Polymer Clay Extravaganza

Polymer clay's versatility allows it to be combined with almost any other craft. Using this book, readers will learn how to make great projects using polymer clay and other craft materials and techniques. Lisa Pavelka divides the book into popular craft areas, with special polymer clay techniques featured throughout, including the definitive step-by-step guide to millefori caning, foiling, hand-tinted image transfer, sculpting, stamping, wire sculpting, and mosaics. Step-by-step projects include ornament cards, photo albums, flower pots, switch plates, and magnets. Also included is an idea gallery to provide inspiration and ideas for fantastic results.

Raney

Raney is a small-town Baptist. Charles is a liberal from Atlanta. And RANEY is the story of their marriage. Charming, wise, funny, and truthful, it is a novel for everyone to love.
This charming vignette follows the early days of the marriage of Raney, an innocent, Southern Baptist, and Charles, who is considerably more liberal and sophisticated than Raney. The two must make many accommodations to one an other and regularly consult a marriage counselor. PW found that the author's "ear for idiom is exact, the two central characters perceptibly developed and the other members of the small cast are given dimension and personality."

Constructing Test Items: Multiple-Choice, Constructed-Response, Performance and Other Formats

Constructing test items for standardized tests of achievement, ability, and aptitude is a task of enormous importance. The interpretability of a test's scores flows directly from the quality of its items and exercises. Concomitant with score interpretability is the notion that including only carefully crafted items on a test is the primary method by which the skilled test developer reduces unwanted error variance. The aim of this entire book is to increase the test constructor's awareness of this source of measurement error, and then to describe methods for identifying and minimizing it during item construction and later review. 

Language Without Soil - Adorno and Late Philosophical Modernity

This is a magical volume. These beautiful essays transform the most canonical works of Adorno from monuments we thought we knew into opportunities for future thought. The Adorno of this volume is neither a matter of the past nor a straightforward thought machine, but rather an intricate, challenging, searching plurality of voices that are, at times, at odds with each other. In other words, this is a new Adorno, an Adorno not yet known to us, not yet explored, and an Adorno not yet complete. This new Adorno is a matter of the future, of reading, and discovery.

The Art of Fiction

In 1958 Ayn Rand gave a series of extemporaneous lectures, to a handful of people in her living room, on the nature of fiction. This book is the edited transcript of those sessions.
Miss Rand presents her distinctively enlightening views, as she explains the four essential elements of fiction: plot, theme, characterization and style.
The book offers Ayn Rand's incisive analysis of her own works as well as those of other famous authors, such as Victor Hugo, Sinclair Lewis and Thomas Wolfe. This is an invaluable work for any reader or writer of fiction.