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A YEAR OF ROMANCE: TWELVE MONTHS OF ROMANTIC IDEAS TO LIGHT UP YOUR LOVE LIFE
Goodman-Davies, Mara
2002 21338 From the Publisher Following the cycle of the year, from season to season and month to month, A Year of Romance includes hundreds of tips, activities and ideas for creating sparkling romantic moments in your relationship. From the Spring of the relationship, when everything is new and exciting, through the heat of the Summer, the bright colorful Fall and finally the rest and renewal of Winter, you'll find activities to match every mood, every personality and every budget. Includes making your anniversary more than just a once-a-year event, showing appreciation every single day and seasonal ways to shower your sweetheart with romance. -- Visit a horse farm in the springtime during foaling season. Watching the birth of a foal is a miraculous experience the two of you can share. -- Keep cool on hot summer nights getting creative with ice cubes, or go down to the beach at midnight and make body sand sculptures, then wash off the sand by skinny-dipping. -- On one of those perfect, crisp autumn days, roll around in the fallen leaves together, laughing like children. -- Take a winter sleigh ride, complete with jingling bells and hot toddies by the fire afterwards. About the Author: Mara Goodman-Davies is a journalist and publicity consultant. She has written on health, food and sex and fiction. Her a "Sex and Food" column appeared in Oui magazine. She is newly married and lives in New York City. Sourcebooks Casablanca 1-57071-999-3 / 9781570719998
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ARTS AND CRAFTS OF SOUTH AMERICA
Davies, Lucy
1995 19792 In this informative and spectacularly photographed volume, Mo Fini and Lucy Davies have drawn upon their extensive research into the traditional handicrafts of South America and the artisans who create them. Combining historical perspectives and cultural insights with descriptions of present-day techniques, the authors examine the full range of this vast area's indigenous arts and crafts: contemporary pottery inspired by ancient cultures, such as the Moche; jewelry and metal work in a multitude of forms; enduring textile traditions of the Wayuu, Aymara, and Kuna Indians; painting on clay, leather, and glass; wood carving and decoration of dried gourds; and other extraordinary crafts from around the continent. Full-color photography illustrates each of the crafts described, and a comprehensive reference section offers detailed advice on collecting and conserving these native treasures. From The Critics Library Journal Davies and Fini, who run the TUMI Latin American Arts and Crafts Centers and reside in England, have taken on the gargantuan task of covering native arts, past and present, for all of South America in this slender volume. Simplistic and uncritical, their text is most successful when descibing contemporary artisans, traditional motifs, and techniques . Chapters investigate textiles and costumes, jewelry and metalwork, basketry, hats and bags, and pottery. Illustrations, particularly the 169 color photos, help to enliven the text, while a reference section offers advice on collecting, sources, a glossary, and a short bibliography. Chronicle Books LLC, 0811808378 / 9780811808378
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CREATE YOUR OWN STAGE MAKE-UP
Davies, Gill
2001 44587 Packed with scores of full-color illustrations, easy reference checklists, and step-by-step instructions, this remarkable guide shows how to create fabulous new faces for any role. The definitive, one-stop resource! Soft Cover. Brand New. A new look at makeup for stage, the book will help individual makeup artists and performers, groups and schools to explore the exciting world of creating new faces for the stage. Highly illustrated and informative with step-by-step guidelines, photographs and lots of useful lists, hints and tips in 180 pages. Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated 0-8230-7713-6 / 9780823077137
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ENDING RACISM IN THE CHURCH
Davies, Susan E. (Editor)
1998 52708 Boldly speaking to church members everywhere, Ending Racism in the Church raises awareness of how racism influences behavior and spawns hatred. Four case studies describe church or community agencies that strive to end racism, then a diverse group of scholars and activists identify the subtle ways in which racism undermines the gospel's spirit. A guide is included to help groups discuss issues that separate the church. Ending Racism in the Church is an invaluable aid to church members of all backgrounds. Synopsis Boldly speaking to church members everywhere, Ending Racism in the Church raises awareness of how racism influences behavior and spawns hatred. Four case studies describe church or community agencies that strive to end racism, then a diverse group of scholars and activists identify the subtle ways in which racism undermines the gospel's spirit. A guide is included to help groups discuss issues that separate the church. Ending Racism in the Church is an invaluable aid to church members of all backgrounds. Pilgrim Press 0829812385 / 9780829812381
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HERALDIC DESIGNS
Fox-Davies, Arthur C.
1997 6562 The story of heraldry is an intriguing one - with a wealth of history behind the rules that are still enforced today. The introduction to this selection of heraldic designs explains how the art of communicating through heraldry evolved, as well as describing basic heraldic jargon and practice. Originally, heraldry had a practical purpose - coats of arms were decorated so that heralds delivering messages could identify who was who in battle. Outside the battlefield, heraldry has subsequently had a much wider application, whether proclaiming the owner's presence or marking his property. This book includes a wide range of heraldic designs that will appeal to all those who want to explore this exciting symbolic art form, as well as to historians, illustrators, and designers. Asphodel Press 1559211636 / 9781559211635
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HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE
Davies, Paul
2002 2873755 Is time travel possible? If so, what manner of machine would one need to traverse this fourth dimension? Covering ground similar to J. Richard Gott's Time Travel in Einstein's Universe, this slim, tongue-in-cheek treatise invokes the primary tenet of Einstein's special theory of relativity that both time and space are elastic to illustrate that time travel, while impractical, is definitely possible. The time travel mechanisms Davies (The Fifth Miracle) envisions are dramatically different from the devices that SF authors H.G. Wells and Ray Bradbury have employed in their fiction. All that's needed to travel to the future, noted theoretical physicist Davies asserts, is a little help from gravity and a spaceship that can reach speeds just under the speed of light. Traveling to the past is a trickier task, however, and Davies spends the bulk of his book explaining the components needed to construct a wormhole (a black hole "with an exit as well as an entrance"). Despite the author's penchant for diagrams and his habit of highlighting and repeating his major points, readers will struggle to accept some of his more difficult and extreme propositions such as the existence of an exotic matter possessing antigravitational properties, which is vital to his construction of a wormhole. While Davies's discussion of the paradoxes inherent in time travel and of the physical laws that seem to prevent it is both thought provoking and accessible, his limited focus on wormholes may disappoint those hungering for a broader discussion of time travel technology. From Scientific American: Is time travel possible? Yes, says Davies, who recently retired (in his early 50s) as professor of mathematical physics at the University of Adelaide in Australia to concentrate on his writing. But "a moment's thought uncovers some tricky questions." Whereupon he discusses lucidly and engagingly both the concepts of physics that establish the possibility of time travel and the tricky questions. You could reach the future "by simply moving very fast." For visiting the past, the most popular proposal is a wormhole, "a sculpture in the structure of space that provides a shortcut between two widely separated spaces." There may be "cosmic taboos," though, that make time travel forever elusive. Viking Adult 0670030635 / 9780670030637
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LAST THREE MINUTES: LATEST THINKING ABOUT THE ULTIMATE FATE OF THE UNIVERSE
Davies, Paul
1994 5207 ' The Last Three Minutes,' by world-renowned physicist and author Paul Davies, is a wonderful, fun book - morbid to the core! - that combines the latest and most scientifically sound thinking about the ultimate fate of the universe with vivid scenarios of how it will feel to those of us still around when the end comes. Look, if you will, past that last day of sunlight into perpetual night. Experience the onset of stardoom - when the nuclear energy of burning stars is finally exhausted. Journey through those eons of time when black holes are the last major source of energy, devouring the scattered remnants of burnt-out galaxies. And then, perhaps, the big crunch - the last three minutes, when the temperature of the cosmos becomes so great that even atomic nuclei must disintegrate, when larger and larger regions of space are compressed into smaller and smaller volumes, when, as Davies writes, "the handiwork of the big bang, and of generations of stars in creating heavy chemical elements, is undone in less time than it takes you to read this sentence." Will this be the stage on which cosmic life plays out its final act? Or is the universe destined to end very differently and in the much less distant future, overwhelmed by a sudden and unexpected cosmic catastrophe? Indeed, will the universe end at all? If it endures forever, will humanity or our descendants, robots or flesh, find a way to survive through eternal night? FROM THE CRITICS Library Journal Although cosmology has developed into perhaps the most arcane and heavily mathematicized of academic specialities, you don't have to be a scientist to gaze at the night sky in search of answers. Hence the appeal of these fine companion books, the first in the publisher's very promising "Science Masters" series, which aims to tap into the potentially large market of curious, generally educated readers seeking intelligent but nontechnical treatments of current science issues. Barrow looks at Big Bang cosmology and does a particularly good job at explaining so-called "inflationary universe" theory, a difficult concept that others have handled far less deftly. Still, despite his occasional digressions into the literature of Arthur Conan Doyle, his writing is rather dry. Davies, by contrast, is more playfully conjectural, and the sheer audacity of some of his speculations makes for a more entertaining read. and both of their books merit recommendations. Davies's book is, however, the stronger due to the livelier writing and comparative uniqueness of his subject. [The third volume in the "Science Masters" series is Richard Leakey's The Origin of Humankinds Davies (natural philosophy, U. of Adelaide, Australia) presents a variety of scenarios for the ultimate fate of the universe. He describes theories such as the earth's predicted collision in 2126 with the Swift-Tuttle comet, Helmholtz's theory of the universe's slow disintegration by entropy, and speculations that the violent collapse of our universe may give birth through an umbilical wormhole to a new universe. Davies examines the scientific as well as the human implications of the alternative endings to our universal drama. Basic Books 0-465-04892-7 / 9780465048922
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PAPERS OF SAMUEL MARCHBANKS
Davies, Robertson
1986 14378 In this collection of his newspaper pieces, mostly from the late Forties, Davies introduces us to his alter ego, a mildly irascible curmudgeon whose opinions and observations have been so popular in Canada that three volumes of his columns have been published there: The Diary , The Table Talk , and The Garland of Miscellania. Davies has re-edited them to produce a single volume and in the prefatory ``A Drink with Marchbanks" even given us his own view of the journalist he created. A pleasant entertainment covering such diverse topics as politics, theater, and manners, this volume offers a humorous and insightful picture of postwar Canadian life as seen through the eyes of a delightful eccentric who reminds this reader of a boozeless W. C. Fields. Charles Bishop, English Dept., Univ. of New Orleans. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated 0670811459 / 9780670811458
Hardcover Very Good Condition price clipped. Stamped insignia outside bottom pages New York, N.Y.
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SO YOU WANT TO BE AN INNKEEPER
Davies
1990 43506 Book Description With over 70,000 copies sold, this must-have guide has proven itself the best and most reliable source of information for aspiring innkeepers. Highly recommended by the Professional Association of Innkeepers International, it presents the facts from the insiders on how to start, operate, and promote a successful establishment. Now completely revised and updated, So - You Want to Be an Innkeeper also includes new information on cottages, luxury properties, and spa services - a reflection of recent trends in innkeeping. Charts and worksheets for financial planning, property evaluation, and cash flow projection keep potential innkeepers' feet planted firmly on the ground. For anyone who has ever dreamed of opening their own cozy little B&B, here is the inn-side scoop from those who've been there. About the Author Mary E. Davies together with PAT HARDY, JOANN M. BELL, AND SUSAN BROWN have all run successful bed and breakfast inns Mary E. Davies together with PAT HARDY, JOANN M. BELL, AND SUSAN BROWN have all run successful bed and breakfast inns Chronicle Books 0-87701-721-2 / 9780877017219
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THE LAST THREE MINUTES : SPECULATING ABOUT THE FATE OF THE COSMOS
Davies, Paul
1995 31494 The last three minutes of the universe has been the subject of much scientific and lay speculation for many years. Now, Paul Davies clearly and concisely sets out the arguments for three possible outcomes: 1) The universe will go on expanding indefinitely 2; )it will slow down and eventually collapse into a zero space, the reverse of the Big Bang; 3) it will reach a steady state neither expanding nor contracting but staying the same forever As a religious man, Davies is equally curious about the implications for humans: is there any sense in which humanity can expect to survive for eternity? Orion Pub Co 1-85799-336-5 / 9781857993363
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The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks, Comprising the Diary, the Table Talk and a Garland of Miscellanea by Samuel Marchbanks
Davies, Robertson
1986 1561897776 In this collection of his newspaper pieces, mostly from the late Forties, Davies introduces us to his alter ego, a mildly irascible curmudgeon whose opinions and observations have been so popular in Canada that three volumes of his columns have been published there: The Diary , The Table Talk , and The Garland of Miscellania. Davies has re-edited them to produce a single volume and in the prefatory ``A Drink with Marchbanks" even given us his own view of the journalist he created. A pleasant entertainment covering such diverse topics as politics, theater, and manners, this volume offers a humorous and insightful picture of postwar Canadian life as seen through the eyes of a delightful eccentric who reminds this reader of a boozeless W. C. Fields. Charles Bishop, English Dept., Univ. of New Orleans. Irwin Pub 0670811459 / 9780670811458
Hardcover Very Good Condition Very Good Book Jacket Don Mill, Ontario, Canada
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