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Rewrite Right!
Your Guide to Perfectly Polished Prose
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
The definitive guide to polishing your prose from veteran editor Jan Venolia.
Everyone knows that writing can be improved by the simple process of reviewing, editing, and rewriting, but many struggle with how to go about critiquing their own work—be it a letter to a friend, an important business...
Naked, Drunk, and Writing
Shed Your Inhibitions and Craft a Compelling Memoir or Personal Essay
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
The material is right there in front of you. You’ve known yourself for, well, a lifetime—and you finally feel ready to share your story with the world. Yet when it actually comes time to put pen to paper, you find that you’re stumped.
Enter Adair Lara: award-winning author, seasoned columnist,...
It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences
A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
In this wickedly humorous manual, language columnist June Casagrande uses grammar and syntax to show exactly what makes some sentences great—and other sentences suck.
Great writing isn’t born, it’s built—sentence by sentence. But too many writers—and writing guides—overlook this...
Write Right!
A Desktop Digest of Punctuation, Grammar, and Style
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
The newest edition of Jan Venolia’s best-selling guide, Write Right! is an essential resource for writers with 500,000+ copies sold since publication.**
In this age of electronic correspondence and self-produced documents, we need a useful and reliable writing guide more than ever. Write...
The Modern Gentleman, 2nd Edition
A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy, and Vice
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Refine your cool with this quintessential sourcebook of manners and mischief. Author–raconteurs Phineas Mollod and Jason Tesauro offer timely advice and timeless wisdom for adventurous gents curious about:
JAZZ & FLASKMANSHIP
FRIENDS & GAFFES
DATING & ENTERTAINING
TWEETIQUETTE...
The Zero-Waste Lifestyle
Live Well by Throwing Away Less
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2012
A practical guide to generating less waste, featuring meaningful and achievable strategies from the blogger behind The Green Garbage Project, a yearlong experiment in living garbage-free.
Trash is a big, dirty problem. The average American tosses out nearly 2,000 pounds of garbage every year...
Uncommon Crochet
Twenty-Five Projects Made from Natural Yarns and Alternative Fibers
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
In Uncommon Crochet, designer Julie Armstrong Holetz applies new ideas and unconventional materials--like wire, raffia, jute, sisal, recycled belts, fabric strips, and felted beads--to twenty-five patterns for bins, baskets, totes, handbags, clutches, jewelry, and more.
Step-by-step instructions,...
Manga for the Beginner Kawaii
How to Draw the Supercute Characters of Japanese Comics
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Got manga? Christopher Hart’s got manga, and he wants to share it with all his millions of readers—especially the beginners. With Manga for the Beginner, anyone who can hold a pencil can start drawing great manga characters right away. Using his signature step-by-step style, Hart shows how to...
by Rudy De Reyna
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
When it was originally published in 1970, How to Draw What You See zoomed to the top of Watson-Guptill’s best-seller list—and it has remained there ever since. “I believe that you must be able to draw things as you see them—realistically,” wrote Rudy de Reyna in his introduction. Today,...
Asian Pickles: Japan
Recipes for Japanese Sweet, Sour, Salty, Cured, and Fermented Tsukemono: A Cookb ook
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
A DIY guide to making the salty, sweet, tangy, and sometimes spicy pickles of Japan, featuring 16 recipes for traditional tsukemono as well as new favorites with innovative ingredients and techniques.
For Asian food aficionados and preservers and picklers looking for new frontiers, the natural...
by Richard H. Pitcairn, Susan Hubble Pitcairn
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
For more than 30 years, Dr. Pitcairn’s Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats has been the go-to resource for health-conscious animal lovers. This fourth edition is updated with the latest information in natural pet health, including groundbreaking research on the benefits of vegan...
by Jason King
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
When Jason King blew our minds with the first two CANNABIBLE books, we never imagined that the best was still to come. In CANNABIBLE 3, he's back with a whole new crop of marijuana strains, accompanied by informative and entertaining notes on their flavors, aromas, and effects. King heralds the latest...
Growing Medical Marijuana
Securely and Legally
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
A beginner's guide to growing weed at home, featuring straightforward advice for designing indoor and outdoor cannabis gardens, choosing seed varieties, buying equipment, planting, pot harvesting, storage, stash security, troubleshooting, and more.
This beginner’s guide to growing cannabis...
Harvest
Unexpected Projects Using 47 Extraordinary Garden Plants
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A beautifully photographed, gift-worthy guide to growing, harvesting, and utilizing 47 unexpected garden plants to make organic pantry staples, fragrances, floral arrangements, beverages, cocktails, beauty products, bridal gifts, and more.
Every garden--not just vegetable plots--can produce...