A lonely doll named Edith finally finds friendship with two visiting teddy bears.

This is the definitive full-colour reference to the works produced by the company, R John Wright and it offers a rich exhibition of virtually every piece created in its history. In a collection of critical essays interspersed throughout the book, the author discusses the development and importance of significant creations, and places the works in the context of toy history. A special section takes readers behind the scenes at the R John Wright Dolls workshop in Cambridge, New York, with never-before-seen pictures detailing the various stages of production. Filled with hundreds of beautiful images, a compelling story and in-depth reference material, this exciting volume will inform, inspire and enchant all those who appreciate the art of toys.

John W. Wright presents a new model of preaching that aims to connect the biblical text with a congregation so that they are formed into a true Christian community.

In an experiment not expected to work, former New Zealand captain John Wright was named coach of the Indian cricket team in October 2000. In this volume he provides an insight into the vast scale, passion and politics of cricket in a country with a billion fans.

The six Flopsy Bunnies have a narrow escape from Mr. McGregor's garden.

The Golden Age is Grand Space Opera, a large-scale SF adventure novel in the tradition of A. E. Van vogt and Roger Zelazny, with perhaps a bit of Cordwainer Smith enriching the style. It is an astounding story of super science, a thrilling wonder story that recaptures the excitements of SF's golden age writers. The Golden Age takes place 10,000 years in the future in our solar system, an interplanetary utopian society filled with immortal humans. Within the frame of a traditional tale-the one rebel who is unhappy in utopia-Wright spins an elaborate plot web filled with suspense and passion. Phaethon, of Radamanthus House, is attending a glorious party at his family mansion to celebrate the thousand-year anniversary of the High Transcendence. There he meets first an old man who accuses him of being an impostor and then a being from Neptune who claims to be an old friend. The Neptunian tells him that essential parts of his memory were removed and stored by the very government that Phaethon believes to be wholly honorable. It shakes his faith. He is an exile from himself. And so Phaethon embarks upon a quest across the transformed solar system--Jupiter is now a second sun, Mars and Venus terraformed, humanity immortal--among humans, intelligent machines, and bizarre life forms that are partly both, to recover his memory, and to learn what crime he planned that warranted such preemptive punishment. His quest is to regain his true identity. The Golden Age is one of the major, ambitious SF novels of the year and the international launch of an important new writer in the genre. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Plates and brief commentaries provide a representative selection of dolls from various cultures and periods of time