Wagner Books

I loved the way this book was laid out... and appropriate for young or old. It is easily used as a guide to preparing a group to go on a mission - each chapter can be used as a weekly meeting for 13 weeks. Questions you need to ask, examples of famous missionaries, the author's personal experience, practical suggestions and Scripture to study are all provided. Plus, it is a small, easy-to-read book. Therefore, it is not overwhelming to a busy person.

Sew-No-More Home Decor (Leisure Arts #33300)

Great book! Perfect for those who might be sewing-challenged! Beautiful color photographs, easy to follow directions with patterns placed in back of book for easy photo copying and getting your project off the ground!

Definite high recommendation!

I searched high and low (mostly in book stores)over the last few years for material about collecting shopping bags, which is something I've done for many years. It feels good to finally have a resource that validates a collecting passion of mine (about which friends think I'm a little nuts). The book is filled with fabulous pictures and text that chronicle the history of shopping bags. This great volume includes notes and side bars which can be used as stepping stones to further research or gathering more information about the topic.

. . . A brief kudo for this seminal work by a major American cultural geographer and philosopher of human-environment interaction. For over 50 years Phil Wagner has been a leading thinker in the so-called "Berkeley school of Cultural Geography". His 1960's book on "Human Use of the Earth" prefigured much of today's environmental ethos. Earlier, Wagner & Marvin Mikesell edited "Readings in Cultural Geography" which has provided four decades of students and lay readers with the quintessential collection of critical thoughts from pivotal writers in this field. PLW's long time exploration into human communication has brought him to a hypothesis that the desire for recognition and status drives human behaviour. Hence, access to venues for such expression and feedback affect spatial organization of human performance, and render the built environment a stage for enactment of "geltung" or status seeking behaviour. The process of following Wagner's line of reasoning offers an additional range of directions for readers to explore their own understanding of communicative behaviour. Like Thorsten Veblen's 1920's work on elites and conspicuous consumption, or Vance Packard's 1950's work on the Status Seekers, or C. Wright Mills' 1960's querry into power relations, this little book and the Geltung hypothesis has the power to influence thinkers and students for generations to come. It also points to new interpretations of Hegel's question of the master-slave dialectic. Aside from a poor title, weak cover, and equally inept marketing, the book's major fault lies in too much editing intended to reach a pseudo - popular market. Hence the final thin volume leaves out much of the meat found in earlier drafts. Nevertheless, it is well written, easy to read, and bereft of jargon, which Wagner has translated into ordinary language, a hallmark of his down-to-earth erudition and scholarship.

This book not only describes and helps the new teacher in the English classroom, but any high school classroom. It illustrates many common classroom problems, then helps identify solutions. Some of the situations they accentuate are defending a grade, mandated testing and especially for the English teacher-problems with student interpretation, what to do when the students have read the book before, and numerous others. As a pre-service teacher in college, I can honestly say that after all the droll books on theory and pedagogy, this book can teach you so much more in a real-life approach.

bought for my kids so they wont have to look at all the crazy stuff on tv.

SPADA is a journal that contains some of most current ideas on historical swordsmanship by a number of the field's leading researchers. As a student of historical swordsmanship myself, I think it is an excellent step in the right direction for the progression of this school of study.

As far as the contents of the book are concerned, my hat goes off to the editor, Stephen Hand, for distilling such a diverse, and yet interesting range of papers from the vast array of excellent treatises available.

The book also features some interesting reports on some of the most recent activities undertaken in the WMA community. This provides the reader with a very good 'big picture' perspective into what advances are being made in what fields, and an appreciation for the vast range of people who are now interested in historical swordsmanship.

With regards to it's practicality, the book caters for many different tastes - whether you are interested in the finesse of renaissance fencing, or simply a medieval re-enactor using the trusty 'sword and shield' method. SPADA provides useful insights and a greater understanding of historical methods of fighting.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in gaining a greater appreciation of historical swordsmanship, and anyone who is curious to know what the swordmanship community out there is doing. I rate it as a 'must have' item, and I look forward to more SPADA releases in the future.

cheers

Matt Partridge
Secretary
Order of the White Stag

This book was gracefully presented. It illustrated several styles of the Christmas Spirit along with EASY to follow instructions at the back of the book.

Each project was very basic in ideas but the way in which each were presented made you stop & think how you could incorporate it in your own home.

I found the perfect gift to make for the neighbors this year. It's called a Festive Floral Topper made with red silk poinsettia, greenery and red, hard candy in an ivy bowl with the floral arranged as a topper. Add a festive Christmas bow and anyone would feel Special!

A friend of mine bought this book and was kind enough to let me "borrow" it. Now I need to buy one of my own.

Thanks Leisure Arts for more great crafts ideas!! Sincerely, Debbie Statham

As a practitioner and a teacher of Spiritual Direction I think that this is an excellent resource. I highly recommend it to anyone seriously interested in this discipline.

This a great book on a school who took the current educational thoughts and trends and turned it into a reality! I recommend this book to anyone interested in secondary education!