Product Description: Assess your readiness for CompTIA A+ Exams 220-801 and 220-802—and quickly identify where you need to focus and practice. This practical, streamlined guide walks you through each exam objective, providing "need to know" checklists, review questions, tips, and links to further study—all designed to help bolster your preparation...read more

Product Description: If you can own only one book on attracting wildlife to your garden, this is it. Unlike other volumes, which offer only generalities like “reduce the size of your lawn,” this concise manual provides ten specific projects and countless tips for transforming your garden into a refuge...read more

Product Description: In "Letters To Frank D. Roosevelt " Shorty Stevens loses good and trusted friend and local legend, Black Jack Walker. Walker had been a recluse in Sheridan, unseen for over thirty years. Folks told the many stories, real and made up of the man who had been a Civil War Hero, Moose Hunter, Injun Fighter, Expert Tracker and Scout, Gold Miner, Bear Wrestler, Hunting and Fishing Guide, ...read more

Product Description: Butterflies are some of nature’s loveliest and most intriguing pollinators. In this handbook, explore the detailed, practical information offered on dozen of butterflies—all spectacularly illustrated in color—as well as a comprehensive encyclopedia of nectar plants for the garden...read more

Product Description: "More True Tales of Shorty Stevens", is the follow-up to the very successful "The True Tales of Shorty Stevens". The boys use their detective skills to find out about an old house and the hermit that lives there. After passing the old house for years, Shorty decides he wants to know what the story is behind it...read more

Product Description: Hundreds of spectacular annuals, at-a glance growing information by the best experts in the field, inspired plant combinations, and more than 80 dazzling photos: how could any gardener do without this guide? It covers almost every type of annual in an encyclopedic directory, including some less well-known varieties from the Southwestern United States and Mexico: there are plants for drying; edible ones from Asia and Africa to enhance the herb garden and kitchen table; evening bloomers and morning glories; annuals to pick for a perfect bouquet and others that create shade; tropicals and tender plants; and seaside annuals...read more

Product Description: Long before the invention of pottery, men and women wove baskets from plant fibers. Today, craftworkers creating textiles and other products make use of many of these same resources and methods. Thoroughly researched and charmingly written, this practical guide by a veteran botanist and horticulturist provides weavers and gardeners alike with a wealth of information on growing plants for use in weaving and dyeing projects...read more

An inspiring guide offers encouraging words for growing herbs, fragrant plants, cut flowers, bulbs, and ground covers and includes ways to overcome some of the more challenging feats, such as planting on a hillside or under a tree. (view table of contents)

A passionate gardener for more than thirty years introduces readers to the basics of planting and nurturing a garden, offering tips on design, color, and sturdy and versatile plants to use as garden anchors and explaining what makes a successful garden work. (view table of contents)

Discusses plants of use to textile artists for fibers, dyes, natural soaps, fragrances and textile tools, and describes how to plan and create a garden