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"I think I need a revolution--one which begins as an idea, continues as a feeling, and grows into a lifestyle. I must learn to notice the ways that our world--everything from Oprah to Burger King to Tony the Tiger--has shaped me, and betrayed me: to notice the ways that this system took my innocent heart and infected it with disillusionment, disappointment, and despair. I need to reject the so called "freedom" that is offered every time I flick on the TV or walk down the cereal aisle in the supermarket.

Together, we must learn to pursue what David Foster Wallace calls "real...

The country estate of Tyringham Park is the epitomeof wealth and privilege. Home to the Blackshaws, it finds itself the backdrop to tragedy.

It is a beautiful day in 1917, and Tyringham Park is in an uproar after Victoria Blackshaw, an innocent toddler, disappears without a trace. The feverish search for Victoria soon uncovers jealousies and deceits that both the upstairs and downstairs inhabitants of the grand estate have fought for years...

High-Performance Apparel: Materials, Development, and Applications covers the materials and techniques used in creating high-performance apparel, the technical aspects of developing high-performance garments, and an array of applications for high-performance clothing and wearable technology.

Part One covers fabric construction for high-performance garments, from fiber types and spinning methods, to weaving, knitting, finishing, and joining techniques. Development of high-performance apparel is covered in Part Two, with particular emphasis on design and product development for...

Owen Orange discovers that he's disliked by the owner of his crayon box, so he is never selected to help make beautiful pictures. Because he is relegated to life lived only in his crayon box house, he is unable to join in on the fun coloring activities going on in the classroom. Even though his color friends describe the classroom, the lovely pictures, the teacher, and the children for him, it's just not the same as seeing them for himself. One day, though, he meets Madeline, and he discovers that he is just as special as all the other crayons in his box.