Johnson and Te Salle deliver a meditative, beautifully illustrated yet profoundly practical book that takes readers deep into the natural world and into a new understanding of the art of gardening.
Homebrewers rejoice, this is your guide to gardens and plants best suited for drinks and is perfect for gardeners of all types - even ones with limited space.
If we are what we eat, then the question that begs to be asked is “What are you eating?” Green Is 4 Life is all about choosing to include life-giving foods into your current dietary lifestyle, a palatable, easy to prepare delicious and nutritious green smoothies. This is not another fad diet book. The pages within Green Is 4 Life are not about deprivation or the exclusion of things that you currently love and want to continue eating. On the contrary, Green Is 4 Life shows you how to include, with ease, life-giving foods into your current dietary practices for people of all ages.
Winner of the Garden Writers Association 2018 Silver Medal of Achievement Wendy Kiang-Spray’s family has strong culinary and gardening traditions. In The Chinese Kitchen Garden, she beautifully blends the story of her family’s cultural heritage with growing information for 38 Chinese vegetables—like lotus root, garlic, chives, and eggplant—and 25 traditional recipes like congee, dumplings, and bok choy stir-fry. Organized by season, you’ll learn what to grow in spring and what to cook in winter.
From roadside to restaurant, Green Mangoes and Lemon Grass takes you on a lip-smacking culinary tour of Southeast Asia's most scrumptious food, from Singapore's fascinating cosmopolitan offerings to Thailand's sinfully spicy dishes and Vietnam's refreshingly healthful recipes. Featuring expertly written text and recipes from the diva of Asian cuisine, Wendy Hutton, this book explores the glorious splendor of Southeast Asia's rich and varied cuisine, presented here in the form of tantalizing photos by award-winning photographer, Masano Kawana. Green Mangoes and Lemon Grass will help you whip up an Asian festival of food in your very own kitchen!
Since 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.
The built environment is responsible for an estimated forty-five per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions. As the greatest opportunities for reducing these emissions occur during the briefing and design processes, the pathway to better design lies in preparing environmental briefs, and using these to drive building design and produce buildings of high environmental performance. This process-driven book looks at the theoretical issues involved in an environmental brief, and outlines methods by which architects can approach the writing of a brief that considers all aspects of the natural and the built environment, and relates these concepts to a number of case studies from around the world.
Winner of the Society for Economic Botany’s Mary W. Klinger Book Award The seemingly inhospitable Sonoran Desert has provided sustenance to indigenous peoples for centuries. Although it is to all appearances a land bereft of useful plants, fully one-fifth of the desert's flora are edible. This volume presents information on nearly 540 edible plants used by people of more than fifty traditional cultures of the Sonoran Desert and peripheral areas. Drawing on thirty years of research, Wendy C. Hodgson has synthesized the widely scattered literature and added her own experiences to create an exhaustive catalog of desert plants and their many and varied uses. Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert includes not only plants such as gourds and legumes but also unexpected food sources such as palms, lilies, and cattails, all of which provided nutrition to desert peoples. Each species entry lists recorded names and describes indigenous uses, which often include nonfood therapeutic and commodity applications. The agave, for example, is cited for its use as food and for alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, syrup, fiber, cordage, clothing, sandals, nets, blankets, lances, fire hearths, musical instruments, hedgerows, soap, and medicine, and for ceremonial purposes. The agave entry includes information on harvesting, roasting, and consumption—and on distinguishing between edible and inedible varieties. No other source provides such a vast amount of information on traditional plant uses for this region. Accessible to general readers, this book is an invaluable compendium for anyone interested in the desert’s hidden bounty.
The graphic artist's guide to sustainable design Graphic design is frequently thought of as a purely decorative effort. Yet these efforts can be responsible for shocking impacts on natural resources just to produce a barely-glanced-at catalog or mail piece. Sustainable Graphic Design: Tools, Systems, and Strategies for Innovative Print Design helps designers view graphic design as a holistic process. By exploring eco-conscious materials and production techniques, it shows designers how to create more effective and more sustainable designs. Sustainable Graphic Design opens your eyes to the bigger picture of design seen from the viewpoints of the audience, the creative vendor, their suppliers, and society as a whole. Chapters are written by a wide range of sustainable design pioneers and practitioners—including graphic designers, creative managers, marketing consultants, environmentalists, researchers, and psychologists—giving you critical information on materials and processes. Case studies illustrate and tie concepts together. Sustainability isn't a fad or a movement; it's a long-term paradigm shift. With this forward-looking toolkit, you'll be able to infuse your work with sustainability systems thinking, empowering you to play your role in achieving a future where design and sustainability are natural partners. Contributors Paul Andre Paul J. Beckmann Sharell Benson Arlene Birt Robert Callif Don Carli Jeremy Faludi Terry Gips Fred Haberman Dan Halsey Jessica Jones Curt McNamara John Moes Jacquelyn Ottman Holly Robbins Pamela Smith Dion Zuess Biomimicry Guild Carbonless Promise Chlorine Free Products Association Environmental Paper Network Eureka Recycling Great Printer Environmental Initiative Package Design Magazine Promotional Product Solutions Sustainable Green Printing Partnership Sustainable Packaging Coalition
Containing over 70 tried-and-tested activities, Activities for Individual Learning through Shape and Colour is a practical resource which takes a cross-curricular thematic approach and uses the themes of shape and colour to explore the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). This thematic approach saves preparation and teaching time for practitioners and provides children with more effective and engaging activities. It also familiarises children with the more sophisticated cross-curricular projects they will encounter in the primary school. Activities are clustered around particular shapes and colours and each set of activities is clearly linked to the EYFS Early Learning Goals. Activities for Individual Learning through Shape and Colour is a highly practical invaluable resource book for all early years practitioners.
This photocopiable book provides a resource for the Literacy Hour, the National Curriculum for English and the Scottish Guidelines for English Language 5-14. Covering the key requirements for text-level work (comprehension and composition), it provides sections of structured lesson-plans on the main genres (narrative, non-fiction, poetry and plays), 90 linked copymasters which include extracts from books and poems, continuing and end-of-section assessments, and National Literacy Strategy and Scotland 5-14 planners.
Looks at evidence of climate change, the reasons why it is occurring, the effects that this change is having on the environment, and the steps that can be taken to help limit the rate of this change.
Applied Psychology for Foundation Year: Key Ideas for Foundation Courses introduces students to topical issues and controversies within specific areas of applied psychology, bringing together current theories and studies from a number of areas within applied psychology through a series of interesting and current debates and controversies. Included in this book are a series of snapshots of how psychologists have tried to apply their findings to real-life problems. Using a clear structure and accessible tone, this book demonstrates how psychological research can be applied to inform current debates across a variety of the field’s subdisciplines. Through examination of both established theoretical ideas and more recent empirical evidence, it enables readers to see how research is linked to practical application in occupational psychology, educational psychology, criminology, sport psychology and environmental psychology. In doing so, it explicates contemporary theories and studies and contributes a cross-cultural understanding of these topics. This book’s wide coverage of topics and theories is designed to enable readers to not only immerse themselves in topical and often controversial debates but also to develop a critical awareness of alternative viewpoints, methodological weaknesses and theoretical shortcomings. Readers are encouraged to consider and question these theories and consider the implications of this research and how the findings can be applied to their own experience. Applied Psychology for Foundation Year is a key textbook for both foundation year and introductory psychology courses and will be of interest to anyone wanting to delve into topical issues in contemporary psychology.
In this easy-to-follow guides, expert authors off er practical advice to help you make positive changes in your life, with a holistic approach including simple lifestyle changes and DIY complementary therapies.
Townsend Heights is the perfect small town, just the kind of place Tasha Banks longed for when she left her big-city career for full-time motherhood. But now her dream is turning into a nightmare as a serial killer stalks Tasha's friends. One by one they are dying in horrific ways, and terror is transforming her peaceful existence into one of fear and foreboding . . . where evil lurks behind the mask of a familiar face—a face that may be the last one Tasha ever sees.
Growing healthy food is a great idea. But what about all the costs involved? It's frustrating when our leafy greens get chewed, our fruit gets riddled with holes, tomatoes wilt, and we have to rely on expensive garden products to have any chance of harvesting a decent crop. The solution is quite simple - getting the ecosystems within our food gardens functioning again. Bringing back these FREE ecological services - our soils naturally supply nutrients to our crops, and insects and birds control most of our pests. Understanding this ecological approach, you'll develop practical solutions for your climate and other growing conditions. You'll grow healthy food self-sufficiently, be less dependent on commercial products with dubious environmental credentials, get carbon out of our atmosphere, and have the joy of bringing Nature back into your garden again. Are you ready to try this eco-logical way to grow?
This beautifully photographed book takes readers on a tour of America's most glorious gardens to illustrate ingenious and pragmatic solutions to different planting situations. Here are edible beds, classic herb gardens, formal and informal borders, the newly popular "wild look", waterside gardens, desert landscapes, and more. 125 color photographs.
From being the sole and secret preserve of the ancient Chinese Emperors, the art of Feng Shui has been discovered and successfully applied in the West. Now it is widely accepted as really useful and beneficial. This book helps you build the application of Feng Shui around you.
The first book to address the needs of a rapidly expanding segment of the Photoshop 3.0 market--high-end users such as photographers, artists, and imaging professionals--Photoshop Artistry is a self-paced, hands-on course that teaches the process of creating digital art. The CD contains original and final images, as well as masks, layers, and channels used to complete the exercises.
A collection of 30 challenging mazes, inspired by cities, animal habitats, explorers, legends, and more. In addition there is a key to each maze that provides a host of interesting facts"--Page 4 of cover
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