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Best-seller #: 1The Arcanum: The Extraordinary True Story
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
List Price: $21.99
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The arcanum--the recipe to make gold--was mankind's legendary quest since the Age of Reason. By the early 18th century, however, porcelain began to rival gold in value. Gleeson recounts the true story of Johann Friedrich Bottger, an alchemist, who, at the co ...
Best-seller #: 2The Extruder Book
Manufacturer: American Ceramic Society
List Price: $44.95
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The Extruder Book, by Daryl E. Baird, is an extensive how-to book that emphasizes creative ways the clay extruder is being used in pottery studios. With a foreword by John Glick, The Extruder Book covers, in great detail, all commercially avail ...
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Best-seller #: 3Etowah: The Political History of a Chiefdom Capital
Manufacturer: University Alabama Press
List Price: $29.95
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This a reconstruction of the waxing and waning of political fortunes among the chiefly elites at an important centre of the prehistoric world. ...
Best-seller #: 4Alabama Folk Pottery
Manufacturer: University Alabama Press
List Price: $69.95
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Celebrating the people, techniques, and artistry of a traditional craft. Based on 20 years’ research and experience with potters and their wares, folklorist Joey Brackner presents a definitive, comprehensive survey of f ...
Best-seller #: 5The World of Wade Figurines And Miniatures (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
List Price: $39.95
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Three years in preparation, the authors' fourth book on the World of Wade is now complete. This new full color book by the preeminent experts in the field features Wade ceramic figurines and miniatures from the 1930s through to the present time. With over 2, ...

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Best-seller #: 6Alternative Kilns & Firing Techniques: Raku * Saggar * Pit * Barrel (A Lark Ceramics Book)
Manufacturer: Lark Books
List Price: $29.95
Today's Price: $7.95 (73% discount)
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Ceramicists searching for new ways to fire their creations now have a wealth of options. Authors James Watkins and Paul Wandless, along with a group of distinguished artisans, demonstrate in detail how to build low-cost, low-tech, yet high-quality kilns. The ...
Best-seller #: 7Collectors Encyclopedia of California Pottery
Manufacturer: Collector Books
List Price: $24.95
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First released in 1991, the book has been greatly expanded, with hundreds of new color photographs and new information about the beautiful work of the potters of California. Over 30 different artists and companies are represented - company histories, interes ...
Best-seller #: 8The Memoirs of Lt. Henry Timberlake: The Story of a Soldier, Adventurer, and Emissary to the Cherokees, 1756-1765
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
List Price: $19.95
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This is the first modern scholarly edition of what is considered the most detailed ethnographic account of Cherokee life in the late 18th century. Timberlake•s memoirs describe the months he spent living with the Cherokees then escorting a delegation to Lo ...

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Best-seller #: 9Raised in Clay: The Southern Pottery Tradition
Manufacturer: University of North Carolina Press
List Price: $37.50
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Raised in Clay is a remarkable portrait of pottery making in the one of the oldest and richest craft traditions in America. Focusing on more than thirty potters in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, and Kentucky, Nancy Sweezy tells how fam ...
Best-seller #: 10Crystalline Glazes (Ceramics Handbooks)
Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
List Price: $27.50
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Crystalline glazes have a magical quality that appeals to many ceramicists. Unfortunately, producing these glazes can be technically difficult.
Diane Creber tackles the problems involved in using this challenging medium. She describes the clays ...

