Alex Austin

Take a fresh look at the ancient craft of silversmithing with 18 projects that teach a solid body of skills. This full-color, comprehensive manual provides artisans with a thorough understanding of silver’s properties: what it is and how it behaves. Beginning, intermediate, and advanced techniques are explained and then applied to craft amazingly beautiful items, from accessories to wearables and extraordinary gifts. Use brushing, sawing, piercing, and polishing procedures to fashion a simple bud vase. Progress to a baby rattle or candleholder created with soldering, sinking, dapping, and forging techniques. Ultimately you’ll have the expertise to complete a martini set, lidded container, or teapot. The art of silversmithing has never been easier or more enjoyable.

Techniques, Projects, Inspiration

The Craft of Silversmithing

Martina Fischer

Norbert Ropers

Das englischsprachige Berghof Handbook ist das internationale Referenzwerk zum Thema Konflikttransformation. The Berghof Handbook offers both practitioners and scholars a systematic overview of the state-of-the-art of conflict transformation.

The Berghof Handbook

Transforming Ethnopolitical Conflict

Actor Philip Rayne has played a detective on television, but when his friend Niya is wounded in a bizarre attack, he must become one in reality to prevent the assassins from finishing the job. As Philip gets on stage with an ensemble of murderers, Niya relives in her imagination the terror-filled ordeal and heroic actions that made her a target and which now put Philip's life on the line. Will Niya wake from her pseudocoma to save both their lives?

Alex Austin

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