Crafting

Author : Dorsey Armstrong
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580442293
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telling Tales and Crafting Books written by Dorsey Armstrong and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great corpus that is medieval literature contains, at its very center, the tale. These verse and prose fictional narratives, as well as stories that are grounded in some degree of historical truth, are the foundation of what readers, scholars, and enthusiasts often point to as signifiers of the medieval age. These tales - from the skillfully crafted to the more rudimentary and plain - often make familiar to modern readers what seems so distant and foreign about the Middle Ages. This volume of essays focuses on the tale and its ability to create "mirth," what modern audiences would often define as "happiness" or "joy," and the significance that the book has had on the transference of this mirth to audiences. This volume also celebrates the scholarship of Thomas H. Ohlgren, a medievalist whose work encompasses a number of different areas, but at its center lives the power of the tale and its ability to create a lasting impression on readers, both medieval and modern.

Author : Robert Nystrom
Publisher : Genever Benning
ISBN 13 : 0990582949
Total Pages : 1021 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crafting Interpreters written by Robert Nystrom and published by Genever Benning. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 1021 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite using them every day, most software engineers know little about how programming languages are designed and implemented. For many, their only experience with that corner of computer science was a terrifying "compilers" class that they suffered through in undergrad and tried to blot from their memory as soon as they had scribbled their last NFA to DFA conversion on the final exam. That fearsome reputation belies a field that is rich with useful techniques and not so difficult as some of its practitioners might have you believe. A better understanding of how programming languages are built will make you a stronger software engineer and teach you concepts and data structures you'll use the rest of your coding days. You might even have fun. This book teaches you everything you need to know to implement a full-featured, efficient scripting language. You'll learn both high-level concepts around parsing and semantics and gritty details like bytecode representation and garbage collection. Your brain will light up with new ideas, and your hands will get dirty and calloused. Starting from main(), you will build a language that features rich syntax, dynamic typing, garbage collection, lexical scope, first-class functions, closures, classes, and inheritance. All packed into a few thousand lines of clean, fast code that you thoroughly understand because you wrote each one yourself.

Author : Maggie Shannon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 193674046X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crafting Calm written by Maggie Shannon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As our world has become increasingly dependent on technology, and our Western societies have become woefully “Crackberried”— to use the title of a recent documentary on the emotional and social pitfalls of our too-wired ways—an intriguing phenomenon is occurring: There is an increasing amount of interest in returning to some of the simpler arts that were neglected or left behind with the onslaught of technology. Artisans and everyday crafters are finding a renewed satisfaction in making something with their own hands; some are even communicating about the inherent physical- and mental-health benefits found in handwork—and, even more than that, they are framing their handwork as meditation or spiritual practice. In today’s sophisticated and pluralistic society, people are more aware than ever that spiritual practice can be defined more expansively—and the popularity of books focusing on alternative spiritual practices demonstrate that readers are hungry for new (or ancient) ways of enhancing their inner lives. In Crafting Calm the author will explore these new forms of creative spiritual practice and the benefits they provide. The format of With Shannon's book will itself be creative, a rich “potpourri approach” that weaves together interviews, historical facts, projects for readers to do themselves, quotations, and suggested resources. Crafting Calm will serve as an inspirational resource guide to a broad assortment of spiritual practices gathered from the global arts-and-crafts communities, as well as from people who don’t consider themselves artists but who have adopted creatively expressive forms of spiritual practice. While there have been a few books published focusing on a particular form of creative spiritual practice (Skylight Paths, for example, has published books on beading as a spiritual practice; painting as a spiritual practice; and using clay as a spiritual practice), no one has yet explored the breadth of possibilities for creative spiritual practices contained in Crafting Calm.

Author : Davide de Gennaro
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838672214
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Job Crafting written by Davide de Gennaro and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proactive behavior of job crafting is intended to better align a job with the individual's personal characteristics, knowledge, skills, and abilities. This book provides a uniform conceptual framework on this area of study and demonstrates how its practice results in a more meaningful and satisfying work experience.

Author : Benjamin Laker
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262378035
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Job Crafting written by Benjamin Laker and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical and timely guide that shows employees how to craft the jobs they want and managers how to shape their organizations in ways that are conducive to such job crafting. Job Crafting is a rigorous, modern take on job redesign that empowers workers to transform the jobs they have into the ones they want. Through the process of job crafting, a worker proactively alters their job to emphasize tasks that better align with their skills or that allow opportunities to learn new skills, with the help of executives who are willing to transform their organizations into supportive work environments. Offering practical guidance grounded in empirical evidence, British researcher Benjamin Laker and coauthors Lebene Soga, Yemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun, and Adeyinka Adewale describe the steps necessary for businesses and organizations to facilitate that support. Rather than passively receive job titles and role descriptions, job crafters harness meaning at work through three primary avenues: exercising greater control over tasks, determining the way tasks are perceived, and shaping social context. Based on data from a previous study in which structured interviews were conducted with one thousand business leaders and two thousand of their workers around the world, the authors’ clear, four-step framework shows managers how to maximize staff engagement and productivity by building the systems, structures, and processes that empower workers to job craft. As new principles of stewardship, authenticity, and empowerment redefine the old command-and-control leadership approach, and generations Y and Z seek autonomy and purpose at work, job crafting offers a potential silver bullet to many workforce problems. Aimed at managers, executives, scholars, and executive education students, Job Crafting rejuvenates discussions of job design, leaving readers informed and ready to discuss how to improve their performance and satisfaction in all sectors.

Author : Amy M. Smith
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476662851
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crafting Community written by Amy M. Smith and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-04-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the threads between community building and fiber arts. Essays explore a variety of communities, different types of crafts, and the unique spaces and places where those communities exist. Readers will get a sense of how community is established, supported, and deconstructed to better understand the benefits they hold for community members. Thinking about how the communities work and why members join and stay within them offers the reader a rich view into the world of fiber arts and the communities within.

Author : Lorraine Hedtke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317416236
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crafting of Grief written by Lorraine Hedtke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books on grief lay out a model to be followed, either for bereaved persons to live through or for professionals to practice, and usually follow some familiar prescriptions for what people should do to reach an accommodation with loss. The Crafting of Grief is different: it focuses on conversations that help people chart their own path through grief. Authors Hedtke and Winslade argue convincingly that therapists and counselors can support people more by helping them craft their own responses to bereavement rather than trying to squeeze experiences into a model. In the pages of this book, readers will learn how to develop lines of inquiry based on the concept of continuing bonds, and they’ll discover ways to use these ideas to help the bereaved craft stories that remember loved ones’ lives.

Author : Amy Renea
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1624141986
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crafting with Nature written by Amy Renea and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful and practical step-by-step guide to growing and gathering plants and using them to fill your life and home with natural homemade creations.Crafting with Nature offers an incredible collection of easy projects using natural materials you can gather or grow and form into beautiful and useful crafts. Readers will love making and using items like the DIY Solid Lavender Perfume, or sewing beautiful Rustic Wooden Buttons they made from gathered branches onto a favorite sweater, or decorating their homes with a Lambs Ear Flower Stalk Wreath with lambs ear they grew in the garden. The book also includes gift ideas and recipes such as Amy's Red, White and Blue Jam using home-grown blackberries and Ginger Pickled Tomatoes with fresh-picked tomatoes from the garden. Each chapter focuses on a different common plant, starting out with a beginner-friendly guide for how to gather or grow it (most are commonly found in home gardens), then ideas and projects for what readers can make with it. The book has a total of 58 detailed step-by-step tutorials and 44 quick-and-easy inspiration ideas and crafting techniques. Amy Renea is the founder of A Nest for All Seasons, chosen as the reader's choice best gardening blog in the Better Homes & Gardens Blogger Awards.

Author : Jessica Vitkus
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374313334
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crafting Change written by Jessica Vitkus and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative and inspiring exploration of craftivism — the intersection of handicraft and activism — designed to encourage young creators while providing meaningful historical context. You don’t have to be old enough to vote to drive political change. In Crafting Change, author, TV producer, and craftivist Jessica Vitkus explores the rich lineage of craftivism, with profiles of craftivisit icons, many of whom are women and people of color. This YA non-fiction book shines a light on artist-driven projects like This Is Not a Gun – workshops where people sculpt objects the police have mistaken for a gun in fatal shootings -- alongside creative movements that mobilized entire communities, like the AIDS Memorial Quilt and the Pussyhat project for the 2017 Women’s March. This engaging narrative combines compelling artist interviews with full-color photos of creators and crafts alike. A perfect book for teens who want to channel their creativity into political action, with ideas for simple projects sure to appeal to budding craftivists.

Author : Siyavush Saidian
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1499468784
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Careers for People Who Love Crafting written by Siyavush Saidian and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even now, in the twenty-first century, there is still a major demand for products made by hand. Online retailers like Etsy.com testify to the popularity of handmade arts and crafts. Many young people enjoy pottery at school or sewing in their spare time. What many don't know, however, is that they can turn these hobbies and passions into full-fledged careers without needing a college degree. This guidebook features in-depth suggestions for young people who want to make a living with handicrafts. It offers advice on how to break into this competitive and rewarding industry.