This little book is great!! J. Benton has done a great
job in explaining the full gospel in easy to understand
everyday language. This booklet would be great to pass out
to friends, family and strangers on the street. No big words
for people to look up and only about 10 pages long. It explains
who God is, who man is, how man has sinned and broken the law of God and what Christ has done on behalf of sinners..
Great book, i plan on getting many top pass out.

Looking for a book on contemporary silver?

If you go to the Web and enter "contemporary silver" in a search engine, what comes up? Not much, right? Go into Amazon.com and look there as well. You'll find just one book: Contemporary Silver: Commissioning, Designing, Creating. Sure, you'll find a few out-of-print books published in Europe, but who has the time to brush up on their German? The authors of Contemporary Silver are Benton Seymour Rabinovitch and Helen Clifford, Ph.D. Rabinovitch is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Washington, Seattle, a member of the Silver Society (London), and Honorary Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. He is a longtime collector of antique silver and serving pieces and is the author of Antique Silver Servers for the Dining Table. Clifford has a number of degrees, is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, member of the Silver Society (London), and an honorary member of the Association of British Designer-Silversmiths. She has written and curated exhibitions on historical and contemporary silver.

The two authors have produced a book that is both beautiful and inspiring. Rabinovitch commissioned 62 notable silversmiths from the United States and Great Britain to design and create silver serving pieces in fish-server or cake-slice form. The result is an incredible range of servers in every conceivable technique. From the minimalist to the baroque, from the abstract to the representational, all are meant for practical use, though cleaning some of the more intricate pieces would certainly be a challenge.

These servers demonstrate mastery of the craft, and offer a comparative survey in technique and design between the two countries.

Each of the 62 pieces illustrated (75 have been commissioned to date) has a full description, including materials used, dimensions, and narrative, an artist's philosophy/statement, and brief personal history. Rabinovitch also comments on how he chose each silversmith for the commission.

Within the 160 pages lie chapters on the commissioning process; historical background on servers in the 18th and 19th centuries; silver design in Britain and the U.S. between 1950 and 2000; understanding the collection; the collection itself; and a helpful glossary of terms.

Buy this book!

My boys...were immediately inspired by the fascinating
projects in this book! However, they are not able to make
the projects independently. I would highly recommend this
book for parents of kids who are willing to get their hands
dirty and for parent of kids who like multi-day projects.
We had a blast building a full model Stegasarous and T-rex,
but we spent many hours building them.

You will need to go to other resources for full details
about how/when/where the dinos lived. This is mostly a project
book and less of a reference book. But the projects are so
fun and interesting, it will make you want to learn more.

I found this book at a yard sale when my children were small. It is all about what can happen with a small boy and a big imagination!! My two loved this book, so much that it was loved to death. Wishes become reality on a bad day when a small boy is bored and starts wishing for something to relieve the boredom..

This story is one which will capture your heart and soul. A young girl is in a wedding and as the story unfolds you become part of the event. It is a great book for a young bridesmaid and will create excitement about the wedding. The ending of the story was really quite a surprise. The author was very sensitive and insightful concerning the young bridesmaid and such life changing events. The story stays with you long after you have read it. It creates a whole new dimension to weddings with a unique blend of reality and hope, sensitivity and strength. You will not soon forget this book.

This is a great book for anyone who sergers, or would like to own and learn to use a serger. It is written in a clear concise way. Easy to understand with many supporting photographs. No matter what type of serger you own this book will help you to make the most of it. Serging fine fabrics can be intimidating, and a bit tricky but this book makes it easy.

Elizabeth Bishop was an elusive and multi-faceted woman. Gaining a glimpse of her through her poetry, some details through her prose, she has remained enigmatic, despite the many volumes of criticism and biography dedicated to her life and art. Her paintings show us another side of her creativity, and in "Exchanging Hats" we are provided with a greater depth of understanding of her creative abilities. The paintings themselves, spare and pragmatic, are as geographical and domestic as her poetry. More subtle than they first appear,they illuminate her life from a different perspective. For anyone interested in Bishop,this book is essential.

Having read all of Debra Benton's books, and also working in the technology field, I was interested to read what she'd have to say about this field currently mired in gloom and doom. Unlike some of her other books, which reiterate and build upon the principles outlined in "How to Think Like a CEO" and "Lions Don't Need to Roar" -- both great books, btw -- this book focuses more on new material for how a person can be successful with a technology-related position starting today and looking into the future.

From the opening of the book, there isn't even a specter of gloom and doom about the future of technology. Rather, Debra has opened up a gleam of light about how technology is still a viable career choice, and how a person can leverage their technical training and experience in both technical and some not-so-technical fields.

Highly recommended reading!

This book is an excellent, easy-reading way of learning about the tragedies that occurred in Poland between 1939-1945. It's an account of a young girl and what she faces during war. It's a shame that the book is no longer in print. I definitely recommend it to anyone wanting to learn about Poland's struggle with Germany.

"Head to Toe"- gives me the places to go when visiting Los Angeles - I love to come to Los Angeles and be pampered by diffrent beauty guru's from head to toe...this well organized book let's me compare people I have seen and people I want to see with the convenience of their contact information. This descriptive guide gives a visitor or local the information needed to make choices on where to get a great haircut to the best manicure in town! I can't live without it!