Orchids : Success Indoors, Outdoors, or in the GreenhouseExotic, fascinating, beautiful, mysterious… adjectives seen inexhaustible in describing the orchid family – as, too, do the variety and number of species that you can grow. As you’ll soon discover through the pages of this book, the world of orchids is one that a beginning grower can easily enter, but also one that never seems to show its limits to the experienced grower.For someone just getting involved with orchids, or for someone who would like a different perspective, this book is perfect.
Starbucks tells the story of how a single retail outlet opened in 1971 became the world's largest chain of coffeehouses, and for that matter, one of the largest franchises of any kind, with over $10 billion in sales in 2008. Starbucks offers readers the opportunity to get to know this extraordinary corporationÕs leaders, employees, guiding principles, corporate innovations, competitive strategies, setbacks, and future prospects.
VolksWorld is Britains best-selling Volkswagen magazine and a MUST buy for all fans of air-cooled VWs and particularly the legendary Beetle. VolksWorld takes pride in going to extraordinary lengths to bring its readers the most outstanding and fascinating features which cannot be found anywhere else.
Fancy boarding school, securing a place at the top of the class, forgiving an ex-boyfriend and dabbling with a troublesome stranger are all elements that combine with fascinating readability in Crash Test.
The Armchair Birder: Discovering the Secret Lives of Familiar Birds
Bird lovers, take heart! While the birding literature is filled with tales of expert observers spotting rare species in exotic locales, John Yow's The Armchair Birder is here to remind us that the most fascinating birds can be the ones perched right outside our windows. In thirty-five engaging, humorous, and even irreverent essays, Yow reveals the fascinating lives of birds you probably already recognize and naturally want to know more about, because they're the ones you see nearly every day.
