This gifty package includes a one-of-a-kind collectible bust of Lincoln based on the Lincoln Memorial statue, scroll of the Gettysburg Address, stove pipe hat, and a mini biography that highlights the enduring legacy of our 16th president, illustrated with full-color photography throughout.[...]

"The best study of congregations to have appeared in the last seventy years." --Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University "A path-breaking study of the way in which churches adapt, or fail to adapt, to changes in their environment. This definitive study should be read both by people active in church work[...]

Identity. Fragments, Frankness is a dense and powerful essay on the notion of identity and national identity, and on how they play in our contemporary world. In contrast with the various attempts to cling to established identities, or to enclose identity within dubious agendas, Nancy shows that an i[...]

Interior designer Nancy Braithwaite's long-awaited first book is a striking tutorial in the power of simplicity in design. In the world of interior design, Nancy Braithwaite is known for her single-minded devotion to the principle that has guided her work for more than forty years: simplicity. Brait[...]

By introducing the magic of "points of connection" -- looking great by echoing your own innate characteristics in the clothes you wear -- fashion professional Nancy Nix-Rice offers dozens of real-life examples that demonstrate how repeating ones colour values, contrast level, body outline, and facia[...]

What to do with all those old pairs of blue jeans? They no longer fit, or they are no longer fashionable, but somehow you just can't bring yourself to toss them away. "Jeaneology" is the solution. From cool flapper skirts and hair bands to laundry bags and handbags, this book features 25 innovative [...]

Turn readers into writers. Using a single or small number of genre specific works, this new series explores the tools all beginning writers need. Each title includes a review list of key concepts, at least four exercises for getting started, and numerous writing tips. It features: Sidebars; Glossary[...]

Educators today understand that literacy involves at least five processes: reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing. This thoughtful and practical book by a team of literacy experts offers classroom teachers a guide to using visual forms of information as tools for literacy development.aTe[...]

Over the years that followed-and to this day-the presidents relied on, misunderstood, sabotaged, and formed alliances with one another that changed history. The world's most exclusive fraternity is a complicated place: its members are bound forever because they sat in the Oval Office and know its se[...]

This acclaimed work describes a range of counseling and therapy approaches for children who have experienced loss. Practitioners and students are given practical strategies for helping preschoolers through to adolescents cope with different forms of bereavement, including death in the family, school[...]

The success of the web depends not only on the creation of stimulating and valuable information, but also on the speed, efficiency and convenient delivery of this information to the Web consumer. This authoritative presentation of web server technology takes you beyond the basics to provide the unde[...]