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The Organic Garden: Green Gardening for a Healthy Planet Allan Shepherd
HarperCollins UK, 2007
The meaning of "organic" is changing fast, becoming more and more an umbrella term for all things environmental: from ethical consumerism, waste recycling, and self-sufficiency to new trends in wildlife-friendly, sustainable, and forest gardening. This guide aims to redefine what it means to be an organic gardener by showing how these popular new areas of green living are relevant to ordinary ...
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Food for Free (Collins Natural History) Richard Mabey
Collins, 2007
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Small Houses of the Twenties: The Sears, Roebuck 1926 House Catalog (Dover Pictorial Archives) 8 reviews Roebuck and Co. Sears
Dover Publications, 1991
Very interesting
+ Small Houses of the Twenties: The Sears, Roebuck 1926 House Catalog + Very nicely done + Excellent + Essential for any Sears home-owner
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Kate Greenaway's Language of Flowers 1 review Kate Greenaway
Gramercy Publishing, 2002
Fun to read.
This is a fun book to read if you like symbolism, and even if you don't, it's fun to read the poems in the back. In this, almost every flower, clover and herb has a meaning and just about any flower you can you'll find in here. The illustrations are sweet, and this is a great reference if you're ...
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The House in Good Taste 2 reviews Elsie De Wolfe
Rizzoli International Publications, 2004
what a joy
+ not trite
Elsie De Wolfe is acknowleged as the first woman to make a fortune as a decorator and can be called the first life style maven of the 20th century. Her opinions on home decor were eagerly seized upon by millions of aspirational women around the country. She wrote The House in Good Taste 90 years ...
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In the Pink: Dorothy Draper--America's Most Fabulous Decorator 18 reviews Carleton Varney
Pointed Leaf Press, 2006
Terrific book
This is a wonderful book, full of excellent photographs and graphics, detailing the history and the flamboyant and highly sophisticated design of Dorothy Draper. The book includes treatment of her furniture, fabric designs, and public relations projects, as well as examples of her most important ...
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Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui 211 reviews Karen Kingston
Broadway, 1999
Love This Book!
+ Beware--May Cause You to Clear Your Clutter!! + Turn your world upside down. + A gem on the subject. + Evocative
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Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home 15 reviews Julie Moir Messervy, Sarah Susanka
Taunton, 2006
A good gardening ideas book for both design professionals and ordinary gardeners
+ You can have a million-dollar view from your home
A house and its garden are different parts of the same overall design. Bestselling author Sarah Susanka and acclaimed landscape designer and award-winning writer Julie Moir Messervy understand this concept. They describe it as "opening up the relationship of indoors and out" and demonstrate it ...
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The Little Book of Garden Heroes (Centre for Alternative Technology) Allan Shepherd
New Society Publishers, 2005
This delightful little book shows how to attract beneficial wildlife and choose useful plants that will help rule out the need for chemicals in the garden. It takes the four basic ingredients that make a successful garden and selects the "heroes" (and some of their sidekicks) that best represent them: The earthworm soil improver The honeybee pollinator Comfrey, the beneficial plant ...
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Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life : How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect and Happiness 118 reviews Karen Rauch Carter
Fireside, 2000
Terrific Feng Shui Book!
+ What Feels Good, Works Good... + Excellent + #1 Best Black Hat Sect (Bagua) Feng Shui book For beginners + I Moved My Stuff
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Dare to Repair : A Do-it-Herself Guide to Fixing (Almost) Anything in the Home 34 reviews Julie Sussman, Stephanie Glakas-Tenet, 2002
I fixed my toilet!
+ Dare to Repair + Comes in Handy + Go ahead girlfriend + Great handbook for new homeowners: men and women alike!
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How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 House Plants that Purify Your Home or Office 34 reviews B. C. Wolverton
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1997
Fabulous
+ Clever Idea + Gets the job done. + how to grow fresh air + Wealth of information on houseplants
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How to Make Soil and Save Earth Allan Shepherd
Centre for Alternative Technology Publications, 2003
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The London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea 10 reviews Helen Simpson
William Morrow Cookbooks, 1986
The Best Resource for Tradition as well as Recipes!
+ Added to the whole series.....Putting on The Ritz! + Afternoon Tea! + Nice book on English Tea + Good things do come in small packages
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Not So Big Solutions for Your Home (Susanka) 19 reviews Sarah Susanka
Taunton, 2002
Everyone should read this book!
+ My house isn't so big. Where do I put everything? + Great Guide for Remodelers + Love this concept!
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Small Houses of the Twenties: The Sears, Roebuck 1926 House Catalog (Dover Pictorial Archives) 8 reviews Roebuck and Co. Sears
Dover Publications, 1991
Very interesting
+ Small Houses of the Twenties: The Sears, Roebuck 1926 House Catalog + Very nicely done + Excellent + Essential for any Sears home-owner
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In the Pink: Dorothy Draper--America's Most Fabulous Decorator 18 reviews Carleton Varney
Pointed Leaf Press, 2006
Terrific book
This is a wonderful book, full of excellent photographs and graphics, detailing the history and the flamboyant and highly sophisticated design of Dorothy Draper. The book includes treatment of her furniture, fabric designs, and public relations projects, as well as examples of her most important ...
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The London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea 10 reviews Helen Simpson
William Morrow Cookbooks, 1986
The Best Resource for Tradition as well as Recipes!
+ Added to the whole series.....Putting on The Ritz! + Afternoon Tea! + Nice book on English Tea + Good things do come in small packages
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Not So Big Solutions for Your Home (Susanka) 19 reviews Sarah Susanka
Taunton, 2002
Everyone should read this book!
+ My house isn't so big. Where do I put everything? + Great Guide for Remodelers + Love this concept!
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Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home 15 reviews Julie Moir Messervy, Sarah Susanka
Taunton, 2006
A good gardening ideas book for both design professionals and ordinary gardeners
+ You can have a million-dollar view from your home
A house and its garden are different parts of the same overall design. Bestselling author Sarah Susanka and acclaimed landscape designer and award-winning writer Julie Moir Messervy understand this concept. They describe it as "opening up the relationship of indoors and out" and demonstrate it ...
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