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The Horticulture Gardener's Guides Design & Planting

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McIndoe, Andrew, PUBLISHER: Horticulture Books, Part of the successful Horticulture Gardener's Guide series, Successful Design and Planting offers endless possibilities to transform you garden. Whether you want to make your garden bigger or plan for year round appeal, this guide is packed with inspirational and affordable ideas and projects suitable for both new and long established gardens. You'll find: -Advice on complex landscaping -Tips for pruning and maintaining trees -Advice on plant varieties and soil type -Hundreds of plant photos to help with identification Whether you are starting a new garden or re-planning your current one, this book is an invaluable reference.

Magnolias

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Barrett, Rosemary / Hughes, Derek, PUBLISHER: Firefly Books, Magnolias hold a special space in the hearts of North American gardeners, particularly those in the South where spring is heralded by the arrival of the magnolia blooms. "The Queen of Flowers" is also the favorite of author Rosemary Barrett, whose garden features dozens of magnolia trees. She shares her expertise and passion for magnolias, offering readers practical and enthusiastic guidance on growing these extraordinary trees. Surprisingly, in contrast to their sophisticated beauty, magnolias are easy to grow. This guide for hands-on gardeners is full of useful advice and ideas, including: the history of magnolias cultivation and propagation landscaping with magnolias in small and large gardens Soulangeana hybrids companion planting the best whites, pinks, reds and purples, yellows and others rare and special magnolias magnolia relatives, michelias and liriodendrons over 95 beautiful full color photographs Magnolias includes traditional species and newer varieties, magnolias that flower quickly and those that take some time to bloom, magnolias for any size garden, perfumed magnolias, and many related plants. Wonderful photographs, nursery sources, a bibliography, hardiness zones and a full index complete this inspiring guide to this most beautiful tree.

There May Be Trouble Ahead A Practical Guide to Effective

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lex Van Wijk, PUBLISHER: Scarecrow Press Incorporated, NA

The Bathroom Idea Book

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wormer, Andrew, PUBLISHER: Taunton Press, Readers will be inspired by this series of visual ideas for some of the most-used rooms in the house. Each book is rich with beautiful color photographs, practical sidebars -- and designs of all kinds that will appeal to a wide range of tastes and budgets. The Bathroom Idea Book offers practical and useful advice on all aspects of remodeling and design, including fixtures, lighting, flooring, ventilation, finishes, and counter materials. The book includes floor plans and nearly 400 color photos.

Pruning Made Easy The Complete Practical Guide to Pruning

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McHoy Peter, PUBLISHER: Anness Publishing, NA

Hopes and Dreams: An IEP Guide for Parents of Children with

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lentz, Kirby, PUBLISHER: Autism Asperger Publishing Company, This is the book parents have been waiting for With an emphasis on preparation and collaboration, this practical resource shows parents step-by-step how to become truly active members of the IEP team, thereby achieving their child's and family's hopes and dreams. The reader-friendly text and accompanying worksheets help you develop the best possible education program for the individual child. While geared toward parents, Hopes and Dreams is also recommended for educators to help them see parents? perspective. Complimentary CD included containing all the worksheets allows you to customize the information, truly making it work for you

Lapping it Up The Quick & Easy Guide to Making Healthy Cat

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Patricia O Grady, PUBLISHER: Authorhouse, NA

Brick Flicks A Comprehensive Guide to Making Your Own

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sarah Herman, PUBLISHER: Skyhorse Publishing Company Incorporated, NA

Devising in Process

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mermikides, Alex / Smart, Jackie, PUBLISHER: Palgrave MacMillan, This book brings together detailed case studies of the creative process of eight theatre companies making devising-based performances in styles ranging from physical theatre to puppetry to live art. Writers have been granted unusual access to the rehearsal room, enabling them to offer concrete insights into how ideas evolve and develop.

The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Silvey, Anita, PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), Upon publication, Children's Books and Their Creators, Anita Silvey's comprehensive survey of contemporary children's literature, was called "an invaluable reference... and] a wonderful resource" (Christian Science Monitor) and garnered unanimous praise from librarians, educators, and specialists interested in the world of writing for children. Now The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators assembles the best of that volume in one handy, affordable reference, geared specifically to parents, educators, and students. This new volume introduces readers to the wealth of children's literature by focusing on the essentials -- the best books for children, the ones that inform, impress, and, most important, excite young readers. Updated to include newcomers such as J. K. Rowling and Lemony Snicket and to cover the very latest on publishing and educational trends, this edition features more than 475 entries on the best-loved children's authors and illustrators, numerous essays on social and historical issues, thirty personal glimpses into craft by well-known writers, illustrators, and critics, and invaluable reading lists by category. The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators summarizes the canon of contemporary children's literature, in a practical guide essential for anyone choosing a book for or working with children.

B. J. Summers' Pocket Guide to Coca-Cola: Identifications,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Summers, B. J., PUBLISHER: Collector Books, Without a doubt, the most recognizable, popular collectibles are the items featuring the great American icon, Coca-Cola B.J. Summers continues to compile the essential reference guides to help the collector know what's out there and how much to expect to pay for these advertising collectibles. What better way to supplement your research library than with a convenient, easy-to-carry pocket guide? Summers has completely revised his Pocket Guide to Coca-Cola for this new second edition. Hundreds of new color photographs showcase common flea market finds as well as the hard-to-find expensive items every collector dreams of discovering. The listings have been heavily revised and all values updated to reflect the ever-changing collector market. The informed collector can often still find special Coca-Cola items if they know what to look for and what to pay. This handy little book is perfect to carry with you on those searches for the bargains. And it's the best bargain at only $9.95

Creating Miracles: A Practical Guide to Divine Intervention

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ph D Carolyn Godschild Miller, PUBLISHER: NA, NA

Do-It-Yourself Essential Tools A Practical Guide to Tools

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Collins Mike, PUBLISHER: Anness Publishing, NA

Selling Photography

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Antrobus, Roger / Watson-Guptill, PUBLISHER: Amphoto Books, A picture may be worth a thousand words, but in his straightforward approach to the fine art of selling photography, author and professional photographer Roger Antrobus explains how a picture can also be worth thousands of dollars. Selling Photography provides practical answers to the questions every photographer asks when making the move from amateur to professional: What makes a photo commercially viable? What kind of equipment should be used? What kind of agencies are out there, and how should they be approached? Combining practical marketing advice with how-to guidance for taking photos that impress, this valuable resource provides an overview of all the markets available for selling photographs--spec, photo libraries, commission, even the Internet--and reveals dozens of surefire approaches for making sales. This one-stop guide also features 150 stunning examples of the author's best-selling images--covering everything from climbers on a snow-capped mountain to a semiabstract, time-released exposure of car lights at night. Each image is fully captioned to explain how it was shot, why it was taken, the artistic and special effects involved, and the reasons for its commercial success. Packed with an array of no-fail tips and surefire strategies, Selling Photography is the definitive source of real-life success tips for photographers who want to market and promote their work effectively.

Footprint Vietnam Handbook: The Travel Guide

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Colet, John / Eliot, Joshua, PUBLISHER: Footprint Handbooks, The Footprint Vietnam Handbook is the most up-to-date guide available to this increasingly popular destination. The country's coastline stretches nearly miles, but there is more to Vietnam than beaches. This thoroughly revised guide shows you what else is on offer in this friendly developing nation. From outstanding background information on Vietnam's modern history and invaluable pointers on learning the language to mouth-watering details on local cuisine and the best places to sample it, this guide will appeal to whatever the traveler is seeking. It takes you to the best locally produced goods on offer and provides valuable shopping tips for once you're there and helps you find the best place to stay with up-to-date listings and advice on how to escape the hoards. Footprint travel guides are synonymous with discovery and adventure -- their purpose is to convey the very essence of a destination and to feel its pulse. Eye-opening, accurate, and reliable information is given in each guide, ensuring that every trip is memorable, enlightening, and informing. Footprint's guidebooks are the future of travel, stressing a sensitivity to local issues.

The White Wing

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Barry, Christopher, PUBLISHER: Royal Fireworks Publishing Company, These are novels of the adventures of teenage Joe Bass growing up along the Delaware Bay. Exciting action is balanced with full-bodied characterization. The stories have a great deal of practical mechanics in them: mechanics of moving houses on land and water, hauling and unloading logs, starting an old airplane, keeping old trucks and tractors running, salvaging old boats, making lumber, and general upkeep of practically everything. And there is humor, teenage insights into adult reactions, and social commentary. The series is presented from Joe's perspective, and his outgoing personality includes a genial humor and a perception that accepts reality and eagerly embraces the opportunities that come his way. The series is marked by a number of productive relationships between Joe and men well beyond retirement age. In The White Wing, Joe gets caught up in the heroic past of an old schooner and yearns to own it. He plans to move a house on it as a means of making the money to pay for it and its reconstruction. In the doing, Joe solves an old mystery and survives a wild boat adventure.

Handbook of Landscape Archaeology

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: David, Bruno / Thomas, Julian, PUBLISHER: Left Coast Press, Over the past three decades, "landscape" has become an umbrella term to describe many different strands of archaeology. From the processualist study of settlement patterns to the phenomenologist's experience of the natural world, from human impact on past environments to the environment's impact on human thought, action, and interaction, the term has been used. In this volume, for the first time, over 80 archaeologists from three continents attempt a comprehensive definition of the ideas and practices of landscape archaeology, covering the theoretical and the practical, the research and conservation, and encasing the term in a global framework. As a basic reference volume for landscape archaeology, this volume will be the benchmark for decades to come. All royalties on this Handbook are donated to the World Archaeological Congress.

German Today: The Advanced Learner's Guide

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lockwood, W. B., PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, This book is expressly designed as an all-around guide for those who already know German but want to improve their command of the language. Unique in its scope, German Today is a reference work that is also readable and practical, discussing matters such as declension, conjugation, and pronunciation according to current usage, and taking into account the many regional differences. Lockwood devotes one section to points of vocabulary of special interest to the English-speaking reader, while the largest section, on syntax, illustrates the salient features in the construction of sentences, with particular attention paid to those aspects in which German differs from English. Placing particular stress on present day practice, German Today helps the student see German as a native speaker sees it.

The Essence of Time

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tiezzi, Enzo / Tiezzi, E. / Computational Mechanics, PUBLISHER: Computational Mechanics, With the ever-accelerating pace of daily life, the modern age seems to demand that science, too, should respond at speed. In this book Tiezzi highlights the continuity between the physical-mathematic and humanistic sciences. He also urges us to reflect on the tempo of the modern era, and to contrast it with the brilliance and complexity of the human relationship with a living world. An illuminating guide to the key scientific ideas of our time which relate ecology with economy with the laws of thermodynamics, and those that highlight an understanding of the human relationship with planet earth, the text traces themes such as entropy to negentropy, flux of energy and material and information. The result is an exploration of great scientific depth and the most complete historical survey to date of the ideas behind ecological economics.

Office Gynecology

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Stenchever, Morton A., PUBLISHER: C.V. Mosby, This practical, comprehensive guide covers all aspects of office gynecology in a concise paperback format. The new second edition include an all-new chapter on up-to-the-minute office procedures.

The Cultural Literacy Trivia Guide

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ferrill, Steven / Moushey, Bill / Gibbons, Jeannie, PUBLISHER: Trivia Productions, Anyone serious about being on Jeopardy or Who Wants to be a Millionaire needs this book The Cultural Literacy Trivia Guide is the best game show study guide on the market. It is concise and has easy to study clues which are presented in a format where one can readily find the information they are looking for. This is the #1 trivia book on Amazon.com for five consecutive months.

Publish Your Family History: Preserving Your Heritage in a

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Yates, Susan / Ioannou, Greg, PUBLISHER: Dundurn Group, Many people want to write a family history, but few ever take on the job of publishing one. If you've done the research, and you want to make a book from it, then "Publish Your Family History" is for you. It will tell you all the fundamentals of book production, together with the important details that distinguish a home-published book from a homemade one. You'll learn: how to get your manuscript ready for production; design ideas for the pages and the cover; methods of making pages with or without a computer and printing those pages quickly and inexpensively; and ideas on bindings that last and look great. Even if time is at a premium, you're not comfortable with computer technology, or the budget is tight, you'll learn how to publish a professional-looking family history of your own

Fun with Cooking

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Williams, Judy, PUBLISHER: Southwater Publishing, Fun with Cooking provides children with the means of creating their own culinary feasts and all the information they need to get started; including safety tips on what to do and what not to do in the kitchen, plus lots of information about tools and equipment. Every recipe is clearly illustrated with step-by-step photographs and safe, easy-to-follow instructions. They range from the simplest of ideas to those that require a little more experience and, therefore, appeal to all ages and abilities. All the essential cooking techniques have been included in one recipe or another, so children will learn lots of useful skills. There is a guide to cooking terms so the different techniques will be easy to understand and this is accompanied by useful tips and helpful hints throughout. With its wide range of recipes, easy-to-read style and practical approach, Fun with Cooking guarantees hours of creative -- and of course, tasty -- fun for kids of all ages.

A Way of Life, Disrupted

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Scorgie, Bert, PUBLISHER: Authorhouse, This story is to illustrate how life changed over eighty years, how the Second World War changed peoples lives for ever. How technology keeps producing new ideas that makes life easier but not neccesary making the world a more friendly place to live in. I have tried to show people that life was not always about mobile phones and personal computors. The characters in the book are based on people that I grew up with having spent my early years living on a croft experiencing the hardships that went along with that era and way of life.

Viva el Amor: A Latino Wedding Planner

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bautista, Edna R., PUBLISHER: Filter Press, The only book of its kind, this bilingual guide brings the ever-growing Latino audience information, tips, and advice on everything from introducing traditional rituals in a modern-day wedding to planning a "heritage honeymoon". A wedding is a wonderfully appropriate occasion to celebrate the cultural customs passed down through generations. Viva el amor is designed to help brides and their families discover -- and rediscover -- the wealth of Latino traditions that add depth and meaning to a wedding ceremony. In an entertaining and informative style, Edna R. Bautista explains the significance of such age-old customs as the coin thirteen (las arras) and the cord (el lazo) used in the ceremony, the selection of godparent-sponsors (padrinos), and the Latina-Catholic tradition of carrying three bridal bouquets. All the practical aspects of a making the day perfect are here, including: -- Preparing a wedding-planning calendar -- Setting up a reasonable budget and gift registry -- Attending to specific religious requirements -- Writing a bilingual service -- Devising a traditional Latino menu With suggestions for great honeymoons -- including exploring the ancient Aztec, Maya and Inca civilizations or cruising along the coastline of Spain -- ideas for fiesta foods, and more, this bilingual book is the only one that the Latina bride-to-be will need.

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