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To Weave for the Sun
Textiles were the Incas' most prized possessions. Their first gifts to European strangers were made not of gold and silver, but of camelid fibre and cotton. They believed that the highest form of weaving was created expressly for the sun, which they considered the greatest of the celestial powers.
Rebecca Stone I kissed a Girl
I KISSED A GIRL Rebecca Stone is a twenty-something girl sleuth, with a special gift, she has second sight. Its a curse and gift passed down through the females in her extended family. Her most famous is one Nancy Drew who is now dead and a ghost that Becky talks to. Together they get mysteries solved and property returned back to the true owners. Becky lives in a trailer park with many, odd ball characters including a motorcycle club and an over the hill rock and roller who performs on the top of his trailer in his "tidy whities" It can be fun at the park. Join Rebecca as she starts off needing to pay the rent and scores a job to find a lost dog. Things get exciting as she unfolds more and more of an old mystery that happened in the coastal town of Ocean Beach that is just outside San Diego Ca. Aunt Nancy helps as much as she can and Beckys loyal sidekick Dee helps too. It just might get nasty out there in Ocean Beach and the surrounding neighborhoods of San Diego. -30-
Art of the Andes
"Fills a void in the genre. . . . Excellent descriptions and interpretations." --Latin American Antiquity
An Honorable Death
After Paul Lucas murders and inherits the wealth of an elderly woman entrusted to his care, he is badly injured when a commercial airliner crashes into the Maryland countryside. Following extensive reconstructive surgery, he is unable to remember his past. Later, while on a Carribean cruise, Lucas falls in love and proposes to a spellbinding woman. But Paul Lucas' troubles are far from over. A retired police detective, hired by the murdered woman's brother is closing in on him. Meanwhile, the demented brother of a woman Lucas raped twenty years earlier has been released from prison. Having killed twice while in prison, the brother, Sean Dougherty, has grown to love the high he gets when he takes a human life. Vowing to revenge the rape and subsequent suicide of his twin sister, Sean Dougherty begins his violent campaign to restore honor to the Dougherty family name.
Butterbabe
'The best thing about weighing 571lb is eating whatever you want. You don't worry about gaining 5lb: you know it won't make a difference. You know that losing 5lb won't make a difference either.' Rebecca Golden weighed just over 6lb at birth.
The Organized Family Historian
It can take hours to research family history and it is easy to become inundated with stuff - paper records, recordings, photographs, notes, artifacts, and more information than one would imagine could ever exist. The usefulness of the collection is in the organization - using computers, archival boxes, files, and forms to help you put your hands on what you need when you need it. Also included, in this book, are instructions on the best ways to store and preserve one-of-a-kind family relics. Fifth in the National Genealogical Society's Guide series, The Organized Family Historian will follow the same user-friendly format that makes the other books helpful at any level of genealogical experience. The NGS offers readers 100 years of research and experience.
The Jaguar Within
Shamanism—the practice of entering a trance state to experience visions of a reality beyond the ordinary and to gain esoteric knowledge—has been an important part of life for indigenous societies throughout the Americas from prehistoric times until the present. Much has been written about shamanism in both scholarly and popular literature, but few authors have linked it to another significant visual realm—art. In this pioneering study, Rebecca R. Stone considers how deep familiarity with, and profound respect for, the extra-ordinary visionary experiences of shamanism profoundly affected the artistic output of indigenous cultures in Central and South America before the European invasion...
Stone Underpants
Pod lives in the Stone Age and finds that he often has a cold bottom! So he invents underpants! Unfortunately his choice of material is not always practical. Will he find something that is both warm and flexible, so he can play with his friends?
Sensory Evaluation Practices
Sensory Evaluation Practices examines the principles and practices of sensory evaluation. It describes methods and procedures for the analysis of results from sensory tests; explains the reasons for selecting a particular procedure or test method; and discusses the organization and operation of a testing program, the design of a test facility, and the interpretation of results. Comprised of three parts encompassing nine chapters, this volume begins with an overview of sensory evaluation: what it does; how, where, and for whom; and its origin in physiology and psychology. It then discusses measurement, psychological errors in testing, statistics, test strategy, and experimental design. The re...
