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Every good knitting project begins with great yarn. In the quest for one-of-a-kind fibres, many knitters and weavers have discovered the deep satisfaction of spinning one's own. An art in itself, spinning requires an array of basic technical skills and decisions to produce a particular style of yarn. While knitters have long had stitch dictionaries to guide their hands, no similar resource has existed for spinners. Until now. The Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs is a step-by-step guide to creating 70 distinctive yarns, from classics such as mohair boucle to novelty features like supercoils. Lush, full-colour photographs illustrate the process of turning fleece into yarn, reveal the architecture of each yarn, and demonstrate exactly how to manipulate and combine the fibres to achieve the desired result. Images of knitted and woven pieces reveal how the spun yarn looks in a variety of projects.

From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Beowulf, edited by Sarah Anderson and translated by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy, includes the complete work and contextual materials on the early medieval age.

Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary Scottish criminal justice system, this book focuses on its key processes (from arrest to post-sentence) and institutions, as well as its history and some of the key challenges and critical issues facing Scottish criminal justice today.Highly attentive to procedural and institutional detail, this book is underpinned by a critical sociological perspective. The opening chapter considers Scotland in its post-devolutionary context within the UK, setting the scene for Scottish criminal justice institutions. Subsequent chapters deal in turn with different institutions and processes of Scottish criminal justice: surveillance and crime prevention, policing, prosecution and the courts, criminal fines and other financial penalties, community justice, electronic monitoring, prisons, youth justice, and parole and post-sentence reintegration and supervision. The final chapter draws on comparative and international criminology to look at Scottish criminal justice in changing international contexts and its response to new global crimes.Designed to support learning, it includes the following:Key ideas at the start of each chapter, outlining expectations and providing a very high-level summary of the most important pointsText boxes covering key issues, controversies and/or key populations in focusCritical questions to challenge students to develop their own thinking and ideas about key issues in Scottish criminal justiceShort, informal interviews with key practitioners and researchersEssential readings and key resources at the end of each chapterCriminal Justice in Scotland is a key text for students of criminology and criminal justice, particularly those with an interest in the Scottish criminal justice system. It will also be of value to students of law, social work and social policy.

Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary Scottish criminal justice system, this book focuses on its key processes (from arrest to post-sentence) and institutions, as well as its history and some of the key challenges and critical issues facing Scottish criminal justice today.Highly attentive to procedural and institutional detail, this book is underpinned by a critical sociological perspective. The opening chapter considers Scotland in its post-devolutionary context within the UK, setting the scene for Scottish criminal justice institutions. Subsequent chapters deal in turn with different institutions and processes of Scottish criminal justice: surveillance and crime prevention, policing, prosecution and the courts, criminal fines and other financial penalties, community justice, electronic monitoring, prisons, youth justice, and parole and post-sentence reintegration and supervision. The final chapter draws on comparative and international criminology to look at Scottish criminal justice in changing international contexts and its response to new global crimes.Designed to support learning, it includes the following:Key ideas at the start of each chapter, outlining expectations and providing a very high-level summary of the most important pointsText boxes covering key issues, controversies and/or key populations in focusCritical questions to challenge students to develop their own thinking and ideas about key issues in Scottish criminal justiceShort, informal interviews with key practitioners and researchersEssential readings and key resources at the end of each chapterCriminal Justice in Scotland is a key text for students of criminology and criminal justice, particularly those with an interest in the Scottish criminal justice system. It will also be of value to students of law, social work and social policy.

This fully updated and expanded second edition of The Field Guide to the Global Economy presents the latest facts to help make sense of the rapidly changing international economy. Illustrated throughout with charts, graphs, and cartoons, the book documents new trends, including the foreign "outsourcing" of U.S. service jobs, as well as the increasing influence of mega-firms like Wal-Mart and labor union-free China on workers around the globe.Published in conjunction with the Institute for Policy Studies, an independent research institute based in Washington, D.C., this accessible guide explains how global institutions such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, and North American Free Trade Agreement affect communities, workers, the poor, and the environment. The book dispels the widely disseminated propaganda about current globalization policies and provides an update on the burgeoning movement that is challenging them, from Bolivian water warriors to U.S. student anti-sweatshop activists.

This revised second edition of this unique travel health reference is prepared under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain.

‘What a joy’ Kiley Reid'A spectacular debut: hilarious, sly, sharp, and extraordinarily thoughtful’ Lauren GroffMeet Natalie: she hates work, but turns out she’s great at labourNatalie has no skills or ambitions. The clock ticks away at the call centre where she works, while she tries to ignore the pain in her jaw. She has no dental insurance.Then, a mysterious flyer leads her to The Company. Natalie turns out to be the perfect candidate for their in-house surrogacy program. The job: deliver seven healthy babies in ten years.Suddenly, her every need is met. And during what Natalie comes to call her ‘fallow’ periods, she enjoys uncomplicated hedonism. For the first time in her life, she is good at her job; for the first time, she feels free.But as Natalie nears the end of her contract, she meets Jackie, who isn’t like the other mothers. And soon Natalie finds herself in another kind of social experiment altogether.'A very funny book about work and ambition’ Rumaan Alam'A kind of gonzo Handmaid’s Tale’ Peter Ho Davies

Cthulhu is Hard to Spell is an anthology series steeped in the mythology and gods of Lovecraft. The stories inside its pages follow the spirit of Lovecraft, but sometimes stray from the tone of Lovecraftian horror, too! Sure, some of the stories in this book are Lovecraftian in nature down to their very core, but there are also funny stories, cute stories, fantasy stories, sci-fi stories, and much more that build on the Lovecraftian mythos.This anthology includes 20 stories from a diverse group of creators. Features stories such as: Nora -- a dejected teenager living in an ice village sets out to find Aphoom-Zhah and thaw his cold heart.The Dunwich Boys -- Yog-Sothoth has materialized in a house in Dunwich, and the Dunwich boys have to banish it from their neighborhood. Cat is Cryptic -- a retelling of the Cats of Ulthar, one of Lovecraft's most beloved stories. Slumber -- After being woken up on a spaceship, a man has to escape the Lovecraftian horror chasing him.