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Filled with more than 250 cookies recipes from the "Cookie of All Cookies" contest, Best of Country Cookies features everything from drop cookies to sandwich cookies, from refrigerator favorites to bar and brownies!

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Creative, flavorful meals made with fresh, natural ingredients can bring the strength and vitality of nature into your life. Packed with 901 pages of useful information, the Whole Foods E-book Projects Collection can teach you the secrets to cooking with edible flowers, cooking and preparing wild game and more.

For the first time, Mother Earth News is proud to offer the complete Whole Foods and Cooking E-book Project Collection on CD-ROM. This comprehensive collection includes 25 useful e-books with titles ranging from "Cooking with Honey" to "Perfect Grilled Meats". The Whole Foods and Cooking E-handbook Set on CD-ROM is packed with practical information, innovative ideas and creative projects to inspire nutritious and delicious dining.

E-handbooks Included in the Set:

• Cooking with Honey
• Cooking with Dried Beans
• Cooking with Tofu
• Cooking with Winter Squash and Pumpkins
• Baking with Sourdough
• Cooking with Edible Flowers
• Great Rhubarb Recipes
• Perfect Grilled Meats
• Food Drying Techniques
• Cooking with Yogurt
• Cooking with Rice
• Making Quick Breads
• Salsas!
• Making Ice Creams and Frozen Yogurts
• Making and Using Flavored Vinegars
• Fast and Easy Ways to Cook Vegetables
• Making European Breads
• Basic Bread Baking
• Jams, Jellies & More
• Making Maple Syrup
• Cooking with Oats
• Preparing and Cooking Wild Game
• Making Homemade Wine
• Making the Best Apple Cider
• Building Homebrew Equipment

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Harness the medicinal, sensual and flavorful power of herbs with both centuries-old and modern methods. Find the secrets to utilizing herbs like mint, rosemary and more within the 504 pages of the Herb E-book Projects Collection on CD-ROM.

For the first time, Mother Earth News is proud to offer the complete Herb E-book Projects Collection on CD-ROM.

This comprehensive collection includes 14 useful e-handbooks with titles ranging from "Herbal Teas for Lifelong Health" to "Making Your Own Incense". The Herb E-book Projects Collection on CD-ROM is packed with practical information, innovative ideas and creative projects to encourage natural health and happiness through herbs.

E-book Projects in the collection:

• 15 Herbs for Tea
• Herbal Teas for Lifelong Health
• Making Your Own Incense
• Growing and Using Rosemary
• Growing and Using Oregano
• Growing and Using Cilantro
• Growing and Using Basil
• Growing and Using Dill
• Growing and Using Terragon
• Growing and Using Chives
• Growing and Using Echinacea
• Growing and Using Lavender
• Growing 15 Herbs for the Kitchen
• Growing Herbs for Cold & Flu Relief
• Growing and Using Garlic

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Add a feeling of accomplishment to your life and personalization to your home with the ultimate practice in self-sufficiency: do-it-yourself projects from Mother Earth News. Get the know-how to fashion custom furniture, erect personal fences and more with the 479 pages of project tips and instructions in the Do-It-Yourself E-book Projects Collection on CD-ROM.

For the first time, Mother Earth News is proud to offer the complete Do-It-Yourself E-book Projects Collection on CD-ROM. This comprehensive collection includes 14 useful e-books with titles ranging from "How to Build a Pond for Fun or Food" to "How to Keep Your Basement Dry". The Do-It-Yourself E-book Projects Collection on CD-ROM is packed with practical information, innovative ideas and creative projects to inspire self-sufficiency.

E-book Projects Included in the Collection:

• How to Build Simple Furniture
• How to Build Cold Frames
• How to Build Easy Composters
• How to Build a Pole Woodshed
• How to Build a Smokehouse
• How to Build Fences
• How to Build a Pond for Food and Fun
• How to Manage a Woodlot
• How to Build Easy Bird Feeders
• How to Maintain Axes & Chainsaws
• How to Build Bat Houses
• How to Keep Your Basement Dry
• How to Build Cold Storage for Fruits & Vegetables
• How to Buy an Old House

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Are we going to give up our cell phones, laptops, and other electronics? Absolutely not, but emerging scientific evidence tells us that it is crucial to make important changes in our home and work environments. Zapped is the first step-by-step manual for fortifying your body, detoxifying your home, and protecting yourself and your family from invisible electronic pollution.

With cutting-edge health research, award-winning health pioneer Ann Louise Gittleman reveals the intricate, complex relationship between humans and technology: "Nothing manmade even comes close to the wonder of the human body....The organic computer, known as your brain, that runs the whole show emits waves that are electrical. All the sensory information it sends and receives is electrical....We are, in a very real sense, electrical beings in an electricl world....wired to respond to the electromagnetic forces in the universe."

Zapped is a groundbreaking investigation by one of the top voices in health today - it is essential reading for everyone who is ready to take charge of their quality of life in our ever-changing world.

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Growing Roots: The New Generation of Sustainable Farmers, Cooks, and Food Activists is about a new revolution in food that involves young people who are living sustainable lives that revolve around healthy, natural food.

The book introduces us to farmers and beekeepers, fishermen and chefs, food activists and cheesemongers, and many, many more. We meet these fascinating young people from all across the nation through first-person profiles, along with brilliant photographs and delicious, simple recipes. They talk about raising grass-fed beef, lamb, and pork; growing vegetables and grains; keeping bees and making cheese; and their restaurants and their markets. Included are filmmakers, writers, and artists who change the way we look at what we eat and where our food comes from. In their profiles we learn how these young people got to where they are today, their backgrounds, their education, and their passionate relationship to food.

The author’s through-line gives us a glimpse of her own journey with food, through her own childhood, raising children, and becoming an empty-nester. Growing Roots is about relationships and how food figures in those relationships. It is for everyone who is interested in learning about this new iteration of the food movement and the folks involved, whether you’d like to figure out how to do it for yourself, or just love reading about it. The photos are beautiful, the narrative lively, and the recipes simple and delicious. A must-read for all ages and a wonderful addition to the food-lover’s bookshelf.

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Tie-dye is an easy, rewarding and affordable craft that can turn silks, cottons and simple ready-made garments into dramatic fashion statements. Author Melanie Brummer is an expert at reviving clothes, linens and draperies with this creative craft skill.

Dyeing fabric to create beautiful patterns and gradations of color is a craft tha has been practiced throughout the world for centuries. Now this ancient craft is enjoying a renaissance as a style statement on the fashion runway.

Contemporary Dyecraft features more than 50 resist-dyeing projects that are easy to do and yield beautiful one-of-a-kind results. Popular methods used are bucket-dyeing, dip dyeing and dyeing in a washing machine. Brummer explains the chemical processes and technical aspects of resist dyeing and gives instructions on choices of fabric and color. The required equipment is largely household items that are inexpensive and readily available.

The projects use eight dyeing styles: flat color, graded color, crazed patterns, circles, stripes and coils, geometric shapes, spirals and stitched patterns. The materials lists are minimal, such as fabric, string or rubber bands, a bucket and kettle, and the dye.

The projects are rated by degree of difficulty and include:

• Skirt in a ball
• Reverse camouflage T-shirt
• Candy-striped silk scarf
• Water fantasy silk scarf
• Flowers on a shirt
• Parallel-striped Madiba shirt

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Prefabulous and Sustainable dispels the negative myths associated with prefab homes and shows the reader how beautiful and remarkably green prefab homes are.

In this guide to prefab home-building, author Sheri Koones demystifies the prefabricated house by using 25 unique homes to showcase how factory-built homes are greener, more efficient, sturdier and more cost-effective than site-built homes. The book is divided into three categories — green, greener, greenest — and the homes featured vary in style, design, type of construction and size. All of the homes included in Prefabulous and Sustainable have been customized to create a level of sustainability beyond the inherent qualities of prefab.

Written in an easy to understand and approachable style, this book walks the readers through each of the homes, explaining the materials, strategies and systems used to create a sustainable living environment. Photographs, captions, floorplans and sidebars show readers that green living is not as complicated as one might think, and attainable for everyone. Also included is a resource guide, making this book a hands-on guide for homebuilders.
About the Author
Sheri Koones is a widely respected author who helps readers understand that getting the house of their dreams can be done in an ecologically responsible way. Her book, Prefabulous, explored the variety, beauty and eco-friendly benefits of prefab homes and recently won the prestigious Gold Award in the 2008 Robert Bruss Real Estate Book Awards from NAREE. Koones is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Editors, the Sustainable Building Industry Council, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. She is also a columnist for Home Resource Guide and a freelance writer and speaker. She lives in Connecticut.

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As more and more people forgo meat, vegetarian cookbooks are the ones “bringing home the bacon.” Now, the definitive collection from the “queen of vegetarian cooking” is available again in an exciting new edition. The original version of Rose Elliot's Complete Vegetarian Cookbook sold more than 60,000 copies, and this fully updated and beautifully illustrated volume reflects the wide-reaching changes in vegetarian cooking. Complete with 1,000 mouthwatering dishes, this revamped vegetarian bible is a must-have in the kitchen. From Artichoke Soup and Sweetcorn Salad to Pasta Puttanesca and Strawberry Tartlets, these recipes are simple, delicious, healthful and satisfying.

Rose Elliot, one of the world's foremost vegetarian cookbook authors, has written more than 60 vegetarian and vegan cookbooks, with sales of about three and a half million books worldwide. Some of her most popular titles include Simply Delicious, The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook, Rose Elliot's Mother, Baby and Toddler Book, Rose Elliot Vegetarian Supercook, Vegan Feasts and Sumptuous Suppers. Elliot writes a popular vegetarian column in the Guardian weekend magazine, as well as a regular column, “Rose Elliot's Veggie Bites,” in the UK's only vegetarian monthly magazine, Cook Vegetarian! In 1999, Elliot received the MBE (Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) from the Queen for her services to vegetarian cooking.

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In The New Normal, author David Wann challenges us to do some heavy lifting and transform our non-sustainable culture by transforming ourselves. For Wann, our current "old normal" lifestyle - buying water in disposable bottles, allowing the government to ignore global warming - will not preserve the planet. To nurture our world, he challenges us to rethink our lives, stand up for a healthy planet and move towards a "new normal" lifestyle in an agenda that includes:

• Initiating local business alliances that actively lobby for local buying.
• Creating an investment strategy that values the balance of nature.
• Supporting the design, manufacture, and use of products made with natural chemicals.
• Publicly advocating a more efficient use of water by placing a higher cultural value on wetlands, streams, rivers, and lakes.