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BOAT LIVING

by Jack Wiley.

How to select, buy, and live on a boat as an alternative to a conventional house. 136 pages. Hard cover. 82007 $8.95

THE WOODBURNERS ENCYCLOPEDIA

by Jay W. Shelton and Andrew B. Shapiro.

A large (8-314" X 12"I. thoroughly illustrated (140+ drawings, charts, and graphs) compendium of information on the cost, safety, design, and operation of wood-burning stoves and fireplaces, with an alphabetical listing of more than 160 stove, furnace, and fireplace manufacturers and dis tributors. 155 pages. Large paperback. 81028$6.95

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ORGANIC GARDENING edited

by J.I. Rodale and staff.

Just about everything you'll eve' want to know about organic gardening condensed into one gigantic reference book. Covers vegetable and flower gardening. orchards and fruit trees, house plants landscaping, shrubs, borders, herbs, nut trees, green houses . . nearly 1,500 topics! How to plant. cultivate fertilize, harvest, identify growing things, cure plan diseases, prevent insect attacks naturally, compose mulch, build rich soil, and do many other things of major importance too rganic farmers. A section on homestead tells how to achieve independence and security on a small plot of land. Not lust a bargain but a must for the natural gardener and back-tothe-lander. 1,145 pages Over 300 illustrations.Hardcover. 67005 $14.95

1978 WRITER'S MARKET edited

by Jane Koester and Bruce Joel Hillman.

This all-new, fully updated edition of WRITER'S MARKET lists a whopping 4,454 paying markets for novels, short stories, articles, poems, plays fillers, gags, and greeting card lines . . . including more than 400 neverbefore-listed magazines and publishing houses! Many of the book's entries contain-in addition to addresses, editors' names, pay scales, and special submission requirements-a paragraph or two by the editors themselves on how to "break into" their particu lar publication(s). And-in addition to market listingsyou II find special sections on manuscript preparation copyright law, photojournalism, authors' agents, how to set; book-length manuscripts, plus an incredible amount supplementary "how to" information. Literally a supermarket of opportunities for writers! Indexed, ai- and categorized for easy reference. 1,000 paces Hard cover. 75021 $13.95

1978 ART & CRAFTS MARKET edited

by Lynne Lapin and Betsy Wones.

An astounding (and astoundingly , compilation of the names, addresses, pay syaes and needs of 4,498 ad agencies, public relations firms craft dealers, book publishers, magazines, syndicates. film producers. and other organizations that pay me money sometimes BIG money-for crafts and artworkThe all new 1978 ART & CRAFTS MARKET (which takesthe place of last year's Artist's & Photographer's Market) contains no less than 1.000 never-before-published market listings plus feature articles on how the -to's of freelancing profiles of successful artisans, pictures of homemade objets d'art" that sold to markets listed in the book. a discussion of the new copyright law, and lots lots more' A cornucopia of priceless information for the freelance artist or craftsperson. 800 pages. Hard cover 75007 $10.95

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