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Beginners eager to explore the world of ceramics, as well as experienced potters seeking new techniques and ideas, will find this colorful, technique-packed manual absolutely inspiring. Lavishly illustrated and visually attractive, it provides both practical and creative information on tools and materials, production processes, glazing, and decorative techniques—including detailed explanations of clays, kilns, and accessories. Explore essential methods for modeling (hand building, wheel turning); for decorating the pieces (slips, glazes, colored engobes); and for properly firing the finished piece at both low and high temperatures. Put all that new knowledge to work on six step-by-step projects—from a large, oval sculpture formed by extrusion and wheel-throwing to a beautifully simple functional vessel—all created by top ceramists.

This engrossing study predicts global warming scenarios for seven hot spots around the world--and evaluates the responses of communities, governments, and international organizations. Cullen, a climatologist, notes that "just as our brain is hardwired to perceive threats that are most immediate to us, we are hardwired to devote more energy to caring about the weather than to caring about the climate," and that "by the time you see it in the weather... it's too late." With some ecosystems, such as the overtaxed Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, which the entire state of California depends on for water, "people would rather simply hope for a happy ending." In contrast, in the Arctic, the Inuit are responding to climate change and incorporating technology into their traditional hunting methods, and New York City "has decided to fix the climate bug now" with its Climate Change Adaptation Task Force. Despite the worry among scientists that humans will

Don't --wait to try them out, these databases from Gale and ProQuest are free during National Library week only! To access, go the the Databases by Subject LibGuide and click on the Free Databases for National Library Week tab . Gale Databases -Gale NewsVault -Global Issues in Context -GREENR -Powerspeak Languages -Science in Context -Slavery and Anti-Slavery ProQuest Databases -ProQuest® Civil War Era, 1840-1865 -ProQuest® African American Heritage -Public Library Complete -School Collection -eLibrary -CultureGrams™ -SIRS® Issues Researcher -SIRS Discoverer® -Bowker® Books In Print®

Watch Mr. Bean go to the library, access free databases during National Library week, read a journal edited by Melvil Dewey (yes, that Dewey--as in Decimal) learn about libraries, library history, library associations, library careers and more. COM Library's LibGuides are media rich and feature embedded videos, podcast feeds, RSS feed, books from the library catalog, and more! Go to the guide . Features -Events in COM Library during National Library Week: Guest speaker Dr. James Templer, discusses his new novel Virion ; guest speaker Elizabeth Park will read to children of the COM Lab School; guest speaker Johanna Liska will discuss the motorcycle adventure of Danny Liska as he traveled through Africa and Latin America. All free to the public! See the National Library Week Events tab for more info. -Free databases you can access this week only. See the National Library Week Events tab on the Libraries LibGuide and Free Databases for National Library Week tab on Datab

April is National Poetry Month. This COM Library LibGuide provides access to the best books, eBooks, articles, Internet resources and media on Poetry . Read full text poems, watch or listen to poetry readings, find books and articles that explain poetry and more.  Go to the guide! Features: -View historical photographs of poets collected by institutions like the Library of Congress on the home page. -Access the best COM Library and free literature databases on the Find Articles page. -Read a Google preview of COM Library's print book Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman on the Find Books page. -Read and download full text classics like the Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg or John Donne's love poems from Google books on the Find eBooks page. -Watch Alan Rickman read The Long War on the Find Media page.

Get the latest news, view images, listen to podcasts, get books, articles and good quality websites on bullying. COM Library's LibGuides are media rich and feature embedded videos, podcast feeds, RSS feed, books from the library catalog, and more. Go to the LibGuide .