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Over 260 color photographs illustrate a variety of box making techniques. The projects begin with simple band saw boxes and advance to more complex boxes with a variety of joints--including mitered cornered, rabbet, spline, and false spline joints. Several different finishes are provided as well. A gallery with many different box types is also provided to fire the imagination of every wood worker.
In today's competitive and fast-paced business environment, gravitas is the all-important, but elusive, factor that many leaders seek.
Move step-by-step through the process of carving a robust and realistic polar bear. Complete instructions and detailed color photographs make the carving of this bear an enjoyable task for the novice and advanced carver alike. Carved with a combination of hand and power tools, and finished by burning and painting, the four patterns will lead you to natural looking bears.
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Pushed to the height of its illusionistic powers during the first centuries of the Roman Empire, sculpture was largely abandoned with the ascendancy of Christianity, as the apparent animation of the material image and practices associated with sculpture were considered both superstitious and idolatrous. In Pygmalion’s Power, Thomas E. A. Dale argues that the reintroduction of architectural sculpture after a hiatus of some seven hundred years arose with the particular goal of engaging the senses in a Christian religious experience. Since the term “Romanesque” was coined in the nineteenth century, the reintroduction of stone sculpture around the mid-eleventh century has been explained as...
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This intensive social biography of a rural Moroccan judge discusses Islamic education, the concept of knowledge it embodies, and its communication from the early years of colonial rule in twentieth-century Morocco to the present. The work sensitively combines the outlooks and perceptions of the author and those of the shrewd and reflective `Abd ar-Rahman, supplementing our knowledge of resurgent militant Islamic movements by describing other popularly supported Islamic attitudes toward the contemporary world.