Classic "how-to" book covers everything from winding yarn and fundamental stitches to making patterns and garments, blocking, and more with over 250 technique diagrams illustrating every basic step and pattern.
Deliverer of the wretched! He gives hope for those living as prey in fear of being devoured by the enemy. He rescues them from the fowler's net and snatches them from the jaws of the attacker.
A widely used instruction book of classic knitting patterns and how to create them. Patterns — illustrated in charts, diagrams, and photographs — range from cross and cross-over motifs to lace knitting, medallion knitting, and filet lace.
First published in 1934, Mary Thomas''s Dicti onary of Embroidery Stitches has been reprinted dozens of ti mes since then. In this updated, full-colour edition, over 4 00 stitches, some 100 of them new, are described in detail.
Mary Alice Thomas has a way of taking a complex issue and turning it into an easily understood one. She manages to incorporate all of the finest writing skills into her own personal flair. Her true love of people comes through with gusto!" This publication has been designed to reach back into the subconscious mind to restore the value of love for all humanity. How very easy has it been to push on to the back burner the love that causes pain and loss. Each piece of material included in this selection carries aphorisms giving a general truth about life. Four of the major conflicts of writing are used man v. man; man v. God; man v. society, and man v. inner-self. The theme of these works is love for humanity and pain for injustice. I have chosen people from all walks of life because it has taken all types of people and experiences to give this country such a rich history. When I started out on this venture, I had a closed mind to the Civil Rights Movement. As I looked back the realization of the Civil Rights Movement embraced all types of efforts and stumbling blocks, regardless of race creed or color. As I hearkened to the voice within, I began to drink from knowledge that could only come from the intoxication of wisdom, for knowledge without wisdom is nothing. When reading this book, try to stay in touch with the fact or opinion that the conscience is a judge allowing knowledge to go into combat with ignorance beating down cruelty with love. The lives of these people have been seeds sown in the fields of success against much adversity and thorns in their flesh.
Religious and Spiritual Issues in Counseling is a comprehensive resource for counselors, psychotherapists and psychologists seeking to understand and incorporate the spiritual dimension of a client's person, and to use this understanding in developing successful intervention strategies with clients. Including case studies and exercises for self-exploration, this book covers specific groups, such as the elderly, the homeless as well as multicultural populations. Human development concerns are integrated into the book and address the changing role that spirituality plays throughout the lifespan.
Thomas Berry (1914–2009) was one of the twentieth century’s most prescient and profound thinkers. As a cultural historian, he sought a broader perspective on humanity’s relationship to the earth in order to respond to the ecological and social challenges of our times. This first biography of Berry illuminates his remarkable vision and its continuing relevance for achieving transformative social change and environmental renewal. Berry began his studies in Western history and religions and then expanded to include Asian and indigenous religions, which he taught at Fordham University, Barnard College, and Columbia University. Drawing on his explorations of history, he came to see the evolutionary process as a story that could help restore the continuity of humans with the natural world. Berry urged humans to recognize their place on a planet with complex ecosystems in a vast, evolving universe. He sought to replace the modern alienation from nature with a sense of intimacy and responsibility. Berry called for new forms of ecological education, law, and spirituality, as well as the creation of resilient agricultural systems, bioregions, and ecocities. At a time of growing environmental crisis, this biography shows the ongoing significance of Berry’s conception of human interdependence with the earth as part of the unfolding journey of the universe.
Seed and Growth by Sister Mary Thomas Lillis is the simple and courageous story of the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose from the foundation of their religious congregation in San Francisco, California, in 1876, to its outreach to both Germany and Mexico. Rooted in the late19th century and extending to the beginning of Vatican II (1962), the book gives a feel for religious life over this expanse of time and chronicles the difficulties of establishing foundations for the service of the poor, the young and the vulnerable. Following in the spirit of St. Dominic, three young women (the oldest was 24) traveled by train from Brooklyn, New York, to San Francisco, to work among the German immigrants. Meeting financial difficulties and opposition from several clergy with unparalled trust, the young founder Mother Maria Pia Backes started schools and orphanages in northern and southern California and Oregon. While the desire of this small band of sisters was to stay connected to their original foundation in Amityville, New York, the distance, given travel and communication at the time, proved too difficult. Over time the Congregation's outreach would extend to large and small cities in California, Oregon, Texas, Mexico, and Germany, never without challenges. The book gives insight into the lives of the sisters in the early days as they did their own weaving and sewing, printing and farming, making of olive oil and harvesting of honey. The community would be enriched by artists in the making of church vestments and sculptures, masters of Gregorian chant, and scholars. The book also shows the sisters' dedication to education. And all of this was done against the background of a rich liturgical and private prayer life and a strong sense of community. The book is a strong testament to Mother Pia's legacy to this young congregation, a legacy that included the gift of daily praying the Liturgy of the Hours, the Church's official prayer., and papal approbation. Another part of it is summed up so well in her often quoted words that filled all that she did: "God alone.
Aristotelian naturalism and its discontents -- Losing touch with nature -- Spenser and the new science -- Shakespeare: New forms of nothing -- Matter and power -- Epilogue: What about Bacon?
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