Whether you're a woodcarver expanding your talents, a seasoned carver refining your skills, or a beginner newly introduced to this fulfilling craft, this crucial carving book belongs in every woodworker's library. Brimming with expert instruction and attractive step-by-step woodcarving projects
A magnificent recasting of historical materialism which highlights capitalism's intrinsically antagonistic relationship to democracy
A historical essay on old regimes and modern states In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the emergence of a “modern” state and political culture in Continental Europe, signaled the persistence of pre-capitalist social property relations. Conversely, the absence of a “modern” state and political discourse in England testified to the presence of a well-developed capitalism. The fundamental flaws in the British economy are not just the symptoms of arrested development but the contradictions of the capitalist system itself. Britain today, Wood maintains, is the most thoroughly capitalist culture in Europe.
Putting the peasant-citizen at the heart of ancient Athenian society
Carving things from wood is easy and lots of fun. With just a few simple tools, and a piece of wood, this book gives you the skills to be on your way to creating wonderful keepsakes and hand-carved gifts. Each of the seven projects inside take only a few hours to complete.
Covering Wood's scholarship in various fields, this reader serves as an introduction to one of the most important contemporary Marxists.
When the aristocratic Lady Isabel abandons her husband and children for her wicked seducer, more is at stake than moral retribution. This edition returns for the first time to the racy, slang-ridden narrative of the first edition, rather than the subsequent stylistically 'improved' versions hitherto reproduced by modern editors.
Contains instruction and nine projects to help you learn the classic carving styles and techniques along with the fundamentals of wood and tool selection, sharpening, creating a workspace and finishing your completed work. This title also includes a chapter on power carving.