12 knitting patterns for modern sweaters from Swedish designer, Marita Clementz. Made with yarn from Iceland, Sweden and Norway, these sweaters are as cosy and warm as traditional Icelandic sweaters but with fresh, bright designs and colours for a brand new look.Author, Marita Clementz, was inspired to design her bright, colourful sweaters when she couldn't find any knitting patterns that featured the kind of designs she was looking for. She has taken the concept o...

Amanda is doing naked yoga in her secluded yard. Secluded except for one neighbor, John. Suddenly realizing she feels eyes on her, she checks his windows and sees nothing. But then a softly moving shadow peeks through the slats of the fence between them, from a little ways away. John is watching, and Amanda likes it. Maybe she will invite him over for lunch....

A spunky coloring book for every artist who's ever experienced the joys and heartache of adolescence, this book is chock-full of patterns, curves, prints, and scenes reminiscent of the artists' teenage years. With over forty full-page illustrations, you're in for hours of fun

Unlock the more straightforward side of Infinite Jest with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, a vast, sweeping novel which takes in a tennis academy for gifted young players, a halfway house for recovering addicts and an "entertainment" rumoured to be so compelling that it will kill whoever watches it. The novel's scope, humour and complexity mean that it is widely recognised as the author's ...

The Hugo and Nebula award-winning author's complete second Uplift Saga trilogy, featuring a refugee planet, a fugitive Earth ship, and her dolphin/human crew.New York Times–Bestselling AuthorBrightness Reef: Six outcast races hunker down on the off-limits planet Jijo when a mysterious starship lands. However, it doesn't bring the "law" they feared, but something worse—a dark secret the invaders will do anything to keep . . ....

David Brin, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Sundiver, crafts Brightness Reef, a luminous gem of SF literature. Persecuted refugees from six separate alien races have migrated to the idyllic planet Jijo. And despite their incredible diversity, the inhabitants live together in blissful harmony. However, settlement on Jijo is illegal-and it's only a matter of time before the residents of this forbidden paradise are discovered by the galactic powers-that-be.

"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come….The Bright Ages is a rare thing—a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading.”—Slate"Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating." —The Boston GlobeA lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions...

Strange visitors throw a planet of refugees into chaos in this science fiction adventure by the author of New York Times–bestseller The Uplift War.Hugo Award FinalistCenturies ago, the Buyur race abandoned Jijo. Now off-limits to settlers, it's warded by guardian machines who will protect the planet until the Institutes of the Five Galaxies declare Jijo ready—in another million years—for new civilization.But mere laws...

"A gorgeous-and sexy-evocation of lost love, youthful longing, and the way that time folds and expands many times during a life . . . Bright Monday is utterly delicious." -Lauren GroffThe story of a 1990s romance between two men rekindled decades later in Milan-from two-time PEN/Faulkner finalist David Leavitt, “a phenomenal and prescient writer” (Justin Torres).Adam is translating into English his Italian friend Valeria's new nove...

Due to the high prevalence of polypharmacy in older adults, there is a growing interest among healthcare facilities and practitioners to perform pharmacogenomic testing in this population. However, the complexity of multimorbidity and polypharmacy, the physiologic changes of aging, and the lack of direct clinical guidance in this area may cause clinicians to struggle with how to utilize pharmacogenomic test results safely and effectively to guide clinical care.Applying Pharmaco...

'The Story of Hawaii: History, Customs, Mythology, Geography & Archaeology' expertly navigates through the rich tapestry of Hawaii's multifaceted heritage, encapsulating the essence of its diverse past and complex cultural panorama. Encompassing a variety of literary styles from rigorous academic analyses to evocative mythological recountings, the anthology expertly balances historical gravitas with captivating folklore. Significant essays explore the intersection of indigenous knowledge a...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, a leading figure in transcendentalism.As a transcendentalist of the nineteenth-century, Thoreau's work reflected his belief in the correspondence between Man and Nature. Moreover, his anti-materialistic ideology was influential in Western philosophy. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Thoreau's classi...