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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.
The Grafter's Handbook
by R. J. GarnerR. J. Garner'sThe Grafter's Handbookis the classic reference book and revered encyclopedia (and the only one of its kind) on plant propagation by grafting, and has been favored by orchardists and gardeners since its first publication in 1947. Now revised and updated for a new generation by respected horticulturist Steve Bradley, the all-time classic is back and better than ever. Everything the dedicated amateur, student, and professional horticulturalist wants to know about grafting is here, clearly written in a concise and straightforward style, the distillation of a lifetime's careful study and research. Chapters include information on compatilibility and cambial contact; rootstocks and their propagation; tools and accessories; methods of grafting; and grafting established trees. Praise for earlier editions:"Mr. Garner almost certainly knows more about vegetative propagation of tree and bush fruit than any man on earth; and what is more to the purpose, he knows how to convey his knowledge clearly in word and line. "--The Guardian"This is not only a masterly textbook illustrated with very clear line drawings and photographs, but also a fascinating anthology of all the ways in which man has found it possible, for one reason or another, to put two varieties of plants together to make one. "--Country Life
The Grafter's Handbook: Revised & updated edition
by R. J. Garner Steve BradleyR. 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.
Grafting Fruit Trees: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-35 (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin Ser.)
by Larry SouthwickSince 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
A Grammar of Japanese Ornament and Design
by Thomas W. CutlerThe lovely images in this rare collection comprise one of the most comprehensive surveys of mid-19th-century Japanese art and ornamentation. Included are graceful details from landscapes, floral motifs, abstracts, illustratons of sea life, and other subjects-ideal for use in a host of art and craft projects. Over 300 figures on 65 plates.
The Grammar of Ornament: A Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts
by Owen JonesThe complete and unabridged full-color editionFirst published in 1856, The Grammar of Ornament remains a design classic. Its inspiration came from pioneering British architect and designer Owen Jones (1809-1874), who produced a comprehensive design treatise for the machine age, lavishly illustrated in vivid chromolithographic color. Jones made detailed observations of decorative arts on his travels in Europe, the Middle East, and in his native London, where he studied objects on display at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851 and at local museums. His aim was to improve the quality of Western design by changing the habits of Victorian designers, who indiscriminately mixed elements from a wide variety of sources.Jones's resulting study is a comprehensive analysis of styles of ornamental design, presenting key examples ranging from Maori tattoos, Egyptian columns, and Greek borders to Byzantine mosaic, Indian embroidery, and Elizabethan carvings. At once splendidly Victorian and insistently modern, The Grammar of Ornament celebrates objects of beauty from across time periods and continents, and remains an indispensable sourcebook today.
Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque
by Cynthia WallIn Grammars of Approach, Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of “approach.” In architecture, the term “approach” changed in that period from a verb to a noun, coming to denote the drive from the lodge at the entrance of an estate “through the most interesting part of the grounds,” as landscape designer Humphrey Repton put it. The shift from the long straight avenue to the winding approach, Wall shows, swung the perceptual balance away from the great house onto the personal experience of the visitor. At the same time, the grammatical and typographical landscape was shifting in tandem, away from objects and Things (and capitalized common Nouns) to the spaces in between, like punctuation and the “lesser parts of speech”. The implications for narrative included new patterns of syntactical architecture and the phenomenon of free indirect discourse. Wall examines the work of landscape theorists such as Repton, John Claudius Loudon, and Thomas Whately alongside travel narratives, topographical views, printers’ manuals, dictionaries, encyclopedias, grammars, and the novels of Defoe, Richardson, Burney, Radcliffe, and Austen to reveal a new landscaping across disciplines—new grammars of approach in ways of perceiving and representing the world in both word and image.
Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities
by Dolores Hayden"Groundbreaking research . . . Hayden has unearthed a feminist tradition of home design and community planning which has gone unrecognized." - Gerda Wekerle, Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society. "The Grand Domestic Revolution opens anew the locked treasure chest of women's accomplishment. A majestic achievement." - Eve Merriam, author of Growing Up Female in America.
Grandma's Garden
by Laura MartinA collection of gardening advice one woman receives from her grandmother.
Grandma's Gardens
by Hillary Clinton Chelsea ClintonFrom mother-daughter team Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton comes a celebration of family, tradition and discovery, and an ode to mothers, grandmothers and the children they love.Grandma Dorothy shared her love of gardens with her daughter, Hillary, and her granddaughter, Chelsea. She taught them that gardens are magical places to learn, exciting spaces for discovery, quiet spots to spend time with family and beautiful areas to share stories and celebrate special occasions. But most of all, she taught them that in her gardens, her love grew and blossomed.In this inspiring and heartwarming mother-daughter story, Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton team up to show readers how sharing the things we love with the people we love can create powerful, everlasting bonds between generations.Praise for Grandma's Gardens:"A deeply affectionate tribute to the bounty of nature and the love of gardening." --Publishers Weekly"Filled with mindfulness, the story inspires children to reflect on family and keep memories alive." --Booklist
Grandma's Ways For Modern Days: Reviving Traditional Skills In Cooking, Gardening And Household Management
by Diana Peacock Paul PeacockGrandma's Ways represents a large repository of knowledge that we have mostly forgotten. With a little modification for these busy modern times. Techniques for preserving food, keeping hens and bees, growing vegetables and fruit, making your own cosmetics and a host of other things will bring us not only closer to the products we enjoy, but closer to benefiting from the work we do for ourselves. There's nothing more satisfying than cooking wholesome food from scratch at home, baking your own bread, growing your own vegetables, foraging in the wild and even making your own household cleaning products. Not only will you live a more sustainable life in terms of the environment, you'll save money too.
Granja Moderna
by Nancy RossEl movimiento Granja Moderna ha estado circulando por años y lentamente está ganando su popularidad. Las personas que están cansadas de estar a merced de sus tiendas locales en términos de productos disponibles y precios están encontrando que la simpleza y el trabajo duro de vivir en el movimiento Granja Moderna son perfectos para ellos. Este es un movimiento que nos permite volver a nuestras raíces, hagamos memoria los 1800s cuando la gente básicamente tenía que proveerse por sí mismos para una gran cantidad de las cosas que necesitaban. El movimiento moderno de Granja es un poco diferente de lo que encontrarías en los 1800s, pero las ideas siguen siendo las mismas. Idealmente, tú serás capaz de salir a tu propio terreno y cuidar de todo tú mismo, sin tener que conseguir comida, ropa, agua o electricidad o cualquier otra cosa de otra índole. Por supuesto, esto es un poco difícil de lograr para mucha gente; algunos no quieren tener este gran compromiso, al menos al principio, y otros pueden gustar de su estilo de vida actual y sólo quieren ahorrar algo de dinero. Esto es el por qué la definición de Granja Moderna ha cambiado con el transcurso del tiempo para incluir a cualquier individuo que esté trabajando hacia una vida de autosuficiencia, incluso aquellos que no han llegado hasta ese punto aún. Esta guía te proporcionará toda la información que necesitas para entender el estilo de vida Granja Moderna y lo que te hace falta hacer para comenzar. Ya sea que sólo estés buscando probarlo sólo en algunos aspectos y quieras saber dónde tienes que comenzar o que quieras saltar de lleno y vivir este estilo de vida al máximo, esta guía tiene la información que necesitas para comenzar. El estilo de vida Granja Moderna tiene tantos beneficios que tú vas a poder gozar. La simplicidad de la vida, la capacidad de depender sólo de ti mismo y tus vecinos e incluso la oportunidad de simplemente sentarse y disfrutar de las cos
Granny Chic: Crafty recipes and inspiration for the handmade home
by Tif Fussell Rachelle BlondelMore than just a 'how-to' guide, Granny Chic offers inspiration to keen crafters hoping to breathe new life into vintage fabrics and second-hand objects. From handmade notebooks to lace lampshades and pinnies made from tea towels, each of the craft 'recipes' brings the granny chic look to life while allowing you to give them your own personal twist. This selection of 20 projects includes spruced-up coat hangers, a 'dingle dangle' door screen, a 'patched and pieced' lampshade and a crocheted tea cosy. In addition to the projects, Granny Chic offers advice on the granny chic lifestyle, from befriending your local fabric shop to creating a handmade home. Packed full of ideas, it will have you rustling in your vintage fabric to find your inner granny chic crafting soul.
Granny's Household Hints: Traditional Tips for a Clean, Green Home
by Brenda EvansIn Granny's day there were few labour-saving devices or fancy cleaning products. So when it comes to getting stains out of the carpet or keeping her laundry sparkling white, she still prefers tried-and-tested techniques handed down through the generations. Many people nowadays would prefer to use natural, traditional cleaning methods, rather than chemicals that can be harmful to our health and the environment. So why not follow in Granny's footsteps and try her effective, green and surprisingly simple household hints? Learn how to keep your home spotless using common ingredients found in your kitchen cupboard, like lemon juice or bicarbonate of soda. You'll be helping the planet and your wallet too ... Granny would be proud!
The Grape Grower
by Lon RomboughWriter and nurseryman Lon Rombaugh writes a marvelously detailed guide to the cultivation of the grape. Organic methods are emphasized throughout, as well as cultivation matters ranging from siting a vineyard and developing healthy soil to the details of pruning and breeding. The book includes valuable and hard-to-find information on cold hardiness, heirloom varieties, and native American grape species, as well as providing abundant resources and three pages of color photos. Detailed line drawings and diagrams throughout. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
Graphic Guide To Frame Construction: Details For Builders And Designers (For Pros By Pros Ser.)
by Robert ThallonIf you're in need of info on framing construction, look no further. This newly revised and updated edition of our classic visual handbook is loaded with up-to-date code information, the latest material advice, and detailed construction methods. Building on the success of earlier editions--which have sold hundreds of thousands of copies--accomplished architect and teacher Rob Thallon delivers on the details you need to get the job done right.<p><p> Covers a broad range of projects. Whether you're setting a foundation, erecting a partition wall, or flashing a window, you'll find information on the project in this book. The book's major categories include:<p><p> Footings and Foundations Beams, Joist Systems, and Subflooring Wall Framing, Bracing, and Sheathing Roof Framing, Flashing, and Insulation Exterior and Interior Stairs and Handrails<p><p>