6 Steps to Design on a Dime

6 Steps to Design on a Dime
Author: Amber D. Barz
Publisher: HGTV
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2006
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Using a budget of just $1,000, design teams on HGTV's "Design on a Dime" consistently turn ho-hum rooms into memorable living spaces. This book shows readers how to employ the techniques used on the show to achieve terrific room makeovers on a small budget.

Gender and Women′s Leadership

Gender and Women′s Leadership
Author: Karen O′Connor
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 1105
Release: 2010-08-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1483305414

This work within The SAGE Reference Series on Leadership provides undergraduate students with an authoritative reference resource on leadership issues specific to women and gender. Although covering historical and contemporary barriers to women′s leadership and issues of gender bias and discrimination, this two-volume set focuses as well on positive aspects and opportunities for leadership in various domains and is centered on the 101 most important topics, issues, questions, and debates specific to women and gender. Entries provide students with more detailed information and depth of discussion than typically found in an encyclopedia entry, but lack the jargon, detail, and density of a journal article. Key Features Includes contributions from a variety of renowned experts Focuses on women and public leadership in the American context, women′s global leadership, women as leaders in the business sector, the nonprofit and social service sector, religion, academia, public policy advocacy, the media, sports, and the arts Addresses both the history of leadership within the realm of women and gender, with examples from the lives of pivotal figures, and the institutional settings and processes that lead to both opportunities and constraints unique to that realm Offers an approachable, clear writing style directed at student researchers Features more depth than encyclopedia entries, with most chapters ranging between 6,000 and 8,000 words, while avoiding the jargon and density often found in journal articles or research handbooks Provides a list of further readings and references after each entry, as well as a detailed index and an online version of the work to maximize accessibility for today′s student audience

Library Journal

Library Journal
Author: Melvil Dewey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1032
Release: 2004
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

Good House, Cheap House

Good House, Cheap House
Author: Kira Obolensky
Publisher: Taunton
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781561587520

Featuring 25 well-designed houses, most of which were built for under $150,000, this guide helps those with champagne tastes and modest budgets enjoy a unique house at an off-the-shelf price. Full color.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America
Author: Andrew Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 2556
Release: 2013-01-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199734968

Home cooks and gourmets, chefs and restaurateurs, epicures, and simple food lovers of all stripes will delight in this smorgasbord of the history and culture of food and drink. Professor of Culinary History Andrew Smith and nearly 200 authors bring together in 770 entries the scholarship on wide-ranging topics from airline and funeral food to fad diets and fast food; drinks like lemonade, Kool-Aid, and Tang; foodstuffs like Jell-O, Twinkies, and Spam; and Dagwood, hoagie, and Sloppy Joe sandwiches.

Your Intelligence Makeover

Your Intelligence Makeover
Author: Edward F. Droge
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2005-09-07
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0743274741

Have you ever wished you could give your mind an upgrade, just as you can give one to your computer, car, kitchen, or wardrobe? Or that you could remember all-important phone numbers or shopping lists without fumbling with multiple slips of paper? Or speed-read or do lightning-fast everyday math calculations? Or that you could be a Renaissance man or woman and dazzle your friends at dinner with your mastery of dates and facts, artists and albums, presidents and policies? Now there is a way to give yourself this intellectual attention and improvement: With Your Intelligence Makeover you'll enjoy a makeover that is more than just skin deep. With this book's three-week master plan, you'll learn the skills you need to nip and tuck your own knowledge -- you'll double or triple your reading speed and dramatically improve your memory. Then you'll have access to a wide body of information to kick it up a notch and rise to a higher intellectual plane. Whether you want to start a new career, complete your education, brush up your cultural literacy, increase your knowledge of a favorite subject, or simply chat up friends, family, and associates with a fascinating array of anecdotes, you can use the easy-to-learn secrets of education specialist Dr. Edward F. Droge, Jr., to launch new chapters in your own life. A former New York City police officer who went to Yale in his thirties as an undergraduate and then on to Harvard to earn a master's and a doctorate, Dr. Droge reveals the "Super Tools," which he developed to fuel his own success, to help you create your unique, personalized makeover plan. Take the entertaining self-assessment quizzes to find the areas in which you need to brush up and then use the Super Tools to immerse yourself in virtually any subject. Filled with mind-expanding sidebars and a vast reservoir of resources for learning in multiple subject areas (including History, Literature, Grammar, Math, Art, Science, Sports, Music, and much more), Your Intelligence Makeover promises to put you on the right track to tapping the limitless power of your intelligence for satisfaction and gain.