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Block Party--The Modern Quilting Bee: The Journey of 12 ...

Block Party--The Modern Quilting Bee: The Journey of 12 ...

Alissa Haight Carlton

The Journey of 12 Women, 1 Blog, & 12 Improvisational Projects Alissa Haight Carlton, Kristen Lejnieks. D Y I a u n W K C m B N H A C G w VI K N O W ONCE AROUND THE BLOCK, 95” x 95”, designed, assembled, and quilted by Alissa ...
Decision Assessment and Counseling in Abortion Care: ...

Decision Assessment and Counseling in Abortion Care: ...

Alissa C. Perrucci

This book teaches an approach and framework for decision assessment and counseling for abortion and family planning care.
America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring

America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring

Robert Perrucci

In America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring, Robert Perrucci and Carolyn C. Perrucci identify the broad economic and technological changes that have led to the loss of high wage jobs, declining opportunity, and increased ...
Modern Minimal: 20 Bold & Graphic Quilts

Modern Minimal: 20 Bold & Graphic Quilts

Alissa Haight Carlton

Quilts get super sleek and ultra modern with these gorgeously graphic designs by Alissa Haight Carlton, co-founder of The Modern Quilt Guild.
Networks of Power: Organizational Actors at the National, ...

Networks of Power: Organizational Actors at the National, ...

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Organizational Actors at the National, Corporate, and Community Levels Robert Perrucci, Harry R. Potter ... Dena B. Targ, and Harry R. Targ. Plant Closings: International Context and Social Costs Robert Perrucci and Harry R. Potter (eds. )  ...
Tampa

Tampa

Alissa Nutting

Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa.
The Naturalist

The Naturalist

Alissa York

1867, Philadelphia. Amateur naturalist Walter Ash is on the brink of setting off to travel up his beloved Amazon when fate intervenes, obliging his only son to take his place.
Modern Minimal: 20 Bold and Graphic Quilts

Modern Minimal: 20 Bold and Graphic Quilts

Alissa Haight Carlton

The co-founder of The Modern Quilt Guild provides photos and clear instructions for 20 quilting projects that feature simple designs. Original.
Jean Piaget: Children and the Inclusion Problem (Revised ...

Jean Piaget: Children and the Inclusion Problem (Revised ...

Robert Perrucci

This book is a revised edition of the 1967 original and includes a new introduction and epilogue. The original book was published in the Netherlands, not in the United States.
Homeland: A Northwords Story

Homeland: A Northwords Story

Alissa York

The cross-platform project, which includes a documentary film that follows the authors as they explored the harsh and stunning terrain, had adventures, and created these new works, adds to the continuing story of the North.
New Class Society: Goodbye American Dream?

New Class Society: Goodbye American Dream?

Robert Perrucci

This book explores how class-based resources and interests embedded in large organizations are linked to powerful structures and processes which in turn are rapidly polarizing the U.S. into a highly unequal, 'double diamond' class structure ...
The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of ...

The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of ...

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Andrew Brantlinger, Laurel Cooley and Ellen Brantlinger Social organizations play a powerful role in the reproduction of social inequality. According to critical sociologists Perrucci and Wysong (2003), the perpetuation of class inequalities is  ...
The Process of Business/environmental Collaborations: ...

The Process of Business/environmental Collaborations: ...

Alissa J. Stern

Tammy Newmark spent long hours reviewing the manuscript and, with all the subtlety she could muster, got me back on track when I strayed too far from practice into theory. Finally, down the home stretch, Louis Boorstin kept the book focused ...
Fashioning Intellectual Property: Exhibition, Advertising ...

Fashioning Intellectual Property: Exhibition, Advertising ...

Megan Richardson

Librarians Robin Gardner, Carole Hinchcliffe, Bernard Lyons and Alissa Sputtore were also uni— formly helpful and constructive. We are grateful also to our administra— tive assistant Clarissa Terry for (among many other things) arranging ...
Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers

Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers

Alissa Quart

A thought-provoking exposé of the dark side of marketing to teenagers looks at the underhanded advertising initiatives targeting teens, the reduction of teens to their lowest common denominator, and the consequences of such tactics in ...
Human Rights and War Through Civilian Eyes

Human Rights and War Through Civilian Eyes

Thomas W. Smith

Daniel Rothbart, Karina V. Korostelina, and Mohammed D. Cherkaoui, 1–16. New York: Routledge. Rubin, Alissa J. 2008. “U.S. Remakes Jails in Iraq, But Gains Are at Risk.” New York Times, June 2. Rudoren, Jodi. 2014a. “Civilian or Not?
Quilters, Their Quilts, Their Studios, Their Stories: With ...

Quilters, Their Quilts, Their Studios, Their Stories: With ...

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Alissa Haight Carlton lives in Los Angeles, California, and is the co-founder and executive director of the Modern Quilt Guild. She has written two books: “Modern Minimal: 20 Bold and Graphic Quilts,” and “Block Party: The Modern Quilting Bee  ...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology

The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology

Earl Wright II

References. Alderman, Jason, Gitanjali Gurudatt Borkar, Amanda Garrett, Lindsay Hogan, Janet Kim, Winston Le, Veronica Louie, Alissa Marque, Phil Reiff , Colin Christopher Richard, Peter Thai, Tania Wang and Craig Wickersham. 2005.
The Heaven of Animals: Stories

The Heaven of Animals: Stories

David James Poissant

... Kevin Wilson, Claire Vaye Watkins, Clyde Edgerton, Matthew Pitt, Shannon Cain, Alissa Nutting, Erin Stalcup, David Scrivner, Lance Cleland, and Rachel Cantor. Bret Anthony Johnston, patron saint of young writers, you're an inspiration.
Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs: A Midterm Report on My ...

Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs: A Midterm Report on My ...

William Upski Wimsatt

... Day, Julia Nagle, Ian Rhodewalt, Beth Pollack, Marianne Manilov, Ryan Clayton, Noelle Celeste, Hallie Montoya Tansey, Esther Morales, Kristina Rizga, Christina Hollenback, Toni Nagy, Jamie Schweser, Tate Hausman, and Alissa Hauser.
Free-Motion Quilting with Angela Walters: Choose & Use ...

Free-Motion Quilting with Angela Walters: Choose & Use ...

Angela Walters

... Alissa Haight Carlton Heidi Hendrickson Mark Cesarik Jessica Levitt Jenifer Dick Georgieanna Martin (my awesome mom!) Jacquie Gering Modern Quilt Relish patterns Tula Pink Scott Hansen Shea Henderson Debi Walters (my awesome ...

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