The secret horsepower race: Western Front fighter engine development

By Douglas, Calum E

Publishing Date: [2022]

Classification: 600

Call Number: 629.134 DOU

"The piston engines that powered Second World War fighters, the men who designed them, and the secret intelligence work carried out by both Britain and Germany would determine the outcome of the first global air war. Advanced jet engines may have been in development but every militarily significant air battle was fought by piston-engined fighters. Whoever designed the most powerful piston engines would win air superiority and with it the ability to dictate the course of the war as a whole."

Hybrid: the history and science of plant breeding

By Kingsbury, Noel

Publishing Date: 2009

Classification: 600

Call Number: 631.52 KIN

"Starting his story at the birth of agriculture, Kingsbury traces the history of human attempts to make plants more reliable, productive, and nutritious--a story that owes as much to accident and error as to innovation and experiment. Drawing on historical and scientific accounts, as well as a rich trove of anecdotes, Kingsbury shows how scientists, amateur breeders, and countless anonymous farmers and gardeners slowly caused the evolutionary pressures of nature to be supplanted by those of human needs--and thus led us from sparse wild grasses to succulent corn cobs, and from mealy, white wild carrots to the juicy vegetables we enjoy today. At the same time, Kingsbury reminds us that contemporary controversies over the Green Revolution and genetically modified crops are not new; plant breeding has always had a political dimension. A powerful reminder of the complicated and ever-evolving relationship between humans and the natural world, Hybrid will give readers a thoughtful new perspective on--and a renewed appreciation of--the cereal crops, vegetables, fruits, and flowers that are central to our way of life."--Jacket.

Grow vegetables

By Buckingham, Alan

Publishing Date: 2008

Classification: 600

Call Number: 635 BUC

From the Publisher: Home-grown vegetables are fresh, healthy, and inexpensive. Here is the manual for growing your own, whether on your balcony, in your apartment, or in a garden, large or small. Even if you have only a few hours a week, Grow Vegetables teaches you the tools and methods you need to produce your own vegetables.

The market gardener: a successful grower's handbook for small-scale organic farming

By Fortier, Jean-Martin

Publishing Date: [2014]

Classification: 600

Call Number: 635.0484 FOR

Grow better not bigger with proven low-tech, human-scale, biointensive farming methods.

Flora: the gardener's bible : over 20,000 plants

Publishing Date: 2004

Classification: 600

Call Number: 635.9

Variegated trees & shrubs: the illustrated encyclopedia

By Houtman, Ronald

Publishing Date: 2004

Classification: 600

Call Number: 635.9 HOU

"Written under the sponsorship of the Netherlands' prestigious Royal Boskoop Horticultural Society, this book describes in detail nearly 800 variegated trees, shrubs, and vines available internationally from nurseries. Author Ronald Houtman describes the origins of variegated plants, and offers complete horticultural information, including cold hardiness and cultural needs, on choices that gardeners should add to their wish lists. Painstaking in the accuracy of its nomenclature - variegated plants are notorious for being misnamed in commerce - this volume also includes a scientific discussion of the reasons for variegation as well as an essay on how to design with variegated plants in any garden." "More than 760 garden photographs have been assembled from the author's collection and from contributors around the world."--BOOK JACKET.

Garden plants of Japan

By Levy, Ran

Publishing Date: 2004

Classification: 600

Call Number: 635.9 LEV

"Japanese plants have had an unmistakable influence on the gardens of the world. Who can imagine gardens without flowering cherries, hostas, Japanese maples, or magnolias? For all the popularity of these plants in international gardens, however, few gardeners know the full story of Japanese plants - their history and uses in gardens in Japan, their horticultural merits for gardens of all kinds, even the meaning and symbolism of their native names. Now for the first time, a color encyclopedia provides an authoritative overview of the Japanese garden flora."

Tiny + wild: build a small-scale meadow anywhere

By Gardner, Graham Laird

Publishing Date: 2023

Classification: 600

Call Number: 635.9676 GAR

"Tiny & Wild is the essential guide to creating a small-scale mini meadow that's filled with low-maintenance plants to please both pollinators and people"--

Dog man: an uncommon life on a faraway mountain

By Sherrill, Martha

Publishing Date: 2009, 2008

Classification: 600

Call Number: 636.73 SHE

Chronicles the fierce determination of individualist Morie Sawataishi to ensure the survival of the Akita species after all but sixteen dogs were slaughtered for the Japanese war effort, describing his radically unconventional lifestyle.

Living the 1.5 degree lifestyle: why individual climate action matters more than ever

By Alter, Lloyd

Publishing Date: [2021]

Classification: 600

Call Number: 640.286 ALT

"Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do and shows how to slash your own carbon footprint by 80% to 2.5 tonnes per year by choosing a life of quality over quantity, and sufficiency over efficiency, as we race to save our only home from catastrophic heating."--

Lobscouse & spotted dog: which it's a gastronomic companion to the Aubrey/Maturin novels

By Grossman, Anne Chotzinoff

Publishing Date: 2000

Classification: 600

Call Number: 641.5 GRO

"Celebrate the joys of Patrick O'Brien's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series with this delightful cookbook, full of the food and drink that so often complement Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin's travels. Collected here are authentic and practical recipes for such eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centiru dishes as burgoo, drownede baby, sea-pie, solomongundy, jam roly-poly, toasted cheese, sucking pig, treacle-dowdy and, of course, spotted dog. Also included are historical notes on the origins of the dishes as wel;l as sections on the preparing of roasts, puddings and raised pies"--Publisher's description

Christmas cooking for dummies

By Wilson, Dede

Publishing Date: [2001]

Classification: 600

Call Number: 641.568 WIL

An introduction to holiday cuisine shows how to plan and prepare for Christmas meals, whip up a variety of Christmas treats from five-cheese spinach lasagna to chocolate truffle tart, and make decorations and gifts in the kitchen.

Zaitoun: recipes from the Palestinian kitchen

By Khan, Yasmin

Publishing Date: 2019

Classification: 600

Call Number: 641.5956 KHA

"Oil from the olive -- which is known in Arabic as zaitoun -- flows in abundance in the kitchens of Palestine. Yasmin Khan's collection of recipes from this ancient region includes herb-filled salads, quick pickles, fragrant soups, tender meat dishes, and rich desserts; and surrounding them, a chorus of stories from those who live, love, and cook with Palestine in their hearts."--Back cover.

Bugialli on pasta

By Bugialli, Giuliano

Publishing Date: 2000

Classification: 600

Call Number: 641.822 BUG

Town Inc: grow your business : save your town : leave your legacy

By Davis, Andrew M

Publishing Date: [2015]

Classification: 600

Call Number: 659.2 DAV

"In cities across America, business leaders are telling uniquely compelling stories to lure other businesses and a willing workforce to relocate to their towns. Their towns flourish and their businesses prosper... Your town can become just as famous and just as prosperous. Learn and use Town Inc.'s proven formula to create a compelling story that will fuel your town's and your business' long-lasting prosperity. The key is to stake a unique claim that will be easy for local visionaries, business owners, and citizens to embrace and to market across the country and around the world."--Page [4] of cover.

Cabin: off-the-grid adventures with a clueless craftsman

By Hutchison, Patrick

Publishing Date: 2024

Classification: 600

Call Number: 690.8028 HUT

"A memoir of the author's journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based on his wildly popular Outside Magazine piece. Wit's End isn't just a state of mind. It's an address, for a run-down off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-upper Patrick Hutchison purchased on a whim in the mossy woods of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state. To say Hutchison didn't know what he was getting into is no more an exaggeration than to say he's a man with nearly zero carpentry skills. Well, used to be. You can learn a lot over 7 years or renovations. CABIN is the story of those renovations, but it's also a love story; of a place, of possibilities, and of the process of renovation, of seeing what could be instead of what is. It is a book for those who know what it's like to bite off more than you can chew, or who desperately wish to"--