- Table View
- List View
Golden Gate Gardening, 3rd Edition: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area and Coastal California
by Pamela PeirceThe bible of vegetable gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area has been revised and updated! Packed with more than 400 pages of reliable information, Golden Gate Gardenin offers encyclopedic coverage of gardening principles and practices specific to the Bay Area and the Northern California coast. Author Pam Peirce explains strategies for growing common favorite vegetables and herbs, plus unusual ones that bring variety to the garden. She includes information on organizing a garden, dealing with pests, assessing a microclimate, cultivating fruit trees, gardening on a rooftop, harvesting the crop, and creating delicious gardener's dishes. This third edition also contains new or updated information on resources for specific seeds, tomato planting, organic gardening, and vegetables not included in previous editions, including amaranth, shell beans, Chinese broccoli, broccoli raab, Florence fennel, oca, okra, and quinoa. Charts, sidebars, maps, and online resources help make the vegetable gardening experience easier and more fun.
Good Bones, Great Pieces: The Seven Essential Pieces That Will Carry You Through A Lifetime
by Suzanne McGrath Lauren McGrath Lucas Allen“An excellent and useful book for both beginners and more experienced home decorators . . . encourages us all to be both carefree and careful” (Martha Stewart). Making a home is a lifelong pursuit and it starts with your very first place. Suzanne and Lauren McGrath, a mother–daughter team, operate the popular blog Good Bones, Great Pieces. At the core of their philosophy is the belief that every home should have seven essential pieces that can live in almost any room and will always be stylish. The authors explain how to place iconic items of furniture like the love seat and the dresser and rotate them throughout the home as the style or need changes. Illustrated with photographs of homes and apartments that the McGraths have designed, as well as apartments by some iconic designers, this book is a wonderful resource, whether you are starting out with your first apartment or rethinking the design of your home. “A must-read for first-timers and seasoned home decorators alike.” —Traditional Home
Good Bugs for Your Garden
by Allison Mia StarcherAnyone who gardens knows how snails, aphids, scale insects, and caterpillars can damage vegetables, flowers, shrubs, and trees. But not many of us know that ground beetles eat caterpillars, not plants; that dragonflies feed on mosquitoes; that parasitic wasps prey on tomato hornworms. In this delightful guide to the world of beneficial insects, Starcher, an artist and avid gardener, shows us how to identify the "good guys" and encourage them to reside in our gardens. "Altogether delightful."--Newark Star-Ledger; "A fact-filled, charmingly illustrated guide."--American Bookseller. A GARDEN BOOK CLUB selection.
Good Cities, Better Lives: How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism (Planning, History and Environment Series)
by Peter HallThis book has one central theme: how, in the United Kingdom, can we create better cities and towns in which to live and work and play? What can we learn from other countries, especially our near neighbours in Europe? And, in turn, can we provide lessons for other countries facing similar dilemmas? Urban Britain is not functioning as it should. Social inequalities and regional disparities show little sign of going away. Efforts to generate growth, and spread it to the poorer areas of cities, have failed dismally. Much new urban development and redevelopment is not up to standard. Yet there are cities in mainland Europe, which have set new standards of high-quality sustainable urban development. This book looks at these best-practice examples – in Germany, the Netherlands, France and Scandinavia, – and suggests ways in which the UK and other countries could do the same. The book is in three parts. Part 1 analyses the main issues for urban planning and development – in economic development and job generation, sustainable development, housing policy, transport and development mechanisms – and probes how practice in the UK has fallen short. Part Two embarks on a tour of best-practice cities in Europe, starting in Germany with the country’s boosting of its cities’ economies, moving to the spectacularly successful new housing developments in the Netherlands, from there to France’s integrated city transport, then to Scandinavia’s pursuit of sustainability for its cities, and finally back to Germany, to Freiburg – the city that ‘did it all’. Part Three sums up the lessons of Part Two and sets out the key steps needed to launch a new wave of urban development and regeneration on a radically different basis.
The Good City: Reflections and Imaginations
by Allan B. JacobsCities, Allan B. Jacobs contends, ought to be magnificent, beautiful places to live. They should be places where people can be fulfilled, where they can be what they can be, where there is freedom, love, ideas, excitement, quiet and joy. Cities ought to be the ultimate manifestation of society’s collective achievements. Allan B. Jacobs is one of the world’s best known planners and urban design practitioners, with a long and distinguished international career. Drawing on his professional experience of almost sixty years, Jacobs guides the reader through the lessons he’s learnt as a planner and lover of cities. Cities from Brazil, Italy, India, Japan, China and the US are featured. Written with a wonderfully engaging, humorous tone and Jacobs’ own drawings, The Good City transfers lessons on city design, building and urban change to all those willing to help cities become the magnificent, beautiful places they should be - and encourages all inhabitants to learn to appreciate and explore their own cities.
Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop
by Nick OffermanAfter two New York Times bestsellers, Nick Offerman returns with the subject for which he's known best--his incredible real-life woodshop. Nestled among the glitz and glitter of Tinseltown is a testament to American elbow grease and an honest-to-god hard day's work: Offerman Woodshop. Captained by hirsute woodworker, actor, comedian, and writer Nick Offerman, the shop produces not only fine handcrafted furniture, but also fun stuff--kazoos, baseball bats, ukuleles, mustache combs, even cedar-strip canoes. Now Nick and his ragtag crew of champions want to share their experience of working at the Woodshop, tell you all about their passion for the discipline of woodworking, and teach you how to make a handful of their most popular projects along the way. This book takes readers behind the scenes of the woodshop, both inspiring and teaching them to make their own projects and besotting them with the infectious spirit behind the shop and its complement of dusty wood-elves. In these pages you will find a variety of projects for every skill level, with personal, easy-to-follow instructions by the OWS woodworkers themselves; and, what's more, this tutelage is augmented by mouth-watering color photos (Nick calls it "wood porn"). You will also find writings by Nick, offering recipes for both comestibles and mirth, humorous essays, odes to his own woodworking heroes, insights into the ethos of woodworking in modern America, and other assorted tomfoolery. Whether you've been working in your own shop for years, or if holding this stack of compressed wood pulp is as close as you've ever come to milling lumber, or even if you just love Nick Offerman's brand of bucolic yet worldly wisdom, you'll find Good Clean Fun full of useful, illuminating, and entertaining information.From the Hardcover edition.
The Good Enough Guide to Better Living: Leave Your Dishes in the Sink, Serve Your Guests Leftovers, and Make the Most Out of Doing the Least at Home
by Alison ThrockmortonWith an abundance of hilarious household tips, Leave Your Dishes in the Sink is here to teach you how to look like you're doing the most by doing less.Most home economics books share the same guidance: "the best way of doing things." In a world of Instagram-worthy homes and Pinterest-perfect meals, sometimes the best way of doing things feels unattainable. Leave Your Dishes in the Sink teaches you how to work with life’s most relatable habits to create the illusion of upkeep and a façade of cleanliness. Taking you room by room—from the kitchen and the living room to the bedroom and the bathroom—you’ll learn the proper (aka easiest) way of doing things. Avoid dirty dishes by eating out of the jar. Choose the houseplant that will match your level of self-doubt. And who needs folding the laundry when you have The Chair? You’ll even find out how to entertain your guests without them noticing you haven’t vacuumed your carpet since you signed your lease.With the help of elegant charts and diagrams, you’ll find answers to some of the life’s toughest questions, including:How do I fold a fancy napkin? (Just don’t.)Does a bucket count as a cup? (Yes.)Which way does the toilet paper roll go? (Who cares!)Witty and absurd, Leave Your Dishes in the Sink is a hilarious reminder that real life exists and it’s okay to give yourself a break. By doing less, you too can create your dream home—or at least one that’s totally fine just the way it is.The best kind of self-improvement book, this anti-perfectionism guide gives you permission to give yourself a break while getting in some laughs!LAUGH-OUT-LOUD RELATABLE: Author Alison Throckmorton perfectly distills all the universal shortcuts we take as adults trying to keep it all together, like leaving your dishes in the sink "to soak" and using that one chair you have as a second dresser.REAL-WORLD HOUSEHOLD HINTS & TIPS: For anyone exhausted by searching for things that spark joy or the TikToks pushing housecleaning as therapy, this guide offers the perfect mix of parody and empathy. Step over the laundry pile to flip through these delightfully illustrated pages for tips and tricks to finding happiness among the chaos.FUNNY GIFT FOR EVERYBODY: This book makes a great gift for a recent graduate, a friend who just became a homeowner or renter, a new mom, or a parent who has been keeping the house together for thirty years.Perfect for:Anyone who hates doing household chores (everyone)Millennials trying to adultNew renters or homeownersGift-giving for birthday, graduation, Mother’s Day, or Father's DayReaders of Feathered & Fabulous, The Underachiever's Manifesto, and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Good Fengshui: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Balance and Harmony in Your Home
by Eva WongFengshui master Eva Wong breaks it down for beginners.This easy-to-use, fengshui 101 guide to the ancient practice will give you invaluable advice as you choose or build a home—and bring positive, healthy energy to your existing home, office, or garden.Enhance the energy of your home, workplace, or garden using the principles of the Taoist art of fengshui. This primer will teach you to bring harmonizing, beneficial energy into any space.Taoist arts master Eva Wong introduces readers to the powerful traditional system of fengshui. It is not simply a list of directives for arranging interiors for good luck—it is the art of reading the patterns of the universe and living in harmony with the environment.Bedrooms with good fengshui maximize health and minimize illnesses. Home offices with good fengshui facilitate business vision and accumulation of wealth. Even garages, driveways, and gardens can affect our health, livelihood, and the way we interact with the world. Whether you are buying, renting, or renovating a home—or you want to change the atmosphere and energy of the home you are in—Wong will teach you to identify and work with the possibilities and limitations of your space. In this concise book, Wong explains the essential principles and guidelines of fengshui; offers tips for home buyers, including architectural positives and negatives, and neighborhood perks and challenges; shows you how to assess your indoor and outdoor spaces; and much more As the owner of a construction and engineering business, Wong&’s recommendations are practical, safe, and economical.
Good House Hunting
by Dennis Wedlick Philip LangdonWithout a doubt, the most important investment of your life will be your home. No other purchase will matter more to your lifestyle, financial future, and personal well-being. It is never too late or too soon to set a course for creating a home that will provide the maximum return and fulfill your dreams. With step-by-step instruction, Good House Hunting will take you on an inspirational and practical journey to finding your dream home -- both within your imagination and out in the real estate world. For home buyers, Good House Hunting will help you navigate the complex process of finding the property with the greatest potential. For home owners, Good House Hunting provides the framework to help you maximize your current property. For dreamers, Good House Hunting sets out the course for dream home planning, so when you are ready you will have a plan. If you long to discover what home would be a worthy investment for improving your fortunes and accomplishing your dreams, Good House Hunting is for you.
Good Housekeeping 123 Cook!: My First Cookbook
by Good Housekeeping Kate MerkerKids ages 4 to 8 will get a kick out of making 50 easy recipes while learning kitchen basics and having fun in the kitchen!It&’s never too soon to get cooking. So, tie on that apron and get ready for some recipe fun! Kiddo cooks will learn all about basic kitchen skills while making these tried and true—and don&’t forget delicious!—dishes from Good Housekeeping. From Ooey-Gooey Glazed Cinnamon Rolls for breakfast, Traffic-Stopping Sandwiches for lunch, Totally Twisted Pasta with Cherry Tomato Sauce for dinner, and Ice Cream Cake Pops for dessert, young chefs will discover the fun and satisfaction of making their own food. Inside this beginner's cookbook, your budding chef will find:Easy-to-read recipes that speak directly to kids (not down to them), and show them just what to do (while letting parents know how they can help, too!)Test Kitchen avatars (the Good Housekeeping kitchen testers are shown as cartoon characters!), photos, and step-by-step instructions teach kids about the recipes and basic techniques, like cracking eggs and juicing citrus.The down-low on using common kitchen equipment, fun, cool facts about kids&’ favorite ingredients, advice on whenever a grown up&’s help is needed, and tips and sidebars to make sure kids get everything they need to succeed. These no-fail, Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen tested-til-perfect recipes are sure to build kids&’ confidence as they learn to make really tasty food for themselves and their families. With colorful photographs and easy-to-read recipes and helpful advice on every page, this cookbook will guide kids through their first culinary adventures. Bon voyage and bon appétit!
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.