Holmes and Watson take to the skies in the quest of the nefarious Von Bork and his weapon of dread...A night sky aerial engagement with the deadly Fokker nearly claims three brilliant lives...And an historic alliance is formed, whereby Baker Street's enigmatic mystery-solver and Greystoke, the noble[...]
In a delicious slice of sci-fi whimsy that sits cleverly alongside Verne's original tale, Phileas Fogg's epic global journey is not the product of a daft wager but, in fact, a covert mission to chase down the elusive Captain Nemo - who is none other than Professor Moriarty.
A secret alie[...]
Three men and a woman onboard a timeship travel from 2070 AD to 12,000 BC - a journey that could never be repeated. For the passengers, all anthropologists, it was a once-in-a-million-lifetimes expedition...a chance to study primitive man as modern man never could. But none of them was prepared for [...]
"My Mother is an Ape. My Father is God. I come from the Land of Ghosts". So sings Ras Tyger, Philip Jose Farmer's monumental incarnation of a modern-day Jungle Lord. Savage, heroic, and beautiful, he is master of the world. And he rules his kingdom with sex, savagery, and sublime innocence. Until on[...]
Grow your own cut flowers and you can fill your house with the gorgeous colours and heavenly scents of your favourite blooms, knowing that they haven't travelled thousands of miles - and you can make money while you do it! Combining boundless passion with down-to-earth guidance and practical advice,[...]
There are twenty million acres of lawns in North America. In their current form, these unproductive expanses of grass represent a significant financial and environmental cost. However, viewed through a different lens, they can also be seen as a tremendous source of opportunity. Access to land is a m[...]
Based around a family-farm-scale production that can be operated by 1-3 people, in fewer than 40 total hours per week, with sufficient income potential to sustain a family.The only comprehensive guide to commercial cold-water aquaponic systems for temperate and cold climates, focusing on trout, a va[...]
This book gives advice on growing vegetables, and then provides ample instruction on how to prepare or preserve the results. The perfect resource for both beginners and experts in America's No. 1 hobby: gardening.[...]
Be Inspired by the Stories The 1922, The Farmer's Wife magazine posed this question to their readers: "If you had a daughter of marriageable age, would you, in light of your own experience, have her marry a farmer?" The magazine at the time had 750,000 subscribers, and received over 7,000 letters. T[...]
Foodies and environmentally minded folks often struggle to understand and articulate the fundamental differences between the farming and food systems they endorse and those promoted by Monsanto and friends. With visceral stories and humor from Salatin's half-century as a "lunatic" farmer, Salatin co[...]
The Farmer and the Grill is filled with recipes specially devised to bring out the best in nutritious, Earth-friendly, pasture-raised meats. In her first book, The Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook, author and livestock farmer Shannon Hayes introduced a radically simple concept: sustainable practices like p[...]
These simple yet powerful Children's Spirit Animal Cards by best-selling author Steven D. Farmer offer children ages 6 and above the opportunity to choose cards that deliver beautiful, age-appropriate messages of love and guidance to help them as they develop and grow. The kid-friendly messages incl[...]
Will Allen is no ordinary farmer. A former basketball star, he's as tall as his truck, and he can hold a cabbage--or a basketball--in one hand. But what is most special about Farmer Will is that he can see what others can't see. When he looked at an abandoned city lot in Milwaukee he saw a huge tabl[...]
Volume 3 of The New Farmer s Almanac 360 pages of original agrarian content, essays, cartoons, imagery and historical snippets harnesses the wisdom of over 120 contributors from our community of new farmers and ranchers. This volume explores the theme of The Commons, drawing from folklore, mathemati[...]
In the fourth volume of this loved publication, the Greenhorns' diverse collaborators have created yet another delightful miscellany of writings and artwork--centered, this time round, on diversification, in all its forms. The New Farmer's Almanac, Vol IV features essays and poems from dozens of far[...]
Contractor's Guide to LEED Certification is the consummate source of LEED information for anyone in or entering the construction industry. Unlike other LEED books that focus on the totality of LEED compliance, this one-of-a-kind resource focuses on the narrower topic of construction-related requirem[...]
How to create the world's new urban futureWith the majority of the world's population shifting to urban centres, urban planning--the practice of land-use and transportation planning to help shape cities structurally, economically, and socially--has become an increasingly vital profession. In "Urban [...]
Meme si aujourd'hui elle est arrivee au sommet, ses debuts ont ete bien difficiles. Mylene Farmer est connue pour ses textes tres recherches et ses clips hors-normes. Tout ca lui a permis de creer son propre univers avec ses codes, ses references...La chanteuse a choisie de ne s'exprimer que dans se[...]