Packed with everything from ancient recipes for glues, varnishes, and paints to spiritual preparations of herbal tinctures and oils, including magical formulae and practices of alchemy, The Alchemist's Kitchen will appeal to anyone fascinated by the past and by the occult world. Guy Ogilvy takes you inside medieval laboratories and kitchens, revealing the hows and whys of mythical recipes and concoctions.
Yes-again Anna! Here's another in the ongoing series of children's books-illustrated and designed by one of the world's top cut-paper artist-about this irrepressible little girl. Silly Anna! She's always creating some form of mischief, even when she's trying to do the right thing. With half-page gatefolds on every spread, watch Anna as she gets herself and her favorite stuffed bunny a little messy...and a lot wet! Out in the garden with Mommy, Anna wants a cookie. She grabs for it and stamps her feet and begs. No luck! What should she do to get one? Open the flap: Anna says "please, " and receives a nice, big, chocolate chip cookie. Now Bunny wants one too. What a mess--and it's up to Anna to clean him up. Kids will rush to turn the pages of this mixture of picture and novelry book, and see how Anna tries to wipe Bunny's face ( "very messy now!), wash him down (everybody's soaking!), and hug him better. An especially large and happy extended gatefold ends the book as Anna and her bunny dance in the bright sunshine. 24 pages (all in color), 8 1/4 x 9.
An invaluable resource for beginners and adepts alike, this best-selling and frequently recommended book on Wiccan magic and witchcraft has been updated and revised, now featuring a Year-and-a-Day calendar for the solitaire who is beginning to explore Wicca on his or her own. Loads of new spells New for this edition: A Year-and-a-Day calendar; Expanded information on creating a personal grimoire and book of Shadows, the witch's spell manual and bible.
MY MANIACAL MUSE is compiled of brevity, the macabre, confessional, fantasy, sonnets and more. Some of her poems are based on real life situations and others purely fictitious. If it touches you on any level, you were meant to read it!
Americas public schools are in decline and in need of urgent reform. Once the envy of the entire world, the American public school system now struggles to keep pace with other industrialized nations and is falling further behind with each passing decade. This disturbing trend raises two important questions: Why did our schools decline? What must we do to make our schools great again? To answer these questions, Misguided Notions goes back to the roots of human civilization and retraces the development of education over the last ten thousand years. Along the way, a wise reformer offers warnings based on his eyewitness accounts of the collapses of historys greatest civilizations. The evidence is clear: when schools discard tried and proven principles of education and when society abandons its core values, both will collapse. The commonsense solutions offered in Misguided Notions combine proven old-school educational principles with the advantages of modern technology. Teachers, principals, school board members, parents, community leaders, and politicians perplexed by the lack of answers to the current dilemma in public education can find enlightenment in Misguided Notions.
For anyone who longs to release the witch within, this lighthearted but learned primer tells how with a witty combination of traditional rituals and magickal spells.
A revised edition, updated with magickal concentration exercises, magickal ethics, expanded coverage of Wicca and its deities, and new spells and recipes.--From publisher description.
