The best-selling comprehensive, practical, and inspiring sewing reference, now fully revised and updated. Clear, simple instructions by sewing experts, and thousands of illustrations and diagrams show each stage of the sewing process. This guide is the standard stitch-and-seam reference book for both beginner and seasoned sewers....

This attractive and informative book of 600 species includes a "special collection" of more than 100 species that are rare. Each portrait includes full-color original artwork; details on identification, habitat, nesting, and food; and a color-coded range map....

This collection reveals the Ehrman standards at their best, whether the reader's taste is for traditional style or the boldly contemporary. The unusual themes reflect the individual styles of the 14 featured designers - which include Kaffe Fassett, Candace Bahouth and Elian McCready - whose skilled use of colour create pieces that are both vivid and stylish. Clear and detailed instructions, full-colour charts and photographs should tempt the most tentative of stitchers....

From folk hearts and roses to ballet shoes and butterflies, inside this book there are motifs galore, plus dozens of project ideas to please every cross-stitch crafter.

Welcoming newcomers to the craft, this book clearly explains the stitches, shows how to prepare the fabric, includes more than 800 illustrated step-by-step instructions, plus supplies directions for a traditional cross-stitch sampler from start to finish. Seasoned stitchers can skip ahead to hundreds of motifs, including numbers and letters. Covering a wide range of themes, each motif is accompanied by an inspirational photograph, easy-to-read color pattern chart, materials list, thread key, and step-by-step instructions. Plus you’ll find a useful size guide accompanying every motif, which allows you to tailor each pattern to the dimensions needed.

This easy-to-use resource is organized into three parts: Part One offers hints and tips for choosing the best fabrics and the differences between threads, as well as simple techniques of basic cross-stitch and its variations. Part Two teaches some ways to spruce up your projects with embellishments, such as tassels, sequins, beads, and fringing. Part Three provides a library of more than 900 motifs.

Crafters of all experience levels will find a motif to suit any occasion....

Train your brain with fun, easy, innovative exercises and entertaining games that will keep your mental juices flowing and your memory sharp for years to come. In this motivating volume with over 1,000 full-color photographs, illustrations, diagrams, and puzzles, you'll find an abundance of ways to keep your mental juices flowing. Through a variety of quizzes that reveal your brain's strengths and weaknesses, more than 500 puzzles to give your memory muscle a good workout, plus fascinating text, you'll be able to understand and enhance your memory. Inside you'll find something the whole family can enjoy:
* Exploring the Memory, find out which senses you use the most, test your memorization skills, and discover how to gain concentration
* Memory in All Its Forms explains how some of our actions become automatic, how our minds organize knowledge, and why your brain represses and forgets things
* Improving Your Memory provides hints on how to use mental images and mnemonic tricks for memorizing
* My Memory and My Life describes how your memory functions at different stages of your life, how your memory retains things, and how stress and anxiety affects your memory

In addition to the practical exercises within each section, there are two built- in "booklets" that are jam-packed with entertaining and challenging puzzles that increase with difficulty as you progress....

Here is a plethora of ordinary household remedies to treat over 100 common ailments and health complaints safely, effectively, and inexpensively in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format. Treat everyday health problems with cures from a wide range of sources, all examined by a panel of leading medical doctors-sure-fire safe and effective treatments....

An authoritative guide to the links between food and health covers such topics as the impact of diet on common ailments; how to cook foods to maximize nutritional value; and tips on reading food labels. $350,000 ad/promo....

Based on more than 500 clinical studies and interviews with over 100 top doctors, this breakthrough medical research will teach you how to reverse or avoid the signs and ailments associated with aging. Beyond conventional advice about diet and exercise, this book discusses proven and specific keys to living well. By understanding the underlying causes of good health, you can:

• Reverse the Damage of Youthful Indiscretions: Examine your habits and lifestyle choices, assess the damage that has been done, learn about the benefits of its reduction and elimination, and create a repair plan
• Improve Everyday Health: Discomfort is your body's way of letting you know that something is wrong-learn how to understand and respond
• Protect against Future Ailments: Utilize your body's natural functions to train your cells to regenerate, keep your mind sharp, and heighten your energy levels

You'll find information on superfoods, 36 pages of exercises with step-by-step instructions and photos, tips on getting the most out of your health care, and much more. With methods to reduce your body's wear and tear and maximize natural functions, diseases related to aging will diminish, and in some cases totally disappear. The key to living healthy in the future is to live healthy today-let Long Life Prescription show you how....

Spectacular landscapes, incredible natural wonders, man-made structures of breathtaking ingenuity, and glimpses of legendary lands—take an unforgettable journey to places that awe the eye and capture the imagination.

Join a host of adventuresome explorers and talented writers, photographers, and artists on one of the most unusual world tours ever conceived—and witness the planet’s most spectacular sites. More than 500 full-color photographs, maps, and artist renderings present up-close views of 84 places of beauty and mystery, both real and fictional. Vivid descriptions discuss their natural history, their place in literature and legend, and their impact on human society.

Strange Worlds Amazing Places whisks readers off to every corner of the globe. It brings to life extraordinary monuments created by man—from the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan, to the fairy-tale castles of Bavaria. Sights formed by the forces of nature abound: Australia’s Uluru, the world largest monolith; and the Grand Canyon, plunging one mile into the earth. Readers will find many mysteries, including the origin and purpose of such oddities as the gigantic drawings of the Mazca Desert of Peru, the enigmatic ruins of Great Zimbabwe, and the perplexing earth mounds in North America. Included is a compact, quick-reference, 29-page gazetteer. Its more than 300 entries are arranged alphabetically and provide a brief description, geographical location, and historical significance—plus icons that indicate World Heritage Site status.

You too can travel the world as you encounter wildlife of the African plains and the Galápagos Islands, discover elusive enchantment of fabled sites, and be awed by captivating landscapes—all from the comfort of your favorite armchair....

A collection of words of wisdom, wry witticisms, provocative opinions, and inspiring reflections-from Benjamin Franklin to Colin Powell, Abraham Lincoln to Mother Teresa, Margaret Mead to Garrison Keillor. From one of the most popular features of Reader's Digest magazine....

Expand your vocabulary with these entertaining and challenging quizzes - one for every week of the year. Each focuses on a different area of interest, features 20 words and illuminate the workings of the English language, revealing in a fun and challenging format its complexity, subtleties, and magic....

Following on the success of the best-selling first edition, here is an entirely new collection of 1,715 ingenious uses for items in your pantry that can save you hundreds of dollars, oodles of time, and lots of hassle-plus help the environment in the process. A team of researchers and writers were sent out to talk with chefs, landscapers, herbalists, pet-store owners, carpenters, decorators, and many more experts to find the very best tips and tricks for getting things done quicker, easier, cheaper-and by only using items already available around the house. Most of the solutions are accomplished without chemicals, therefore they are healthier for you, your family, and the environment.

The thirteen chapters focus on an integral part of everyday life. For the Cook: Learn how to extend the life of vegetables, tried-and-true methods for baking bread, and 10 kitchen uses for salt. For the Housekeeper: Discover faster, easier cleaning ideas, such as remove carpet stains with peanut butter, and 10 ways to clean with lemon. For the Handyman (or woman): Silence squeaky hinges with shaving cream, remove rust from tools by rubbing them with a slice of raw potato dipped in salt, and 10 neat home-repair uses for nail polish.

Filled with special features that will inform, instruct, and entertain- "Household Superstar!" details many uses for popular home ingredients; "Make Your Own" offers simple, natural recipes; "Curiosity Corner" lets you dip into a veritable grab bag of novelty ideas; and "What's the Story?" brings you the surprising histories of household items....

"Home Artist" is an accessible and easy to follow course for anyone interested in developing their artisitic abilties using different types of media. The book includes projects using pencil charcoal, pastel, watercolour, acrylics, and oil paints. There are also sections devoted to more general subjects, covering everything from preparing the paper or canvas, and mixing and blending different colours, through to composition and perspective. Each chapter features a wide range of practical projects that enable the reader to develop the skills described in the text as a step-by-step process. Project themes range from keeping a simple sketch book to painting detailed watercolour landscapes. Accompanying boxes provide help and top tips for any aspiring artist. Highly illustrated throughout, "Home Artist" is accompained by full-colour photographs to ensure a stress-free learning experience and provide expert guidance. The wiro bound format allows the artist to turn the pages in a quick and easy way, and allows the book to rest open without the need for a stand....

The 250-plus delicious recipes in this book are the perfect way to explore a variety of new healthy, flavorful salads—and will satisfy both vegetarians, and meat and fish lovers alike.

Research indicates that eating at least five servings of vegetables and fruit a day provides a wide range of nutrients required for general health and daily function. Salads are a perfect mix of appetizing flavors and important nutrients. Salads are easy to make, attractive, full of flavor, economical, and versatile. This book provides more than 250 delicious recipes—filled with crunchy vegetables and robust flavors—catering to both vegetarians, and meat and fish lovers alike.

Sidebars—including “Mix & Match” and “Cook’s Tip” plus step-by-step instructions—are scattered throughout the book and offer valuable nutritional, how-to information, plus advice on shopping and storing ingredients. Filled with classics recipes from all over the world, Super Salads is guaranteed to add healthy ideas to very meal....

This beautifully illustrated, complete guide to herbs unlocks the secrets of these wonder plants-from planting and harvesting to cooking and storing- including their health benefits.

This guide unravels the mysteries of these versatile plants, with savvy tips and simple formulas for maximizing their powers. Did you know?
* Mint can repel ants, flies, mice, and moths
* Garlic can seriously lower cholesterol
* Chives, fennel, tarragon, thyme, oregano, and winter savory are perennials * Rosemary was used in the Middle Ages for its tranquilizing effects, and it is still a digestion aid

Known for alleviating common ailments, herbs are an ancient natural wonder-herbs are hotter than ever. Extremely informative and fascinating, this book will help you find which herb can treat various complaints. Throughout the guide are instructions for bursting-with-flavor recipes, health-care products, decorative craft ideas, insect repellents, cosmetics, cleaning agents, and much more.

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From the editorial team that brought you Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things comes a new book that will transform your meals.

Dive into the pages of Extraordinary Meals from Ordinary Ingredients where the secrets to the success of more than 900 fabulous recipes are revealed. This book is packed with recipes, tips, and innovations for every cook—from novices to seasoned professionals—fun sidebars offering remarkable hints for prepping and for cooking the dishes, faster, easier, or better. Save time in the kitchen by using common household mixes or sauces—instead of spending hours of chopping, mixing, and cooking. Use the full-color insert to see month-watering photos of finished dishes. Benefit from lighter, healthier, low–calorie dishes by using staples such as applesauce or reduce fat and calories by using evaporated milk in baked goods, quiches and creamy soups.

Eliminate excess trips to the grocery store to pick up some exotic spice or seasoning, just look on your shelf. Inside these pages youÂ’ll discover tips, such as:
* Using mint tea to infuse fresh aroma and mint flavor to rice, plus a little lemon juice and you’ll have a refreshing lemon-mint rice—a perfect accompaniment to any meat dish
* Adding a can of cola to pork stew to create a rich-tasting, well-balanced flavor
* Stirring in semi-sweet chocolate into a vegetarian chili to add a little more pizzazz

A bonus A-to-Z section contains 550 ingenious ways to use your favorite kitchen staples in wonderful new ways. YouÂ’ll be surprised to discover that your stash of secret ingredients are already sitting right there on your shelves....

For people on the go, discover one-pot cooking that saves time with simple preparation and easy clean-up. Rich soups, stews, deep fries, easy casseroles and more beautifully illustrated with hundreds of color photos, and step-by-step instructions for over 320 international recipes....