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TRADE SILVER MARKS IN THE AMERICAS 1682-1855

This book covers the silversmith marks found on Indian trade silver between the years of 1682 and 1855. To date, this book is the world’s largest compendium of maker marks found on Indian trade silver. Many years of research have gone into this publication, and no other comprehensive work has been produced that is dedicated exclusively to this area of research and collecting. Until now, it has been a very time-consuming task to identify a mark found on a piece of trade silver. There are hundreds of books containing over 22,000 silver marks that one has to sift through in an attempt to identify a specific mark. It is now possible to quickly identify marks that might previously have taken days to identify. This book is also a good source of trade silver marks yet to be found but known to have existed, as well as marks that are found on trade silver but, as of yet, have not been identified.It should be noted that marks found on American Indian trade silver are not limited to American makers, and this book includes makers and their marks from the American colonies, New France, Canada, France, and the British Isles. Many of the silversmiths found in this book were also involved in the manufacture and maintenance of church silver, and made silver plates and other types of silver articles. To make this book more helpful, it not only includes the silversmiths themselves, but also their apprentices, partners, family members that were silversmiths, traders, and anyone else found to be associated with the marks on trade silver. Some of the marks found in this book have not yet been recorded on trade silver, but, by association, cannot be ruled out.Researching and collecting Indian trade silver is a very complex field. Owing to the market being flooded with reproductions and counterfeits, collecting trade silver without access to accurate research material is very risky. Among well qualified researchers, it is also known that this endeavor is not an exact one. With trade silver, it is common to find differing opinions on certain marks. To illustrate this dilemma, a mark as common on trade silver as “RC” for Robert Cruickshank less than 200 years ago was thought to stand for Cardinal Richelieu. Hundreds of photographs and scale illustrations have been used in this book to help make it easer to eliminate many of the counterfeit marks found in the market today.Many marks covered in this book were found in private collections, and without access to them, publishing this book would not have been possible. The feedback from Indian trade silver collectors, historians, and researchers has been very positive, and there is no doubt that this book will soon become a valuable tool for the many researchers and collectors that have not previously had a reference book dedicated to Indian trade silver marks found in the Americas. This is a work in progress, and marks are continuously being recorded for addition in the future.

THE LITTLE BOOK OF AWARENESS

Awareness is beyond the mind. At best, the mind can suggest what awareness is and describe what it is not. The Little Book of Awareness tries to go a step farther by evoking awareness in the reader and exploring what it means for awareness to consciously realize itself as pure awareness. Only when this happens does true transformation begin.

MOON DREAMS 2018 DIARY

Beautifully illustrated, empowering and mindful, our Moon Dreams diary made its hugely popular debut for 2017. The 2018 edition has taken all the parts you loved and responded to your requests. It has been created to help you to live in deeper connection with your own cycle, creativity and the lunar phases. The first part of the book introduces cycle charting and how and why women do it. The interactions between our menstrual cycles and the phases of the moon are explained and the importance of creativity and mindfulness as tools for self-care are explored. This year's focus is specifically on mandalas. The rest of the book is a week-on-two-page 2018 diary which gives space for each day’s appointments or reflections, alongside inspiring quotations to encourage you to reflect on your feelings, and space for your own affirmations. Each month has a page for additional guided reflection. Moon Dreams nurtures mindfulness, reflectiveness and awareness of our body, feelings, menstrual cycle, and the cycle of the moon.   52-week diary Space to doodle Beautiful illustrations to colour Information on charting your cycle Learn about the moon’s phases and how they affect you Quotations to inspire and uplift Private space to reflect Moon Dreams would make a beautiful first moon gift for a special girl in your life who is coming of age, for a mother starting her cycles again after birth, for women charting their fertility, or any woman who has been searching for a supported way to chart her cycle. Used or gifted alongside Moon Time, or Full Circle Health (for women) or Reaching for the Moon (for girls aged 9-14), Moon Dreams offers a practical tool that supports embodied learning and self-care.

THE STRANGER’S FAREWELL

The Stranger's Farewell  is a very old story, one that has entertained people all over the world for hundreds of years. A stranger visits a young couple – he has been traveling for many days – and asks for a glass of water and a place to rest. The young couple make him welcome and invite the stranger into their home to share their meal. As we know, small actions sometimes have large consequences, and this one did. As the stranger is leaving to go on his way, he says, "May the next thing you do last until you say, 'Enough'." These parting words reward their generosity in an amazing way.   News of the young couple's changed status travels fast and prompts a greedy merchant to seek out the stranger in the hope of gaining a similar reward for himself. But, of course, the result is very different. This story can teach us – in a very assessable way – something about the nature of giving and receiving.   This tale is set in Afghanistan where the story is known by many people. This setting effectively introduces children to a culture and people who may be unfamiliar to them. The story is retold here for young people by the Afghan storyteller and teacher Palwasha Bazger Salam and beautifully illustrated by Marie Lafrance.

ESCAPE FROM ANCIENT EGYPT

Being stuck in the past takes on a whole new meaning... What if your worst enemy sent you on a one-way ticket to the past? Worse, later he shows up and tries to play match-maker with a dominant historical figure while all of history and the future are on the line? Survival is just one problem, but then add your friends into the mix... Following an intense battle between the Indians and the Crackedskulls, Neiko and her comrades enjoy victory while her enemies suffer a crushing defeat. Victory is short lived for Neiko when Francesco pays her a visit at her home and sends her away in order to collect on his threat of revenge. She is banished into the ancient world of ancient Egypt during the reign of Ramesses II the Great on a one way ticket. Lost and trapped in this ancient world, it doesn’t take very long for trouble to find her. Taken by a rich man, she is reunited with three her friends that had been missing, and an eleven-year-old mystery is finally solved, but one of Neiko’s friends is still unaccounted for. After escaping from the rich man and journeying to Thebes, Neiko and her comrades have actually jumped from the pan and into the fire. Things go horribly awry when Pharaoh finds out about Neiko and becomes infatuated with her. Francesco comes to Egypt on orders to bring her back, but he has other plans. Can Neiko and her friends thwart Francesco, return to the 21st century, and escape from the past and one of the greatest kings that ever lived?