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Living with Wildfire

A Homeowner's Handbook

By: Maureen Gilmer

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Living with Wildfire

A Homeowner's Handbook

By: Maureen Gilmer

In Living with Wildfire (first published as The Wildfire Survival Guide), gardening expert Maureen Gilmer shares proven ways to save your home, property, and life with wildfire-resistant landscaping and fire-prevention techniques. Discover how to create bands of protection by choosing fire-resistant plants, manage native vegetation, prevent erosion and mudslides, and learn about: Wildfire dynamics and safeguarding your home against them Water storage and delivery in any emergency Creating a defensible space for you and firefighters Included is updated information on insuring your property, selecting your home site, packing an emergency kit, and getting public and private assistance. With easy-to-follow diagrams, instructional photographs, and landscaping plans, you’ll have all the resources necessary to get through fire season and keep your home standing.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493038370

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9781493038374

Living on Flood Plains and Wetlands

A Homeowner's Handbook

By: Maureen Gilmer

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Living on Flood Plains and Wetlands

A Homeowner's Handbook

By: Maureen Gilmer

If you live on a flood plain or wetland, you know the potential dangers—to you, your family, and your home. A major flood could strike at any time and you need to be prepared. But of even more immediate concern is the tiresome battle to keep your property free of minor floods and water seepage, which can be just as destructive—and costly—as a major flood. This all-purpose book guides you through the range of options you have to protect your property. And if a problem already exists, it shows you how to tackle the trouble and put your house back in order. This updated edition includes new information about flood plain laws and insurance as well as changes in government agency titles or roles in flood management.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493038354

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9781493038350

Growing Vegetables in Drought, Desert, and Dry Times

The Complete Guide to Organic Gardening without Wasting Water

By: Maureen Gilmer

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Growing Vegetables in Drought, Desert, and Dry Times

The Complete Guide to Organic Gardening without Wasting Water

By: Maureen Gilmer

Master organic vegetable gardening in 4 different low-water conditions—including high and low desert, drought, and voluntary water conservation. Features over 100 photos, maps, and diagrams—perfect for vegetable gardeners in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and more! Dedicated home gardeners will discover how to grow delicious produce in dry times with this authoritative full-color handbook. Using modern techniques, as well as tips from native traditions ranging from the southwestern United States to the Middle East, this guide offers the best of ancient wisdom and the newest innovations in conservation. Inside you’ll find over 100 color photos, maps, and diagrams, plus expert information on: • Gardening in high and low desert, drought conditions, and for voluntary water conservation • How to assess your site and climate modification • Water-wise gardening methods: in-ground, container, and raised bed gardening • Soil science, proper watering methods, and pest control • How to choose drought-tolerant and desert-hardy vegetable seeds • Recommended varieties by region, plus a seasonal crop guide • Resource list, checklist, and glossary While this guide is geared towards those who live in high desert, low desert, mountains (short season), Pacific coast, and inland valley areas of the Western United States, gardeners anywhere in the world looking to save water can find useful guidance. As more communities suffer the effects of climate change, experienced desert gardener Maureen Gilmer’s sage advice on dry gardening becomes more and more relevant.

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Sasquatch Books

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1632170248

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Redwoods and Roses

The Gardening Heritage of California

By: Maureen Gilmer

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Redwoods and Roses

The Gardening Heritage of California

By: Maureen Gilmer

Redwoods and Roses explores the special relationship California’s diverse peoples have shared with nature and the unique gardens and landscapes they have created over the years to nurture and enhance those bonds. From pre-colonial times to the Victorian era, California gardening expert Maureen Gilmer brings this garden history to life, showing how the gardens and landscapes were created and profiling the heirloom plants within them. But Redwoods and Roses is more than a book on gardening history. Here, the reader will discover how to recreate period designs in her own garden, from making a no-fuss adobe-look wall from the Mission era to finding heirloom plants for a cottage garden. Redwoods and Roses is a blend of natural history, California history, plants profiles, landscaping tips, and sensible garden advice, as well as an eloquent plea for the preservation of many remarkable plants.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493038338

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The Colorful Dry Garden

Over 100 Flowers and Vibrant Plants for Drought, Desert & Dry Times

By: Maureen Gilmer

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The Colorful Dry Garden

Over 100 Flowers and Vibrant Plants for Drought, Desert & Dry Times

By: Maureen Gilmer

A design-focused, easy-to-use guide to colorful, eye-catching foliage and flowers for your whole yard, from the ground plane to the canopy, for homeowners and landscapers faced with replacing thirsty gardens in California and other dry regions in the Western US. If readers must reluctantly remove water-guzzling favorites from the garden, they need equally beautiful substitutes! This book is a visual treat that supports the transition to dry gardening by proving that gardeners can have all the gorgeous color and flowers they had in the past using just a fraction of the water. Maureen Gilmer provides chapters on design categories of plants—flowering shrubs, the ground plain, eye-catching accents, ephemeral flowers, perennials for color, animated plants and fine textures, canopy, and edibles—with profiles for each plant plus background info and top picks lists. The Colorful Dry Garden is unique because it features only bold plants that are also heavy bloomers despite heat and limited water. It also features more than just Western native plants by including varieties from the world's driest climates.

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1632170647

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9781632170644

Living with Wildfire

A Homeowner's Handbook

By: Maureen Gilmer

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A Homeowner's Handbook

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Living on Flood Plains and Wetlands

A Homeowner's Handbook

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A Homeowner's Handbook

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Seeing with Their Hearts

Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933

By: Maureen A. Flanagan

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Seeing with Their Hearts

Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933

By: Maureen A. Flanagan

At the turn of the last century, as industrialists and workers made Chicago the hardworking City of Big Shoulders celebrated by Carl Sandburg, Chicago women articulated an alternative City of Homes in which the welfare of residents would be the municipal government's principal purpose. Seeing With Their Hearts traces the formation of this vision from the relief efforts following the Chicago fire of 1871 through the many political battles of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. In the process, it presses a new understanding of the roles of women in public life and writes a new history of urban America. Heeding the call of activist Louise de Koven Bowen to become third-class passengers on the train of life, thousands of women "put their shoulders to the wheel and their whole hearts into the work" of fighting for better education, worker protections, clean air and water, building safety, health care, and women's suffrage. Though several well-known activists appeared frequently in these initiatives, Maureen Flanagan offers compelling evidence that women established a broad and durable solidarity that spanned differences of race, class, and political experience. She also shows that these women--emphasizing their common identity as women seeking a city amenable to the needs of women, children, families, and homes--pursued a vision and goals distinct from the reform agenda of Progressive male activists. They fought hard and sometimes successfully in a variety of public places and sites of power, winning victories from increased political clout and prenatal care to municipal garbage collection and pasteurized milk. While telling the fascinating and in some cases previously untold stories of women activists during Chicago's formative period, this book fundamentally recasts urban social and political history.

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Princeton University Press

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0691215960

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9780691215969

The Gardener's Way

A Daybook of Acts and Affirmations

By: Maureen Gilmer

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The Gardener's Way

A Daybook of Acts and Affirmations

By: Maureen Gilmer

Take a stroll into a spiritual garden. This day book celebrates the gifts of soil, air, water and stone. It contains quotations on the wonders of nature and botanical beauty to provide a source of inspiration for every day of the year. Includes practical day-by-day advice for growing a rich garden.

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Contemporary Books

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0809223899

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9780809223893

Redwoods and Roses

The Gardening Heritage of California

By: Maureen Gilmer

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The Gardening Heritage of California

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The Colorful Dry Garden

Over 100 Flowers and Vibrant Plants for Drought, Desert & Dry Times

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Over 100 Flowers and Vibrant Plants for Drought, Desert & Dry Times

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Redwoods and Roses

The Gardenin

By: Maureen Gilmer

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The Gardenin

By: Maureen Gilmer

Redwoods and Roses explores the special relationship California's diverse peoples have shared with nature and the unique gardens and landscapes they have created over the years to nurture and enhance those bonds. From pre-colonial times to the Victorian era, California gardening expert Maureen Gilmer brings this garden history to life, showing how the gardens and landscapes were created and profiling the heirloom plants within them. But Redwoods and Roses is more than a book on gardening history. Here, the reader will discover how to recreate period designs in her own garden, from making a no-fuss adobe-look wall from the Mission era to finding heirloom plants for a cottage garden. Redwoods and Roses is a blend of natural history, California history, plants profiles, landscaping tips, and sensible garden advice, as well as an eloquent plea for the preservation of many remarkable plants.

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Lyons Press

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149303832X

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9781493038329

Growing Vegetables in Drought, Desert, and Dry Times

The Complete Guide to Organic Gardening without Wasting Water

By: Maureen Gilmer

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The Complete Guide to Organic Gardening without Wasting Water

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to a Beautiful Lawn

By: Maureen Gilmer

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to a Beautiful Lawn

By: Maureen Gilmer

You're no idiot, of course. You know that grass needs sun and water and care. So why does your house appear to be sitting in the middle of the Dust Bowl? Don't call the Astroturf salesman yet; help is on the way! The Complete Idiot's Guide to a Beautiful Lawn is your one-stop reference for creating the lawn of your dreams! Here you'll learn about the parts of the grass plant, the best ways to start a new lawn, proper soil care--and even the art of baseball stadium--quality lawn mowing. Author Maureen Gilmer walks you through every aspect of turf care, from proper watering to integrating a sports court onto your lawn. No stone is left unturned in this comprehensive, fun, and infinitely useful guide. Here's what you get:

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436

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Alpha Books

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0028630084

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9780028630083

Easy Lawn and Garden Care

How to Maintain Your Yard and Save Time and Money

By: Maureen Gilmer

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Easy Lawn and Garden Care

How to Maintain Your Yard and Save Time and Money

By: Maureen Gilmer

This year-round primer of do-it-yourself landscape maintenance offers home owners the information they need to beautify their outdoor environment easily and economically while enhancing the value of their property. Packed with sensible advice and gardening methods, easy-to-follow directions, and illustrations for mastering the essentials.

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0890435820

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9780890435823

The Budget Gardener

Twice the Garden for Half the Price

By: Maureen Gilmer

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The Budget Gardener

Twice the Garden for Half the Price

By: Maureen Gilmer

Tells how to save money on garden supplies, suggests economical ways to improve the soil and provide water, and gives advice on shopping for plants, using recycled materials, and obtaining free services

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Penguin Mass Market

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0140247041

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9780140247046

Mary Fran and Mo

By: Maureen Lynch

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Mary Fran and Mo

By: Maureen Lynch

Recounts the successes and failures of the year Lynch and her retarded sister, Mary Fran, lived together as part of a project designed to encourage Mary Fran to develop the skills necessary for a normal, independent life

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169

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St Martins Press

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0312518641

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9780312518646

You Can Read Me Like a Book

By: Maureen Lipman

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You Can Read Me Like a Book

By: Maureen Lipman

In this collection, Maureen Lipman presents a variety of her adventures and views on topics as diverse as supermodels, sleeping policemen, cones, Cohens and critics. She also wards of awards, salutes Streisand and snuggles down with something with a hard spine.

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Sphere

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0751517593

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9780751517590

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