Barns is your ticket to delving into the fascinating history of these iconic American structures. You'll never see these unique structures the same way again! Strong-timbered barns are icons of American agriculture, harboring multilayered stories from their floors to their rafters. Barn reveals the compelling history of barns from colonial times, examining how immigrants adapted traditional designs from their home countries to the American landscape. It guides the reader on a tour of different kinds of barns, showing how construction materials, cultural influences, function, and style have given rise to their extraordinary variety. The reader will also learn about barn preservation, barns in pop culture and mythology, elements of barn style, and barn construction. Barn is filled with fascinating facts about barns:
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<li>How did barns change with westward expansion?</li>
<li>Why are barns red?</li>
<li>What effect did immigration have on styles of barns in America?</li>
<li>How did barn architecture change according to geography?</li>
<li>What elements of style emerged on barns?</li>
<li>Barn idioms abound (e.g., He can't hit the broad side of a barn door!); Where did they come from?</li>
<li>What is a "poetry barn"?</li>
<li>and much more!</li>
</ul>
 A comprehensive treatment of barns in the American landscape, this book is rich with fascinating details and beautiful photography. Swing open those big barn doors, and find out why barns continue to embody the heart of the American farm.

Barn: Form and Function of an American Icon

History

Hauser, Susan Carol

Americas

Voyageur Press

The touchstone handbook for treating and preventing ailments from insidious bites

Field Guide to Ticks: Prevention And Treatment Of Lyme Disease And Other Ailments Caused By Ticks, Scorpions, Spiders, And Mites (Falcon Guide)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Falcon Guides

A practical guide to preventing and treating poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac irritation.

Field Guide to Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, and Poison Sumac: Prevention And Remedies

An essayist, poet, freelance writer, and Minnesota Public Radio commentator, Susan Carol Hauser saw her approaching fiftieth birthday as an opportunity to reflect on where she had been, in order to better understand who she was at this milestone in her life. Each of her essays shares the wonder, experiences, and perceptions of life's cycles, of one year's turning - of a woman turning fifty. Barbara Van Arnam's magnificent paintings tap into the all-encompassing rhythms of life, eloquently echoing the essential harmony flowing through nature, and ourselves, as we continue on our path through life. Hauser's many peers in the baby-boomer generation will recognize their era on these pages, as they too conjure a new personal future.

Full Moon: Reflections on Turning Fifty

Parenting & Relationships

Papier Mache Pr

Outside After Dark: New & Selected Poems

Loonfeather Press

Sugartime : The Hidden Pleasures of Making Maple Syrup with a Primer for the Novice Sugarer

Key Porter Books

Nature's Revenge: The Secrets of Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, Poison Sumac, and Their Remedies

Medical Books

Lyons Pr

Sugaring is the act of collecting maple sap to make maple syrup, an early-spring endeavor that takes place all around the country - in Vermont, most famously, but also throughout New England, as far south as Ohio, and as far west as Minnesota. It is a time-honored tradition that has changed little since the Native Americans sugared centuries ago. Sugartime is a beautifully rendered narrative about the act of sugaring, a soulful activity that, like the best of outdoor hobbies, slows time down. Interspersed with the book's lyrical account of a season in the sugarbush are separate sections that serve as a primer to guide the beginner through every stage of surgaring, from selecting trees and hanging sap buckets to finishing off maple syrup. For anyone with an interest in taking up sugaring, everyone who has a maple tree, and all those with a nostalgia for the rural landscape Sugartime will be a joy to discover. (43/4 X 73/4, 148 pages, b&amp;w photos, illustrations)

Sugartime: The Hidden Pleasures of Making Maple Syrup

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Here is a complete guide to harvesting and cooking wild rice--with seventy-five recipes. Wild Rice Cooking is a total guide to wild rice: an introduction to harvesting and cooking, as well as a fascinating history of the plant and the cultures that have thrived on it for centuries. 
 Today, thanks to commercial growers, it is available in grocery stores throughout the country and more and more cooks have access to this nutritional grain. Wild rice is still harvested by those who have lived for generations near the lakes and rivers where it grows. The satisfying process of harvesting, called "ricing," still follows ancient tradition, using canoes, poles, and handmade knockers. Susan Carol Hauser offers a primer on the joys of reaping a wild rice harvest, as well as more than seventy-five tempting recipes including: * Wild Rice Whole Wheat Pancakes * Wild Rice, Morel, and Chicken Risotto * Creamy Baked Custard Wild Rice Pudding * Popped Wild Rice * And many more! Wild Rice Cooking will appeal to all those interested in getting back to the land, as well as anyone who likes to cook!

Wild Rice Cooking: Harvesting, History, Natural History, and Lore With 80 Recipes

Cooking by Ingredient

UNKNO

A complete handbook for the prevention and treatment of Lyme disease and other ailments caused by ticks, scorpions, spiders, and mites.

Outwitting Ticks: The prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease and Other Ailments Caused by Ticks, Scorpions, Spiders, and Mites

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

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