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Weaving Western Sakiori - Updat by Amanda ROBINETTE
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Sakiori is an approach to rag weaving used by Japanese peasants to cope with the scarcity of new cloth for clothing and household textiles. In modern times, there is instead an overabundance of cloth filling up thrift stores and being discarded. Weavers can use this source of "rags" to make useful and s ...Show more
When Elephants Come to Town by James Attlee
Category: Natural History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
- This book would make a splendid festive season gift for anyone who cannot get enough of these appealing and sympathetic giants "Through this extraordinary selection of photographs and accompanying text, we follow elephants on their journey from Ancient Rome to Coney Island and beyond. Across battlefie ...Show more
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice For Difficult Times [Thorsons Classics edition] by Pema Chodron
Category: Mind | Body | Spirit | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Pema Chodron reveals the vast potential for happiness, wisdom and courage even in the most painful circumstances. She teaches that there is a fundamental opportunity for happiness right within our reach, yet we usually miss it -- ironically, while we are caught up in attempt to escape pain and suffering ...Show more
Where the Wildness Pleases: The English Garden Celebrated by CAROLINE HOLMES
Category: Gardening | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The 'Garden of England', 'The High Weald', these are phrases that describe a 70-year-old Area of Outstanding National Beauty in Southern England. Among these dramatic landscapes and ancient woodlands stand many castles, mansions and cottages, ringed with orchards, meadows, drifting flowers and horticult ...Show more
Wholehearted Faith: Embracing Uncertainty, Risk, and Vulnerability by Rachel Held Evans
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
“A touching series of essays in which Held Evans, with Chu’s invisible pen, explores how one might find a path forward in Christianity beyond conservative evangelicalism” -Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker“Evans died at 37, but a beautiful new book captures her brave outlook. . . . I could not help but not ...Show more
Why Bees Do Not See Red and We Sometimes Feel Blue: 150 Facts About Colours by JOANNA ZOELZER
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Has pink always been feminine and blue masculine? Why does orange whet our appetite? Why do we feel blue? Shades of colour accompany our lives and shape our language: we become green with envy, or remove our rose-tinted spectacles. But how did colours acquire these associations? In this beautiful coffee ...Show more
Wild Horses by ALFIE BOWEN
Category: Animals | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
* Sensitive, evocative photographs of wild breeds of horses roaming free in the British countryside * A fascinating insight into an alternative way of looking at the world * Foreword from wildlife presenter Chris Packham * Revealing descriptions of each photograph in Bowen's own words * From the pho ...Show more
Wild Thing - the Swiss Fashion Scene by MUSEUM FUR GESTALTUNG ZURICH
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
What kind of fashion exists without mass production, without Hollywood and international fashion weeks? In Switzerland, far from the international spotlight and the dictates of the major fashion hubs, small labels, collectives, and young graduates as well as established brands test their potential for g ...Show more
Witch, Please: a Memoir - Finding Magic in Modern Times by Misty Bell Stiers
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A touching and thought-provoking account of how a woman explored a spectrum of religions--ancient and new--and ended up, unexpectedly, becoming a bona fide witch--plus a celebration of modern Wicca and witchcraft, spell books, broomsticks, holiday recipes and recipes for the changing of the seasons, and ...Show more
With God in Russia - The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest's Twenty-Three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps by Walter J. Ciszek; Daniel L. Flaherty (As told to); James Martin (Afterword by)
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The classic memoir by American-born Jesuit priest Walter Ciszek, who survived fifteen years of imprisonment in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. Powerful and inspirational, With God in Russia captures the heroic patience, endurance, and religious conviction of a man whose life embodied ...Show more
Wolfpack: 365 Days at the Wheel by VAN PUYMBROECK, RIK
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Impressive sequel to an international bestseller A visual journey of the Wolfpack with complementary texts by Rik Van Puymbroeck"No matter how strong you may be as an individual, no one can hold their own against a pack of hungry wolves." - Sigfrid Eggers "Never before has a cycling team been followed s ...Show more
Woman in the Wild - The Every W by Susan Joy PAUL
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Women in the Wild: The Everywoman's Guide to Hiking, Camping, and Backcountry Travel is the perfect companion for any woman looking to get into the backcountry lifestyle or level up her active outdoor game. Packed with tips and details gleaned from two decades of training and experience, this informativ ...Show more