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  Embroidery Basics - A...

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  This illustrated embroidery guide takes you step-by-step through seventeen projects using a variety of techniques, including forty-two stitches.   Needlecraft designer Cheryl Fall offers the ideal guide for beginner and intermediate crafters who want to master embroidery stitches. A comprehensive and fully illustrated skill-building section is followed by fun and creative projects using both surface embroidery and counted-thread embroidery techniques.   Embroidery Basics covers:   ·       How to use a variety of embroidery threads and simple stitches to create beautiful embroidered projects ·       Seventeen projects in a wide variety of easy-to-learn techniques, with color patterns, including designs for towels, napkins, pillowcases, purses, cushions, tablet covers, ornaments, and samplers Guidelines and color illustrations for mastering forty-two stitches

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  The Book of Spice - From Anice...

  John O'Connell

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  A tasty compendium of spices and a fascinating history and wide array of uses of the world’s favorite flavors—The Book of Spice: From Anise to Zedoary reveals the amazing history of spices both familiar and esoteric. John O’Connell’s erudite chapters combine history with insights into art, religion, medicine, science, and they’re richly seasoned with anecdotes and recipes.Discover why Cleopatra bathed in saffron and mare’s milk, why wormwood-laced absinthe caused eighteenth-century drinkers to hallucinate, and how cloves harvested in remote Indonesian islands found their way into a kitchen in ancient Syria. Almost every kitchen contains a bottle of cloves or a stick of cinnamon; almost every dish, a pinch of something, whether chili or cumin. The Book of Spice is culinary history at its most appetizing.

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  Countdown Calendars - 24...

  Susanne Woods

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  Make delightful calendars for Advent—or Hanukkah, birthdays, vacations, new babies, and other happy events! 
   
  Make every occasion even more special! Today’s top designers share their ideas and techniques on how to commemorate life’s celebratory moments—plus a couple to help us with challenges and chores.  
   
  Great for both kids and adults, equal parts inspiration and how-to, this collection of custom-crafted countdown calendars is packed with creative ways to say 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . hooray!

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  Smelling the Breezes - A Journey...

  Ralph Izzard, Molly Izzard

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  Smelling the Breezes is an inspiring family adventure, a three-hundred-mile walk down the spine of the Lebanon with four children, two donkeys and Elias, the family's gardener, nursemaid and friend. The journey took them over towering passes, through immense gorges and into the lives of mountain villages and highland herdsmen. The presence of four small but redoubtable blonde children proved a passport at every door, whatever the politics, religion or ethnicity of the household. Smelling the Breezes is a magnificent portrait of Lebanon in all its rich complexity and easy charm: broken castles, hashish smugglers, clan feuds, festivals, forgotten temples, secretive headquarters and hospitable sheikhs.

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  The Unknown World of the Mobile...

  John Fraser Hart, Michelle J...

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  An in-depth look at the history and culture of mobile homes in the United States. 
   
  In American popular imagination, the mobile home evokes images of cramped interiors, cheap materials, and occupants too poor or unsavory to live anywhere else. Since the 1940s and ‘50s, however, mobile home manufacturers have improved standards of construction and now present them as an affordable alternative to conventional site-built homes. Today one of every fourteen Americans lives in a mobile home. 
   
  In The Unknown World of the Mobile Home authors John Fraser Hart, Michelle J. Rhodes, and John T. Morgan illuminate the history and culture of these often misunderstood domiciles. They describe early mobile homes, which were trailers designed to be pulled behind automobiles and which were more often than not poorly constructed and unequal to the needs of those who used them. During the 1970s, however, Congress enacted federal standards for the quality and safety of mobile homes, which led to innovation in design and the production of much more attractive and durable models. These models now comply with local building codes and many are designed to look like conventional houses. As a result, one out every five new single-family housing units purchased in the United States is a mobile home, sited everywhere from the conventional trailer park to custom-designed “estates” aimed at young couples and retirees. Despite all these changes in manufacture and design, even the most immobile mobile homes are still sold, financed, regulated, and taxed as vehicles. 
   
  With a wealth of detail and illustrations, The Unknown World of the Mobile Home provides readers with an in-depth look into this variation on the American dream. 
   
  “A clear, concise, and innovative look at the history, the economics, and the politics of the mobile home. The authors reveal the inner workings of mobile home living by drawing upon a wide variety of sources, from industry data to interviews conducted at mobile home parks across the country. Further, they explore new types of mobile home communities—those assembled for workers at meat-processing centers in southwest Kansas, for example—that complicate the familiar image of the mobile home park as retirement village. The ideas presented in this book provide a solid starting point for many detailed studies on this important topic.” —Karl Raitz, University of Kentucky, author of The National Road

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  1000 Indian Recipes

  Neelam Batra

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  “Neelam’s passions and knowledge of her homeland’s cuisine and history shine through on every page . . . refreshing and insightful.” —Nancy Silverton, James Beard Award–winning chef 
   
  Delve into the fascinating flavors and variety of Indian cuisine with this unrivaled recipe collection. You’ll discover delicious choices for dishes that make Indian food unforgettable: crispy fritters; tangy pickles; chaat snacks and salads; refreshing yogurt raitas; richly flavored curries; comforting legume (dal) dishes; creative vegetable and meat main courses and side dishes; decadent desserts; and exotic drinks. 
   
  To guide your cooking, Neelam Batra provides time-and labor-saving methods, ingredient substitutions, and menu suggestions, and addresses modern health concerns without sacrificing flavor. This is a book Indian food lovers—and health-conscious eaters and vegetarians, too—can turn to for everyday meals and special occasions for years to come! 
   
  “I can’t wait to sample her recipes for paneer, her salads and flatbreads, and of course, the chutneys and curries. Make room for Neelam Batra’s book on your kitchen bookshelf!”—Deborah Madison, author of In My Kitchen: A Collection of New and Favorite Vegetarian Recipes 
   
  “To savor a proper curry is to feel your palate awakened to an explosion of flavor. Neelam’s recipes simmer with the fire of life.” —Michael Jackson, award-winning entertainer and Indian food lover

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