Reader's Digest

Robert Dolezal

Of Readers Digest Editors

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

Reader's Digest Editors

Super Word Power

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

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

An offbeat history of the United States journeys beyond the newspaper headlines and world events to document the impact of individuals long overlooked by textbooks on American history and discusses fads, hoaxes, scandals, and other lesser-known events from America's past

Strange Stories, Amazing Facts of America's Past

Turn your backyard into a blissful bird sanctuary-create an appealing habitat to attract birds and watch them thrive. This indispensable guide for bird enthusiasts is a comprehensive and richly illustrated volume-with over 600 full-color photos. Together with a little careful planning and planting you can turn your yard into a bird and butterfly oasis. It's several books in one: * An A-to-Z landscaping guide to identify over 75 flowers and plants * A field guide includes over 170 varieties of birds and butterflies with key information on: how to identify them by their markings, how they behave, and which feeder foods they like the best * A bird-watching guide to understand the basics of bird-watching and what equipment might be needed to observe or photograph birds Plus, a how-to guide filled with step-by-step instructions for easy-to-build projects. Learn how-to: * Plant your garden with bird-friendly trees, plants, hedges, ground cover, seed- producing flowers, and fruit-bearing shrubs and vines * Build and mount your own birdhouses, boxes, perches, and shelters * Identify the best plants for creating nesting sites; grow bird seed; and add a birdbath or pond Let Birds in Your Backyard reveal its secrets for creating an irresistible garden and welcoming landscape alive with birds and butterflies.

A Bird Lover's Guide to Creating a Garden Sanctuary

Birds in Your Backyard

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

Provides instructions for completing a variety of woodworking and home improvement projects, ranked by skill level from novice to veteran craftsman, and including information on tools, finishes, construction techniques, and a where-to-buy-it guide.

Reader's Digest Book of Home Do-it-yourself Projects

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

Organize Yourself

Ronald L McDonald

Brenda Jackson

Readers Digest

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.

Robert Dolezal

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