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Handpicked: Simple, Sustainable, and Seasonal Flower Arrangements
INGRID CAROZZI - HARRY N ABRAMS
Format: Print book
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Brooklyn-based florist Ingrid Carozzi reveals her secrets for creating flower arrangements that are modern, original, and organic in style. Organized by season, the book presents simple step-by-step instruction (how to measure, cut, and place each bloom) for making more than 35 arrangements.... |
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Succulents Simplified: Growing, Designing, and Crafting with 100 Easy-Care Varieties
Debra Lee Baldwin - Timber Press; 5.5.2013 edition
Format: Paperback
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Succulents are hot. And Debra Lee Baldwin, the bestselling author of Designing with Succulents and Succulent Container Gardens, is the ideal guide for gardeners, crafters, and DIYers looking for an introduction to these trendy, low-maintenance, drought-tolerant plants. Succulents Simplified... |
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Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto
Leslie Buck - Timber Press
Format: Print book
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What do you discover when you cut back? At thirty-five, Leslie Buck made an impulsive decision to put her personal life on hold to pursue her passion. Leaving behind a full life of friends, love, and professional security, she became the first American woman to learn pruning from one of the most... |
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Renovate Innovate: Reclaimed and Upcycled Homes
Antonia Edwards - Prestel
Format: Hardcover
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From converted factories and chapels to cabins built from salvaged wood, this collection of innovative, beautiful, and sustainable dwellings showcases a worldwide trend for upcycling in home design. Antonia Edwards' first book, Upcyclist, explored how artists and designers around the globe... |
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Popular Mechanics How to Fix Anything: Essential Home Repairs Anyone Can Do
POPULAR MECHANICS. - Hearst
Format: Hardcover
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For any home repair, big or small, homeowners can turn to this practical and portable reference. Got a squeaky floor or a rattling door? Is your grout a color you don't recognize anymore? From quick fixes like linking broken chains and patching drywall to more involved projects like replacing... |
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Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave
Joanna Gaines - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times BestsellerIn Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave, Joanna Gaines walks you through how to create a home that reflects the personalities and stories of the people who live there. Using examples from her own farmhouse as well as a range of other homes,... |
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How to Make a Plant Love You: Cultivate Green Space in Your Home and Heart
Summer Rayne Oakes - Optimism Press
Format: Hardcover
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Potted plants aren't mere decoration; they offer a rare opportunity to find joy by caring for another living being. Summer Rayne Oakes keeps over 750 live houseplants spanning 400 species in her Brooklyn apartment. She's an environmental scientist, an entrepreneur, and (according to a New... |
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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding
Ted Floyd - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Become a better birder with brief portraits of 200 top North American birds. This friendly, relatable book is a celebration of the art, science, and delights of bird-watching.How to Know the Birds introduces a new, holistic approach to bird-watching, by noting how behaviors, settings,... |
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DEWALT Building Contractor's Licensing Exam Guide: Based on the 2018 IRC & IBC
CHRISTOPHER PRINCE - DEWALT
Format: Paperback
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This trusted guide helps you gain a confident understanding of the critical concepts you will need to succeed on certification exams and in your professional career, from code and OSHA requirements to business management and building theory. Now updated to reflect the 2018 International... |
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Building Sheds
Joseph Truini - Taunton Press
Format: Print book
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All the expert advice you need to build a shed from start to finish, from evaluating storage needs to basic construction to putting the finishing touches on the roof. Features five new sheds. This well-illustrated guide offers a range of building options, with complete instructions and plans... |
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All New Square Foot Gardening: MORE Projects - NEW Solutions - GROW Vegetables Anywhere
Mel Bartholomew - Cool Springs Press
Format: Paperback
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In All New Square Food Gardening, 3rd Edition, the best-selling gardening book in North America is re-launched and updated for the next generation of gardeners and beyond. Since Square Foot Gardening was first introduced in 1981, the revolutionary new way to garden developed by Mel Bartholomew... |
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Plant Parenting: Easy Ways to Make More Houseplants, Vegetables, and Flowers
Leslie F. Halleck - Timber Press
Format: Paperback
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"Everything a plant parent needs to take their plant collection - and plant knowledge - to the next level." - Maria Failla, founder, Bloom & Grow Radio podcast Do you have a passion for houseplants? A desire to grow more tomatoes? Do you want a garden bursting with... |
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Year of No Clutter: A Memoir
Eve O Schaub - Sourcebooks
Format: Print book
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Eve has a problem with clutter. Too much stuff and too easily acquired, it confronts her in every corner and on every surface in her house. When she pledges to tackle the worst offender, her horror of a "Hell Room," she anticipates finally being able to throw away all of the unnecessary... |
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Smart Homes in easy steps: Master smart technology for your home
NICK VANDOME - In Easy Steps Limited
Format: Paperback
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The idea of a smart home - using digital devices throughout the home that can be controlled by digital voice assistants, apps, smartphones and tablets - is not a science fiction vision of the future: it is very much part of the here and now, and available to all. Also known as the Internet... |
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Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Roma Agrawal - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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The wonders of engineering revealed--by the inspirational female engineer behind The Shard, Western Europe's tallest building.While our cities are full of incredible engineering feats, most of us live with little idea of what goes into creating the built environment, let alone how a new building... |
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L'art de la Simplicit: How to Live More with Less
Dominique Loreau - Griffin
Format: Print book
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If simplicity is an art, then Dominique Loreau is a master. Having lived in Japan for many years and inspired by Eastern philosophy, Loreau discovered the beauty of a life well lived through the art of simplicity. Her lifestyle rests on the principle of less is more, and imbues all areas... |
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Flowerpaedia: 1000 Flowers and their Meanings
Cheralyn Darcey - Rockpool Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Flowerpaedia is a handy and engaging A-Z reference guide of over 1000 flowers, researched and compiled by botanical explorer Cheralyn Darcey. Readers will delight in understanding what each flower means--emotionally, spiritually, and symbolically--and the dictionary format allows people... |
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Kicking the Bucket List: 100 Downsizing & Organizing Things To Do Before You Die
Gail Rubin - Rio Grande Books
Format: Paperback
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Do you plan to live forever -- Do you ever plan to move -- Depending on where you are going, you can not take it with you. In KICKING THE BUCKET LIST, death educator Gail Rubin brings a light touch to cleaning out those dark recesses of your home and organizing for end-of-life issues. In these... |
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Dwelling: Simple Ways to Nourish Your Home, Body, and Soul
Melissa Michaels - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Feel Well Where You Dwell Our dwellings - both our home and body - are intricately connected. Each has the potential to inspire the other to be its very best! Your home is where your life happens. Learn how to create a sanctuary that inspires your well-being, so you can experience a greater... |
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The Quest for Shakespeare's Garden
Roy Strong - Thames & Hudson
Format: Print book
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A lavishly illustrated history of gardens drawing from Shakespeare's works and garden writing -- published to commemorate the 400th anniversary year of his deathPublished in association with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, The Quest for Shakespeare's Garden traces the origins... |
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Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
INGRID FETELL LEE - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover
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Designer Ingrid Fetell Lee explains how to cultivate a happier, healthier life by making small changes to your surroundings. Have you ever wondered why we stop to watch the orange glow that arrives before sunset, or why we flock to see cherry blossoms bloom in spring? Is there a reason... |
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The Compendium of Amazing Gardening Innovations
Abigail Willis - Laurence King Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From secateurs to seed bombs, hybrids to ha-has, lawnmowers to land artists, the gardening world has long attracted innovators. This delightful book outlines the advances that changed horticulture and the landscape forever. The fascinating and amusing short entries are accompanied by charming... |
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Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees
William Bryant Logan - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Arborist William Bryant Logan recovers the lost tradition that sustained human life and culture for ten millennia.Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight,... |
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Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change
Larry Weaner - Timber Press
Format: Print book
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"This beautiful book shows us that guiding natural processes rather than fighting them is the key to creating healthier landscapes and happier gardeners. An essential addition to our knowledge of sustainable landscapes." - Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home This... |
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Hygge: The Danish Art of Happiness
Marie Tourell Soderberg - Penguin UK
Format: Hardcover
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Other books will tell you how to be hygge. This is the only book that will show you. Though we all know the feeling of hygge instinctively, few of us ever manage to capture it for more than a moment. Now Danish actress and hygge aficionado Marie Tourell Sderberg has traveled the length... |
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Vegetables Love Flowers: Companion Planting for Beauty and Bounty
Lisa Mason Ziegler - Cool Springs Press
Format: Paperback
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Fight garden pests and increase your yields the natural way with this tried and true technique! Planting vegetables and flowers together is one of the oldest ways to create a healthy, bountiful garden, but there's more to the method than you might think. Vegetables Love Flowers will... |
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Whiskey in a teacup
Reese Witherspoon - Touchstone
Format: Book
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Academy Award-winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm.Reese Witherspoon's grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination... |
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Organized Enough: The Anti-Perfectionist's Guide to Getting--and Staying--Organized
Amanda Sullivan - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Paperback
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If you're looking to clean up but not clean out, if you want to declutter but don't want to throw out eighty percent of your stuff, if you want to be able to find matching socks in the morning but don't want a color-coded sock drawer, you've come to the right place. Organized Enough... |
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Unearthed: Love, Acceptance, and Other Lessons from an Abandoned Garden
Alexandra Risen - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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In this moving memoir, a woman digs into a garden and into the past and finds secrets, beauty, and acceptance. Alex's father dies just as she and her husband buy a nondescript house set atop an acre of wilderness that extends into a natural gorge in the middle of the city. Choked with weeds... |
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How Not to Kill Your Houseplant: Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged
DK PUBLISHING. - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Can't keep a houseplant alive, no matter how hard you try and how good your intentions are? This is the book for you. You need this book. Give plants a chance.Help your plant live with survival tips and learn the simple ways not to kill your plants.With over 50 different types of popular... |
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Attainable Sustainable: The Lost Art of Self-Reliant Living
Kris Bordessa - NATL GEOGRAPHIC SOC
Format: Hardcover
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Packed with delicious recipes, natural remedies, gardening tips, homemaking ideas, crafts, and more, this indispensable lifestyle reference from the popular blogger behind Attainable Sustainable makes earth-friendly living fun, real, and easy. Whether you live in a city, suburb, or the country,... |
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The Iconic Interior: Private Spaces of Leading Artists, Architects, and Designers
Dominic Bradbury - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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The Iconic Interior features 100 of the most important and influential interiors from around the world. Designed by a broad spectrum of fashion designers, artists and architects, set designers and decorators, these private spaces represent a wide range of styles, periods, and aesthetics.... |
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The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
Joshua Becker - WaterBrook
Format: Hardcover
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A popular minimalist blogger and author of The More of Less shows you how to methodically turn your home into a place of peace, contentment, and purposeful living.One of today's most influential minimalist advocates takes us on a decluttering tour of our own houses and apartments,... |
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Hot Color, Dry Garden: Inspiring Designs and Vibrant Plants for Year-Round Beauty
NAN STERMAN - Timber Press
Format: Paperback
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Dry weather defines the southwest, and it's getting dryer. A water becomes more precious, our gardens suffer. If we want to keep gardening, we need to revolutionize our plant choices and garden practices. Hot Color, Dry Garden provides home gardeners wit a joyful, color-filled way to exuberantly... |
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100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive
Xerces Society. - Storey Books
Format: Print book
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The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers browsable profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that attract... |
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Tulips: Beautiful Varieties for Home and Garden
Jane Eastoe
Format: Hardcover
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From the tulip fields of Netherlands to your garden flower patch, tulips are loved the world over. Jane Eastoe's passion for gardening and Rachel Werne's spectacular photography combine to showcase these gorgeous bulbs and show that anyone can grow and enjoy tulips at home. Tulips... |
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Garden Flora: The Natural and Cultural History of the Plants In Your Garden
NoeÌl Kingsbury - Timber Press
Format: Print book
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The intriguing stories about our favorite plants! The oldest rose fossil was found in Colorado and dates to 35 million years ago. Marigolds, infamous for their ability to self-seed, are named for an Etruscan god who sprang from a ploughed field. And daffodils - an icon of spring - were... |
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Green Enough: Eat Better, Live Cleaner, Be Happier
LEAH SEGEDIE - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover
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A real, no-holds-barred take on making smart, healthy choices for you and your family.In Green Enough, Mamavation blogger Leah Segedie uncovers the truth behind the food and household products that are misleadingly labeled "all-natural" and healthy but are actually filled... |
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The Book of Seeds: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World
P P Smith - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Seeds are nature's consummate survivors. The next time you admire a field of waving green grassland or a stunning grove of acacia, stop to consider how it got that way - often against incredible odds. Seeds can survive freezing temperatures and drought. They can pass through our digestive... |
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Essential Pruning Techniques: Trees, Shrubs, and Conifers
Tony Kirkham - Timber Press
Format: Print book
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A master class on pruning Pruning is an essential part of garden maintenance; it is necessary to regulate and control growth and to encourage flowering and fruiting on trees and shrubs. It is also one of the most difficult parts of garden maintenance. To prune well, gardeners must have... |
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California Master Gardener Handbook, 2nd Edition
Dennis Pittenger - Univ of California - Agriculture & Natural Resources; 2nd edition
Format: Print book
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Since it was first published in 2002, the California Master Gardener Handbook has been the definitive guide to best practices and advice for gardeners throughout the West. Now the much-anticipated 2nd Edition to the Handbook is here -- completely redesigned, with updated tables, graphics,... |
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Minimal: How to Simplify Your Life and Live Sustainably
Madeleine Olivia - Ebury Press
Format: Hardcover
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An aspirational guide which makes simple and sustainable living attainable for everyone, by environmental influencer, Madeleine OliviaLove yourself. Love the planet. We are facing an urgent climate crisis and we must all take action now. However, it can be difficult to know where to start... |
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The California Garden Tour: The 50 Best Gardens to Visit in the Golden State
Donald Olson - Timber Press
Format: Paperback
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A fantastic garden journey that only California can provide California has a wealth of top-notch public gardens. In The California Garden Tour, veteran travel writer Donald Olson highlights 50 outstanding public gardens and provides all the information that readers will need to make the most... |
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Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
Fumio Sasaki - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The best-selling phenomenon from Japan that shows us a minimalist life is a happy life.Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo -- he's just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided... |
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The New Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit: An Illustrated Encyclopedia
Matthew Biggs - Firefly Books
Format: Print book
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Praise for the previous edition: "These three amazing authors have put together a must-have book for any vegetable grower." -- Washington Gardener "What is not included in this definitive and beautifully illustrated sourcebook on edible landscape?" -- The American... |
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The Long, Long Life of Trees
Fiona J Stafford - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere... |
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Building Kitchen Cabinets and Bathroom Vanities
Steve Cory - Taunton Press
Format: Print book
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Often the most costly part of a renovation is the cabinetry. Save precious time and money by following the expert guidance and step-by-step instructions in Building Kitchen Cabinets and Bathroom Vanities. Learn to build and install beautiful, sturdy, custom cabinets that will transform... |
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Gaining Ground: A Story Of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, And Saving The Family Farm
Forrest Pritchard - Lyons Press
Format: Paperback
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One fateful day in 1996, after discovering that five freight cars worth of glittering corn have reaped a tiny profit of 18.16, young Forrest Pritchard vows to save his familys farm. What ensues--through hilarious encounters with all manner of livestock and colorful local characters--is... |
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The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Contentment, Comfort, and Connection
Louisa Thomsen Brits - Plume
Format: Print book
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When life gets hectic, work grows stressful, and the days fly by, unplug and tune in. Hygge (hoo-gah) is a Danish word but a universal feeling of being warm, safe, comforted, and sheltered - an experience of belonging to the moment and to each other. Hygge anchors us, reminding us to slow... |
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Designing with Succulents
Debra Lee Baldwin - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Designing with Succulents is inspiring, practical, and complete - a treasure for any gardener who loves these otherworldly beauties." - Kathleen N. Brenzel, Sunset Succulents offer dazzling possibilities, requiring only minimal maintenance and very little water to remain lush... |
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Seven Scents: Healing and the Aromatic Imagination
DOROTHY P ABRAM - Singing Dragon
Format: Paperback
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Identifying seven aromatic plants with specific psychoactive properties, the author describes the different states of consciousness that are achieved, manipulated, and transformed by the people and cultures that use them in specialized ways, both in the past and in the contemporary world.Focusing... |
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