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GREEN THUMB GARDEN DESIGN HOW TO LANDSCAPING PLANT DVD $9.99 |
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CREATIVE HOME LANDSCAPING Design Garden How To Guide $6.91 |
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Southeast Home Landscaping Plants Designs photos how-to $9.95 |
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Rain Bird 1-Inch Sprinkler System Automatic In-Line Valve CP100 $11.98 CP100 Size: 1″ Features: -In line valve without flow control. -Buna-N diaphragm offers superior performance in harsh water environments. -Reverse flow design reduces stress on diaphragm for dependable operation. -In line design minimizes pressure loss. -Operates automatically or manually with manual bleed screw. -Designed for below-ground installation, out of sight and away. -1” and 0.75” femal… |
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Pathmate Stone Molds Don’t pay a professional to do your backyard landscaping! You can pour your own cement bricks, stones or slate with my Walkway Kits… Random Belgian Do-it-yourself and Save! The Stone Mold Kit uses heavy-duty plastic Molds that turn a little pre-mixed concrete into a dramatic walk, pathway, border or patio. Just prepare the ground, place the Mold, fill with cement, trowel smooth and remove the Mo… |
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Rain Bird DC-6 Landscape Dripline System Pop-Up Spray To Drip Irrigation Retrofit Conversion Kit $11.29 Rain Bird DC-6 Drip Irrigation Retrofit KitDC-6 Drip Irrigation Retrofit Kit. Convert a Pop-up Spray to a Drip UnitRain Bird DC-6 Drip Irrigation Retrofit Kit Features:; Easily converts your pop up spray head to a drip unit and avoids water waste, saving time and money ; Offers the consumer an easy to use solution that is unique and convenient… |
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Aquascape Designs Watergardening How-To Video Aqua Ecosystems $5.95 Water gardening is the fastest growing trend in landscaping today. The reasons are simpe. No other type of landscaping affects all the senses a much as moving water. When you create a water garden, you establish a tranquil place to relax, Wildlife also benefits as birds come to bathe and animals drink. Actual running time of video is unknown…. |
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The Art of Landscaping Design with Howard Garrett [VHS] $19.99 … |
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Aquascape Designs: The Watergardening How-to Video $99.99 Aquascape Designs: The Watergardening How-to Video. Transform your yard, and your world. Water gardening is the fastest growing trend in landscaping today. The reasons are simple. No other type of landscaping affects all the senses as much as moving water. When you create a water garden, you establish a tranquil place to relax. Wildlife also benefit as birds come to bathe and animals drink. Buildi… |
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CBConcept Brand Precision Halogen Light Bulb MR16 12V 20W-12 Pack $10.69 3000 hrs useful hours 3000 k. color temperature with UV-stop cover lenses. GU5.3 or GX5.3 base Diameter: 2″… |
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Baraka [Blu-ray] $16.88 The word Baraka means “blessing” in several languages; watching this film, the viewer is blessed with a dazzling barrage of images that transcend language. Filmed in 24 countries and set to an ever-changing global soundtrack, the movie draws some surprising connections between various peoples and the spaces they inhabit, whether that space is a lonely mountaintop or a crowded cigarette factory… |
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The ABCs of Pruning DVD $24.99 The ABC’s of Pruning is a must for every homeowner with a lawn, garden or other landscaping. With simple time-saving techniques, Landscape Designer Hugh Perry takes the mystique out of pruning. Here is all the information you need to beautify and protect your landscape investment. In just 30 engaging minutes, Hugh demonstrates how to trim trees, thin shrubs, salvage overgrown landscapes and more. … |
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DVD Encyclopedia of Garden Design & Renovation $3.95 In this informative two-part DVD, hosts Peter Seabrook and Anne Swithinbank demonstrate how to turn a bare-earth plot into a lush, beautiful garden. Includes everything from planning, selecting the right tools, soil preparing, & laying a new lawn. The hosts then offer the best long-term approach to dealing with an overgrown or derelict garden. With a host of easy and practical tips, they will… |
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Edible Landscaping $30.48 Since Rosalind Creasy popularized the concept of landscaping with edibles a quarter-century ago, interest in eating healthy, fresh, locally grown foods has swept across the nation. More and more Americans are looking to grow clean, delicious produce at home, saving money and natural resources at the same time. And food plants have been freed from the backyard, gracing the finest landscapes–even the White House grounds Creasy’s expertise on edibles and how to incorporate them in beautifully designed outdoor environments was first showcased in the original edition of Edible Landscaping (Sierra Club Books, 1982), hailed by gardeners everywhere as a groundbreaking classic. Now this highly anticipated new edition presents the latest design and how-to information in a glorious full-color format, featuring more than 300 inspiring photographs. Drawing on the author’s decades of research and experience, the book presents everything you need to know to create an inviting home landscape that will yield mouthwatering vegetables, fruits, nuts, and berries. The comprehensive Encyclopedia of Edibles–a book in itself–provides horticultural information, culinary uses, sources, and recommended varieties; and appendices cover the basics of planting and maintenance and of controlling pests and diseases using organic and environmentally friendly practices. |
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Design Ideas for Home Landscaping $10.55 Design Ideas for Home Landscaping |
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Landscaping For Dummies $16.99 A beautiful landscape reflects well on your house, making it a  welcome part of a  neighborhood or native terrain. And it  dramatically increases your home’s value. Landscaping also makes your house and yard more useful and better able to complement your family’s lifestyle. Trees shade your home to reduce energy use. Thorny shrubs deter prowlers. Lawns reduce dust from bare ground and give children the perfect play area. Patios and decks are great for entertaining. And a vegetable garden can yield fresh, delicious salads to eat on that patio or deck. Landscaping for Dummies has everything you need to turn the little patch of earth you call your own into a personal paradise. Whether you’ve waited for the day to have property to landscape, you’d never given it a second thought until you had to, or you want to improve on an existing landscape, this book offers a clearly written wealth of knowledge on: Designs Fences, walls, gates, and paths Decks, patios, and outdoor rooms Trees Shrubs and vines Ground cover From the basic principles of landscape design, to all the ins and outs of hillsides, balcony gardens, and water gardens, this book will show you how to: Think like a designer Dream up the right landscape for your family’s needs Increase your home’s resale value Conserve energy Deal with contractors, nurseries, and hardware suppliers Create an edible landscape Full of helpful problem-solvers for all kinds of landscapes, Landscaping for Dummies also features sample plans, “theme” landscape ideas, and a brilliant color photo section to inspire the imagination. Accessible and informative to both beginner and expert landscapers, this is the complete guide to creating the yard you’ve always wanted. |
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Landscaping for Dummies $3.98 A beautiful landscape reflects well on your house, making it a welcome part of a neighborhood or native terrain. And it dramatically increases your home’s value. Landscaping also makes your house and yard more useful and better able to complement your family’s lifestyle. Trees shade your home to reduce energy use. Thorny shrubs deter prowlers. Lawns reduce dust from bare ground and give children the perfect play area. Patios and decks are great for entertaining. And a vegetable garden can yield fresh, delicious salads to eat on that patio or deck. "Landscaping for Dummies" has everything you need to turn the little patch of earth you call your own into a personal paradise. Whether you’ve waited for the day to have property to landscape, you’d never given it a second thought until you had to, or you want to improve on an existing landscape, this book offers a clearly written wealth of knowledge on: Designs Fences, walls, gates, and paths Decks, patios, and outdoor rooms Trees Shrubs and vines Ground cover From the basic principles of landscape design, to all the ins and outs of hillsides, balcony gardens, and water gardens, this book will show you how to: Think like a designer Dream up the right landscape for your family’s needs Increase your home’s resale value Conserve energy Deal with contractors, nurseries, and hardware suppliers Create an edible landscape Full of helpful problem-solvers for all kinds of landscapes, "Landscaping for Dummies" also features sample plans, "theme" landscape ideas, and a brilliant color photo section to inspire the imagination. Accessible and informative to both beginner and expert landscapers, this is the complete guide to creating the yard you’ve always wanted. |
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Landscaping for Your Home $19.31 Landscaping  for Your Home covers every aspect of home landscaping, from design principles to construction projects; plant selection to plant care. The book consists of three parts. Part One: Preparing to Landscape explains how to design and cre |
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Landscaping $3.98 Time-Life’s most popular how-to guides for the homeowner are now completely updated for the ’90s with up-to-the-minute codes, tools, tips, and techniques. Highly illustrated with step-by-step instructions. |
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New Complete Home Landscaping $3.98 "New Complete Home Landscaping" is an updated, expanded edition of Creative Homeowner’s award-winning comprehensive book on landscaping for the home. It covers every aspect of home landscaping, from design principles to construction projects; plant selection to plant care. The book consists of three parts, Part One: Preparing to Landscape explains how to design and create a landscape. Part Two: Setting the Stage shows how to build such features as paths, ponds, walls, decks, and watering systems. Part Three: Planting and Growing describes how to select, plant, and care for flowers, trees, shrubs, ground covers, and lawns. |
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California Home Landscaping $3.48 Make a Californian home landscape more attractive and functional with "California Home Landscaping." Like the other titles in this series, this book contains three parts: Design Portfolio, Guide to Installations, and Plant Portraits. In the "Design Portfolio" section, readers will find 48 designs created by landscape professionals in California. "Guide to Installations" explains how to install the plants, paths, patios, and arbors used in the designs. More than 200 of the best plants for the region are fully described in "Plant Portraits." Clearly written in a friendly style and with 470 color photographs and paintings, California Home Landscaping provides everything readers need to know to landscape like a pro. |
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Landscaping on the New Frontier $24 A practical volume for the home or business owner on landscaping with native, drought-tolerant plants in the Rocky Mountain West. Filled with color illustrations, photos, and design sketches, over 100 native species are described, while practical tips on landscape design, water-wise irrigation, and keeping down the weeds are provided. In this book you will learn how to use natural landscapes to inspire your own designed landscape around your business or home and yard. Included are design principles, practical ideas, and strong examples of what some homeowners have already done to convert traditional "bluegrass" landscapes into ones that are more expressive of theWest. Landscaping on the new Frontier also offers an approach to irrigation that minimizes the use of supplemental water yet ensures the survival of plants during unusually dry periods. You will learn how to combine ecological principles with design principles to create beautiful home landscapes that require only minimal resources to maintain. |
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Landscaping on the New Frontier: Waterwise Design for the Intermountain West $23.98 A practical volume for the home or business owner on landscaping with native, drought-tolerant plants in the Rocky Mountain West. Filled with color illustrations, photos, and design sketches, over 100 native species are described, while practical tips on landscape design, water-wise irrigation, and keeping down the weeds are provided. In this book you will learn how to use natural landscapes to inspire your own designed landscape around your business or home and yard. Included are design principles, practical ideas, and strong examples of what some homeowners have already done to convert traditional "bluegrass" landscapes into ones that are more expressive of theWest. "Landscaping on the new Frontier also offers an approach to irrigation that minimizes the use of supplemental water yet ensures the survival of plants during unusually dry periods. You will learn how to combine ecological principles with design principles to create beautiful home landscapes that require only minimal resources to maintain." |
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Landscaping Your Home $3.98 Gardening enthusiasts will be inspired by this series of garden design books from more than 50 of America’s best gardeners, landscape architects, horticulturists, and nursery owners. They’ll discover a wealth of information on everything from planting perennial borders and garden rooms to landscape layout and gardening in harmony with nature. Landscaping Your Home features advice on how to get started, including drawing a site plan, ideas for designing a wide variety of landscape features, and tips for making small spaces look and feel larger. |
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Landscaping with Ornamental Grasses $3.98 Sunset is the first to offer Landscaping with Ornamental Grasses, a complete design and reference book that explores the history of grasses in their natural settings, and describes how to integrate them in a variety of climatic situations — shady woodland to desert, Asian-style gardens to naturalistic landscapes, family-friendly yards to small patios. Step-by-step directions, over 250 beautiful photos, ideas for stylish indoor container and craft projects, and retail and mail-order sources make this new edition a must for anyone passionate about expanding their gardening repertoire. |
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Landscaping with Native Plants of the Southwest $24.48 As the world heats up and we become more and more conscious of our place in the natural scheme, the appeal of the native plants of the Southwest becomes ever more compelling for gardeners. In addition to providing year-round beauty with relatively little maintenance, landscaping with native plants contributes to the repair of the natural ecosystem and brings us closer to our environment–and the array of native plant material available to the Southwestern gardener is diverse and spectacular, providing seemingly endless opportunities for creative and attractive landscapes. In Landscaping with Native Plants of the Southwest," George Oxford Miller provides the definitive guide to choosing the best of the best among the native plants of Arizona and New Mexico. Covering wildflowers, shrubs, trees, vines, groundcovers, and cacti, this comprehensive, richly illustrated book selects the species whose ornamental qualities, growth habit, adaptability, maintenance needs, and beauty add up to the highest landscape value. The illustrations, maps, and charts provide guidelines for species selection and planting, ongoing maintenance, landscape design, and water and energy conservation. In-depth plant profiles describe the habitat requirements for more than 350 native plant species, subspecies, and varieties, with lush photographs illustrating how each plant looks and responds to landscape conditions. As the interest in native-plant landscaping and xeriscaping continues to grow, this book will find a place on the shelf of every gardener and landscaper in the region–or of anybody interested in recreating the beauty of the Southwest in a hot, dry corner of the yard. |
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Landscaping with Native Plants of Michigan $20.48 "Landscaping with Native Plants of Michigan" is designed for beginning and experienced gardeners who want to learn more about Michigan’s unique native-plant communities and how to successfully incorporate them into their home landscapes. It combines the practicality of a field guide with all the basic information homeowners need to create an effective landscape design. The plant profiles section includes comprehensive descriptions of more than 600 native plant species, subspecies, and varieties of flowers, trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens, grasses, and ferns that have grown in Michigan since the time before European settlement. Information on planting, maintenance, and landscape uses for each plant is also included. Readers will also gain many creative ideas from the section featuring Michigan gardeners who have successfully incorporated native plants into their home landscapes. |
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Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables $33.48 Most homeowners design their gardens as little decorative plots set amid expanses of green lawn. Europeans, on the other hand, have long understood the value of making the most of what the land has to offer, emphasizing a gardens potential for year-round productivity and beauty. This highly informative book by noted U.S. landscaper and designer Fred Hagy offers a new approach — providing lots of great ideas for a totally edible garden. Beginning with the premise of "maximum beauty with maximum utility", Hagy discusses the principles of garden design and shows how one can easily visualize what the land from lawn garden to backyard to field — can provide. He outlines a step-by-step procedure for combining all one’s ideas, dreams, and tastes to create a setting that is both eye-pleasing and food-producing. In addition, Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables includes an authoritative series of "Plant Information Sheets" featuring the most up-to-date, genetically advanced tree, bush and plant varieties available. They not only specify the characteristics and varieties of each plant and where you can get them, but describe how to maintain them for maximum productivity and longevity. Information on drainage and irrigation, pest control, espaliering, container gardening and pollination requirements as well as an extensive bibliography make this an informative and indispensable reference for any home gardener. |
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Landscaping with Native Plants of Southern California $20.48 Gardeners use native plants for many reasons. In addition to providing year-round beauty with relatively little maintenance, landscaping with native plants contributes to the repair of the natural ecosystem and brings us closer to our environment. With such a diverse and spectacular array of native plant material available to gardeners in the costal and desert climates of Southern California, the opportunities for creative and attractive landscapes are seemingly endless. In "Landscaping with Native Plants of Southern California," George Oxford Miller offers the definitive guide to choosing the best of the best among the native plants of the region. Covering wildflowers, shrubs, trees, vines, cacti, and groundcovers, this comprehensive, richly illustrated book selects the species that combine ornamental qualities, growth habits, adaptability, low maintenance, and beauty for the highest landscape value. The illustrations, maps, and charts provide guidelines for species selection and planting, ongoing maintenance, landscape design, and water and energy conservation. In-depth plant profiles describe the habitat requirements for nearly 300 native plant species, subspecies, and varieties, with stunning photographs illustrating how each plant looks and responds to landscape conditions. As the interest in native-plant landscaping and xerscaping continues to expand, this is a book that belongs on the shelf of every gardener and landscaper in Southern California. Environmental photojournalist George Oxford Miller is a writer, photographer, and third-generation nurseryman. He is well known for his photography and his many magazine articles and books on the plants and animals of Texas and the Southwest. His work has appeared in periodicals "Like Living Bird," "Texas Parks and Wildlife," and "Wildlife Conservation" and in publications of the National Wildlife Federation and the Sierra Club. He is author or co-author of several books, including "Landscaping with Native Plants of Texas," "Landscaping with Native PLants of the Southwest," "A Field Guide to Wildlife of Texas and the Southwest," and "The Ozarks: The People, the Mountains, the Magic." Miller resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
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Natural Landscaping $26.21 In response to demand from landscape architects and home gardeners, Natural Landscaping returns to print in an updated and expanded second edition. It is unique in its focus on plant communities; it approaches landscape design as the establishment of natu |
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Desert Landscaping: How to Start and Maintain a Healthy Landscape in the Southwest $22.98 George Brookbank has distilled nearly twenty years’ experience–as an extension agent in urban horticulture with the University of Arizona–into a practical book that tells how to avoid problems with desert landscaping before they occur and how to correct those that do. In the first part, "How to Start and Maintain a Desert Landscape," he provides 28 easy-to-use chapters that address concerns ranging from how to start a wildflower garden to how to cope with Texas root rot. In Part Two, "A Month-By-Month Maintenance Guide," he offers a handy almanac that tells what to do and what to watch out for each month of the year, with cross-references to the chapters in Part One. Homeowners who maintain their own landscape will find in this book ways to make the work more satisfying and productive, while those who hire landscape contractors can make sure the work is done effectively and economically. "You’ll find all kinds of books on desert landscape design and materials, irrigation system and design, and landscape installation," says Brookbank. "So far as I know, however, this is the only book that tells you what to do with what you’ve got and how to keep it growing." CONTENTS Part 1 – How to Start and Maintain a Desert Landscape 1. Desert Conditions: How They Are "Different" 2. Plants Are Like People: They’re Not Alike 3. Use Arid-Land Plants to Save Water 4. How to Irrigate in the Desert 5. How to Design and Install a Drip Irrigation System 6. Soils and Their Improvement I: How to Plant in the Desert 7. Soils and Their Improvement II: How to Use Fertilizers 8. What to Do When Things Go Wrong: A Troubleshooter’s Guide 9. How to Avoid–and Repair–Frost Damage 10. How to Control "Weeds" 11. Palo Verde Borer Beetle: What to Do 12. How to Avoid Texas Root Rot 13. When You Move Into an Empty House 14. What to Do About Roots in Drains 15. How to Dig Up Plants and Move Them 16. How to Have Flower Bed Color All Year 17. Landscape Gardening with Containers 18. Starting Wildflowers 19. Starting a Lawn 20. Making and Keeping a Good Hedge 21. Pruning Trees and Shrubs 22. Palm Tree Care 23. Caring for Saguaros, Ocotillos, Avages, and Prickly Pears 24. Roses in the Desert: Hard Work and Some Disappointments 25. Landscaping with Citrus 26. Swimming Pools: Plants, Play, and Water-Saving 27. Landscape Maintenance While You’re Away 28. Condominiums: Common Grounds, Common Problems Part 2 – A Month-by-Month Maintenance Guide |
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Stone Landscaping (Better Homes & Gardens Do It Yourself) $6.99 Add beauty to your landscape with one of nature’s most enduring elements – stone. Whether it’s a cobblestone patio or a fieldstone path, Ideas and How-To: Stone Landscaping will show you how to create popular stone objects that accentuate your home. With detailed illustrations and savvy design tips, this book will give you all the information you need to complete your stone projects. |
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Northeast Home Landscaping: Including Southeast Canada $7.48 "Northeast Home Landscaping, Including Southeast Canada, " shows how to beautify 27 common landscape situations, such as front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios. 54 design variations incorporate more than 200 of the best plants for the region. Readers also learn all they need to know to install the paths, fences, walls, arbors, and trellises that make up the designs. Step-by-step instructions show how to tackle each project. Plant descriptions also explain planting and care. |
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Ideas & How-To Stone Landscaping $17.48 This book offers inspiring and creative ideas for using stone in the landscape, including water features and rock gardens, fireplaces and fire pits, and archways and grottos. Materials comparisons, construction specifications, and the basic techniques of working with stone are presented in detail in an easy-to-follow final chapter. Large and small projects are covered, from columns to sheds and pool houses. The process of choosing and managing landscaping professionals is also covered in detail. |
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Natural Landscaping: Designing with Native Plant Communities $43.48 In response to demand from landscape architects and home gardeners, "Natural Landscaping" returns to print in an updated and expanded second edition. It is unique in its focus on plant communities; it approaches landscape design as the establishment of natural ecosystems, rather than mere planting of specimens. Emphasizing the natural landscapes of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, this book o reviews landscaping principles and techniques o introduces native plant species for grasslands, forests, edge areas, and small wetlands o illustrates how to evaluate a site and plan for visual effect and maintenance o presents the issues involved in restoring bogs, ponds, and other wetlands o offers practical advice on reducing chemical use while still combating invasive plants o addresses social, legal, design, and planting problems often encountered on residential sites o discusses natural landscaping for public parklands, civic buildings, school grounds, and corporate properties |
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Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota – 2nd Edition $15.09 This new and updated edition of Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota combines the practicality of a field guide with all the basic information homeowners need to create an effective landscape design. The plant profiles section includes comprehensive descriptions of approximately 150 flowers, trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens, grasses, and ferns that grew in Minnesota before European settlement, as well as complete information on planting, maintenance, and landscape uses for each plant. The book also includes complete information on how to garden successfully in Minnesota’s harsh climate and how to install and maintain an attractive, low-maintenance home landscape suitable for any lifestyle. |
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Midwest Home Landscaping: Including Southern Canada $3.98 "Midwest Home Landscaping, Including Southern Canada," shows how to beautify 23 common landscape situations, such as front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios. After presenting 46 design variations, the book explains how to install and care for the plants, ponds, walls, and fences involved in the landscape designs. Plants that are proven performers in the Midwest are used in the designs and described in full detail. Step-by-step instructions provide the essential knowledge to tackle each project. US: IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, OH, WI Canada: Ontario (southern) |
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Landscaping with Stone $3.98 "Landscaping with Stone" is a combination landscape design and project book in one. The first section provides readers with a framework for incorporating stone in their landscape designs, including a look at the different types of stone used in landscapes, sources of inspiration, and ways to think about stone in relation to other landscape elements. The second part of the book provides readers with tips on working with stone, from transporting to cutting and setting. There is also step-by-step instruction on some of the most popular stone projects, including patios, walls, and rock gardens. |
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Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota – 2nd Edition Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota – 2nd Edition $19.48 This new and updated edition of "Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota" combines the practicality of a field guide with all the basic information homeowners need to create an effective landscape design. The plant profiles section includes comprehensive descriptions of approximately 150 flowers, trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens, grasses, and ferns that grew in Minnesota before European settlement, as well as complete information on planting, maintenance, and landscape uses for each plant. The book also includes complete information on how to garden successfully in Minnesota’s harsh climate and how to install and maintain an attractive, low-maintenance home landscape suitable for any lifestyle. |
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Landscaping Small Spaces $3.48 The all-new Landscaping Small Spaces helps to create beautiful and relaxing outdoor retreats in small and underutilized gardens. Helpful chapters show how to create a sense of spaciousness and overcome landscaping obstacles such as poor views, too much concrete or a lack of privacy. A special plant section and illustrated building projects are included. |
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Midwestern Landscaping Book $3.48 Sunset proudly introduces Midwestern Landscaping, the fourth title in their highly successful regional landscaping series. From the Prairie to the Plains, the North Woods to the Lower Midwest, this is the first major comprehensive landscaping guide that reflects the garden styles of the Midwest. Contributions by noted Midwestern garden writers, landscape architects, and horticulturalists skillfully guide readers through initial planning, selecting plants, adding structures, and finishing touches. This book showcases hundreds of the Midwest’s most breathtaking gardens and guides the reader in their own plans with landscape descriptions and how-to details. |
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Inside Out: The Art and Craft of Home Landscaping $24.48 Landscape design for the (above) average homeownerFor any homeowner who enjoys decorating the inside of the home, this book teaches outdoor landscaping using the same principles of open sight lines, flow, color, space, light, imagination, and a bit of whimsy. Illustrated throughout in full color, Inside Out features lush photos, landscape design schematics, line drawings, and paintings to fully explore how to create outdoor beauty and harmony around your home. Jeff Hutton writes in a warm, intelligent, personable style, as if he is walking the property with a client, giving his professional advice. The resulting landscape ideas are all within the ability of any homeowner to dream and then create on the ground.Including: Foundation bedsWalkways and pathsDecks, porches, and patiosPerennials and ornamental grassesStone wallsLawnsRetaining walls and terracesSwimming poolsShade treesPrivacy screeningLandscaping for winter beautyLandscaping for kidsGarden artand much more Jeff Hutton is the author of the novel Perfect Silence, a Book Sense 76 pick. He is a landscape designer in Vernon, Connecticut. |
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Sustainable Landscaping For Dummies $9.99 Sustainable Landscaping For Dummies provides hands-on, how-to instruction for realizing the benefits of a sustainable landscape, from selecting sutainable hardscape materials to installing a rain-water catchment system to choosing native plants. |
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Western Landscaping: The Editors of Sunset $3.98 The only landscaping book designed specifically for western gardeners, this book contains over 600 photographs and dozens of ready-to-use landscape plans. Step-by-step illustrations and exploded views show you how to do it yourself. |
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Sustainable Landscaping for Dummies $12.68 Sustainable Landscaping For Dummies provides hands-on, how-to instruction for realizing the benefits of a sustainable landscape, from selecting sutainable hardscape materials to installing a rain-water catchment system to choosing native plants. |
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Midwest Home Landscaping $17.55 Midwest Home Landscaping, Including Southern Canada, third edition, shows how to beautify 23 common landscape situations, such as front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios. Each situation is presented with a variation, for a total of 4 |
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Landscaping Principles & Practices $133.15 LANDSCAPING: PRINCIPLES & PRACTICES, 7th Edition, provides the basic knowledge and industry information needed to be successful in the field of landscape design and architecture. Focusing on three areas of professional practice; design, contracting, and m |
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Garden Stone: Creative Landscaping with Plants and Stone $17.48 The Garden Writers Association of America awarded Garden Stone a 2003 Garden Globe Award of Achievement for Writing. The Washington Post wrote, "Garden Stone is one of the best idea books on using stones in the landscape that I have seen." And Country Living Gardener said, "While the book is visually stunning . . . diagrams and step-by-step instructions show how gardeners can make their dreams come true." Garden Stone capitalizes on a hot trend in landscaping: adding stone to bring texture, color, serenity, and strength to the garden. Author Barbara Pleasant offers gardeners more than 40 enchanting designs–from something as simple as a flagstone path to an elaborate Zen-inspired meditation garden. But this is not just a picture book. Each project is packed with practical, down-to-earth installation advice, including clear line-drawings and instructional diagrams. Furthermore, an up-to-date resource list helps do-it-yourselfers find the tools and materials they need. Pleasant helps gardeners decide which type of stone is best for which kind of design. Limestone, for example, is ideal for stacking to make rock walls. Sandstone is easy to cut for steps and adds warm shades of red, yellow, or chocolate brown to the landscape. Blocks of granite can be used as sturdy paving stones. And an upright piece of marble or basalt adds a decorative touch to any garden. Pleasant also shows how to create stone water features, such as fountains and natural-looking ponds and streams. And, making this valuable as a gardening book as well as a stone projects book, she provides hundreds of detailed suggestions for plants whose color, texture, and shape will enhance the stone–whether growing in rock gardens, bordering paths and steps, or meandering along water elements. Both practical and inspirational, Garden Stone shows any gardener how stone can add enduring beauty to any landscape. |
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Landscaping With Native Plants of Minnesota $21.83 This new and updated edition of Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota combines the practicality of a field guide with all the basic information homeowners need to create an effective landscape design. The plant profiles section includes comprehensi |
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Taylor’s Master Guide to Landscaping $34 The companion volume to Taylor’s Master Guide to Gardening reveals the vital components of landscape design, urging readers to approach landscaping with function as well as form in mind and offering advice on choosing a site, selecting plants, creating ga |
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Landscaping With Fruit $11.61 A gardening consultant and author of The Pruning Book shows how to incorporate a wide variety of fruit trees, shrubs, and vines into one’s backyard landscape, offering detailed instructions on how to grow temperate-zone fruit, from site analysis and plant |
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Hillside Landscaping $16.67 Addresses the unique challenges of creating a beautiful garden on a hillside or slope, with step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs that demonstrate how to incorporate such elements as streams, terraces, pathways, water features, walls, and o |
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Green Careers in Building and Landscaping $9.99 Thinking about a green career or looking for a college or university that promotes great green programs? Peterson’s Green Careers in Building and Landscaping pinpoints the best opportunities in building design and construction; installation, operations, and energy efficiency; commercial industrial, and residential design; landscaping, groundskeeping, and turf care; and policy, analysis, advocacy, and regulatory affairs-with job details as well as info on colleges, organizations, and institutions that offer courses, degrees, certification, and training/retraining-that can lead to a green career. Green Careers in Building and Landscaping offers inspirational and insightful essays on the importance of sustainability, written by individuals at the forefront of environmental organizations, university sustainability efforts, and college training programs. Essay writers include folks with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), Second Nature, Earth911.com, University of Arizona, Philadelphia University, and Skanska USA Building Inc. Green Careers in Building and Landscaping also features an exclusive bonus section, “What Is the New Green Economy,” which examines the current interest in sustainability. You’ll also find building and landscaping-related features, including interviews with individuals in a variety of green careers. Other feature articles offer useful tips and advice for a more sustainable life. |
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Landscaping and Horticulture $39.98 - Quick Facts: summarizes important facts – Overview: briefly introduces duties and responsibilities – History: describes the history of the job in relation to the industry or field – The Job: describes primary and secondary duties – Requirements: discusses high school and post-secondary education and training as well as any necessary certification or licensing and personal requirements for success – Exploring: offers suggestions on how to gain experience and knowledge in a field before making firm educational and financial commitments – Employers: gives an overview of typical places of employment – Starting Out: suggests the best ways to land a first job – Advancement: presents an expected career path and how to get on it – Earnings: lists salary ranges and typical fringe benefits – Work Environment: looks at the work conditions and surroundings associated with a certain job – Outlook: summarizes the job’s potential growth or decline in terms of the general economy and industry projections – For More Information: lists organizations that provide career information. |
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Sunset Outdoor Design & Build: Landscaping with Stone: Fresh Ideas for Outdoor Living $13.98 Great ideas and solid advice on the craft of building natural-looking stonework into garden landscapes. Capturing the timeless beauty of stone: The secrets of garden paths that make for a memorable stroll Pavings that go easy on the environment Graceful stone walls, patios, water features Plantings that complement stonework Step-by-step DIY projects Inspiration is at hand in the hundreds of photos revealing the finest and most innovative stonework being done today. "How to Build" provides step-by-step lessons on all the essential skills and techniques needed to build stone features. "Finishing the Look" sets out the shopping data with all the best options for materials, plants, and lighting. |
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John Deere 52 Backyard Landscaping Projects: Designing, Planting, and Building the Yard of Your Dreams One Weekend at a Time $16.98 The second in a series of John Deere books published by Quayside, "John Deere 52 Backyard Landscaping Projects" is the perfect companion and follow-up to "John Deere Landscaping and Lawn Care." Once homeowners have a handle on what they need to do to their yard and when the need to do it in order to keep their lawn and landscape green and healthy, they will want to learn how to improve upon it. "John Deere 52 Backyard Landscaping Projects" provides simple projects that are relevant to today’s homeowners. While most books cover, design, building, planting with an extensive gardening section devoted to plant care, types, etc. this book is unique in that it offers simple weekend landscaping projects and it carried the John Deere stamp of approval. Easy to follow step-by-step instructions All projects can be completed in a weekend’s time |
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Step-by-Step Landscaping (Better Homes & Gardens Gardening) $10.99 An expanded, all-new version of this best-selling title from the experts at Better Homes and Gardens! 400 pages with all the advice, information, and inspiration you need to create the yard you’ve always wanted. Shows how to identify your yard’s needs and envision possible solutions. Packed with more than 150 stunning photos of beautiful yards and projects from across the country. An additional 285 detailed photos illustrate all the tricks: how to develop a landscape plan, how to shape your land, and how to design and build the most popular outdoor structures, from paths and walkways to gazebos and sheds. Plant identification photos and 35 pages of charts help you choose just the right plant for every location in your yard. |
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How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business $16.98 Making money doing lawn-care, landscape architecture, and garden work is a dream of many people–and this guide contains all the necessary tools and strategies they need to successfully launch and develop their own business doing so. This sixth edition also features advice on marketing and selling one’s services within "sustainable landscaping," one of the hottest new trends in the field. * Develop a profitable business plan * Build word-of-mouth referrals * Handle employees, paperwork, and taxes * Work smart and safe * Adapt to new trends like sustainable landscaping * Become your area’s top landscaper |
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Step-By-Step Landscaping $8.98 A new edition of "Better Homes and Gardens(r)" best-selling landscaping book. Packed with 408 pages of all-new material from the editors of Better Homes and Gardens(r) books, this complete landscaping guide has everything you need to know transform your yard. More than 700 stunning photographs and 100 complete step-by-step projects show you how to improve grading, plant successfully, build a deck, and much more. Plus an all-new plant encyclopedia with 95 plant photos It’s everything you need to know to improve your view. Step-by-step plans for patios, edging, walls, fences, water gardens, outdoor kitchens, fireplaces, garden sculpture, and more. Cost estimate, time needed to complete, skill level, and material list included with every project. Hundreds of inspiring photographs, ideas, and plans. |
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Western Home Landscaping: From the Rockies to the Pacific Coast, from Southwestern US to British Columbia $18.98 Beautiful designs created by landscape professionals from the area, highlight Western Home Landscaping. A new edition to Creative Homeowner’s bestselling Regional Home Landscaping series, this book is divided into three parts: "Design Portfolio"–featuring 42 designs for all climates found in the west including coastal areas, hot inland valleys, and the special conditions of higher elevations; "Guide to Installations" explains how to install plants, paths, patios, and arbors; "Plant Portraits" highlightes more than 200 of the best plants for the region described. |
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How to Design and Build Your Garden Railroad $15.48 This full-color volume features tips for designing, planning, and installing the layout; landscaping with natural materials; adding drama with structures, bridges, and trestles; and designing and installing water features. |
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Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota $12.48 Gardeners use native plants for several reasons. For many, their initial attraction is to native plants’ reputation for being low maintenance, as well as their ability to survive difficult soil and weather conditions. But equally appealing is the joy of connecting with nature and our state’s natural heritage and the satisfaction of creating a real sense of place rather than just another cookie-cutter landscape. "Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota" is the first book designed to help you identify Minnesota’s native plants and plant communities and to demonstrate how to use them effectively in a typical home landscape. In this book you’ll find the basic gardening information you need for working with the native plants of Minnesota. You’ll learn what level of native-plant landscaping is right for you and get valuable information on the process of designing a natural garden that fits your lifestyle and family. You’ll also find lots of plant lists for specific styles of gardens. In the Gallery of Gardens section, you’ll be inspired by what your fellow Minnesota gardeners have done with native plants in their own landscapes, including a prairie restoration, a suburban woodland garden, and a garden for wildlife. The Native Plant Profiles section includes comprehensive descriptions of some 600 species of flowers and groundcovers, trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens, grasses, and ferns native to Minnesota, as well as information on planting, maintenance, and landscape uses for each plant. About the Author: Lynn M. Steiner is one of the best-known gardening writers in Minnesota. Her enthusiasm for native plants and gardening stems from her childhood curiosity about all things natural as well as 20 years of tending her own extensive home gardens. For 15 years she was the editor of Northern Gardener magazine, and under her direction it earned several awards for ""Overall Excellence"" from the Minnesota Magazine & Publications Association. |
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Complete Guide to Landscaping (Ortho Books) $3.99 Plants are the most versatile components in your landscape and the most essential for creating beautiful, comfortable, and livable outdoor environments. Ortho’s Complete Guide to Landscaping takes the mystery out of planting design and helps make it easy to achieve the landscape of your dreams with the best trees, shrubs, groundcovers, vines, and flowers for your yard. |
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Taylor’s Master Guide to Landscaping: Everything a Homeowner Needs to Know about Designing, Maintaining, and Renovating a Home Lan $30.48 Developing your landscape is one of the pleasures of owning a home. It’s an opportunity to surround yourself with beauty and provide for your comfort and convenience. In a well-designed yard, kids have room to play and adults have an attractive area in which to relax and enjoy the surroundings. Your guests find a safe, welcoming path to the front door, and you don’t have to struggle to bring in the groceries and take out the trash. TAYLOR’S MASTER GUIDE TO LANDSCAPING is a stunning and useful book on a subject that even experienced gardeners find intimidating. It is essential reading if you plan to do all or most of your own landscaping work, but it’s equally important if you intend to hire the work out. Buchanan’s description of what to expect from landscape and gardening professionals is an eye-opener that will save a lot of disappointment and a great many dollars. In TAYLOR’S MASTER GUIDE TO LANDSCAPING, you will learn how to – choose plants that will thrive in your climate and growing conditions – avoid common mistakes with foundation plantings – plan and plant for future growth – create an outdoor living room – design and build walks, paths, and steps – create privacy with fences, walls, and hedges. Separate chapters explain how to care for landscape plants — trees, shrubs, vines, lawns, groundcovers, and perennials. |
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California Home Landscaping, 3rd Edition $17.48 Make your California home landscape more attractive and functional with California Home Landscaping, Third Edition. Like the other titles in this series, the book contains three parts: Design Portfolio, Guide to Installations, and Plant Portraits. Beautifully photographed, these 48 designs–created by California professionals–include 200 of the best plants for the region as well instructions for installing the plants, paths, patios and arbors used in the designs. Clearly written in a friendly style with more than 450 color photos and paintings, California Home Landscaping provides everything the reader needs to know to landscape like a pro. |
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How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Landscaping, Nursery, or Lawn Service Business $35.15 This book/CD-ROM package gives information on operating a small nursery, landscaping, or lawn service, and provides sample business forms, checklists, and worksheets for planning and opening the business and running daily operations. Real-life case studie |
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How a House Is Built $3.98 From the architect’s plans to the landscaping. |
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Landscaping for Privacy $15.56 Landscaping for Privacy |
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Stone Landscaping $9.49 Stone Landscaping |
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Stone Landscaping: Ideas and Techniques for Stonework $3.48 Basic techniques for working with stone and stone veneer. Detailed instructions for popular stonework projects, with concise, easy-to-follow text that gives do-it-yourselfers confidence to accomplish great results. Inspirational ideas for incorporating stonework into current landscapes. Beautiful color photos show how to use stone to solve landscaping problems. Tips and illustrations add fun to projects and explain the expert techniques and tricks of the trade that do-it-yourselfers want to learn. |
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Landscaping with Tropical Plants: Design Ideas, Creative Garden Plans, Cold-Climate Solutions $5.48 Imagine the lush possibilities. In one volume with over 200 photographs, readers will discover how to grow an entire spectrum of exciting new plants in their home gardens. This book reveals the types of tropical plants that are right for your site, no matter what your climate. In addition, it will tell how to get various plants through the winter and into the next growing season. Just the thing for the gardener who wants to incorporate the exotic into the usual landscape. |
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Smart Guide: Home Landscaping $11.98 "Smart Guide: Home Landscaping" shows readers how to turn their yards into landscaped spaces. Reakers learn to incorporate hardscapes, trees and shrubs, lawns and ground covers, and flowering plants into their landscapes. |
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Sunset Landscaping Southern Gardens $9.49 A comprehensive guide for Southern homeowners explains how to create beautiful landscapes specifically suitable for the region, with a host of step-by-step garden projects and landscape plans, more than five hundred photographs and illustrations, plant se |
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Internet Marketing For Landscaping Businesses $9.99 Internet Marketing for Landscapers will show you how your business can profit from the revolution in local internet marketing that is happening right now. This book doesn’t hide behind platitudes and boilerplate marketing talk. It is supremely practical and gets down in the trenches with you to show you how to strengthen your business’s bottom line. One click at a time. |
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Landscaping With Ornamental Grasses (Sunset) $5.99 A guide to incorporating ornamental grasses in your garden design. Find all the right places for grasses and bamboo. Stunning photographs illustrate grasses for all climates and every garden. Includes information on beautiful borders, natural lawns, and do-it-yourself meadows. |
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Mid-atlantic Home Landscaping $17.55 This larger-format edition provides inspiring ideas for making the Mid-Atlantic home landscape more attractive and functional. Starting with the 200 best plants that thrive in the region, area landscape professionals created 46 outdoor design concept |
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Green Careers in Building and Landscaping: Professional and Skilled Jobs $2.99 As part of Peterson’s Green Careers in Building and Landscaping, this eBook offers detailed information on various careers in the following: building design and construction; installation, operations, & energy-efficiency; commercial, industrial, & residential; landscaping & grooundskeeping; policy, analysis, advocacy & regulatory affairs.You’ll also find up-to-date data on job trends, work environment, career paths, earning potential, education/licensure requirements, and contact information for additional resources. Bonus sections include “What Does Being Green Mean,” a look at the current interest in sustainability, and “Essays on the Importance of Sustainability,” inspirational and insightful essays on the importance of sustainability, written by folks at the forefront of environmental organizations, university sustainability efforts, and college training programs. For more information see Peterson’s Green Careers in Building and Landscaping. |
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Mid-Atlantic Home Landscaping $5.98 This updated, expanded edition provides inspiring ideas for making the Mid-Atlantic home landscape more attractive and functional. Starting with the 200 best plants that thrive in the region, area landscape professionals created 46 outdoor design concepts readers can work with. More than 430 color photographs and drawings complement the easy-to-follow instructions for caring for and installing plants, paths, patios, ponds, and arbors. DE, Long Island, MD, NJ, PA, VA, WV |
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Landscaping with Stone: Rock Gardens, Paths & Stairs, Stone Retaining Walls $5.98 Stonework can be a very complex and daunting project to undertake, but this new title guides readers through the process with ease. Within its covers, the art of using stone in the garden for paths, patios, walls, water gardens and rock gardens is explained in easy-to-understand language. A design gallery features full-color photos of creative uses for stone in a variety of garden settings. Plus, a helpful Shopper’s Guide describes available materials and shows readers how to calculate quantities of stone. And, since many stone projects require construction by outside help, the book also includes useful tips on working with suppliers and contractors. |
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Northeastern Landscaping: A Regional Guide to Garden Design & Construction $3.48 This attractive title offers readers many innovative suggestions for landscape and garden design. More than 600 color photographs of gardens throughout the northeast United States, detailed landscape plans and plant lists are included to spur readers’ imaginations to design and plant attractive gardens. |
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Poolscaping: Gardening and Landscaping Around Your Swimming Pool and Spa $4.48 Bare, stark swimming pools – those rectangular concrete holes in the ground surrounded by a chain-link fence – are going the way of the dinosaurs. Pool owners (and there are 7 million of them across North America) have begun to see the pool and the area around it as an outdoor living space, a place for entertaining a crowd or relaxing alone. In response to this hot, new trend, gardener and landscape designer Catriona Tudor Erler has written POOLSCAPING, a one-of-a-kind handbook overflowing with inspiring ideas and practical advice on how to make your swimming pool the lovely, welcoming centerpiece of your property. Erler takes readers step by step through the poolscaping process, whether starting from scratch or renovating an existing pool. She begins with choosing the best location for the pool and designing (or refurbishing) the deck and edging that will surround it. She presents a host of ideas for dramatic pool lighting, including underwater options. The fencing chapter addresses choosing styles as well as safety issues and even how to disguise a fence with plantings. Erler explores design options for building or renovating a spa adjacent to the pool, as well as how to incorporate furnishings, pergolas, and pool houses into the poolscape. A plant directory features the best poolside plants, with a focus on varieties of flowers, vines, and shrubs that are low maintenance and look attractive throughout the pool season. Erler also offers ideas for outstanding poolside planters and containers for bringing greenery and color right up to the pool. Illustrated with beautiful full-color photographs of outstanding poolscapes, this unique guide demonstrates how any pool owner can transform the pool area into the showpiece of the neighborhood. |
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Water-Efficient Landscaping in the Intermountain West $24 This working manual provides complete information on the technical aspects of designing, building, and maintaining waterwise landscapes in the Mountain West. Written particularly for professionals, including landscape designers, architects, contractors, and maintenance and irrigation specialists, it has an attractive, well-illustrated, user-friendly format that will make it useful as well to DIY homeowners and to educators, plant retailers, extension agents, and many others. The manual is organized according to landscape principles that are adapted to the climate of the intermountain region. Beginning with planning and design, the topical principles proceed through soil preparation, appropriate plant selection, practicalities of turfgrass, use of mulch, and irrigation planning, winding up with landscape maintenance. Designed for onsite, handy use, the book is illustrated with color images of landscapes, plants, and materials. Tables, charts, diagrams, landscape plans, plant lists, checklists, and other graphic resources are scattered throughout the manual, which is written in an accessible but information-rich style. Water-Efficient Landscaping in the Intermountain West answers, more comprehensively than any other single book, the need for professional information that addresses both growing awareness of the necessity for water conservation and the desire for beautiful, healthy yards and properties. |
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Start Your Own Lawncare and Landscaping Business $19.95 Successful landscapers and lawn care professionals reveal their secrets to success in this $20 billion industry. With all the homes, business parks, apartment complexes, shopping malls and hospitals that need landscaping, you can tailor your services and create your dream job. Your business can range from the simple—mowing and edging lawns, raking leaves and clipping hedges—to applying chemicals and fertilizer, trimming and shaping trees, designing landscapes and more. Learn everything you need to know, including:• How to find customers• What equipment you’ll need• How to hire and manage employees• Record keeping and accounting• Where to find working capital• How to calculate job estimates• And moreIf you love working outdoors, you owe it to yourself to buy this step-by-step guide and start building your own successful lawn care or landscaping business. |
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Start Your Own Lawn Care or Landscaping Business $6.98 Rake in the Green Successful landscapers and lawn care professionals reveal their secrets to success in this $20 billion industry. With all the homes, business parks, apartment complexes, shopping malls and hospitals that need landscaping, you can tailor your services and create your dream job. Your business can range from the simple-mowing and edging lawns, raking leaves and clipping hedges-to applying chemicals and fertilizer, trimming and shaping trees, designing landscapes and more. Learn everything you need to know, including: How to find customers What equipment you’ll need How to hire and manage employees Record keeping and accounting Where to find working capital How to calculate job estimates And more If you love working outdoors, you owe it to yourself to buy this step-by-step guide and start building your own successful lawn care or landscaping business. |
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Landscaping & Lawn Care (John Deere) $5.99 Provides practical and accessible projects that homeowners can accomplish in a weekend. Creating a comfortable, attractive, and safe outdoor living space is an essential part of home ownership. While homeowners take great responsibility for their home’s exterior maintenance and pride in its curb appeal, yard work often poses the greatest challenge to new homeowners, especially those who are limited on time and resources. This illustrated reference book provides homeowners with practical information to handle their yard care needs and protect their most valuable asset. While there are many books available on lawn care, the lawn is only half the battle in creating an enviable yard; trees, beds, walkways and paved areas are an important part of outdoor spaces. Most new homeowners aren’t interested in the minutia of lawn maintenance and fertilizing; they need to start at the beginning and receive a broader overview. Questions homeowners may ask themselves include: What type of mower should I buy? Do I need to aerate? When is the best time to water? How often do I need to trim my hedges? What is the most effective way to improve the look of my yard? What’s involved in creating the most popular outdoor projects and does it make sense to do myself or should I hire a contractor? John Deere’s Illustrated Guide to Landscaping & Lawn Care will walk homeowners though these common questions and provide inspiring weekend projects that will allow them to use their new found knowledge in practical ways. |
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Complete Guide to Landscaping: Planning, Selecting, Planting $3.98 Homeowners who want practical information, ideas, and solutions will find this guide an unmatched resource. Creative design solutions and plant selection lists for a variety of landscape situations. Inspiring photographs and illustrations provide easy-to-follow instructions. Installation procedures for every landscape planting project. Helpful hints and do-it-yourself techniques from Americaas leading gardening and landscaping authority. |
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Midwest Home Landscaping: Including South-Central Canada $17.48 Midwest Home Landscaping (including Southern Canada), Third Edition, shows how to beautify 23 common landscape situations, such as front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios. Each situation is presented with a variation, for a total of 46 designs. In addition, the book explains how to install and care for the plants, ponds, walls, and fences involved in the landscape designs. Plants that are proven performers in the Midwest are used in the designs and are described in full detail. States covered include: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Also covers Ontario (Sountern Canada). |
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Deckscaping: Gardening and Landscaping on and Around Your Deck $20.48 Decks are popular in North American landscapes because they serve as outdoor sanctuaries. They are in the back yard, where life is quiet and less hectic. The deck is the perfect place to read the Sunday paper, listen to a ballgame, or entertain when the weather’s nice. But a large, flat expanse of deck isn’t all that exciting. Often, decks look bare and uninviting and can take up valuable gardening space. With DECKSCAPING, learn to landscape on and around your deck. Landscaping and planting techniques help create the feeling that the deck is surrounded by the garden while hiding the deck’s unsightly undercarriage. Add structure and privacy to the deck by building a lattice-covered pergola and growing climbing vines on it for shade. Containers planted with flowers, herbs, or vegetables bring the garden, with its fragrances, butterflies, birds, and wildlife, right up onto the deck. Running low on space? Attach hanging baskets and planter boxes to the railing. What you plant around your deck is just as important as what you plant around your house. In addition to teaching landscaping and planting techniques, DECKSCAPING provides decorating tips on furniture, ornaments, and water features that strengthen the link between indoor and outdoor rooms. Homeowners will also learn how to evaluate a deck, analyze its usefulness and effectiveness, and identify options to improve it so that it is comfortable, safe, and appealing. |
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How to Design a House $17 How to Design a House |
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How to Design Websites $23.36 How to Design Websites |
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Design for How People Learn $31.19 Design for How People Learn |
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Northwest Home Landscaping $17.55 Northwest Home Landscaping |
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Landscaping with Ornamental Grasse $8.43 Landscaping with Ornamental Grasse |
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Complete Guide to Landscaping $6.3 Complete Guide to Landscaping |
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Start & Run A Landscaping Business $14 Start & Run A Landscaping Business |
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Texas Home Landscaping $17.55 Texas Home Landscaping |
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Landscaping Your Garden Pond $11 Landscaping Your Garden Pond |
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Northeast Home Landscaping $17.55 Northeast Home Landscaping |
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The Essential Garden Design Workbook $20.79 The Essential Garden Design Workbook guides the reader through every stage of planning a garden – how to survey a site how to choose landscaping materials and how to develop planting schemes. This fully revised and updated second edition features new U.S. case studies and new photographs. Valuable tips on green gardening are new to this edition and include how to harvest rainwater how to design a green roof tips on sustainable planting and a guide to composting. Tailor-made for hands-on gardeners the workbook approach is accessible practical and can be used to create a garden from scratch and to redesign an existing garden. Gardeners will find easy ways to measure large spaces estimate the height of a tree and find the right proportions for a deck. They’ll also find tips on space light and color. Includes hundreds of easy-to-follow line drawings and diagrams. |
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How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Landscaping, Nursery, or Lawn Service Business [With CDROM] $30.48 If you enjoy working outdoors and want to incorporate your creativity into your work, operating a small nursery, landscaping, or lawn service may be the perfect business for you. In fact, many operators combine all three of these elements to make an ideal year-round business. This is an ideal home-based business and can be started with just a few thousand dollars.This guide provides readers with an understanding of the basic concepts of starting their own service business. This new book is a comprehensive and detailed study of the business side of the nursery and landscape business. You will learn everything from the initial startup decisions to working with clients. If you are investigating opportunities in this type of business, you should begin by reading this book.If you enjoy working with people and working outdoors, this may be the perfect business for you. Keep in mind that this business looks easy but, as with any business, looks can be deceiving. This complete manual will arm you with everything you need, including sample business forms; contracts; worksheets and checklists for planning, opening, and running day-to-day operations; setting up your office; plans and layouts; and dozens of other valuable, timesaving tools of the trade that no business should be without.While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you through every detail that will bring success. You will learn how to draw up a winning business plan (the companion CD-ROM has the actual business plan you can use in Microsoft Word™) and about choosing a name, equipment, equipment maintenance, selling your other services to your present customers, how to attract and bid on  residential and commercial accounts, contracts and billing procedures, advertising, insurance, legal matters, basic cost control systems, market research, getting new clients, tax laws, pricing, leads, sales and marketing techniques, and pricing formulas.You will learn how to set up computer systems to save time and money, how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff, how to meet IRS requirements, how to manage and train employees, how to generate high profile public relations and publicity, and how to implement low cost internal marketing ideas. You will learn how to build your business by using low and no cost ways to satisfy customers, as well as ways to increase sales and have customers refer others to you.You will learn about basic accounting and bookkeeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting, and profit planning development, as well as thousands of great tips and useful guidelines. This manual delivers innovative ways to streamline your business. Learn new ways to make your operation run smoother and increase performance. Successful entrepreneurs will appreciate this valuable resource and reference it in their daily activities as a source of ready-to-use forms, Web sites, operating and cost cutting ideas, and mathematical formulas that can easily be a |
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Landscaping With Fruit – Book $19.95 Landscaping With Fruit – Digital format, immediate delivery. |
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How to Design and Report Experiments $63 How to Design and Report Experiments is the perfect textbook and guide to the often bewildering world of experimental design and statistics. It provides a complete map of the entire process beginning with how to get ideas about research, how to refine you |
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Hardscape: Innovative Hard Landscaping Materials for Gardens $7.48 Hard landscape materials, such as timber, glass, stone and metal, give a sense of permanence and an overall structure and personality to a garden, making a satisfying space in which to enjoy the more transient aspects of gardening. Innovative designer and television presenter Ann-Marie Powell provides an enthusiastic and fascinating guide to what materials are available, where to find them and how to use them to best effect. |
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How to Design and Teach a Hybrid Course $28.45 How to Design and Teach a Hybrid Course |
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Covering Ground: Unexpected Ideas for Landscaping with Colorful, Low-Maintenance Ground Covers $17.48 Open sweeps of lawn are a large part of most home landscapes, but imagine turning those stretches of lawn into striking swathes of beautifully planted ground covers. Barbara W. Ellis explores hundreds of wonderful possibilities in her new guide, helping readers create eyecatching splashes of color and texture in unexpected places. More than just broad expanses of a single plant, ground covers can bring a fresh look to dozens of landscaping challenges and opportunities. Flowering plants, herbs, mosses, groundhugging shrubs, and heathers, planted singly or in creative combinations, can cover all sorts of ground situations with unexpected drama and add an elegant, professional look to otherwise dull and ordinary areas. Additionally, hardscape lawn alternatives such as bluestone, crushed gravel, brick, or shredded bark mulch introduce pathways and help create defined borders. Working with the theory that ground covers should be hardworking as well as beautiful, Part One, Rolling Out the Carpet, inspires readers with low-maintenance, creative ideas. Simplify lawn mowing by filling in awkward corners with easy-to-care-for colorful plants. Edge walkways to keep them neat and attractive. Use broad drifts to control erosion along streams. Ground covers can fit anywhere. Part Two, Landscaping with Ground Covers, matches plants to specific site requirements. Looking for herbs hardy enough to thrive between stepping stones? Shrubby plants that tolerate full sun? Native ferns for a woodland floor or moss gardens for acid shade? Ellis has all the answers and the experience to combine appropriate plants in stunning combinations. Part Three includes in-depth how-to for planting, growing, and propagating, with special emphasis on site preparation, plant selection, and weed control. From single-plant drifts to unexpected plant combinations and new uses for natural hardscaping, ground covers are an exciting, low maintenance alternative to traditional lawns. |
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Native Plant Landscaping for Florida Wildlife $18.71 Native Plant Landscaping for Florida Wildlife |
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Water-Efficient Landscaping in the Intermountain West: A Professional and Do-It-Yourself Guide $32.98 This working manual provides complete information on the technical aspects of designing, building, and maintaining waterwise landscapes in the Mountain West. Written particularly for professionals, including landscape designers, architects, contractors, and maintenance and irrigation specialists, it has an attractive, well-illustrated, user-friendly format that will make it useful as well to DIY homeowners and to educators, plant retailers, extension agents, and many others. The manual is organized according to landscape principles that are adapted to the climate of the intermountain region. Beginning with planning and design, the topical principles proceed through soil preparation, appropriate plant selection, practicalities of turfgrass, use of mulch, and irrigation planning, winding up with landscape maintenance. Designed for onsite, handy use, the book is illustrated with color images of landscapes, plants, and materials. Tables, charts, diagrams, landscape plans, plant lists, checklists, and other graphic resources are scattered throughout the manual, which is written in an accessible but information-rich style. "Water-Efficient Landscaping in the Intermountain West" answers, more comprehensively than any other single book, the need for professional information that addresses both growing awareness of the necessity for water conservation and the desire for beautiful, healthy yards and properties. |
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Design It! $19.27 Introduces aspects of a career in industrial design while explaining how design principles are applied to everyday objects, sharing engaging historical information while inviting youngsters to develop awareness about how to evaluate the things they use fo |
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Habitat for Humanity How to Build a House $20.48 Since its founding in 1976, the non-profit Habitat for Humanity International has built more than 255,000 houses for more than one million people and families in need world wide. First published in 2002, "Habitat for Humanity How to Build a House "has helped thousands more build simple, energy-efficient homes of their own by helping guide them from foundation to roof, through all interior finishes and fixtures. Written by long-time carpenter and Habitat volunteer, Larry Haun, this extensive revision features up-to-date information on residential codes, construction methods, and materials — as well as an updated design inside and out. Haun also provides new sections on tools, siding, ventilation, and landscaping. With Clear information on everything from obtaining a site and permit to finishing touches like installing door locks and cabinets, this is the best single-volume resource for the beginning homebuilder. |
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How to Design a Chair $15 How to Design a Chair tells you everything you need to know and looks at the principles and processes of designing a chair, from its symbolic and functional properties to materials and mass-production techniques. In a working case study Konstantin Grcic, |
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Design $8.95 This book will transform the way you think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal to the medical equipment used to save lives. John Heskett goes beyond style and taste to look at how different cultures and individuals personalise objects. – ;John Heskett wants to transform the way we think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal, and the car we drive to work in, to the medical equipment used to save lives. Design combines 'need' and 'desire' in the form of a practical object that can also reflect the user's identity and aspirations through its form and decoration. This concise guide to contemporary design goes beyond style and taste to look at how different cultures and individuals personalize objects. Heskett also reveals how simple objects, such as a toothpick, can have their design modified to suit the specific cultural behaviour in different countries. There are also fascinating insights into how major companies such as Nokia, Ford, and Sony approach design. Finally, the author gives us an exciting vision of what design can offer us in the future,. showing in particular how it can humanize new technology. - |
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Design Is How It Works $18.99 It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.-Steve Jobs There’s a new race in business to embrace “design thinking.” Yet most executives have no clue what to make of the recent buzz about design. It’s rarely the subject of business retreats. It’s not easily measurable. To many, design is simply a crapshoot. Drawing on interviews with top executives such as Virgin’s Richard Branson and Nike’s Mark Parker, Jay Greene illuminates the methods of companies that rely on design to stand out in their industries. From the experiences of those at companies from Porsche to REI to Lego, we learn that design isn’t merely about style and form. The heart of design is rethinking the way products and services work for customers in real life. Greene explains how: -Porsche pit its designers against each other to create its bestselling Cayenne SUV -Clif listened intently to customers, resulting in the industry-changing Luna energy bar -OXO paid meticulous attention to the details, turned its LiquiSeal mug from an abysmal failure into one of its greatest successes -LEGO started saying no to its designers-saving its brick business in the process Greene shows how important it is to build a culture in which design is more than an after-the-fact concern-it’s part of your company’s DNA. Design matters at every stage of the process. It isn’t easy, and it increases costs, but it also boosts profits, sometimes to a massive extent. In an increasingly competitive marketplace, design represents the best chance you have of transcending your competitors. |
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Landscaping with Fruit $23.98 Fruit trees, shrubs, and vines are true two-for-one plants. Many varieties are strikingly beautiful – well suited to doing double duty as delicious sources of sweet, organic fruit and as ornamental additions to the home landscape. Backyard fruit plants also tie in perfectly with the growing locavore movement. It’s difficult to find food that’s more local than one’s own backyard "Luscious landscaping," as author Lee Reich calls it, takes fruit-bearing plants off the commercial farm and replants the prettiest and tastiest specimens in suburban and rural yards. Spring blossoms, summer and fall fruit, and the year-round presence of the plants themselves bring a special magic to the home landscape. Pillowy pink blossoms on peach branches or the bright orange fruit of persimmon trees perk up their surroundings with color and drama. Beautiful plants, yes, but these landscaping additions also provide sweet, nutritious fruit. Homegrown, organic varieties bear almost no resemblance to commercially produced fruits, which are bred and selected to withstand shipping and refrigerated storage conditions. It’s hard to believe that Alpine strawberries and those grown in California and shipped across the country are even related Fruitscaping is a complete, no-nonsense guide to growing temperate-zone fruit, with information on everything from planting and pruning to pest control and harvesting. Readers will find all the basics of landscaping with fruit – site analysis, climate assessment, understanding soil and sun, plant selection, and optimizing growing conditions. An encyclopedia of 38 plants includes information for each entry on hardiness, size, potential pests, special care and pruning, harvesting, and visual appeal. |
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How to Cheat at Gardening and Yard Work: Shameless Tricks for Growing Radically Simple Flowers, Veggies, Lawns, Landscaping, and More $6.99 Do you love the look of a stunning flowerbed or a nice expanse of lawn bordered by attractive shrubs, but don’t have time to spend the whole weekend in your backyard? ItÂ’s time to cheat – in a smart way. In How to Cheat at Gardening and Yard Work, you’ll find hundreds of work-reducing, time-saving, cost-cutting gardening tips that will reward you with the best-looking yard and garden you’ve ever had with less work than ever before. Cheating on garden and yard tasks is part attitude adjustment, part shortcuts, and part simplicity – with a healthy dose of making clever choices. You’ll discover effective and efficient methods to complete just about every garden project, chore, cleanup, or predicament you’ll face. Set aside the things you’ve done for years and discover: How the right tool can save you time – and save your back. That doing less for your lawn actually means better results. Why planting a diversion crop cuts down on your pest-patrol efforts. That groundcovers and foliage plants are no-hassle solutions for weedy flowerbeds. |
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How to Design a Boat $17.48 Since it was first published, How to Design a Boat has proved itself a bestseller. Teale takes the reader step-by-step through the stages of designing both power and sailing boats, explaining the reasons behind the procedures and using sketches and reproductions of working drawings to help understanding. Throughout, line diagrams and working drawings are used to help the reader see and understand line plans from a wide range of vessels. The standard calculations employed in all boat design work, requiring only very basic arithmetical skills, are set out and typical examples are worked through. |
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How to Design a Training Course $45.83 Much time and money is devoted to training – but courses do not always produce the outcomes desired. As a result many training organizations need to rethink the way they plan, design, deliver and evaluate their courses. Here Peter Taylor shows how to improve the quality of the entire training process – from initial assessments through to delivery and evaluation – by creating effective partnerships between trainers, trainees and other stakeholders. This wonderfully practical guide will allow users to adapt the PCD approach to their local conditions and create a sustainable improvement in training quality. |
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How to Cheat at Gardening and Yard Work: Shameless Tricks for Growing Radically Simple Flowers, Veggies, Lawns, Landscaping, and M $3.98 Do you love the look of a stunning flowerbed or a nice expanse of lawn bordered by attractive shrubs, but don’t have time to spend the whole weekend in your backyard? It’s time to cheat–in a smart way. In "How to Cheat at Gardening and Yard Work, "you’ll find hundreds of work-reducing, time-saving, cost-cutting gardening tips that will reward you with the best-looking yard and garden you’ve ever had with less work than ever before. Cheating on garden and yard tasks is part attitude adjustment, part shortcuts, and part simplicity–with a healthy dose of making clever choices. You’ll discover effective and efficient methods to complete just about every garden project, chore, cleanup, or predicament you’ll face. Set aside the things you’ve done for years and discover: -How the right tool can save you time–and save your back -That doing less for your lawn actually means better results -Why planting a diversion crop cuts down on your pest-patrol efforts That groundcovers and foliage plants are no-hassle solutions for weedy flowerbeds |
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Green Careers in Building and Landscaping: Appendixes $2.99 Find valuable information on building and landscaping jobs by industry, green job boards, and “green” vocabulary. For more information see Peterson’s Green Careers in Building and Landscaping. |
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Landscaping for Florida’s Wildlife: Re-Creating Native Ecosystems in Your Yard $14.98 As the natural landscape becomes more humanized, the habitat for many wildlife species has been lost or degraded. In a clear, step-by-step format, this book tells how to create a wildlife-friendly landscape that takes into account both people and nature. The authors’ theme — "put back what you don’t need" — allows the gardener to reduce maintenance costs while providing a habitat that offers wildlife the essentials of food, cover, water, and space. — The book addresses such fundamental questions as which ecosystem is appropriate to a particular piece of property and how to determine which species use the property. — It discusses how to consider soils, drainage patterns, utility lines, adjacent land uses, and existing native vegetation. — It describes how to prepare a base map; add plant and non-birdhouses, burrows, and tree frog houses; and calculate the cost of materials. — It tells how to install, maintain, and evaluate the new yard. Throughout, helpful drawings, tables, and worksheets illustrate the procedures. Appendixes include an extensive list of native plants by ecosystem type, contacts with public agencies and private conservation organizations, lists of field guides and related books, and a table that shows which wildlife species use various ecosystems |
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How to Understand and Use Design and Layout How to Understand and Use Design and Layout $20.48 The function of design is to communicate–whether it’s about a product, concept or a company. This comprehensive book shows readers how design works and how it can work for them. It provides all the groundwork a beginner needs, and acts as a sourcebook for experienced designers who are is looking for fresh ideas and approaches. Authors Alan Swann and David Dabner break the subject down into three comprehensive sections: – BASIC DESIGN PRINCIPLES details the ground rules of design, type and color – DESIGN DECISIONS examines the various stages of design–including the initial brief, copy, imagery and results–and how each may be analyzed – DESIGN PROJECTS AND CATEGORIES reviews various types of design with commentary on how the above principles have been applied Hundreds of illustrations, step-by-step instructions, exercises and case studies clarify every lesson, while checklists at the end of each section highlight all the points readers need to remember. |
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Ann Lovejoy’s Organic Garden Design School $20.19 Suggests ways to implement her organic design principles into landscaping, and provides instructions on caring for an ecologically sound garden. |
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Southern Coastal Home Landscaping $15.48 Southern Coastal Home Landscaping is the latest edition to Creative Homeowner’s award-winning, bestselling series of regional home landscaping titles. The 38 featured designs are from professionals from the region and use more than 175 plants that thrive in the coastal environment. States covered include: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. |
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Step-by-step Landscaping $13.74 A new edition of Better Homes and Gardens(r) best-selling landscaping book. Packed with 408 pages of all-new material from the editors of Better Homes and Gardens(r) books, this complete landscaping guide has everything you need to know transform your yar |
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Pop: How Graphic Design Shapes Popular Culture $14.49 Pop: How Graphic Design Shapes Popular Culture |
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How to Design And Build Modern Electric Cars $26.35 How to Design And Build Modern Electric Cars |
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How to Design Your Own Painting Pr $6.3 How to Design Your Own Painting Pr |
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How to Design and Build Your Own House $23.71 How to Design and Build Your Own House |
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How to Design a Typeface $17.48 "How""""to""""Design""""a""""Typeface" tells you everything you need to know and looks at the principles and processes of designing type, from its historical roots and interaction with materials and techniques to developing digitized type for modern use. In a working case study Jonathan Barnbrook, on of the world’s foremost typographers, traces the design and development of his typeface Priori from start to finish and reveals what it takes to create a successful design. |
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How to Design a Light $17.48 "How""""to""""Design""""a""""Light" tells you everything you need to know and looks at the principles and processes of designing a light. In a working case study Arnold Chan, one of the world’s best-known lighting designers, traces the design and development of one of his installation at the London restaurant Hakkasan, and reveals exactly what is involved in creating a successful design. |
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How to Run a Successful Design Business $35 Whether you're experienced or just starting out, How to Run a Successful Design Business: The New Professional Practice covers everything owners and managers of design firms need to know. |
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The Landscaping Ideas of Jays: A Natural History of the Backyard Restoration Garden $21.48 Elegantly organized by season, this lyrical yet practical guide to backyard restoration gardening celebrates the beauty, the challenges, and the rewards of growing native plants at home. Judith Larner Lowry, winner of the prestigious John Burroughs award, here builds on themes from her best-selling "Gardening with a Wild Heart, "which introduced restoration gardening as a new way of thinking about land and people. Drawing on her experiences in her own garden, Lowry offers guidance on how to plan a garden with birds, plants, and insects in mind; how to shape it with trees and shrubs, paths and trails, ponds, and other features; and how to cultivate, maintain, and harvest seeds and food from a diverse array of native annuals and perennials. Working in passionate collaboration with the scrub jays, quail, ants, and deer who visit her garden, and inspired by other gardeners, including some of the women pioneers of native plant horticulture, Lowry shares the delights of creating site-specific, ever-changing gardens that can help us better understand our place in the natural world. |
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How to Design Stained Glass How to Design Stained Glass How to Design Stained Glass $14.98 Learn the basic principles and techniques of stained glass design. Among the key topics: design sources, enlarging and reworking, abstract and representational design, and how to design flat as well as 3-dimensional projects. Includes 84 designs for projects: flowers, leaves, animals, birds, landscapes, architectural studies, and more. 209 illustrations. |
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Abstract Design and How to Create It $20.98 Profusely illustrated guide covers geometric basis of design, implements and their use, borders, textile patterns, nature study and treatment. 383 illustrations include many diagrams, designs for title pages, border patterns, allover patterns, textile patterns and historical examples from many cultures and periods. Clear and well written, this volume will be an invaluable resource. |
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Designing Outdoor Environments for Children: Landscaping Schoolyards, Gardens, and Playgrounds $70.48 "Create fun, safe, innovative outdoor landscapes for children" This unique resource expertly details the design, installation, and maintenance of sustainable children’s landscapes and play yards. Numerous case studies cover projects including storybook courtyards, music and barnyard gardens, nature trails, wildlife habitats, memorial, and edible gardens. |
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Gaining Ground: Dramatic Landscaping Solutions to Reclaim Lost Garden Spaces $3.98 Gardening guru Maureen Gilmer offers design ideas that translate well into any garden for every budget — even a postage-stamp backyard or terrace can become an urban oasis of water and color. Amazing before-and-after shots prove that garden fantasies can — and have — become reality. |
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Not by Design $29.95 More than two centuries ago, William Paley introduced his famous metaphor of the universe as a watch made by the Creator. For Paley, the exquisite structure of the universe necessitated a designer. Today, some 150 years since Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published, the argument of design is seeing a revival. This provocative work tells how Darwin left the door open for this revival–and at the same time argues for a new conceptual framework that avoids the problematic teleology inherent in Darwin’s formulation of natural selection. In a wide-ranging discussion of the historical and philosophical dimensions of evolutionary theory from the ancient Greeks to today, John Reiss argues that we should look to the principle of the conditions for existence, first formulated before On the Origin of Species by the French paleontologist Georges Cuvier, to clarify the relation of adaptation to evolution. Reiss suggests that Cuvier’s principle can help resolve persistent issues in evolutionary biology, including the proper definition of natural selection, the distinction between natural selection and genetic drift, and the meaning of genetic load. Moreover, he shows how this principle can help unite diverse areas of biology, ranging from quantitative genetics and the theory of the levels of selection to evo-devo, ecology, physiology, and conservation biology. |
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How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education $146.34 “How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education provides a comprehensive introduction to educational research. The text covers the most widely used research methodologies and discusses each step in the research process in detail. Step-by-step analysis o |
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How to Understand and Use Design and Layout $21.11 Discusses how to use color and typeface, shows how to mix printing and photographs, and looks at the development of actual packages, posters, brochures, business cards, and advertisements. |
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How to Design Cars Like a Pro $23.39 This comprehensive new edition of How to Design Cars Like a Pro provides an in-depth look at modern automotive design. Interviews with leading automobile designers from Ford, BMW, GM Jaguar, Nissan and others, analyses of past and present trends, studies |
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Deer-Resistant Landscaping $10.55 Outlines strategies for protecting gardens and landscaping from deer and twenty-one other kinds of wildlife, in a guide that draws on expert advice to counsel readers on a variety of deterrents while providing encyclopedic entries on more than one thousan |
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Sunset Western Landscaping Book $26.35 Complemented by more than six hundred photographs, step-by-step illustrations, seasonal gardening guides, and checklists, an updated companion volume to the Western Garden Book offers landscaping designs, tips, plans, and plant selection suggestions speci |
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Landscaping Earth Ponds $26.4 Looks at natural ponds as a unique landscaping challenge, offering advice on and case studies of all practical and aesthetic aspects of “pondscaping,” and gives information on maintenance for existing and newly excavated ponds. |
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Curb Appeal: Landscapes, Color, Entries Design + Details $4.98 An essential reference for every homeownera"Curb Appeal" shows readers how to add maximum appeal and value to their property with a minimum investment of time and money. Backed by the trusted HGTV brand and packed with dozens of unique ideas and cost-saving projects for adding character to the front of any property. Helpful how-to instructions equip readers with the tools and knowledge to transform any exterior into a vibrant, intriguing reflection of personal style. Fabulous real-life exterior, entryway, and landscaping before-and-after photos inspire homeowners to approach their own home with a fresh eye, and teaches them how to transform it from good to great. Great architectural styles include bungalow, split level and Victorian styles, featured in both urban and suburb homes. |
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Builder’s Guide to Landscaping $28.98 Subcontractors and contractors who deal with irrigation, drainage, and landscaping can turn to this comprehensive manual to enhance their technical skills. In this exclusive guide professionals will also find answers to all aspects of landscape construction from decks and retaining walls to pest and plant identification. Both the practicing and novice lalndscaper will benefit from information about hot topics such as energy-efficient irrigation and "earth-friendly" landscaping techniques, as well as important side issues such as scheduling and marketing. |
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Landscaping Southern Gardens $17.48 - The premier landscaping book designed exclusively for Southern gardeners with expert advice for specific climate zones – Practical step-by-step instructions for easy do-it-yourself landscaping projects and dozens of ready-to-use landscape plans – An entire chapter is devoted to spectacular Southern gardens, from upper and middle south through lower, coastal, and tropical regions |
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Landscaping, Irrigation and Floriculture Terminology $50 “Landscaping, irrigation and floriculture are one of the important subjects of agriculture/horticulture due to its great theoretical and applied value, the subject is presently taught to UG, PG and Research Scholar in all Agricultural Universities and colleges. Appropriate knowledge about landscaping, irrigation and floriculture, technical terms are quite necessary for individuals in the field of horticulture and agriculture. The need for a comprehensive book on related terminology was felt since long. The lack of specialized resource book on terminology concerning landscaping, irrigation and floriculture has encouraged me to launch this volume. Terminology has been incorporated in this book with a lot of selected and commonly used technical terms of landscaping, irrigation and floriculture in detail with their suitable examples. Some terms have more than one definition for sound and clear understanding. The book 'Landscaping, irrigation and floriculture terminology' is particularly useful in Indian perspective, as it is the only book of terminology of Indian terms available in our country. It is hoped the manner of presentation and conceptual path followed in the terminology will be useful for the readers in searching any terms. This terminology hopefully will prove an asset for the students, teachers, researchers, scientists and industrialist.” |
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How to Design Monograms $15.48 Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone |
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Landscaping With Stone $5.99 Construct natural-looking stone paths, steps, retaining walls, water features, and rock gardens. Photo galleries showcase creative uses for stone. Shopping guidelines and planting suggestions are included in this guide. |
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Landscaping Earth Ponds – Book $30 In the decades since he wrote his acclaimed Earth Ponds, Tim Matson has designed scores of ponds, each unique to its site and its owners. In Landscaping Earth Ponds, he shares what he has learned to make these captivating ponds truly fit into their landscapes and into the lives and lifestyles of their owners. |
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Design Issues: How Graphic Design Informs Society $29.48 Based on the popular "Design Issues" column, this book takes a look at design in a critical, educational, social, ethical, and humorous way. Covers a wide range of topics from corporate identities to the philosophical dimensions of art. |
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Landscaping with Herbs $6.98 This book emphasizes the ornamental value of herbs. The author considers six different garden concepts, from formal to wild, and suggests suitable herbs for each. |
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Western Landscaping $4.98 This all-new second edition, the companion book to the much-beloved Western Garden Book, promises to be just as successful as the first. Packed with expert advice from landscape designers, gardeners, and others, it addresses climatic, soil, and topographical challenges–and solutions–for Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and southwestern Canada. |
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Southeast Home Landscaping $3.98 "Southeast Home Landscaping" is an updated, expanded edition of Creative Homeowner’s award-winning best seller on landscaping southeast-style. Readers will find inspiring ideas for making the home landscape more attractive and functional. The 50 featured designs are created by landscape professionals from the region and use more than 200 plants that thrive in the southeast. Detailed instructions for projects such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors are also included. Over 450 full-color photos and paintings are complemented by easy, step-by-step instructions. The southeast will be in full bloom with "Southeast Home Landscaping." AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN |
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Ergonomics: How to Design for Ease and Efficiency $208.98 An easy-to-use reference book written by a practicing ergonomics engineer, "Ergonomics: How to Design for Ease and Efficincy" explores the "why" and "how" of human engineering/ergonomics. Topics include Working Under Water, Home Computer Workstation, Data Input Devices, Effective Training for Safe Lifting, Use of Liftbelts. Deals with Space exploration, Work under water, Scuba diving, New ways to communicate with the computer, Avoiding Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and other RSIs, Lift belts in material handling, Designing for "neutral" posture, scheduling work for circadian rhythms and Strenuous efforts at high altitudes. Addresses issues such as cumulative trauma, back problems (lifting), space exploration, design for the handicapped, computer workstations, and others. For readers interested in Human Factors Engineering or Ergonomics. |
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Northwest Home Landscaping, 3rd Edition $13.98 Updated and expanded edition of Creative Homeowner’s award-winning bestseller on landscaping northwest style. The 48 featured designs were created by landscaping professionals from the region and use more than 200 native plants. Covers Washington, Oregon and Western British Columbia. |
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Perfect Phrases in Spanish for Gardening and Landscaping $8.75 Talk with your Spanish-speaking employees–no prior knowledge of Spanish needed!Perfect Phrases in Spanish for Gardening and Landscaping gives you more than 500 vital words and phrases specific to the landscaping industry, with translations spelled out ph |
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Digital Design of Nature $44.99 Illustrates and exemplifies methods for the creation of artificial plant models, and the application of these methods within areas such as simulation, virtual reality, botany, landscaping, and architecture. The models are combined to create gardens, parks, and even entire landscapes. |
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How to Illustrate and Design Concept Cars $27.98 The automobile seems to be as popular now as it ever was. Posters of cars still adorn many a child’s bedroom wall, and school exercise books are full of doodles of cars. This book takes those notebook sketches and teaches you how to develop them into the car designs you see in magazines. Using simple to follow step-by-step drawings it guides you from pencil sketch to marker rendering, from doodle to highly visual computer generated artwork. Adrian Dewey has worked on designs as diverse as small sports cars to double-decker buses, modified motors to concept Formula 1 cars, using various techniques and styles. In this book, he uses his knowledge of the different styles to guide the reader in creating great artwork and designs of their own. The book shows in detail how to use different materials and how to get the most out of each one, whether it be a great pencil sketch or a photo realistic vector illustration. The book also features an easy to follow index for quick reference on different types of drawing. |
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The Design of Design $38.98 How does an inventor set about designing a piece of machinery to make a particular product? Are they any basic principles to guide him? Glegg believes that there are and, in his short book, draws on his own wide-ranging experience as an inventor, consulting engineer, company director and university lecturer, to define them. Most books on engineering design are concerned with either mathematical analysis or some individual technique related to a narrow field. This book is neither: it defines the general laws which underlie all creative design, from the philosophy and psychology of inventiveness to the point at which an invention is commercially exploited. It thus cuts across the frontiers of specialised studies and specialised industries. Glegg finds engineering fun and feels that learning about it need not be dull. His book, with many illustrations from the battleground of industry, is both entertaining and profitable reading for engineering designers of the future and for those in general management responsible for design departments. |
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Design on the Edge: The Making of a High-Performance Building $17.98 The story of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College–the first substantially green building to be built on a college campus–encompasses more than the particulars of one building. In "Design on the Edge," David Orr writes about the planning and design of Oberlin’s environmental studies building as part of a larger story about the art and science of ecological design and the ability of institutions of higher learning themselves to learn. The Lewis Center, which has attracted worldwide attention as a model of ecological design, operates according to environmental principles. It is powered entirely by solar energy, features landscaping with fruit trees and vegetable gardens, and houses a Living Machine, which processes all wastewater for reuse in the building or landscape. Orr puts the Lewis Center into historical design context and describes the obstacles and successes he encountered in obtaining funds and college approval, interweaving the particulars of the center with thoughts on the larger environmental and societal issues the building process illustrates. Equal parts analysis, personal reflection, and call to action, "Design on the Edge" illustrates the process of institutional change, institutional learning, and the political economy of design. It describes how the idea of the Lewis Center originated and was translated into reality with the help of such environmental visionaries as William McDonough and John Todd, and how the building has performed since its completion. College and university administrators will spend 17 billion dollars on new buildings over the next few years. "Design on the Edge" is essential reading for architects, planners, and environmentalists who need to sell the innovations of ecological design to wary institutions, and for educators and students whose profession is undermined by the very buildings they work in–and for anyone who has ever tried to change an organization for the better. |
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Creating the Perfect Design Brief: How to Manage Design for Strategic Advantage $17.48 In one of the only books of its kind, a veteran design consultant offers the tools for success gained from nearly 30 years of developing corporate and brand identity programs. Readers will discover the most effective formats for design briefs, how to structure the best possible team, what distinguishes a great design brief from an adequate one, how to use the brief in project tracking, as a measuring tool, and as a means of getting approval for a design solution; and much, much more. – Covers all the essential elements comprising an effective design brief – Copublished with the prestigious Design Management Institute |
