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Bead & Fiber Jewelry: Elegant Knotted Designs
Knot one, bead two, and what have you got? Bold jewelry made from an eclectic collection of beads—one-of-a-kind lampwork beads, silver ethnic beads, exotic stones—and a selection of luscious fibers. These 30 beautiful projects show what’s possible when a time-tested technique gets a fashionable update with contemporary materials and a modern aesthetic. The knots are simple and familiar to most crafters: basic overhand, square, and hitches. And once that’s mastered the rest is easy. Create a spiraled necklace out of linen cord and a single stunning enamel and gold-leaf focus bead. Work silky ribbon yarn in an open net to make an elegant lariat beaded scarf. How-to illustrations, beauty shots, and numerous construction tips help illuminate the process. .
Price: $11.71
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The New Macrame: Contemporary Knotted Jewelry and Accessories
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The Knotted Subject
Surrealist writer André Breton praised hysteria for being the greatest poetic discovery of the nineteenth century, but many physicians have since viewed it as the "wastebasket of medicine," a psychosomatic state that defies attempts at definition and cure and that can be easily mistaken for other pathological conditions. In light of a resurgence of critical interest in hysteria, leading feminist scholar Elisabeth Bronfen reinvestigates medical writings and cultural performance to reveal the continued relevance of a disorder widely thought to be a romantic formulation of the past. Through a critical rereading, she develops a new concept of hysteria, one that challenges traditional gender-based theories linking it to dissatisfied feminine sexual desire. Bronfen turns instead to hysteria's traumatic causes, particularly the fear of violation, and shows how the conversion of psychic anguish into somatic symptoms can be interpreted today as the enactment of personal and cultural discontent. Tracing the development of cultural formations of hysteria from the 1800s to the present, this book explores the writings of Freud, Charcot, and Janet together with fictional texts (Radcliffe, Stoker, Anne Sexton), opera (Mozart, Wagner), cinema (Cronenberg, Hitchcock, Woody Allen), and visual art (Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Cindy Sherman). Each of these creative works attests to a particular relationship between hysteria and self-fashioning, and enables us to read hysteria quite literally as a language of discontent. The message broadcasted by the hysteric is one of vulnerability: vulnerability of the symbolic, of identity, and of the human body itself. Throughout this work, Bronfen not only offers fresh approaches to understanding hysteria in our culture, but also introduces a new metaphor to serve as a theoretical tool. Whereas the phallus has long dominated psychoanalytical discourse, the image of the navel--a knotted originary wound common to both genders--facilitates discussion of topics relevant to hysteria, such as trauma, mortality, and infinity. Bronfen's insights make for a lively, innovative work sure to interest readers across the fields of art and literature, feminism, and psychology. .
Price: $4.95
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Knotted Pearls: And Other Stories
The thirteen stories in this new collection by Karla Clark feature characters adrift . . . pearls of people facing knotty situations A father away on a business trip who misses his wife and daughters more than they miss him. A newly married woman whose husband "grandmothers" her to death. A garbage man who refuses to define himself by his occupation. A college student who discovers her own beauty. An elderly woman who hasn't spoken to her best friend in twenty years. A Christmas tree grower searching for his trees. Combining humor with grace, Clark teases out issues of the heart in the everyday lives of everyday people. You'll recognize the characters . . . they are people we all know and love..
Price: $9.22
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The Knotted Strings
The movie in progress is based on a historical event, a Native American victory over Spanish invaders. But some Indians deeply resent the movie company’s filming on tribal land. Shooting has just begun when a deadly real-life scenario rapidly eclipses the one slated for the screen: the man who leased the Santo Esteban Pueblo to Hollywood suddenly dies, and the leading man is murdered. Blind sculptor Mo Bowdre, whose beautiful Hopi girlfriend has a small role in the movie, is fascinated. Who are the players and what are the stakes? Finding the answer tests Mo’s inner vision to its limits. “Steeped in Southwestern history and culture. In every respect—character, plot, and atmosphere—The Knotted Strings is a rich reading experience.”—Houston Chronicle “Page’s third Mo Bowdre mystery is angrier and more hip as it takes wicked shots at the movie business, the media, crass Eastern tourists, and venal lawyers. . . . Page includes some lovely scenes—the hilltop funeral of an old pueblo leader, for example.”—Publishers Weekly “A commentary on life in transformed Santa Fe and the tension between pueblo and city.”—Rocky Mountain News .
Price: $5.81
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Knotted Tongues: Stuttering in History and the Quest for a Cure (Kodansha Globe)
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From "Knotted Strings" To Talking Bibles
This is a wonder filled story of how God takes a young boy from a small farm in Minnesota to Africa and uses him and his wife in the Sudan and Ethiopia to translate the Bible in written and audio form. Career missionary and missiologist, Harvey and Lavina' story overflows with testimony to God's direction, empowerment, provision and sustaining love as two people impact the lives of thousands in Africa and beyond. This missionary biography is full of joy and wonder!.
Price: $12.67
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