Gill Dickinson

Debbie Patterson

Handmade gifts from your garden. Inspiration and instruction for over seventy green gifts. Ideas for every occasion and season including gift wrapping and tags.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

How to Turn Flowers and Plants into Original and Lasting Gifts

Ideas and instructions for creating more than 50 unique gifts for occasions throughout the year.

Green Gifts

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Norman Myers

Gorgeous photographs and history of rainforests. No dust cover but truly wonderful book inside. Published 1993.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Rainforests

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Angela Wilkes

A practical guide to protecting our planet and it's environment. Includes simple projects and experiments. 

A life-size guide to caring for our environment 

My First Green Book

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Kelly Reno

Handmade soaps and shampoos to enjoy or give to friends and family. Includes bottling and gift wrapping. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Soaps, Shampoos and Other Suds

Handmade soaps, shampoos, and other bath-time essentials are rare luxuries everyone can enjoy. The recipes and ideas in "Soaps, Shampoos & Other Suds make it easy for you to create unique, lavish bath products friends and family will love! Scented, textured, rich, and creamy soaps are just the beginning! From sweet-smelling shampoos and conditioners to extraordinary bubble baths, this book reveals the secrets for making fabulous bath and body products in your own kitchen. "Soaps, Shampoos & Other Suds also includes beautiful ideas and techniques for elegant bottling and gift wrapping, as well as convenient mail-order sources for easy access to more exotic ingredients. About the Author Kelly Reno started making her own soaps and shampoos to enjoy more healthful, higher quality skin and hair care products. She is also the author of "Oils, Lotions & Other Luxuries (Prima).

Good Gifts from the Home

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Luxurious handmade gifts, including packaging and gift wrapping. 

Make Beautiful Gifts to Give (Or Keep)

The Best Gifts Come from the Home--and the Heart Vanilla Body Lotion, Herbal Tea Bath, Floral Facial Cleanser, Mint Lip Gloss--these are just a few of the natural beauty, bath, and moisturizing luxuries you can make at home with the easy-to-follow recipes in this book. Turn these pages and learn how to create natural, wonderfully fragrant, handmade oils and lotions to soothe dry skin and delight the senses. You will also discover the secrets to making airy dusting powders, silky oils, invigorating mud masks, and more, using nothing but safe, healthful ingredients. A handmade gift is the ultimate expression of friendship and love--especially when that gift is something soothing and luxurious. This inspiring book offers easy recipes for silky lotions, extravagant oils, and fragrant skin care products you can make at home, including: -peach and berry gardener's hand cream -super light honeydew moisturizer -five-oil massage blend -herbs and fruit dusting powder -rose bath beads -tingling mint toner -and many more sumptuous indulgences for the body and the senses! Whatever the occasion, the recipes in "Oils, Lotions & Other Luxuries solve the eternal question of what to give when you want your gifts to be exceptional. Focusing special attention on the art of presentation, author Kelly Reno also includes many simple yet elegant ideas for bottling, boxing, and wrapping these wonderfully unique and personal gifts. You can find most of the ingredients at local markets and pharmacies. For hard-to-find ingredients, mail-order sources are conveniently listed. "Oils, Lotions & Other Luxuries makes it possible--and easy--to pamper your friends, your family, and yourself with personal, handmade, aromatic, and sensuous body products anytime!

Oils, Lotions and Other Luxuries

Rosario Capotosto

Basic woodworking techniques and plans for 45 projects. Dozens of jig aids and special techniques. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The experts from Popular Science bring you detailed plans for 45 projects with 700 photos and 100 diagrams. Includes woodworking procedures and 18 different joints. Make a spoon rack, bent wood planter, wall unit, curved-back chair -- 41 more. A special section on jig aids contains dozens of ideas for stationary and portable power tools.

Woodworking Projects for the Home Workshop

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A beautiful and practical reference book on growing and designing with roses.

An Organic Guide to Growing and Enjoying America's Favorite Flower 

The Encyclopedia of Roses 

Ideals Publications Inc. Staff

Vintage inspirational readings and photographs for family members and friends. Ideas for holidays and seasons. 

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Easter, Mother's Day, Country, Friendship, Thanksgiving and Christmas 

IDEALS MAGAZINES Lot of 6 Ideals , 2000, vol.57, nos. 1-6

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John May

A celebration of dolphins,  scientific and artistic. 

Gives information on the history of the dolphin and its threatened existence.

The Greenpeace Book of Dolphins

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Richard Lewington

David Streeter

An Intricate Visual Exploration of the Oak and Its Environment

A visual exploration of the oak tree and all its interdependent life forms, this book is packed with breathtaking illustrations and a wealth of nature lore.

The Natural History of the Oak Tree

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George Adams

Tips for providing food, water, cover and nest sites in your backyard. 

A Practical Guide to Backyard Birds and the Plants That Attract Them

"This valuable guide will help turn any yard into a sanctuary for a variety of birds."-Booklist

Birdscaping Your Garden

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Richard Freudenberger

Projects for the garden to make yourself out of wood. 

Forty Fun and Useful Things for Folks Who Garden

Includes 40 projects that are both practical and delightful to look at.

Woodworking Projects for the Garden

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Nick Engler

Build it better yourself woodworking projects. 

Shows how to make a picnic table, benches, chaise lounge, planter, hammock, garden bench, and Adirondack chair

Outdoor Furniture

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Anne McIntyre

Flower Remedies for Healing Body and Soul Through Herbalism, Homeopathy, Aromatherapy and Flower Essences

A guide to using flowers for treating and healing such body ailments as sunburn, migraines, heartburn, nausea, kidney infection, cramps, and high blood pressure

Flower Power

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Creative Landscaping with vegetables, herbs, fruits, and flowers. 

The Beautiful Food Garden 

Allen J. Coombes

A comprehensive reference book on shrubs. Stunning photos, an A-Z directory of 1500 shrubs, and many practical tips and inspiration. 

A Step-by-Step Guide to Planting, Cultivating and Designing with Shrub

A gardener's guide presents an A-Z listing of 1,500 shrubs and their care, along with ideas on how to use shrubs to achieve creative landscape effects all year long

Complete Book of Shrubs

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Annemarie Colbin

A Seasonal Guide to Assembling Balanced Vegetarian Breakfasts, Lunches, and Dinners: a Cookbook

"It is difficult to imagine a better course for practicing, would-be, or even part-time vegetarians," said The New York Times of Annemarie Colbin's cooking classes. And, in this book, the founder of the successful Natural Gourmet Cookery School in New York City offers a whole year's worth of her popular classes. The Book Of Whole Meals -- Provides a sound holistic nutritional philosophy on which to base your food choices -- Gives thorough instructions on how to set up a kitchen and a well-stocked pantry -- Offers varied menus for each season: dozens of whole breakfasts, lunches; and dinners, using the fruits and vegetables of the season -- Shows how to make quick meals with leftovers, without sacrificing taste or nutrition -- Teaches you how to maximize efficiency and grace in the kitchen with time-saving hints for organizing every step of food preparation...and more! Voted one of ten best cookbooks by New Age Journal readers.

Book of Whole Meals

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Anne Byrn

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Offers 175 recipes that use packaged cake mixes enhanced with additional ingredients to create special desserts with the ease and dependability of commercial cake mixes

The Cake Mix Doctor

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A world-renowned cooking authority presents more than fifty pasta recipes, accompanied by step-by-step directions and photographs, preparation tips, information on utensils and equipment, and more.

Perfect Pasta

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For a Lifetime of Fabulous Food

You do not have to be on a diet to enjoy the benefits of this book, but each recipe lists total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, calories, sodium, and fiber content, so that the meals you prepare may be keyed into any stage of a diet or maintenance program. In addition to main dishes and ideas for entertaining, there are many tips on cooking for one person, eating out, and meals to take to work. And the dishes are easy to prepare.The Katahns love good food, and they love to cook. They will show you how to prepare fabulous meals--like Sesame-Ginger Lamb Chops or Triple Cheese Manicotti--that combine low fat and low salt with lots of fruits, vegetables, and complex carbohydrates. The recipes in this book meet all the guidelines set forth by the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society for reducing the dietary risk of disease.

The Low-Fat Good Food Cookbook

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

250 All-Natural, Low-Glycemic Recipes to Nourish and Rejuvenate

An award-winning cookbook author, professionally trained nutritionist, and type 2 diabetic, Carol Gelles combines gourmet flair with cutting-edge dietary knowledge in this essential, all-in-one diabetes cookbook. All 250 of the recipes in Diabetes Cooking for Everyone accommodate the dietary restrictions that accompany common diabetes complications by providing recipe variations for reducing fat and saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, protein, or carbohydrates. Plus, each recipe has a GI rating for optimal nutrition and a list of diabetic exchanges to facilitate meal planning. These truly delicious yet easy-to-make dishes address the health needs of everyone with diabetes and nourish the entire family, too.

The Diabetes Cooking for Everyone

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Delicious, Healthy Meals

America entered the twenty-first century with more than twenty million of its citizens, children and adults alike, struggling with diabetes, and with tens of millions more prone to the disease. Many have Type 2 diabetes, which has been linked to obesity, heart disease, and other afflictions. With Knack Diabetes Cookbook, diabetics and those who love them finally have a fun, inviting, eminently useful guide to preparing meals that are not only healthy but also tasty and lovely to look upon. In addition to its 100 recipes and extensive, appropriate variations, the book includes ample helpful advice for families hoping to learn good eating habits, and those who wish to prevent the onset of Type 2 diabetes in themselves and their children. Color photographs throughout clarify the recipes and how to create a healthy kitchen in a home. 100 recipes & 250 variations 350 full color photos American Diabetic Association exchanges given for each recipe Step-by-step photos

Diabetes Cookbook

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#paperback #crafts #polymerclay #decorating #DonnaKato #art #jewelry 

Designs and Techniques for Making Jewelry, Pottery and Decorative Artwork

The wonder substance of home crafters, polymer clay is versatile, pliable, inexpensive and easy to find. It is available in multiple colours, and can be fired in a kitchen oven. Dollmakers and miniaturists were its primary users until its properties made it more accepted. Crafters, sculpters, jewellery designers, potters, ceramists, and miniaturists can all use this synthetic clay.

The Art of Polymer Clay

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New Millennium Collection

Author Dalene Kelly expertly guides readers through this beautifully illustrated guide to the timeless art of French-beading--a craft that dates its origins back several hundred years and that now is making a huge resurgence. Includes step-by-step instructions for making 38 different flowers, such as snapdragons, coral beans, pansies, irises, tiger lilies, gardenias, and more. Crafters will quickly learn the techniques for stringing beads and fashioning them into floral works of art and then create these four stunning projects--a cymbidium corsage, rose hair barrette, Shasta daisy napkin ring, and rose bud bridal veil. Crafters and beaders alike will find this book to be innovative and inspiring.

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Gill Dickinson; Debbie Patterson

Green Gifts

Norman Myers

Rainforests

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My First Green Book

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Rosario Capotosto

Woodworking Projects for the Home Workshop

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The Encyclopedia of Roses

Ideals Publications Inc. Staff

IDEALS MAGAZINES Lot of 6 Ideals , 2000, vol.57, nos. 1-6

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Woodworking Projects for the Garden

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Flower Power

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The Beautiful Food Garden

Allen J. Coombes

Complete Book of Shrubs

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Book of Whole Meals

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The Cake Mix Doctor

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Perfect Pasta

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The Low-Fat Good Food Cookbook

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The Diabetes Cooking for Everyone

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