Master the precision and attention to detail needed for quilts—in sizes small, smaller, and smallest!In this book, author Donna Lynn Thomas teaches you the skills you need to create accurately pieced quilts in miniature. Choosing fabrics (with emphasis on print size), cutting (with emphasis on accuracy), sewing (with techniques for how to sew small pieces and tiny half-square triangles), pressing, and finishing are all covered in depth.Build your confidence a...

With 50% new material reflecting current research and pedagogical perspectives, this indispensable course text and teacher resource is now in a thoroughly revised third edition. Leading educators provide a comprehensive picture of reading, writing, and oral language instruction in grades 5–12. Chapters present effective practices for motivating adolescent learners, fostering comprehension of multiple types of texts, developing disciplinary literacies, engaging and celebrat...

This is a book that thinks about what it means to be human and what this could mean for social research.Addressing ontological shifts across the social sciences, the book reconsiders the nature of self, experience and social reality and their implications for doing research differently. It delves into wide-ranging topics from the self in crisis, through the self and the nature of language, to ethics and the self.The book also:Helps you understand epistemology ...

We can change, we can even retire, but we can never retire from our calling. With these words and a grand collection of compelling stories from the lives of disciples since Jesus time on earth up to the present, in this small book, Donna Thomas helps us see what it means to be called to ministry for a lifetime.Donna Thomas practices what she preaches. If anyone could give a valid argument for retiring from ministry, it would be her. She has pastored, founded a missions agency, writ...

We can change, we can even retire, but we can never retire from our calling. With these words and a grand collection of compelling stories from the lives of disciples since Jesus time on earth up to the present, in this small book, Donna Thomas helps us see what it means to be called to ministry for a lifetime. Donna Thomas practices what she preaches. If anyone could give a valid argument for retiring from ministry, it would be her. She has pastored, founded a missions agency, written ext...

This non-fiction book is about the author's son named, Donnie, who was diagnosed with autism on the spectrum. He is smart, loving and creative and he is having his very first nightmare. This book, Donnie's first Nightmare, is the first book in the life of Donnie's series. Donnie is a gifted child who needs more not because he has less but so he could be his very best. This series will be full of fun, laughter, love, learning and adventure for parents and there children. It is an educationa...

This must-have book for newcomers to the popular art of bookmaking teaches all the basics and features easy and interesting projects that allow self-expression and experimentation. More experienced bookmakers and paper enthusiasts will also note that it offers a wealth of practical tips and techniques in one handy resource.All the basic bookmaking techniques include lots of specialized tips. Simple book structures, miniature books, and a wide variety of projects that highlight them...

Develop the skills to master the rip current of emotions inherent in caring for a loved one with dementia.Caregivers know the stress and emotional turmoil of caring for loved ones with dementia. What if you could manage that stress while strengthening your caregiving relationships? A Caregiver’s Well-Being teaches you how to thrive, not just survive, by blending proven psychological coping principles, practical dementia caregiving skills, and the authors’ ...

'...a groundbreaking work with the potential to fundamentally transform the current clinical practice.' Evelyn Elsaesser, expert of death-related experiences and project leader of an investigation into spontaneous After-Death Communications (ADCs)Historically, children's inexplicable experiences -- from telepathy and conversing with deceased relatives to out-of-body or near-death experiences, and more -- have been theorised through traditional scientific l...

Every special occasion deserves a memorable quilt Celebrate any important event in life, from an anniversary or a birthday to a retirement or a memorial, with these 40 beautiful blocks and 7 customizable settings. Created to commemorate the author's 40th anniversary of falling in love with her husband (and making her first quilt for him!), you can read the story behind each block, then make it personal by stitching in your own memories and using blank blocks for personal dedications. Piece...

Her husband returns from war victorious . . . but something about him isn't right.Esme dreads her husband's return. Married only six months, she has already learned to fear Lord Torrance of Clan Glencairn. Cold, calculating, and obsessed with producing an heir, he made it clear she had one duty—to bear his child. When she failed to do so quickly enough, his anger grew sharp, his temper cruel. If she could flee, she would—but there is nowhere he wouldn't hunt her do...

At the point of the often-contentious intersection of sacred site preservation and resource development, archaeology has a unique and valuable role. Archaeology has been criticized as a destroyer of sacred sites through the unbridled pursuit of knowledge through excavation or aiding unbridled development by failing to identify sacred sites.However, archaeology can act as a mitigator between the conflicting goals of preservation and development, while giving the indigenous a voice. ...