Offers trade tips to ambitious home sewers striving for a more professional fit to their own garments. Based on advice given in "Threads" magazine, this reference combines pattern-altering tips for trickier fitting problems with instructions for many easy adjustments.
Selected from "Fine Gardening" magazine, this collection of articles aims to show readers how to create their own beautiful outdoor living areas. There are profiles of garden rooms, from cosy sitting spots to formal courtyards, and methods are described for creating walkways, patios and ponds.
This is a collection of recipes and menu plans that put the accent on preparation as well as results. This cookery book is aimed at people who, for whatever reason, don't have much time to spend in the kitchen. 400 recipes (mostly main dishes) and 65 menu plans are designed to please family appetites. All recipes have been nutritionally analyzed ...
This text uses colour photographs to identify more than 900 species of birds known to occur from Antarctica to the Zambezi River. The book is divided into more than 150 plates, each grouping similar birds which are often difficult to distinguish in the field. Comparative descriptions are given, drawing attention to those diagnostic or distinctive ...
Because one of the most enjoyable ways to collect new ideas is to see what other creative people are doing. Southern Living Holiday Homes takes you on an armchair tour of houses across the South. You'll find hundreds of ideas for splendid decorations and see some of the best the region has to offer.
This book celebrates the beauty, diversity, and vitality of Wisconsin's instrument-making tradition as practiced by seventeen craftsmen in a dozen ethnic, regional, and occupational communities throughout the state. From Ojibwa dance drums to Hardanger fiddles, these instruments and their makers are introduced with stunning photographs and lively, ...
From the Illinois border to Green Bay, Wisconsin's Ethnic Settlement Trail encompasses twelve counties along Lake Michigan. This lavishly illustrated book highlights the folk artists who have carried on traditions of their ethnic communities, from Slovak wheat weaving and African American quilting to the Alte Kamerade Band that has played German ...
In this collection, the editors of "Just CrossStitch" magazine present more than 50 quick-to-stitch gifts for every occasion. Created especially for today's busy cross-stitcher, this book is full of quickly stitched, easily completed presents.
Compiled by the editors of "Fine Gardening" magazine, this book contains a collection of 21 articles which present the various elements of garden design. Illustrated in full colour throughout, the book offers a wealth of inspiring and practical ideas on how to redesign your garden to create a breathtaking landscape. The book includes tips and ...
Compiled by the editors of "Fine Gardening" magazine, this is a practical collection of articles about the fundamentals of horticulture that help readers develop their own "green thumbs". Plant care techniques and innovative gardening solutions are given, as well as advice on seeds, cuttings, transplanting and what to look for when shopping for ...
This compact field guide to the identification of Southern African mammals based on their spoor, droppings and skulls has been accepted as the standard work on the subject. This edition offers up-to-date information on identification through signs. This edition provides new illustrations for a number of species. It also features illustrations of ...
This illustrated text explores the role such traditional arts as basketmaking, needlework and decoy carving continue to play in the life of many residents of Wisconsin. Several chapters provide a context of folklore to understand how folk artists use their work to connect past and present.
A selection of "Fine Gardening" articles written by both home and master gardeners, showing readers how to choose and use plants that fit the form and function of landscape design. It contains plant profiles, conveniently grouped to include spring ephemerals, grasses, perennials and many more.
"Resumes for Nursing Careers" helps job seekers write resumes that hit the target every time. The book offers hard hitting advice plus 100 sample resumes and 20 cover letters that meet the needs of those looking for work in the nursing profession. It includes a variety of resume formats, tips on highlighting strengths and using active vocabulary, ...
This is a collection of 22 garden and landscape projects from "Fine Gardening" magazine. Projects include how to: add a fence; build a garden wall, from dry stone to rammed earth; create a garden oasis; and make housing for garden plants. Home gardeners, horticulturists and landscapers give first-hand accounts of common projects readers can build ...
In each of these stories you will see people just like you who face tragedy, fear, and hopeless situations. This book will lift your spirits as you discover that God will do the impossible if you will only trust him.
Produced in association with a popular television series in South Africa, this text focuses on 13 different ecosystems or geographical regions in southern Africa and Madagascar. Emphasis within each chapter is upon the variety of life processes, including unusual behavioural and ecological phenomena. After a look at the evolutionary processes and ...
For more than 40 years, Guideposts has consistently offered encouragement, challenge, and strength. Now, the popular magazine gives us 60 stories about friendship: winning enemies, lessons learned too late, reconciliation through forgiveness, and more. A inspiration to readers everywhere.
This atlas and touring guide has been designed as a profile to the country, its major centres and places of interest. It is a guide for every home, to inspire the reader to discover the wonderful diversity of this fascinating land and its wealth of people, landscapes and wildlife. Here, strikingly revealed in over 75 maps, 300 colour photographs ...
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