Nature, recreation and sports

The Treatment Of Brewing Water

by Irving C. Ackerman

Brewing has probably almost as ancient a tradition of service to mankind as the horse. Throughout the ages the process must have remained virtually unchanged-controlled by a skill learnt by experience and passed...

Weldon's Practical Needlework Comprising - Knitting, Crochet, Drawn Thread Work, Netting, Knitted Edgings & Shawls, Mountmellick Embroidery. with Full

by Anon.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern...

The Children's Busy Book: 365 Creative Learning Games and Activities to Keep Your 6- to 10-Year-Old Busy

by Trish Kuffner

365 fun, creative activities to stimulate your child every day of the year. The Children's Busy Book is from the line of all-time #1 selling line of Busy Books.

365 fun, creative activities to stimulate your...

Imperial Dreams: Tracking the Imperial Woodpecker Through the Wild Sierra Madre

by Tim Gallagher

Explorer and naturalist Tim Gallagher is obsessed with rare birds. A decade ago, Gallagher was one of the rediscoverers of the legendary ivory-billed woodpecker, which most scientists believed had been extinct...

Quiet Beauty: The Japanese Gardens of North America

by Kendall H. Brown & David M. Cobb

Quiet Beauty: Japanese Gardens of North America is an extraordinary look at the most beautiful—and serene—gardens in the United States and Canada. Most Japanese garden books look to the gardens of Japan. Quiet...

Feeling at Home

by Alexandra Stoddard

Most decorating books omit the most important element of the home: you. Does your home reflect who you really are? Feeling at Home focuses on this most essential aspect of decorating: creating a home that is...

Man 2.0 Engineering the Alpha

by John Romaniello & Adam Bornstein

Are you a guy who's interested in building rock hard muscle, erasing your belly fat, boosting your testosterone, and having more mind-blowing sex than you thought possible?

If so, then Man 2.0: Engineering the...

The Big, Bad Book of Beasts

by Michael Largo

The world's wildest collection of animal knowledge and lore!

Lions, and tigers, and bears . . . and dinosaurs, dragons, and monsters. Oh my!

For hundreds of years, the most popular books in the Western world next...

Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods

by Christine Byl

A lively and lyrical account of one woman’s unlikely apprenticeship on a national-park trail crew and what she discovers about nature, gender, and the value of hard work

Christine Byl first encountered the...

My Beloved Brontosaurus

by Brian Switek

One of Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Spring Science Books

Selected by Apple’s iBookstore as one of the best books of April

Dinosaurs, with their awe-inspiring size, terrifying claws and teeth, and otherworldly...

Kid Pickers

by Mike Wolfe, Lily Sprengelmeyer & Mike Right

The star of the hit show American Pickers shares his love of treasure-hunting with kids.

Mike Wolfe’s love for “picking” started with old bikes, cigar boxes, and other items people may have called “junk.”...

Wolves in the Land of Salmon

by David Moskowitz

Wolves. We love them, idolize them, and are fascinated by them. We also hate them, fear them, and blame them. The wolf's relationship with humans is complex and can be emotionally wrought, depending on whether...

Sewing for Kids: Easy Projects to Sew at Home

by Alice Butcher

An exciting collection of easy sewing projects for children aged 5-11, including toys, decorations and accessories that kids will really love to make. Your children will have great fun learning important sewing...

Shapely Bodies: The Image of Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century France

by Christine A. Jones

French artisans began trials to reproduce fine Chinese porcelain in the 1660s. That challenge proved impossible, but inspired radical forms of experimentation. Potters invented artificial alternatives to Chinese...

The Basketball Draft Fact Book: A History of Professional Basketball's College Drafts

by Robert D. Bradley

The Basketball Draft Fact Book is the first detailed and comprehensive listing of all professional basketball drafts in the history of the sport since the first draft in 1947. Each season’s draft is summarized,...

Health and Nutrition for Dogs and Cats: A Guide for Pet Parents

by David G. Wellock & Jim Walker

If cats and dogs could write an instruction manual for their humans, Health and Nutrition for Dogs and Cats would be the result. While many cat and dog lovers want to feed and care for their pets as best they...

Dracopedia The Bestiary: An Artist's Guide to Creating Mythical Creatures

by William O'Connor

Unleash the Beasts!

For millennia historians, artists and scientists have chronicled their ideas and discoveries of mythological and magical monsters in encyclopedias known as bestiaries. From Asia to America,...

101 Ways to Stitch Craft Create for All Occasions: Birthdays, Weddings, Christmas, Easter, Halloween & Many More...

by Various Contributors

Want to make gorgeous homemade gifts, cakes, cards and decorations? This stunning collection of all-new projects includes something for every occasion with a wide range of crafts to enjoy, from sewing and knitting...

Foinavon: The Story of the Grand National's Biggest Upset

by David Owen

It was the upset to end all upsets. On 8 April 1967 at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, a 100-1 outsider in peculiar blinkers sidestepped chaos extraordinary even by the Grand National's standards and won the...

Gardening in Pyjamas: Horticultural enlightenment for obsessive dawn raiders

by Helen Yemm

This is the perfect book for you if you are one of the many people who feel that gardening could be your ultimate pleasure if only you knew just that little bit more about it. The Daily Telegraph's much-loved...