Stretch the resources of your small backyard garden further than ever before, without devoting hundreds of hours to canning! This informative and inspiring guide shows you not only how to construct your own root cellar, but how to best use the earth’s naturally cool, stable temperature as an energy-saving way to store nearly 100 varieties of perishable fruits and vegetables.

    Updated with the latest biointensive tips and techniques, this is an essential reference for gardeners of all skill levels seeking to grow some or all of their own food.

    These popular recipes are fast and easy, with detailed instructions for perfect results every time. 6" x 9".

    Kata, the formal exercises of karate training, were the essence of practice in Okinawa and China, and are the core training method even today.Detailed here in 1500 sequential photos are the five Heian and three Tekki kata, mastery of which is necessary to attain first dan.Demonstrated by the author and Yoshiharu Osaka.

    However, the very features that define the beauty of the medium can make it difficult to master. This complete guide to understanding the relationships between color, value, wetness, and composition unravels the mysteries of watercolor to help your practice evolve.  Experienced teacher and acclaimed artist Tom Hoffmann offers a unique, inquiry-based approach that shows you how to translate any subject into the language of watercolor. With Hoffmann as your guide, you’ll learn the key questions to ask yourself at every turn and time-tested methods to help you reach solutions.  Hoffmann’s thorough explanations and step-by-step demonstrations delineate the process of composing a painting in watercolor, while art from more than thirty-five past and present masters, including John Singer Sargent, Ogden Pleissner, George Post, Emil Kosa, Jr., Mary Whyte, Trevor Chamberlain, Lars Lerin, Torgeir Schjølberg, Piet Lap, Leslie Frontz, and Alvaro Castagnet serve to illustrate and inspire. Whether you’re a serious beginner or a seasoned practitioner, this book will guide you toward the all-important balance between restraint and risk-taking that every watercolorist seeks.

    They combine the do-it-yourself tradition with the American faith that “you can take it with you.” Blending art with technology and economy with style, they satisfy the desire for freedom, simplicity and self-expression.

    The comprehensive modern herbal lists nearly 300 plants and is complemented by delicate botanical watercolors.

    Provides comprehensive information on the design and application of passive solar-energy systems and assesses twenty-seven design patterns that offset a variety of factors influencing the effectiveness of solar heating.

    This book offers the reader an opportunity to watch one of our foremost contemporary sculptors at work, to see not just highlights of the creative process, but every step from beginning to end.In order to recreate the immediacy of an actual workshop situation, Bruno Lucchesi takes a single life-size head through all the stages of roughing in, modeling, refining the surface, and finishing and texturing, so that the reader can see exactly how he positions and models every detail.From the Trade Paperback edition.

    More than 1500 illustrations combine with concise, expert advice to ensure success with nearly every type of house plants.

    This is not the stuff of theory, it is the product of hard-earned experience.

    

    Discusses landscaping, lawns, groundcovers, trees, shrubs, vines, greenhouses, and insect and disease control, with over four hundred how-to-illustrations and photographs.

    It combines a history of the development of photography with guidelines for mastering the photographic print processes which the great nineteenthand twentieth-century pioneers of photography themselves employed.

    

    Describes the sand foundry, the characteristics of molding sand, the types of mold and pattern making equipment, and the various sand casting procedures for forming metals.

    Give a Haunted House Party2. Send Incredible Invitations to Your Favorite Friends3. Set Up a Chamber of Horrors4. Do Scary Stunts Anytime, Anywhere5. Create Spine-Chilling Decorations6. Construct Creepy Crafts7. Cast a Spell with Easy Eerie Effects8. Make Kooky, Spooky Costumes9. Play Freaky, Shrieky Games10. Tell Gory Stories and Ghastly Jokes11. Serve Terror at the Table

    It provides a complete history of the art of dowsing around the world and discusses in detail the various existing theories attempting to explain this extraordinary phenomenon.

    Packed with basic techniques and advanced applications, information on materials and equipment, and project and design areas. All areas of needlecraft covered, including knitting, crochet, embroidery, quilting, applique, patchwork, etc. 2,000 full-color photographs. 4,000 black-and-white illustrations.