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Good Housekeeping 6 Super Snacks for Kids!: Easy Recipes from 123 Cook!
by The editors of Good HousekeepingA special sampling of fun and easy snack recipes from Good Housekeeping 1,2,3 Cook! Tie on that apron and get ready for some kitchen fun! From Cozy Pigs in Blankets, Celery Snails and Caterpillars, and Veggie Garden Toast, young chefs will discover the excitement and satisfaction of making their own delicious snacks. Even better, kids will create exciting new memories about learning how to cook with their family! Once you&’ve tried these snacks you&’ll want to get all 50 recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner and holiday treats in Good Housekeeping 1, 2, 3 Cook! My First Cookbook.
Good Housekeeping Amazing Science: 83 Hands-on S.T.E.A.M Experiments for Curious Kids!
by Rachel Rothman Good Housekeeping Aubre AndrusAwesome S.T.E.A.M.-based science experiments you can do right at home with easy-to-find materials designed for maximum enjoyment, learning, and discovery for kids ages 8 to 12Join the experts at the Good Housekeeping Institute Labs and explore the science you interact with every day. Using the scientific method, you&’ll tap into your own super-powers of logic and deduction to go on a science adventure. The engaging experiments exemplify core concepts and range from quick and simple to the more complex. Each one includes clear step-by-step instructions and color photos that demonstrate the process and end result. Plus, secondary experiments encourage young readers to build on what they&’ve discovered. A &“Mystery Solved!&” explanation of the science at work helps your budding scientist understand the outcomes of each experiment. These super-fun, hands-on experiments include: • Building a solar oven and making s&’mores • Creating an active rain cloud in a jar • Using static electricity created with a balloon to power a light bulb • Growing your own vegetables—from scraps! • Investigating the forces that make an object sink or float • And so much more! Bursting with more than 200 color photos and incredible facts, this sturdy hard cover is the perfect gift for any aspiring biologist, chemist, physicist, engineer, and mathematician!
Good Housekeeping Amazing Science Free S.T.E.A.M. Experiment Sampler
by Rachel RothmanTry 7 hands-on S.T.E.A.M. experiments in this special sampler from Good Housekeeping Amazing Science. You can make a vortex, investigate the forces that make an object sink or float and find out what happens when soap bubbles bump into one another!Inside, you&’ll find: • A color photograph for every experiment • Easy-to-follow instructions and a &“Mystery Solved&” explanation of the science at work • PLUS: incredible facts about water from Good Housekeeping lab experts Once you&’ve tried these experiments you&’ll want to get all 83 of them in Good Housekeeping Amazing Science! Bursting with more than 200 color photos and incredible facts, this is the ultimate book for your aspiring biologist, chemist, physicist, engineer, and mathematician. It&’s perfect for kids who are 7-years-old and older. Order now!
Good Housekeeping Clean & Organizing: 8 Home Skills from Our New Book
by Good HousekeepingA special collection of essential cleaning and organizing know-how from Good Housekeeping Home SkillsThe editors and scientists at Good Housekeeping and its lab, the Good Housekeeping Institute, share genius solutions and trusted, expert advice in this mini how-to guide. Discover how to speed clean any room, remove common stains, and organize your closet and more! Once you&’ve tried these life-changing tricks you&’ll want to get all 850+ skills found in Good Housekeeping Home Skills, a practical and attractive handbook to get anything done faster and easier.
Good Housekeeping Decorate & Renovate: 7 Home Skills from Our New Book
by Good HousekeepingA special collection of essential decorating know-how from Good Housekeeping Home SkillsThe editors and scientists at Good Housekeeping and its lab, the Good Housekeeping Institute, share genius solutions and trusted, expert advice in this mini how-to guide. Discover how to cozy up your living room, enlarge a small space, and refresh tired furniture and more!Once you&’ve tried these life-changing tricks you&’ll want to get all 850+ skills found in Good Housekeeping Home Skills, a practical and attractive handbook to get anything done faster and easier.
Good Housekeeping Enjoy Outdoor Living: 5 Home Skills from Our New Book
by The editors of Good HousekeepingA special collection of essential outdoor living know-how from Good Housekeeping Home SkillsThe editors and scientists at Good Housekeeping and its lab, the Good Housekeeping Institute, share genius solutions and trusted, expert advice in this mini how-to guide. Discover how to refresh your outdoor living space, grow pretty perennials and more! Once you&’ve tried these life-changing tricks you&’ll want to get all 850+ skills found in Good Housekeeping Home Skills, a practical and attractive handbook to get anything done faster and easier.
Good Housekeeping Home Skills: Master Your Domain with Practical Solutions to Everyday Challenges
by Good Housekeeping Jane FranciscoA practical and attractive handbook with more than 850 essential life skills to get anything done faster and easierThe editors and scientists at Good Housekeeping and its lab, the Good Housekeeping Institute, share genius solutions and trusted, expert advice in this how-to guide to making life simpler. With chapters on the kitchen, organizing and cleaning, decorating, home maintenance, outdoor living, and entertaining and celebrating, this go-to resource offers step-by-step illustrated instructions, inspiring photos and sometimes surprising but always practical guidance to get things done. Plus, you'll save time and money and even have fun along the way. The 850+ skills include how to: • Store and make your own spice mixes • Clean your house in 15 minutes • Seal a drafty window • Remove water rings from your tables • Perk up a grocery-store bouquet • Sew a button • Plant an outdoor herb garden (and keep herbs fresh after they are picked!) • Make the perfect boiled egg • Uncork champagne • Cure a hangover and so much more! QR codes throughout the pages offer additional lessons and video instruction. Whatever home means to you, this book is brimming with invaluable know-how to keep your home in tip-top shape and to help you inject more fun and flair into your every day.
The Good Housekeeping Household Encyclopedia
by Good HousekeepingHow to manage a household, with a variety of tips and techniques.
Good Housekeeping Maintain & Repair: 7 Home Skills from Our New Book
by Good HousekeepingA special collection of essential home repair know-how from Good Housekeeping Home SkillsThe editors and scientists at Good Housekeeping and its lab, the Good Housekeeping Institute, share genius solutions and trusted, expert advice in this mini how-to guide. Discover how to stock your toolbox, fix a wobbly chair, remove a dent in the carpet and more! Once you&’ve tried these life-changing tricks you&’ll want to get all 850+ skills found in Good Housekeeping Home Skills, a practical and attractive handbook to get anything done faster and easier.
Good Housekeeping Organize Your Life
by The editors of Good HousekeepingDecluttering your home has never been easier with this step-by-step action plan. Plus, hundreds of genius tricks help you create a calm and tidy life.Often the hardest part of organizing is getting started. This attractive book from the experts at Good Housekeeping breaks down your decluttering to-do list into smaller zones so you can tidy up and whip your home into shape. Whether you're looking to take on every room in the house or focus on trouble spots (like your linen closet and that junk drawer!), this step-by-step action plan will help you decide what to keep and what to let go, as well as give you neat ideas for putting every space and every room in order…and to keep them that way. With 5-minute tidy-up projects or a 28-day declutter challenge and beautiful photographs throughout, you&’ll unlock the secrets to an organized home. Inside you&’ll find how to: Divide your organizing projects into zones to make them manageableClear out your closets Dejunk the junk drawer–for good! Maximize space in the fridge, freezer and pantry Free up overstuffed nooks and crannies Boost bathroom storageWith inspiring yet practical advice from the home experts at Good Housekeeping, you&’ll create order in your home and transform your life.
Good Housekeeping Prep & Cook: 10 Home Skills from Our New Book
by Good HousekeepingA special collection of essential cooking know-how from Good Housekeeping Home SkillsThe editors and scientists at Good Housekeeping and its lab, the Good Housekeeping Institute, share genius solutions and trusted, expert advice in this mini how-to guide. Discover how to ripen any fruit, butterfly a chicken, brew a perfect cup of tea or coffee and more! Once you&’ve tried these life-changing tricks you&’ll want to get all 850+ skills found in Good Housekeeping Home Skills, a practical and attractive handbook to get anything done faster and easier.
The Good Life Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands-On Living
by Dale Dougherty Sandor Ellix Katz Wendy Jehanara Tremayne Christopher Bamford Brad Lancaster Alyce Santoro Pir Zia Inayat-Kahn The Reverend Billy Doug RushkoffTired of the high-pressure life they lead in New York City, Wendy Jehanara Tremayne and her husband migrate to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, where they build, invent, forage, and grow all they need for themselves. Full of quirky stories and imaginative illustrations, this inspiring memoir chronicles the off-the-grid adventures of the Tremaynes. Touchingly personal while also providing practical tutorials on making your own biofuel, building an efficient house, and gardening sustainably, The Good Life Lab will encourage you to chase your dreams of self-sufficiency.
The Good Living Guide to Country Skills: Wisdom for Growing Your Own Food, Raising Animals, Canning and Fermenting, and More
by Abigail R. GehringGehring’s books on country living have sold more than 500,000 copies. In this book, Gehring offers a guide to country living skills that is as charming as it is practical. Full of sweet illustrations and gorgeous photographs, step-by-step instructions for essential skills such as building a chicken coop are interspersed with country lore and old-fashioned tips and tricks.Readers will learn how to:Raise chickensMake candlesChurn butterGrow vegetablesMake jams and jelliesDry herbsFerment vegetablesMake cheeseAnd more!Good Living Guide to Country Skills combines the know-how of Back to Basics with the charm of The Farmer’s Almanac. Packaged in an attractive hardcover format and with a price that’s hard to beat, this is the perfect gift for anyone interested in a more self-sufficient, greener, country lifestyle.
The Good Living Guide to Keeping Sheep and Other Fiber Animals: Housing, Feeding, Shearing, Spinning, Dyeing, and More
by Janet GarmanA comprehensive and inspiring guide small-scale fiber farming and wool crafting. Fiber crafts—such as knitting, weaving, and crocheting—continue to surge in popularity, with sites like Ravelry (a social media community for the wool obsessed) gaining more than six million members. Artists are seeking quality raw materials in greater numbers. The cottage industry of supplying not only raw fleece, but handcrafted yarns, is strong. Janet Garman has a small fiber flock (including Pygora fiber goats) and shares her expertise, as well as interviews, tips, and advice from fiber farmers and craftspeople across the country. In these pages, readers will learn the basics of properly raising sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas, and rabbits, with tips on selecting animals, feeding, housing, breeding, and healthcare. From there, instructions are provided for shearing, sorting, skirting, washing, picking, carding, combing, and spinning the wool. Enthusiasts will also find recipes and instructions for natural, plant-based dyes and advice for selling your finished yarn. The proper care of fiber animals leads to a superior yarn product. Lapses in good care can show up in the fleece. As the demand for quality yarn and fiber grows, more people are becoming concerned with the animals’ treatment and care. Give your animals a good home and a happy life and enjoy superior fleece and yarn products for your own homestead or to sell.
The Good Living Guide to Natural and Herbal Remedies: Simple Salves, Teas, Tinctures, and More
by Katolen YardleyThis back-to-nature reference guide details effective herbal medicines and natural remedies for digestive complaints, sore muscles, wound healing, teenage acne, allergic reactions, and much more. This book is packed with herbal wisdom, traditional use, and just the right amount of science. Gain confidence and understand how to use plant medicine in your home. Dive into the alchemy and art of herbal medicine preparations, receive safety tips, and perfect the techniques to create your own elixirs at home using the numerous recipes provided for delicious foods, herbal teas, tinctures, poultices, liniments, fomentations, herbal vinegars, salves, and oils. Scattered throughout are reflections on how bodies heal and the natural world's role in facilitating healing through connection to spirit and building community.Author Katolen Yardley has more than twenty years of experience as a Medical Herbalist and teaches courses in herbal medicine and naturopathy. Here she offers a simple, straightforward, and beautiful guide to natural remedies that will help you take charge of your health using nature’s own medicine.
The Good Reverend's Guide to Infused Spirits: Alchemical Cocktails, Healing Elixirs, and Cleansing Solutions for the Home and Bar
by Steven Grasse Sonia KurtzA complete guide to home uses for neutral spirits, from infusions and tinctures to cocktails and cleaning solutions. A bottle of rectified alcohol, like The Good Reverend’s Universal Spirit from Tamworth Distilling, is a bottle of possibilities. In these pages, you’ll discover over 100 recipes for infusions, tinctures, cocktails, cordials, elixirs, punches, and even household cleaners. This handbook will teach you to replicate famous liqueurs and classic cocktails, and help you prepare perfect garnishes and celebratory toasts. With step-by-step instructions and photos, you’ll learn processes culinary, scientific, and alchemical to improve everything from your parties to your health. You’ll learn the processes of osmosis and dissolution that create the perfect infusions. You’ll be given the secrets to prep for guests lists of 1 or 100. You’ll be guided through pairing your alcoholic creations with the rhythms of nature. Yes, with a bottle of purified spirits, you’ll be able to purify your own human spirit. These recipes explain not just the flavor benefits of their ingredients, but also the spiritual and supernatural. Discover the meanings of herbs, the ratio of the Fibonacci sequence, and the effects of moon phases, among so much more. Come for the drinks, but stay for the magic.
Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
by Fumio SasakiThe best-selling phenomenon from Japan that shows us a minimalist life is a happy life. Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo—he’s just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided to change his life by saying goodbye to everything he didn’t absolutely need. The effects were remarkable: Sasaki gained true freedom, new focus, and a real sense of gratitude for everything around him. In Goodbye, Things Sasaki modestly shares his personal minimalist experience, offering specific tips on the minimizing process and revealing how the new minimalist movement can not only transform your space but truly enrich your life. The benefits of a minimalist life can be realized by anyone, and Sasaki’s humble vision of true happiness will open your eyes to minimalism’s potential.
Google SketchUp Cookbook: Practical Recipes and Essential Techniques
by Bonnie RoskesAs the first book for intermediate and advanced users of Google SketchUp, this Cookbook goes beyond the basics to explore the complex features and tools that design professionals use. You'll get numerous step-by-step tutorials for solving common (and not so common) design problems, with detailed color graphics to guide your way, and discussions that explain additional ways to complete a task. Google SketchUp Cookbook will help you: Use SketchUp more efficiently by taking advantage of components and groups Learn new techniques for using Follow Me, Intersect, and constraints Go beyond simple textures with tools such as texture positioning and Photo Match Create animations and walkthroughs, and explore design scenarios by using layers and scenes Learn how to use styles to customize your presentations Combine SketchUp with the 3D Warehouse and Google Earth Google SketchUp Cookbook is ideal for architects, engineers, interior designers, product designers, woodworkers, and other professionals and hobbyists who want to work more efficiently and achieve true mastery of this amazing tool.
Google SketchUp for Site Design
by Daniel TalGoogle SketchUp for Site Design illustrates a holistic approach to SketchUp: how it works and more importantly, what to do with it. Filled with tutorials from front to back, the book focuses on the start and completion of projects that include rich detail and expression. Each part and chapter of the book builds on the previous chapters and tutorial. You will learn how to approach modeling site plans, buildings and site elements: from modeling each of these exterior environment elements to piecing them together to generate a singular and expressive model. The book culminates with tutorials demonstrating effective and simple ways to include grades and terrain using the Sandbox tools and how best to integrate the entire approach with AutoCAD and SketchUp. Also included are links to supplemental on-line resources such as YouTube tutorials and free tutorial and example models from 3D Warehouse. The book is useful for all SketchUp proficiency levels including beginners, hobbyists, and professionals.
Gorgeously Green
by Sophie UlianoAre you confused by all the advice you hear and see daily on how to "go green"? Do you want to incorporate earth-friendly practices into your life, but you don't know where to start? Don't stress! Green guru Sophie Uliano has sorted through all the eco-info out there and put everything you need to know about living a green lifestyle right at your fingertips. In Gorgeously Green, Sophie offers a simple eight-step program that is an easy and fun way to begin living an earth-friendly life. Each chapter covers topics from beauty to fitness, shopping to your kitchen--even your transportation. Whether it's finding the right lipstick, making dinner, buying gifts, or picking out a hot new outfit, finally, there is a book that tackles your daily eco-challenges with a take-charge plan. Just consider Sophie your go-to girl with all the eco-solutions. Find out how to: Green your entire beauty regime Detoxify your home Indulge in guilt-free shopping Adopt a home fitness routine Prepare eco-licious treats Give your kitchen a green makeover Become more aware of your impact on the earth The book's dozens and dozens of eco-friendly tips, products, and practices combine to form a treasure trove of practical advice for every possible way to become stylishly green. Your questions about dressing, makeup, eating, shopping, cleaning, travel, and more are all answered right here. Adopting a green lifestyle is among the most positive, forward-thinking, and personally fulfilling choices that anyone can make--and Gorgeously Green shows that it doesn't have to be tedious, time-consuming, or glamourless!
Got Sun?: 200 Best Native Plants for Your Garden (Encounters)
by Jean Vietor Carolyn A. HarstadAre you looking for more butterflies and birds in your yard? Do you enjoy seasonal color and beauty? Are you concerned about environmental issues such as water conservation and pollution control? Do you yearn for simple, maintenance-free gardening? Arranged in a question-and-answer format, Got Sun? showcases native trees, shrubs, ground covers, ferns, vines, grasses, and over 100 sun-friendly perennials for your home garden. Illustrated with detailed drawings and beautiful color photographs, this is a book to keep close at hand as you plan and plant your garden.
Gothic Ornament: Architectural Motifs from York Cathedral
by Joseph HalfpennyThese royalty-free motifs feature exquisite specimens of the sculptured ornaments from northern Europe's largest medieval cathedral. The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of St. Peter in York, popularly known as York Minster, was founded as a missionary church. Its soaring Gothic architecture and vast interior, parts of which date back to the 13th century, feature some of the best examples of the medieval craftsman's work to be found anywhere.This compilation consists of 175 illustrations, selected from throughout the cathedral. Like the building of the church itself, the ornaments were executed during different eras. This collection, reproduced from a rare 18th-century volume, offers artists and graphic designers an unusual selection of authentic architectural motifs from the Middle Ages.
Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots
by Ronald ArkinExpounding on the results of the author's work with the US Army Research Office, DARPA, the Office of Naval Research, and various defense industry contractors, Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots explores how to produce an "artificial conscience" in a new class of robots, humane-oids, which are robots that can potentially perform more et
Grace Rose Farm: The Complete Guide to Growing & Arranging Spectacular Blooms
by Gracielinda PoulsonAn inspiration of roses A one-of-a-kind guide to growing, cutting, and arranging the most beautiful roses in the world, Garden Roses belongs in the hands of every flower lover. Created by Gracielinda Poulson, the preeminent rose grower in the country and proprietor of Grace Rose Farm, each page of this glorious book steeps the reader in the iconic mystique of the rose: Its breathtaking beauty, in hundreds of photographs. Its secrets, in the incredible breadth of information on the varieties best suited for cutting and how to raise them to thrive in the garden or a container, in almost any climate zone. And its unique presence in our lives, in all the ways to style and display roses, from a simple vaseful to more elaborate tablescapes and floral arches, truly elevating the flower that more than any other has captured our imaginations and delighted our eyes.
The Grafter's Handbook: Revised & updated edition
by Steve Bradley R. J. GarnerR. J. Garner's The Grafter's Handbook is the classic reference book on plant propagation by grafting and has now been revised and updated for a new generation by respected horticulturalist, Steven Bradley. Everything the dedicated amateur, student and professional horticulturalist wants to know about grafting is here, clearly written in a concise and straightforward style. Chapters include Compatibility & Cambial Contact, Rootstocks & their Propagation, Tools & Accessories, Methods of Grafting and Grafting Established Trees.