Colonial Crafts by Bobbie Kalman, ISBN 0865055106
In colonial times there were no factories. If some needed a barrel or a chair, that object had to be made by hand. Crafts people made furniture, utensils for the home, and tools for farmers. Each of these essential artisans was skilled in one particular craft. The wheelwright, for example, made wheels.
Colonial Crafts by Bobbie Kalman, ISBN 0865055106
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The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall, ISBN 061819424X
In a brilliant rejoinder and an inspired act of literary invention, Alice Randall explodes the world created in Margaret Mitchell"s famous 1936 novel, the work that more than any other has defined our image of the antebellum South. Imagine simply that the black characters peopling that world were completely different, not egregious, one-dimensional stereotypes but fully alive, complex human beings. And then imagine, quite plausibly, that at the center of this world moves an illegitimate mulatto woman, and that this woman, Cynara, Cinnamon, or Cindy -- beautiful and brown -- gets to tell her story.
Cindy is born into a world in which she is unacknowledged by her plantation-owning father and passed over by her mother in favor of her white charges. Sold off like so much used furniture, she eventually makes her way back to Atlanta to take up with a prominent white businessman, only to leave him for an aspiring politician of her own color. Moving from the Deep South to the exhilarating freedom...
The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall, ISBN 061819424X
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The Tabernacle: Its Priests and Its Services by William Brown, ISBN 1565631951
Charles H. Spurgeon described "The Tabernacle" as "An instructive interpretation of the types of the Tabernacle."
This timeless companion to Edersheim's foundational work "The Temple: Its Ministry and Services," is completely retypeset in a modern format. "The Tabernacle" is now easier to read and consult than ever before.
Quotations from Scripture have been supplied in the margins to paint word pictures of the tabernacle, its priest, its rites, and its sacrifices. These bring to life the intricacies of the tabernacle and illuminate its significance.
Fifty illustrations depict the tabernacle and its surroundings: the silver foundation, the golden walls, the curtains, the hangings, the furniture, and the clothing of the priests. These unique drawings and charts detail the form and beauty of this dwelling place of God.
Brown repeatedly points out the significance of the tabernacle for the modern believer. His careful study and faithful interpretation show that the study of the tabernacle,...
The Tabernacle: Its Priests and Its Services by William Brown, ISBN 1565631951