Best Lifestyle Books | Schiffer Publishing

$29.99

Planning your wedding is all about the details, and this book will help make one detail much easier, understandable, and fun — the wedding cake. Through 346 images, a delicious variety of cakes will whet your appetite and spark your...

$29.99

When three outstanding steak lovers get together to prepare their favorite steaks, it is not just the well-known classics that end up on the plate. Star cook Stefan Marquard, meat expert Stephan Otto, and German grillmaster Steffen Eichhorn present 39...

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Let nature’s bounty guide your table decorations. That’s what Catharina Lindeberg-Bernhardsson thinks when she creates her inspired seasonal settings. View 21 table settings, all imaginatively designed and each with a distinctive character. You’ll find spring flowers embedded in grass, colorful...

$34.99

This comprehensive, technical guide offers the distiller pretty much everything there is to know about distilling fruit brandies. Raw materials, fermentation, mashing, alcohol determination, clarifying and filtering, and storage are all presented in great detail through text, diagrams, and photos....

$19.99

Tomato roses, fresh cheese on salad cucumbers, leek flowers, or melon stars — learn simple step-by-step directions on how to give the final, eye-catching touch to a buffet or to your dinner table. Make a garnished plate look even more...

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Today’s swimming pools and spas are fully integrated into the landscape as the focal point for social and family recreation, entertainment, and relaxation. They come in myriad shapes and sizes and are enhanced with features like infinity edges and boulder...

$24.99

Dogs are human’s best friends, and pets have, increasingly, become more like family members. Your castle is their castle and, with that in mind, this book combines tips and expertise for creating the perfect outdoor environment for your pet and...

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Over 140 beautifully rendered color illustrations of common Cape Cod birds with species accounts that include locations where they may be found by birders. The informative text provides helpful advice on the best bird watching techniques and six field trips...

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Enjoy this historical approach to festive Christmas decorating. Taking inspiration from the wonderful decorations of fruits and greens at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, and other historic house museums across the nation, this book provides essential details for creating colorful decorations of...

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Get to know the Presidents of the United States, from George Washington to Barack Obama. Visit the only surviving residence of James Polk in Columbia, Tennessee, or the Lyndon Baines Johnson ranch near Johnson City, Texas. Divided into three regions,...

$49.99

Take a tour through time and learn about the exciting engineering developments that allowed the primitive bridges of ancient man evolve to the masterworks of today. This unique treatment, showing the large variety of bridge forms, is illustrated with postcards,...

$24.99

What people fear, they are also fascinated with—apprehension of the end is what keeps the topic of death a taboo. Examine death, its significance in religious and ethnic views, cultural myths, and its use in art and literature throughout the...

$16.99

Forty lashes for committing adultery? Children taken from their parents for being unruly? Loss of an ear - or even your life -- for stealing? These were the harsh punishments doled out for such crimes in Colonial America during the...

$34.99

Experience the explosiveness of water jets streaming skyward or the stillness of an infinity edge through 48 award-winning pool, spa, and water environments, and meet the cosmopolitan visionaries who captured the essence each was attempting to create. GAVA: Global AquaTekture...

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Windpower remains one of the world's most developed forms of renewable energy, and the oceans offer room for considerable expansion. This comprehensive survey features over 140 striking photos and illustrations that examine the history of wind turbine technology's association with...

$14.99

This botanical guide to the greater Atlanta region is teeming with more than 200 color photographs, informative gardening tips, and fun facts and stories about the diverse garden flora of the area. Gardeners from Atlanta to Athens, Columbus to Augusta,...

$24.99

Step down a little closer; you don't want to miss a thing. Join fifty-year sideshow veteran, Rick West, on a strange and wonderful trip through behind-the-scenes tales of his life as a showman. The strange, the bizarre, the unusual comprise...

$39.99

This unique reference guide covers all 822 lighthouses in the United States in a detailed, 28 page chart including where each lighthouse is located, when it was first lit, height and type, focal plane, the body of water served, current...

$39.99

With over 400 stunning color photos, this book is an informative resource with hundreds of backyard design ideas to introduce you to many possibilities for backyard pools that turn your home into a vacation spot that is the envy of...

$19.99

Try wonderful squash and zucchini dishes throughout the year-from the summery, delicate flavors of the zucchini to the robust, mature qualities of autumn and winter squash. Thirty-five recipes ranging from soups, casseroles, and quiche to strudel and muffins show the...

$9.99

Cape May's favorite beacon shines brightly in 90 picturesque scenes. Photographed at different angles for contrasting perspectives, the Cape May Lighthouse is shown through all the seasons. The text traces the history of how the lighthouse came to be and...