The Stones Speak Gemstone Guidance system profiles 22 stones that are in alignment with the Major Arcana of the Tarot. The user will be instructed on how to use these stones to help facilitate communication with your Higher Self. This manual offers instructions on how to create your own Stones Speak kit using either the featured stones, a list of recommended substitutes, or print and make oracle cards for free with a link provided within the book. Created by renowned Tarot Master Instructor Aruna Dawn Grey, The Stones Speak is a wonderful tool for intuitive guidance, divination, and meditation. When complete, readers can apply to be official Certified Stones Speak Readers with the World Metaphysical Association.

The StonesSpeak Gemstone Guidance system expanded edition features 44 stones that help provide insight and wisdom for your personal and spiritual evolution. The user will be instructed on how to use these stones to help facilitate communication with your Higher Self to read the stones for personal or professional sessions. This book offers instructions on how to create your own Stones peak kit using either the featured stones, a list of recommended substitutes, or print and make oracle cards for free with a link provided within the book. Created by renowned Tarot Master Instructor Aruna Dawn, The StonesSpeak is a wonderful tool for intuitive guidance, divination, and meditation. When complete, readers can apply to be official Certified StonesSpeak Readers with the World Metaphysical Association.

A girl grieves the loss of her dog in an achingly beautiful wordless epic from the Caldecott Honor–winning creator of Journey. This year’s summer vacation will be very different for a young girl and her family without Sascha, the beloved family dog, along for the ride. But a wistful walk along the beach to gather cool, polished stones becomes a brilliant turning point in the girl’s grief. There, at the edge of a vast ocean beneath an infinite sky, she uncovers, alongside the reader, a profound and joyous truth. In his first picture book following the conclusion of his best-selling Journey trilogy, Aaron Becker achieves a tremendous feat, connecting the private, personal loss of one child to a cycle spanning millennia — and delivering a stunningly layered tale that demands to be pored over again and again.

Simon & Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones provides both the connoisseur and the casual collector with a compact, easy-to-use volume describing more than 100 rare varieties of minerals whose beauty and mystery have possessed our imaginations from time immemorial. More than 450 brilliant photographs accompany profiles of each gem, covering such aspects as appearance, physical properties -- density, hardness, refraction -- occurrence, and how to judge quality and value. Additional sections describe the process of cutting gemstones and the techniques professional gemologists use to evaluate a stone's weight and optical properties. Detailed and comprehensive, this book is essential for anyone interested in the study of gems and precious stones.

Regarded by many as the stonemason's bible, Practical Masonry has for many years been one of the best technical stone masonry books available for both apprentices and experienced masons. Originally written in 1896 and published by Crosby Lockwood & Son of London, it met with great acclaim and the correspondence received by the author was that of thanks and praise at such a well written and concise technical book. Following the constructive feedback W R Purchase wrote a second edition in which he included three more chapters: Roman and Grecian moldings (both illustrative) and a glossary of terms. This work was then followed by further editions and by 1904 when the fifth edition was published Purchase had added further chapters including: Masonry Estimating and Quantity Surveying; Building Stones, marble and granite (including detailed lists of specific stones available) and finally Tables of Diameters, Circumferences and Areas of circles. As with many technical books that go out of print it became more difficult for people to purchase this book as the years passed. This latest edition published by Donhead Publishing will ensure that the work of W R Purchase can again reach and assist all those who study or are involved with this ancient craft.

The year is 1969, and Jack Sangster, a special investigator for a philanthropic organisation dedicated to helping troubled children, is sent to an elite school, where the son of a wealthy local family has disappeared.