Animals Eating: How Animals Chomp, Chew, Slurp and Swallow (Animal Behavior)
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    		Animals Eating: How Animals Chomp, Chew, Slurp and Swallow (Animal Behavior)
    Pamela Hickman
    Manufacturer: Kids Can Press, Ltd.
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    ASIN: 1550745794

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    Imagine eating only one big meal a year like an anaconda, or living on a totally liquid diet like a vampire bat! Whether their diets include plants, insects or other creatures, animals eat in some weird and fascinating ways. Kids can investigate a variety of animals, birds, insects, fish and reptiles -- from the unique tongue of the anteater to the amazing digestive system of the crocodile. Examples of carnivores, herbivores and scavengers from around the world are included. Containing lots of interesting facts, activities and easy-to-do experiments, Animals Eating takes a resourceful approach to exploring animal life.

    Polymer Clay Surface Design Recipes: 100 Mixed-Media Techniques Plus Project Ideas
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    • Inspiring
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    Recipes for Surfaces
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    • A Treasury of Ideas for Home Design - Beautifully Illustrated
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    		 Recipes for Surfaces
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    Book Description

    Recipes for Surfaces is a one-of-a-kind handbook that enables you to master decorative painting techniques for walls, floors, ceilings, and furniture as simply as you would use a cookbook: Just follow the recipes. This easy guide will show you how to create a variety of exciting surface effects for your entire home using the basic methods so popular today -- sponging, ragging, stippling, color washing, spattering, dragging, stenciling, marbling, and wood graining.

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    Recipes for Surfaces is organized for practical use, with clear concise explanations and full-color illustrations. Part One gives background and specific information on color, paint, and preparation, including advice on stocking up on the right paints and brushes, how to ready surfaces for painting, and how to store paints once you've finished. Helpful color charts supplement the discussion of how to mix and match colors for your taste and needs.

    The second part of the book illustrates many painting techniques. Each of over 40 recipes can be followed independently and is rated accorded to difficulty from easy to more complex. The recipe itself includes a list of paints and other materials needed, tips on surfaces best suited to the technique, and painting advice -- all in a simple-to-read chart right on the page. Detailed step-by-step instructions outline each method and its variations with full-color photographs. As you master a fundamental recipe -- such as sponging on -- you can create many different looks, trying different colors and patterns with the same technique or combining various techniques to suit your needs.

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    5 out of 5 stars A Treasury of Ideas for Home Design - Beautifully Illustrated.......2007-07-17

    I am a professional engineer serving as my own architect and general contractor for the conversion of a three-story building into offices for my firm plus a luxury apartment on the top floor. I am also an avid collector of engineering, technology, and architecture/design books with a 1,000-volume personal library.

    I wanted to be sure that I explored a wide range of choices as I selected finished for office and apartment spaces in my building. I expected and received in this book a good overview for all of the common finishes used in residential spaces. I also received, much to my delight, a treasury of design ideas in the more than 200 color photos and illustrations. This is not a do-it-yourself handbook found at the checkout stand at Home Depot, although those are valuable as well. Although written for those designing living spaces, much of the information is useful for those designing office and other commercial spaces.

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    5 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for Faux Painting.......2006-06-14

    A woman that is passionately in love with Italy and all things Italian writes this review. Once I traveled to Italy, I wanted to bring that look back to my home. I purchased this book about 10 years ago and I still refer to it regularly. This book covers many techniques not just those that would apply to Italy.

    I am an avid do-it-yourselfer and love to do things around the house. As an amateur artist, I take photographs and paint landscapes; I think that this book is a good as taking a class in faux painting. I feel that the directions and photographs of the various techniques are very well documented.

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    PART I - General Information
    Intro - What Decorative Painting Can Do For You
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    PART II - Recipes
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    The recipe for copper verdigris is very easy to replicate. This is one of my personal favorites. Likewise the bronze verdigris is also an easy look to achieve. The faux stone requires much more of an artistic sense to get right than the book suggests. Don't be frustrated if it does look right the first time. If you keep practicing, and look at some natural stone for inspiration, you will get it. I found that much of the difference is in the shadowing and highlighting. The suggested techniques for marbling and extremely are easy to replicate. This might be one of the easier techniques in the book to master. The fresco technique is one that I have used over and over in my home. The author suggests using regular paint and glaze. I found that using lime paint (available at most larger hardware stores) makes a more convincing end result.

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    I would recommend this book to anyone that wants to try out some faux painting on his or her walls or their furniture. If you are artistically inclined this book will inspire you to get out the paints and change something in your home. I also recommend the first book in this series "Recipes for Surfaces". There is some duplication, but it also includes techniques not covered in this volume. I have found that the most important aspect to achieving the look that you want is to have a clear idea of what you want the end result to look like. In my case, I use photographs of Italian houses to achieve a similar look. I cannot emphasize enough how important photographs are to recreating a look. Please don't skip the photographs; it will make a huge difference.

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    5 out of 5 stars Great book for the beginning decorative painter.......2006-06-14

    A woman that is passionately in love with Italy and all things Italian writes this review. Once I traveled to Italy, I wanted to bring that look back to my home. I purchased this book almost 15 years ago and I still refer to it regularly. This book covers many techniques not just those that would apply to Italy.

    I am an avid do-it-yourselfer and love to do things around the house. As an amateur artist, I take photographs and paint landscapes, I think that this book is a good as taking a beginners class in faux painting. I feel that the directions and photographs of the various techniques are very well documented.

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    PART I - General Information
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    If you are not an artist, the first chapter on color is very handy. It teaches about the color wheel, the colors that harmonize, classic color schemes, and color moods. The chapter regarding tools is also very helpful. It explains the difference between oil and water based products and the advantages and disadvantages of both. There is also a nice discussion of brushes and other tools that is very useful for the beginning artist. I enjoyed the chapter on making your own stencils and the specifics of marbling and wood graining.

    Regarding stencils I would recommend using acetate and a stencil burner, it works better for me that the cardstock and exacto knife that is shown in the book. I would also recommend that you buy some poster board or use large pieces of cardboard to practice your techniques. I find this to be much easier than going to the wall immediately. Also, once I find a color combination and technique that I like I replicate the process on a small (8 x 11) piece of luan plywood. On the back of this plywood I document which paint colors and glazes I have used and which tools and techniques. I also document the rooms or furniture on which this combination was used. That way if I need to touch up something I know what I did the first time.

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    Happy painting!

    4 out of 5 stars Comprehensive book for the beginner and pro alike.......2002-10-26

    This is an excellent book for the beginner and professional alike. Good info on how to do all the "basic" faux finishes. Perfect to add to any library.
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    5 out of 5 stars Great Basic Reference.......2001-09-27

    Along with the companion book, Decorative Paint Finishes Made Simple, this is one of my core reference books for faux finished paint surfaces. Pictures are useful, instructions clear . . . a must-have for the faux painter's library.
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            CLEMSON EXTENSION
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            Binding: Pamphlet
            ASIN: B000RAW3YY

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              Mindy and Finkelstein, Pierre - Text; Photographs by Cenicola, Tony Drucker
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                      5 out of 5 stars Feels like your there.......2000-05-30

                      This book gives a vivid image of the Roman gardens. It explores the much unknown archeology of agriculture. The beautiful photographs illustrate the precision and wonder of Roman gardening, or the remains of it. I highly recomend this book to anyone interested in Pompeii or just the average run of the mill gardener.
                      Beyond the Garden of Epicurus: The Utopics of the Ideal Roman Villa.: An article from: Utopian Studies
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                        		Beyond the Garden of Epicurus: The Utopics of the Ideal Roman Villa.: An article from: Utopian Studies
                        Annette Lucia Giesecke
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                        This survey of marriage, work and motherhood examines modern issues in work and home life when both members of a couple work, considering the issues which face women who seek importance both at home and in careers. Chapters blend personal experiences and humor with hard-hitting insights on how women can rear children in a work-oriented world.

                        5 out of 5 stars A professional mom imparts wisdom to our daughters........1999-11-06

                        Finally! A female author with experience debunks some of the happily-ever-after and Supermom myths that pull women with families and jobs in over their heads. Karen Engberg is a doctor with four kids who describes with great intelligence the "territory between the rock and the hard place" that so many of us find ourselves inhabiting after a few years of marriage, a couple of kids and the job of our younger dreams. Beyond simply describing that territory, however, she offers delightful pearls of wisdom rather than finger-shaking advice.

                        One of the great things about this book is that it can be cracked open to whichever chapter interests you on a given day. There's a parallel here: women's lives, as Engberg points out, are almost never linear; neither is this book. In some ways, reading it was like talking with a friend during a morning walk: it's informal, personal and reminiscent while at the same time being informative and accurate.

                        I keep "It's Not the Glass Ceiling, It's the Sticky Floor," on my bedside table to peruse at length when I can't sleep or to take in small doses when I'm too exhausted to keep my eyes open for more than a few minutes. In either case, unlike so much of what's written in this genre, I always feel better for the insight it provides.

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                        2. Aquatic Toxicology and Water Quality Management (Advances in Environmental Science and Technology)
                        3. Art of Being a Wolf
                        4. Aviary birds in colour
                        5. Bats and Their Homes (Animal Habitats)
                        6. BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO GERMAN SHEPHERDS
                        7. Borzoi Champions, 1952-1981
                        8. Bouvier Des Flanders: The Dogs of Flandres
                        9. Brown Bear: Giant of the Mountains (Animal Close-Ups)
                        10. Cal 99 Stokes Birds

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