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Discover the beauty of handmade traditions across cultures and continents.Handmade crafts tell stories of identity, tradition, and creativity. An Artisans Guide to Crafts and Places by Katharina Koppenwallner takes readers on a richly illustrated journey along the Silk Road, the hippie trails, and into remote regions worldwide. The book combines travel narrative, cultural history, and design inspiration while showcasing traditional crafts that continue to evolve in a globalized world. Highlights: Fascinating insights into folk art and traditional crafts from Europe to Latin America Expert knowledge on dying techniques, textile traditions, ceramics, and more Richly illustrated with enchanting stories from remote regions and their people Includes travel tips, market recommendations, and a helpful index This beautifully designed book is a must-have for lovers of traditional crafts, design enthusiasts, globetrotters, and anyone interested in the aesthetics of handmade culture.Katharina Koppenwallner (*1966) studied art history, journalism, and folklore, and lives and works as a freelance editor in Berlin. In 2011, she founded her business "International Wardrobe," which sells textiles, traditional costumes, and ceramics from around the world. She writes freelance articles for publications including the literary magazine Der Freund, Modedepesche, Suddeutsche Zeitung, FAZ Sonntag, and der Freitag. Since 2017, she has been writing the weekly column Souvenirs in the travel section of Welt am Sonntag.

Museums are anything but wild. Historically, museums have functioned as key sites for the production of boundaries between nature and culture. Nature might be presented in form and image, but its processes must not be allowed to take hold within museum architecture. In a warming world, climate-controlled interiors are increasingly vulnerable to floods, fires, and power failures. In an effort to address environmental crises, artists chop through walls, fill them with dirt, and bring in insects, plants, and animals, while others leave the institution altogether to embrace the specificity of site. Audiences are drawn outside and off-screen, into zones that recalibrate norms of aesthetic attention. Rewilding the Museum explores a paradox that also lurks at the heart of restoration ecology: We cannot return to past fantasies of "nature." Rather, we must foster ecologies that support biodiversity and stable geophysical cycles. This book asks how artists and curators are working with and against exhibition infrastructures to elaborate contemporary ideas of nature.

Museums are anything but wild. Historically, museums have functioned as key sites for the production of boundaries between nature and culture. Nature might be presented in form and image, but its processes must not be allowed to take hold within museum architecture. In a warming world, climate-controlled interiors are increasingly vulnerable to floods, fires, and power failures. In an effort to address environmental crises, artists chop through walls, fill them with dirt, and bring in insects, plants, and animals, while others leave the institution altogether to embrace the specificity of site. Audiences are drawn outside and off-screen, into zones that recalibrate norms of aesthetic attention. Rewilding the Museum explores a paradox that also lurks at the heart of restoration ecology: We cannot return to past fantasies of "nature." Rather, we must foster ecologies that support biodiversity and stable geophysical cycles. This book asks how artists and curators are working with and against exhibition infrastructures to elaborate contemporary ideas of nature.

Saltburn with werewolves in the darkly hilarious new novel from Goodreads Choice Award finalist Jennifer Thorne, perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix and Sarah GaileyAfter years of caring for her dying mother, Martha Shaw feels empty, exhausted, and far older than her twenty-six years. So when her brother invites her to a weekend getaway at the opulent, two-hundred-acre country estate where his friend works, Martha reluctantly agrees. After all, whats the harm? The owners and all their staff will be gone. Security cameras will be off. The house will be theirs. For the first time in years, Martha might actually have fun.And it is fun, taking advantage of the historic mega-mansion and its vast grounds. Martha begins to feel human again. But when night falls, the rightful master of Newbourne Park returnsand shes not alone. Suddenly, being caught trespassing is the least of their worries, because what steps out into the moonlight is something vicious. And hungry.What began as a lark becomes a bloody battle for survival, where greed and morality collideand a woman must choose to bow, break, or bite back.From the author of Diavola comes another wickedly funny horror about dysfunctional families, class, and other things that howl at the moon.

An original novel set in the Halo universebased on the New York Times bestselling video game series!2552. As the planet Reach falls to the alien alliance known as the Covenant, a lone human shipthe UNSC Pillar of Autumnfled into slipspace and has arrived at a place that could change the course of this decades-long war. An ancient, mysterious ringworld: Halo.With human forces scattered across the surface of this immense alien construct, Staff Sergeant Marvin Mobuto must now lead his fellow crewmatessurvivors from the ships brigback to the Autumns crash site to rally and regroup with their allies. Desertion, drunk and disorderly, and murder are only a few of the charges that Mobutos squad carriesand keeping them in line might prove to be just as difficult as surviving the zealous, entrenched Covenant warriors who believe they have found the gateway to paradise.But as war rages across the rings landscape for control of the installations weapons and secrets, a far more terrible threat from deep within Halos underworld is hellishly unleashed that transforms this conflict into a desperate battle of survival for UNSC and Covenant alike...

Uncover the Gifts of Your Tenderheartedness Have you always felt a little different? Do you find the world overstimulating and your own thoughts and feelings overwhelming? Maybe your relationship with God feels like a heavy list of obligations, and caring for others leaves you tired and empty.For the highly sensitive person (HSP), this inner experience can be both a gift and a challenge.In The Highly Sensitive Christian, author Jason Cusick shares pastoral insight and his personal journey as an HSP to reframe sensitivity not as a weakness to be fixed but as a God-given strength to be embraced.Research shows that 1520 percent of people have an innate sensitivity, making them highly discerning, deeply feeling, and uniquely attuned to the world. While your tenderheartedness comes naturally, it can also leave you feeling like youre not as "strong" as someone without this gift. This book helps you navigate these challenges, celebrate your giftedness, and develop lasting spiritual resilience.In this book, highly sensitive Christians will discover how to See your sensitivity as a superpower. Reframe your innate sensitivity as a good gift from God, designed to be celebrated and shared. Develop spiritual resilience. Learn practical ways to grow and move from feeling overwhelmed to empowered, engaging with the prayers, Scripture, discussion questions, and action steps included with each chapter. Listen to your body. Pay attention to your bodys signals rather than dismiss them. Deepen your faith. Unearth and correct theological beliefs that may have hindered your spiritual growth, and find new freedom in your relationship with God. Strengthen your relationships. Friends, family, and church communities can understand, celebrate, and benefit from highly sensitive loved ones. This encouraging book enables you to experience your tenderheartedness as the strength God intended for you. As you embrace your tenderheartedness, you can learn to carry and share your gifts in ways that honor God, others, and yourself.Whether you are a highly sensitive Christian seeking to feel seen and understood, or a pastor, friend, or family member wanting to better support the tenderhearted people in your life, The Highly Sensitive Christian offers a hopeful path forward.

How Engaging Horror Helps Us Fear Rightly Is it possible to be scaredin a good way? In Be Afraid, theologian and psychological scientist Kutter Callaway explores the surprising relationship between fear, horror, and Christian faith. Drawing from film, psychology, and theology, this book engages popular horror narratives to ask what our deepest fears reveal about what we truly love, long for, and believe.Be Afraid explores how our Christian faith is made better when we engage with the horror genre. According to Callaway, Christian life isnt about eliminating fear, its about redirecting it. This book offers a fresh, often funny, and deeply honest theological reflection on the shared fears and anxieties of our culture that is as engaging in a classroom as it is in a book club.By exploring the genre of horror through the lens of Christian faith, Be Afraid: demonstrates how that faith is enriched by engaging with horror; offers theological insight into our cultures fascination with the terrifying; helps readers learn how to redeem real world fears; and includes discussion questions for individual or group reflection. Scripture itself contains many stories filled with horror and gore: Jael and Sisera, John the Baptists beheading, and even the crucifixion of Jesus. Be Afraid argues that engaging with horror storieswhether in the media or in the Biblecan benefit our spiritual lives by teaching us how to fear rightly.The Bible calls on Christians to think about what is good, beautiful, and true. And sometimes, the truth is horrifying.About the Series The Discovering God in Pop Culture series seeks to demonstrate how Christian faith is enriched and made better by critical and creative engagement with pop culture. In each volume, readers explore a popular topic through the lens of the Christian faith.

What if the CIA and MI6 began spying on each other? Artemis Procter returns in David McCloskeys electrifying new spy thriller.What if the CIA and British intelligence began spying on each other? This is the question at the heart of David McCloskeys thrilling fifth novel. A new US Administration has taken office, installing a brash and unconventional CIA Director determined to disrupt the Agency and sceptical of its close relationship with their cousins across the Atlantic. Case officers, including newly installed London Chief of Station, Artemis Procter, must now navigate a tense environment as old friends become adversaries and no one knows who to trust. When agents run by both services begin dying, Procter and her team at London Station must decide whether loyalty to the Mission and their friends means disobeying the Agency they serve.Immersing readers in the technological revolution upending intelligence tradecraft, David McCloskeys brilliant new thriller depicts the nuts-and-bolts mechanics of how CIA and MI6 collaborate and explores what happens when politics threaten to destroy the Special Relationship between America and Britain.THE FIFTH NOVEL FROM FORMER CIA OFFICER, THE REST IS CLASSIFIED PODCAST CO-HOST AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ***THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEAR***DAMASCUS STATION (One of the best spy thrillers in years THE TIMES) AND ***SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*** MOSCOW X

Curiouser and curiouser...On an ordinary summers afternoon, Alice tumbles down a rabbit hole and finds herself at the start of an extraordinary adventure. In the dreamlike world of Wonderland, she meets a grinning cat and a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatters Tea Party and plays croquet with the Queen of Hearts.Filled with clever wordplay, whimsical nonsense and boundless imagination, Alice in Wonderland is a timeless work of childrens literature that continues to captivate readers of all generations.

This collection of fifteen stories from the cult author of Ice examines war and mental illness from her signature surreal point of view. Inspired by Kavans own experiences nursing traumatized Second World War soldiers and as a patient in various asylums, these pieces communicate the claustrophobia and isolation of life amidst conflict or caught in the gears of an institutional machine - but also the stunning beauty of physical experience, as her cast of outsiders find themselves pulled back into the world despite its hostility.In the title story, a young man living in an asylum must navigate the often unreadable reality around him, taking cues from malevolent flowers and inhumanly brisk nurses, as we are left to wonder whether the cure harms more than the disease. Outside the asylum grounds, institutions still exert terrifying power, as an unnamed refugee tries to navigate a Kafkan bureaucracy to escape a war-ravaged metropolis in Our City, and is distracted from the hopelessness of the task by the beauty of silvery barrage balloons and young women at their windows. Humanity goes to war with nature, too, in The Gannets, a brief, disturbing story that predates Daphne du Mauriers The Birds, featuring a band of impoverished children engaged in a horrific game with unnaturally predatory seabirds.At times cleanly modernist, at others ornately strange and dream-like, Kavans writing is always propulsive, powered by the tension between the menace closing in around her characters, and the incomparable loveliness of the strange world they inhabit.

In a city torn apart by civil war, a teenage sniper has only one goal: to fire the perfect shot. He sublimates himself into his weapon, practices controlling his breath, staying calm, listening to his body and the beat of his heart. Consumed for too long by violence and turned agent of pure destruction and despair, he lies in wait on rooftops, killing civilians while his mentally ill mother cowers in their flat. His routine is disrupted by the arrival of Myrna, a fifteen-year-old girl hired to care for her, and towards whom he develops a disturbing obsession in which she finds herself trapped. Now published in English for the first time, Mathias Enards debut novel is an unrelenting work whose harrowing immediacy belies its lyricism, exposing how extreme violence corrodes the soul and leaves no part of life unscathed.

The CIA forced Lily to retire before she was ready. Shed spent 40 years as a field agent. Shed been skilled, resourceful, dedicated everything that makes a good agent, but shed rubbed too many of her bosses the wrong way. They jumped on a botched op as an excuse to fire her. Now in her 70s, waiting in a doctors office, she reads a magazine article that startles her out of retirement. The story casts doubt on everything she believed about her first and happiest posting in Hayalistan, one of the old Soviet republics. Lilys angry, and she decides to find out what really happened when she was stationed there. As word of her investigation gets back to the CIA, the Company knows they must silence her. But Lilys aging body cant perform the feats it managed in her forties and fifties, and escaping their attempts on her life will test her physical and mental skills at a whole new level.

A resonant coming-of-age novel, and a story of intergenerational struggle and societal changeIro left his village to continue his studies in Abidjan. With his friends, Thierry, Malick, and Yeo, they form a happy, resourceful group, doing odd jobs around the neighbourhood. Of all of them, Iro is the most determined and ambitious. But when his father dies everything is turned upside down, as he realises how little he knew about his life, his dreams, and his losses. Iros certainties collapse, and new, more complex truths emerge that will allow Iro and his friends to chart their path and find reconciliation and peace for themselves and their families. A novel that questions the heritage of fathers, the ambition of sons, the divide between the villages and their laws and the freedoms and loneliness of the cities, Falles debut is the story of a young man who rises, emancipates himself, and finds his truth.

The day Clara started her new (dream) job as an assistant to her photography idol, she was met with an assumption that caught her off guard and stunned her silent. Suddenly, she has to bring a girlfriend to the gallerys opening in a few weeks all because she choked up and failed to correct her boss that she is, in fact, straight.Evan was recently dumped by her fellow teacher fiancee for a mutual co-worker and is still trying to figure out where it all went wrong. So when she gets the news the happy new couple will be hosting the staffs holiday party, she feels utterly horrified by her single status and looks for a quick solution.Together, these two life-long friends make a plan to get through the gallery opening and holiday party by pretending to date one another. Easy... right?That is until Clara starts developing real feelings for Evan, shocking herself. All the while Evan realizes that perhaps pretending to date your straight best friend, who youve had a crush on for half your life isnt the best idea.

Love has rules. So does grief. And Stella Wildes about to break them all.Stella Wilde is secretly in love with the hottest guy in school, Isaac Calder. He seems to love her back, but theres a problem - he already has a girlfriend, the gorgeous Grace Reyes.When Isaac is killed in a car accident, the entire school is turned upside down with grief. And while Grace can mourn publicly, Stella has to hide her feelings to stop people from finding out about her and Isaac being more than friends.But how long can Stella keep lying - to herself and everyone else? And when the truth finally comes out, how will it affect her newfound friendship with Grace?

This collection of three uncanny tales highlights the best of a 19th-century German author who is seen by many as the father of modern sci-fi and fantasy. In The Sandman, young Nathanael grows up terrified of a legendary figure who will steal his eyes if hes caught out of bed at night - but its only when Nathanael has grown to adulthood, seemingly settled and happy, that the full, terrifying truth unfolds. A living doll, a series of doppelgangers, and the seeds of madness combine in this classic story of self-destruction.The Cremona Violin also deals with obsession and thwarted desire, this time between an overbearing father and a musically talented daughter who may die of heart failure if she unleashes the full power of her extraordinary voice. Suppressed passion and possessive control prove a fatal mix in this powerful and claustrophobic story. The Golden Pot, meanwhile, is a novella-length tale which Hoffmann believed was his masterpiece. Disturbing, exciting and dream-like, it introduces us to the bumbling Anselmus, whose romantic tribulations are complicated by a witchs curse and the fact that hes in love with a girl who also happens to be a snake.Influential in the worlds of both literature and music during his lifetime, Hoffmanns doppelgangers, unattainable love objects and sinister puppet masters have lived on, becoming key figures in the modern imagination.

The race to reach the South Pole is a compelling tale of courage and hardship. Begun by the Ancient Greeks, its history climaxed 2,000 years later with the ultimate triumph and tragedy of Amundsen and Scott, separated by a matter of weeks. Discover the role played by an ancient obelisk in early exploration, learn how the frozen land repulsed the advances of great explorers like Captain Cook and explore how the Antarctic continent was finally discovered by chance.It is a remarkable story that captures ambitious men like Amundsen, Scott and Shackleton along with the unsung heroes like Crean and Wild, who spent longer on the ice than the better-known explorers. This dramatic history is expertly woven by polar historian Michael Smith, who introduces us to the opportunistic Norwegian claiming to be the first to set foot on Antarctica, the kilted Scots piper performing to a puzzled penguin and the French captain who typified national sang-froid by cracking open the champagne. Smith also examines the life-changing differences between Amundsen and Scott in the final march to the Pole and how Scotts journey, a century after his death, continues to this day.Ultimately, Towards the Coldest Place highlights the great explorers and colourful characters whose incredible feats in the worlds most inhospitable region have made Antarctic exploration so enduringly popular.

When a woman haunted by a relentless presence seeks Annie Jacksons help, Annie and her brother Lewis are drawn into an investigation that reaches deep into Scotlands darkest history. The dark, spine-tingling Annie Jackson series continuesSpine-tinglingly thrilling with an extraordinary sense of placeCaro RamsayA master storyteller at the very top of his game mesmeric and suspensefulMarion Todd_________Evie Cartwright first speaks to the dead as a child. When she leaves home for university, her ability takes a terrifying turn after she witnesses a brutal murder. By morning, she is haunted by a dead serial killer who refuses to leave her alone, and marked by a cut across her neck that never heals.For the next ten years, Evie is driven from place to place, searching for a way to rid herself of the voice that torments her day and night. When desperation leaves her with nowhere else to turn, she arrives at the remote Highland home of Annie Jackson, hoping she will finally find answers.As Annie and her brother Lewis begin to investigate, helped by an old friend with specialist knowledge of the occult, they are drawn into a dark and dangerous search that reaches deep into Scotlands history. And some ghosts are not content to remain in the shadowsA gothic thriller with a spellbinding mystery at its heart, The Cutting is the fourth instalment in Michael J. Malones acclaimed Annie Jackson series, and this time, danger may be impossible to outrun.__________

In the 1930s, the airship was viewed as the future of transatlantic travel and a brave new era of global connectedness. Germanys safe, fast and efficient airships brought it back into the international fold after its humiliation in World War I. But on May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg airship caught fire in the sky over New Jersey in a blaze that shocked the world and presaged another era of senseless violence.In Shadow Before the Flame, acclaimed historian Catherine Grace Katz uncovers fresh research that unveils the Hindenburg disaster at a pivotal moment in time, coming as it does at the crossroads of the rising tension between fascist Germany and the United States. Katz traces the experiences of a captivating cast of characters: an heiress, a world-renowned acrobat, a German Jew working to save his family from the clutches of Nazism, a young cabin boy on his first voyage with the crew. Meanwhile, on the ground were two intrepid journalists whose reporting on the Hindenburg would invent breaking news as we now know it. In a gripping, ticking-clock narrative, Shadow Before the Flame is a story that begins with the promise of a future made bright by technological innovation and ends with caskets draped in swastikas in New York City.

A novel about cinema, history, and what it means to create when freedom is contingentIn Eisen, Guzel Yakhina turns her formidable historical imagination to the life of Sergei Eisenstein, the revolutionary filmmaker who reshaped cinemaand was nearly crushed by the system he helped glorify. From the triumph of Battleship Potemkin to the torment of censorship, exile, and artistic compromise under Stalin, Yakhina traces Eisensteins life as a drama of creation under pressure. Rather than a conventional biography, Eisen is a literary portrait, rendered in vivid, episodic scenes that mirror Eisensteins own theory of montage. Moscow, Berlin, Paris, and Mexico flicker past as art, politics, sexuality, and power collide. Yakhina explores the cost of genius in an authoritarian world, the body as both instrument and battleground, and the impossible demand placed on artists to serve ideology without losing themselves.