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This cozy and fun-to-knit scarf will keep your neck warm all winter long while still keeping your style intact. Knit with 2 skeins of MC, 1 skein of CC1 and 1 skein of CC2 with Plymouth Yarn® Encore® Chunky using U.S. size 11/8mm needles and a size K/10 1/2/6.5mm crochet hook for the fringe. Finished size is 8" x 60", excluding fringe.
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Sixteen essays, written by specialists from many fields, grapple with the problem of a popular culture that is not very popular - but is seen by most as vital to the body politic, whether endangered by globalization or capable of politically progressive messages for its audiences. Slippery Pastimes covers a variety of topics: Canadian popular music from rock 'n' roll to country, hip-hop to pop Celtic; television; advertising; tourism; sport and even...
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A Study Guide for Philip K. Dick's "Martian Time-Slip," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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World of Archie Comics Double Digest volume 65
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Mr. Lodge slipped up by asking Archie to shovel his driveway-and we mean that literally! With Mr. Lodge laid up with a bum leg, Archie and the gang decide to do their best to cheer him up. Of course, that's the last thing Mr. Lodge needs… but how will he get away from them? Find out in The Slip-Up! The hilarious new lead story to this comics double digest!
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2020 marks 75 years since the end of World War II, yet even as the war slips from living memory, its legacies continue to influence current political and military thinking. This anthology will analyse these legacies for a number of countries and regions including China, Russia, the United States, the Near East, and Germany illustrating in detail how World War II is not merely a historical event, but a defining moment for current military and political...
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Researcher and author Dr. Sönke Ahrens explores the meaning of writing and discusses how to write effectively using the "slip-box system." He explains how to follow the lead of Niklas Luhmann, a prolific author and sociologist who produced 58 books in 30 years. Luhmann's slip-box, note-taking system allowed him to connect notes he'd made from his readings with other information from a variety of contexts. Whether you follow this manual's process...
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Miles goes on a mission to retrieve a frozen rover on an ice-covered exoplanet. Suddenly, his sister, Loretta, slips and gets swept away down the river. It's up to Miles to save her in this far-out, fast-paced early chapter book filled with super-stellar illustrations!
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We're almost sure this issue of LCRW is made up of more than a 100, 000 letters and can guarantee that most are in the right place. Two huge stories anchor the issue, Nicole Kimberling explains that CSA means Crazy-Sexy Agriculture, and zombie hordes, vampires, cannibals, and many other ghouls tried to slip under the door. But it's not all monsters.
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Read along with Disney! It's the day of the big barrel race, and Sheriff Callie and Sparky are ready to show their rootin' tootin' riding skills. But when Sparky slips and falls right before the race, Sparky's confidence takes a fall, too! Can Sheriff Callie help get her pal ready in time? Find out in this exciting storybook with word for word narration!
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In this informational and necessary book, hundreds of gainfully employed young people detail their experiences launching their careers. They offer real-world tips and advice on looking for and landing a first job, doing well at work, and simply hanging in there. Their stories cover the gamut of work life - dealing with difficult bosses, weird coworkers, less-than-ideal environments and tasks, and climbing up (or slipping down) the corporate ladder,...
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In this poetic memoir of a rough and tumble life, from her backwoods childhood without boundaries to a California urban adulthood filled with triumphs and disasters, Cassandra Dallett spares no details in a poetry memoir that reads like the love child of Charles Bukowski and Elizabeth Bishop. These are stories of an outsider, a perpetual misfit, offering a ceasefire in the war she wages with herself. Cassandra Dallett's work has appeared in Slip Stream,...
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May: gone. June: gone. July: moving fast. Here are gods, snakes, death, and demons. On the lighter, crunchier side: carrots and apples. Twice a year this zine slips out into this world, less internationally than it used to. Maybe I just need to stand at airports and offer it as in-flight reading? Maybe I can persuade an airline to make it their in-flight magazine? How refreshing it would be to pull LCRW out of the seat pocket. Since LCRW only comes...
14) I Can Crochet
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With nine projects designed specifically for young crocheters, this introduction to the craft provides everything a beginner needs to know to get started. The book explains what materials and tools are required and leads burgeoning crocheters step by step with color photographs to learn various basic stitches, including slip stitch, chain stitch, single crochet, double crochet, half double crochet, triple crochet, and treble stitch. The featured projects-a...
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A "soucoyant" is an evil spirit in Caribbean lore, a reminder of past transgressions that refuse to diminish with age. In this beautifully told novel that crosses borders, cultures, and generations, a young man returns home to care for his aging mother, who suffers from dementia. In his efforts to help her and by turn make amends for their past estrangement from one another, he is compelled to re-imagine his mother's stories for her before they slip...
16) Monstroddities
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THOSE THINGS FORGOTTEN REMEMBER YOU STILL Sliced Up Press proudly presents twenty-two visions of peculiar monsters and weird phenomena from around the world, and beyond. Familiar or not, you'll soon learn to fear what lurks within, whether it's music stolen from the dead, ravenous beasts of burden, inexplicable bodily growths, or dreadful things slipping through your letterbox. Plus much more! With all-new poetry & prose from: A. Katherine Black,...
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In 1965, an American rabbi travels to the Soviet Union to investigate reports of persecution of the Jewish community. Moscow welcomes him as a guest-but provides a strict schedule he and the rest of his group must follow.
One afternoon, the rabbi slips away. With an address in hand and almost no knowledge of the Russian language, he embarks on a secret journey that will change his life forever.
Inspired by the true experience of Rabbi Rafael Grossman,...
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For a quarter century, the annual Best American Sports Writing has showcased the greatest sports journalism of the previous year. This year's guest editor, acclaimed author Howard Bryant, continues the tradition, seeking out writing that best captures the unpredictable journey of sports. Triumphantly and painfully, these stories reflect on that journey, asking difficult questions about who we are, as individuals and as a nation: What does it mean...
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Brimming with lavish, full-color photos and graphics, the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary walks you verse by verse through all the books of the New Testament. It's like slipping on a set of glasses that lets you read the Bible through the eyes of a first-century reader! Discoveries await you that will snap the world of the New Testament into gripping immediacy. Things that seem mystifying, puzzling, or obscure will take on tremendous...
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Brimming with lavish, full-color photos and graphics, the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary walks you verse by verse through all the books of the New Testament. It's like slipping on a set of glasses that lets you read the Bible through the eyes of a first-century reader! Discoveries await you that will snap the world of the New Testament into gripping immediacy. Things that seem mystifying, puzzling, or obscure will take on tremendous...
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