Author: Nick Creighton
Publisher: nick creighton
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Welcome to Your New Green Oasis Unlock the potential of the tiniest spaces with "The Portable Garden," a pioneering guide dedicated to the art and science of micro gardening. This book is your ultimate resource for transforming balconies, patios, windowsills, and even walls into thriving garden spaces. It's designed specifically for renters, urban dwellers, and anyone with limited space but an unlimited passion for gardening. Comprehensive Gardening Techniques With "The Portable Garden," learn how to: Optimize Limited Spaces: Discover innovative techniques for maximizing small areas through vertical gardening, hanging planters, and trellises, turning even the smallest footprint into a verdant space. Choose the Right Plants: Gain insights into the best plants for your micro garden. Whether it’s vegetables that require minimal root space, herbs that thrive on windowsills, or flowers that add a splash of color without taking up room, this book has you covered. Build Your Own Garden Features: Step-by-step instructions for creating your own gardening accessories, such as self-watering systems and LED grow light setups, to ensure your plants thrive in any conditions. Maintain Your Garden with Ease: Learn practical strategies for garden care, including organic pest management, efficient watering techniques, and seasonal maintenance advice to keep your garden flourishing year-round. Why This Book Is Unique What sets "The Portable Garden" apart is its focus on DIY solutions and its commitment to sustainable, eco-friendly gardening practices. It empowers you to reuse and upcycle materials, reducing waste and promoting environmental responsibility while enjoying the process of growing your own food. For Every Aspiring Gardener Whether you’re a seasoned green thumb looking for new challenges or a beginner with limited outdoor space, "The Portable Garden" offers something for everyone. It demystifies the gardening process and provides you with the tools and confidence to start your own garden project, regardless of your previous experience or current living situation. Transform Your Space Today Join a growing community of urban gardeners who are finding joy and fulfillment in gardening within their means. "The Portable Garden" is more than a gardening book—it’s a blueprint for a greener, more self-sufficient lifestyle that brings nature into your home, one plant at a time. Start your journey towards creating a beautiful, productive micro garden with "The Portable Garden" and turn your small space into your personal oasis.
The Portable Garden: Micro Gardening for Renters and Small Space Dwellers – Transform Your Balcony, Patio, or Window Space into a Lush Retreat
Author: Nick Creighton
Publisher: nick creighton
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Welcome to Your New Green Oasis Unlock the potential of the tiniest spaces with "The Portable Garden," a pioneering guide dedicated to the art and science of micro gardening. This book is your ultimate resource for transforming balconies, patios, windowsills, and even walls into thriving garden spaces. It's designed specifically for renters, urban dwellers, and anyone with limited space but an unlimited passion for gardening. Comprehensive Gardening Techniques With "The Portable Garden," learn how to: Optimize Limited Spaces: Discover innovative techniques for maximizing small areas through vertical gardening, hanging planters, and trellises, turning even the smallest footprint into a verdant space. Choose the Right Plants: Gain insights into the best plants for your micro garden. Whether it’s vegetables that require minimal root space, herbs that thrive on windowsills, or flowers that add a splash of color without taking up room, this book has you covered. Build Your Own Garden Features: Step-by-step instructions for creating your own gardening accessories, such as self-watering systems and LED grow light setups, to ensure your plants thrive in any conditions. Maintain Your Garden with Ease: Learn practical strategies for garden care, including organic pest management, efficient watering techniques, and seasonal maintenance advice to keep your garden flourishing year-round. Why This Book Is Unique What sets "The Portable Garden" apart is its focus on DIY solutions and its commitment to sustainable, eco-friendly gardening practices. It empowers you to reuse and upcycle materials, reducing waste and promoting environmental responsibility while enjoying the process of growing your own food. For Every Aspiring Gardener Whether you’re a seasoned green thumb looking for new challenges or a beginner with limited outdoor space, "The Portable Garden" offers something for everyone. It demystifies the gardening process and provides you with the tools and confidence to start your own garden project, regardless of your previous experience or current living situation. Transform Your Space Today Join a growing community of urban gardeners who are finding joy and fulfillment in gardening within their means. "The Portable Garden" is more than a gardening book—it’s a blueprint for a greener, more self-sufficient lifestyle that brings nature into your home, one plant at a time. Start your journey towards creating a beautiful, productive micro garden with "The Portable Garden" and turn your small space into your personal oasis.
Publisher: nick creighton
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Welcome to Your New Green Oasis Unlock the potential of the tiniest spaces with "The Portable Garden," a pioneering guide dedicated to the art and science of micro gardening. This book is your ultimate resource for transforming balconies, patios, windowsills, and even walls into thriving garden spaces. It's designed specifically for renters, urban dwellers, and anyone with limited space but an unlimited passion for gardening. Comprehensive Gardening Techniques With "The Portable Garden," learn how to: Optimize Limited Spaces: Discover innovative techniques for maximizing small areas through vertical gardening, hanging planters, and trellises, turning even the smallest footprint into a verdant space. Choose the Right Plants: Gain insights into the best plants for your micro garden. Whether it’s vegetables that require minimal root space, herbs that thrive on windowsills, or flowers that add a splash of color without taking up room, this book has you covered. Build Your Own Garden Features: Step-by-step instructions for creating your own gardening accessories, such as self-watering systems and LED grow light setups, to ensure your plants thrive in any conditions. Maintain Your Garden with Ease: Learn practical strategies for garden care, including organic pest management, efficient watering techniques, and seasonal maintenance advice to keep your garden flourishing year-round. Why This Book Is Unique What sets "The Portable Garden" apart is its focus on DIY solutions and its commitment to sustainable, eco-friendly gardening practices. It empowers you to reuse and upcycle materials, reducing waste and promoting environmental responsibility while enjoying the process of growing your own food. For Every Aspiring Gardener Whether you’re a seasoned green thumb looking for new challenges or a beginner with limited outdoor space, "The Portable Garden" offers something for everyone. It demystifies the gardening process and provides you with the tools and confidence to start your own garden project, regardless of your previous experience or current living situation. Transform Your Space Today Join a growing community of urban gardeners who are finding joy and fulfillment in gardening within their means. "The Portable Garden" is more than a gardening book—it’s a blueprint for a greener, more self-sufficient lifestyle that brings nature into your home, one plant at a time. Start your journey towards creating a beautiful, productive micro garden with "The Portable Garden" and turn your small space into your personal oasis.
Gardens of the Roman Empire
Author: Wilhelmina F. Jashemski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108327036
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
In Gardens of the Roman Empire, the pioneering archaeologist Wilhelmina F. Jashemski sets out to examine the role of ancient Roman gardens in daily life throughout the empire. This study, therefore, includes for the first time, archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence about ancient Roman gardens across the entire Roman Empire from Britain to Arabia. Through well-illustrated essays by leading scholars in the field, various types of gardens are examined, from how Romans actually created their gardens to the experience of gardens as revealed in literature and art. Demonstrating the central role and value of gardens in Roman civilization, Jashemski and a distinguished, international team of contributors have created a landmark reference work that will serve as the foundation for future scholarship on this topic. An accompanying digital catalogue will be made available at: www.gardensoftheromanempire.org.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108327036
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
In Gardens of the Roman Empire, the pioneering archaeologist Wilhelmina F. Jashemski sets out to examine the role of ancient Roman gardens in daily life throughout the empire. This study, therefore, includes for the first time, archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence about ancient Roman gardens across the entire Roman Empire from Britain to Arabia. Through well-illustrated essays by leading scholars in the field, various types of gardens are examined, from how Romans actually created their gardens to the experience of gardens as revealed in literature and art. Demonstrating the central role and value of gardens in Roman civilization, Jashemski and a distinguished, international team of contributors have created a landmark reference work that will serve as the foundation for future scholarship on this topic. An accompanying digital catalogue will be made available at: www.gardensoftheromanempire.org.
The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency
Author: John Seymour
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN: 024147762X
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Embrace off-grid green living with the bestselling classic guide to a more sustainable way of life, now with a brand new foreword from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. John Seymour has inspired thousands to make more responsible, enriching, and eco-friendly choices with his advice on living sustainably. The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency offers step-by-step instructions on everything from chopping trees to harnessing solar power; from growing fruit and vegetables, and preserving and pickling your harvest, to baking bread, brewing beer, and making cheese. Seymour shows you how to live off the land, running your own smallholding or homestead, keeping chickens, and raising (and butchering) livestock. In a world of mass production, intensive farming, and food miles, Seymour's words offer an alternative: a celebration of the joy of investing time, labour, and love into the things we need. While we aren't all be able to move to the countryside, we can appreciate the need to eat food that has been grown ethically or create things we can cherish, using skills that have been handed down through generations. With refreshed, retro-style illustrations and a brand-new foreword by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, this new edition of Seymour's classic title is a balm for anyone who has ever sought solace away from the madness of modern life.
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN: 024147762X
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Embrace off-grid green living with the bestselling classic guide to a more sustainable way of life, now with a brand new foreword from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. John Seymour has inspired thousands to make more responsible, enriching, and eco-friendly choices with his advice on living sustainably. The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency offers step-by-step instructions on everything from chopping trees to harnessing solar power; from growing fruit and vegetables, and preserving and pickling your harvest, to baking bread, brewing beer, and making cheese. Seymour shows you how to live off the land, running your own smallholding or homestead, keeping chickens, and raising (and butchering) livestock. In a world of mass production, intensive farming, and food miles, Seymour's words offer an alternative: a celebration of the joy of investing time, labour, and love into the things we need. While we aren't all be able to move to the countryside, we can appreciate the need to eat food that has been grown ethically or create things we can cherish, using skills that have been handed down through generations. With refreshed, retro-style illustrations and a brand-new foreword by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, this new edition of Seymour's classic title is a balm for anyone who has ever sought solace away from the madness of modern life.
No Logo
Author: Naomi Klein
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312203436
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312203436
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.
To Life!
Author: Linda Weintraub
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520273613
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This title documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farms anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkows 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520273613
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This title documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farms anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkows 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming.
Global Nomads
Author: Anthony D'Andrea
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134110502
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Global Nomads provides a unique introduction to the globalization of countercultures, a topic largely unknown in and outside academia. Anthony D’Andrea examines the social life of mobile expatriates who live within a global circuit of countercultural practice in paradoxical paradises. Based on nomadic fieldwork across Spain and India, the study analyzes how and why these post-metropolitan subjects reject the homeland in order to shape an alternative lifestyle. They become artists, therapists, exotic traders and bohemian workers seeking to integrate labor, mobility and spirituality within a cosmopolitan culture of expressive individualism. These countercultural formations, however, unfold under neo-liberal regimes that appropriate utopian spaces, practices and imaginaries as commodities for tourism, entertainment and media consumption. In order to understand the paradoxical globalization of countercultures, Global Nomads develops a dialogue between global and critical studies by introducing the concept of 'neo-nomadism' which seeks to overcome some of the shortcomings in studies of globalization. This book is an essential aide for undergraduate, postgraduate and research students of Sociology, Anthropology of Globalization, Cultural Studies and Tourism Studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134110502
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Global Nomads provides a unique introduction to the globalization of countercultures, a topic largely unknown in and outside academia. Anthony D’Andrea examines the social life of mobile expatriates who live within a global circuit of countercultural practice in paradoxical paradises. Based on nomadic fieldwork across Spain and India, the study analyzes how and why these post-metropolitan subjects reject the homeland in order to shape an alternative lifestyle. They become artists, therapists, exotic traders and bohemian workers seeking to integrate labor, mobility and spirituality within a cosmopolitan culture of expressive individualism. These countercultural formations, however, unfold under neo-liberal regimes that appropriate utopian spaces, practices and imaginaries as commodities for tourism, entertainment and media consumption. In order to understand the paradoxical globalization of countercultures, Global Nomads develops a dialogue between global and critical studies by introducing the concept of 'neo-nomadism' which seeks to overcome some of the shortcomings in studies of globalization. This book is an essential aide for undergraduate, postgraduate and research students of Sociology, Anthropology of Globalization, Cultural Studies and Tourism Studies.
A Pattern Language
Author: Christopher Alexander
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190050357
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
Book Description
You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190050357
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
Book Description
You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.
Radio Production
Author: Robert McLeish
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1317590945
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Radio Production is for professionals and students interested in understanding the radio industry in today’s ever-changing world. This book features up-to-date coverage of the purpose and use of radio with detailed coverage of current production techniques in the studio and on location. In addition there is exploration of technological advances, including handheld digital recording devices, the use of digital, analogue and virtual mixing desks and current methods of music storage and playback. Within a global context, the sixth edition also explores American radio by providing an overview of the rules, regulations, and purpose of the Federal Communications Commission. The sixth edition includes: Updated material on new digital recording methods, and the development of outside broadcast techniques, including Smartphone use. The use of social media as news sources, and an expansion of the station’s presence. Global government regulation and journalistic codes of practice. Comprehensive advice on interviewing, phone-ins, news, radio drama, music, and scheduling. This edition is further enhanced by a companion website, featuring examples, exercises, and resources: www.focalpress.com/cw/mcleish.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1317590945
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Radio Production is for professionals and students interested in understanding the radio industry in today’s ever-changing world. This book features up-to-date coverage of the purpose and use of radio with detailed coverage of current production techniques in the studio and on location. In addition there is exploration of technological advances, including handheld digital recording devices, the use of digital, analogue and virtual mixing desks and current methods of music storage and playback. Within a global context, the sixth edition also explores American radio by providing an overview of the rules, regulations, and purpose of the Federal Communications Commission. The sixth edition includes: Updated material on new digital recording methods, and the development of outside broadcast techniques, including Smartphone use. The use of social media as news sources, and an expansion of the station’s presence. Global government regulation and journalistic codes of practice. Comprehensive advice on interviewing, phone-ins, news, radio drama, music, and scheduling. This edition is further enhanced by a companion website, featuring examples, exercises, and resources: www.focalpress.com/cw/mcleish.
The Annotated Mona Lisa
Author: Carol Strickland
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780740768729
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780740768729
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.
Urban and Community Forestry in the Northeast
Author: John E. Kuser
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402042892
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
This book is a textbook for Urban/Community Forestry courses and a handbook for Shade Tree Commissions, tree wardens, State and National Forestry Services, and professional societies. It is the most complete text in this field because it addresses both culture and management, and the chapters have been written by experts who are active practitioners. The book provides observations and examples relevant to every urban center in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402042892
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
This book is a textbook for Urban/Community Forestry courses and a handbook for Shade Tree Commissions, tree wardens, State and National Forestry Services, and professional societies. It is the most complete text in this field because it addresses both culture and management, and the chapters have been written by experts who are active practitioners. The book provides observations and examples relevant to every urban center in the U.S. and elsewhere.