19 Ways to Survive

Synopsis 19 Ways to Survive: Small-Business Strategies for a Tough Economy shows small-business owners how to avoid falling victim to downturns in the economy. This is not a book on economic theory. It's a practical guide for small business owners demonstrating hands-on techniques and ideas that you can start using today. Authors Philip and Lynn […]

Beekeeping

From the Publisher: Whether it?s moving to the country and starting over on a whim or just making city- living a little simpler and easier, the ?Green? movement is changing the way we live our day- to-day lives. Skyhorse's Self-Sufficiency handbooks are meant to help?offering advice on what to do, how to do it better, […]

Eaarth : a Survivor's Guide

Library Journal "Scale matters," warns environmental author McKibben (The End of Nature) in his latest. He starts by delivering the bad news?the oceans are acidifying, the sea level is rising, and the change in temperature is killing us through flood, drought, famine, storm, and disease. And it's not just the environment that's being destroyed?increased insurance […]

Contact!

Library Journal British journalist Morris has traveled for decades, writing her way around the world. Now best known as a travel writer, she here collects vignettes of encounters with and observations of people from her numerous adventures and assignments. Varying from a few sentences to a few paragraphs, each vignette paints a picture or tells […]

But I Trusted You : and Other True Cases

Synopsis THE MOST FATAL MISTAKE? Trust. It's the foundation of any enduring relationship between friends, lovers, spouses, and families. But when trust is placed in those who are not what they seem, the results can be deadly. Ann Rule, who famously chronicled her own shocking experience of unknowingly befriending a sociopath in The Stranger Beside […]

130 Projects to Get You Into Filmmaking

Library Journal: If the screenplay equation of one page equaling one minute of screen time can be applied, then Grove, a producer and founder of Raindance Film Festival and the British Independent Film Awards, couldn't provide a more tightly packed and potent two-hour narrative?this may be the most engaging and visually demonstrative introduction to filmmaking […]

The Play That Changed My Life

Added by the Lisbon Public Library Board of Trustees in memory of Harold Haywood. The New York Times – Patrick Healy ?a valuable new collection of essays and interviews from the American Theater Wing, founder of the Tony Awards and a sponsor of theatrical education programs. Anyone working in theater probably would have something to […]