Christmas: Tradition, Truth and Total Baubles
Christmas: Tradition, Truth and Total Baubles

Author: Nick Page

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2020-10-29

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1529334098

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Why is Christmas the way it is? How did we get from the birth of Jesus to everyone pushing their credit card and their belts to their maximum extent? Starting with the events surrounding Jesus' birth, this book takes us through centuries of commemoration, celebration and over-consumption. Along the way we'll find out why we eat turkey, how an obscure Turkish saint turned into a man flying a sleigh, and why that tree in your house should really contain an apple and a snake. Combining in-depth historical research, cheerfully irreverent humour and cutting-edge guesswork, Nick Page explores what this festival really means, and how we can get back to something real and true beneath all that wrapping.

Make Your Own Christmas Baubles
Make Your Own Christmas Baubles

Author: Mabel Dawn Van Niekerk

Publisher: Mabel Dawn Van Niekerk

Published: 2013-11-19

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13:

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As Christmas draws closer you might be interested in augmenting your supply of decorations for the Christmas tree. Here are a few ideas to make your own baubles for the Christmas tree, and you can of course rope the family in to help you. Children enjoy any project pertaining to Christmas.

Baubles
Baubles

Author: Jackie Keswick

Publisher: Jackie Keswick

Published: 2020-09-13

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13:

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It wasn't the flashiest bauble in the shop, or the largest, but Rica treasured it more than anything else she'd ever made. Every year, it was the only one left unsold. And every year, Rica packed it carefully away, hoping that, one day, someone would be drawn to this particular piece of glass and magic and would come to claim it. She'd almost lost that hope, when a stranger walked into her store. A holiday short story of conviction, hope, and magic. Note: This is a 3400-word, sweet Christmas short story, originally written for the 2018 Rainbow Advent calendar and featuring two female characters.

Baubles, Buttons and Beads
Baubles, Buttons and Beads

Author: Sibylle Jargstorf

Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780887404672

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For 500 years, the world's greatest makers of costume jewelry have hidden, anonymous, in the heart of Europe: Gablonz, Bohemia. This groundbreaking, beautiful book exposes the jewels, craftsmanship, technological development, and history of Bohemia. Almost 400 gorgeous color photographs illustrate the area's artistry, its most significant designers and manufacturers and their contributions to the art of jewelry, button, and bead making. Bohemian glass dynasties lasted for centuries, until the middle of the 20th century, when the entire community of German-stock craftsmen was expelled from the area in the turbulence of World War II. Though Gablonz will forever feel the loss of these great craftsmen, their artistry has been meticulously researched and documented by Sibylle Jargstorf for this book.

Baubles of Blasphemy
Baubles of Blasphemy

Author: Edwin F. Kagin

Publisher: Freethought Press

Published: 2005-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781887392143

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Baubles of Blasphemy is a rich collection of satire, poetry, and essays critical of religion, especially Christianity, and critical of self-righteousness (religious or irreligious). The book has drawn advance praise from most leading American atheists, freethinkers, and humanists.

How to Make 100 Ribbon Embellishments
How to Make 100 Ribbon Embellishments

Author: Elaine Schmidt

Publisher: Creative Publishing International

Published: 2014-03-01

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 162788002X

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Classic and contemporary crafters unite! Create amazing trims, butterflies, flowers and more withHow to Make 100 Ribbon Embellishments.With clever techniques and a huge selection of ribbon styles to choose from, the timeless art of making ribbon embellishments is better than ever. Let author Elaine Schmidt take you through 100 ribbon designs, offering helpful hints and tips to help you make beautiful accessories to place anywhere. DIVInexpensive, and with so many patterns and colors, ribbon is the perfect medium to create adornments that will make any gift, card, or decoration unique and special. Enjoy beautiful photos and simple step-by-step instructions that allow you to create amazing ribbon crafts with ease./divDIVSo grab some ribbon and get crafting!/div

A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature
A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature

Author: Gordon Williams

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2001-09-13

Total Pages: 1650

ISBN-13: 0485113937

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Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.

Bloodfever
Bloodfever

Author: Karen Marie Moning

Publisher: Dell

Published: 2008-08-26

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0440240999

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER I used to be your average, everyday girl but all that changed one night in Dublin when I saw my first Fae, and got dragged into a world of deadly immortals and ancient secrets. . . . In her fight to stay alive, MacKayla must find the Sinsar Dubh—a million-year-old book of the blackest magic imaginable, which holds the key to power over the worlds of both the Fae and Man. Pursued by assassins, surrounded by mysterious figures she knows she can’t trust, Mac finds herself torn between two deadly and powerful men: V’lane, the immortal Fae Prince, and Jericho Barrons, a man as irresistible as he is dangerous. For centuries the shadowy realm of the Fae has coexisted with that of humans. Now the walls between the two are coming down, and Mac is the only thing that stands between them. Look for all of Karen Marie Moning’s sensational Fever novels: DARKFEVER | BLOODFEVER | FAEFEVER | DREAMFEVER | SHADOWFEVER | ICED | BURNED | FEVERBORN | FEVERSONG