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Jeffrey Snyder is a well documented writer in the field of Flow Blue collecting. His knowledge of Flow Blue is extensive and highly respected.
Although it is impossible to get every pattern (some are still unknown) and current prices, this book will give the reader a very good understanding in the vast field of Flow Blue collecting.

About the Book :
The black-and-red ware, distinguished by a fully black interior and partially black and largely red exterior, is one of the chief ceramic industries of ancient India. Its authentic association in the early days with the megalithic burials of south India had given a strong funerary personality to the ware. So far, scholars have studied this ware in terms of shapes of the pots, thus overlooking its ancillary cultural components, chronological assignments and technological constituents. The present work competently investigates the manifold facets of this ware vis-a-vis the various cultural properties and technological characteristics of diverse cultural and chronological horizons associated with this ware. It has delineated the data and discussed the central theme quite exhaustively and explicitly. The book is adequately illustrated with a map, a line drawing and photographs.

About the Author :
H.N. Singh was born on 29-08-1936 at Mirzapur (U.P), where he received his early education upto the intermediate level in 1955, he moved for higher education to Allahabad, where he obtained M.A. degree in Ancient History, Culture and Archaeology in 1960, and Diploma in Archaeology with a first class in 1961 from Allahabad University. He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1974 from Nagpur University.
In 1961, Dr. Singh joined Archaeological Survey of India at Nagpur, Maharashtra, Ever since his initation in Archaeology Dr. Singh is intimately associated with the exploration and excavation activities of the Survey with the Universities of Allahabad and Nagpur. His twenty years long career in field-archaeology is studded with extensive participations in several excavations in different parts of the country; Kausambi : 60-61, (Allahabad, U.P.), Vadamadurai : 66-67, (Chingleput : T.N.), Takalghat : 67-68, (Nagpur, M.S.), Battavallam : 68-69, (Chingleput : T.N), Surkotda : 71-72 (Kutch : Gujarat), Bakraur : 73-74, 74-75, (Gaya ; Bihar), Piprahwa : 74-75, 75-76, (Basti : U.P), Mandhal : 76-77, (Nagpur : M.S.), Satanikota : 77-78, 78-79, 79-80, (Kurnool : A.P.), Kudavelli : 78-79, (Mahabudnagar : A.P.), Venumulapadu : 78-79, (Kurnool : A.P.), Fatehbad : 80-81, (Alwar : Rajasthan). Aside these Dr. Singh had also participated in intensive prehistoric investigations carried along the eastern coastal stretch between Madras and Nellore as a part of the project of the Survey to study the chronological and industrial horizons of the stone Age of the region.
With this rich academic background Dr. Singh was appointed as a Lecturer in Archaeology in the Post-graduate Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology of Nagpur University, Nagpur, where he gave tuitions in field archaeology during the academic years 75-76 and 76-77.
Dr. Singh is further credited with quite a few good contributions to various research publications of the country.

Contents :
Dedication
Foreword
Preface
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
I. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

II. THE SITES, STRATIGRAPHY AND CHRONOLOGICAL ASSIGNMENTS

III. THE MAKE-UP OF THE CERAMIC/1. Technological Make-up/2. Typological Make-up

IV. ASSOCIATED MATERIAL REMAINS/1. Architecture/2. Metallurgy/3. Microliths/4. Terracotta Toys, Gamesmen, Playthings and Other Objects, Excluding Cult-Figurines/5. Terracotta Cult-Figurines/6. Beads/7. Burials/8. Flora and Fauna

V. CONCLUSION

Appendices/1. List of BRW Sites/2. List of C-14 Dates of BRW Sites
Bibliography
Index
Plates

About the Book :
The black-and-red ware, distinguished by a fully black interior and partially black and largely red exterior, is one of the chief ceramic industries of ancient India. Its authentic association in the early days with the megalithic burials of south India had given a strong funerary personality to the ware. So far, scholars have studied this ware in terms of shapes of the pots, thus overlooking its ancillary cultural components, chronological assignments and technological constituents. The present work competently investigates the manifold facets of this ware vis-a-vis the various cultural properties and technological characteristics of diverse cultural and chronological horizons associated with this ware. It has delineated the data and discussed the central theme quite exhaustively and explicitly. The book is adequately illustrated with a map, a line drawing and photographs.

About the Author :
H.N. Singh was born on 29-08-1936 at Mirzapur (U.P), where he received his early education upto the intermediate level in 1955, he moved for higher education to Allahabad, where he obtained M.A. degree in Ancient History, Culture and Archaeology in 1960, and Diploma in Archaeology with a first class in 1961 from Allahabad University. He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1974 from Nagpur University.
In 1961, Dr. Singh joined Archaeological Survey of India at Nagpur, Maharashtra, Ever since his initation in Archaeology Dr. Singh is intimately associated with the exploration and excavation activities of the Survey with the Universities of Allahabad and Nagpur. His twenty years long career in field-archaeology is studded with extensive participations in several excavations in different parts of the country; Kausambi : 60-61, (Allahabad, U.P.), Vadamadurai : 66-67, (Chingleput : T.N.), Takalghat : 67-68, (Nagpur, M.S.), Battavallam : 68-69, (Chingleput : T.N), Surkotda : 71-72 (Kutch : Gujarat), Bakraur : 73-74, 74-75, (Gaya ; Bihar), Piprahwa : 74-75, 75-76, (Basti : U.P), Mandhal : 76-77, (Nagpur : M.S.), Satanikota : 77-78, 78-79, 79-80, (Kurnool : A.P.), Kudavelli : 78-79, (Mahabudnagar : A.P.), Venumulapadu : 78-79, (Kurnool : A.P.), Fatehbad : 80-81, (Alwar : Rajasthan). Aside these Dr. Singh had also participated in intensive prehistoric investigations carried along the eastern coastal stretch between Madras and Nellore as a part of the project of the Survey to study the chronological and industrial horizons of the stone Age of the region.
With this rich academic background Dr. Singh was appointed as a Lecturer in Archaeology in the Post-graduate Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology of Nagpur University, Nagpur, where he gave tuitions in field archaeology during the academic years 75-76 and 76-77.
Dr. Singh is further credited with quite a few good contributions to various research publications of the country.

Contents :
Dedication
Foreword
Preface
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
I. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

II. THE SITES, STRATIGRAPHY AND CHRONOLOGICAL ASSIGNMENTS

III. THE MAKE-UP OF THE CERAMIC/1. Technological Make-up/2. Typological Make-up

IV. ASSOCIATED MATERIAL REMAINS/1. Architecture/2. Metallurgy/3. Microliths/4. Terracotta Toys, Gamesmen, Playthings and Other Objects, Excluding Cult-Figurines/5. Terracotta Cult-Figurines/6. Beads/7. Burials/8. Flora and Fauna

V. CONCLUSION

Appendices/1. List of BRW Sites/2. List of C-14 Dates of BRW Sites
Bibliography
Index
Plates

This is quite the best specialist dictionary for collectors and dealers, and for translators like myself, checking that the English expression means what we hope. But there is a danger. Look up one expression and you find yourself reading several other entries as well, just for the fun of it. A most entertaining and erudite work. I know of nothing else to match it.

I would say Blue Willow, but it comes in many colours.

This is an absolutely huge book, with many, many beautiful pictures of a wide variety of pieces.

The book is a tremendous resource of information, not only about British Willow, but about British potteries, their histories, and the marks they used.

Of course this is the most comprehensive source of information on Willow, Blue and otherwise, in existence.

The odd thing, is that it is a brand new, book, just published this year, with a list price of $69.95. If Amazon is really willing to sell it for $14 (which I seriously doubt) I'd jump at the chance.

The CD use instruction was easy and quite simple. I'm glad to see this type of media available for those of us that value their time more then waiting, who knows how long, for a download that may crash or have glitches. Well worth the money and very convenient for maintaining my historical CD library. A major selling point to me was the ability to search through the text and hyper-link around the documents and the ease of use to read the 2800 plus page report. I also liked having the complete report, testimony and evidence on one CD.

A sweet, calm memoir of the founder of Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes. Surprisingly well written. This is not a hagiography. Holmes is portrayed as a dynamic, assertive, pleasant, curious, thorough explorer of human nature. Just a pleasant and gracious read in itself.

Sometimes I think that it's so amazing that certain things are always present and available to us, but they patiently wait for when we are ready to experience them. Nothing is thrust upon us. we must remember this. Everything comes to us when we're ready. You may be arguing with me on this point and I understand because there have been more than a few things that have happened in my life where I was by no means ready or prepared to deal with them. I am not particularly talking about a conscious "readiness". I am talking about the readiness of the soul...the spirit...the Higher Self that is within each one of us right here and right now. I believe that this Higher Self guides us, directs, and leads us to those things, those situations, those experiences, and those people when we are ready. Again, not necessarily on a human level, but on a soul level. In short, we are always in the right place at the right time according to the soul's wants, needs, and desires.

I've been a member of a Religious Science Church for the last 13 years and I've been a licensed practitioner for almost ten of those thirteeen years. We have a room that we've made into a practitioner library. It's a place where I frequently retreat to to just read, meditate, pray, and contemplate the Infinite. The room has quite an energy to it. It is so easy to slip into a peaceful, blissful state because every square inch of that room is saturated with a consciousness of love, of peace, of a willingness to go not only higher, but deeper.

I hold my meditation classes in this particular room and I arrived early one Wednesday evening because I wanted to just be with my-SELF for awhile before starting the class. I looked at all the books on the bookshelves and all the various authors and I just smiled to myself. I thought to myself how fortunate I was to be involved in a philosophy so beautiful, so wondrous, so "open-at-the top"...something that Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science/Science of Mind insisted that this organization be and just when I had that thought, this book came into my view. I picked it up and started reading it.

It is a biography as well as an autobiography. It is a biography of Ernest Holmes and it is the autobiography of William H. Hornaday who came to be one of the most "popular" ministers in the New Thought movement. By popular, I mean, he instilled within many people the techniques and the tools that make this philosophy not just fodder for intellectual discussion, but when these techniques and tools are embodied and practiced and lived out can and will transform the life of the one practicing. My life is "proof" that these things do work.

Hornaday writes about Holmes with adoration and respect. He is not simply "blowing smoke". He realizes that Holmes believed in what he was teaching, what he was lecturing to thousands about, what he was writing book after book about. Holmes believed, like I tend to believe, that he was "lucky" enough and fortunate enough to have "stumbled" across various writers and teachers and philosophers who discovered golden veins of Truth. Not through superstition and dogma, but through insight and intuition, through personal transformation. This is how Truth is "found". Nobody else can give you the Truth because you already have it...it's within you now...in truth, you are the Truth you are looking for. Again, one must be ready to not only hear that, but accept it, embrace it, embody it.

This book is filled to overflowing with gems of wisdom. This book really gave me a new appreciation for Ernest Holmes. I always loved the man and for what he stood for, but it just made me realize just how overlooked this man really is in the New Thought movement. People talk about Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson like crazy. And even though 'The Secret' is going mainstream, and I am grateful that it is, the beautiful and simple philosophy of Ernest Holmes sort of gets put on the backburner. Not that Holmes sought out glory and fame, but he really is one of the great pioneers in the metaphysical movement.

I'm not sure if this book is still in print, but if you ever should find a copy at a used bookstore or at a yard sale, buy it. You'll love it and you'll know that it was your soul that led you to it.

Are you ready?

Peace & Blessings,
john, "the Light Coach"

The West Virginia reknowned writer-director Clyde Ware does a superb job on this western novel.It's a must read!!