Presents a colorful assortment of fashion accessories and decorative accents for the home, all of quich can be completed quickly and require only one skein of yarn, featuring an array of knitting and crochet stitch patterns, step-by-step instructions, full-color photographs and illustrations, a guide to terms and techniques, and a helpful resource directory. Original.

Product Description: The Grand Canal is a remarkable treasure, an 86-mile secret passageway from Ringsend in the heart of Dublin to the River Shannon. In July 2005 John Mulligan set out to walk it despite a dodge knee, wrong shoes, and a lack of fitness...read more

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In his critically acclaimed first novel, the winner of the 1997 PEN/Oakland Award for Fiction, a Vietnam veteran describes the nightmarish experiences of an American soldier in the Vietnamese jungles and his painful psychological convalescence. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Shopping Cart Soldiers is a modern day Odyssean tale of the atrocities of war and its even more applling aftermath. Set against the brutal realities of the conflict in Vietnam, John Mulligan tells the story of Finn MacDonald, an eighteen-year-old boy who is drafted soon after he emigrates with is family from Scotland...read more

Product Description: This volume brings together papers from the 1991 Conference on Experiential Learning, and provides a broad illustration of best practice in this fast-developing field. The editors have highlighted the emerging ideas of empowerment, for example as a development of autonomy and control, public recognition of personal learning, a shift of emphasis from teaching to learning, the decoupling of learning and formal education, and the relocation of learning in the workplace, community and personal life...read more