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Home in bloom

Emma — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A vivid, inspiring look at the role of flowers and plants in interior design through the stunning, wild work of Ariella Chezar.Ariella Chezar is the master of creating ambiance and relaxation through flowers, and her magnificent arrangements are the envy of the interior design world. While most floral designers begin with the blooms, Ariella takes into consideration the architecture, light, and landscape of the environment before choosing any flowers. She often forages from a nearby garden to bring the place into the piece, incorporating wild elements such as branches, weeds, or vines rich with berries. The results are complex and dynamic, highlighting the drama inherent in nature-and with Home in Bloom, Ariella inspires us to create the same drama in our own creations.With chapters separated by themes such as Nourish for kitchen spaces, Welcome for entryways, Inspire for living rooms, and Wilding for scattering wild arrangements throughout the house, Home in Bloom takes us on a journey through homes and rooms filled with incredible blooms that spark color and light. Ariella urges us to forgo the more staid and traditional bouquets of commercially grown flowers, and instead look around us for more wild options. The arrangements in each chapter are accompanied by detailed captions that inspire us to walk outside and bring nature in. Filled with hundreds of gorgeous photographs of spaces all over the country, this interior design book is full of unique inspiration for any flower lover.

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2023

Emma — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

For more than fifty years, What Color Is Your Parachute? has transformed the way people think about job hunting. Whether searching for that first position, recovering from a layoff, or dreaming of a career change, What Color Is Your Parachute? has shown millions of readers how to network effectively, compose impressive resumes and cover letters, interview with confidence, and negotiate the best possible salary-while discovering how to make their livelihood part of authentic living. More than a job-hunting book, Richard N. Bolles’s timeless wisdom and famed self-assessment exercise clarifies seven key dimensions, so you can uncover your greatest passions, most valued traits, and transferable skills to design a life that enables you to flourish. With the job market in constant flux, people everywhere have found that understanding who they are-what they care about, where and how they do their best work, and the most effective way to express their abilities-is the best compass to navigating an ever-changing and challenging professional landscape. It is also how their work can become part of a life filled with passion and purpose. Using the trailblaing advice and enduring guidance of What Color Is Your Parachute?, job-hunters and career changers will have the tools to discover-and land-the work, and life, most meaningful to them.

Welcome to the Jungle

Emma — Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Graduate from ordinary houseplants to extraordinary ones with these 50 desirable, dramatic plants and expert tips on how to obtain, grow, and propagate them.

“A visually stunning book with great information for rare plant collectors.”-Morgan Doane and Erin Harding, authors of How to Raise a Plant and Make It Love You Back

If you’re bored with the same old entry-level houseplants and long for something new, up your game with Enid Offolter. Called “the Houseplant Queen” by the New York Times, Offolter and her company, NSE Tropicals, are celebrities within the rare plant community, with legions of obsessed Instagram followers and plants that sell in heated auctions for thousands of dollars. In Welcome to the Jungle, Offolter shows you how to grow and propagate some of these exceptional botanicals on your own.

From the king anthurium with its deeply pleated leaves to velvety Colombian beauties known to make collectors drop to their knees, to plants with hot-pink leaves, bizarre corkscrew-shaped flower spikes, lacy fenestration, and dramatic variegation, these amazing aroids (a family of plants known for its extravagant foliage) bring a lush, tropical aesthetic to your home that will make you the envy of all your plant-loving friends. If you’re ready to rise up to the next level, Welcome to the Jungle is full of tips, professional advice, behind-the-scenes stories from fellow plant collectors, and the inspiration you need to grow plants that make a statement.

Coastlines

Emma — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Coastlines and waterways are some of the world’s most beautiful and beloved places, from tropical beaches and icy fjords to lush mangrove forests and hidden coves. Showcasing hundreds of gorgeous travel photos from around the world, Coastlines is a visual tour of these magical watery places and a valuable resource of curated travel information. In addition to glorious images, Coastlines also spotlights some of the issues that threaten the beauty and security of these precious habitats-and how you can help. Perfect for water/beach lovers and armchair travellers, Coastlines takes you on a journey to the planet’s most special places.

Drinking French: The Iconic Cocktails, Ap ritifs, and Caf Traditions of France,

Emma — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The New York Times bestselling author of My Paris Kitchen serves up more than 160 recipes for trendy cocktails, quintessential aperitifs, cafe favourites, complementary snacks, and more.Bestselling cookbook author, memoirist, and popular blogger David Lebovitz delves into the drinking culture of his adopted home in French Drinks. This beautifully photographed collection features 160 recipes for everything from coffee, hot chocolate, and tea to aperitifs such as Kir and Lillet, classic and modern cocktails from the hottest Paris bars, and creative infusions using fresh fruit and French liqueurs. And because the French can’t imagine drinking without having something to eat alongside, David includes crispy, salty snacks to serve with your concoctions. Each recipe is accompanied by David’s witty and informative stories about the ins and outs of life in France, as well as photographs taken on location in Paris and beyond. Whether you have a trip to France booked and want to know what and where to drink, or just want to infuse your next get-together with a little French flair, this rich and revealing guide will make you the toast of the town.

Vegetable Kingdom: Cooking the World of Plant-Based Recipes

Emma — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

More than 100 beautifully simple recipes that teach you the basics of a great vegan meal centred on real food, not powders or meat substitutes–from the James Beard Award-winning chef and author of Afro-Vegan. Food justice activist and author Bryant Terry breaks down the fundamentals of plant-based cooking in Vegetable Kingdom, showing you how to make delicious meals from popular vegetables, grains, and legumes. Recipes like Dirty Cauliflower, Barbecued Carrots with Slow-Cooked White Beans, Millet Roux Mushroom Gumbo, and Citrus & Garlic-Herb-Braised Fennel are enticing enough without meat substitutes, instead relying on fresh ingredients, vibrant spices, and clever techniques to build flavour and texture. The book is organized by ingredient, making it easy to create simple dishes or showstopping meals based on what’s fresh at the market. Bryant also covers the basics of vegan cooking, explaining the fundamentals of assembling flavourful salads, cooking filling soups and stews, and making tasty grains and legumes. With beautiful imagery and classic design, Vegetable Kingdom is an invaluable tool for plant-based cooking today.

Yoga for the Inflexible Male: A How-To Guide

Emma — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The benefits of yoga–greater strength, flexibility, and presence of mind–are for anyone, no matter their skill level. But most classes don’t feel that way if you’re a first-timer–or an inflexible male. Enter Yoga for the Inflexible Male, a welcoming and humorous guide for people of all stripes that gives three vetted hour-long yoga routines, each with roughly a dozen yoga poses. The poses are illustrated and described in depth, and each one contains variations so that they are accessible to anyone, no matter their flexibility. The back of the book also has sequences geared for practitioners of specific sports, like running, biking, climbing, and so on. As more and more men are encouraged to increase their flexibility, the health advantages of yoga are no longer beyond their reach.

The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen

Emma — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This new and revised edition of the IACP award-winning cookbook brings the healing power of delicious, nutritious foods to those whose hearts and bodies crave a revitalizing meal, through 150 new and updated recipes. Winner of two prestigious IACP Awards, both the Health and Special Diet category and the People’s Choice Award, The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen has now sold over 100,000 copies and continues to backlist steadily. Featuring science-based, nutrient-rich recipes that are easy to prepare and designed to give patients a much-needed boost by stimulating appetite and addressing treatment side effects including fatigue, nausea, dehydration, mouth and throat soreness, tastebud changes, and weight loss. A step-by-step guide helps patients nutritionally prepare for all phases of treatment, and a full nutritional analysis accompanies each recipe. This remarkable resource teaches patients and caregivers how to use readily available powerhouse ingredients to build a symptom- and cancer-fighting culinary toolkit. Blending fantastic taste and meticulous science, these recipes for soups, vegetable dishes, proteins, and sweet and savory snacks are rich in the nutrients, minerals, and phytochemicals that help patients thrive during treatment. This second edition also includes a dozen new recipes-many of which are simpler and less complicated, for cancer patients to prepare on their low days-as well as a list of cancer-fighting foods that can be incorporated into everyday life without stepping behind the stove. Rebecca has also revised the text with the most up-to-date scientific research and includes a section on how friends and family can build a culinary support team.

Train Your Dog Positively

Emma — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Victoria Stilwell, positive reinforcement dog trainer and star of the hit Smithsonian Channel TV show, Dogs With Extraordinary Jobs, explains how to use her force-free, scientifically-backed training methods to solve common canine behavior problems.

Victoria Stilwell, America’s favorite no-nonsense trainer, has rehabilitated some of the world’s most difficult dogs-and now she’s revealing her scientifically proven behavioral training secrets for you to use at home.

Victoria’s all-new training guide shows how positive reinforcement is more effective than other methods: by changing the way your dog thinks, feels, and learns, you can actually encourage your dog to want to behave. With tips and tricks for understanding canine language, harnessing the power of reward-based training, and tapping into dogs’ natural instincts, there are no hopeless cases! So get ready to boost your dog’s confidence, improve your communication, and build your bond with your best friend today.