Building one will appeal to bakers, builders, and beginners of all kinds, from: the serious or aspiring baker who wants the best low-cost bread oven, togardeners who want a centerpiece for a beautiful outdoor kitchen, tooutdoor chefs, tocreative people interested in low-cost materials and simple technology, toteachers who want a multi-faceted, experiential project for students of all ages (the book has been successful with everyone from third-graders to adults)."Build Your Own Earth Oven" is fully illustrated with step-by-step directions, including how to tend the fire, and how to make perfect sourdough hearth loaves in the artisan tradition. The average do-it-yourselfer with a few tools and a scrap pile can build an oven for free, or close to it. Otherwise, $30 should cover all your materials--less than the price of a fancy "baking stone." Good building soil is often right in your back yard, under your feet. Build the simplest oven in a day! With a bit more time and imagination, you can make a permanent foundation and a fire-breathing dragon-oven or any other shape you can dream up.Earth ovens are familiar to many that have seen a southwestern "horno" or a European "bee-hive" oven. The idea (pioneered by Egyptian bakers in the second millennium bc!) is simplicity itself: fill the oven with wood, light a fire, and let it burn down to ashes. The dense, 3- to 12-inch-thick earthen walls hold and store the heat of the fire, the baker sweeps the floor clean, and the hot oven walls radiate steady, intense heat for hours.Home bakers who can't afford a fancy, steam-injected bread oven will be delighted to find that a simple earth oven can produce loaves to equal the fanciest "artisan" bakery. It also makes delicious roast meats, cakes, pies, pizzas, and other creations. Pizza cooks to perfection in three minutes or less. Vegetables, herbs, and potatoes drizzled with olive oil roast up in minutes for a simple, elegant, and delicious meal. Efficient cooks will find the residual heat useful for slow-baked dishes, and even for drying surplus produce, or incubating homemade yogurt.

    Packed with trail-tested features, it’s useful both on and off the trail, covering pre-trip planning for resupply stops, how to set daily on-the-trail mileage goals by knowing trail gradient and the locations of campsites, water sources, and facilities, and how to easily calculate distances between any two points on the trail, and how to planning both north-bound and south-bound hiking trips.

    

    Descriptions, illustrations and range maps help you identify birds and understand their habits. Perfect for beginner birders and beyond.

    Meet your new best friends! Poke mon on the Game Boy Color is back!! "Poke mon Gold & Silver" are coming and they're everything you love about Poke mon and more! These all-new adventures feature exciting new gameplay- an internal clock that means you'll only find certain Poke mon at certain times of the day or night, new Poke mon with genders and breeding, new technical and hidden machines, new battle powers, a new communications/scanner device called the " Pocket Gear, " and more! But best of all, you'll find 100 More Poke mon! In "Poke mon Gold & Silver: Prima's Official Strategy Guide," we'll take you on a complete tour of the game and provide: - An explanation of new features, including all-new Poke Gear- Details of time- and day-dependent events- Day and Nitetime locations of Poke mon- Location of all items and TM/HMs- Battle tactics for collecting all the badges- Comprehensive maps of the new regions- Tips on breeding, capturing, raising, and training your new Poke mon- A sealed section that reveals all puzzles and mysteries

    It is but a small review of the science of Zermatism realized by Szukalski since 1940. The drawings herein were chosen from over 40,000 illustrations made for the Zermatism oeuvre, representing, in particular, some of the most important subjects as Universal Pictograph, the Flood Scumline and Anthropolitical Motivations. This is the first book in 50 years to bring Szukalski's work to the light of the American public.

    The Versus Guide features appearance information and in-depth training secrets. Detailed maps provide a superior walk-through for both games. The full color guide also provides detailed bench statistics and incredible secret tricks and codes. A must-have for all Pokemon collectors!

    There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't live in Connecticut. This book features 120 species of Connecticut birds, organized by color for ease of use. Do you see a yellow bird and don't know what it is? Go to the yellow section to find out. Fact-filled information, a compare feature, range maps and detailed photographs help to ensure that you positively identify the birds that you see.

    Featuring more than 500 full-color illustrations and photographs, along with detailed annotations, Smithsonian Handbooks make identification easy and accurate.

    Michener reveals a diverse fauna that numbers more than 17,000 species and ranges from the common honeybee to rare bees that feed on the pollen of a single type of plant. With many new facts, reclassifications, and revisions, the second edition of The Bees of the World provides the most comprehensive treatment of the 1,200 genera and subgenera of the Apiformes. Included are hundreds of updated citations to work published since the appearance of the first edition and a new set of plates of fossil bees.The book begins with extensive introductory sections that include bee evolution, classification of the various bee families, the coevolution of bees and flowering plants, nesting behavior, differences between solitary and social bees, and the anatomy of these amazing insects. Drawing on modern studies and evidence from the fossil record, Michener reveals what the ancestral bee—the protobee—might have looked like. He also cites the major literature on bee biology and describes the need for further research on the systematics and natural history of bees, including their importance as pollinators of crops and natural vegetation. The greater part of the work consists of an unprecedented treatment of bee systematics, with keys for identification to the subgenus level. For each genus and subgenus, Michener includes a brief natural history describing geographical range, number of species, and noteworthy information pertaining to nesting or floral biology.The book is beautifully illustrated with more than 500 drawings and photographs that depict behavior, detailed morphology, and ecology. Accented with color plates of select bees, The Bees of the World will continue to be the world's best reference on these diverse insects.

    Contains strategy tips for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Tribunal, and Bloodmoon.

    As a full-time maker, teacher and writer, Goddard works as hard to teach knifemaking skills as he does to acquire them. His affiliation with "Blade Magazine" has brought new and interesting information, tips and tricks to thousands of would-be knifemakers."The Wonders of Knifemaking" is a compilation of Goddard's columns and advice, as it has appeared in "Blade Magazine" over the past several years. He also mixes in new and updated material. With his straightforward style Goddard answers real questions on every aspect of knifemaking from selecting steel to heat treating and finishing the blade."

    This book aims to give you the tools you need for group or solo hiking on the long trail, the trackless wilderness, or the most remote and exotic corners of the planet.

    A bestiary and weapons, armor, accessories, and elements lists are included. Plus a detailed walkthrough revealing all side quests and strategies for every important battle!

    Piccirilli lets you know from the start that writing is serious business, but at the same time, the book is full of his offbeat, scathing humor. ..".if anybody tells you that all you need is a lucky break, then tell them to shove off. Luck is about the worst thing that can happen in this biz, and it's no substitute for knowledge, experience, and skill." -Tom Piccirilli, from Welcome to Hell

    Don t attempt to navigate the prehistoric jungles of Edward City without the help of DINO CRISIS 2: PRIMA S OFFICIAL STRATEGY GUIDE! You ll find tons of dino-defeating info inside, including a complete dinosaur compendium; solutions to all mini-games; complete walkthrough of the jungle; handy map appendix; stats on all weapons, ammunition, and recovery items; and much, much more!

    Become Master of the Stadium.• In-depth battle tactics• Stats for every Pokémon–from Bulbasaur™ to Mew™• Every exclusive secret revealed• Strategies for each battle mode and minigame• Complete Pokédex featuring all 151 Pokémon• Comprehensive skills list

    Stretching feels great to do and leaves you feeling wonderful. How to get the most out of this aspect of stretching is part of what the book is about.No matter whether you're an office worker wondering how to stretch that tight spot between your shoulders and neck or a martial artist wanting to do side-splits, this is the book for you. Or possibly you're a weekend athlete and you want to know how to get more whole-body rotation to improve your golf swing. Perhaps you've just finished gardening or the housework and you want to know how to relax your back. Or maybe you simply want to know what's the best way to stretch your hamstrings.Whatever your interest in stretching, this book will provide the techniques you need, from the easiest exercises to the most difficult. It is organised into 15 lessons, plus an 'unnumbered' one which you can do anytime to check your progress. The book features:* 96 stretching exercises, plus additional warm-up movements* exercises which use the Contract-Relax (C-R) method* advanced stretching movements* exercises for all parts of the body, including hands and feet* exercises for athletes, grouped by sports* exercises shown in partner and solo versions* over 700 photographs* many illustrations of key anatomical details

    This guide details almost 100 of the forest's finest trails, selected for their views, the waterfalls they visit, and the diversity of plant and animal life present. The authors hiked all the trails using a hand-held GPS unit. Each trail entry includes distance, elevation gained, GPS coordinates at various points, and a detailed description of the terrain and landscape. The guide also includes maps, as well as sidebars on first aid and items of historic and botanical interest. Black-and-white photos are scattered throughout. Appendixes provide lists of loop trails, hikes for children and the elderly, half-day and full-day hikes, and trails accessible from the Blue Ridge Parkway.Franklin Goldsmith has a degree in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received a degree in engineering from North Carolina State University. His sister, Shannon Hamrick, and her husband, James Hamrick, both held undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Franklin and Shannon grew up in McDowell County, North Carolina, at the edge of the Grandfather District of Pisgah National Forest. All three are experienced hikers.

    Listings include text descriptions; information on range, habitat, and growth habits; and Latin and common names.

    The information it contains lets readers know which heavenly highlights to look for and how to continually sharpen their powers of observation. The first part of the book provides technical background; the advantages and disadvantages of various types of telescopes (including tips for purchasing one); explains where, when and how one observes the night sky; and describes the equipment necessary for a clear view. The following sections build on that knowledge with an introduction to observing the firmament, so that finding various objects is not left to chance. The second section introduces the solar system. Readers learn which bodies can be recognized with the eyes alone, and what to keep in mind when making observations. The third section is a directory of visible star clusters, clouds of gas, double stars and galaxies-arranged according to constellations which explains the special phenomena one can observe in the night sky at various times of year. A glossary and index round off the volume and make it easy to find exactly the information you want.