The best book on the market that covers text on smithing, including the general principles of metalwork, types and properties of metals, tools, and techniques. Numerous diagrams, photos and illustrations enhance this in-depth, how-to book on silversmithing.

The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution at a level sufficiently general to guide lawmaking while avoiding great detail. This four-page document has guided the United States of America for more than two centuries. The Supreme Court has parsed the document into clauses, which plaintiffs and defendants invoke in cases or controversies before the Court. Some, like the Interstate Commerce Clause, are central to the survival of a government of multiple sovereignties. The practice of observin...

»Ich wohne an einem Fluss, dem Tinker Creek, in einem Tal der Blue Ridge Mountains von Virginia«, heißt es zu Beginn des mit dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichneten Buches Pilger am Tinker Creek, der Geschichte eines dramatischen Jahres im Roanoke Valley. Inspiriert von Henry David Thoreaus Walden, macht sich Annie Dillard darin auf, all das aufzunehmen, was sie auf ihren Erkundungen sehen kann. Was sie sieht, sind erstaunliche Begebenheiten, in denen sich »Schönheit in einer ...

THE TRYAL OF WILLIAM PENN & WILLIAM MEAD At the SESSIONS held at the OLD BAILEY FOR CAUSING A TUMULT At the SESSIONS held at the OLD BAILEY in LONDON the 1ST, 3RD, 4TH, and 5TH of SEPTEMBER 1670 Done by Themselves TRANSCRIBED from the COMPLEAT COLLECTION of STATE TRYALSFOREWORDLiberty, Equality and Fraternity have been preached through all time but it was left for William Penn, the Quaker, to come nearer establishing the ideal of this Trinity than any other being called Huma...

Kidd, reviled as a bloodthirsty pirate, was a Scottish-born minister's son who may actually have been innocent of piracy but was certainly hanged for it. Based on official admiralty records, this volume offers an astonishing glimpse into the world of 17th-century piracy, the English judicial system, and the dialogue from the actual trial.

Vom Völkermord an den Herero und Nama über den Holocaust, den Terror der Roten Khmer bis zum Massaker von Srebrenica: Das 20. Jahrhundert ist ein Massengrab, in dem sich die jüngsten Toten über die zuvor Ermordeten stapeln, bis man sie nicht mehr sieht. Es gibt wenig Autoren unserer Tage, die so viel Leid gesehen und über so viel Unmenschliches geschrieben haben, wie William T. Vollmann. Umso erstaunlicher ist sein Erschrecken vor den Erzählungen aus Kolyma. Darin stellt Warlam Sc...

The revised and expanded third edition of Hot Talk, Cold Science forms the capstone of the distinguished astrophysicist Dr. S. Fred Singer’s lucid, yet hard scientific look at climate change. And the book is no less explosive than its predecessors—and certainly never more timely.Singer explores the inaccuracies in historical climate data and the failures of climate models, as well as the impact of solar variability, clouds, ocean currents, and sea levels on global climate—...