Zero Waste Weaving explains how waste generated through conventional cut-and-sew techniques can be avoided by creating the woven fabric and the garment together as a unified design. Zero waste loom-to-body clothing that needs minimal cutting and sewing can be produced by designing fabrics that 'shape themselves' during wet finishing, through the interplay of contrasting materials, yarn twists and weave structures. Full of inspiring examples and practical ideas, this book explores the many ...

The Ideal Health Guide - Your Simple Guide to Achieving & Maintaining Good Health aims to help readers improve and maintain good health naturally. The guide covers a number of common health problems such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, headaches & migraines, skin care and losing weight. It offers foods and techniques to cope with naturally, whilst encouraging a long-term lifestyle change. It is perfect for those who seek optimum wellness in mind, body and spirit.

In "Misbranded", the fall of 1937 marks a turning point in American history as a deadly medicine, the Elixir of Sulfanilamide, devastates families nationwide. Marketed without proper safety testing, the Elixir is given to children by trusting parents, with fatal consequences. As deaths mount, the FDA launches an urgent, nationwide campaign to retrieve the toxic drug, battling resistance from pharmacists, physicians, and the manufacturer. The story weaves together the lives of those impacte...

Straight from the Heart is Ann Richards’s story, told with her trademark candor and spicy humor.Born in a tiny town near Waco, Texas, she entered politics when her husband wouldn’t—and went on to become state treasurer, the first woman elected to statewide office in Texas in fifty years. She’s had her victories and her battles (the breakup of a thirty-year marriage and a bout with alcohol), but it’s her love of Texas and Texas politics that has made her wh...

★ “Moving and bittersweet…Discusses the reality of slavery and the racial violence and prejudice formerly enslaved individuals experienced.” — Booklist, starred reviewIn 1841, a 12-year-old enslaved boy, Edmond Albius, made history when he discovered how to hand-pollinate vanilla plants using a bamboo twig.Until that time, only bees in Mexico could pollinate the plant—botanists couldn’t figure out another way. With his master, Edmond travelled arou...

Weaving: Structure and Substance looks at weave design from several different perspectives, showing how resources, ideas and practical experience can come together in a creative process of designing through making. Emphasizing the potential of woven textiles throughout, Ann Richards follows the success of her sister title Weaving Textiles that Shape Themselves and explores the tactile properties that emerge from the interaction of material and structure. The book is organized into four par...

This collection illustrates how nonlinear methods can provide new insight into existing political questions. Politics is often characterized by unexpected consequences, sensitivity to small changes, non-equilibrium dynamics, the emergence of patterns, and sudden changes in outcomes. These are all attributes of nonlinear processes. Bringing together a variety of recent nonlinear modeling approaches, Political Complexity explores what happens when political actors operate in a dynam...

"My life has been given special purpose," Jake Pickle says. "Some men live to make money, drink, chase women, collect art, excel at a sport, or pursue other things that give them pleasure. The thing I got hooked on was helping people. And I've had the privilege of helping people by the thousands. Serving in Congress was the greatest honor of my life."In this book, Jake Pickle tells the story of a lifetime in public service, including thirty-one years as Representative for Texas' Te...

Midlife Magic takes you on the transformative journey of Jo Ann Richards' life, from her typical suburban childhood, through six marriages involving abuse, divorce, and death, to her current marriage to a military intelligence officer incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit. Jo Ann had been an active member of the Mormon Church for nearly 30 years before leaving it behind to fully embrace the world of UFOs, elementals, magic and the paranormal which had long spoken to her soul. Through h...

Midlife Magic takes you on the transformative journey of Jo Ann Richards' life, from her typical suburban childhood, through six marriages involving abuse, divorce, and death to her current marriage to a military intelligence officer who's incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit. Jo Ann had been an active member of the Mormon Church for nearly 30 years before leaving it behind to fully embrace the world of UFOs, elementals, magic, and the paranormal which had long spoken...

Following the success of the previous edition, A Nurse's Survival Guide to Drugs in Practice has been completely updated with revised content written by expert practitioners and educators in the field of drug administration and pharmacology. It continues to follow the popular systems approach and is now revised with new sections on the immune system added. - The book provides the underpinning current knowledge required for professional judgement and safer medication management. - This will...

The 'Nurses' Survival Guide to Drugs in Practice' is a handy pocketbook designed to provide succinct information on a wide variety of drugs that nurses need to look up quickly. It provides an understandable and detailed account of common drugs and their actions. The level is suitable for all nurses in practice, including qualified and student nurses, as well as those taking Supplementary Prescribing Courses and will also be useful to other healthcare professionals . Pocket sized and easily...