Product Description: After an introductory chapter on how to get started, 14 additional chapters supply scores of tips for every area of the garden, from the kitchen garden to ponds, lawns, patios, and containers. The author uses her years of experience to reveal the most life-changing tricks that can make a dramatic difference, and save time, money, and energy...read more

Product Description: The Anxious Gardener's Book of Answers identifies the 100 most common gardening mistakes and gives gardeners the techniques to prevent them. Or, if it's too late and they've already goofed, there are tips to fix the mistake. The book's 24 chapters tackle every kind of gardening disaster, whether it has to do with plants, tools and techniques, or general care and maintenance...read more

This book is intended to introduce the reader to the practical calculation of feedback control circuits by examples of application. The material is presented in the order of the work necessary in the practical investigation of feedback control systems: analysis of the technical construction, setting up the equations, transformation into frequency notation, normalization, drawing of the system diagram and the Bode diagram, determination of the control system parameters and the behaviour in real time. Only an understanding of basic mathematics and of basic electricity is prerequisite. The book can be used for independent study, to serve the specialist as a reference book, and to offer the drive-system engineer a comprehensive presentation of the standard problems and solutions of drive-systems engineering. Although for the most part examples of drive systems will be used, the contents is presented in such an easy way that it can also be read by other than drive-system engineers.

Product Description: Beginner's Illustrated Guide to Gardening is a one-stop, easy to understand, beautifully designed book with step-by-step instructions and photographs for every important gardening and landscaping technique. New homeowners with no prior knowledge of landscape care will learn how to turn their yards from weedy, overgrown patches to gorgeous landscapes that are the envy of their neighbors...read more

Product Description: This award-winning book includes 120 lively projects, with easy-to-follow step-by-step pictures, to help children learn all about how plants grow.

Product Description: When The Biggle Garden Book was first published in 1908, most people were in the habit of raising their own food and flowers. Jacob Biggle felt that a gardener’s success had to do with willpower and passion rather than acreage. “The man, woman or youngster who really wants a garden, will somehow manage to have a good one regardless of soil conditions, bad weather, measles in the family, or whether the area of ground at hand is a square acre or a square rod,” he wrote encouragingly at the start of the book...read more

Product Description: Through this collection of delightful essays and beautiful illustrations, long-time contributor to Country Living Gardner Sharon Lovejoy shares the boundless joys of a country garden. Lovejoy has chosen to focus on the natural world to be found just outside the door, including hummingbirds, caterpillars, and dragonflies, but her informative and witty prose also covers traditional plant care...read more

Product Description: “What better way to begin to explore the natural world than to experience the magic and beauty of a family garden.” —Arden Bucklin-Sporer, author of How to Grow a School Garden Many gardeners find that once they have children gardening goes the way of late-night dinner parties and Sunday morning sleep-ins...read more

Product Description: Curious kids will delight in the fifty fun-filled gardening activities in The Budding Gardener! The Budding Gardener offers great ways for parents and their budding gardeners, ages three to six, to create memories together as they plant a seed and watch it grow, create a garden marker, make a spider web out of sweet pea seeds and bamboo, and beautify the garden with a stone path or rock tower...read more

Product Description: You can grow tulips, daffodils, crocuses, and the rest of their spring-blooming brethren indoors, all winter long, when the view outside your window reveals snow, sleet, or icy rain. Instead, imagine your windowsills filled with an array of dazzling flowers...read more

Product Description: First published in 1998, On Garden Style established Bunny Williams as a reputable expert on gardens. In Bunny Williams on Garden Style, Williams visits impeccably designed gardens around the world, shedding light on the key components that make a garden so appealing and idyllic...read more

Product Description: Based on the experiences of Chinese reforms, the book criticises the transition theories of the 'big-bang' and privatisation represented by Sachs and Kornai. Along with the adjustment of the industrial structure, the Chinese government decontrolled prices gradually...read more

Product Description: Word-of-mouth may be a great way to learn about some products, but word-of-mouth gardening tips can be a very bad idea. The age-old practice of passing along gardening tips and tricks is no guarantee you will get a good result....read more

Product Description: Today, more and more people are thinking green—and there’s no urban activity greener, in every sense of the word, than community gardening. This all-region guide, filled with hands-on tips, offers a snapshot of today’s vibrant North American community gardening movement...read more

Product Description: Seeds are the essence of life on earth, providing the genetic information needed for every plant we currently use for growing food, harvesting for clothing, and creating homes and furniture with. For the everyday person they are vital for the creation of gardens and plant life, while for others they represent the future of the earth as in the case of the Doomsday Seed Vault in Norway which opened in March 2008 with the intention of housing more than 3 million seed samples from around the world...read more

Product Description: Includes succinct advice and helpful solutions to 1001 of the more frequently asked questions about gardening practice, from pruning and pest control to site and soil.

Product Description: This engaging book offers kids the opportunity to learn gardening skills while also allowing them to express their own creativity. Clear, approachable text and a colorful, magazine-style format make these titles inviting reads, while step-by-step instructions help ensure projects are easy to complete...read more

Product Description: “Get ready, the garden you’ve always longed for is at your fingertips. With images and ideas, Cultivating Garden Style releases your inner designer and helps you create a landscape that is yours and yours alone!” —Ivette Soler, author of The Edible Front Yard In Cultivating Garden Style, Rochelle Greayer shares ways to create outdoor areas that are charming, comfortable, appealing, and reflect individuality...read more