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  The New Shade Garden - Creating...

  Ken Druse

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  The author of The Natural Shade Garden offers a comprehensive new guide to climate-conscious gardening—beautifully illustrated with 400 photos. 
   
  There is a new generation of gardeners who are planting gardens not only for their visual beauty but also for their ability to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In The New Shade Garden, Ken Druse provides expert advice on creating a shade garden with an emphasis on the adjustments necessary for our changing climate.  
   
  Druse examines common problems facing today's gardeners, from addressing the deer situation to watering plants without stressing limited resources. Detailing all aspects of the gardening process, The New Shade Garden covers basic topics such as designing your own garden, pruning trees, preparing soil for planting, and the vast array of flowers and greenery that grow best in the shade.  
   
  Perfect for new and seasoned gardeners alike, this encyclopedic manual provides all the information you need to start or improve upon your own shade garden.

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  Flavors under the Big Sky -...

  Stella Fong

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  Explore the big, wild flavors of Montana with this collection of recipes and stories from Big Sky Country’s culinary trailblazers.   With more than eighty recipes and stunning photography, writer and Montana radio host Stella Fong combines cherished local ingredients with world flavors. Sourced from waterways, mountains, plains and local farmers’ markets, Montana's resources shine in a diverse array of savory and sweet applications.   Dishes like Pheasant Stir-Fry with Black Bean Sauce and Elk Kielbasa with Pomegranate bring international flair to familiar game. Rhubarb Raspberry Polenta Cake and Pavlova Roulade with Sour Cherry Sauce and Toasted Almonds give new life to market and garden staples. And stories of local chef, farmers, and others pay tribute to the Treasure State's abundance. Flavors Under the Big Sky offers a fresh take on Big Sky Country’s finest fare.

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  Has a Frog a Soul?

  Thomas Henry Huxley

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  Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biologist after Darwin himself. This speech to the Metaphysical Society in 1870 is one of Huxley’s best known texts outside the sphere of his specialism, and remains read today by students of philosophy. In it, Huxley argues from the results of vivisection to metaphysics. (Summary by CarlManchester)

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  Fast Fun & Easy Fabric Dyeing -...

  Lynn Koolish

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  Learn to dye fabric the quick and easy way with twelve can’t-miss techniques for adding custom color to fabric, clothing, linens, and household goods.  
   
  How can you make quilting or crafting more fun? Add color! Everything you need to know about creating fabulous hand-dyed fabrics is right here—what supplies to get, basic techniques to try, and how to achieve different visual effects. Photo galleries give you lots of ideas for projects to show off the results.Fast! Lynn teaches you the techniques that produce rich results with minimal time and effort. Fun! Learn to create lots of exciting color blends, patterns, and textures. Easy! All you need to get started is this book, a few supplies, a measuring spoon, and some plastic containers.

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  Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to...

  Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein

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  Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, authors of the national bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, aren't falling for any election year claptrap-and they don't want their readers to either! In Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington, our two favorite philosopher-comedians return just in time to save us from the double-speak, flim-flam, and alternate reality of politics in America.  
  Deploying jokes and cartoon as well as the occasional insight from Aristotle and his peers, Cathcart and Klein explain what politicos are up to when they state: "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence." (Donald Rumsfeld), "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." (Bill Clinton), or even, "We hold these truths to be self-evident." (Thomas Jefferson, et al).  
  Drawing from the pronouncements of everyone from Caesar to Condoleeza Rice, Genghis Kahn to Hillary Clinton, and Adolf Hitler to Al Sharpton. Cathcart and Klein help us learn to identify tricks such as "The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy" (non causa pro causa) and the "The Fallacy Fallacy" (argumentum and logicam). Aristotle and an Aardvark is for anyone who ever felt like the politicos and pundits were speaking Greek. At least Cathcart and Klein provide the Latin name for it (raudatio publica)!

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  Wildest of the Wild West - True...

  Howard Bryan

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  Bizarre but totally true tales of the wildest town on the Western frontier, Las Vegas, New Mexico! 
  Violence and treachery abounded, but also heroism, ingenuity, and low and high comedy. 
  Jesse James, Doc Holliday, Kit Carson, Billy the Kid, even Abraham Lincoln and Lew Wallace and scores of other famous and infamous characters all played parts in the story of the roughest town on the frontier! (Historian Ralph Emerson Twitchell once claimed regarding the Old West, "Without exception there was no town which harbored a more disreputable gang of desperadoes and outlaws than did Las Vegas.") 
  Incredible stories of a railroad town -- and a "police force" -- totally out of control. Most of your favorite famous outlaws spent time in "Vegas," as well as an even more violent, devious bunch you probably didn't know. 
  All told by noted historian and master storyteller, Howard Bryan, with an introduction by Max Evans.

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