Download or read book Threads Around the World written by Deb Brandon and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handmade textiles are personal, no matter where in the world they're created, and these photos and explanations of 25 diverse world cultures' techniques vividly share the details. Take a voyage through these pages and see how today's artisans continue to create traditional fiber arts with age-old methods. Blending well-researched information, engaging style, and inspiration, the pages explore espadrilles, flatwoven rugs, mittens, voudou flags, mirror embroidery, and the histories they hold. This open-eyed approach will appeal to textile devotees, from the casually curious to professional artists, and to people who are interested in heritage crafts and diverse cultures. Brandon has written for more than a decade for WARP (Weave A Real Peace), anonprofit networking organization whose members are dedicated toimproving the quality of life of textile artisans in communities inneed.
Download or read book The Longest Strongest Thread written by Inbal Leitner and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of the Invisible String will love this story about a grandmother and granddaughter who must find different ways to stay connected even when they are far apart. A little girl is moving far away from Grandma. Neither wants to say goodbye. But when Grandma brings the girl into her sewing room, she shows her that they have the longest, strongest thread in the whole world to keep them connected. Full of hope and heart, this book reminds kids that family connections transcend physical separation, no matter how far apart we are.
Download or read book Threads written by Jane L. Collins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have been shocked by media reports of the dismal working conditions in factories that make clothing for U.S. companies. But while well intentioned, many of these reports about child labor and sweatshop practices rely on stereotypes of how Third World factories operate, ignoring the complex economic dynamics driving the global apparel industry. To dispel these misunderstandings, Jane L. Collins visited two very different apparel firms and their factories in the United States and Mexico. Moving from corporate headquarters to factory floors, her study traces the diverse ties that link First and Third World workers and managers, producers and consumers. Collins examines how the transnational economics of the apparel industry allow firms to relocate or subcontract their work anywhere in the world, making it much harder for garment workers in the United States or any other country to demand fair pay and humane working conditions. Putting a human face on globalization, Threads shows not only how international trade affects local communities but also how workers can organize in this new environment to more effectively demand better treatment from their distant corporate employers.
Download or read book Threads of Life written by Clare Hunter and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This globe-spanning history of sewing and embroidery, culture and protest, is “an astonishing feat . . . richly textured and moving” (The Sunday Times, UK). In 1970s Argentina, mothers marched in headscarves embroidered with the names of their “disappeared” children. In Tudor, England, when Mary, Queen of Scots, was under house arrest, her needlework carried her messages to the outside world. From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. Clare Hunter, master of the craft, threads her own narrative as she takes us over centuries and across continents—from medieval France to contemporary Mexico and the United States, and from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland—to celebrate the universal beauty and power of sewing.
Download or read book Quilts Around the World written by Spike Gillespie and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2010-11-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential book for all quilters and quilt collectors tells the fascinating story of quilting around the world, illuminated by the international quilt community’s top experts and more than 300 glorious color photographs. Covering Japan, China, Korea, and India; England, Ireland, France, and The Netherlands; Australia, Africa, Central America, North America, and beyond, Quilts Around the World explores both the diversity and common threads of quilting. Discover Aboriginal patchwork from Australia, intricate Rallis from the Middle East, Amish and Hawaiian quilts from the United States, Sashiko quilts from Japan, vivid Molas from Central America, and art quilts from every corner of the globe. Also included are twenty patchwork and applique patterns to use in your own quilt projects, inspired by designs from the world’s most striking quilts.
Download or read book Threads written by Cary Wolinsky and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ESCOs Around the World written by Shirley J. Hansen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an insightful assessment of today's ESCO (energy services) industry around the world. Analyzing current trends, the volume discusses opportunities and problems of the ESCO industry in each country. It includes significant contributions by Pierre Langlois and Paolo Bertoldi. The author and contributors have reached into the far corners of the world to get trusted colleagues to tell the story of the energy services industry's development in their respective countries, and in their own words. Chapters cover selected countries from Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, North America, South America, New Zealand and Australia, as well as the overall global picture.
Download or read book Threads from the Web of Life written by Stephen Daubert and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative, science-grounded stories about nature for the curious and imaginative of all ages.
Download or read book Around the World written by Ben Knight and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking through an atlas has always been a fascinating way to explore the world. Around the World is a contemporary evolution of an atlas tailored to our information age. With eye-catching graphics, current topics, and clear texts, the book is for anyone who is curious about the state of our planet and how we live today. Alongside classic facts about nature, history, population, culture, and politics, Around the World's compelling information graphics thoroughly explain complex processes that impact our lives such as global trade and changing demographics. The book gives added insight into our modern world through its visual exploration of subjects such as eating habits, overfishing, and internet providers, as well as events that have left indelible marks on our collective conscience including September 11, the Olympic Games, Japan's Fukushima disaster, and the sinking of the Titanic. Enthralling, attractive, and revealing, Around the World is a rich cornucopia of information about local peculiarities of global relevance that bring home the little differences--as well as the astoundingly large similarities--among the citizens of our world.
Download or read book A Tapestry of Faiths written by Winfried Corduan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians find themselves in an increasingly diverse world. The new place of worship in our neighborhood might just as likely be a Hindu temple or a Muslim mosque as a church or a synagogue. How should we view other world religions, and more important, how should we engage our religiously oriented neighbors in conversation? Do all religions teach the same thing? Or are there significant differences? Do we try to minimize differences and just get along? Or do we hold out the Christian faith as the one true hope for all the world? Drawing on his wide experience and knowledge of other religions and how they are actually lived, Winfried Corduan helps us sort through the complex tapestry of faiths around the globe. He contends that there are common threads of understanding that can serve to link us in meaningful discussion. From these common threads we can go on to explore genuine differences. Through the course of the book, Corduan leads readers to explore the important issues of revelation and truth, morality and guilt, grace and redemption, eschatology and hope. Ultimately, Jesus Christ, he argues, stands unique among religious figures and Christianity unique among the world's religions. This is a book that strengthens Christians in their convictions while encouraging them to engage their neighbors with humility, loved, and discernment.
Download or read book Divine Threads written by April Liu and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 100 years, Vancouver has been home to a vibrant and thriving Cantonese opera scene. As a performance art carried out by transient troupes, it is an ephemeral medium that rarely leaves a trace in the historic records. However, an extraordinary treasure trove of early 20th-century Cantonese opera costumes, props, and stage dressings made its way to the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, BC. In the first book-length study of this little known collection, April Liu retraces the arduous journeys of early Cantonese opera troupes who began arriving along the west coast of North America during the mid-19th century. A close examination of the costumes and props reveal the moving songs, stories, performances, and ritual practices of early Chinese migrant communities who struggled to make a home in a foreign and often hostile land.
Download or read book People Around the World written by Antony Mason and published by Hachette Book Group. This book was released on 2002-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Around the Day in Eighty Worlds written by Martin Savransky and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Around the Day in Eighty Worlds Martin Savransky calls for a radical politics of the pluriverse amid the ongoing devastation of the present. Responding to an epoch marked by the history of colonialism and ecological devastation, Savransky draws on the pragmatic pluralism of William James to develop what Savransky calls a “pluralistic realism”—an understanding of the world as simultaneously one and many, ongoing and unfinished, underway and yet to be made. Savransky explores the radical multifariousness of reality by weaving key aspects of James's thought together with divergent worlds and stories: of Magellan's circumnavigation, sorcery in Mozambique, God's felt presence among a group of evangelicals in California, visible spirits in Zambia, and ghosts in the wake of the 2011 tsunami in Japan. Throughout, he experiments with these storied worlds to dramatize new ways of approaching the politics of radical difference and the possibility of transforming reality. By exploring and constructing relations between James's pluralism and the ontological turn in anthropology, Savransky offers a new conceptualization of the pluriverse that fosters modes of thinking and living otherwise.
Download or read book Beauty around the World written by Erin Kenny and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the concept of beauty seriously, this encyclopedia examines how humanity has sought and continues to seek what is "beautiful" in a variety of cultural contexts, giving readers an understanding of how to look at beauty both intellectually and critically. Is beauty ever more than "skin deep"? Arguably yes, considering that the concept of beauty—and the pursuit of it—has shaped cultures worldwide, across every time period, and has even served to change the course of history. Studying beauty practices yields insight into social status, wealth, political ideology, religious doctrine, and gender expectations, including gender nonconformity. A truly interdisciplinary text, Beauty around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia presents an insightful perspective on beauty that draws from philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and feminist studies, giving readers a unique view of world beauty practices. This volume offers information about beauty practices from the past to the present in alphabetical entries that address terms and topics such as "beards," "dreadlocks," "Geisha," "moko tattoos," and "progressive muscularity." Readers will better comprehend how beauty shapes many social interactions in profound ways worldwide, and that the unspoken social agreements that shape ideals of attractiveness and desirability within any given culture can matter very much. The encyclopedia's entries challenge readers to consider the questions "What is beauty?" and "Why does it matter?" A comprehensive bibliography is a valuable resource for further research.
Download or read book Around the World in 80 Purees written by Leena Saini and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduce your baby to a world of flavors with easy-to-make recipes for homemade baby food, featuring healthy ingredients, baby-friendly spices, and cuisines from India, China, France, Mexico, Morocco, and the rest of the globe. Baby food is a terrific way to share the flavors you love, nurture development through wholesome ingredients, and encourage lifelong adventurous eating. So why limit your options to just bland mush? It’s time to think outside the jar! With Around the World in 80 Purees, you can create baby food inspired by the cuisines of India, China, France, Mexico, Morocco, and the rest of the globe. The recipes are quick and easy, with imaginative variations featuring your favorite spices and flavors. Continue the culinary adventure as your little one becomes a toddler by offering a range of internationally inspired simple solids. Broaden your baby’s palate by the spoonful! Selections from the Table of Contents: Baby-Friendly Spices First Foods around the World Equipment A Whole Wide World of Purees - For Babies 6 Months and Up: - Indian Saag Masala - Nigerian Isu - Moroccan Figs and Apricots with Aniseed - Chinese Congee - English Peas with a Hint of Mint A Spoonful of Flavor - For Babies 7-9 Months and Up - Iranian Rosewater Vanilla Smoothie - Ethiopian Niter Kibbeh - Egyptian Fava Beans - Japanese Carrot Soba - Turkish Seasoned Lamb Kebabs The Well-Seasoned High Chair - For Babies 10 Months and Up - Mexican Atole - Italian Pastina with Parmesan and Nutmeg - Spanish Pasta Romesco - Lebanese Muhallabia - Taiwanese Lou Rou Fan
Download or read book Digital Threads written by Neal Schaffer and published by Neal Schaffer. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Threads: The Small Business and Entrepreneur Playbook for Digital-First Marketing is a must-read for any entrepreneur or small business owner looking to scale their brand and achieve lasting success in today’s digital-first world. As the digital landscape continues to evolve at lightning speed, the key to survival and growth lies in mastering digital marketing strategies that are both cost-effective and powerful. But with so many platforms, tools, and trends, knowing where to begin—or how to improve your existing approach—can feel overwhelming. That’s where Digital Threads comes in. Bestselling author, Fractional CMO, keynote speaker, and university educator Neal Schaffer draws on over a decade of experience in digital marketing to deliver an accessible, practical guide packed with strategies tailored to small businesses and entrepreneurs. Whether you’re launching a new venture or looking to grow an existing one, this book offers a clear path to building a robust digital presence and driving real, measurable growth. With Digital Threads, you will discover how to: Leverage Big-Brand Strategies on a Small-Business Budget: Neal demystifies the marketing tactics used by large brands and adapts them to the scale and budget of smaller businesses. From optimizing your online presence to using the same frameworks that industry leaders rely on, you’ll learn how to compete effectively without overspending. Maximize Your Content's Impact: In today’s fast-paced world, content is everything. Neal teaches you how to repurpose your content to make it work harder for you. Whether it’s blogs, social media posts, or videos, you’ll learn to distribute your content across multiple platforms in ways that boost visibility and engagement. Master Social Media Marketing: Social media isn’t just for big brands. Learn how to develop platform-specific strategies that work on a small budget. Neal shares his insider tips on creating engaging content, growing your audience, and turning followers into loyal customers. Unlock the Power of AI Tools: AI isn’t just a buzzword—it’s a game-changer for businesses. Neal shows you how to harness cutting-edge AI tools to streamline your marketing efforts, improve efficiency, and gain a competitive edge. From chatbots to personalized content creation, Digital Threads reveals the possibilities of AI in digital marketing. Implement SEO and Lead Generation Strategies: Building a strong online presence starts with getting noticed. 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Whether you're just getting started or refining your digital marketing game plan, this book delivers a complete roadmap to success. With endorsements from industry thought leaders such as Michael Stelzner (founder of Social Media Examiner), Brian Solis (digital futurist and author), and Ann Handley (Wall Street Journal bestselling author), Digital Threads is not just a book—it’s your guide to building a sustainable, successful brand in the digital age. Who Should Read Digital Threads? Small Business Owners: If you’re ready to take your business to the next level but aren’t sure where to start with digital marketing, this book is for you. Entrepreneurs: Whether you’re launching your first company or expanding an existing venture, Digital Threads provides the strategies you need to grow your brand in the digital marketplace. Content Creators: Learn how to make the most of your content and distribute it across multiple platforms to maximize impact and reach. Marketing Students and Professionals: Stay ahead of the curve with fresh insights into the latest digital marketing trends, including AI and content repurposing. Service Providers: If you’re looking to grow your client base through effective digital marketing strategies, Digital Threads will show you how to build a robust online presence. By the end of Digital Threads, you’ll have the knowledge, tools, and confidence to: - Build a strong digital footprint that drives measurable results - Expand your reach and increase engagement across digital platforms - Optimize content for SEO and lead generation - Implement marketing automation to scale your efforts - Leverage AI tools for maximum efficiency Build lasting relationships with customers through influencer and user-generated content If you’re serious about mastering digital marketing, Digital Threads is the playbook you need. Start weaving your path to digital success today.
Download or read book Scarlet Threads written by Perry Stone and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2014 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the Bibilical story of Rahab as an example, the author presents advice for mothers on how to use spiritual practices, confessions, and prayers to keep their family safe.
