Best Lifestyle Books | Schiffer Publishing

The Great Taste of Virginia Seafood is a showcase for the abundant variety of Virginia seafood, with over 300 recipes for seafood lovers. The Great Taste of Virginia Seafood includes: Gourmet recipes from celebrated Virginia...

An unprecedented logging theft of Mother Nature from the 1880s to the 1940s completely changed the wooded landscape in the northern Great Lakes region of America as well as the society and ecology forevermore. In...

When life hands you lemons, make butterflies! This color illustrated guide for the beginning food sculptor explores different carving techniques and offers a broad range of projects simple enough for anyone to accomplish, beautiful enough...

An illustrated look at the planning, design, biology, materials, construction, planting, and maintenance of natural swimming pools.  Natural swimming pools rely on the correct balance of living plants and micro-organisms to clean and purify the...

Two hundred years of garden history are presented in the hundreds tools and accessories that gardeners used to dig the soil, cut scrub, harrow fields, and trim borders. In thousands of years of tilling the...

Art tile is a truly exciting option for both interior and exterior decoration. There is a vast array of tile available on the market today, ranging in design from traditional to modern, and conservative to...

Hundreds of beautiful garden landscapes lavish with ornaments and antiques that will inspire you to the plant the seeds for your future beautiful gardens. This book takes you through hundreds of beautiful garden landscapes lavish...

Explore fifty-six innovative adaptations of old, abandoned structures into modern family homes, apartments, and condominiums. Includes more than 290 images and plans. The accompanying text describes how each historical, industrial, or agricultural structure was spared...

Water forms the soul of a garden. A quiet pond, a babbling brook, or a dramatic pool can make a garden unique. To achieve such beauty, however, requires careful planning and design. Using over 150...

"In 1957, Don Featherstone sculptured the first three-dimensional pink plastic flamingo, thereby making affordable bad taste accessible to the American public" —from Pink Flamingos. This is the tale of a wonderful bird, named by his...

What should one know to choose an engagement ring? The answers are all here, with facts and practical advice that is easy to understand. Learn how to determine what you should pay, where diamonds come...

Occasionally, some notably historic piece of Americana--artifacts, photographs, or written materia--turns up from forgotten storage. Such is the case with the 155 pristine negatives printed in Pawnee Bill's Historic Wild West. They were taken while...