After you've read and mastered any other chip carving technique, this one comes along as a surprise. Barton reviews other styples and applications of chip carving so that when he explains positive image motif, you get the full impact of what it does. Positive Image motif is a radical change from traditional chip carving but one that is certainly very pleasing. The carver would have to develop his drawing skills to do it, but the results are well worth it!For anyone who works with wood, this is a book that adds an entirely new dimension to any woodworking project.

Uma das melhores colectanias da actualidade em termos arquitetura realizada com um dos mais nobres materiais a Madeira.

New Wood Puzzle Designs: A Guide To The Construction Of Both New And Historic Puzzles is a detailed, involved and definitive woodworker's guide to creating timeless classic wooden puzzles as well as new and innovative wood puzzle types. Superbly illustrated throughout with full-color photographs and unambiguous sketches, New Wood Puzzle Designs is clearly and cleanly written in language the lay reader and novice woodworker can understand as readily as the long-devoted hobbyist. New Wood Puzzle Designs in a truly excellent and highly recommended book for woodcrafters of all ages and skill levels.

This book is an excellent account of a true war story that took place in the second world war. I am fortunate enough to know the man spoken about in this book. He is none other than my Grandfather, Sherard Veasey, who now lives in a small town called Somerset West in South Africa. "Oupa" as we call him now has lived a very eventful life. This is the kind of stuff I dream about in adventure stories, yet I'm sure it's sometimes often too easy to romanticise adventure and forget the horror and carnage of war.

Should you wish to get in touch with this ex-commando, please let me know.

Happy reading.

Wilhelm Sherard Einkamerer

I have loved every book I have read by Barbara Wood, which now includes Night Trains. Each book has been completely different in plot, although each one so far has some element of medicine involved.

Night Trains is based on actual events that occurred in Poland during WWII. In this fictionalized version, Polish doctors Jan Szukalski and Maria Duszynska perpetrate a grand-scale hoax to protect the Polish town of Sofia from the Nazis. Their resistance does not include any killing; rather,they inject all who complain of any illness with a vaccine that gives the appearance of a positive typhus reading. This leads to the Nazis' quarantine of the town and the surrounding region, which protects the citizens from further harassment, executions, and deportations to death camps.

Meanwhile, a group of Jewish and Polish resistance fighters are devising a plan to ambush a German train to retrieve the ammunitions it carries, and to rescue a train's human freight headed for death camps in order to obtain more fighters for their cause. These heroes put themselves in great danger, and despite their efforts, do not reap the success that the doctors do with their hoax.

The book is continually suspenseful, with public executions, descriptions of tortures, death camp atrocities, and Nazis always on the watch for suspicious behavior.

I searched the internet to find the historical basis for this book and discovered that a documentary is currently being filmed about it, called "A Private War"; the true hero's name is Dr. Lazowski. Night Trains has many details obviously similar to true events. For those interested, related web sites are:

http://www.stjoenj.net/lazowski/lazowski.html
http://www.claytonentertainment.com/privatewar.htm

What a great book. Wish there was more of her life to write about I could have read so much more.
It refreshing to read about her adventures and laugh and cry at the hardships and all she endured.
Thankyou Lora Wood Hughes

This wonderful book shows you how to make your house, 1st apartment, or even dorm room into a home. Lots of great, easy to make items to show off your own personal style...EVEN IF YOU DON'T SEW! Thank Heaven for the staple gun, the hotglue gun, and most of all - this book!

From an educator's perspective the Northwoods Field Guides are an excellent ancillary tool at all great levels. They are appropriate for introductory use as well as through adult level review and education. I have the wildflower and animal tracks guides and am looking forward to completing the set with other tags currently available. My only question now is, when are we going to find more topics?

These finely-detailed, and accurately colored "paintings" are strung on a handy belt link. The guide resists water and weather and serves as an easily portable reference source. The pictures are a thing of beauty as well as a practical gift for outdoor enthusiasts. I'm starting a collection!

I have read this book several times. The 5th reading was just as capitvating as the first. The author of this book provides a detailed description of Wisconsin's Logging Camps. Better then I've ever seen.