do have a choice in terms of how you approach it and reframe it.Caregivers are human so you aren&’t always going to be patient and selfless. You have challenges and struggle with conflicting emotions and that&’s okay. Ultimately, The Unexpected Journey shows you how to care for yourself while doing one of the hardest, most heartbreaking jobs in the world. Because if you don&’t take care of yourself, you are not going to be able to look after anyone else—especially your loved one with dementia.For anyone caregiving for a loved one with any form of dementia, and even for those caregiving for other conditions, The Unexpected Journey shows that you are not alone. As Emma writes, &“I know that no two caregiving journeys are the same, but we are connected by the same unchosen thread. It&’s not an easy path for you, your loved one or your family. But I&’m here to let you know that you are not alone, and, in time, you will find your footing, and a way forward."
Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution
by Amy Coney BarrettFrom Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a glimpse of her journey to the Court and an account of her approach to the ConstitutionSince her confirmation hearing, Americans have peppered Justice Amy Coney Barrett with questions. How has she adjusted to the Court? What is it like to be a Supreme Court justice with school-age children? Do the justices get along? What does her normal day look like? How does the Court get its cases? How does it decide them? How does she decide?In Listening to the Law, Justice Barrett answers these questions and more. She lays out her role (and daily life) as a justice, touching on everything from her deliberation process to dealing with media scrutiny. With the warmth and clarity that made her a popular law professor, she brings to life the making of the Constitution and explains her approach to interpreting its text. Whether sharing stories of clerking for Justice Scalia or walking readers through prominent cases, she invites readers to wrestle with originalism and to embrace the rich heritage of our Constitution.