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5000 Decorative Monograms for Artists and Craftspeople
by J. O'KaneVoluminous, diversified collection of ornamental two-, three-, and four-letter combinations -- all in a rich variety of styles. Arranged alphabetically in columns, each series is grouped under an appropriate head. Crowns, coronets, and many ancient and modern alphabets are displayed, making this comprehensive sourcebook of permission-free designs indispensable. 130 black-and-white plates.
5000 Designs and Motifs from India
by Ajit MookerjeeIncredibly rich treasury of authentic royalty-free designs adapted from artifacts of the Harappa culture, coins and pottery from South India, Ajanta and Bagh murals, Muslim monuments, Buddhist temples, textiles from Gujarat, Punjab, other regions, masks and tribal arts, much more. Immediately usable material or great resource for design inspiration. Introduction. Notes.
501 Amazing Uses for Salt, Vinegar, Baking Soda, Olive Oil and Lemons
by Laura M. Westdale501 Amazing Uses for Salt, Vinegar, Baking Soda, Olive Oil, and Lemons is a collection of easy-to-use household hints for families who want to have a greener household. Using natural ingredients that are inexpensive, nontoxic, and found in nearly every pantry, these tips make it easy to live green! Readers are introduced to the basic ingredients - salt, vinegar, baking soda, olive oil, and lemons - and what makes them so useful around the home. The book is packed with simple tips for both inside and outside the home, from healthy cleaning solutions to natural pet care. Color-coded by main ingredient, each tip has an ingredient list and step-by-step instructions. This is a great reference for readers wishing to simplify their collection of household products and detoxify their homes. With a charming design and simple-to-use approach, this reliable household companion makes an indispensable reference and a great gift.
52 Great Green Tomato Recipes: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-24 (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin Ser.)
by Phyllis HobsonThe first frost doesn’t have to be the end of your tomatoes! Preserving expert Phyllis Hobson offers dozens of delicious recipes for preserving and cooking with green tomatoes. You’ll find everything from green tomato preserves and pickles to mincemeat, croquettes, omelets, sweet and savory pies, casseroles, salads and salad dressings, a cake with green tomato filling, classic fried green tomatoes, and more. Hobson also shows you how to ripen your green tomatoes indoors so that you can enjoy fresh ripe tomatoes well into the fall and even early winter.
52 Natural Cleaning Solutions: Recipes for Green Cleaning Products Without Any Pesticides, Carcinogens or Toxic Chemicals
by Stephen TvedtenKill germs—while keeping people and pets safe—with easy-to-make, affordable natural cleaners.Did you know that most common cleaning products are loaded with dozens or hundreds of chemicals known to be toxic according to the EPA? These toxins, carcinogens, and chemicals can wreak havoc on your health, your family’s health, and even your pets’ health.In this book, you’ll discover how to create your own natural green cleaning products simply and easily without spending a lot of money or time. Learn how to harness the power of lemon, boric acid, vinegar, citrus solvent, cornstarch, hydrogen peroxide, isopropyl alcohol, peppermint, castile soap, and many more natural ingredients—to keep your home sparkling while also keeping you and your loved ones safe.
52 Unique Techniques for Stocking Food for Preppers: A Strategy a Week to Help Stock Your Pantry for Survival
by David NashAre you and your family self-reliant? Will you be able to provide for them and keep them safe? The best way to prepare for the future is not through fancy tools and gadgets--it’s experience and knowledge that will best equip you to handle the unexpected. However, it doesn’t matter how prepared you are for disaster, if you run out of food you will soon run out of time. Everyone begins somewhere, especially with learning how to stock your pantry for an indefinite period of time. In 52 Unique Techniques for Stocking Food for Preppers, you’ll find a project for every week of the year, designed to teach you the fundamentals of canning and preserving any sort of food as safely as possible. Self-reliance isn’t about building a bunker and waiting for the end of the world. It’s about making sure you have enough food to feed your family should the worst happen. 52 Unique Techniques for Stocking Food for Preppersis the ultimate instructional guide to preparing food and making sure that it keeps. It is a must-have book for those with their eye on the future.
52 Weekend Decorating Projects
by The Editors of Woman's DayA wide range of easy, creative and inexpensive decorating projects that will add personality and style to your rooms at very little cost.
600 Butterflies and Moths in Full Color (Dover Pictorial Archive)
by W. F. KirbyThe wonder and beauty of butterflies and moths -- including their miraculous transformations -- have fascinated nature enthusiasts for thousands of years. Rendered from an exquisitely rare nineteenth-century portfolio, the butterfly hues and shapes that have dazzled humankind for centuries are displayed here with magnificent precision. This illustrated archive bursts with sixty-one full-color plates of European butterflies and moths of every variety. Revel in the vast spectrum of intricate markings distinct to such species as the Swallowtail, Monarch, Painted Lady, Red Admiral, and many other fluttering favorites. Details of pupa, eyes, antennae, and the winged insects' favorite plant life also abound, providing enlightening glimpses into the workings of some of nature's most colorful and resplendent creatures. Pure delight for artists, designers, entomologists, and butterfly lovers everywhere!
700 Victorian Ornamental Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive)
by F. KnightThis lavish collection of royalty-free engravings by the celebrated 19th-century artist F. Knight — reproduced directly from a rare original edition — contains elaborate wall murals with trompe-l’oeil effects; scenes of hunters, flanked by mythological figures; idealized damsels in rustic settings; and numerous other florid motifs.
75 Exceptional Herbs for Your Garden
by Jack StaubAn A-to-Z journey through a wide variety of herbs and their fascinating history of medicinal and culinary uses—includes illustrations! Discover some unique additions to your garden in this reference filled with fascinating facts, unexpected lore, elegant prose, and beautiful watercolor illustrations by Ellen Buchert. From popular herbs like basil, lavender, and peppermint to lesser-known choices like meadowsweet and soapwort, this is a treasury that reveals how much botanical variety can be found in the world of herbs. Sometimes masquerading as common denizens of our fields and forests, these are plants that will not only decorate our gardens, but will capture the imagination of any gardener or cook!
800 Classic Ornaments and Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive)
by Ernst GüntherGraphic artists, illustrators, and craftspeople will welcome this treasury of beautifully engraved ornate frames, scrollwork, and other highly decorative designs -- 800 in all -- reproduced from an extremely rare mid-19th-century style book. Comprising 142 plates, the volume features a lavish assortment of ornaments, bedecked with flowers, mythological creatures, and other fanciful touches, all beautifully rendered in meticulous detail. Other striking designs incorporate a rich selection of classical columns, plus heraldic designs -- shields, coats-of-arms, seals, and insignias from Austria, Russia, Denmark, France, and many other countries -- for a touch of medieval flair or aristocratic ambience. In addition, this collection offers a variety of charming calligraphic alphabets in styles ranging from plain to majestic. An invaluable source of inspiration and a treasury of designs for permission-free use, these distinctive images are ideal for enhancing such print projects as ads, brochures, newsletters, posters, signs, catalog copy, and much more.
A Alquimia das Ervas: Um Guia para Iniciantes - Conhecendo, cultivando e aplicando ervas medicinais.
by Adidas Wilson Rodrigo BrandaniAo selecionar ervas que consigam se desenvolver excepcionalmente bem, seja em ambientes abertos ou fechados, seja em vasos ou no solo, você deverá ter em mente o que você deseja obter de seu cultivo de ervas e vegetais. Se o espaço destinado ao seu cultivo recebe menos do que cinco horas diárias de luz solar talvez seja melhor plantar suas ervas em um ambiente fechado, e para agua-las e para colhê-las quando for cozinhar usando elas. Aliás, plantar em um ambiente fechado ainda lhe ajudará a ficar livre de ervas daninhas, pragas e variações de temperatura. Sementes são baratas, porém, demoram muito tempo para crescer demandam muitos recursos para fazê-lo. Por outro lado, existem as mudas, que crescem mais rapidamente, porém, geralmente encontram-se disponíveis somente na primavera e no verão. Muitas ferramentas são necessárias para se fazer o trabalho na sua plantação, dentre elas temos: pás, enxadas, luvas, vasos, enfim, tudo o que for necessário para fazer o serviço. Lembre-se de que solo fértil também é um elemento importante, pode-se prepara-lo naturalmente ou compra-lo pronto em lojas especializadas. Caso opte por fazer seu cultivo em um espaço fechado utilizando vasos você pode comprar misturas de adubos prontos, feitos especialmente para este tipo de cultivo, assim não terá problemas para plantar suas ervas, e, além de facilitar seu trabalho, estes adubos prontos também previnem que pragas destruam suas plantas.
A Baby’s Garden: Introducing Your Baby to the Joys of the Garden
by Eva Saull Elizabeth St. Cloud MuseWith the help of this whimsically illustrated and lovingly written keepsake journal, you can create and record precious moments spent with your baby in the garden. The earliest perceptions of childhood make the most indelible impressions. Whether it is listening to birds singing, smelling the grass or the flowers, or throwing leaves in the air to watch them fall, here are ideas for everyday adventures. Through joint explorations of nature, you can stimulate your child's senses and together experience the sights, sounds, textures, and scents of your own backyard. With A Baby's Garden you can treasure these first seasons in the garden for years to come.
A Beautiful Mess Happy Handmade Home
by Elsie Larson Emma ChapmanStep inside the world of Elsie and Emma, the sisters behind the décor blog A Beautiful Mess. With tiny budgets and a crafty, can-do attitude, they overhauled each room in their first homes with DIY projects using family photos, vibrant fabrics, flea-market finds, and affordable furniture. Now, you can learn how to paint, craft, and decorate your way to a happy, bright space with distinct personality. In the same upbeat spirit and modern style found on their blog, you'll find fresh, all-new projects including: * An inspired geometric-pattern coffee table made of balsa wood * A hand-lettered statement wall featuring your favorite quote * A quick and easy electrical tape update for your refrigerator * A set of beautifully designed serving dishes And more! Packed with bonus styling tips from hanging the perfect gallery wall to making mismatched furniture work, Happy Handmade Home is design inspiration for personalizing your own space.
A Beautiful Mess Photo Idea Book: 95 Inspiring Ideas for Photographing Your Friends, Your World, and Yourself
by Elsie Larson Emma ChapmanReady to show your photos some love? Whether it's of your sister's smile, your morning coffee, or your new puppy, photos are a way to connect on Facebook and Instagram, keep a visual diary of our lives, and create momentos for future generations. Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman, creators of the mega-popular DIY style blog A Beautiful Mess, are in love with photographing everyday life. Here, they share that love with 95 all-new tips and photo challenges that will inspire you to style and snap better photos and then transform them into simple yet stunning projects and gifts. You'll learn how to: * Take the most flattering self-portraits * Be your own stylist to turn dull, cluttered photos into pretty lifestyle photography * Capture adorable couple portraits * Turn everyday moments, hobbies, and rituals into amazing photos * Show off your favorite photos by turning them into handmade jewelry, home décor, and gifts Packed with Elsie and Emma's happy spirit and unique style, A Beautiful Mess Photo Idea Book will inspire you to capture your days, your friends, and your dreams in beautiful photos!
A Beginner's Guide to Urban Design and Development: The ABC of Quality, Sustainable Design
by Laura B. AlvarezThis book provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience to those who have worked for many years in industry, illustrating key principles that will secure higher quality, more sustainable design in accessible, jargon-free language. The author explains the design process in a straightforward way, exploring the different roles and highlighting the opportunities and limitations different agencies have to influence design over the various stages of the process. Examples from the UK and worldwide look at how the system operates and how best practice can make a real difference on the ground. Case studies examine situations where quality or sustainability fell short – and how this could have been avoided. This book also showcases a variety of evaluation tools, explaining how they operate, and giving guidance on how to create project-specific tools to drive schemes forward. With community empowerment at its core, the book explains technical language and shares bountiful knowledge to broaden place democracy and make influencing design accessible to many, not just a few. This is a book that brings together all the various parties involved in shaping the built environment, demonstrating that collaboration and mutual understanding are key to achieving better quality, more sustainable design.
A Book of Balance: Kogi Wisdom for a Good Life and Thriving Earth
by Lucas BuchholzWe all need help centering ourselves to serve ourselves and our world. In this small, beautiful book, the Kogi—a remote and ancient tribe in the mountains of Colombia--offer their learnings. They pose nine thought-provoking questions to help us live harmoniously with the earth and in turn find happiness and purpose in every moment.“Just as we are both sitting here and talking, this is how we can live well. All of this you will write in the book.”—Mama Jose Gabriel, a spiritual guide of the Kogi tribe, to author Lucas BuchholzFor centuries, the Kogi have lived in seclusion in Colombia’s remote Sierra Nevadas, known as “the heart of the world.” But in recent years, concerned by the environmental degradation they have experienced in their villages and forests, a few emissaries from the tribe emerged to bring an urgent and loving message to the West—advice on how to live in harmony with the earth.Buchholz was invited to their home to receive and transcribe this message. A Book of Balance takes us on a journey into a startlingly beautiful landscape and into a sacred space: the traditional fireside circle held regularly by the tribe. In this circle, members consider key questions essential to their community.In this slim volume of spiritual introspection, they ask us to share in their practice, posing nine questions that focus our minds and hearts on who we are, who we can become.Throughout we hear the words of the Kogi elders, wisdom that offers revelations, inspiration, and direction for our everyday lives.A beautiful book to own, to share with friends, and discuss in community.
A Bushel's Worth
by Kayann ShortIn this love story of land and family, Kayann Short explores her farm roots from her grandparents' North Dakota homesteads to her own Stonebridge Farm, an organic, community-supported farm on the Colorado Front Range where small-scale, local agriculture borrows lessons of the past to cultivate sustainable communities for the future."A Bushel's Worth is my favorite kind of nonfiction. Not only is it about many topics close to my heart-gardening, food, family-it is a beautifully told story, and a love story at that, centered around the love of a couple, their love for the land, and a community's love for a way of life. This book forever changed my perspective and awareness as I 'walk out' in my own garden."--Katrina Kittle, author, The Blessings of the Animals"A heartfelt meditation on farm, food, and family. A Bushel's Worth tells a love story of the land and a life spent caring for it."-Hannah Nordhaus, author, The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honeybees Help Feed America"Kayann Short shares a passionate and often lyrical account of how she and her husband John took their first brave steps toward revitalizing a small Colorado farm and with it their lives and the community they drew around them. This is a book about how agriculture continues to create culture when it is practiced with generosity, creativity and attention. It is an inspiring story, a gift for all of us, both on and off the farm, who are trying to learn how to slow down our frenzied lives so that we may give ourselves to what really matters."-Gregory Spaid, author, Grace: Photographs of Rural America"With a companionable mix of literary and earthy sensibilities, Kayann Short writes with graceful, ferocious attentiveness [and] finds reassurance for herself and her modern family in "the old wisdom of the fields."-John Calderazzo, author, Rising Fire: Volcanoes & Our Inner Lives"[A] beautifully written and sensually rich 'ecobiography' of farm life...A Bushel's Worth is a loving natural history - of a farm, a marriage, and a way of life that has changed interestingly and dramatically over just a few generations."-Jane Shellenberger, author, Organic Gardener's Companion: Growing Vegetables in the West"The book is a substantial meal...as much about growing community as it is about growing food, and it leaves the reader with a generous bushel of instruction and inspiration on both counts."-Susan Becker, Director, Boulder Public Library Oral History Program"A Bushel's Worth: An Ecobiography eloquently depicts humans and nature coexisting and mutually benefiting not only in theory, but in actuality...where people treat each other respectfully as they gently work on and with the land."-Shelly Eberly, National Outings Leader, Sierra Club
A Cabin in The Forest: How to Find, Renovate, and Run The Perfect Off-Grid Retreat
by Ms. Roxyann SpanfelnerYes, You Too Can Live Off The Grid Living off the grid is a concept that many people often think about but few people really do. In their case, the Spanfelners first went through the thought process of why they wanted to live off the grid in the first place. Once they concluded that they did - and all their reasons are here - they then elected not to build a new cabin from the ground up, but instead find an existing structure and fix it. They eventuallly found a classic fixer-upper deep in the woods of Northern California, bought it, then got to work - focusing on such off-the-grid necessities as a power supply, constant supply of water, a constant heat source, and much more. Tips in the useful guide cover everything from building, plumbing, and electricity to growing food in a sustainable way to dealing with emergencies. This book will tell you how to do it all, and how to do it the right way.
A Chateau of One's Own: Restoration Misadventures in France
by Sam JuneauSam and Bud intended to move to France and create a simple life with their children. However they bought a 17th century chateau with over thirty rooms. With modest savings, they restored the building and started a bed and breakfast against resistance from the locals. This is a glimpse into what it takes to leave everything behind to pursue a dream.
A Chateau of One's Own: Restoration Misadventures in France
by Sam JuneauSam and Bud intended to move to France and create a simple life with their children. However they bought a 17th century chateau with over thirty rooms. With modest savings, they restored the building and started a bed and breakfast against resistance from the locals. This is a glimpse into what it takes to leave everything behind to pursue a dream.
A Chicken in Every Yard: The Urban Farm Store's Guide to Chicken Keeping
by Hannah Litt Robert LittGot a little space and a hankering for fresh eggs? Robert and Hannah Litt have dispensed advice to hundreds of urban and suburban chicken-keepers from behind their perch at Portland's Urban Farm Store, and now they're ready to help you go local and sustainable with your own backyard birds. In this handy guide to breeds, feed, coops, and care, the Litts take you under their experienced wings and share the secrets to: Picking the breeds that are right for you * Building a sturdy coop in one weekend for $100 * Raising happy and hearty chicks * Feeding your flock for optimal health and egg nutrition * Preventing and treating common chicken diseases * Planning ahead for family, neighborhood, and legal considerations * Whipping up tasty egg recipes from flan to frittata With everything that first-timers will need to get started--along with expert tips for more seasoned keepers--this colorful, nuts-and-bolts manual proves that keeping chickens is all it's cracked up to be.From the Hardcover edition.
A City Reframed: Managing Warsaw in the 1990's (Cities And Regions Ser. #Vol. 4)
by Barbara CzarniawskaManagement of big cities is a relatively unresearched area, as compared to city planning and city governance. A study of Warsaw city management reveals the transformation process typically found in European countries in political and economic transition. In A City Reframed, Czarniawska conceptualises city management as an "action-net" under transformation, where three types of action are in focus: "muddling through", or coping with daily problems; "reframing", or changing the frame of interpretation of the world in order to take successful action; and "anchoring", the testing of new ideas on potentially involved parties in order to secure cooperation or minimize resistance. "Muddling through" is central to management in Warsaw, as it no doubt has always been: it is this "muddling through" that makes cities function. The specificity of the Warsaw picture is its demand for "reframing" and numerous and varied attempts have been made to achieve a "change of frame". They were sometimes successful, sometimes not, the skill of anchoring only slowly emerging from the most recent past, with the sediments of the old regimes an obvious obstacle. The study pinpoints the phenomena central to the construction of the action-net of city management, and traces its further connections (or lack of such), both temporally and spatially.
A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
by Witold RybczynskiIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Home and City Life, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history.We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes -- among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus, and Boston's Back Bay Fens. But Olmsted's contemporaries knew a man of even more extraordinarily diverse talents. Born in 1822, he traveled to China on a merchant ship at the age of twenty-one. He cofounded The Nation magazine and was an early voice against slavery. He managed California's largest gold mine and, during the Civil War, served as the executive secretary to the United States Sanitary Commission, the precursor of the Red Cross. Rybczynski's passion for his subject and his understanding of Olmsted's immense complexity and accomplishments make his book a triumphant work. In A Clearing in the Distance, the story of a great nineteenth-century American becomes an intellectual adventure.
A Colorful Home: Create Lively Palettes for Every Room
by Susan Hable“Page after page of incredible color and texture that will inspire even the most committed color-phobes to seriously consider embracing pink.” —Rima Suqi, columnist, New York Times Home SectionNature, art, a favorite collection—each holds unexpected color combinations that can be beautifully incorporated into the home. In this guide, designer Susan Hable shows how to discover color in the everyday, create dynamic palettes, and translate them into stunning interior spaces. Home decorators will learn how a cheerful bedroom can be constructed from the natural hues of autumn leaves, or how a burst of bright confetti can inspire a candy-colored tiled bath. Brimming with luscious photography, A Colorful Home reveals how to open our eyes to the colors around us and bring them to life in rooms composed with meaning.“This book [is] all about finding ways to translate the things, people and places you love into beautiful moments at home.” —Design*Sponge