Tag: Gifts

Free Download Ame Verso, "50 DIY Gifts: Fifty handmade gifts for creative giving"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1446306623, 1446310752 | EPUB | pages: 64 | 4.9 mb
As more and more people are looking for personalized gifts, this collection of 50 DIY gifts provides a rich source of inspiration and step-by-step projects. With handmade gifts ranging from easy jewellery projects to simple sewing patterns to quick ideas with paper, yarn, shrink plastic and clay, this book will be your go-to manual for DIY gifts forever more!

Free Download Joseph M. Hall Jr., "Zamumo’s Gifts: Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0812241797, 0812222237 | EPUB | pages: 248 | 1.9 mb
In 1540, Zamumo, the chief of the Altamahas in central Georgia, exchanged gifts with the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto. With these gifts began two centuries of exchanges that bound American Indians and the Spanish, English, and French who colonized the region. Whether they gave gifts for diplomacy or traded commodities for profit, Natives and newcomers alike used the exchange of goods such as cloth, deerskin, muskets, and sometimes people as a way of securing their influence. Gifts and trade enabled early colonies to survive and later colonies to prosper. Conversely, they upset the social balance of chiefdoms like Zamumo’s and promoted the rise of new and powerful Indian confederacies like the Creeks and the Choctaws.

Free Download Jennifer Eyl, "Signs, Wonders, and Gifts: Divination in the Letters of Paul"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0190924659 | PDF | pages: 271 | 3.4 mb
In much of the scholarship on Paul, activities such as speaking in tongues, prophecy, and miracle healings are either ignored or treated as singular occurrences. Typically, these practices are categorized in such a way that shields Paul and his followers from the influence of so-called paganism. In Signs, Wonders, and Gifts, Jennifer Eyl masterfully argues that Paul did, in fact, engage in range of divinatory and wonder-working practices that were widely recognized and accepted across the ancient Mediterranean. Eyl redescribes, reclassifies, and recontextualizes Paul’s repertoire vis-á-vis such widespread, similar practices. Situating these activities within the larger framework of reciprocity that dominated human-divine relationships in antiquity, she demonstrates that divine powers and divine communication were bestowed as benefactions toward Paul and his gentile followers in proportion to their faithfulness and loyalty.

Free Download Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden by Teresa Peterson
English | June 18th, 2024 | ISBN: 1517917026 | 230 pages | True PDF | 5.60 MB
Travel through a garden’s seasons toward healing, reclamation, and wholeness-for us, and for our beloved relative, the Earth

Free Download Alison V. Scott, "Selfish Gifts: The Politics of Exchange And English Courtly Literature, 1580-1628"
English | 2005 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0838640826, 1611473187 | PDF | 1,1 mb
Engaging with a wide range of texts on gift-theory, extending from Senecas De Beneficiis to Derridas Given Time, Selfish Gifts examines the importance of gift ethics and the rhetoric of honorable giving to the literature of late Elizabeth and early Stuart England. It demonstrates that the ideal of the freely given and disinterested gift shaped the language of early modern clientage, along with literary representations of patrons and patronage systems during this period. Selfish Gifts examines how early modern clients moved quickly and strategically to assimilate the language of competition and equality, characteristic of an emerging market economy, within their existing discourses of gift exchange, in order to maximize the rewards they might induce from an increasingly diverse group of patrons.

Free Download Couture Craft Gifts
by Read-Baldrey, Hannah;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1446313271 | 144 pages | True EPUB | 151.75 MB

Free Download Souchou Yao, "Gifts to the Sad Country: Essays on the Chinese Diaspora"
English | ISBN: 9819715970 | 2024 | 168 pages | EPUB, PDF | 322 KB + 1478 KB
This book is a study of an ethnic-Chinese family in Malaysia as it struggled with the upheavals in China during the Land Reform (1945-1953) and the Great Leap Forward (1958-1962). Based on fieldwork in Malaysia and in a village in Dabu County, Southern China, it tells a story of a family whose existence straddled two nations, two political systems. Emigration is shown to be both a positive experience and a source of despair. The study redefines the conventional narrative about the Chinese diaspora as economically driven and politically expedient; mobility, personal freedom and transnational journeying were a part of their cultural history. The book highlights the fact that Chinese homeland, even under communist rule, offered the people a means of identification under difficult circumstances. During the time of radical reform, the diaspora adapted themselves to the conditions in the homeland, and for some China remained a place of longing and emotional attachment.

Free Download Cami Walker, "29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0738214302, 073821356X | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.3 mb
After a devastating MS diagnosis, one woman shares her inspirational journey in gratitude and generosity-in this New York Times bestseller.

Free Download Natalie Wise, "Gifts in Jars: Homemade Cookie Mixes, Soup Mixes, Candles, Lotions, Teas, and More!"
English | 2016 | pages: 132 | ISBN: 1510719741 | EPUB | 23,4 mb
Learn to make dozens of unique gifts packaged perfectly in glass jars of various shapes and sizes. Do you have an aspiring gardener on your list? Make a "plant bomb" jar with your favorite flower seeds or an adorable terrarium featuring easy-to-grow air plants. Headed to a bridal shower? Pamper your friend with a manicure kit or mint mojito lip scrub. Who wouldn’t love some homemade sugar cookie mix or healthy and delicious granola in an attractive and reusable jar?

Free Download John Wisdomkeeper, "Gifts from the grandmothers: the Wisdomkeeper collection"
English | 2016 | pages: 108 | ISBN: 177299040X | EPUB | 0,3 mb
It is traditional for First Nation’s people to give thanks, and acknowledge our relations, to the plants, animals, birds and creatures from the water, to show respect for their giving their spirits in order for others to survive. Elders say prayers to commemorate this sacrifice at a feast gathering. During these gatherings the people shared their recipes and often demonstrated the preparation and cooking of food. Elders would pass on ancient food gathering and preparation guides to the younger members of the tribe. Because of this tradition of passing on the wisdom of the tribe from generation to generation, First Nation’s people became increasingly skilled in the art of drying and preparing foods, herbs and berries with each passing generation. The Medicine men and women of the tribes were gifted healers trained by generations of ancestors in the art of using the gifts of Mother Earth to heal the people of their tribes.