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Message In A Bottle
Par Christa Parrish, Isabel Duarte Soares. 2015
Collection of literary essays on self-consciousness written on pieces of parchment, sealed, rolled up and pushed into colourless glass bottles,…
without any label residue, closed with corks from the Alentejo cork trees. They're coming to you.Obras de albañilería
Par Francesco Poggi. 2016
* Realizar en casa algunas obras de albañilería puede resultar fácil y divertido pero también, a veces, necesario: basta con…
seguir las instrucciones que se facilitan en este libro para que no encuentre ninguna dificultad en cualquier intervención que tenga que realizar. * Aprenderá todo sobre herramientas manuales y eléctricas, los distintos tipos de tacos y cómo utilizarlos, morteros de cal y cemento, muros, paredes divisorias, pavimentaciones externas, etc. * Una obra con la que aprenderá a construir con sus propias manos mesas, bancos, maceteros, barbacoas...The Big Book of Buds, Volume 1: Marijuana Varieties from the World's Great Seed Breeders
Par Ed Rosenthal. 2001
This full-color guide showcases the diversity of cannabis varieties. Stunning close-ups from the world's great breeders are accompanied by concise…
information about growing characteristics and bud quality. Engaging essays offer insights into marijuana's special botany and the culture that surrounds this controversial plant.The Edible Flower Garden
Par Rosalind Creasy. 1999
The Edible Flower Garden is a beautiful collection of flowers that can be used for cookery: from candied violets and…
roses to decorate appetizers and cakes, to nasturtiums for a colorful shrimp salad, to day lily buds, pink clover, and wild mustard flowers that are tossed together in a spectacular stir-fry.Off Main Street: Barnstormers, Prophets & Gatemouth's Gator
Par Michael Perry. 2007
Whether he's fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between…
cowboys and God, Michael Perry draws on his rural roots and footloose past to write from a perspective that merges the local with the global.Ranging across subjects as diverse as lot lizards, Klan wizards, and small-town funerals, Perry's writing in this wise and witty collection of essays balances earthiness with poetry, kinetics with contemplation, and is regularly salted with his unique brand of humor.What Am I Doing Here?
Par Bruce Chatwin. 1989
In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a…
mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot'Bricolaje con madera
Par Francesco Poggi. 2016
* Todos los aficionados a los trabajos con la madera, un material cálido y natural, encontrarán en este libro las…
indicaciones necesarias para conocer las características de las maderas más comunes. * En esta obra, el lector aprenderá todos aquellos conocimientos imprescindibles que necesita para realizar con éxito trabajos de bricolaje con madera en casa, desde arreglar desperfectos en sus muebles hasta construirse aquellos objetos que desee. * Las herramientas necesarias, los diferentes tipos de corte, las operaciones de lijado, encolado, realización de ensambles y aplicación de los distintos acabados con la misma calidad que lo hubiera hecho un profesional. * Toda la información que necesita para construir con sus propias manos sillas, mesas, jardineras, cajoneras, bancos de trabajo y muchos otros objetos necesarios para la casa.Balinese Flora & Fauna Discover Indonesia
Par Bruce Granquist. 1999
This book provides a general introduction to the natural history of Bali, looking at each of the major ecosystems in…
turn and highlighting their most salient and interesting features. Watercolor panoramas and illustrations of typical or otherwise significant plants and animals from each type of habitat complement the text and provide the reader with a visual reference for some of the sights he or she is most likely to see during a visit to the island.Trash Origami
Par Richard L. Alexander, Michael G. Lafosse. 2010
Don't dump your wastepaper into the garbage--it's time to fold! Famed origami artists and award-winning authors Michael G. LaFosse and…
Richard L. Alexander show you the way with Trash Origami. Chock full of 25 fun and innovative origami projects from their renowned Origamido Studio as well as many of the world's most talented paper folding designers--including Nick Robinson, Herman Van Goubergen and Rhona Geurkewitz, among others.The origami models presented in Trash Origami include designs made from old calendar pages, candy wrappers, envelopes, newspaper, postcards, paper grocery bags and more. The accompanying DVD will make the folding process clearer and aid folders of all levels. Also provided is a guide to everyday materials that have the most folding potential-- leaving readers inspired to design and display their very own trash origami!My System – Your System
Par Kathleen Walter. 2015
This BOOK can put you on track with your finances! $$ YOUR SYSTEM $$ Not the bank's SYSTEM, not my…
SYSTEM, YOUR own personal SYSTEM! Do you want to remove any financial stress that you may have?• My System is set up for you to make it Your System for the future, your future. Do you want to know how to CRUNCH your hard earned $$$$.• Well this easy budgeting SYSTEM is for you. How much money do I need to put this in place?• Your OWN incoming $$$$ is all you need to set this up. How much money do I need to put this in place?• My book explains My System, designed by myself in 1977 & it's never let me down. Do I need a computer?• NO, Manual or Spreadsheet, it's your choice. What if My System - Your System does not work for me?• My System does have in place a purpose, budgeting. My System does need you to restrain from going off track, or it will not succeed, the good news is you can always start again. What is the purpose of this book?To know where any incoming $$$$ went. How it is spent? Maybe adjustments can be made to make it better? Can my system allow for a holiday, pay extra on the home loan? Allow extra spending money? So once the most important FINANCIAL AREAS are covered, one can see on paper exactly how the finances are building up and will continue to do so! It is fun, to hold the purse strings, you will feel secure, positive, and have control of what money you have, where it's going, what you need to do, and, above all, you will accomplish discipline, strength within yourself, confidence and an amazing new attitude towards spending. The purpose of putting this in print is to help others to be financially free, not to be financially stressed! You never have to worry about your financials again, as once in place, you can adjust to suit your lifestyle as it changes, also your income, whether it increases or decreases.Organic Marijuana, Soma Style
Par Soma. 2005
A breeder of international fame, Soma is synonymous with earth-friendly grow techniques and an appreciation for the healing qualities of…
marijuana. Now in his first-ever book, this sage of the marijuana scene shares his methods and philosophy with a collection of his best works, all-new essays and stunning photography.Soma offers detailed advice for every stage of growing organically: selecting seeds and mother plants, making clones, creating one's own soil mix, using organic pest control and knowing the best time for harvesting. With these instructions, gardeners of all levels can learn to grow marijuana with the sublime qualities and subtleties of flavor and effects that have made this breeder legendary. Sixteen pages of Soma's lush full-color photography help to showcase his methods and varieties.Much like organic food has become increasingly popular through a heightening of awareness, Organic Marijuana raises consciousness about growing an outstanding crop of marijuana while respecting both environmental and individual health.This second book in the Marijuana Tips series continues to present the tips and techniques that only expert growers can provide.Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation Created an American Eden
Par Andrea Wulf. 2011
From the author of the acclaimed The Brother Gardeners, a fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and…
intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and farmers. For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their characters as their belief in liberty for the nation they were creating. Andrea Wulf reveals for the first time this aspect of the revolutionary generation. She describes how, even as British ships gathered off Staten Island, George Washington wrote his estate manager about the garden at Mount Vernon; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thomas Jefferson's and John Adams's faith in their fledgling nation; how a trip to the great botanist John Bartram's garden helped the delegates of the Constitutional Congress break their deadlock; and why James Madison is the forgotten father of American environmentalism. These and other stories reveal a guiding but previously overlooked ideology of the American Revolution. Founding Gardeners adds depth and nuance to our understanding of the American experiment and provides us with a portrait of the founding fathers as they've never before been seen.How to Plant a Tree
Par Daniel Butler. 2010
A gorgeously packaged, very practical little book explains exactly how to plant and care for a tree and celebrates trees…
and their life-affirming presence in our lives. The earth's longest living organisms, trees exemplify nature's great strength as well as its majestic beauty. Serving as virtual lungs for our planet, trees provide us with food, medicine, and our most versatile building material. To plant a tree is to plant hope, and as an act of commemoration, it literally gives life to that remembered. While it is in-deed a practical book that explains exactly how to plant and care for a tree, HOW TO PLANT A TREE is so much more. Drawing on the ancient rituals and folklore that surround particular trees, the author explores their symbolism and traditional uses, and offers suggestions for various commemorative tree-planting acts, such as: A marriage ceremony; A new baby ceremony; A new home ceremony; A memorial for a loved one. With lovely original black-and-white illustrations throughout, HOW TO PLANT A TREE encompasses a wealth of both useful and inspiring information, including fascinating miscellany on some of our most beloved tree species like the willow, the oak, and the plum; how to calculate a tree's age; and how you can use trees to fight climate change. HOW TO PLANT A TREE will inspire readers to view trees as living structures of hope that will be treasured for generations to come.And Even Now
By Max Beerbohm.
Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage
By Richard Hakluyt.
Not Quite Paradise
Par Adele Barker. 2010
A chronicle of life on the resplendent island, combining the immediacy of memoir with the vividness of travelogue and reportage…
Adele Barker and her son, Noah, settled into the central highlands of Sri Lanka for an eighteen-month sojourn, immersing themselves in the customs, cultures, and landscapes of the island--its elephants, birds, and monkeys; its hot curries and sweet mangoes; the cacophony of its markets; the resonant evening chants from its temples. They hear stories of the island's colorful past and its twenty-five-year civil war between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil Tigers. When, having returned home to Tucson, Barker awakes on December 26, 2004, to see televised images of the island's southern shore disappearing into the ocean, she decides she must go back. Traveling from the southernmost coasts to the farthest outposts of the Tamil north, she witnesses the ravages of the tsunami that killed forty-eight thousand Sri Lankans in the space of twenty minutes, and reports from the ground on the triumphs and failures of relief efforts. Combining the immediacy of memoir and the vividness of travelogue with the insight of the best reportage, Not Quite Paradise chronicles life in a place few have ever visited.From the Trade Paperback edition.First Across the Continent
By Noah Brooks.
My Summer in a Garden
By Charles Dudley Warner.
Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDs
Par Dale Peck. 2015
Novelist and critic Dale Peck's latest work--part memoir, part extended essay--is a foray into what the author calls "the second…
half of the first half of the AIDS epidemic," i.e., the period between 1987, when the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was founded, and 1996, when the advent of combination therapy transformed AIDS from a virtual death sentence into a chronic manageable illness.Reminiscent of Joan Didion's The White Album and Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday, Visions and Revisions is a sweeping, collage-style portrait of a tumultuous era. Moving seamlessly from the lyrical to the analytical to the reportorial, Peck's story takes readers from the serial killings of gay men in New York, London, and Milwaukee, through Peck's first loves upon coming out of the closet, to the transformation of LGBT people from marginal, idealistic fighters to their present place in a world of widespread, if fraught, mainstream acceptance.The narrative pays particular attention the words and deeds of AIDS activists, offering a streetlevel portrait of ACT UP with considerations of AIDS-centered fiction and criticism of the era, as well as intimate, sometimes elegiac portraits of artists, activists, and HIV-positive people Peck knew. Peck's fiery rhetoric against a government that sat on its hands for the first several years of the epidemic is tinged with the idealism of a young gay man discovering his political, artistic, and sexual identity. The result is a visionary and indispensable work from one of America's most brilliant and controversial authors.Sustainable Revolution
Par Paul Hawken, Louis Fox, Juliana Birnbaum, Erika Rand. 2014
Urban gardeners. Native seed-saving collectives. Ecovillage developments. What is the connection between these seemingly disparate groups? The ecological design system…
of permaculture is the common thread that weaves them into a powerful, potentially revolutionary--or reevolutionary--movement. Permaculture is a philosophy based on common ethics of sustainable cultures throughout history that have designed settlements according to nature's patterns and lived within its bounds. As a movement that has been building momentum for the past 40 years, it now is taking form as a growing network of sites developed with the intention of regenerating local ecologies and economies. Permaculture strategies can be used by individuals, groups, or nations to address basic human needs such as food, water, energy, and housing. As a species, humans are being called forth to evolve, using our collective intelligence to meet the challenges of the future. Yet if we are to survive our collective planetary crisis, we need to revisit history, integrating successful systems from sustainable cultures. To boldly confront our position on the brink of the earth's carrying capacity and make changes that incorporate the wisdom of the past is truly revolutionary. Sustainable Revolution features the work of a worldwide network of visionaries, including journalists, activists, indigenous leaders and permaculturists such as David Holmgren, Vandana Shiva, Charles Eisenstein, Starhawk, Erik Assadourian, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Albert Bates, and Geoff Lawton. This beautifully photographed collection of profiles, interviews, and essays features 60 innovative community-based projects in diverse climates across the planet. Edited by anthropologist Juliana Birnbaum Fox and award-winning activist filmmaker Louis Fox, it can be read as an informal ethnography of an international culture that is modeling solutions on the cutting edge of social and environmental change. The research presented in the book frames the permaculture movement as a significant ally to marginalized groups, such as the urban poor and native communities resisting the pressures of globalization. Sustainable Revolution uplifts and inspires with its amazing array of dynamic activists and thriving, vibrant communities.From the Trade Paperback edition.