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The Complete Guide to Small Scale Farming: Everything You Need to Know About Raising Beef Cattle, Rabbits, Ducks, and Other Small Animals (Back to Basics Farming)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Melissa Nelson
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Group Inc. (2010, Feb 22nd).
Pages: 288
Starting a small scale farm is the dream of Americans young and old, from those who watched the majesty of the great western farm in films during their youth to those who spent their childhood actually working on a farm. However, for many of these individuals it is a matter of logistics and cost that keeps them from realizing their dreams. Raising beef cattle, ducks, rabbits, and any other small animals such as sheeps, goats, or chickens takes not only a decent amount of money to get started, but knowhow that doesn t come in textbooks while in school. This book was written with the intent of providing anyone who has ever wanted to start their own small scale farm the necessary resources and information needed to start raising small animals and cattle. more
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Storey's Guide to Raising Beef Cattle, 3rd Edition
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Heather Smith Thomas
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC; 3rd edition (2009, Oct 29th).
Pages: 340
Storey’s Guide to Raising Beef Cattle is the go-to reference for new and experienced cattle ranchers, providing expert advice on everything from breed selection, calving, feeding, and housing, to humane handling and slaughter practices.The 3rd edition, now with 125,000 copies in print contains new and expanded features:• Up-to-the-minute coverage of diseases and vaccination options• Complete information on raising grass-fed animals• How to identify and deal with toxic pasture plantsStorey's Guide to Raising Series is the essential animal husbandry information from the trusted source. With a combined total of 1.7 million copies in print.Praise for the book:"I found your book to be the Bible for raising beef cattle, and will continue to refer to it while running our 160-head organic beef operation. more
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Chilton Asian Service Manual: 2012 Edition, Volume 2 (Chilton's Asian Service Manual)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Chilton
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Chilton; 1 edition (2013, Mar 29th).
Pages: 2247
Chilton's editors have put together current automotive repair information for this 2012 edition Chilton Asian Service manual set. This new five-volume manual set allows users to accurately and efficiently diagnose and repair late-model cars and trucks. You know you can trust the step-by-step procedures and helpful illustrations that Chilton provides. These manuals cover 2011 and 2012 models plus available 2013 models. more
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Chilton Asian Service Manual: 2012 Edition, Volume 4 (Chilton's Asian Service Manual)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Chilton
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Chilton; 1 edition (2013, Apr 2nd).
Pages: 2350
Chilton's editors have put together current automotive repair information for this 2012 edition Chilton Asian Service manual set. This new five-volume manual set allows users to accurately and efficiently diagnose and repair late-model cars and trucks. You know you can trust the step-by-step procedures and helpful illustrations that Chilton provides. These manuals cover 2011 and 2012 models plus available 2013 models. more
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Fiberglass Boat Repairs Illustrated
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Roger Marshall
Format: Paperback
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press; 1 edition (2010, Feb 17th).
Pages: 192
Step-by-step color photo guidance for repairing and renewing fiberglass boats If you don't have the experience of working with fiberglass, any repairs to your boat must be done by high-cost professionals or left undone. This entry-level guide uses full-color, step-by-step photo sequences and line drawings to present you with the basics in an easily digested form. You will learn how to: Save money and time doing your own fiberglass repairs Improve the value, appearance, and safety of your boat Work with materials such as polyester, epoxy, fiberglass, carbon fiber, and core materials Fix annoying leaks; repair cracks; restore gelcoat; fabricate new components more
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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: David A. Stockman
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: PublicAffairs (2013, Apr 2nd).
Pages: 768
A New York Times bestsellerThe Great Deformation is a searing look at Washington’s craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American state—especially the Federal Reserve—has fallen prey to the politics of crony capitalism and the ideologies of fiscal stimulus, monetary central planning, and financial bailouts. These forces have left the public sector teetering on the edge of political dysfunction and fiscal collapse and have caused America’s private enterprise foundation to morph into a speculative casino that swindles the masses and enriches the few.Defying right- and left-wing boxes, David Stockman provides a catalogue of corrupters and defenders of sound money, fiscal rectitude, and free markets. more
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The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Mark Mazzetti
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (2013, Apr 9th).
Pages: 400
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and America’s special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world’s dark spaces: the new American way of war The most momentous change in American warfare over the past decade has taken place away from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, in the corners of the world where large armies can’t go. The Way of the Knife is the untold story of that shadow war: a campaign that has blurred the lines between soldiers and spies and lowered the bar for waging war across the globe. America has pursued its enemies with killer drones and special operations troops; trained privateers for assassination missions and used them to set up clandestine spying networks; and relied on mercurial dictators, untrustworthy foreign intelligence services, and proxy armies. more
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