Rodale's Book of Shortcuts


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Advice, tips, and techniques on health, fitness, food, self improvement, parenting, home management, maintenance, gardening, landscaping, retirement, and travel. This handy reference shows the best way to accomplish a multitude of tasks while saving time and effort.







American Country Scrap Quilts


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Presents thirty-one projects for constructing "scrap" quilts--a style which utilizes as many as several hundred different fabrics--and offers sewing tips, quilting ideas, and timesaving cutting charts




Rodale's Low-maintenance Gardening Techniques


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Presents time-saving techniques for growing healthy fruit and vegetable gardens, including tips on tools, composting, and watering




Great Garden Shortcuts


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Gardening's most successful secrets revealed by great gardeners across the country.




Prevention's Shortcuts to Big Weight Loss


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A personal trainer and lifestyle expert introduces a series of ten-minute workouts to help readers lose weight, burn fat, slim and tone problem areas, and promote overall fitness.




1712 Shortcuts to Better Living


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Numerous experts in the fields of health, nutrition, child care, psychology, home repair, gardening and retirement give their best advice for any and all personal and household tasks. Make the most of your day and your time with this source book of techniques, tips and practical wisdom.




Sewing Secrets from the Fashion Industry


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Sewing secrets from the fashion industry Look over the shoulders of sewing experts as they show you how to cut and sew the professional way. From sample rooms to production sewing factories, the authors gleaned the best and the fastest garment-sewing techniques and treatments. Sew fast. Sew smart. Make clothes that look better than ready-to-wear. Hundreds of step-by-step photographs and easy-to-understand directions help you: * Master bound button holes * Imitate professional seam finishes on your machine * Create an innovative button placket * Eliminate ease stitching and basting * Sew a lined vest in three hours without any hand stitching * Choose a pocket and waistband that's right for you * Use industry techniques to interface like the pros * Make clothing that fits perfectly no matter what your size




Prevention's Shortcuts to Big Weight Loss


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Slim your belly, butt and thighs, and get fit twice as fast.




Run Your Butt Off!


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Shed unwanted pounds and keep them off ONCE AND FOR ALL with Run Your Butt Off!, a back-to-basics, test panel–approved weight-loss plan and beginners' running program that yields sustainable, healthy results. The Run Your Butt Off! program is founded on the simple concept that in order to lose weight, calories burned must exceed calories consumed. No gimmicks, no shortcuts, no silver bullets can circumvent that reality. With this program, you'll learn to burn fat from both sides of the weight-loss equation—the calories in and the calories out—at the same time. Run Your Butt Off! will make you fitter, stronger, and leaner.