books about: notions

books about: notions

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Notions

The Alchemist's Kitchen: Extraordinary Potions & Curious Notions (Wooden Books)

Guy Ogilvy

Walker & Company, 2006

Great little book, very interesting. Perfect for the coffee table.
I have most of the books in this series and this is my current favorite. It's filled with interesting information and is a great quick read. Don't be thinking you'll be the next Alchemist on your block, it's more for entertainment than practicality, but it's a fun ...

How To Be A Wicked Witch: Good Spells, Charms, Potions and Notions for Bad Days

Patricia Telesco

Fireside, 2001

Positively "Charming"
This book is a wonderful "starter" book for someone who wants to try some simple spells and charms. It also gives you good advice on how to conduct yourself as a witch. It is the first book on witchcraft that I ever purchased and I was very surprised and pleased with ...

Joey Green's Incredible Country Store: Potions, Notions and Elixirs of the Past--and How to Make Them Today

Joey Green

Rodale Books, 2004

Joey Green's Incredible Country Store
I was very pleased with my purchase, and the timeliness in receiving it.

Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics)

Ken Kesey

Penguin Classics, 2006

One of the all time great books
I agree with other reviewers that this is one of the greats, and better in some ways than the also impressive Cuckoo's Nest. This book has everything, laugh out loud absurdity, passion, tragedy, misunderstanding in human relationships,and when you consider how young ...

Rip It!: How to Deconstruct and Reconstruct the Clothes of Your Dreams

Elissa Meyrich

Fireside, 2006

I loved this book!!!
The first time I sewed anything was in middle school shop class - we made this hideous blouse that I never wore because I didn't like the material or the pattern. I decided to get back into sewing because while I didn't like the end result, I loved the process. I ...

Finding the Will of God: A Pagan Notion?

Bruce K. Waltke

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002

A balanced and biblical view
When one starts to read this book one will be shocked to find out that many professing Christians today practice the same type of paganistic rituals that they condemn. Waltke shows the reader in this book that "tapping" into God's will through various silly routines ...

Sew Fast Sew Easy: All You Need to Know When You Start to Sew

Elissa K. Meyrich

St. Martin's Griffin, 2002

wonderful book
This is a great learn how to sew book for first time sewers, very easy to understand.

Production Fly Tying: A Collection of Ideas, Notions, Hints, & Variations on the Techniques of Fly Tying

A. K. Best

Pruett Publishing Company, 2003

Soft cover, solid information.
This paperback book is everything it's cracked up to be: umpteen tips on tying smarter and faster. The photographs are superb. A. K. still doesn't think much of many modern synthetics, exhibiting a strong preference for natural materials. Although not a ...

Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader

Michael Parenti

City Lights Publishers, 2007

Readable, fascinating, more needed than ever....
This book is a wonderful addition to Parenti's body of work. I sat down and started reading and found myself reading every article. Touching on many of the areas Parenti has examined for years, it brings together his usual sharp, readable critique and an extraordinary ...

Utterly Wicked: Curses, Hexes & Other Unsavory Notions

Dorothy Morrison

WillowTree Press, LLC, 2007

Wow, Dorothy! This isn't Kansas anymore!
This is the most wondrous, high-octane book on my shelf, and I have pointed several other Witches towards it! Hurray Dorothy! I recently used a fashion doll from the Dollar Store as a poppet, per one of the recommendations in the book, and laid one helluva hex ...

Anima: An Anatomy of a Personified Notion

James Hillman; C. G. Jung

Spring Publications, Inc., 1985

Creative, informative, interpretive
Hillman at his poetic best. He plays with and amplifies the Jungian concept of the anima in ways delightful to read about; one needn't even agree with all of them to enjoy the ride.

Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism: Five Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion

Slavoj Zizek

Verso, 2002

An intensely searching evaluation and analysis
Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: Five Interventions in the (Mis)use of a Notion is an intensely searching evaluation and analysis of precisely what totalitarianism is, and how the term has been misused -- particularly in twentieth century political science and ...

A Head Full of Notions: A Story About Robert Fulton (Creative Minds)
Andy Russell Bowen

First Avenue Editions, 1996

Describes the life and work of the talented inventor and resourceful businessman, with special emphasis on his development of the steamboat.

Curious Notions (Crosstime Traffic)

Harry Turtledove

Tor Science Fiction, 2005

Where Do They Come From?
Curious Notions (2004) is the second novel in the Crosstime Traffic series, following Gunpowder Empire. Lawrence Gomes is a CT employee living in San Francisco in an alternate timeline where Germany has won the Great War. Paul Gomes is his son. They are storekeepers ...