Literature lovers can decorate bookshelves, proclaim a love of reading, and show off crafting skills with adorable amigurumi crocheted characters that are simple to make and impossible to resist! All that’s needed are a few readily available materials and beginner crochet skills, and soon you’ll be hanging out with your favorite characters from classic literature—including:• Elizabeth Bennet (Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice)• White Rabbit (Lewis Carroll’s...

A progressive Christian parenting book with a social-justice orientationHow do we build a better world? One key way, says Cindy Wang Brandt, is by learning to raise our children with justice, mercy, and kindness.In Parenting Forward Brandt equips Christian parents to model a way of following Jesus that has an outward focus, putting priority on loving others, avoiding judgment, and helping those in need. She shows how parents must work on dismantling their ...

An ideal review tool for board preparation and recertification exams, Mills and Sternberg’s Diagnostic Surgical Pathology Review, 3rd Edition, provides more than 1,100 questions and answers that emphasize differential diagnostic aspects of problem solving. Edited by Drs. Teri A. Longacre, Erna Forgó, and Cindy Wang, this fully revised study resource covers all areas of today’s surgical pathology and keeps you up to date with the latest advances in the field.

You have what it takes to change the world!This is the empowering message parenting author and podcaster Cindy Wang Brandt wants every child to hear and embrace. In this inspiring picture book she speaks to every child who sees injustice in the world, revealing that they already have inside themselves everything they need to make big, transformative change in the world--just as they are. Every kid is a revolutionary! You don't need to wait until you grow up. You don't even need any...

Welcome to The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: Youth Edition (Volume 2)!This collection of positive and uplifting written 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: Youth Edition (Voilume 2) features poems and stories written by young creatives between the ages of 13 and 16 and who live around the wo...

Empower the children in your faith community.Children are marginalized in our churches, dismissed into Sunday school or silenced for lengthy sermons aimed at adults. R. L. Stollar has spent his career advocating for the rights of children, and he thinks it's time to stop talking down to children and start listening to them.In The Kingdom of Children, Stollar proposes a liberation theology of the child. Stollar begins with a theoretical framework th...

This book applies environmental, social and governance (ESG) to issues of sustainable development in healthcare. ESG reporting has been widely used for some time in the business industry to show the economic, social and environmental responsibilities of companies that aim to achieve superior ESG performance for lower risk, more accountability and transparency. Moreover, public-listed companies in healthcare have been growing in significant numbers in recent years. The application or practi...

An anxious calico upends her cozy introvert life to work in a cat café in this hilarious and heartwarming graphic novel debut by international sensation Kathy Lam!“Every day is the same, and I'm tired of it. I want to become a self-sufficient cat. I want to earn my own cat food!”This is Mobu, a three-year-old female calico cat with white fur, gray-brown spots, pink toe beans, and an adorable face. Mobu no longer wants to be a pampered house cat. Determined ...

Drug development is at a crossroads. As personalized medicine and targeted therapies expand, traditional clinical trial models have become too slow, costly, and inefficient. To meet the urgent need for faster, reliable evidence generation and decision making, researchers and regulators alike have turned to innovative trial designs. Among these, master protocols stand out as a transformative approach, allowing multiple therapies, disease subtypes, or objectives to be studied under a single,...

Well Worn is the perfect book both for stitching pros and for those who have never picked up a needle and thread before. The sustainable darning and sashiko techniques taught in this book fight against perfectionism as well as fast fashion.Begin by getting to grips with core mending skills, with a handy introductory compendium of visible mending techniques. Then, move on to convenient garment-led chapters, from socks to jeans, and from knitwear to stretch fabric, each with...

From beginning basics like yarn styles, stitch types, and necessary tools to detailed outlines of more advanced techniques, you can trust Eckman to deliver straightforward guidance—and plenty of encouragement!Edie Eckman’s classic Q&A reference book has been updated with helpful answers to even more of your burning crochet questions. With illustrations for left-handed crocheters and tips for broomstick lace, linked stitches, crochet cables, and more, The Croche...

ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF 2024: WIRED, Forbes, Serious Eats, Saveur, KCRW's Good Food, Smithsonian MagazineDelicious, simple, authentic family recipes from around the world from the instructors of League of Kitchens–the innovative and widely acclaimed cooking school in New York City.Founded in 2014 by Lisa Kyung Gross, the daughter of a Korean immigrant and a Jewish New Yorker, League of Kitchens is a unique coo...