The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beagles
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Sniffing Down the Right Trail & Barking Up the Right Tree
  • Good overall book
  • This Book Is Bow-WOW!!!
  • Has made life with a Beagle a positive experience
  • Great Help
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beagles
Kim Campbell Thornton
Manufacturer: Alpha
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0028644034

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Sniffing Down the Right Trail & Barking Up the Right Tree.......2007-07-25

As the owner of a rescue beagle, I found this book to be incredibly helpful. This book provides a full range of history about this delightful breed of hound. I was able to determine what materials and equipment my hound would need. It is an excellent book for all owners of beagles, from happy pet owners to people interested in showing their hounds. My beagle is a lovable and trusty pet, so I was mainly interested in the parts aimed at pet owners.

A good book and no doubt beagle owners and those who love beagles will enjoy it as well.

4 out of 5 stars Good overall book.......2007-02-27

This book is helpful to any beagle owner. It covers all of the basics and goes into plenty of detail for just about anything you might want to know about your beagle or to consider when thinking about welcoming a beagle into your family. The book does go into quite a bit of detail about breed standards and AKC events and whatnot. Unfortunately if you don't have an AKC registered dog none of this pertains to you. Good intentions abound, but the level of snobbery in the AKC will keep plenty of good dogs (maybe even better *gasp* dogs) from field and agility trials. This isn't a downfall of the book, but if you're like me and have a rescued or adopted beagle, or even one thats just been fixed, much of this book is useless as it pertains to AKC or Nat'l Beagle Club trials and events. I would have liked to see just a little more coverage of training and behavioral issues, but the information overall is pertinant and usefull. Whether you have a registered beagle or not this book is a good tool and packs plenty of bang for the buck.

5 out of 5 stars This Book Is Bow-WOW!!!.......2007-02-16

Having grown up with a beagle, I thought I knew this breed, but author Kim Campbell Thornton pleasantly surprised me with new facts and insights into all that is Beagle. Her book covers everything you need from nose to the white tip of the tail. I especially enjoyed the Beagle Bonus pullout boxes. This is a must read for anyone blessed to have a Beagle in their life.

5 out of 5 stars Has made life with a Beagle a positive experience.......2006-06-14

Just had to comment on The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beagles...a couple of years ago I decided that I'd like to have a beagle again...I had one during my teen years...and thought that a little research was in order. I was right and this book covered so many facets of beagle behavior that I realized that I would have to learn to accomodate if I was to have a meaningful realtionship with one of the little darlings. The book gave me a much better idea of what my expectations should be and what kinds of compromises and precautions I would have to make to make beagle ownership a joy and not a trial for both me and the dog.

Both Poochie and I give it five stars!

5 out of 5 stars Great Help .......2006-03-25

Found this book to be the answer to all. Very enlightening!
Beagles (Complete Pet Owner's Manuel)
Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
  • disappointing!
Beagles (Complete Pet Owner's Manuel)
Lucia Roesel-Parent
Manufacturer: Barron''s Educational Series
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0764120026

Product Description

Beagles are especially perceptive, intelligent little hounds. Although natural hunters, they adapt readily to home life. Titles in the extensive Complete Pet Owner's Manuals series provide pet owners with basic information on keeping healthy, contented, well-cared-for animals. The series includes approximately 175 titles and covers pets of every kind: dogs, cats, and birds of many breeds, as well as fish, reptiles, rabbits, hamsters, and just about any other animal that people keep as a pet. Facts and advice cover all aspects of pet care, which include proper feeding, housing, health care, grooming, training, and much more. The text in each manual is supplemented with many vivid, full-color photos, and with instructive, anatomically accurate line art. Each manual has been individually written by a breeder, trainer, veterinarian, or experienced animal specialist. Paperback / 96 Pages / 6 1/2 x 7 7/8 / 2003

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars disappointing!.......2007-07-12

I'm currently doing research into different dog breeds, especially the beagle, as I hope for a new puppy companion in the next year. Compared to other similarly priced and marketed books, this has got to be the worst. VERY generic pet care information with little to no breed-specific information. There is supposedly a 'new' section in the back of the book called "living with a beagle" or something of that sort, which I turned to in the hopes it would flesh out more breed particularities. Ha! Not at all. Do yourself a favor and get something else- I was nicely surprised by the Dummies Guide to Beagles!
Beagles: Everything About Purchase, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, Behavior, and Training (Complete Pet Owner's Mamual)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • I'm sorry
  • Beagles are the Best of all dogs
  • Beagles are the best!!
  • it's a good basic book
  • it's a good basic book
Beagles: Everything About Purchase, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, Behavior, and Training (Complete Pet Owner's Mamual)
Lucia Vriends-Parent , and Lucia E. Parent
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ASIN: 0812090179

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars I'm sorry.......2001-10-19

I hate to be negative but this book was terrible. I am shocked to log on and see such wonderful reviews. This book is very small and has no more information than you can find on the internet. I am a first time Beagle owner and bought this to learn more about the bread, problems and questions I've encountered in my firt weeks of ownership. After reading the whole thing, I came away with nothing new. There is a whole chapter on breeding and a pregnant Beagle but for the average owner, this is not useful. I wish I could return this book it was such a waste of money - and was only a few dollars!

5 out of 5 stars Beagles are the Best of all dogs.......2001-10-05

I have read this book and found it most useful for first time Beagle owners. I have 3 Beagles at home at this time, I have 2 spayed and 1 dog, he is a Champion in good standing with the AKC.

I am just getting started in breeding Beagles for perserving the breed and would give this book to any of the new owners of my puppies.

Sandy

5 out of 5 stars Beagles are the best!!.......2001-03-14

I have a seven year old beagle and have owed him since he was six weeks old. He is the smartest, most fun-loving little fellow I have ever had and is great company. I bought this book soon after I got him and it was a great reference, being this was my first time owning a beagle.

If you have a beagle, or are thinking of getting one...buy the book!

4 out of 5 stars it's a good basic book.......2001-03-07

i bought this book because i had just bought a beagle puppy and had no idea what to expect. it was full of factual inforamation (especially on health) that i still use. it's a good basic book and reference. it helped me so much, from bathing to how to prevent food guarding to basic obedience to field trial references in the back...My Muffin is a sweet, well-adjusted, year old beagle now and all i had for a reference was this book. it's time to move up to involved tricks, which this book doesn't cover, though. this book does teach 'sit, stay, come and heel', however. it's a good buy. i'd recommend it more for the new owner, but based on what i learned, i think any beagle owner would benefit.

4 out of 5 stars it's a good basic book.......2001-03-07

i bought this book because i had just bought a beagle puppy and had no idea what to expect. it was full of factual inforamation (especially on health) that i still use. it's a good basic book and reference. it helped me so much, from bathing to how to prevent food guarding to basic obedience to field trial references in the back...My Muffin is a sweet, well-adjusted, year old beagle now and all i had for a reference was this book. it's time to move up to involved tricks, which this book doesn't cover, though. this book does teach 'sit, stay, come and heel', however. it's a good buy. i'd recommend it more for the new owner, but based on what i learned, i think any beagle owner would benefit.
Your Beagle's Life: Your Complete Guide to Raising Your Pet from Puppy to Companion (Your Pet's Life)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • A dog-saver!!
  • Great book for people who have never had a Beagle.
  • BEAGLES -- THE HOUND OF CHOICE
  • Excellent Reference Book
Your Beagle's Life: Your Complete Guide to Raising Your Pet from Puppy to Companion (Your Pet's Life)
Kim Campbell
Manufacturer: Prima Lifestyles
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ASIN: 0761520503
Release Date: 2000-03-16

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As a caring Beagle owner, you want the best for your pet. But you may not know all the special steps you need to take to raise a happy, healthy Beagle. Your Beagle's Life was written with one purpose in mind: to give you the most up-to-date information and guidance you need about the health, nutrition, training, and care of your dog. Reviewed by a nationally known veterinarian, this book shows you how to give your Beagle the best life possible—whether you've just welcomed a new puppy into your family or adopted an older dog.


Inside—what every Beagle owner wants to know:

• Is a Beagle the right dog for me?
• How do I choose the best food for all stages of my Beagle's life?
• Do Beagles make good companions for children?
• What's the best way to house-train my dog?
• How do I keep my Beagle from howling while I'm gone?
• Will my Beagle get along with my other pets?
• How do I teach my dog not to chew on the furniture?
• What do I do with my Beagle when I go on vacation?

About the Author

Kim Campbell Thornton
is an award-winning writer and editor who has written or contributed to more than a dozen books about dogs and cats. She shares her home with her cats, Shelby, Peter, and Pandora, two birds, and her dog, Bella.


About the Series Editor

Joanne Howl, D.V.M.,
Your Pet's Life™ series editor, is the president of the Maryland Veterinary Medical Association and a small-animal practitioner. She lives in West River, Maryland, with her family, two dogs, and six cats.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A dog-saver!!.......2007-06-21

I bought this after I adopted a year-old female beagle from a shelter. I didn't know what I had let myself in for!! Beagles, being "hound" dogs, march to the beat of a different drummer. . .i.e., their noses!! This book really helped me understand what drives beagles and address the issues of re-training her for her new home. I now keep it as a reference, to remind myself that I was the one needing training in Beagle-speak!!!

4 out of 5 stars Great book for people who have never had a Beagle........2002-03-14

I have had several diffent breeds of dogs over my lifetime, but never had a beagle. We rescued our Beagle in Virginia where we were Camping with our RV. She had been wandering the campground since May The people who worked at the campground discovered her wandering and found she had recently had puppies because her nipples were pink and here it was August and no one had claimed her, The people who worked for the campground who took care of her were told by the manager if she is not adopted or claimed by September she will have to go to the pound. This was very upsetting to my husband and I. I went to the library and searched for books related to Beagles I read several and found this one to be the most informative for housebreaking, training, and giving information about beagles, their characteristics and temperment. I recommend this book to anyone who never had a beagle and those who already own one it will be useful to both.

5 out of 5 stars BEAGLES -- THE HOUND OF CHOICE.......2000-10-31

I have a wonderful beagle that I adopted from the Humane Society when she was a little less than a year old. This book gives an excellent overview in the overall care and personality of beagles. The photographs will certainly delight any dog lover and especially anyone who owns a beagle. These winsome, intelligent, alert little hounds are popular pets and this book is a welcome teaching tool for those seriously interested in beagle care. This author has done an excellent job of communicating information that practically all ages can absorb. For beagle lovers and/or beagle owners, this is one book to have.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent Reference Book.......2000-05-23

I adopted a 3yr old Beagle from the pound a year ago and wish I had had this book. It tells you all about Beagle personality and how to help correct problems specific to the breed. The author really did her homework talking to breeders and current beagle owners. In addition to beagle-specific topics, there is a lot of good general "how to raise a dog" information. I highly recommend this book for those who are currently owned by a Beagle (or will be in the future).
21st Century Complete Guide to Mars Exploration: Mars Exploration Rovers 2003-2004 ¿ NASA Spirit and Opportunity Rovers (MER) and the Mars Express Beagle 2 Mission (Three CD-ROM Set)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Opportunity Vs. Spirit
21st Century Complete Guide to Mars Exploration: Mars Exploration Rovers 2003-2004 ¿ NASA Spirit and Opportunity Rovers (MER) and the Mars Express Beagle 2 Mission (Three CD-ROM Set)
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This comprehensive set of three CD-ROMs provides a thorough guide to the mission of the twin NASA Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, launched in 2003 for an early 2004 landing on the Red Planet. In addition to MER-A and MER-B, there is coverage of the Mars Express mission, including the Beagle 2 lander. This historic program is documented in NASA reports and mission images - there are over 385 images and 30 video clips reproduced here. Every aspect of the program is covered:

* Preflight Tests, Launch and Cruise Phase * Landing Site maps and detailed photographs * Mission Objectives, Science Objectives * Entry, Descent, and Landing System * Science Instruments (Pancam, MINI-TES, Spectrometer, APXS, Magnets, Rock Abrasion Tool RAT, Microscopic Imager) * Spacecraft Description * Mission Timeline * Communications with Earth * MER Project Team Members

This CD-ROM set has over 11,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems, and Reader software is included. Advanced search and indexing features are built into our reproduction, providing a complete full-text index. This enables the user to search all the files on the disk at one time for words or phrases using just one search command! The Acrobat cataloging technology adds enormous value and uncommon functionality to this impressive collection of government documents and material. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, and portable!

NASA's twin robot geologists, the Mars Exploration Rovers, launched toward Mars in 2003 in search of answers about the history of water on Mars. The Mars Exploration Rover mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet. The program seeks to take advantage of each launch opportunity to go to Mars, which comes around every 26 months as the planets move around the Sun. Launched on June 10 and July 7, 2003, the rovers will land on sites on Mars in January 2004. Primary among the mission's scientific goals is to search for and characterize a wide range of rocks and soils that hold clues to past water activity on Mars. The spacecraft will be targeted to sites that appear to have been affected by liquid water in the past. After the airbag-protected landing craft settle onto the surface and open, the rovers will roll out to take panoramic images. These will give scientists the information they need to select promising geological targets that will tell part of the story of water in Mars' past. Then, the rovers will drive to those locations to perform on-site scientific investigations over the course of their 90-day mission.

Our CD-ROMs are privately-compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched, or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc set makes a great reference work and educational tool.

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4 out of 5 stars Opportunity Vs. Spirit.......2004-01-28

Photographers and brothers Cornell and Robert Capa have often been considered as a salient study in contrasts. Perhaps their shared skill behind the camera could be attributed to some genetically endowed gift. Robert gained fame as the man who hauled his Leica equipment to battle zones from the Spanish Civil War up through the start of the conflict in Vietnam, giving war its "human face." Cornell quietly established an impressive career that would one day earn him notice as his brother's near-equal but opposite, as the "Photographer of Peace."
Living in the expansive shadow of his brother the war hero, Cornell pointed his lens in the opposite direction, opened the shutter wide and produced a classic meditation on symmetry and light through his image of an afternoon at Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet School; of narcissism at the dawn of the Age of Television in the 1959 photo, "Jack Paar Watches Himself on TV"; and of everyday people at play, whether it was the early morning cold baths at Winchester College or couples out on a Friday night at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom.
While combat photojournalists such as Robert Capa and Gerda Taro might have snagged the lion's share of magazine covers in the day - What with their work's shocking urgency and the tales of daring-do that accompanied them - there was a subtle balancing act at work. For every image of brutality provided from battle fronts around the globe, photographers such as Cornell Capa, and his contemporaries Henri Cartier-Bresson and Grace Robertson, offered gentle reminders of the beauty and joy found in humanity, be they a candid shot a young delivery boy haughtily marching across Paris' Rue Mouffetard with bottles of wine tucked under each arm, or a series of pictures chronicling the slightly tipsy patrons of London's Battersea women's pub on an outing to an amusement park, giddily holding down dresses on windy roller coasters and starting impromptu conga lines.
In the early oughts of the 21st century, with images of mechanized carnage, bloodshed and war pouring out of every media orifice available, it's of no surprise that public interest should drift out to the cosmos and clutch desperately onto the prosaic, still images being captured on Mars, depicting gently bowed landscapes and baby skin-smooth rocks. But while such escapism into the wonders of the fourth planet out might provide temporary relief from the eye-strain of horrific imagery found here on earth, all is not in equilibrium amongst the photography community on the Red Planet.
It's fitting that in our modern age the two brightest stars of the photo world should be robotic. However, while one of them is a true visionary producing images worthy of oversized, hard-bound coffee table books, the other is a free-riding loafer whose work possess, at best, flash-in-the-pan cleverness, but often lapses into tired gimmicks which seem designed to compensate for a lack of artistic ability and a minimal respect for the medium or subject.
NASA refers to its two Mars rovers, Opportunity and Spirit, as twins, bringing comparisons of the Capa brothers to mind. Instead of two photographers in possession of comparable skills showing us different sides of the same world, however, we have a contrast in talent. Opportunity is a master of its craft, displaying the full knowledge of the rules of its art form, even in its cunning ability to occasionally bend those rules, often with wondrous results. Spirit, meanwhile, muddles in vapid self-consciousness, usually abandoned in the trenches of undergraduate programs at small, Northwest liberal arts colleges. Spirit's use of obscure angles, extreme close-ups and a grotesque use of color saturation are pedestrian, and it indulges itself in an unearned, over-the-top indignant artistic temperament, pettily shutting down and refusing to work as its colleague and sibling, Opportunity, lands on the planet.
As these two up-and-coming photographers launch their careers among the Martian dunes, let us examine their work thus far, and observe the strikingly opposing trajectories of these two media darlings. One will be remembered. The other will diminish into a trivia question for game shows.
On January 4, Spirit launched its career with a crude mosaic baring the self-congratulatory title, "First Look at Spirit on Mars." Seemingly happy with the lack of competition on the planet's dust-blown terrain, Mars' premier landscape photographer falls into producing a pretentious set of self-portraits that are hardly on par with the Catherine Opie "alter-ego" series Spirit so obviously seeks to emulate in its own works dubbed "First Look at Spirit at Landing Site," "View from Above Spirit on Mars," and the obtuse "View in Front of Spirit." Oh, it's always about you, isn't it Spirit? These images are not unlike the juvenile attempts of pretenders who insist on being called artists because they produced grainy photographs of their own feet that were displayed in some trendy coffee house in their hometown for a week.
Over the subsequent days and weeks, Spirit has the exclusive luxury of being the sole camera jockey to capture the mystique of its surroundings. But the photographer seems to be adrift and unable to tackle the subject. Spirit is intimidated by Mars and cowers into the comfortable realm of moderate technical proficiency. Unable to offer up a single image that says "this, ladies and gentlemen of Earth, is the real Mars," Spirit offers us 3-D stereo images to distract us from poor composition. Saturated colors and strange cropping techniques are employed to counter the lack of clarity and purpose that runs though Spirit's work. It's as though Spirit believes it can make up for its artistic shortcomings in the darkroom. While finding perspectives and angles that offer a wink and a nod to Chris Simpson's "Sun and Sand II" and "Atacama Desert," Spirit's work contains no stamp truly of its own.
It has often been opined that the United States should send a poet into space. While those who parrot this quip are really pleading for something more elegant than Neil Armstrong's clumsy, over-rehearsed "one small step for man" one-liner, that call might have finally been answered, at least in the visual arts, with the arrival of Opportunity on the Martian photography scene.
In Daisaku Ikeda's poetic homage to Cornell and Robert Capa, "Eternal Voyagers toward the Light of Peace," he writes, "A photograph is a consciousness painting, the instant's art that opens on the unbound vistas of the inner life." That was inspired in equal measure by the works of both brothers. It would be difficult to imagine such praise divided half and half between the twin shutterbugs of Mars. When Opportunity landed Jan. 24, selecting the road "less traveled by," on the opposite side of the planet from its sibling, Spirit went into a snit, shutting down and refusing to submit any more of its work. Almost immediately, Spirit apologists at NASA rushed to the premadonna's defense, saying "we should expect we will not be restoring functionality to Spirit for a significant amount of time - many days, perhaps two weeks - even in the best of circumstances," and "we believe, based on everything we know now, we can sustain the current state of the spacecraft from a health standpoint for an indefinite amount of time." Yeah, right. These cover stories as transparent as Spirit's deplorable aping of Robert Glenn Ketchum's work for its own "They of the Great Rocks" series.
As Spirit wallows in self pity, Opportunity astounds from the get-go with a run of crisp black and white offerings. Consider one of its first images, "Meridiani Planium in View." So sharp and barren, the photo's composition also pays subtle homage to the "Rule of Three." On the left, the rover's mast is seen in its stowed position, but unlike Spirit's blatant self-promotion by centering itself in the image, Opportunity uses part of it's own body as a gentle lead for the eye, guiding it back toward the photograph's center. And while its close-up work (specifically with "Meridiani Soil" I and II) shows a playful agility at balancing darkness and light to reveal pattern, it is when Opportunity shows us its breadth by taking "First Look Behind Opportunity," using only available lighting and its hazard-identification camera, that we are truly amazed. Utilizing the fisheye lens in the way it was intended, Opportunity renders what could have been a banal landscape, if captured by a lesser, with the intimacy and erotic electricity of Christian Coigny's high-contrast black and white "Le Reveil" nude. Playing with light and shadow, Opportunity titillates more with what it obscures than through what it reveals.
And while Opportunity displays informed talent with its use of muted colors to show the stark reality and melancholy of vast Martian vistas and the solitary nobility of the simple, reddish-brown, wind-eroded stone, it is the magnificent "First Panoramic Look at Meridiani Planum, Mars" that will become Opportunity's signature work. With the sharpness, depth of field and the utter sense of contentedness it portrays, This 360-degree vista would not suffer in a gallery hanging among contemporaries, even next to the likes of Ansel Adems' "Mt. McKinley, Clouds."
NASA has sent two rovers to the Red Planet. Spirit arrived first, and overcome with fear and anxiety about the task at hand, turned in on itself, announcing "I am on Mars." Opportunity came second, allowed the alien environs to take the lead, let itself be consumed by the landscape, and through the timeless images it beams home it proclaims, "Mars is on me!"
The Complete Beagle
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        William Watson Denlinger
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        The New Complete Beagle
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            1998 Brookman United States, United Nations & Canada Stamps & Postal Collectibles: Featuring Specialized Listing of State Duck & Indian Reservation Stamps ... Booklets U. S. Souvenir Cards, Pages, Panels
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                ASIN: 0970254423

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                "This long anticipated and much needed reference book on native Hawaiian Koa is packed with valuable information, backed by solid research and long term field projects. It is a must for anyone who is interested in Hawaiian plants, as well as for those of us who are eager to grow and restore our beloved koa. With the help of this book, we may all reach our goal of sustainable healthy koa forests. It is easy and enjoyable to read, and to find the information that you seek. Hawaiian names and explanations are a great feature. There are fascinating personal accounts, sharing experiences on cherishing and growing koa by experts including a forester, a botanist, a woodworker, a farmer, a naturalist and a navigator. Excellent photos reinforce the messages shared in the text. This book is fabulous. Let’s Grow Koa!" — Heidi Leianuenue Bornhorst, Director of Honolulu Botanical Gardens and author of Growing Native Hawaiian Plants Learning more about the wonderful koa tree is the kuleana (privilege and responsibility) of everyone who loves Hawaii. This easy to read, informative and inspiring book will show you how to: Understand what happened to the koa forests Plan for a successful koa planting Gather seeds Grow strong seedlings in the nursery Plant seedlings in the ground Take care of the trees as they grow Foster the genetic diversity of this majestic tree for future generations

                Grand Illusions New Decorating--Techniques, Ideas and Inspiration for Creating a Fresh Look
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                  Grand Illusions New Decorating--Techniques, Ideas and Inspiration for Creating a Fresh Look
                  Nick Ronald , and David Roberts
                  Manufacturer: Trafalgar Square Publishing
                  ProductGroup: Book
                  Binding: Hardcover

                  GeneralGeneral | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
                  DecoratingDecorating | Interior Design | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
                  GeneralGeneral | Interior Design | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
                  StyleStyle | Interior Design | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
                  GeneralGeneral | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
                  ASIN: 1570761221

                  Book Description

                  From the authors of Grand Illusions, here is new decorating at its very best, introducing a fresh fusion of styles into the home. Featuring 180 color photos and 40 projects for furniture, fabric, walls, floors, and accessories. This is a book for the way we decorate today, drawing inspiration from a wealth of sources to create a rich, innovative style of our own. Mixing and matching with exhilarating flair, Nick Ronald and David Roberts capture the essence of this new eclecticism. Using color as a starting point, they focus on four distinct decorating styles--Mediterranean, Eastern, Scandinavian, and Natural. Within each style, they offer marvelous ideas and projects, from hand-stamped muslin, cane shelving, and Indian-style shutters to color-washed walls, mosaic table tops, and a faux terracotta floor. Throughout, Nick and David debunk complicated techniques, offering clear, simple instructions for painting, finishing, and fabric treatments. Brimming with vibrant color photos as well as templates and motifs, this is a glorious guide to new decorating. 144 pp 8 1/2 x 11 180 color photos

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                  2. The Essential Puppy (The Essential Guides)
                  3. The Hedgehog: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet
                  4. The Howell Book of Puppy Raising
                  5. The Injury-Free Horse: Hands-on Methods for Maintaining Soundness & Health
                  6. The Inspired Aquarium: Ideas and Instruction for Living with Aquariums
                  7. The Miniature Schnauzer: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet (Your Happy Healthy Pet)
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                  10. The New Rottweiler: Essential Reading for Owners, Breeders and Judges

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