A comprehensive & up-to-date guide to pot-lids & Staffordshire ware this book corrects the mistakes in identifying & recording lids that have led to errors being perpetuated through successive publications in the past. The books contents include: pot-lids & why they were produced; dating pot-lids; valuing lids; pictures on lids; & Prattware & jars. The book also features such subjects as American; Shakespearian; shell lids; lady & romantic scenes; dogs & other animals & birds; & trinket & bedroom sets. ...

Ikey Solomon is in the business of thieving & he's very good at it. Ikey's partner in crime is his mistress the forthright Mary Abacus until misfortune befalls them. They are parted & each must make the harsh journey from thriving nineteenth century London to the convict settlement of Van Diemen's L&. In the backstreets & dives of Hobart Town Mary learns the art of brewing & builds The Potato Factory where she plans a new future. But her ambitions are threatened by Ikey's wife Hannah her old enemy. The two women raise their separate families one legitimate & the other bastard. As each woman sets out to destroy the other the families are brought to the edge of disaster. ...

Have you ever wondered why you can't say no to fattening foods or alcohol? Why you overspend or overwork feel bloated have mood swings or depression? The answer is not that you're lazy self-indulgent or undisciplined. The problem lies in your body chemistry. Millions of people are sugar sensitive & the foods they turn to for comfort actually trigger feelings of exhaustion hopelessness & low self-esteem. In her groundbreaking book Kathleen Des Maisons Ph.D. explains how certain food-dependent chemicals in the brain regulate our moods. To maintain mental & physical health our serotonin beta-endorphins & blood sugar levels need to be kept in balance. We can achieve this by following Des Maison's inexpensive all-natural nutritional plan. There is no regime of measurements or self-denial: you tailor the plan to your tastes & lifestyle. More than just a book about food this is a book about possibilities. ...

I train as many people do to better & improve my physique in the quickest way possible. I love the challenge of weight resistance exercise to see what the human body can achieve in strength & size. I train naturally without the use of drugs which is the real challenge. It has always been said that you can only build so much muscle without the use of drugs. My aim is to influence your thinking in that you can build more muscle than you ever thought possible once you start working out correctly. The key ingredients to your success are: Training Rest & Recovery & Diet & Supplementation. Most information around on physical exercise usually either confuses or can even put you on the road to ruin as far as giving you the knowledge you require to constantly improve your muscle mass & conditioning without either vastly over-training or causing serious injury. I am going to try & change your mindset on how to train with weights to achieve the goals that you set out to attain from your exercise programme. So read this book & apply the theories it will change the way you look at training & exercise forever Taken from the Introduction by Craig Hartley ...

-A beautiful miscellany featuring exquisite 19th-century colour plates -Reveals the origins & traditions of over 100 different fruit -
Includes: a table of Latin names families & countries of origin -An ideal gift for gardener chef or eco-warrior & a delicious dip-in kitchen cornucopia
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In 1774 Josiah Wedgwood master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great. Josiah's nephew Tom journeys to America to buy clay from the Cherokee for this exquisite china. Tom is caught up in the American rebellion & falls for a Cherokee woman who will come to play a crucial role in Josiah's late great creation: the Portland Vase. As the family fortune is made & Josiah's entrepreneurial brilliance creates an empire that will endure for generations it is his daughter Sukey future mother of Charles Darwin who bears clear-eyed witness. A novel of epic scope rich in warmth intellect & humanity The Potter's Hand explores the lives & loves of one of Britain's greatest families whose travails are both ordinary
- births deaths marriages opium addiction depression
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The Potteries is the name given to the industrial area in the English Midlands that was home to hundreds of pottery-making companies & until recently supplied most of the countrys crockery & decorative ceramics. Although generations of collectors have studied the products of these companies the story of the industry behind them has rarely been told. Yet no British industry was ever so concentrated so polluting & then so transformed. No industrial skyline was ever more memorable than the forest of bottle ovens that used to dominate the skyline of Stoke-on-Trent. An entirely revised & re-illustrated edition of a classic Shire" title this is the perfect introduction to the industrial history of The Potteries its major firms & the men & women who produced pottery for Britain & the world." ...

Olivia Giorgiadis has left her English roots behind. She lives on a tiny Greek island married to a local man mother to two small sons. Year on year island life has followed a peaceful unchanging rhythm. Until now. An earthquake ravages the coast its force devastating the isl&. In the aftermath comes a stranger: an Englishwoman destitute but for the clothes she wears. Olivia welcomes the stranger into her home the potter's house. But as Kitty melts into the family & the village community so Olivia begins to sense that her mysterious visitor threatens all she holds dear... ...

This book is a basic introduction to pottery. It covers everything the beginner needs to know to start making beautiful ceramics. Step-by-step photographs & clear instructions guide you through the techniques for making decorating & firing pottery & twelve simple projects allow you to put your skills into practice. Chapters include an introduction to types of clay basic modelling methods such as throwing pinching coiling & turning. Key techniques are taught for biscuit & glaze firing. Each progressive project develops a new skill & then teaches you how to add texture & decorate your vessels using inlays slips sgraffito feathering burnishing & resist techniques. ...

Russell Ash has trawled parish registers & censuses going back 900 years to compile the first ever complete book of breathtakingly unlikely-but-true British names. It features an incredible & diverse range of totally genuine names evoking everything from body parts (Dick Brain) sex (Matilda Suckcock) illness (Barbaray Headache) & toilet functions (Peter Piddle) to food (Hazel Nutt) animals (Minty Badger) & places (Phila Delphia). Every single one has been checked for authenticity & its source is given as well as extra notes where further fascinating illumination is possible. The book provides a rigorously researched yet laugh-out-loud overview of Britains eccentricity through the ages. & in this fully revised expanded & enhanced paperback edition it is no exaggeration to say that its Pottier Fartier & Knobbier than ever before. ...