The Fifteen Mintue Rule sets out to help us tackle those things that we are always putting off: starting an exercise regime, looking for a new job, doing our tax returns or learning a new skill. Or perhaps doing something to improve the quality of life, by learning to fight depression or confront an annoying habit. Perhaps it's simply clearing the huge pile of clutter from your desk. Whatever it is, all you need is fifteen minutes and before you know it, some weeks later, you have accomplished a task you couldn't bring yourself to start.  The hardest thing to overcome when you're trying to start something daunting and new is to actually start. That mountain of paperwork in front of you that looks like it will take hours to go through and hours of mind-numbing sorting is hard to contemplate for most - but fifteen minutes isn't. Fifteen minutes is manageable and can bring minor and major results, each one providing satisfaction and a boost in self-esteem. This book is for those people who need instant gratification and also those long-term players who recognise the benefits of consistency and dedication.

15 Minute Rule

Self-Help

Buchanan, Carol

Motivational

Constable Robinson

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Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

North Light Books

Okay, so your budget's ... "challenged." Good thing you're swimming in creativity! But how far can a whole lot of creativity and not much cash take you? Far. And if you need proof - not to mention a mighty dose of inspiration - here's an inside look at the stand-out promotion work of 39 design studios. You'll see more than 150 low-budget (and no-budget) pieces that made clients stop and take notice, including distinctive identity systems; self-promotions that take an unconventional approach; unforgettable humorous and witty self-promotions; special promotions for holidays and other special occasions; pro bono work that does the designer good, too; and creative collaborations between designers and other professionals - such as photographers, illustrators, copywriters and printers. You'll learn how each of these designers (from big name creatives to bright new talents) came up with a strong concept and turned it into a powerful, low-cost promotion. Plus you'll find costs and quantities of pieces (and how the budget was kept in line) ... as well as lots of ideas for making your high-ingenuity investments pay off.

Best Small Budget Self-Promotions

History & Criticism

Readers of the poems of William Wordsworth have likely encountered at least in some small way his love of the garden and gardening. And those who’ve visited the Great Britain’s Lake District know well that Wordsworth was master of more than one craft.Each year, thousands of visitors from throughout the world treat themselves to an enchanting taste of Wordsworthian England on the grounds of Dove Cottage and Rydal Mount. There they find themselves awed by the aesthetic of the poet who designed the functional and pleasure grounds of the Wordsworth family gardens.Whether you’ve ever had the fortune to stroll the very terraces on which Wordsworth paced out his lines for posterity, you can do so again and again in this elegant full-color photo study by Carol and Richard Buchanan.In all of Wordsworth scholarship, no one has so definitively connected the themes of Wordsworth’s poetry to his philosophy of gardening or has truly in one work demonstrated how nature in the raw and rocky Lake District became the soul and backbone of a poet and gardener who would not be enslaved by the tastes of his day.Counterposing poems of the garden and the letters and journals of Wordsworth and his eloquent sister Dorothy, Carol Buchanan, in her quiet and sensitive manner, manages to picture the whole Wordsworth: poet, gardener, and devoted and longsuffering family man. Illuminating Buchanan’s perspective on Wordsworth’s gardens, and on the Lake District that shaped Wordsworth’s sensibilities, are three never-before-published garden plans and more than one hundred breathtaking photographs by Richard Buchanan.The general layout and functional economy of the argument and explanations are very satisfying—like walking through a well ordered garden; and the authority of Buchanan’s discussions of the gardening work and thoughts of the Master is worn so unassumingly that no reader will be intimidated, yet scholarly readers will recognize the thoroughness of her study and be delighted at their own level.—Mark L. Reed

Wordsworth's Gardens

Photography & Video

Texas Tech University Press

Brother Crow, Sister Corn: Traditional American Indian Gardening

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Ten Speed Press+

Describes the history, culture, and daily life of the various Indian tribes living near the Chesapeake Bay and their interactions with the early settlers of Virginia and Maryland.

Indians of the Tidewater Country: Of Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and North Carolina

History

Ruskin, Thelma G.

Ruskin, Robert E.

Americas

Maryland Historical Pr

“It’s rare that you get a writer like Carol Buchanan; an historian with a novelist’s ear capable of rending the individual voices of character into the orchestral narrative of a sweeping story.” Craig Johnson, author of the Longmire series of contemporary mystery novels, and creator of the hit Longmire western drama series now running on Netflix. Gripping,… engaging story of the Old West. Daniel Stark (is a) frontier attorney trying to do right by his family while chasing a fortune in gold. (Outside Bozeman, Winter 2010-2011) Don’t miss Carol Buchanan’s newest novel, The Ghost at Beaverhead Rock, available now. In this third novel of the Vigilante Quartet, lawyer Daniel Stark, the hero of God’s Thunderbolt and The Devil in the Bottle, rescues a man from drowning when the ice breaks on Alder Creek. Recovering, he informs Dan that he represents the Bank of New York and was sent by Dan’s autocratic grandfather to bring him back with his gold to pay the debt Dan’s family owes the bank. Dan delays his return as long as he can. Not only does he not have enough gold to pay the debt in full, he does not want to leave his common law wife, Martha, unprotected for fear her brutal first husband will come back. When at last he returns to New York, he finds that Grandfather has made a pledge to the bank: if Dan cannot repay the loan in full, he will be forced to stay and work in Grandfather’s law firm until the debt is repaid. Seeking a quick way to get enough gold, he takes up trading in the Gold Room on Wall Street where fortunes are made — and more often lost. Where the rising price of gold triggers Confederate sympathizers’ singing raucous choruses of “Dixie.” And President Abraham Lincoln has said he “wished all gold traders were shot in the head.” Finalist for the 2011 Spur for Best Long Novel, Gold under Ice is Book 3 in Carol Buchanan’s Vigilante Quartet. Book 1 is God’s Thunderbolt; Book 2 is The Devil in the Bottle.

Gold Under Ice

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Missouri Breaks Press

“Stark is a compelling, complicated hero, one of several finely drawn characters who bring the Old West to life.” — Kirkus Reviews/Indie Ruffians ruled and murder was tolerated in Alder Gulch, Montana Territory, during 1863 until the Montana Vigilantes established peace and enforced the rule of law. But a year later peace has not come to Daniel Stark, attorney and Vigilante prosecutor. He is accused of murdering his wife's first husband. If he cannot find the true killer, he could well be on trial for his life. Establishing a formal legal system, the Chief Justice of Montana Territory’s new Supreme Court warns the Vigilantes, “No more midnight executions.” Nonetheless, Dan knows that they could decide to try him secretly in the Vigilante tribunal, where the only sentence is death. As he searches for the murderer,, the ghost of a hanged man haunts him. Is it a vision of his fate to come? Is it retribution? Dan tells himself, I do not believe in ghosts. The Ghost at Beaverhead Rock is the fourth book in The Montana Vigilante Series by Spur-Award-winning author Carol Buchanan. Together, God’s Thunderbolt, The Devil in the Bottle, Gold Under Ice, and The Ghost at Beaverhead Rock tell the story of Dan Stark, and the Vigilantes of Montana.

The Ghost at Beaverhead Rock (The Montana Vigilantes Series)

Carol A Buchanan

After Vigilantes ended a criminal conspiracy in Alder Gulch during the winter of 1863-1864, they founded a “People’s Court” to administer justice. At the same time, the notorious Joseph (aka 'Jack') Slade, who once ruled 600 hostile miles of the Overland Stage Line, has settled near Virginia City with his wife and adopted son. Although he controlled his district with a reputation for violence and intimidation, Overland passengers and the mail traveled on time, in safety. But Slade’s binge drinking wrecked his career when he and his men destroyed Army supplies at Fort Halleck. In Virginia City, he and his friends continue their drunken rampages, despite his more sober friends' attempts to persuade him to stop. Dan Stark, the Vigilante prosecutor, is one of his friends. Dan thinks there’s a devil in the bottle for Slade, a devil who wants him to die.He worries that someone could be killed when Slade, the man who also destroyed Denver, Colorado, "takes the town."In March 1864, on a binge, despite his friends' pleading for days, Slade will not go home. The Vigilantes swear out a warrant for his arrest, but instead of respecting his good friend, the judge of the People's Court, Slade holds a gun to His Honor's head and tells the Vigilantes they are “all played out.” By that one act, Slade rules. The Vigilantes must give up control of the region, or do the unthinkable, for the town has no jail. Without it, they have only one sure way of ending Slade's sprees. Hanging him.Yet he has committed no capital crime to justify it. Will the devil in the bottle get Jack Slade?

The Devil in the Bottle: The Tragedy of "Jack" Slade (The Montana Vigilantes Series)

Carol Buchanan Books

A Time of Trial (The Montana Vigilantes Series)

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