Spell Crafts

Take a look at your hands. See them as wondrous vehicles of power. Feel the energy that flows through everything you do. Tap into that power! Carve a symbol, dip a candle, mix fragrant herbs, sculpt clay, and make your life all that you want it to be. When crafts are used to create objects intended for ritual or to symbolize the divine, the connection between the craftsperson and divinity grows more intense.

This second edition of Spell Crafts, the much-loved and oft-read guide to magical handwork, features new illustrations and a new preface by David Harrington. Learn how to create and use all of the following:
- magical simmering potpourris  
- a beaded psychic mandala  
- clay pentacles, plaques, and runic dice  
- a shaman''s arrow   
- sand paintings   
- Corn Mother  
- a magical spell broom  
- protective hex sign  
- Witch bottles
- flower garlands  
- spell banner
- magic mirror
- prosperity trivet
- wheat weaving

Illustrated with bright watercolors evoking the delicious languor of the warmer seasons, this charming collection of 30 delectable recipes is the perfect gift for those who revel in the fresh, clean-tasting meals of spring and summer.The warmth and abundance of the seasons are reflected in the recipes. 40 Full-color illustrations.

Hardback, excellent dust cover, binding, and pages clean inside

Witty essays on food and drink from one of the most entertaining and highly respected food writers in the country today James Beard Award-winning author and culinary insider James Villas, named Bon Appétit's 2003 Best Food Writer of the Year, turns his pen to everything from absinthe (the green fairy), barbecue, and authentic grits to San Francisco sourdough and the wonders of peanut butter and price club shopping. Sometimes biting (literally), often hilarious, and always passionate, Villas serves up quick takes on and penetrating insights into the origins and essential experiences of many of our favorite foods and beverages.

When a disease wipes out most of humankind, the survivors gather to create a new society and to battle a force of pure evil in human form unleashed upon the world. Reissue.

In the sleepy English countryside at the dawn of the Victorian Era, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to beautiful Victoria Forester. But Victoria is cold and distant — as distant, in fact, as the star she and Tristran see fall from the sky on a crisp October evening. For the coveted prize of Victoria's hand, Tristran vows to retrieve the fallen star and deliver it to his beloved. It is an oath that sends the lovelorn swain into a world that is strange beyond imagining, a world populated by evil old witches, deadly clutching trees, and goblin press-gangs — a world redeemed only by true love.

This trade paperback edition of STARDUST is timed to tie in to the Paramount Pictures movie starring Clair Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert DeNiro.

Just in time for the height of grilling season, this meat-and-potatoes cookbook not only offers the best recipes for steak, ribs, and chops but also serves as a great resource for basic information about cooking, buying, and serving them. Great sides and fixin's round out the recipe mix.

It's Tony Soprano meets Steal this Book . . . with you coming out on top every time! Finally, a brilliant guide to outwitting and outplaying the lopsided world of the law and power. Lemon computer? Learn how to make them take it back and give you a brand new, better, faster computer instead. Got a speeding ticket? Learn how to get out, fast. Tired of fighting with the cable company over incorrect charges on your bills? Learn how to get them to reverse all the charges in question . . . and get additional credits, instead. Big box stores seem like big busts? How to get the most from them. Want to screw the airlines—just like they've been screwing you for years? And much, much more. Don't bother fastening your seatbelt—that law is for girly-men—but hold on for this exciting read! 20 color illustrations

"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."—Entertainment Weekly

Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way.

In this fascinating, ennobling account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries—from the anatomy labs and human-sourced pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth-century Europe to a human decay research facility in Tennessee, to a plastic surgery practice lab, to a Scandinavian funeral directors' conference on human composting. In her droll, inimitable voice, Roach tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.