The Texas Native Plant Primer
From Texas's leading native plant organization comes an accessible and colorful guide to planting native for home gardeners at every level of expertise. Do you want a garden that makes a real difference? Choose plants native to our Texas. The rewards will benefit you, your yard, and the environment--from reducing maintenance tasks to attracting earth-friendly pollinators such as native birds, butterflies, and bees. Native plant expert Andrea DeLong-Amaya and the world famous Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center make adding these superstar plants easier than ever before, with proven advice that every home gardener can follow. This incomparable sourcebook includes native ferns, grasses, wildflowers, perennials, vines, shrubs, and trees. It's everything you need to know to create a beautiful and beneficial garden.
Dog Show
ONE OF OPRAH'S FAVORITE THINGS! NATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins captures the essence and mystery of dogs in this special collection of poems inspired by our beloved companions, with striking watercolor canine portraits by Pamela Sztybel. As Oprah says on Oprah Daily online: "This collection of 25 poems by Billy Collins is a sweet gift for dog lovers. 'A Dog on His Master' is a favorite of mine." "Everyone who has a dog--or still grieves for one--will find themselves in this collection of witty, sweet and poignant poems by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins . . [an] eminently giftable collection."--The Washington Post"There are lots of books about man's best friend, but none as sweet or as beautiful as Dog Show."--Air Mail "The pleasures here are many for Collins fans, dog lovers, and any reader looking for clever, poignant, and spirit-lifting poems accompanied by deft, lively, and affectionate paintings."--Booklist Billy Collins's Dog Show celebrates the joy of our canine best friends, honoring the love we feel for the animals who play such vital roles in our lives. In twenty-five poems, Collins distills the many ways dogs warm our hearts, from the happiness we experience as we watch a dog run unencumbered by our burdens, to the silliness of cradling a dog in our arms as we step on the scale together. Turning his inimitable eye and ear to the complexities of dog behavior, Collins ponders all that these winning creatures give us and what we learn from them about ourselves. For more than four decades Collins has delighted readers with his insight, wit, and clear poetic voice. In Dog Show, "America's favorite poet" (The Wall Street Journal) illuminates America's favorite pet (sorry, cat lovers). Accompanied by Pamela Sztybel's watercolors, which effortlessly depict a dog's humble grace, Dog Show reveals the profound role these majestic animals play in our lives and the meaning they give us.
Radical Thinking
'Will change how you see the world' Derren Brown Radical Thinking is a book about how you view the world. It's about the things that shape your thoughts, from what you notice and how you interpret it, to what you assume, believe and want. It's also about how, if you think in a radical way, you can look beyond your limited view of the world to see the bigger picture.
Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook--General (Black & White)
Feline
"A big and beautiful gift-worthy holiday art book" (New York Times) from the preeminent animal portrait photographer and the bestselling author of Dogs, Endangered, and Birds, this is a stunning collection of over 170 photographs of cats, with text on the species, their evolution, and why we love them. With this lush, gift-ready package, Tim Flach's Feline celebrates domestic cats while also highlighting their wild counterparts and the urgent conservation efforts to protect them and their habitats. For thousands of years, felines have captivated humanity with their beauty, intelligence, unpredictability, and fierce independence. In his latest work, world-renowned photographer Tim Flach explores this deep, sometimes one-sided but always enduring bond, revealing the many identities of cats--from their sacred status in ancient cultures to their viral superstardom in the digital age. Feline showcases the world's most extraordinary cats, show champions, and internet icons with millions of followers. From pedigrees like the classic British Shorthair and curly coated Rex breeds to the werewolf-like Lykoi and the humble moggie representing the majority, Flach's images capture the personality, character, and spirit of felines in a way never seen before. Evolutionary biologist Jonathan Losos provides fascinating context, weaving together science, history, and human connections to explore what makes cats so compelling. He examines their evolutionary journey, adaptation to diverse environments, and the growing influence of human intervention on breeding. Meanwhile, neuroscientist Morten Kringelbach delves into the science of cuteness, unthreading why felines hold such power over us. QR codes offer exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, providing insights into Flach's creative process and the authenticity of these unbelievable felines. From the untamed wild to the warmth of our homes, Feline is a mesmerizing tribute to the grace, mystery, and enduring presence of cats in our lives.This beautiful volume is the gift book every cat lover needs.
Vegetable Garden Tools
Essential tools for successful vegetable growers Often overlooked by both home and market gardeners, the right farm and garden tools are essential for cultivating success. Vegetable Garden Tools: A Grower's Guide will help you select the appropriate equipment for your unique situation, drawing on "The Market Gardener Method." This method, developed by Jean-Martin Fortier, is a proven formula for successful, small-scale, high-yield microfarming. This highly accessible, succinct, and beautifully illustrated full-color handbook features: Recommendations for garden tools and implements for every stage of cultivation--from soil preparation and sowing to planting, crop maintenance, and harvesting. A focus on "low-tech" hand tools that are inexpensive, sustainable, and allow for working the soil while respecting biodiversity. These tools increase productivity and efficiency, and improve ergonomics. Detailed information on the function, benefits, and operation of each piece of equipment, accompanied by over 100 explanatory drawings. Specific advice and tips to get the most out of your garden tools and farm equipment, whether you are using them in a family garden or on a diversified market farm. Vegetable Garden Tools: A Grower's Guide is a keystone title in the Grower's Guides from the Market Gardener series. This curated collection of practical handbooks is designed to provide everyone from novice gardeners to seasoned horticulturalists and farmers with the information they need to grow better using Jean-Martin Fortier's principles of biointensive, regenerative agriculture at a human scale.
Propagating Plants
Fill your garden with beautiful plants for next-to-nothing Do you long to grow your own plants from scratch? This complete guide from the experts at the RHS will teach you how to propagate virtually every type of plant. If you're a thrifty gardener who wants more plants for free, then this book is perfect for you! From fruit trees and ornamental shrubs to exotic orchids and succulents, get all the info you'll need to propagate more than 1,500 garden plants. Crammed with hundreds of step-by-step tutorials and clear advice, ranging from straightforward and simple to more in-depth and challenging. The rating system in the plant-by-plant A-Z dictionaries provide you with a quick reference to the relative ease or difficulty of each method of propagation. How long do your seedlings need to germinate? What makes a healthy stem cutting? How do you know what type of rootstock to use when grafting plants? Find out the answer to these questions and more in the most comprehensive guide to propagating plants ever published.
Santa Barbara
Afficianados of Spanish Style architecture recognize Santa Barbara as a mecca, the influence of which continues to be felt nationwide. This book is an invitation to revisit this Eden and explore not just the Spanish, but a variety of period revival styles found throughout the region. The doors of many of these hidden homes have never been opened to the public--till now. With new photographs of houses steeped in the period revival tradition, from 1838 to today, not since Rizzoli's Santa Barbara Style (2001) has a book so eloquently captured the distinctive splendor of this seaside paradise. Known worldwide for the Santa Barbara style, the town epitomizes a type of building at once elegant and suffused with poetry. At its heart is the historic downtown, featuring white-washed Mediterranean-style stucco buildings with tile roofs and the iconic Santa Barbara Mission of 1786, whose austere beauty set the tone for all that followed. From its earliest days, the influence of this place has been felt and has since radiated across the sunbelt; it continues to be a model of emulation and inspiration. But it is the houses and the dream of living in Santa Barbara and its sister communities of Ojai, Carpinteria, Summerland, Goleta, and Montecito that casts the most profound spell. Featuring a wide range of these houses, estates, and gardens--from the landmarked Rancho Santa Clara del Norte (1838) to the traditionally styled Villa Corbeau (2006)--the book is a celebration of America's Riviera.
The Curious Kitchen Gardener
Enjoy a whole new tasty cuisine using unexpected ingredients you can find in your own garden, from a Master Food Preserver and Gardener. The Curious Kitchen Gardener is for cooks and gardeners interested in bringing novelty and variety into their lives and homes. It follows each season of planting and harvesting--featuring nearly 35 often overlooked edibles, with illustrations, and a delicious recipe for each, encouraging us to see our gardens as an integrated whole and a year-round practice. Calling upon decades of Master Gardener and Master Food Preserver experience, Linda Ziedrich includes fascinating cultural context and personal connections to each plant. The result is the story of how and why an adventurous gardener cultivated a unique cuisine for herself and her family--and how you can too.
Banksy
The artist known as Banksy has been creating works for over three decades and is one of the best-known artists of our age. Banksy has always believed the best place for his work is on a wall, where it's free and accessible to everyone. That said, since 2002, he's also created around fifty-one print editions, producing an estimated 30,000 artworks. His Pictures on Walls (POW) project played a huge role in shaping his career and the street-art scene at large. This unauthorized guide to Banksy's print editions meticulously documents 174 unique prints, presenting an unparalleled visual catalog of these hugely collectible works.In addition to making his art accessible to a larger audience, these prints often expand on themes seen in his wider body of work, making them essential in understanding his artistic development over the last two decades. Banksy initially offered his prints, both signed and unsigned, for modest prices.Organized by release year, with insightful commentary, essential details about each edition, and faithful and high--quality reproductions, Banksy: The Prints is the ultimate resource for exploring Banksy's printed works.
Love Shacks
- Architecture that inspires a spirit of adventure, the dream of romance and the warmth of love - Reveals 23 beautiful hideaways and retreats from around the globe, including in Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam - Includes interviews with the homeowners, revealing their personal stories and the design journey they took to make their haven happen - Richly photographed in luscious full color throughout, with 'Wild Notes' on each project, detailing aspects of the scenery and identifying a natural feature of the location surrounding each home What could be more romantic than watching the sun rise and set or star gazing at night from a stylish little getaway in the wilderness? Susan Redman explores this desire from the perspective of holiday homeowners throughout the world. In this beautifully illustrated book, journalist, editor and stylist Susan Redman inspires design aficionados and romantics alike to escape the urban jungle for a holiday home of one's own making in a remote or wild location. Featuring 23 beautiful properties, from architecturally sublime modern escapes and restored rustic retreats to cool cabins and charming cottages, Love Shacks provides readers with an authentic perspective as Redman delves deeply to reveal the personal stories of creative couples and individuals who have built, styled or restored their special hideaways. Redman also explores the role of design in these gorgeous getaway homes across Europe, the Americas and Australasia. The "shack" owners share their creative visions and decorating tips on how they, and you, can awaken one's inner stylist by combing the natural environment, local markets, and vintage fairs to source love shack treasures. This compelling book features stunning photographs and interesting notes on the wild and natural setting of each love shack, so you too can immerse yourself in the gorgeous surrounds of each home and find out how the people who live there connect with nature. Loves Shacks is the perfect gift for design enthusiasts, dreamers, romantics and those who want to find sanctuary in nature.
Cat Tales
Feared, revered, respected, and beloved, cats have left an indelible paw print on the histories and civilizations of humankind. Over the last two million years, cats and people have interacted in diverse and unexpected ways, but the predecessors of today's furry friends were predators, not pets.Leading anthropologist Jerry Moore charts the cat's path from deadly enemy to improbable roommate, making use of the latest archaeological evidence to produce an original and revealing narrative. Starting with the terrifying prehistorical scimitar--tooth cat of the Pliocene age and the lion drawings of the Paleolithic Chauvet caverns, Moore journeys through our complicated history with these charismatic creatures. He travels along the Nile and across the Mediterranean, sailing on to South America, exploring pet cemeteries, cat mummies, and exquisite statuary across continents and centuries.Illustrated throughout with photographs, artifacts, and artworks, this book surveys our relationships with cats from the Paleolithic period to the present day, unlocking the mysteries of these remarkable creatures. While cats are now beloved members of families around the world, our attempts to bring cats in from the cold have not always had happy endings, as Moore explores through such famous feline fanciers as Joe Exotic, Siegfried Fischbacher, and Roy Horn. From incredible archaeological finds to cave paintings, and from classical statues to contemporary social media, Cat Tales surveys ancient and modern interactions between humans and cats, wild and domestic, to ask a simple question: who domesticated who?
Interior Style: Japandi
A fusion of functional Eastern minimalism with clean Scandi cosiness, the japandi interior style creates a tranquil home with its focus on warmth, simplicity, natural elements and muted colours. Elements such as bamboo, wood and stone, along with clean lines and uncluttered spaces make a restful environment. With a historical overview of the decor, and illustrated with examples of notable interiors and key elements of lighting, furniture, colour palette, texture and textile, Japandi offers practical advice on how to recreate the look in your own home. With a historical overview of the decor, and illustrated with examples of notable interiors and key elements of lighting, furniture, colour palette, texture and textile, the book offers practical advice on how to recreate the look in your own home.
Sweet Pea School
From experienced flower farmer and reigning "Sweet Pea Queen" Marryn Mathis comes this gorgeous, instructive guide to growing and harvesting your own sweet peas. With their delicate petals, whimsical vines, and intoxicating scent, sweet peas are some of the most nostalgic and beloved blooms--and they're easy to grow. Known for the vibrant kaleidoscope of varieties she cultivates on her Washington farm, Marryn Mathis shares her deep knowledge and passion for sweet peas, taking you on an informative journey through her fields and teaching you how to plant, grow, harvest, and arrange a bounty of spectacular flowers. Inspired by Mathis's popular "Sweet Pea School" workshops, this gardening book is a master class in sweet peas, sharing: The history of this timeless flower Best practices for planting and growing An overview of popular varieties Step-by-step instructions for creating magnificent floral arrangements Plus, Mathis's inspiring personal story of becoming a flower farmer and building The Farmhouse Flower Farm Overflowing with stunning photos of colorful varietals, romantic bouquets, and gardens in full bloom, this modern guide to sweet peas is a must-have resource for gardeners, farmers, and florists of all levels, as well as designers and creatives eager for inspiration. EXPERT AUTHOR: Marryn Mathis (a.k.a. the Sweet Pea Queen) is a champion of and authority on sweet peas. Her Farmhouse Flower Farm is one of the foremost flower farms in the United States, with a robust mail-order business, social media following, and online and in-person workshops that regularly sell out. The farm was featured on the Magnolia Network's Growing Floret. COMPREHENSIVE FLOWER GUIDE: Sweet peas are beloved for their romantic petals, intoxicating scent, and range of vibrant colors, from pale peach to deep mauve. They're easy to grow--in pots or beds, for cut flowers or your garden--and they attract beneficial pollinators. Sweet Pea School is full of actionable advice and step-by-step instructions for planting, growing, harvesting, and arranging sweet peas, no matter your experience level. Flower farmers and gardeners looking for a hardworking resource and growing guide on sweet peas will find everything they need here. FLOWER LOVERS' GIFT: Brimming with gorgeous imagery of sweet peas on the vine, the farm at sunrise, and stunning floral arrangements, this volume offers an enchanting peek into the life of a flower farmer. It makes an inspired gift for hobbyists as well as experienced florists and gardeners. Flower lovers, design aficionados, and decorators will delight in the beauty and creative fodder in these pages. Display it on a coffee table alongside a vase or a beautiful tray. Perfect for: Gardeners of all levels Flower farmers, growers, and florists Followers of @thefarmhouseflowerfarm and those who have attended their workshops or buy their seeds People who enjoy flower arranging Interior designers and artists looking for inspiration Fans of Floret Farm Gift givers looking for a Mother's Day, housewarming, birthday, or holiday presents
Italy
Imagine navigating the backstreets of seventeenth--century Rome in the dazzling but dangerous company of Caravaggio. Who will you meet as you drop in at the fabulous Villa Borghese--its owner, Cardinal Scipione Borghese, nephew of the pope, or Fillide Melandroni, well--known courtesan and occasional artist's model? Fast--forward to the eighteenth century, and explore the Venice of Canaletto, Casanova, and Carnevale.With twelve chapters, each devoted to an artist or group of artists, and a dozen itineraries to choose from, you can immerse yourself in the world of the great and the not-so-good, wandering in and out of churches, palaces, and grand residences to admire their work "in situ"---all from the comfort of your armchair.Each of the chapters begins with an illustrated map, featuring hand-drawn vignettes that bring to vivid life episodes from the artist's often turbulent existence, as well as key landmarks and local color. Set off on your own Grand Tour for the twenty--first century.
Garden to the Max
Explore a maximalist approach to gardening with this vibrant photography book that features 20 aspirational gardens that prove "more" is better. Having a maximalist garden is a bold aesthetic choice--yet it also brings vitality back to the earth, in an abundant expression of more. Garden to the Max celebrates gardens across the US that embrace maximalism through joy and wonder, nonstop blooms, and abundant layers. The book is a feast of gorgeous photography by Bob Stefko, showcasing individual quirkiness, wild collections, and bold, personality-packed plant combinations that amplify the grandeur of each garden's unique vision, packing in plants for their exuberant style and ecological benefits. Featured gardeners include an amateur ornithologist seeking to attract more birds, an event planner's tropical paradise, a pair of city dwellers reducing their carbon footprint, an urban garden pioneer promoting pollinator gardens, and a life-long biophilic propagating endangered plants to nurture insects. Longtime garden writer Teresa Woodard shares stories of each garden and its fearless designers, the inspirations for their plant collections, and their hopes for our earth's future. Information-packed sidebars full of standout plants and growing tips will inspire dreamers and gardeners to embrace their own passions. Garden to the Max gives everyone permission to bring the exuberant interior style into the garden and develop a spirited reverence for plants, celebrating joy and personality in the garden--to the max!
The Calm and Happy Home
You know that feeling when you walk into a room and everything seems just right? Your home has a powerful effect on how you feel, and you can learn to create a space that feels as good as it looks with modern Feng Shui. Feng Shui expert Kimberley Gallagher combines ancient wisdom with modern neurodesign principles to help you create a home that feels calm, balanced and uplifting. Using simple, practical steps that require minimal time or money, you'll learn how to arrange your space in a way that naturally reduces stress, promotes happiness and even attracts abundance. You'll discover: Feng Shui made simple Easy-to-follow principles to enhance the flow of positive energy through your home.Decluttering with purpose: A Feng Shui approach to letting go of what no longer serves you and making space for what truly matters.Practical storage solutions: Tips to organize your home beautifully, whatever your budget.The power of placement: How mirrors, plants and furniture positioning can influence the energy of a room.Creating restful spaces for children: How colours, layouts and furniture choices can encourage better sleep and a sense of security.Tips for neurodivergence: How lighting, decluttering and colour can affect neurodiverse minds.Boosting abundance: Small shifts in your home layout that can invite in prosperity and success.With room-by-room guidance - plus information on how to use Feng Shui to attract romance, change jobs, move home and more - Kimberley will help you optimize your space so that you can feel more at ease, and attract the life you want to create.
Flower Power
A book for any gardener who wants to successfully grow flowers, this abundantly illustrated volume is the ultimate guide to flower-planting design and composition. Flower Power breaks down the processes, techniques, and thinking in planting design and garden-making, including a how-to on categorizing and understanding plants; a detailed guide to designing your garden considering color, composition, texture, and layers; and how to achieve your garden design with easy techniques, photography, and the proper tools. Fun charts and layouts showing color palettes, flowering calendars, planting forms, density, and distribution are also featured. Flower Power will take your gardening to the next level, using up-to-the-minute international thinking in design translated into an accessible and immersive reference for anyone who wants to try something new in their garden. Critically praised garden designer and flower expert Jac Semmler provides readers with the know-how to bring together a successful and thriving garden.
Small Space, Big Living
Never again compromise on style or function. This simple guide from award-winning interior stylist Sofie Hepworth (@threeboysandapinkbath) provides 10 straightforward strategies to maximize compact spaces and create your dream home. These days, our homes need to be multi-purpose, with uses across our public and private lives, including: dining togetherentertaining guestsworking from homeresting and relaxingworking out and training Small spaces can make this a challenge. But it's all about your perspective. In 2020, Sofie Hepworth designed and built a tiny home for her family of four. She transformed a 450-square-foot shed into a stylish, practical and joyful family home. 'You accumulate so much stuff in life you don't actually need, and it's not all about space if you have a well-thought-out space.' Small Space, Big Living distills Sofie's hard-won wisdom into 10 simple rules for small-space design. Say goodbye to cramped, crowded homes and hello to beautifully curated interiors that make big lives in small spaces comfortable and attractive. With busy, multi-faceted lives, we need home spaces that are practical but also beautiful. A home should reflect your personality and lift your spirits. It should be a welcoming hug when you return and should feel easy to be in. This book is the ultimate blueprint for those looking to live small but dream big.
The Iconic Tropical House
This stunningly illustrated volume presents forty-five of the most interesting tropical houses of the last fifty years, surveying India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, and northern Australia.Author Patrick Bingham-Hall sets the houses in context, arguing that climate, colonization, and modernism, as well as geopolitical events, increasing prosperity, and even air-conditioning since the end of World War II, have created a very specific set of circumstances and therefore houses. This includes buildings with pitched roofs, broad overhangs and eaves, verandas, big doors, and windows, which optimize airflow and solar orientation. Larger-than-life, open to the elements, this is soaring architecture with a strong sense of place. The Iconic Tropical House shows readers that this is architecture that's inherently environmentally attuned and innately sustainable. It's also a book of lush, jaw-dropping houses that seamlessly blend indoor and out, in locations anyone would want to visit.
Freshwater Aquariums
For beginning aquatic fancier looking to start out right with fish, Freshwater Aquariums by David Alderton is the ideal primer. A vertebrate that breathe primarily by means of gills and swim by means of fins is the author's lead-in to the first chapter called "What are Fish?" Alderton builds the reader's confidence by providing solid information about what fish are anatomically speaking, how they evolved, how they breathe, how they move, where they live, and how they behave. The new fancier's aquarium begins in chapter two with instructions on setting up the tank, including selecting the right size, figuring out how many fish, setting the tank, equipment, substrate, heating, lighting, filtrations, plants, water chemistry, assembly, and more. Choosing the freshwater fishes that appeal to the reader is the subject of "Introducing the Categories of Fish," which schools readers in seven categories: Cyprinids (e.g., goldfish, minnows, and barbs), Characins (e.g., tetras), Cichlids (e.g., oscars, angelfish, and discus), Anabantoids (gouramis, bettas/Siamese fighting fish, and paradise fish), Toothcarps (guppies, swordtails, platies, black mollies, and killifish), Catfish, and others (loaches and Chinese algae eaters). The purchasing, maintenance, and feeding of fish are described in considerable details, and the author gives a basic overview of breeding and keeping fish healthy as well. Resources, glossary, and index conclude the book.
National Parks Journal
Record your thoughts in the lovely National Parks Journal, featuring an easy-to-write-in layflat paperback format, 160 pages of lined paper, and serene scenes throughout. The journal boasts a serene national park illustration with a majestic mountain, meandering river, and golden sunrise on its cover, as well as a compact size for easy on-the-go writing. Use it for a variety of purposes, including: Creative writing and brainstorming ideasWriting down thoughtsTaking notes for meetings or classesPracticing calligraphy or handwritingRecording to-do lists and remindersAnd much more!This gorgeous journal is the perfect gift for creatives, writers, students, travelers, nature enthusiasts--or as a gift to yourself. Start writing today!
The Dog Tricks and Training Workbook, Revised and Expanded
Cathodic Protection of Offshore Structures
Cathodic protection, when used in conjunction with protective coatings, is a common method used to protect immersed parts of steel surfaces from corrosion. This text offers detailed recommendations on cathodic protection for offshore structures. Traditional seagoing vessels dock at regular intervals, but offshore structures such as Floating Production Storage and Offloading structures (FPSOs) are stationary and are in continuous operation for prolonged periods of time. Therefore, the design of the corrosion protection for a 15-year or longer service life of a floating offshore structure requires special consideration. Some Floating Production Installations (FPIs) have hull designs similar to oil tankers, especially those converted from oil tankers. Others are designed and built as floating production platforms. Cathodic protection systems are to consider the structure to be protected as a whole as well as individual components which are attached to the structure. The information presented in the text is intended solely to assist the reader in the methodologies and/or techniques discussed. This text does not and cannot replace the analysis and/or advice of a qualified professional. It is the responsibility of the reader to perform their own assessment and obtain professional advice. Information contained in this text is considered to be pertinent at the time of publication but may be invalidated as a result of subsequent legislation, regulations, standards, methods, and/or more updated information and the reader assumes full responsibility for compliance.
