The complete beginner's guide to selecting and maintaining the right plants for all of your spaces!Plants are like people — they feel at home in certain spaces and not in others. House Plants for Every Space explains how to select the right plants for your home or office depending on the available light, the design you want, the size of the space, and the amount of time you have to maintain your greenery.Authors Etsuhiro Mashita and Momoko...

Perfect for self-study or classroom learners, this Farsi language book takes a user-friendly approach.Farsi for Beginners is a complete language course by experienced teacher Dr. Saeid Atoofi, which will help you to speak the language and open doors to Persian culture. This second edition is updated to include IT and social media vocabulary and downloadable audio files.Whether for pleasure, travel or business, language learners will find these less...

Learn to read, write, and speak everyday Japanese with manga stories!If you enjoy manga, you'll love learning Japanese with this book. The language lessons are interspersed with entertaining manga comic strips, making it easy to learn and remember all the key vocabulary and grammar. With a focus on the casual speech used by young people in Japan, you'll find yourself feeling confident with speaking, reading, and writing Japanese quickly!Designed for self-st...

Learn to speak, read and write Japanese quickly using manga comics strips!If you enjoy manga, you'll love learning Japanese with this book. The language lessons are interspersed with entertaining manga comic strips that make it easy to learn and remember all the key vocabulary and grammar. The plot picks up where Learn Japanese with Manga Volume 1 left off — following Nuria, a journalist who is sent to Tokyo to research a news story, where she keeps encoun...

When your favorite cup is broken, kitsugi can bring new life. Instead of lamenting the breakage embrace and love the opportunity to create something new and beautiful through mending. This is the appeal of kintsugi.Kintsugi is the mindful Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics and glassware by appreciating the cracks and chips as design elements—bringing new life to cherished items. Kintsugi:The Wabi Sabi Art of Japanese Ceramic Repair shares t...

A comprehensive and lavishly illustrated photographic guide—now in a handy field-guide formatThis lavishly illustrated photographic guide provides a comprehensive overview of the natural history of wildlife habitats in Britain and Ireland. Now completely redesigned in a handy field-guide format, and featuring revised and updated text throughout, this new edition of Britain’s Habitats guides readers through all the main habitat types, presenting information...

When two cultures collide, the results are explosive—a graphic novel rom-com like no other!Halina Mitchell is half-Filipino, half-American. She's also a native New Yorker—sophisticated, beautiful and confident. On her first visit to the Philippines, she arrives in Manila to reconnect with relatives only to encounter a world of surprises that turn all her assumptions on their head. With the intrepid film critic Cris as her guide, she discovers a Manila that few othe...

Quickly learn how to read and write Persian-Farsi with this user-friendly guide!Reading & Writing Farsi is an easy-to-grasp introduction to written Farsi—perfect for anyone just starting out. Pegah Vil, an incredibly experienced language teacher, has developed an engaging set of lessons based on her time in the classroom with students.The lessons in this book show you how to write the 32 letters of the Farsi alphabet (alefba) and how to quickly pro...

Learn about Myanmar while improving your language skills!Aimed at beginning to intermediate language learners, this book introduces 25 stories from Myanmar in parallel Burmese and English versions presented on facing pages. It can be used as a reader in Burmese language courses or by anyone who simply wishes to enjoy stories from Myanmar, both modern and traditional, and develop a deeper understanding of Burmese language and culture.This elegantly illustrat...

The key to creating a powerful drawing is to start with the right concept!In this book, sketching and painting expert Masao Yamada provides dozens of examples showing you how to establish accurate perspective guidelines and proportions for your initial pencil sketches, setting your drawings up to succeed right from the start. If a sketch's perspective and proportions are correct, your finished work will look crisp and beautiful. If not, you'll have a frustrating ti...

Journey of a Sacred Heart is a personal, six year spiritual sojourn through change during the war in Iraq and beyond. It is a time shared through art and journal as I learned to shadow dance with the unseen aspects of my personality. Creative, imaginative people are not always aware of the world within the content we make. Our wisdom, innocence and originality are uninhibitedly expressed in many mediums; through photography, the stroke of a paint brush or flow of a pen. Boundaries are impr...

Learn to speak Chinese quickly with manga comics!This book teaches you all the basics of the Chinese language, including practical conversations, vocabulary, and how to write the basic characters—with manga comic strips for easy learning! It enables you to begin communicating effectively from the first day. All Chinese words and sentences are given in Chinese characters and hanyu pinyin romanized form for easy pronunciation, with English translations....