The blue and white porcelain exported by China in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is an important category of artifacts and antiques, a fashion-sensitive commodity that was affected by the ebbs and flows of style and consumer demand. In this copiously illustrated, comprehensive guide to Chinese export porcelain, Andrew Madsen offers both a broad overview and detailed identification and context information for the most common styles and motifs. His focus on the determination of manufacture dates, which are based primarily on data collected from armorial decorated export wares, porcelain cargoes from dated shipwrecks, and tightly dated archaeological contexts, will allow students, scholars, and collectors to refine associations with Chinese export porcelain, revealing the untapped quantity of information that mass-produced Chinese export porcelain has to offer.

The blue and white porcelain exported by China in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is an important category of artifacts and antiques, a fashion-sensitive commodity that was affected by the ebbs and flows of style and consumer demand. In this copiously illustrated, comprehensive guide to Chinese export porcelain, Andrew Madsen offers both a broad overview and detailed identification and context information for the most common styles and motifs. His focus on the determination of manufacture dates, which are based primarily on data collected from armorial decorated export wares, porcelain cargoes from dated shipwrecks, and tightly dated archaeological contexts, will allow students, scholars, and collectors to refine associations with Chinese export porcelain, revealing the untapped quantity of information that mass-produced Chinese export porcelain has to offer.

All too often the experience of those who receive family therapy is neglected in family therapy theorizing and literature; this in turn affects practice. The authors of "Introducing User-Friendly Family Therapy" describe in practical detail the results of an action research project in which all the professionals involved began to modify their practice on the basis of feedback from users. They draw out the implications of what they discovered for providing a genuinely user-friendly service and set the arguments for a more humanistic approach in the wider context of contemporary social policy.
Thought provoking and practical in emphasis, this is a book which will stimulate all professionals working with children and families to reassess their ways of thinking and working.

Are you living a life of joy and abundance? Are you attracting what you really want out of life? Think It → Say It → Be It is a DIY life-coach playbook--a practical guide to being the author of your life. Dr. Carolyn explains why your thoughts and words create the life that you attract. You will discover

- why affirmations are often ineffective; - how to communicate effectively with yourself and others; - what "energy" is and how to use it; - what the subconscious mind is and how it effects your life; - how certain words sabotage your efforts; and - how to use your words to effect positive change.

Sixteen fun and easy "playercises" guide you through the process of using your words to change your life. These playercises assist you to say what you really want and need to hear. Here are tools that help you take control of your thoughts and words so you can be what you want to be. With practice, you can run your life instead of having your life run you. You deserve the life of your dreams. Here is how you can create that life

A Police Officer's calling in life is to serve and protect, and he would willingly lay down his life for all. If he would do that for a stranger, imagine all that he would do for his wife. Our law enforcement husbands are our heroes, we love them dearly and we wouldn't trade them for the world, but being a Law Enforcement Officer's wife comes with its own set of challenges. Law enforcement wives from across North America share communal advice, wisdom, experience, insight and laughter with fellow LEO wives. We offer a peek into our world, "the heart of the badge," to our husbands, families, friends and neighbors. Please join us

Have A Blessed Kinda' Day...This book is filled with simple thought-provoking messages designed to encourage and edify all readers regardless of the season of life you are currently experiencing.There will be some pages you may only read one time. There will be other pages you will read over and over again because the message on those pages will bear the initials of your very soul. Those pages will give you the inner strength you need to love, to heal, to forgive; to love again, to make right choices, to believe in the power of 'hope'; and to move on in life possessing a new found peace within. Get ready. You're on your way to having a blessed (empowering) kinda' day EVERYDAY About the AuthorCarolyn White-Wilson is a born again Christian who loves The Lord and His people. She is gifted in the area of Praise and Worship and Administration.For over ten years Carolyn has been serving the cyberspace community with inspiring messages ending every message with some version of the empowering phrase: "Have a blessed Kinda' Day " She and her daughter reside in Charlotte, North Carolina.