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';A masterful distillation of permaculture in a way that is easy to apply to our gardens, farms, and lives today.'David Cody, founder, Urban Permaculture Institute Once a fringe topic, permaculture is moving to the mainstream as gardeners who are ready to take their organic gardening to the next level are discovering the wisdom of a simple system that emphasizes the idea that by taking care of the earth, the earth takes care of you.The Vegetable Gardeners Guide to Permaculture teaches gardeners of every skillwith any size spacehow to live in harmony with both nature and neighbors to produce and share an abundant food supply with minimal effort. Permaculture teacher Christopher Shein highlights everything you need to know to start living off the land lightly, including how to create rich, healthy, and low-cost soil, blend a functional food garden and decorative landscape, share the bounty with others, and much more.

Suitable for those who want to grow their own vegetables but have only a small garden or no garden at all, this book provides ideas on how to get the most produce from a small space whether you have a city garden, a balcony or just a window box. It features nearly 200 photographs that explain each step towards a homegrown harvest.

Beekeepers keep bees for three reasons: bees are pollinators and their presence increases a garden's productivity; there is a fascination with how they live, collect food and colonise; and they produce honey. This book offers 35 building projects for everything from hive components to frames to swarm catchers.

Filled with short, sweet, inspirational words of wisdom, this is a book of guidance for Dads on loving, shaping - and learning to comprehend - their inscrutable little girls. Divided into stages from infancy on up, it offers a pithy lesson on every page.

Beginning with The Five Keys of raising a daughter or son, this book accompanies Dad on the journey from his child's infancy straight through the toddler and teenage years and into college.

Through every step, it's her mother who is her guide. This book from Melissa Harrison, because only a mother knows, and Harry Harrison, author of "Father to Son" and "Father to Daughter", offers wisdom and inspiration. It has one succinct lesson per page. Tell her how much joy she's brought into your life. And when it's time - let her go.

Woven out of wisdom, humour, experience, and love charm, this title offers one lesson per page, beginning with the Beginning, and covering toddlerhood, the school years, sports, spirituality and of course girls.

Proves that nice is more than good. In short, amusing entries, the author examines the stories behind acts of kindness (helping someone cross the street), gratitude (why we say "hello"), praise (standing ovation), and symbols of love (the iconic red heart).

Offers home winemakers all the know-how they need to set up a home winery and build all the basic equipment for just a fraction of the cost of store-bought. This book includes building plans and step-by-step instructions for more than 30 winemaking essentials - including a crusher, a de-stemmer, presses, pumps, and a bottle filler.

A guide for the creative hobbyist who wants to take the next step and quit his or her day job to make a living from a creative passion. Suitable as a coaching handbook, it shows how to develop a business plan that will work and be sustainable.

Children love to make up stories, and group storytelling offers great fun as well as learning opportunities for families, classroom groups, and any gathering of friends. This book is filled with creative craft projects and activities for jump-starting and fostering imaginative narratives for children of all ages.

Located at the crossroads between China, India, and the nations of Southeast Asia, Burma has long been a land that absorbed outside influences into its everyday life, from the Buddhist religion to foodstuffs like the potato. This title features 125 recipes that are combined with tales from the author's many trips to this little-known land.

Deals with cats. This book offers new meaning to wacka-wacka and redefines it. It gives a voice to catmaniacs around the country.

Blends middle school math with fantasy to create an adventure in problem-solving. This title includes word problems that are perilous, do-or-die scenarios of blood-sucking vampires, or a rowboat of 5 shipwrecked sailors with a single barrel of freshwater. It presents problems that are as fun to read as they are challenging to solve.

A giftable little hardcover packed with inspiring, amusing full-colour photos of dogs in action (and at rest) paired with text revealing everything dogs can teach us about life.

The first how-to guidebook for gardeners with big ideas for growing small!

Unveils the journey of a sacred text - the tenth-century annotated bible known as the Aleppo Codex - from its hiding place in a Syrian synagogue to the newly founded state of Israel. This book proposes a theory of what happened when the codex left Aleppo, Syria, in the late 1940s and eventually surfaced in Jerusalem, mysteriously incomplete.

Presents a sock knitting technique for all those knitters who prefer sticking to two straight needles. This book helps beginners learn to knit on straight needles and create beautiful, comfortable socks. It features step-by-step visual instructions for this technique, along with 20 unique patterns.

The ideal book to help beginners grow and design with succulents creatively and successfully, complete with inspiring how-to projects, design ideas and a list of the easiest varieties to grow.

The author has visited hundreds of brewpubs and breweries and got to know the people behind them all. In this book, he profiles his favourites and shares 150 of their beloved recipes for food that tastes amazing with beer. He also includes itineraries for his favourite US road trips to great beer cities such as San Diego, Denver, and Milwaukee.

Helps young children learn to sew using hand-sewing techniques, but as they get older and more accomplished, they learn to use a sewing machine. This title offers both boys and girls 20 projects ranging from a secret message pillow, wall pockets and a zippy pouch to a water bottle holder and even a fabric guitar and microphone.

Revision of author's What's eating your child?

Covers what small farmers and backyard homesteaders need to know to keep a single cow or a small dairy herd as a productive part of their food supply - from selecting a breed, maintaining animal health, feeding, and providing shelter to milking and making homemade dairy products.

Share baby’s first words in a book that’s indestructible!  Baby’s at the table—spoon, banana, cheese. Baby’s in the house—lamp, socks, crib. Baby’s looking out the window—cloud, boat, truck!  Indestructibles is the trusted series for easing little ones into story time. Beloved by babies and their parents, Indestructibles are built for the way babies “read” (i.e., with their hands and mouths) and are: Rip Proof—made of ultra-durable tight-woven materialWaterproof—can be chewed on, drooled on, and washed!Emergent Literacy Tool—bright pictures and few or no words encourage dialogic readingPortable—lightweight books can go anywhere, perfect for the diaper bag and for travelSafe for Baby—meets ASTM safety standards

Show baby all the wild animals in a book that’s indestructible!  Who flies high in the sky? Parrot! Who strolls in the grass? Giraffe! Who hangs from a tree? Snake!  Indestructibles is the trusted series for easing little ones into story time. Beloved by babies and their parents, Indestructibles are built for the way babies “read” (i.e., with their hands and mouths) and are:Rip Proof—made of ultra-durable tight-woven materialWaterproof—can be chewed on, drooled on, and washed!Emergent Literacy Tool—bright pictures and few or no words encourage dialogic readingPortable—lightweight books can go anywhere, perfect for the diaper bag and for travelSafe for Baby—meets ASTM safety standards

39 new stories of canine companionship and courage, plus ten classic dog stories from the New York Times bestselling Unlikely Friendships series. From the pit bull who plays with a tortoise to the mastiff who rescued 17 horses, these inspiring true stories are enhanced with full-colour photographs and will warm the heart of any dog lover.

Papertoy Glowbots introduces 46 robots that have the added cool factor of lighting up. The 46 die-cut paper robots are created by Brian Castleforte, author of Papertoy Monsters, along with the hottest papertoy designers from around the world.

Suitable for bike riders, this title simplifies bike riding. It offers a manifesto on the best way to ride.

How to Prune Trees and Shrubs stresses the importance of determining the unique needs of each plant and then developing a plan before pruning it. It helps readers develop the skill and knowledge they need, whether they're motivated gardeners or beginners who simply want to maintain a new landscape with as little effort as possible.

A complete introduction to making jewellery using wirework techniques, including selecting the best wire and findings; using a variety of pliers and cutters for different tasks; and making a simple loop, a wire-wrapped loop, jump rings, ear wires, hoops, head pins and eye pins, and simple clasps.