The first glorious full-color life-style book about gardening, decorating, and cooking with herbs. More than 450 full-color illustrations and 25 black-and-white illustrations.

Herbs: Gardens, Decorations and Recipes

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Tolley, Emelie

Chris Mead

Gardening & Landscape Design

Clarkson/Potter

With its whimsically die-cut slipcase and dozens of nostalgic holiday verses, American Country Christmas celebrates the holiday season and shows how to put a little bit of country into any occasion. More than 150 full-color photographs.

American Country Christmas

Mary Emmerling

As visually appealing as it is practical, Gifts from the Herb Garden suggests innovative and delightful uses for both fresh and dried herbs, from bountiful wreaths and graceful garlands to personal fragrances. There's even a special section on herbs for the holidays. Full-color photographs.

Gifts from the Herb Garden

Emelie Tolley

Crafts & Hobbies

Since Victorian times, the pansy's pert face has charmed gardeners and gentlefolk alike. From tiny Johnny-jump-ups to velvety violas, these multihued blossoms have inspired artists, textile designers, and even cooks, and stationery, keepsakes, and embroidered linens have immortalized the flower that means "thoughts of you." Now Emelie Tolley and Chris Mead, gardening and herb experts extraordinaire, offer A Potpourri of Pansies, a beautifully illustrated tribute to their very favorite flower. Pansies are among the easiest flowers to cultivate, both indoors and out, and because they are simple to dry, they can be used in myriad decorative ways, such as fragrant potpourris or embellished candles. Chris and Emelie showcase the versatile pansy with recipes, gardening hints, simple bouquets, and trivia and lore. Pansy lovers will rejoice in this gorgeous celebration of a perennially popular flower.

A Potpourri Of Pansies

Emilie Tolley

This original history tells how pickup teams of American business people changed their communities and sometimes their nation and the world. From starting the Miss America Pageant to naming and funding Lindbergh's plane to going after Al Capone and San Francisco's lawless Sydney Ducks, these merchants found ways to get things done. The book describes the real "Rhett Butler" and how he smuggled goods and money into the South while, on the Yankee side, chambers worked to outfox the rebels -- and also made sure their cities got their fair share of federal wartime spending. Often putting forth heroic efforts once war was declared, major chambers showed a surprising reluctance, bordering on cowardice at times, before the outbreak of major wars. Such conflicts were too risky and organized business people were willing to tell this to political leaders from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to FDR. Chambers would not shrink from fights for reliable currency, however. The book highlights chamber efforts to oppose doctored coins in 1768, free silver after the Civil War, and financial instability before and after the Panic of 1907 (causing them to play a leading role in founding what became the Federal Reserve System). This book also discusses the massive chamber efforts to promote transportation, an obsession that continues to this day: the deepening of harbors, the attraction of railroads (and then fights to keep freight rates fair), the building of thousands of roads, and the creation of hundreds of airports. Finally, there were efforts for plain old economic growth. Some were brilliant at promoting their communities, with Frank Wiggins of the Los Angeles Chamber once assembling 375,000 oranges for an exhibit in Chicago and later being called by Life Magazine "the greatest city booster who ever lived." Local political tangles, too, are recounted, along with a big national project: the founding in 1912 of the largest chamber of them all, the U.S. Chamber.

The Magicians of Main Street: America and its Chambers of Commerce, 1768-1945

History

Americas

John Cruger Press

Turning Rust To Gold

Owls

Sports & Outdoors

Whittet Books Ltd

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Whittet Books, Limited

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