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The reason why protests have caused maximum pain for minimum gain is that they have done everything right. Well-developed consensus practices from activists have been put into practice in highly coordinated fashion internationally: keep messaging simple, restrict communications to a few media-trained representatives, maximize social media spread, try to provoke reactions, do not compromise, and do not legitimize the opposition by speaking to them. As a result, most observers not already sympathetic to the cause have come away with a picture of students as obstinate, naïve, and inclined to violence.

Daoist philosophy holds a set of principles that are completely opposite to the normal modes of social activism. It opposes conflict, striving, standard-setting, clever techniques, and any kind of trust in language. Instead, it promotes grounding oneself in the reality of the world, looking to flow in natural directions, disengagement from conflict, and patience. This may all sound very mystical and not of much use to protests; but viewed in another light, it results in some common-sense conclusions. Would you be more easily persuaded by someone who sat down with you for a conversation, or by someone who yelled angry accusations at you from across a barricade?

The Activist tries to bring out the "common-sense" aspect of Daoist ideals to advocate for a new kind of social activism. It critiques common modes of social and political activism and proposes new modes of activism that might be more effective in promoting positive change in the world.

From urban patios to rural homesteads, learn to cultivate versatile flowers that beautify your space while doubling as culinary herbs, healing plants, and craft materials.

Flower farming has seen a recent surge of interest, largely due to social media and the presence of idolized flower farmers, such as Washington State's Floret. Most home gardeners already grow several types of flowers for landscape and ornamental purposes, so the thought of having fresh, beautifully displayed, homegrown bouquets for sale and offering You-Pick flower operations on a new level is enticing to many home growers.

Most cut flowers have multipurpose qualities--gardeners and homesteaders can choose varieties that are not just aesthetically pleasing but also useful as culinary herbs, medicinal tinctures, and pigments for eco-dyeing and in dried arrangements for decor, art, and jewelry. Many of these plants can also be easily grown in pots for flower lovers living in the city. Joanna Blessing of Olde Soul Acres invites readers to dive deeper into intentionally growing cut flowers and enjoying the fruits of their labor. She covers the ins and outs of planning a garden that will promote a thriving, sustainable ecosystem, as well as how to harvest and arrange cut flowers and how a home gardener can scale up to bring a monetary profit to their homestead. Chapters cover:

• Assessing your garden space and resources
• Selecting versatile varieties of cut flowers
• Building relationships with local markets and florists
• 21 recipes for edible flowers, tinctures, floral teas, desserts, and more
• 18 crafts and projects using your flowers

"If you've ever dreamed of stepping outside to a bloom-filled backyard that nourishes both soul and pantry, this book is your guide to success! I walked away with not only a planting plan for my new fabric dying flower garden but also a renewed love for the land and what's possible with just a handful of seeds." --Victoria Pruett, author of Creating a Modern Homestead

Crepe Paper Flower Jewelry and Hair Designs invites you to enjoy the delicate beauty of paper flowers in wearable accessories. In this inspiring book, Laura Flavigny shares her passion for paper craftsmanship, guiding you through step-by-step tutorials to create stunning jewelry and accessories. Whether you're looking to adorn yourself with a gorgeous floral necklace or a delicate hairpin, these pages are filled with techniques that turn crepe paper into exquisite, long-lasting blooms.

You'll learn to craft a variety of flowers--from cherry blossoms to magnolias--and how to turn them into one-of-a-kind showstopping earrings, necklaces, bracelets, and rings, as well as hair accessories like combs and headbands for special occasions like proms and weddings. Using the templates provided, it is easy to create the projects with just a few materials, all of which are easy to source and many of which you will already have on hand.

These hand-crafted flowers are fun to make and even more fun to wear!

• 18 patterns for crepe paper jewelry including earrings, pins, hairpins, hat decoration, bracelets, rings, hair combs, necklaces, hair clips, and headbands
• Large, step-by-step color photos make it easy to create realistic flowers for use in any way you like
• No experience needed--anyone can get create something beautiful right away
• Low-cost tools and materials make for a lovely girls night or birthday party activity, or just to do for yourself
• Craft beautiful accessories for Mother's Day, birthday, or Christmas gifts
• 8.5 x 10 inch, 96 page book
• Written and designed by humans, for humans

"Rolling Back the River is a lyrical and unflinching journey through wild streams, wild hearts, and the wilderness of loss. With humor, heart, and hard-earned wisdom, Paul Guernsey reminds us that the rivers we love-and the lives we build-can never flow backward." -Joshua Caldwell, fly fisher, director of the feature film Mending the Line

While fly-fishing on a remote river in southern Argentina, a veteran outdoor writer from Maine finds himself swept into a cascade of bizarre events, all connected to an enigmatic, billionaire environmentalist and his cosmopolitan twin nieces.

Vincent Mapp, former adventure-traveling editor-in-chief for an international fly-fishing magazine, now leads a life centered around teaching at a small Maine environmental college and obsessively fishing his home waters for just about anything that swims. But after his wife of many years abruptly upends his world by ditching him for someone who doesn't fish all the time, Vincent decides to accept one last far-flung assignment as a fly-fishing journalist, and he heads off to Patagonia with the goal of catching some of the few remaining, fast disappearing, Argentinian landlocked salmon-all of which are descended from fish originally introduced to Argentina from Maine. Even at the literal end of the earth, however, and exploring an enchanted landscape of devastating beauty, Vincent finds himself unable to avoid conflict. He arrives at an isolated ranch on the Perca River just as a mysterious predator has begun attacking pets and livestock-and it's not long before he experiences his own terrifying nighttime run-in with the creature. He also discovers that the reclusive American owner of an adjacent ranch-multi-billionaire wildlife conservationist and avid fly-angler J.T. Allman-has been commissioning some unsettling environmental experiments on his vast property. One serious complication in Vincent's attempts to get to the bottom of all the strangeness: Allman holds a simmering 20-year-old grudge against him for events connected to his time as a magazine editor. Turbulent waters become increasing treacherous after Allman's cultured, equestrian, and attractive twin nieces, unaware of their elderly uncle's animosity toward Vincent, invite him to a bizarre festival on the grounds of the Allman estate. Through it all, Vincent and his faithful fishing guide, Sancho Nelson, try very hard to catch some salmon.

In Climbing Through, Melissa Strong, a rock climber and restaurateur, unveils her remarkable journey of survival and resilience in the face of mortality after being horrifically injured by electricity.

Transporting readers back to her early days in New England, Strong vividly recounts her transformation from a self-described "C" student in gym class to a sponsored rock climber. She dismantles conventional expectations, forging a distinctive path that culminates in the realization of her own restaurant venture.

Navigating her uncertainties about parenthood and grappling with the challenges of infertility, Strong rebounds toward her dreams and weaves them into tangible aspirations. The vision of her restaurant takes shape, but in a fateful twist, a near-fatal encounter with a powerful electric current during the renovation process leaves her confronting the stark reality of her altered hands, once the lifeblood of her livelihood and rock-climbing passion. As she navigates the complex realm of medical intervention, enduring multiple surgeries and an arduous recovery, she discovers within herself an indomitable spirit that propels her through adversity.

Climbing Through is a poignant chronicle of unwavering fortitude, an inspiring testament to the triumph of the human spirit over life's most daunting challenges.

Step back in time and rediscover the bars and restaurants, mom-and-pop shops, and bustling storefronts that shaped historic Georgetown.

Georgetown's Retail Past is a history of retail stores in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, over the decades when the original eighteenth-century tobacco port became a working class neighborhood, later a restored historic enclave, and in the 1980s a retail destination. The history illuminates trends that changed retailing, including the transition from horse-drawn to automobile transportation, the advent and growth of home appliances, the decline of the barbershop, and the evolution of the grocery and laundry businesses.

A chapter for each type of store provides sketches of businesses and their owners from various time periods. Many of the neighborhood stores were started by immigrants, and some immigrant families owned multiple stores over multiple generations; their entrepreneurial spirit is apparent throughout. Georgetown's Retail Past is illustrated with more than 125 black-and-white images, including historic and current photographs, maps, and store advertisements.

From zero embroidery skills to stunning custom footwear, discover the viral trend taking social media by storm!

If you love adding a handmade touch to everything you do, stitching eye-catching embroidery on your shoes is your next creative obsession! It's easy to get started with just a few simple supplies like needle and thread, and with the instructions in this beginner's guide, you can start embellishing your shoes today.

Packed with tips, techniques, and over a dozen beautiful step-by-step projects, you'll learn how to transform sneakers, boots, and bridal shoes into one-of-a-kind masterpieces. From playful bumblebees and floral patterns to custom pet portraits and scenic landscapes, this book invites you to explore embroidery in a fresh, functional way.

With guidance on designing your own motifs, preserving your work, and even photographing your finished pieces, this is more than a how-to--it's a reference book you'll refer to long after you've mastered the basics.

• Learn easy to advanced embroidery from Hannah Mitchell (@hanembroiders on Instagram)
• 14 embroidery designs for shoes including a variety of flowers and leaves, hearts, bumblebees, lettering, wheat, mountains, trees, cats, and dogs
• Learn to how to choose the right shoes for embroidery and all the supplies you need
• Includes instructions on basic embroidery stitches for beginners like the straight stitch, the backstitch, and the satin stitch, so you can get started with no experience needed
• Also learn slightly more advanced stitches like the lazy daisy stitch, the French knot, the couch stitch, and the woven wheel stitch to expand your skills
• Add beaded pearls, rhinestones, sequins, lace, and appliques for even more variety
• From everyday shoes to bridal sneakers, make everyday pop with handmade beauty
• Learn how to care for your completed shoes and photograph them beautifully for social media or just to share with friends
• Make beautiful gifts for your loved ones for birthdays, weddings, Christmas, or just because
• Written and designed by humans, for humans!

Discover what every athlete-and parent- needs to know about the youth sports industrial complex, from training and injuries to developing bodies and navigating league politics, through the eyes of a father-daughter team that has been in your shoes.

Over the last two decades, the youth sports market has quietly risen from a cottage industry to one with a valuation of nearly $40 billion. While the industry thrives on the aspirations of children - and their parents - towards college scholarships, it is well-known that reaching that level is rare. Organized sports benefit individuals and society in a myriad of ways, yet youth athletes and their parents often struggle with the financial, physical, and personal costs provided by well-meaning yet misguided influencers in the space.

Inside Youth Sports is an in-depth dive into youth sports, the playing experience, and the science behind the muscles, mechanics, and minds of developing kids. Featuring alternating narratives between Buel D. Rodgers - an international leader in the field of muscle biology - and his daughter, Meilani - an elite youth athlete who competed at the national level in soccer and track - this instructive and insightful guide explores the physiology and psychology of child and adolescent athletes, how youth athletes manage the emotional burden and individual challenges of competition as well as the people, places and market surrounding play. Complex biological processes like puberty, the biology of gender, muscle and exercise physiology as well as rehabilitation myths and mythologies are carefully and tactfully detailed for a broad lay audience. Detailed interviews with legendary coaches Anson Dorrance and Geno Auriemma, the winningest soccer and basketball coaches in NCAA history, offer further strategies for parents and players alike.

For every parent, coach and athlete looking for a more scientific understanding of growing bodies, injuries, the far-reaching benefits of sport and its impact on our psyches, coaching philosophies, and how to navigate the often-complicated interpersonal world of youth sports, Inside Youth Sports is an invaluable guide.

An award-winning historian is drinking coffee in a Miami courtyard, 30 minutes before the most important interview of his career, when he gets a call from an unlisted number.

"I'm looking at you through a rifle scope. Don't hang up."

He can tell from her accent that the caller is from San Mara. A political exile, most likely, from the Caribbean nation he's been studying for years, whose fascist leader, the late Omar Basto, is the leading subject of his four-volume biography.

The biographer is appearing on the show for two reasons: the third volume of his Basto biography has just been released, but also because Basto himself, missing and presumed dead since 2000, seems to have re-appeared online.

Shaky footage from a street market in Ecuador.

Photos from a cruise ship in Mexico.

The shooter's instructions are simple: Stay on the line with me until you get the call. Loop me in. Let me speak.

But staying on the line won't be easy. A curious police officer, an aggressive bystander, and a mysterious death nearby will challenge their plans, and exploit their defenses, as the shooter and biographer fall into a philosophical argument about who owns history: those who fight for the future, or those who rewrite the past.

Sprawling, fast-paced, and splashed with magical realism, Cubafruit is a deeply-researched story about political violence, the exilic experience, and the three-way scramble for power among those who seek it, those who lose it, and those who tell their story.

A young woman from Barcelona embarks on a life-changing adventure in an exuberant, emotional, and relatable novel about family, coming of age, and finding oneself in the most unexpected places.

After Rita Racons fails her college's required English course and her plans for a summer with friends are ruined, she loses all sense of direction. Until Rita heeds her free-spirited grandmother's advice to get off their roof terrace and go out and find her place in the world. Boarding a plane from Barcelona to New York is just the beginning. Fate eventually lands Rita in Atlanta as an au pair with two questions: What is an au pair, and where the hell is Atlanta?

The Booklands, a cultured, well-read, picture-perfect American couple, have hopes that Rita will be up to the standards set by their three intellectually gifted children. She won't be. Entirely. But Rita can brush up on her English, the kids can refine their Spanish--and what's more, during Rita's sometimes-chaotic stay in America, her charges will experience a life beyond books and privilege. As for Rita, her grandmother's words have never sounded truer: "You don't go travelin' to escape. You go travelin' to find yourself." Rita is well on her way.

When Mary discovered she was pregnant, she and her lover, Father Ralph, chose to give birth and raise their baby instead of opting for abortion or adoption. Secretly, they acted as full-time parents without disclosing that the father was a Catholic priest. Their lives became a tangled and precarious web of lies to their own families, friends, and their son. In My Father, the Father, author Tony Beadle, that baby born in 1952, shares the story of his high-profile Catholic priest father and his mother, Mary, and how they raised him in an environment of love, lies, and secrets. The intent was twofold: to avoid disgracing an unwed pregnant mother and to prevent damaging the father's career as a well-known parish priest and fundraiser for the cardinal in Boston, and thus the image of the Catholic Church. This memoir tells how the priest/father led a dual life, spending half of every week with the mother and their son in a home they purchased in a small rural town south of Boston, and the rest as pastor of an affluent church nearby. Mary, who had lived near family members and many relatives, maintained a complex repertoire of lies and actions that kept the boy's and his father's existence a secret from them. Twenty-five years after his birth, Beadle met his relatives, garnering decidedly different reactions from both sides.

"The two neighboring businesses never crossed paths until that day. Why they did that day had nothing to do with me. That is, until I was pulled into the chaos. Then it very much became my concern."

Jack Walker, stripped of his dream job and estranged from his mother back home in Wyoming, was convinced he had left the mistakes of his former life in the rearview. That is, until he and his co-worker Stella witness a violent act they were never meant to see in the first place. The haunting episode sparks a tense, prolonged car chase under the cover of a lonely night on the interstate. Can the two of them escape the madness on the road together and confront their innermost demons along the way?

Roosimine: Estonian Inlay Knitting

Discover the magic of Roosimine, an easy-to-learn Estonian technique that brings the look of embroidery to your knitting! This unique colorwork method creates beautiful, contrasting patterns on a background of simple stockinette.

Inside, you'll find:

• 18 stunning sock patterns featuring everything from delicate florals to striking geometric and nature-inspired motifs.
• Comprehensive tutorials to guide you through both sock knitting and the Roosimine technique, perfect for advanced beginners and beyond.
• A wide range of sizes, from Women's US 6 to Men's US 11.5, ensuring a perfect fit for everyone.

Elevate your sock knitting and create a pair of wearable art!

The People's Guide to College Applications presents a radically compassionate, last-minute-friendly approach to college applications that honors messy lives, economic realities, and authentic stories-especially for students and families who feel like they're late to the game. In a weekly step-by-step process, Constantino makes this daunting task accessible for everyone. Families will build skills, curiosity, courage, and connection before young people step into independence and parents consider their own changing place in time.

This book frames the application essay, not as a sales pitch, but as a chance to make meaning, claim power, and find value in a lifetime. It holds writing as the ultimate tool for self-exploration, inviting adults to become co-dreamers and scaffolds for their students in this process. Through weekly exercises in writing, thinking, and rewriting, Dr. Jill Constantino guides students into independence without losing their vulnerability and thoughtfulness. Meanwhile, she teaches parents to become good accountability partners by walking them through their own processes of self-definition. By encouraging audaciousness and authenticity, Constantino offers valuable insights on researching colleges, writing essays, conversing about money, and moving to a new stage in life.

A BRAND-NEW BATTLEFIELD AWAITS!In response to David casually asking her out one day after SJ5's pulse-pounding conclusion, the mysterious Vivi issues a challenge: "Take part in my minigame and make it all the way to the end." When one competition ends, another one begins, and the prize this time is an IRL meetup! Not one to pass up an opportunity to meet his crush, David recruits Llenn, Fukaziroh, Pitohui, M, SHINC, and MMTM to the cause! With the most powerful players on his side, he should easily be able to secure the win...right? But what sort of crazy game has Vivi cooked up, exactly? How stiff will the competition be? And just who is Vivi, anyway?!

Meet Honey Bunny and Muk Muk Moose: the inventor duo who make whimsical creations to help the forest, even if it takes them a few times to get it right! Designed to engage early readers, this chapter book series combines simple text, lively illustrations, and laugh-out-loud humor to help boost kids' confidence and create lifelong readers.

It's the day of the annual Invention Convention, and Honey Bunny and Muk Muk Moose can't wait to show off their best creations! But when a giant storm rains out the convention, Honey Bunny takes matters into her own paws. She starts making a new device that can control the weather, but Muk Muk Moose isn't so sure that's the best path forward. Can the forest inventors find a way to work together and stop the storm?

With full-color illustrations on every spread, this humorous and whimsical story is perfect for kids just beginning to read on their own. The short chapters, early vocabulary, and amusing illustrations make reading easy and fun. Exciting, easy-to-read books are the stepping stone a young reader needs to bridge the gap between being a beginner and being fluent.