Reader's Digest

Robert Dolezal

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With so many urban and suburban dwellers moving toward simplifying their lives, Reader's Digest has updated its popular Back to Basics series to provide the ultimate how-to book. It's packed with hundreds of projects and illustrated step-by-step sequences to help you learn to live more self-sufficiently, with sections on shelter, alternative energy sources, growing and preserving food, home crafts, and even recreation. Includes over 2,000 photos, diagrams and drawings.

How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills

Back to Basics

An invaluable guide to the year-round color of evergreens -- plants for all seasons. Profiles of over 120 evergreens, including a wide range of conifers and broad-leaved evergreens, with information on which plants will thrive in your garden.

Evergreen Trees and Shrubs

Successful Gardening

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Provides solutions and tips to hundreds of everyday snags from car problems to power failures and recycling.

Substitutes, Shortcuts and Ingenious Solutions to Make Life Easier

Practical Problem Solver

Reader's Digest Association

Harry Thomas Frank

Maps, photographs, and illustrations show the geography, historical events, and people of the Middle East during Biblical times

An Illustrated Guide to the Holy Land

Reader's Digest Atlas of the Bible

Details, in step-by-step instructions, photographs, and drawings, more than one hundred functional and decorative home projects, stressing practical skills and techniques and enjoyment

101 Do-it-yourself Projects

Presents a collection of humorous anecdotes from the magazine's "Life in these United States" column, which is composed of readers' contributions

True Stories and Humorous Glimpses from America's Most Popular Magazine

Life in These United States

Ronald L McDonald

Brenda Jackson

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A parade of fun facts, fantastic photographs, and inside information, gathered together in an all-American celebration.Stretching from the White House's Rose Garden to Hollywood's back lots, "America A To Z" is a panorama of Americana. More than 1000 alphabetically arranged entries bring to light little-known facts, hidden histories, and sometimes strange stories about familiar people, places, events, inventions, fads, foods, and much more. Hundreds of illustrations -- including vintage photographs and woodcuts, drawings by well-known artists like Norman Rockwell, and portraits of movie stars, writers, entertainers, politicians, and other public figures -- enhance every page."America A To Z" reveals the origins of everything from blue jeans to hot dog buns, the Boy Scouts to the League of Women Voters. It introduces the heroes of the Alamo, the occupants of the Oval Office, the denizens of the locker rooms in every sport, and the men and women who have exercised their creative genius in laboratories, automobile factories, and fashion showrooms, on typewriters and piano keyboards. Readers will peek behind the scenes at the FBI and the Mall of America, get the inside scoop on Walter Winchell, and find out what Paul Revere really shouted on his ride through Boston, which children's author got his start writing advertising copy, and who invented Lincoln Logs.A great family reference, "America A To Z" makes it fun for kids to look up facts, for adults to journey down memory lane, and for everyone to get a close up look at America's rich and diverse history and culture.

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