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Home Design Alternatives Inc. · Home Design Alternatives
Pages: 640
Format: Print book

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James Herriot's Favorite Dog Stories

James Herriot · St. Martin's Press; 2 edition
Format: Hardcover

"When I decided to be a vet, I knew that I wanted to be a dog doctor, so I could spend all my time with dogs." - from the IntroductionJames Herriot would go on to become so much more than a dog doctor. But no animal was dearer to his heart, and no animal provided him with more...
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Classic Wristwatches 2014-2015: The Price Guide for Vintage Watch Collectors

Stefan Muser · Abbeville Press; Tra edition
Format: Paperback

A price guide to vintage mechanical watches from more than 40 historically significant brands. Illustrated in full color.Now in its third edition, Classic Wristwatches is an attractive and easy-to-use resource for information on vintage watches, that is, watches no longer in current production....
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Flight: The Evolution of Aviation

Stephen Woolford · Andre Deutsch; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover

The Wright Brothers first took their flyer soaring in 1903 - and less than a century later, rockets flew us to the moon. Experience the evolution of aviation, from the earliest pioneers to the complex technology of military jets and beyond, as inventors and aviators with skill and imagination...
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2013 Collector Car Price Guide

Ron Kowalke · Krause Publ; Seventh Edition edition
Format: Paperback

The Authority for Collector Car Pricing With 784 pages of pricing at your fingertips, 2013 Collector Car Price Guide is the ultimate resource for car hobbyists. Whether you're looking to find a price on a blue ribbon show car, or a beater station wagon, you can find out what it's...
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Cat Castles: 20 Cardboard Habitats You Can Build Yourself

Carin Oliver · Quirk Books
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

Build your cat "paw-some" homemade habitats with easy instructions and common materials.

Shoeboxes and paper bags are fine for other cats. But your favorite felines deserve luxurious living spaces! This DIY construction guide includes fun and easy...
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Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century

William J. Mitchell · The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover

This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago and the tail-finned sedans of fifty years ago. In the twenty-first...
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The Plant Recipe Book: 100 Living Arrangements for Any Home in Any Season

Baylor Chapman · Artisan
Pages: 271
Format: Book

A follow-up to the widely popular "Flower Recipe Book, " "The Plant Recipe Book" is the next great thing in interior plant design, providing simple steps showing anyone how to create stunning living plant decor. Each one of the 100 recipes specifies the type and quantity...
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How to Amaze Your Son: Crafts, Recipes and Other Creative Experiences to Teach Him to See the Extraordinary in the Ordinary

Raphaele Vidaling · Firefly Books
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

How To Amaze Your Son has more than 50 truly creative and inspiring projects that will elicit "wow" and "cool" from the most skeptical of boys. There are crafts, science experiments, creative experiences, and easy magic tricks. Each is cheap and easy. All the amazements...
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The Urban Gardener

Matt James · Mitchell Beazley
Pages: 224
Format: Print book


In The Urban Gardener, garden designer and lecturer Matt James provides an approachable, practical guide to making the most of an urban garden, including:

How to design an urban space - from balconies and roof terraces to courtyards, basement areas and window ledges. Ten ways...
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Drive!: Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age

Lawrence Goldstone · Ballantine Books
Pages: 372
Format: Print book

From the acclaimed author of Birdmen comes a revelatory new history of the birth of the automobile, an illuminating and entertaining true tale of invention, competition, and the visionaries, hustlers, and swindlers who came together to transform the world.

In 1900,...
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Handmade for the Garden: 75 Ingenious Ways to Enhance Your Outdoor Space with DIY Tools, Pots, Supports, Embellishments, and More

Susan Guagliumi · Harry N Abrams
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

The DIY craze has moved beyond the craft room and into the garden! Relying on easy-to-find, inexpensive, and repurposed materials, Handmade for the Garden is a treasure trove of original projects that not only make planting and growing efficient and successful but also add a personal touch...
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Big Book of Knit Hats & Scarves for Everyone

Leisure Arts Inc. · Leisure Arts
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback

Beginning knitters often learn to knit scarves because they're quick and easy to complete. But don't abandon scarves just because you're an accomplished knitter! This amazing collection of 47 knit hats and scarves contains so many great projects, you'll want to knit them...
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The Creative Shrub Garden: Eye-Catching Combinations for Year-Round Interest

Andy McIndoe · Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

Shrubs have the widest range of colored foliage, headiest scents, and most persistent flowers of all the plant groups. They are longer-lived than perennials and require half as much maintenance. This unashamedly shrub-centric design guide describes how to choose the right plants for the right...
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To the Edge of the World: The Story of the Trans-Siberian Express, the World’s Greatest Railroad

Christian Wolmar · PublicAffairs; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

To the Edge of the World is an adventure in travel—full of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of explosive political, economic, and cultural events, and almost inconceivable feats of engineering. Christian Wolmar passionately recounts the improbable origins of the Trans-Siberian...
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