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 Sashiko Handy Pocket Guide: 27 Designs, Tips & Tricks for Successful Stitching by Sylvia Pippen English | March 25th, 2020 | ISBN: 1617459690 | 48 pages | True EPUB | 9.48 MB This mini forty-eight-page book is packed with mega information on all the key sashiko basics! Best-selling author Sylvia Pippen shares everything from a bit of history and applications for sashiko to the necessary supplies, how to mark the designs, and stitching techniques. Even learn how to create your own sashiko design from your favorite inspirational photo! Or use one of the twenty-seven included designs. Plus, at such a great price, you can afford to buy one for your sewing group, sister, mom, friend, or anyone else you know who loves to sew as much as you do!  Sanctity and Female Authorship: Birgitta of Sweden & Catherine of Siena (Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture) by Maria H. Oen, Unn Falkeid 2019 | ISBN: 0367368552 | English | 264 pages | True PDF/EPUB | 6 MB/9 MB Birgitta of Sweden (Birgitta Birgersdotter, 1302/03-1373) and her younger contemporary Catherine of Siena (Caterina Benincasa, 1347-1380) form the most powerful and influential female duo in European history. Both enjoyed saintly reputations in life, while acting as the charismatic leaders of a considerable group of followers consisting of clergy as well as mighty secular men and women. They are also among the very few women of the Trecento to leave a substantial body of written work which was widely disseminated in their original languages and in translations. Copies of Birgitta's Liber celestis revelacionum (The Heavenly Book of Revelations) and compilations of Catherine's letters (Le lettere), prayers Le orazioni) and her theological work, Il Dialogo della divina Provvidenza (The Dialogue) found their way into monastic, royal, and humanist libraries all over Europe. After their deaths, Birgitta's and Catherine's respective groups of supporters sought to have them formally canonized. In both cases, however, their political and theological outspokenness, orally and in text, and their public authority represented obstacles.  Salad leaves for all seasons: Organic Growing from Pot to Description by Charles Dowding English | February 1, 2019 | ISBN: 0857844660 | 256 pages | PDF | 35 Mb This compendium of practical methods for growing a wide variety of salads throughout the year will inspire you to grow your own greens, whether on a windowsill, in your garden, or on your allotment. Here is all the information you need for productive, healthy, and tasty salads. The subtleties of salad seasons and virtues of different leaves throughout the year are discussed and there are delicious and imaginative recipes to try, exploiting the fantastic flavors, color, and vitality of home-grown salad leaves.  Saintly Women: Medieval Saints, Modern Women, and Intimate Partner Violence (Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture) by Nancy Nienhuis, Beverly Mayne Kienzle 2017 | ISBN: 0815395787, 0367667312 | English | 214 pages | EPUB/PDF (True) | 2 MB/5MB This ground-breaking volume assesses the contemporary epidemic of intimate partner violence and explores how and why cultural and religious beliefs serve to excuse battering and to work against survivors' attempts to find safety. Theological interpretations of sacred texts have been used for centuries to justify or minimize violence against women. The authors recover historical and especially medieval narratives whose protagonists endure violence that is framed by religious texts or arguments. The medieval theological themes that redeem battering in saints' lives―suffering, obedience, ownership and power―continue today in most religious traditions. This insightful book emphasizes Christian history and theology, but the authors signal contributions from interfaith studies to efforts against partner violence.  Chia-Chi Tsui, "Robust Control System Design: Advanced State Space Techniques Ed 2" English | ISBN: 0824748697 | 2003 | 344 pages | PDF | 2 MB Robust Control System Design: Advanced State Space Techniques, Second Edition expands upon a groundbreaking and combinatorial approach to state space control system design that fully realizes the critical loop transfer function and robustness properties of state/generalized state feedback control. This edition offers many new examples and exercises to illustrate and clarify new design concepts, approaches, and procedures while highlighting the fact that state/generalized state feedback control can improve system performance and robustness more effectively than other forms of control.Revised and expanded throughout, the second edition presents an improved eigenstructure assignment design method that enhances system performance and robustness more directly and effectively and allows for adjustment of design formulations based on design testing and simulation. The author proposes the systematic controller order adjustment for the tradeoff between performance and robustness based on the complete unification of the state feedback control and static output feedback control. The book also utilizes a more accurate robust stability measure to guide control designs.  Alicia W. Peters, "Responding to Human Trafficking: Sex, Gender, and Culture in the Law " English | ISBN: 0812224213 | 2018 | 256 pages | PDF | 4 MB Signed into law in 2000, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) defined the crime of human trafficking and brought attention to an issue previously unknown to most Americans. But while human trafficking is widely considered a serious and despicable crime, there has been far less consensus as to how to approach the problem-owing in part to a pervasive emphasis on forced prostitution that overshadows repugnant practices in other labor sectors affecting vulnerable populations. Responding to Human Trafficking examines the ways in which cultural perceptions of sexual exploitation and victimhood inform the drafting, interpretation, and implementation of U.S. antitrafficking law, as well as the law's effects on trafficking victims.  Readings in Han Chinese Thought By Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Mark Csikszentmihalyi 2006 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 0872207102 | PDF | 4 MB The first comprehensive English-language collection of the writings of this pivotal period in Chinese intellectual history, this volume provides translations of key works, arranged chronologically within topics, and accompanied by substantive headnotes, a glossary, and a bibliography.  Alan Bailin, Ann Grafstein, "Readability: Text and Context" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1137388765 | 235 pages | PDF | 0.821 MB This book explores what makes a book readable by bringing together the relevant literature and theories, and situating them within a unified account. It provides a single resource that offers a principled discussion of the issues and their applications.  Rated RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan edited by Yetta Howard English | September 29, 2020 | ISBN: 0814214487, 0814256031 | PDF | 320 pages | 10.7 MB "The thing that people don't understand is that Bob was my invention," says Sheree Rose, the oft-overlooked partner of the late "supermasochist" performance artist Bob Flanagan. Unpacking this statement is at the heart of this important collection, which seeks to recuperate and showcase Rose's contributions as performer, photographer, writer, and cultural innovator. While Rose is mostly known for blurring the boundaries between art and lived experience in the context of her full-time, mistress-slave relationship with Flanagan, Rated RX shifts focus from Flanagan to Rose, presenting a feminist project that critically reassesses the artistic legacies of Sheree Rose.  Adrian Vaughan, "Railways Through the Vale of the White Horse" English | 2015 | ISBN: 1847978711 | 160 pages | EPUB | 40.7 MB A commemorative history of the railways of the beautiful Oxfordshire district "Vale of the White Horse," running 27 miles from Steventon to Wootton Bassett. The book spans the history of the route from the opening in 1840 until 1965, when British Rail withdrew all the local passenger services between Didcot and Swindon and all the intermediate stations were closed. With personal insight and images from railway historian Adrian Vaughan, the book covers the Great Western Railway's development of the route, as part of Brunel's "Bristol Railway," and shows the original correspondence between Brunel and his staff. Fully illustrated with hundreds of historical photographs and detailed track diagrams, Railways Through the Vale of the White Horse is an ideal resource for anyone with an interest in this scenic railway route and a nostalgia for the early days of railways in Britain. |
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