Dictionary of Weighing Terms: A Guide to the Terminology of WeighingThis dictionary features definitions for more than 1,000 terms related to weight and mass, along with hundreds of full-color photographs, illustrations, and diagrams. It fills a useful niche, as no dictionaries of this type have been published recently. … In this volume, most definitions are clear, concise, and easily understandable by nonscientists. … References are included … .
This series of books is basically a course in custom case making. This third book builds on volumes 1 and 2 teaching techniques for making large cases. The Art of Making Leather Cases, Volume 3 Large Cases: learn how to make rifle cases, guitar cases, a golf bag and all the other articles featured on the cover. 116 pages. Heavily Illustrated. See Also: The Art of Making Leather Cases, Volume 1; Learn how to make small leather cases for knives, cameras, calculators, flashlights and more. 120 pages. Heavily Illustrated. The Art of Making Leather Cases, Volume 2; Learn how to make leather handles, install zippers, attache cases, brief cases, bowling ball bag and more.
The Samurai sword of Japan is probably the finest edged weapon ever made. This volume by leading Samurai expert Stephen Turnbull reveals the story of how and why it achieved this distinction. Particular attention is paid to the development of the familiar curved blade from the original straight blades, the associated development of Japan's famous steel-making techniques and the challenges from contemporary warfare. Together with the technical details of forging, polishing, mounting and testing; this volume is brought to life with details of the great swordmakers themselves.
In two magnificent and authoritative volumes, Harold C. Goddard takes readers on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his incomparable plays and unsurpassed literary genius. Goddard writes of Shakespeare with an unabashed love bordering on adoration. He was a Quaker who taught at Bryn Mawr, and his tone is that of a wise and affectionate teacher who would rather impart his enthusiasm than impose his ideas; he is fond of quoting William Blake’s saying that “enthusiastic admiration is the first principle of knowledge, and the last.” He never sounds academic.
Poets, Saints and Visionaires of the Great Schism 1378 - 1417
The history of the Great Western Schism (1378-1417), the period that witnessed a dual and later tricephalic papacy divided between an Avignonese, a Roman, and later a Pisan obedience, has usually found its niche in legal and theological writing. Few historians have dwelled on issues outside the questions of political legitimacy and conciliarism. In the present volume, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski broadens the historiography by canvassing the mental and emotive response to this exceptional event.
