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You will find thirteen wonderful designs for Counted Cross-Stitch in AMERICA'S BEST-LOVED CATS book by Linda Gillum. She has picked thirteen different felines in tabby orange; soft grays, blacks, whites of the American Shorthair; the tan and white of the Persian; the luscious chocolate of the Burmese; the mottled tan/black/white of the Maine Coon and the almost white of the Siamese.

The first page shows you the basic "how-to's". All the designs are shown in full color with charts large enough so you don't need a magnifier to see what colors go where as each design covers at least two full pages. She shows various forms to display your work when you have completed the project such as pillows or pictures in frames. On the last two pages, Ms. Gillum even provides the directions for creating the four different pillows shown in her book.

If you are a cat lover what better way to spend you relaxation time but stitching your favorite cuddly friend?

This book examines the differences in communication strategies between Japanese and American Business people. Comparisons are made in terms of who initiate the interaction, who speaks the most, backchannelling in communication, and how their speech strategy differ from each other. Yamade concludes that Americans usually speak direct to the point and speaks the most in an interaction when he/she initiate the conversation, while Japanese try to familiarize themselves before getting into business. Other notable Japanese conversation strategies include bringing in examples, silent shifts in conversational topics and frequent backchannels. Yamada makes reference to other authorities in cross-cultural communication between American and Japanese business people, and criticise them in mentioning "talk things over" when communication with Japanese businessmen fails. This is not a wise move as Japanese people prefer silence over talking, and the attempts to "talk things over" may farther complicate the situation. I recomment this book to business people who need to deal with Japanese clients or trying to make a new relationship with Japanese business partner(s). I also recommend this to students and researchers alike who are studying the differences in communication strategies between American and Japanese. This book is not an 'introduction to business' type book like one by de Mente, but is a result of a detailed research into American and Japanese communication styles. The quality of insights into Japanese culture is also helped by the author's background, who is a second-generation Japanese living in America.

This is one of my favorites in my collection of over 150 xs books. I especially enjoy the NW pacific designs. For those interested in the American Indian this is a must. Includes a little history as well.

If I had to choose ONE book for a babysitter to carry with them to the job in their backpack, this would be the one! It is a great how-to book written for your teen who babysits in private homes for pay.

Here are a few of the great subjets covered (color-coded with Icons): Getting Off to the Right Start with Professional Behavior; Good Business Practices; Babysitter's Self-Assessment Tool; How to Prepare a Resume for Prospective Employers; Interviewing Parents or Guardians and Assessing the Job; Interviewing Tips; Household Rules and Discipline; Safety and Play; Basic Care (diapering, bottle feeding, spoon feeding, burping, bathing...); Telephone Safety Tips; Tips for Preventing Emergencies; Special Concerns (personal safety, suspected child abuse...); Self-Evaluation After the Job; Leadership in Babysitting; Ages and Stages of Infants Through Teens; Being a Good Communicator with Children; Helping Children to Behave; Correcting the Behavior Without Criticizing the Child... First Aid and Airway Management (simplified for the Babysitter); When to Call 911... and the list of topics goes on and on... all in 161 pages in a 6" x 9" plastic-coated paperback book!

There are other "how-to manuals" out there, but this one was compiled by the American Red Cross, in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission; Boys and Girls Clubs of America; Boy Scouts of America; 4-H Clubs; Girl Scouts of America; JCC Association; and the YMCA. This is the latest edition, which includes simplified airway methods stipulated in the Emergency Cardiac Care (ECC) 2000 Guidelines.

This is a great book for the money, and it's right on target with colors, pictures, icons, and indexes that are easy for teens to use in emergencies.

good book i want to keep this book amazing.

anyone who is preparing for there Nursing Assistant test should have this book. I helped me so much. I passed my test with lots of help from this book!

This book is a landmark, contemporary study of friendship. It is the most outstanding work on frienship for our generation. It is a must-read for scholars of friendship and social networks. It is a very important and highly readable presentation for any social scientist or interested general reader.

This groundbreaking book presents a conceptually sophisticated and empirically grounded method to understand the complexities of cultural identity. The first section begins with a brilliant summary of the pertinent literature written in an accessible style with helpful major definitions and concepts clearly demarcated. It leads to an empirical method that combines both universal and local constructs of identity that can be customized by the individual. It was just simply thrilling and breathtaking how the writer conveyed the reality of identity as multiple aspects of identity as one's self-construal moving in flux/process vs. a single fixed objective entity. The second section on cultural issues further elaborated on the first section. The chapter on understanding the identity of a Palestinian Christian Arab adolescent with Israeli citizenship elegantly demonstrated the value of the empirical method described in the first section; beyond the complexity of the objective categories lay the range of self-construal possibilities from a fragmented, conflicted identity to a more integrated one. The third section deals with social issues and focuses on gender. The final section presents three clinical applications involving psychotherapy, anorexia nervosa and trauma. As someone who has taught psychiatric residents and other mental health professionals in this area for many years, I highly recommend it for clinicians as well as researchers. You will never see identity the same again!

This is a little gem of a book useful for many different needlework genres. The contents of the book are applicable to any counted thread needlework and many types are touched on. Hardanger, Hedebo, Holbein or Blackwork, and for the band sampler enthusiast--many examples of openwork stitches. Also included are finishing techniques for raw edges. All in Anchor's usual fine presentation-- clear pictures, accurate line diagrams and directions, and graphs in the back. A lot of referance book in a small package!

Frank Moore Cross is one of the early scroll scholars, and his book, 'The Ancient Library of Qumran' was one of the earliest popular publications of the discovery and contents of the scrolls. Originally published less than ten years after the scroll discoveries in 1947/48, this volume has proven popular enough to stay in print, being updated several times. This latest edition was published in 1995, with updated material as the scroll processes continue.

Cross's first chapter examines the discovery of the scrolls, including some of the intrigues of the bedouins and antiquities dealers in the West Bank region, and subsequent explorations and excavations that revealed more caves in the Qumrani region with scrolls and scroll fragments. Cross introduces a few of the key scroll players (Roland de Vaux among them) as well as the beginning process of reconstruction. In his supplement for chapter 1, updating materials, he discusses the many publications now available for the scrolls.

The second chapter introduces the Essenes, the group of people responsible for the majority of the scrolls, according to the primary interpretation by the scroll scholars. These people are still enigmatic - references to them are few and far between in the ancient world, and the scrolls do not specifically identify them as the scribes and authors of the scrolls, so this interpretation still has some controversy attached to it.

Chapter three develops some of the most interesting and controversial characters discovered in the texts of the scrolls - the Teacher of Righteousness and the Wicked Priest. Cross holds to the most widely held interpretation of these figures, in that the Teacher of Righteousness was the founder or leader of the Qumrani Essene community, and the Wicked Priest was the Jerusalem Temple priest who persecuted the Essenes. Other interpretations (that Jesus was the Teacher of Righteousness and Paul was the Wicked Priest; that John the Baptist was the Teacher of Righteousness and Jesus was the Wicked Priest, etc.) are not really addressed here, but are taken up again in a later chapter..

The fourth chapter looks at the texts of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament found among the scrolls - the largest body of material in the scrolls are texts of scripture. There are variations and differences, some of which can be attributed to scribal error (mis-copying), but others not so. The Torah is the largest body of scrolls by far; the integrity of the current Torah texts is reaffirmed to a large extent given these new scrolls, as the differences are on a percentage basis very small. In the end, every book of the Hebrew Bible has been found among the scrolls with the possible exception of Esther. This chapter is rather technical in terms of textual studies.

The fifth chapter explores the early scroll scholars ideas of possible connections between the Essenes and the early Christian church. The apocalyptic nature of the Essenes and the enigmatic figures are compared with early Christian ideas and images, but there are no direct and substantial connections that Cross identifies, and he discounts (probably correctly) other interpretations that try to force identities. Cross is a little more free with postulating a connection, or at least an influence, of Essene organisational structures and liturgical patterns with early Christian practices. After chapter six, Cross had added a brief postscript about the Essenes and the Christian gospel which again shows connections, but is really not drawing parallels as much as it is showing some common features and points of divergence, either in substance or in tone.

The final chapter looks at the generation of research and discovery since the 1947/48 revelation of the first scrolls. This is not a summary narrative of the history, but rather a look at some key events and issues that have arisen in the course of the scroll team's work. Cross does not deal with the issues of access and restriction to the scrolls, or the more bizarre and sensational interpretations. He looks at paleography, orthography, the history of biblical texts in relation to the scrolls, and the history of the Qumrani settlement itself.

The book is interesting and valuable as one of the continuously updated records of scroll research from one of the foremost scroll scholars.