Download or read book Metal Techniques of Bronze Age Masters written by Victoria Lansford and published by . This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest in Victoria Lansford's internationally acclaimed instructional series provides clear and concise instructions for eight fused chain patterns, with endless variations. With more than 150 full-color process photographs, the easy to follow instructions will have even the novice metalsmith weaving and creating ancient and modern design chains. Over 50 photographs of work incorporating all of the chains will further inspire you to advance your own creations. 4 Ancient Mediterranean chain patterns 1-Direction Single-Weave 1-Direction Double-Weave 2-Directional Double-Weave 3-Directional Single-Weave 4 Contemporary chain patters, created by Victoria Lansford Undulating Mesh Vertebrate Side Weave Mesh Crossed Link Victoria's instructional series Metal Techniques of Bronze Age Masters, including Russian Filigree (DVD, 2006) and Rings (DVD, 2008) has sold throughout the world. The series is part of her continuing commitment to make the techniques of ancient artists accessible to modern metalsmiths.
Download or read book Chasing the Comet written by Patricia Koretchuk and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dour Scot” is the wrong description for David Caldow, who leads readers on a romp from the early twentieth century to the present, from an insular Scottish village to modern-day, multicultural British Columbia, from boyhood to old age. Throughout the tour he shares decades of laughter, tears, fears, and growth. In 1910, the certain path of David’s life in Scotland is disrupted by the visit of an awe-inspiring comet. This brilliant visitor inspires the boy to dream of circling the world, like the comet, even though his life’s goal is to become a farm manager, like his father. As a young man seeking to fulfill his dreams, he travels to Canada and works his way from Quebec to British Columbia, guided by the lessons of his father and his memories of Scotland. During his travels he grows in his understanding of himself, of the nature of love, of the ways of the world and its peoples, and of the poetry of Robert Burns. As a worker for the Farmer’s Institute and as farm manager for Colony Farm and Tranquille, two extensive BC government-owned farms, David contributes to raising the standards of Canadian agriculture. At seventy years old, he broadens the scope of his world even further, accepting a two-year Canadian federal-government position teaching farming in Tanzania. Chasing the Comet is a true story that reads like fiction. David’s candour and his Scottish humour help him survive and thrive. In the book’s epilogue, David ponders the meaning of all his years of living, addressing questions such as: What is love? What is success? And how does one achieve them? David Caldow lived an active life in Surrey, British Columbia until his death at the age of ninety-six.
Download or read book Hal Chase written by Martin Donell Kohout and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hal Chase is considered by many to be one of the best first basemen ever to play the game of baseball. He was able to make the routine look spectacular, the spectacular look routine. But Chase will never have his plaque in Cooperstown because he has gone down in history as the biggest crook in baseball. Chase was repeatedly accused of throwing games, bribing players, betting against his own team, and various other crimes, yet with his relaxed nature he always managed to get off the hook for his misdeeds by working his charm. His major league career lasted from 1905 to 1919, and by the mid-1930s he was a destitute alcoholic living off friends. The last fifteen years of Chase's life saw him hospitalized repeatedly for a variety of ailments, living off a sister and brother-in-law who loathed him. This work traces the turbulent life and times of Hal Chase from his humble beginnings to his sad end.
Download or read book Chasing Utopia written by David Leach and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, non-partisan exploration of an incendiary region Say the word “Israel” today and it sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades, the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer draining the swamps and making the deserts bloom: the legendary kibbutznik. So what ever happened to the pioneers’ dream of founding a socialist utopia in the land called Palestine? Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel draws readers into the quest for answers to the defining political conflict of our era. Acclaimed author David Leach revisits his raucous memories of life as a kibbutz volunteer and returns to meet a new generation of Jewish and Arab citizens struggling to forge a better future together. Crisscrossing the nation, Leach chronicles the controversial decline of Israel’s kibbutz movement and witnesses a renaissance of the original vision for a peaceable utopia in unexpected corners of the Promised Land. Chasing Utopia is an entertaining and enlightening portrait of a divided nation where hope persists against the odds.
Download or read book From Across the Divide written by K. Victoria Chase and published by K. Victoria Chase. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedman, Alabama--1963 With the charms of debauchery fading, Eric Montgomery travels home in search of a fresh start. Shadows of his past trail him to a place of division and desolation...and not only in his mind. The fractured faith of his youth is tested among the deeply-rooted prejudice of his neighbors and the lure of a beautiful black woman. The return of her best friend is an answer to prayer in the most unexpected way. The boy Elie Brown knew is now a man--one whose kiss compels her to a choice forbidden by her family. They can't even sit together in the same restaurant. How can their love survive? His old life might be too familiar and comfortable for Eric to leave it for an uncertain one with his childhood friend, and for Elie, a prudent option dressed in a handsome, dark-skinned package would be safer...
Download or read book The Chase written by Victoria Denault and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Exploring Student Response to Contemporary Picturebooks written by Sylvia Pantaleo and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite being a source of continuing interest to educational scholars, research into the literary understanding of elementary school students has emphasized written materials over multimodal mediums such as picturebooks. Focusing on students in Grades one and five, this book describes children's interpretations of and responses to a variety of contemporary picturebooks, specifically those books that employ Radical Change characteristics and metafictive devices. In dealing with picturebooks, Sylvia Pantaleo seeks to show the ways in which literature teaches artistic codes and conventions, critical thinking skills, visual literacy skills, and interpretative strategies. Aside from investigating specific picturebooks, Pantaleo discusses the broader implications of reading, viewing, and creating print and digital texts in schools. These exercises, she argues, reflect the changing nature of communication and representation in the world of elementary school students. Incorporating postmodernism, social constructivism, and other theoretical frameworks, Pantaleo contextualizes her research and examines ways in which literature highlights broader social and cultural characteristics. An extensively researched look at the pedagogical value of literature in the classroom, this book introduces new dimensions to discussions of contemporary picturebooks in elementary education and the social nature of intertextuality.
Download or read book Just in Time written by L.A. Boruff and published by The Phantom Pen. This book was released on with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I thought the eighties and nineties were fun. Now it’s time to get trippy. (Very punny, right?) I’m finally going to get payback for the death of my mother, hopefully stopping the threat of the Rogue bloodline once and for all. All I have to do is survive the 70's and my deepening feelings for the sexy Mr. Cheesecake. Is it possible for me to have the life I want as well as continue working for an agency like TIME? For now, I’ll keep on steppin’ straight to the disco. Maybe try a little peace and love. Ha! Yeah, right. This isn’t going to end the way I think it will, is it?
Download or read book The Dark Shadow of Spring written by G.L. Breedon and published by Kosmosaic Books. This book was released on 2014-07-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dragon that foretells destinies, streets suddenly cluttered with thousands of dead birds, a plague of malevolent insects, ghosts arising in the town cemetery, demons haunting the woods of the White Forest — these are only some of the dangers that thirteen-year-old Alex Ravenstar and his friends in The Young Sorcerers Guild must overcome in order save the secluded magical town of Runewood from an ancient, soul-enslaving evil in The Dark Shadow of Spring. After a nearly-disastrous adventure to wake the local dragon from its hibernation in hopes that it will tell them their destinies, Alex and his friends accidentally encounter the dark force that was responsible for burning the magic out of the world beyond the Rune Valley thousands of years ago. Known as the Shadow Wraith, the evil force was cast from this world and imprisoned in another realm at the end of the war fought to stop it. Once again, the Shadow Wraith is trying to escape its prison to enslave the world, and Alex and the Young Sorcerers Guild are the only ones who can defeat it.
Download or read book Chasing Cait The one where I write a blog written by Caitlin Harrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The One Where I Write a Blog is a series of blog posts from fashion and beauty blog Chasing Cait written by Brisbane fashionista (and shoe addict) Caitlin Harrison
Download or read book The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher The wild goose chase A wife for a month The lover s progress The pilgrim The captain The prophetess The queen of Corinth Bonduca written by Francis Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1711 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death Under The Cold Moon A Compendium Vol 2 written by Craig C. Hall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-21 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London 1929, someone is strangling the daughters of the wealthy with a leather bootlace under the gaze of the full moon. Scotland Yard have no motive, no suspect and no hope of ending the slaughter. Netherby Chase finds himself suspected of being the murderer. An innocent man; can he avoid the gallows and succeed were the police have failed by ending the maniac's murderous reign? London, 1956 and Cassie James, American jazz diva is dead. Helped into the hereafter by a Seconal overdose. Was it suicide or did someone in the Soho nightclub murder her? Scotland Yard's Maltravers and Mudd must unravel the opaque evidential threads that may also solve why another young woman has apparently taken her own life. In the dying weeks of WW2 Germany appears finished as a combatant nation. If so, what are the feared SS and Luftwaffe doing at a secret underground airbase in Denmark? Can the five men of Cobra team quickly find and destroy the hidden lair and its deadly secrets before millions die and the Nazis win the war?
Download or read book Mermare Magic written by Alice Anne Findlay and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In this simply delightful tale, Alice Anne Findlay has woven together a story reminiscent of Beatrix Potter, Gulliver’s Travels, and even Animal Farm. The characters are well-dressed (and even better fed!) and so distinctly well-written that one feels one has known them a long time. The community that Findlay has deftly constructed is filled with sweetness and gentle humor. Our young cat protagonist, Shiloh, finds himself in great company as he attends his first summer camp. For dogs. Run by cats. As if that weren’t enough excitement, unexpected Mermare magic takes him farther than he would ever have dreamed possible. Shiloh’s journey allows the reader to explore the tender nuances of blended families, social contracts, and ecology. Alice Anne Findlay’s debut novel reminds us that, though no one is perfect, we can all get along. Especially if there are snacks involved.” – Christina Thrasher, Librarian.
Download or read book Alex Aussmen Zero Zero One Book Two written by Nelson Christian Amador and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Aussmen enters the next phase of his life as a secret agent in the 1980's and leaving Tahoma High School, Edmonds, and Morella behind. And he now goes to the University of Washington as a student, but sadly however he discovers that here are more bad guys out in the world and not only that, the communist and Sandinistas have sadly infiltrated into public education and started brain-washing people with socialist and communist propaganda. Alex also discovers Victoria Borodina is still alive is now even more dangerous and more evil and she now transformed into an evil social Justice warrior and she has sadly aged very awfully and has zits on her face and has died her hair with different colors and has gray and white highlights as well. And she looks like the evil queen from Snow White and the evil witch from Snow White as well but with plans of destroying western civilization. And Alex Aussmen now as a young adult must stop and kill Victoria Borodina and stop her once and for all.
Download or read book Jack s Chase written by Shane Esmond and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten Thousand Miles From Home is the first book of the Jack’s Chase series. It tells the tale of young aspiring journalist Jack O’Sullivan, who is drawn to the action and drama of the Vietnam war like a magnet. Determined to make his mark in the world as an award winning war correspondent, he hounds his editor and anyone else who matters until they finally give in and send him ten thousand miles to the other side of the earth into a world of bombs and bullets, a world of fear and confusion. He enters into a frustrating struggle and finds that the Vietnam conflict (like most wars) is not just man against man, but also man against the elements of nature and his own personal state of mind. He learns that the things his WW2 veteran father tried to warn him about war, are more mind-damaging that he could possibly imagine. Told first hand, this is Jack’s story of the end of his innocent youth and his difficult initiation into the life of a man in war. Along the way he not only discovers friendships found and lost, but has to learn to survive amongst the harsh and unforgiving environment and also finds himself embroiled in an ever-deepening mystery surrounding one of the best soldiers in the platoon, Sergeant Ben Cale. What starts out as the prospect of a great story, becomes a situation which captures Jack’s full determination to get to the bottom of; the involvement of elements of high level secrecy only strengthens his resolve to pursue the story to the end. With the help of his camera-man and good friend Wesley Banks, he manages to uncover some of the aspects of the man’s personality, but while attempting to bring light to the shadows of his hidden past they manage to attract some unwanted attention. Striving to balance the art of good journalism without over-stepping the official boundaries and trying to stay sane and alive while out in the jungle with the platoon gives Jack a constantly changing mix of satisfaction, frustration and of course, at times, total mental stress. The final part of the story sees the men of 108 Platoon caught up in a battle which becomes a week long struggle of life and death. Every ounce of Jack’s courage, stamina and strength of mind is called upon to not give up, even when his comrades are falling around him and it seems like all hope is lost. He marvels at the combat skills of the men and their ability to keep fighting for survival in a world he can only liken to hell, a world he just wants to get away from now that he knows it at its worst. Towards the end of this epic odyssey, Jack learns some unusual information which gives him an important key to the possibility of unlocking the mystery that is Ben Cale, however he is left wondering what it is that he might uncover and how it may affect his life afterwards. The story of Jack O’Sullivan includes his own observations on not only the reality of war, but also the human elements of the people caught up within it. The mystery surrounding Ben Cale adds a level of intrigue to the tale which will keep the reader hungry for more.
Download or read book Assassin of Secrets written by Q.R. Markham and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elite spy risks his biggest asset to defeat an insidious international organization hell-bent on selling the most sensitive state secrets to the highest bidder. Jonathan Chase, the CIA's top field agent, is sworn to protect and serve the United States at all costs. But after a brutal period of captivity during the Korean War, Chase developed an agenda of his own: to use his mastery of war to create peace. His new target: the Zero Directorate, a cabal of rogue assassins who have embarked on a campaign to systematically interrogate and kill seasoned secret agents from across the globe. But the Directorate has set an elaborate trap, and for Chase the whole mission involves an inescapable paradox. As the world's preeminent operative, the closer he gets to the cabal, the closer the cabal gets to their primary target.
