Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania follows the Pennsylvania migration narrative in broad swathes: Philadelphia and its surrounding counties of the original Quaker settlement zone, the Piedmont and the German agricultural zone, the Scots-Irish frontier beyond the Blue Mountain, the coal country with its trade connections to New York City and its East European coal miners, and the Northern Tier claimed and settled by New Englanders. Principal author and editor George E. Thomas and his contributing authors use the physical evidence of community plans, building typologies and structural systems, and landscape to gain an understanding of the settlement of William Penn's Commonwealth. The interaction of various groups set the stage for the great industrial explosion that made the commonwealth a center of the American Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The rising industrial culture found its aesthetic counterpart in the architecture of Frank Furness, who turned the dross of industry into the gold of design; his values continued through his students William L. Price and George Howe and on into the late twentieth century in the careers of Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi. In addition to Philadelphia, the book surveys the rival German-influenced small cities of the Piedmont, the brief but explosive flourishing of wealth in the twin coal country cities, and a host of secondary county towns and villages that carry on vernacular building traditions overlaid with metropolitan architecture serving regional and national clients. The volume, which includes a glossary, bibliography, and over 400 illustrations (photographs, maps, and drawings), is the counterpart to Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, which covers the western portion of the state.

Geomancy, a three-thousand-year-old form of divination, can answer questions about relationships, career, money, and all aspects of life. Thanks to Dan Brown's blockbuster The Lost Symbol, geomancy is back in the spotlight, attracting seekers to this long-lived practice.

Richard Webster offers an in-depth, easy-to-follow introduction to the geomantic tradition, including the fascinating occultists that shaped its evolution. He presents eight different methods, from astrological geomancy to Arthurian divination to a version attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte. Each method is based on geomantic figures bearing specific characteristics and associations to guide your interpretations. With Webster's sample readings and diagrams, it's easy to begin practicing this age-old form of divination.

Have you ever wanted to get an immediate picture of someone's mood, personality, state of health, or true nature? It's easy to learn to recognize and interpret the aura—the colorful bands of energy that emanate from the soul. And once you do, you'll have  a powerful edge in achieving goals, improving your health, helping others, and enjoying success in all areas of your life.

Based on decades of teaching thousands of people this life-enriching practice, Richard Webster shares proven, step-by-step techniques for seeing, feeling, strengthening, and cleansing the aura. Through meditations, visualizations, and creative exercises, you'll learn to tap into the body's chakra system—the energy centers that correspond to the aura's seven layers—and discover simple ways to:

—Clear and balance your chakras using crystals and pendulums
—Recognize signs of illness and heal yourself
—Protect your aura from psychic attack
—Give accurate readings for others
—Read the auras of your pets and treat their ailments 

 

Our homes are places of refuge, where we can rest easy and feel secure. But even in our most personal space, we need protection against the negativity, stress, and other unwelcome energies that we face every day. To make your home and loved ones as safe as possible, psychic protection is essential--and you can learn how to do it in a matter of minutes!

Friendly and easy-to-understand, this book presents a variety of time-proven techniques for psychic protection and defense. Step by step, you'll learn to activate the shielding properties of amulets and charms, gemstones and crystals, pendulums, candles, incense, herbs, and the chakras (the body's energy centers) to create a harmonious and nurturing home-and ensure the well-being of the ones you treasure.

Strengthen your aura • Block psychic attacks

House blessings • Feng shui • Smudging

Candle magic • Angel communion & prayer

Protect loved ones who are far away • Creative visualization

 

You've probably heard of heart, head, and life lines, but did you know you may also have a flower line, a destiny line, or intuition lines in the palm of your hand?

In this illustrated guidebook, bestselling author Richard Webster presents the essentials of palm reading with fun and easy-to-learn techniques. He offers “quick read” tips that give a beginning palmist the confidence and ability to do readings almost immediately.

Straightforward and friendly, this guide includes information not found in any other palmistry books, such as fingerprint analysis and the emerging art of skin ridge analysis, which reveals potential health issues and is taught in medical schools.

You can read palms—and use the knowledge gained to optimize strengths and navigate challenges in everyday matters of love and romance, career, health, communication style, creativity, flexibility, and more.

 

 

 

An uplifting guide

to powerful prayer

The simple act of prayer can give you courage and strength in challenging times, provide answers to life's questions, help you foster a personal connection to a higher power, and fill your heart with profound comfort and peace. But how many of us have been taught how to pray? The art of effective prayer is fully explored in this one-of-a-kind guidebook by award-winning author Richard Webster.

Whether you're addressing God, the universe, or your Higher Self, this book on prayer for beginners will help you connect with the divine. Webster offers easy techniques for achieving a state of mind conducive to a meaningful spiritual exchange for complete health and wellness. You'll also discover how prayer is linked to magic, as well as how to strengthen prayers with chakra energy, create a sacred space, pray with a mandala, and communicate with angels.

Webster also shares fascinating testimonials—from personal anecdotes to proven scientific experiments—that illuminate the immense power of prayer.

 

 

 

 

 

'With the help of this book, your writing and magickal skills will expand and grow...You will be a true magickal writer.'
—Richard Webster, award-winning author of
Write Your Own Magic      

Would you like to craft your own Book of Shadows? Write a story? Create Pagan rituals or Wiccan spells for special occasions? And ultimately infuse your writing with added beauty, style, and power?

Get your creativity flowing as you step into a boundless world where magick comes alive through the written word. Clear, step-by-step instructions will guide you through each phase of creating beautiful and powerful magickal works.

• Drumming up ideas • Keeping a magickal journal
• Freewriting • Choosing a composition form
• Revising drafts to a refined polish

This book on magickal writing offers an array of exercises, tips and terms, and writing samples to help you craft stories, devotional poems, spells, chants, prayers, blessings, meditations, and rituals. By mastering the techniques in this book, your every word will crackle with energy, vibrancy, and true power.

International best-selling author and angel expert Richard Webster presents this alphabetically-arranged book of angels, a collection of over 500, hailing from diverse traditions, cultures, and belief systems all over the world. A snapshot of each angel's traits, abilities, and specialties illustrates the myriad ways in which these heavenly helpers can deepen your spiritual practice and enrich your life.

• Discover the roles of angels in various spiritual texts and religions throughout history

• Meet your guardian angel, the archangels, the angel presiding over your astrological sign, and more

• Learn the best methods, most propitious times, and just exactly how to communicate with each angel

You hold in your hands the ultimate resource for getting in touch with the divine. Open your heart to the miraculous powers of the angels, and fill your life with the peace, encouragement, and blessings that you've always wanted.

 

Have you ever rubbed a frog on your freckles? 

Trivia fans and fun fact fanatics will adore this fascinating, flickable encyclopedia of superstitions! Richard Webster presents over five hundred of the most obscure, curious, and just-plain-freaky superstitions of the Western world. 

Discover batty beliefs about baldness, beans, and the Bermuda Triangle, and peculiar practices regarding hiccups, hearses, and hunchbacks. From modern myths to centuries-old lore, The Encyclopedia of Superstitions offers a wealth of wonderfully weird beliefs on just about every topic you can imagine: 

Holidays 
Birth   
Death 
Weddings 
Colors 
Gemstones   
Trees 
Flowers 
Fairies 
Weather 
Numbers 
Animals   
Birds 
Insects 
Household Items 
Zodiac Signs 
Gambling 
The Human Body 
Food 

'[T]his reference makes for compulsive browsing.'-Publishers Weekly 

 

 

From our clothes to the color of our bedroom walls, we are surrounded by colors that influence our mood, energy level, creativity, and overall well being. Richard Webster offers an astonishing number of ways to use stimulating reds, soothing blues, and every other color of the rainbow to our advantage.

Webster begins with an overall picture of each color's major aspects-its psychological influence, healing qualities, emotional impact, and magical characteristics. From there, readers learn a multitude of color-based techniques involving astrology, the aura, candle magic, chakras, color rituals, crystals and gemstones, feng shui, flower magic, mandalas, meditation, numerology, and visualization. Webster demonstrates how color can be used to attract good luck, heal illness, reduce stress, create harmony in the home, overcome depression, solve problems, and magically enhance one's life in a variety of ways.

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You have the ability to visualize success and manifest each one of your hopes and dreams. A natural capacity of the human mind, creative visualization helps millions of people achieve their goals.

Creative visualization will empower you to make positive, lasting changes in your own life. Award-winning author Richard Webster presents an effective system for making your dreams come true, including methods for handling difficulties along the way. Try a variety of simple activities and easy-to-follow techniques to:

• Improve your health
• Build rewarding relationships
• Advance your career and earn more money
• Supercharge your creativity
• Nurture and restore your soul

 

An unemployed single mother opens a prosperous business. A pennypincher overcomes his stingy habits. A widow uncovers a creative talent that evolves into a profession. These and other true stories, recounted by Richard Webster in Uriel, demonstrate the impact this powerful archangel has had on countless lives.

Known for transforming misfortunes into blessings, Uriel can heal emotional trauma, enhance creativity, enhance prosperity, develop intuition, and bring tranquility. Whether you need spiritual enlightenment, creative inspiration, or prophetic insight, the practical techniques in this book-involving meditation, color, music, and crystals-can put you in touch with the Angel of Salvation.

A social worker finds sudden relief from a mysterious illness.  A confused student discovers her true passion.  A guilt-ridden widow reconnects with her daughter.  These and other true stories, recounted by Richard Webster in Raphael, demonstrate the positive, healing impact this wise and benevolent archangel has had on countless lives.

Whether your pain is physical or emotional, the archangel Raphael - also known as the Divine Physician - can help.  This book offers meditations, rituals, visualizations, amulets, and other practical techniques for contacting the 'guardian angel of all humanity.'  Raphael can assist with health problems, finding lost or stolen items, recovering from emotional trauma, travel, spiritual guidance, and learning.

A popular figure in religious works of art, the archangel Gabriel is most famous for the Annunciation: telling the Virgin Mary that she would give birth to the Messiah. God's messenger is also known as the Islamic angel of truth, the archangel of emotions and dreams, and the angel of hope and childbirth.

Richard Webster's second book of the archangels series chronicles the appearances of Gabriel among Old Testament figures, Islam prophets, and modern philosophers and artists. Webster then offers an array of techniques for contacting the angel of Annunciation, who can help with inspiration, purification, fertility, childbirth, achieving a fresh start, seeing the future, interpreting dreams/visions, developing clairvoyance, and overcoming limitations, such as doubt and fear.  

Michael is considered the greatest angel in the Christian, Judaic, and Islamic traditions. Throughout the ages, he has appeared as a protector, a messenger, a guide, a warrior, and a healer. In Michael, Richard Webster presents a thorough history of this famous archangel and offers simple techniques for contacting him.

Readers are treated to a detailed introduction to Michael and his many appearances. The rest of this practical guide provides a variety of methods for connecting with Michael, petitioning his help, and creating a lasting bond. Through easy-to-perform rituals and meditations-some involving candle magic, crystals, and dreamwork-readers will learn how to get in touch with the Prince of Light for courage, protection, strength, and spiritual guidance.

Anyone who has made a wish before blowing out birthday candles has practiced candle magic. Quick, easy, and effective, this magical art requires no religious doctrine or previous magic experience. Anyone can practice candle magic and Richard Webster shows you how to get started. Learn how to perform rituals, spells, and divinations to gain luck, love, prosperity, protection, healing, and happiness. Also included are tips for which kinds of candles to use, candle maintenance and preparation, best times for magic, and how to make your own candles.

Practical Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals is an excellent tool for learning the fundamentals of bankruptcy for paralegals. More than simply a textbook, each topic is fully developed to the extent necessary for effective use by a beginning legal assistant, yet discussions are of sufficient sophistication to keep the attention of the experienced professional. The text follows a five-level approach to teaching bankruptcy law. It moves from an overview of the substantive law of bankruptcy to insights into the law and written and unwritten rules of procedure that guide and often control how the law is implemented. The material skillfully guides the student through the procedural labyrinth of bankruptcy practice with timelines, checklists and analysis aids then presents exercises for hands-on experience in performing bankruptcy tasks that are common in actual practice. Each chapter concludes with a set of questions and answers and drafting projects intended for the student to research and answer. The text also includes the Bankruptcy Code and Rules, as well as references to relevant software and Web sites, making it a continuing resource for the assistant once in a professional setting.

It's hard to believe something as simple as a weight on a string can work magic. A pendulum is a powerful tool, yet small enough to carry around and use anytime. With just a few minutes of practice, anyone can start using it.

Using the easy techniques in this book, you can use a pendulum for guidance, self-improvement, psychic development, and a wealth of other practical purposes.

- Locate lost objects
- Gain insight on any decision 
- Test food for freshness or allergens
- Change bad habits
- Resolve health issues 
- Diagnose car or appliance problems
- Communicate with spirits
- Explore past lives

Once you've mastered the basics, you'll learn more advanced pendulum techniques, including little-known methods that can be used to help you achieve any goal you desire.

 

 

 

The human soul is eternal, and though physical death marks the end of one life, it heralds a transition to the next. To help us focus on the lessons of our current life, most of us are born without conscious memory of what came before this life.

When the time is right, past-life memories can be beneficial. They can reveal our life's purpose and help heal current wounds. Conscious past-life recall can also help you clear karmic imbalances and discover latent skills and talents carried over from previous lifetimes.

Because one past-life regression method does not always work for everyone, Richard Webster presents twelve different techniques for investigating your past lives, including: dreaming of your past lives, scrying, hypnotic regressions you can do alone or with a partner, and exploring the Akashic records.

Whether you seek to release old traumatic experiences that may be affecting your health and happiness in this lifetime, or you're simply curious about who you have been throughout the ages, this practical guidebook has everything you need to explore your soul's past.

Write Your Own Magic shows you how you can use the incredible magical power of words to make your dreams a reality. This guidebook presents the three magic steps essential to manifesting exactly what you want, for dreams both big and small.

There is no limit to what you can ask for as long as your requests hurt no one. For instance, you might want:

·vibrant health
·a fulfilling relationship
·greater happiness
·more money
·a better job
·stronger faith
·increased creativity and intuition

All of this, and much more, can be brought into your life when you follow the step-by-step instructions in this magical guidebook. Write Your Own Magic will show you how to create original white magic spells that make your hopes and dreams come true.

First, you'll learn how to determine your life's purpose. Next, you'll find out how to write magic that makes your dreams come true in six important areas-physical, spiritual, mental, financial, social, and intuitive.

Finally, you'll discover how to use the hidden power of words-sacred names and secret writings, magic diaries and dissolving ink, along with other simple white magic techniques-to make your desires, hopes, and wishes come true!

If you've looked up this book, chances are you're looking for something more than a casual date or another dead-end relationship. You're looking for someone to share your hopes and dreams with, someone with whom you share an eternal bond - your soul mate. Or maybe you're one of the lucky ones who have already found their other half - and you want to make sure the relationship lasts.

Popular metaphysical author and hypnotherapist Richard Webster has regressed hundreds of clients back into their past lives. He has discovered that, somewhere out there, everyone has a soul mate. And finding your soul mate isn't an impossible dream - you just have to be ready.

Soul mates enter our lives at the right moment - the time when we are physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually prepared to meet them. As you progress through Soul Mates, you will:

? Explore the theory of reincarnation, karma, and the soul
? Perform meditations and exercises designed to help you open yourself to love and attract your soul mate
? Read actual case histories of soul mates from the author's private hypnotherapy practice

The two of you have been together countless times before. You may have enjoyed a passionate romance in ancient Egypt, medieval England, or Renaissance Rome. You may have spent pleasant lifetimes in the Holy Land, Thailand, or Russia. You found your soul mate then. You can do it again in this lifetime. The purpose of this book is to help you find?and then keep ?this special person. Discover for yourself that the soul mate bond goes beyond ''Til death do us part' - for true love never dies.

Just imagine that you sit down at a bare table. You have no crystal balls, Tarot cards, runes, or any other tools. One by one, people come up to you and you amaze them with your knowledge of who they are ? their hopes, goals, and desires ? and your predictions for change in their lives. Sound amazing? You can do it with a little practice and Richard Webster's Palm Reading for Beginners.
Just as a bit of DNA can tell you volumes about a person, so, too, can looking at a person's palms tell you about his or her past, present and future. Palm reading actually entails examining the entire hand. A good palmist will use the flexibility and the shape of the hand and fingers as well as the famous lines to interpret for a person. Such a palm reader will also look at everything from marks on the hand to skin color, and even if there is any hair on the back of the hand to give a reading. You can be that palmist.
There are three things that really set this book apart. First, it has fifty clear illustrations that indicate all of the lines and shapes and where you'll find them on the hand. Second, this book goes into timing, giving you the ability to determine when important events happened in the past and when they will happen in the future. And third, using actual examples, Webster shows you how to put all of the separate items of information together to give a fascinating, in-depth reading.
If you have ever stared at your hand, wondering if those lines had any meaning, this book explains it all. If you have ever been amazed at the ability of a good palmist and wanted to be able to read palms, too, this book will get you started. And if you want to be able to add even more features to the readings you already give, this book is a must.

Discover the secret to turning your apartment, condominium, or dormitory into a home that attracts good luck, prosperity, and peace. By using feng shui, you'll be living in harmony with earth energies. You'll feel more content, happier, and even healthier—by simply changing the position of some furniture, increasing the light in an otherwise gloomy corner, or practicing other feng shui remedies. 

Raise the positive energy flow in your apartment with feng shui and feel your life change for the better:
—Activate the wealth, career, family, and love sectors in
    each room
—Protect yourself from energy-zapping 'shars' that might be directed at your apartment or building
—Increase the flow of universal energy (chi) in your apartment and watch your prosperity skyrocket
—Counteract the negative effects of the 'Death,' 'Five Ghosts,' and 'Disaster' locations found in
    every apartment
—Discover the single most important piece of furniture in a studio apartment—and how repositioning it
    will improve the quality of your life
—Learn to make feng shui evaluations for your friends

 

What you've done thousands of times in your sleep can now become a totally conscious experience with the help of this handy guidebook. You'll soon learn to leave your body and explore the astral realm with confidence and safety.

Achieving your first astral travel experience is always the most difficult—and no single method will work for everyone. That's why the techniques in this book are carefully graded to step by step through an actual out-of-body experience. And with fifteen time-tested methods to choose from you're sure to be astral traveling in no time.

Once you learn to leave your body, the freedom you'll discover will transform your life. Explore new worlds … learn to travel with a partner … go back and forth through time … even find a lover… but, most importantly, lose your fear of death as you discover that you are a spiritual being independent of your physical body.

Now you can make subtle, inexpensive changes to your home that can literally transform your life. If you're in the market for a house, learn what to look for in room design, single level vs. split level, staircases, front door location and more. If you want to improve upon your existing home, learn how its current design may be creating negative energy. Discover simple ways to remedy problems without the cost of major renovations or remodeling.

 

They come to our aid when we least expect it, and they disappear as soon as their work is done. Invisible helpers are available to all of us. In fact, we all regularly receive messages from our guardian angels and spirit guides, but usually fail to recognize them. This book will help you to realize when this occurs. And when you carry out the exercises provided, you will be able to communicate freely with both your guardian angels and spirit guides.

Fully comprehend those around you by learning to read their aura, the energetic manifestation of the soul. Watch for a dirty red haze around those who have just lost their temper, or an expanded aura for those doing philanthropic deeds. Learn to see auras through the proven methods taught by Richard Webster in his psychic training classes, including exploring the chakra system and learning how to restore balance. Then, begin to imprint your desires into your aura to attract what you want in your life. These proven methods for seeing and reading auras will help you:

—Interpret the meanings of colors in the aura
—Find a career that is best suited for you
—Relate better to the people in your life
—Enjoy excellent health
—Discover areas of your life that you need to work on
—Imprint what you want in your future into your aura 
—Discover the signs of impending ill health, drug abuse, and pain
—Change the state of your aura and stimulate specific chakras through music, crystals, color

 

When you live in harmony with the universe, good things naturally flow your way. Feng Shui for Beginners offers simple techniques for attracting the powerful energy known as ch'i into your home and workplace.

By simply rearranging your furniture, hanging wind chimes outside your door, or placing a vase filled with flowers in your bedroom, you can improve your life in a variety of ways: create a more peaceful home, enhance your creativity, even find true love. You'll learn how to use feng shui to get rid of shars in your environment—straight lines and sharp angles that produce bad luck. And you can even predict the future with the “Flying Star” technique.