The Ceramics Handbooks series offers concise introductions to various topics and techniques relating to the use of clay. Books in the series are written by leading practitioners in the field and are aimed at students as well as experienced potters who are experimenting in new areas. In each volume a leading potter examines the fundamentals of a specific pottery skill, with reference to basic technique, equipment, and materials.
Coverage is enhanced with color illustrations from past and contemporary potters.
The editors of the series want to encourage ethnographic writing that is flexible enough to give a voice to the people whose lives it records, to recreate those lives rather than merely describe them, and to encompass in this recreation the complexity, ambiguity, and emotion that are central to human experience. This flexibility can be achieved through the use of narration, first person and multiple points of view, dialogue, descriptive imagery, and other literary techniques. A series, eclectic in scope, designed to offer books with a critical edge on topics of broad interest to the intellectual community. Exploring neglected aspects of our colonial, revolutionary, and early national history and culture, Early American Studies reinterprets familiar themes and events in fresh ways. Interdisciplinary in character, and with a special emphasis on the mid-Atlantic region from about 1600 to 1850, the series is published in partnership with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.