Holds special interest for marine history and New England history enthusiasts; those with interest in photography; art history students and professionals.This unique portrait of New England's yesterdays features vintage photographs from the New Bedford Whaling Museum collection. Recounting the history of photography in the New Bedford area between 1845 and 1920, A Window Back paints an intimate portrait of a bygone era, portraying the working waterfront, farms, city scapes, and people at leisure. It takes us inside the studio and aboard whaling ships. These brief glimpses represent and illuminate our past, giving us a window back on time.

"Microsoft's last Windows version, the April 2018 Update, is a glorious Santa sack full of new features and refinements. What's still not included, though, is a single page of printed instructions. Fortunately, David Pogue is back to help you make sense of it all--with humor, authority, and 500 illustrations."--Page 4 of cover.

When a magic crystal is released by the retreating Susitna Glacier in Alaska, and the Dark Orb is unearthed by the flooding of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, an ancient battle, brought to earth twelve thousand years ago, is rekindled. Rahlys, disillusioned with urban life, the commercial use of her artistic talent, and an unfaithful boyfriend, returns to Alaska and purchases Trapper Bean’s log cabin in the pristine wilderness of the Northern Susitna Valley, seeking peace and solitude to paint. Peace and solitude are challenged when a raven, formerly tamed by Trapper Bean, brings Rahlys a strange crystal that glows softly from within with multi-colored light. When Rahlys takes possession of the crystal, she takes possession of Sorceress Anthya's powers, and a classic struggle between good and evil unfolds. Filled with the natural beauty and magic that is Alaska, Crystalline Aura compels us to believe in the unbelievable, and in the magic within ourselves.