Lisa L Shepard

Re-EDucation with Troubling Youth (Reclaiming Children and Youth, Volume 11, Issue 2)

Nicholas Hobbs founded Re-ED, a pioneering strength-building approach to youth. Rather than punishing problems, Re-ED fosters joy and competence in the most challenge children. On the fortieth anniversary of the creation of Re-ED, we examine the tradition of research and practice spawned by this mod...

HELLZAPALOOZA The Best Damned Rock Show Ever!

HELLZAPALOOZA chronicles the rock-and-roll exploits of Rayjay Jahraznik, a crazed St. Louis concert promoter who’s building an outdoor concert venue on land he inherited in tiny Isabella, Missouri. Rayjay’s certain his first event there, a 24-hour rock and roll festival called “Hillzapalooza”, will ...

African Accents on the Go! Designing Accessories With Cultural Style

Artwork you can carry! Nothing expresses one s individual style quite like a take-along accessory, and our active lifestyles easily justify the need for a variety of carry-alls to suit a fashionable, multi-faceted existence. African Accents ON THE GO! Designing Accessories with Cultural S...

African Accents: Fabrics and Crafts to Decorate Your Home

Features over 40 how-to projects for home decor done in African textiles like mudcloth, kente, korhogo, kuba and adinkra. The first chapter explains the fabrics, how they are made and used traditionally, and each of the following chapters covers a room in the house. Projects are designed for vari...

HELLZAPALOOZA: The Best Damned Rock Show Ever: The Best Damned Rock Show Ever!

RayJay Jahraznik, crazed rock-and-roll promoter/pornographic genius, inherits land in southern Missouri from an aunt he never met, in a town he never heard of. His encounter with the Ozark parcel puts him face-to-face-to-face with a freaky darkness that lurks in cave-threaded limestone below his fe...

Global Expressions: Decorating With Fabrics from Around the World

Presents the textile arts of various regions of the world and the cultures that created them, along with creative ways to use the fabrics for unique home decor. Featured fabrics include mola, sashiko, adire, batik, tapa cloth, marbled fabrics, sadza batik, trapunto and block printing.

African Accents: Fabrics and Crafts to Decorate Your Home

Global Expressions: Decorating With Fabrics from Around the World