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100 questions & answers about macular degeneration
Par Jeffrey S Heier, Jeffrey Heier. 2010
A retina specialist answers questions about the causes, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of age-related wet and dry macular degeneration.…
Includes patient commentary and discusses the future possibilities of research trials. 2010The beginner's handbook of woodcarving: with project patterns for line carving, relief carving, carving in the round, and bird carving (Dover Woodworking)
Par William Johnston, Charles Beiderman. 1988
Introduces the novice to basic skills. Discusses various carving tools and explains the advantages and disadvantages of different woods. Provides…
numerous project ideas with pointers on techniques and finishes. Covers entering competitions and exhibits and forming a carving club. 1993The complete book of woodcarving: Everything You Need to Know to Master the Craft
Par Everett Ellenwood. 2008
Award-winning woodcarver draws on thirty years' experience to explain his craft. Provides a short history of woodcarving, then discusses wood…
characteristics and types and the selection of tools and sharpening stones. Covers safety tips and basic to complex techniques. Includes seven step-by-step projects designed to teach various skills. 2008Make your own musical instruments (Do it yourself projects!)
Par Anna-Marie D'Cruz. 2009
Step-by-step directions for creating eight musical instruments from readily available materials. Turn big buttons, cord, and thin cardboard into castanets;…
a plastic shopping bag and empty Pringle tubes into bongo drums; or a shoebox, wooden coat hanger, and rubber bands into a harp. Adult supervision recommended. For grades 3-6. 2009A kid's guide to making a terrarium (Gardening for Kids Ser.)
Par Stephanie Bearce. 2009
Explains how to plan, create, and maintain a miniature garden under glass in your own home. Discusses making a working…
water cycle, selecting a proper container, and growing tropical plants. Encourages experimentation. For grades 3-6. 2009A kid's guide to container gardening (Gardening for Kids Ser.)
Par Stephanie Bearce. 2009
Explains how to grow plants--herbs, vegetables, flowers--in pots, tubs, wooden boxes, or any other container that will hold soil. Discusses…
the advantages of these portable gardens, selecting the right plant for your climate, and keeping it growing. For grades 3-6. 2009Notes from a native son: essays on the Appalachian experience
Par Garry Barker, Garry G. Barker. 1995
This book contains about 15 years worth of commentary on issues Appalachian, and according to the author his only qualification…
is that he lived and worked there all his life. For high school and adult readersSnark!, the herald angels sing: sarcasm, bitterness, and the holiday season (Snark Series)
Par Lawrence Dorfman. 2011
Bah! Humbug! It's that time of year again. Time to spend too much, drink too much, eat too much, smile…
falsely, dig down deep to try and find "good cheer," battle crowds, try to find parking in over-crowded lots, ignore surly clerks, bartenders, waiters, valets, and parking lot attendants, all in the pursuit of that moment of happiness known throughout the world as--dun, dun, dun: the Holidays. Has there ever been a time more suited to tapping into snark? With commentary, jokes, and quotes regarding Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, New Year's; on bad presents, worse in-laws, horrible children, and much more glorious excess. UnratedColorado day by day: family literacy activity calendar
Par Colorado State Library. 2017
The Family Literacy Activity Calendar features an early literacy activity for each day of the year. Developed for families with…
toddlers and preschoolers, activities help parents and children incorporate reading, interactive learning, and fun into every day. Each month has a theme and a reading list of related books. The calendar also has literacy tips for parents, craft "recipes," and links to additional resources. For preschool-grade 2The legend of the teddy bear (Myths, Legends, Fairy and Folktales Ser.)
Par Gijsbert Van Frankenhuyzen, Frank Murphy. 2000
Three weavers
Par Joan Potter Loveless, Joan P. Loveless. 1992
The story of the friendship of three weavers, their unique relationship to wool, the spirit and history of the Taos…
art colony in 1950's New Mexico, the challenge and evolution of the creative process, their participation in craft co-ops, and the joys and sorrows of the weavers' children and grandchildren. The story spans 40 years after the arrival of the author in the family's Model A convertible to Taos, fresh out of Black Mountain College where she studied with Anni AlbersAdventures in physics and Pueblo pottery: memoirs of a Los Alamos scientist
Par Francis H. Harlow, Dwight P. Lanmon. 2016
Francis H. Harlow (b. 1928) is highly regarded as a leading authority on Pueblo Indian pottery, a field of study…
he pursued on his own after moving to New Mexico to work at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a physicist. In this memoir, Harlow describes his life growing up in Washington state, service in the US Army during World War II, college years, and his fifty-year career as a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. It was his move to the Southwest that provided the impetus for his lifelong hobby: the study of Pueblo history and pottery. His contributions to the field of fluid dynamics have been no less remarkable. Harlow's scientific and scholarly pursuits were augmented by his artistic talent as a painter, a skill he applied to his work in pottery and scienceSam Johnson and the blue ribbon quilt
Par Lisa Campbell Ernst. 1992
While mending the awning over the pig pen, Sam discovers that he enjoys sewing the various patches together but meets…
with scorn and ridicule when he asks his wife if he could join her quilting club. For grades K-3The mad potter: George E. Ohr, eccentric genius
Par Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan. 2013
Illustrated with evocative historical photographs and over fifty color reproductions of his ceramics, The Mad Potter tells the extraordinary story…
of an eccentric American maverick who was determined to make his mark and who never stopped believing that even the unlikeliest dreams can come true. For grades 5-8Nevada curiosities: quirky characters, roadside oddities & other offbeat stuff (Curiosities Series)
Par Richard Moreno. 2009
A guide to the bizarre, crazy, extraordinary people, places and things found in Nevada. Moreno tells the readers where to…
find more than 135 of the state's most unusual qualities ranging from the famed Shoe Tree on the Loneliest Road in America (U.S. 50) to the old Pioneer Saloon in the ghost town of Goodsprings, Nevada. Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen award recipientHeirs to a great American fortune and combatants in a lifelong family feud, Sterling and Stephen Clark are vividly chronicled…
in this authoritative look at their colorful forefathers, their passionate disagreements, and their transformative contributions to American museumsAs I see it: from a blind man's perspective
Par Robert Theodore Branco. 2007
Hidden in plain view: the secret story of quilts and the underground railroad
Par Jacqueline L. Tobin, Jacqueline Tobin, Raymond G. Dobard. 1999
Traces the origin of the Charleston Code from Africa to the Carolinas, from the low-country island Gullah peoples to free…
blacks living in the cities of the North, and shows how three people from completely different backgrounds pieced together an amazing American storyOut of sight: blind and doing all right
Par Art Schreiber, Hal Simmons. 2014
A high level radio news broadcast exec at the top of his career, Art awoke at a resort near Santa…
Fe, New Mexico, unable to see. Art's refusal to give up and his struggle to live life to the fullest is inspiring. His story is compelling in demonstrating courage, compassion, and resilience in the face of tragedyReaders of physical books leave traces: marginalia, slips of paper, fingerprints, highlighting, inscriptions. All books have histories, and libraries are…
not just collections of books and databases but a medium of long-distance communication with other writers and readers. Letter to a Future Lover collects brief pieces written in response to library ephemera and addressed to readers past, present, and future. Unrated