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Create Your Own Hand-Printed Cloth: Stamp, Screen, and Stencil with Everyday Objects
Eight techniques, endless possibilities * Create fabric that expresses the artist within * Great for cotton, silk, and rayon Discover your inner artist--and the deepest bowels of that junk drawer--with this practical guide to fabric design. The eight easy techniques, explained in clear step-by-step directions and photographs, are stamping, stenciling, random screenprinting, gelatin plate printing, deconstructed screenprinting, discharge printing, soy wax batik, and rubbings. Use one, two, or more to make gorgeous, utterly unique fabric for fashion, home décor, or crafts. .
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The Truth About Garden Remedies: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why
Can beer make plants grow? How about buttermilk? Or musicâclassical or rock? Are you sure abut planting trees in deep holes? And how about chasing insects with hot sauce and stopping slugs with eggshells? Whether in ancient books, on television, or in gardening publications, remedies for all your garden woes are here for the taking: the challenge is to know what will work and what won't. Fearlessly conducting original experiments and harvesting wisdom from the scientific literature, horticulturalist Jeff Gillman assesses new and historic advice and reveals the how and whyâÄîand sometimes the why notâÄîfor more than 100 common and uncommon gardening practices. The results will surprise even experienced gardeners..
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The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought
Does death end life, or is it the passage from one stage of life to another? In The Death of Death, noted theologian Neil Gillman offers readers an original and compelling argument that Judaism, a religion often thought to pay little attention to the afterlife, delivers a deathblow to death itself. This new work is an intellectual and spiritual milestone for all of us interested in the meaning of life, as well as the meaning of death. Combining astute scholarship with keen historical, theological, and liturgical insights, Gillman traces the evolution of Jewish thought about death and the afterlife. From Judaism' s original belief not only in the afterlife but in bodily resurrection, to later ambivalence about resurrection and reincarnation, today, somewhat surprisingly, more contemporary Jewish scholars including Gillman have unabashedly returned to the notion of bodily resurrection. The Death of Death gives new life to a very old debate. By exploring Jewish thought about death and the afterlife, it presents readers with challenging new ideas..
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Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed Word (Religions of the World and Ecology)
Jewish ecological discourse has shown that Judaism harbors deep concern for the well-being of the natural world. However, the movement has not articulated a Jewish theology of nature, nor has it submitted the sources of Judaism to a systematic, philosophical examination. This volume intends to contribute to the nascent discourse on Judaism and ecology by clarifying diverse conceptions of nature in Jewish thought and by using the insights of Judaism to formulate a constructive Jewish theology of nature. The twenty-one contributors consider the Bible and rabbinic literature, examine the relationship between the doctrine of creation and the doctrine of revelation in the context of natural law, and wrestle with questions of nature and morality. They look at nature in the Jewish mystical tradition, and they face the challenges to Jewish environmental activism caused by the tension between the secular nature of the environmental discourse and Jewish religious commitments..
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The Jewish Approach to God: A Brief Introduction for Christians
The Christian family tree originated in first century Judaism. For more than two millennia, Jewish and Christian approaches to God have intermingled In this special book, Rabbi Neil Gillman guides Christians through the different ways the Jewish people have related to God, how each originated, and what each may mean for you and your understandings of your own faith. A theologian who writes as a great teacher, Gillman addresses the key issues at the heart of Judaism's approach to God: God Is Echad (Unique) God Is Power God Is Person God Is Nice--Sometimes God Is Not Nice--Sometimes God Can Change God Creates God Reveals God Redeems Gillman addresses questions of particular importance to Christian readers, such as: How does sin stand in the way of our knowing God? What does Judaism teach about the coming of God in the future? By exploring the Jewish ways of encountering God, Gillman helps you to understand what the search itself says about Jewish tradition and you can use the fundamentals of Judaism to strengthen, explore, and deepen your own spiritual foundations..
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Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain's America
"Many persons have such a horror of being taken in," wrote P. T. Barnum, "that they believe themselves to be a sham and are continually humbugging themselves." Mark Twain enjoyed trading on that horror, as the many confidence men, assumed identities, and disguised characters in his fiction attest. In Dark Twins, Susan Gillman challenges the widely held assumption that Twain's concern with identity is purely biographical and argues that what has been regarded as a problem of individual psychology must be located instead within American society around the turn of the century. Drawing on Twain's whole writing career, but focusing on the controversial late period of social "pessimism" and literary "incoherence," Gillman situates Twain and his work in historical context, demonstrating the complex interplay between his most intimate personal and authorial identity and the public attitudes toward race, gender, and science.
Gillman shows that laws regulating race classification, paternity, and rape cases underwrite Twain's critical exploration of racial and sexual difference in the writings of the 1890s and after, most strikingly in the little-known manuscripts that Gillman calls the "tales of transvestism." The "pseudoscience" of spiritualism and the "science" of psychology provide the cultural vocabularies essential to Twain's fantasy and science fiction writings of his last two decades. Twain stands forth finally as a representative man, not only a child of his culture, but also as one implicated in a continuing American anxiety about freedom, race, and identity. .
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Traces Of God: Seeing God in Torah, History and Everyday Life
The Torah is replete with references to hearing God but precious few references to seeing God. Seeing is complicated. What we look for and see are traces of God's presence in the world and in history, but not God. In order to identify those traces as reflections of divine presence, we need to re-examine how we see, what we see, and how we interpret that information. In this challenging and inspiring look at the dynamics of the religious experience, award-winning author and theologian Neil Gillman guides you into a new way of seeing the complex patterns in the Bible, history, and everyday experiences and helps you interpret what those patterns mean to you and your relationship with God. Examining faith and doubt, revelation and law, suffering and redemption, Gillman candidly deconstructs familiar biblical moments in order to help you develop and refine your own spiritual vision, so that you are able to discern the presence of God in unanticipated ways..
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