Authors:Dixie Deerman, Steve Rasmussen,
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: modern, problems, spells, olde, spellbook, goodly
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1402753748
ISBN-13: 9781402753749

Here is the thoroughly comprehensive, absolutely definitive guide to spells—the basic handbook for anyone looking to practice some hands-on magic. Delightfully well-written and practical, filled with atmospheric illustrations and diagrams throughout, it encompasses all the principles and philosophy of spell casting, and gives recipes for charms to solve common contemporary problems. This offers what witchcraft and Wicca books don’t: an in-depth understanding of what’s behind the spells and why they work. It’s amazing how much magic is in here: Geomancy, Elemental Scrying, Tree Divinatio

Author: David Wolman
Publisher: Collins
Keywords: english, tangled, story, spelling, email, righting, tongue, olde, mother
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 006136925X
ISBN-13: 9780061369254

Righting the Mother Tongue tells the cockamamie story of English spelling. When did ghost acquire its silent ’h’? Will cyberspace kill the one in rhubarb? And was it really rocket scientists who invented spell-check? Seeking to untangle the twisted story of English spelling, David Wolman takes us on a wordly adventure from English battlefields to Google headquarters. Along the way, he pickets with spelling reformers outside the national spelling bee, visits the town in Belgium, not England, where the first English books were printed, and takes a road-trip with the boss at Merriam-