Being relatively new to throwing pottery on the wheel, I was searching for a book to help me find new projects to practice my skills on while also helping me to develop new skills. THIS IS THE BOOK!

Having mastered the basic forms of cylinder, vase, bowl and plate, I wanted some ideas and instruction on how to further develop these basic forms by creating vessels I'd never made before. Besides, I'd already had a glance at someone else's copy of the book and new right away that I wanted to try many of the projects shown.

All of the step-by-step descriptions of the techniques used are accompanied by clear and copious photographs as well as the occasional illustration to show where your fingers should be located on both the outside as well as the INSIDE of the vessel. This makes it an ideal learning tool for pottery students who want to continue to develop their skills outside of the classroom setting and is an excellent choice for the self-paced, self-taught potter.

Since the book is geared towards beginner through intermediate potters, it presents a foundation of information on the principles of throwing by discussing clay preparation, tools, centering, throwing, forming and shaping, etc.

Next, the book presents the projects in a sequence that develops your skill from one project to the next. Some of the projects include: Teapots with cups and saucers, Soup tureen and bowls, Dinner service, Coffee set, Carafe and goblet sets, Lamp base, Candle holders and more. The color photograph at the end of each finished project provides a description of the glaze finish to further add to your repertoire of glazing techniques.

While I seem to be becoming quite the collector of books on pottery techniques, this book has been one of the most helpful thus far, meeting me right at my current skill level and taking me beyond it. While other books provide much needed inspiration, this one provides the inspiration as well as "clear as glass" technique that I can use "right out of the box". Inspiration AND technique! You can't beat that.

THIS WAS A GREAT GREAT BOOK. I read it many years ago, i believe in 1978/79 while i was in high school in Nigeria, and I am currently looking for it so my children will also have the experience. It is a true and good example of colonialism in Nigeria done in a very very humorous fashion. Gives great insight as to how many people got educated and were able to move on in life despite having incredibly poor beginnings. i highly recommend this book.

The gentle movements between the two art forms - potting and tai chi chuan practice - using a third art form, written prose, echo the gentle movements of practice as taught by Margy. Really, you should read this book if you're practicing t.c.c. It's NOT a how-to manual and does not pretend to be, but is more a meditation on the process and how it has affected one person. This and her second book give a glimpse into the non-mysterious world of practice.

Susan Peterson has done a fabulous job highlighting the matriarchs (Nampeyo, Maria Martinez, Lucy Lewis, Margaret Tafoya), matrilineal line (Fanny and Dextra Nampeyo, The Lewis Women, Lu Ann Tafoya, Nancy Youngblood Lugo), and avant-gard (Alice Cling, Nora Naranjo-Morse, Jacquie Stevens) women artists who have maintained and expanded this ancient art form into the 20th-century. This retrospective featuring innovators of Native American pottery is a beautifully-illustrated book and a must for anyone interested in this art form. You will not be disappointed. Buy it while you can in the clothbound edition.

This is a neat handbook for the beginning student of Milton's writings. Potter explains how after 1660 Milton was forced out of political life and rendered free to write for himself alone. Eventually he was given a full pardon. PARADISE LOST appeared in 1667. By 1674, the year of his death, Milton was able to find publishers for nearly everything he had written. John Dryden and Andrew Marvell were acquaintainces. Milton had been something of a child prodigy. Following chapters on biography, scientific background, political and religious background, the author deals with literary background, in particular the epic. In the epic, to give up the quest is to be spiritually dead. (What a lesson that is to us.) Analysis then proceeds of specific parts of L'ALLEGRO, COMUS, SAMSON AGONISTES, PARADISE LOST, and PARADISE REGAINED. Formal oration was the basis of a gentleman's education. In PARADISE LOST since Milton was blind, visual characterizations are absent, but the sounds of the poetry are marvellous. Artfully Satan is in motion, going from subject to object. Also, Milton uses digressions to speak in his own person. The book contains illustrations, timelines, short biographies, and other aids.

This book contained all that was needed to study and prepare for the PE exam. I used the book to study for select areas of the test that I would be interested in. I passed the exam with no other study efforts outside using this book. Example problems with solutions manual were very helpful and representative of what was on the actaul exam.

This book helps with setting goals and making sure you stick with them. Potter takes you step by step showing you how to effectively write affirmation and set goals as well as helping the reader develop a life script to help you set goals in all areas of your life. The book is an effective guide in helping you on your way to achieve all of your goals and aspirations. I would highly recomment it. Alice Potter is simply the best motivational writer on the shelves.

This is a rare picture book, funny and intelligent in an old fashioned way. My 8 year old can't get enough of it. the pictures are perfect and the rhymes are, too. It's a great book, especially for kids with a naughty streak. And what kid doesn't have a naughty streak(or at least a naughty urge, like Quentin III)?? I highly recommend it.

Our children are at the stage whereat they can sound out six-letter words with immense concentration. They're also deeply aware of the fact that a certain Mr. H. Potter is newer than Snoopy and cooler than Bozo. Noting the author's sterling name I acquired this work - a dated and out-of-print account of a Navajo women's group attempt to gain financial atonement from the New Mexican government for some ancient wrong - through an online auction for three dollars. It now sits on a coffee table, exciting a reverential awe in the little ones, who have been told that this tale will not be featured at story time - if they want to access it, they'll need to read it themselves. The result has been a welcome renaissance in their neglected literacy program, which they're now attacking like Huns at the gates of Vienna. All in all, a seductive and affordable inducement for distracted children to finally master the wiles of the silent "E" (a lesson we were previously stuck on for fortnights).

this book is an archival wonder. the author brings us into intimate contact with the potters of a generation past. production, studio, and industrial potters alike should read and absorb the severe trials these men(and women)had to go through to make a living during a time when living wasn`t gauranteed. details such as kiln construction workshop layout and techniques make this book intresting for anyone involved in the pottery field. give it ten stars!!!