I found this book to be a sculptor's handbook to clear and concise references. It provides a basic introduction to beginning sculpture students, as well as, providing high quality information for the professional sculptor. It covers basics like stone carving, mold making and metal castings. I would recommend this book to all artists pursuing sculptor as a medium.

Congratulations to the author on his first book. This was incredibly creative. It weaves together science, politics, and the mafia with a wild turn of events you would never suspect. I'd recommend this book to anyone who enjoys scientific suspense.

Arthur Cooper was a real person who, as a young man, escaped slavery in Virginia and went north to Massachusetts, where he married a free-born African-American woman, had several children, and moved to Nantucket Island, where in 1822 he was nearly captured by slave catchers but rescued by the Quaker community. The narrator of this novel is a fictional Quaker child, ten-year-old Phebe Folger. Arthur's wife, Mary, is hired by Phebe's father to care for her mother, bedridden since a carriage accident several months ago. Phebe has many concerns present in all children. She worries for her mother and resents her older sister's efforts to educate her. Phebe describes several months of her life as she gets to know the Cooper family. When the family is in danger of being captured, Phebe helps to save them. This was an inspiring novel about how a group of people, including young children, saw a great evil (slavery) and did whatever they could to prevent it. Younger children who enjoy historical fiction are sure to enjoy it.

In this book Arthur Gask has captured the thrilling sense of danger and daring that must always shadow every fugitive or escaped prisoner. Drop the fugitive into a background of early twentieth century Adelaide during the sweltering heat of an Australian summer and the scene is set for a torrid chase which is sure to make palms sweat and pulses race. Falsely accused of embezzlement, our laconic and confident hero escapes from captivity and sets out on a compelling flight for freedom. The reader accompanies the bold escapee through every moment of recklessness and nervous uncertainty and is transported along a perilous path towards a quite surprising and yet satisfying climax. Although good fortune plays a part in most of the hero's escapades, the ever present fear of recapture or recognition fills every page and ensures a gripping and enjoyable read, and Gask's passion for wicked playfulness and the practical joke are evident throughout the plot.

The prophecies of Fatima are almost as well known -- and respected -- as those of the famous French seer Nostradamus.In l9l7 three children had repeated visions of the Virgin Mary in Portugal. They were given prophecies concerning World Wars I and II as well as the world wide spread of communnism. But their third prophecy was not officially released until recently...and there are those who maintain that the real revelations were not disclosed by the church.This book not only reveals what the Third Secret Prophecy of Fatima may consist of; but also gives photographic proof that the Virgin Mary has appeared in over two hundred incidents in the last several decades.Arab terrorists? UFOs? End of the World?The book is very readable and presented in an easy to understand format. It has a good number of pictures and follows a logical order as oppossed to some other books I have TRIED to read on the subject. This is NOT an overly religious approach -- the authors do not seem to have any axe to grind. I recommend this book highly.

What was it like to live 2000 years ago? What was it like to discard the old ways of the Hebrews and adopt a whole new way of thinking, the way of Jesus Christ? And what was it like to do this in a community conquered by the Romans...where you were, at the very least, the spiritual enemy?

Secrets of Revelation is about John, the Beloved who understood, and lived the seven steps (churches) of spiritual ascension. Author and life-long student of metaphysics Arthur Ingalls reveals the commitments to moral and spiritual principles that John learned, and how we can attain the same glory and purpose.

Dr. Ingalls writes, "The seven churches represent seven power centers, each power center correlates to man's purpose in the universe as well as on earth...Each power center (chakra) matched a certain trait [and] theses traits had to be recognized and purified".

Secrets of Revelation leads the reader (as John discovered so long ago) to the understanding that, "Each of us has a special mission from God. That mission promotes God's peace and love in the universe". Thus, we learn, the material world is the essence of imprisonment, while freedom is accepting Spirit as life.

The journey of John, the Beloved is a journey to discovery, that "The temple of God is within". Dr Ingalls has written a biographical sketch about a man who learned to absorb the meaning of each chakra and practice the principles described. Secrets of Revelation shows us how to emulate John and thereby lead a life of service. This is a great book!

In this book, Baudrillard develops his own theory in various fields from sex, Freud, Kierkegaard, to politics in the theme of gseductionh. Probably, this book is written to be seduction. At the same time, we can see Baudrillardfs general attitude toward his works including this book: Prediction, warning, and seduction. He seems to learn a lot of things from Kierkegaardfs works. In the first part, he maintains his own theory on sex against Freud, which is different from feministsf theory based on sexual difference. It is interesting that he almost predicts todayfs situation of sex, which is why his works always seduce people. Moreover, I am impressed by his comments on Japanese striptease and by his idea that Japanese sexual culture is different from Western one. Through chapters, his point that seduction is fatal to itself appears continuously in his skillful rhetoric: The style of this book is similar to his gSimulacra and Simulationh, which is a good guidebook to read this book.

It is rare you find a book so dauntingly dense yet so beautifully revealing of the truths of God. Arthur Custance is a brilliant, God-fearing man. Anyone interested in a revealing description of how all the pieces of Christianity--indeed, all the pieces of this world in general--fit together, I strongly recommend you read this book. It will challenge and strengthen your faith in ways you could never imagine.

Rabbi Green, in quite a skillful way, directs the reader to an aspect of Judaism not adequately addressed by other authors. He "introduces" a monistic overview which makes one feel one with all. It is easy reading and very useful to one's path. I have been fortunate to hear him in person and highly recommend his works and especially this book. Rabbi Green does his part in bringing spirituality back to Judaism.

The appearance of Kant's critiques resulted very swiftly in what some thought a series of contradictions, as in the famous problem of double affection. The swiftly moving stream passes via Fichte to Hegel as the core distinction of the noumenal and phenomenal is factored into a nearly opposite result. As if standing by to watch this current and respond with a gesture of the original vision, Schopenhauer with brilliant insight attempts to assess these reactions with a streamlined recursion of the Kantian perspective. Janaway's cogent summary and critique is surprising in its acumen, and a trifle cold in its assessement of Schopenhauer's quirky yet solid version of 'transcendental idealism'. But then the fan of Schopenhauer tends to linger in a vision whose logical complexities are actually well served by this unsentimental analysis. One is put to work on the strange paradoxes of self and appearance in the context of one who braves these dangerous waters that later analytical philosophy would be so determined to rid us of. Schopenhauer's corpus is either ignored or made into a belief system, here we see a way via critique that it might be exercised to its limits and understood, unless the severity of the analyis of what is always a brittle philosophy pointing to a deeper noumenal reality is taken as some final reduction of the 'fallacy' of the whole endeavor. The irony is that Kant and Schopenhauer always seem to survive their critics, here they are both, I should think, well served by one such.
Challenging work for anyone alert to this irascible campanion of the great period of German philosophy.