Subtitle on cover: A beginner's guide to getting started with 8 easy projects.

How to help--and cope with--the difficult child Expanded and completely revised, the classic and definitive work on parenting hard-to-raise children with new sections on ADHD and the latest medications for childhood disorders. Temperamentally difficult children can confuse and upset even experienced parents and teachers. They often act defiant, stubborn, loud, aggressive, or hyperactive. They can also be clingy, shy, whiny, picky, and impossible at bedtime, mealtimes, and in public places. This landmark book has been completely revised to include the latest information on ADHD, medications, and a reassuring approach to all aspects of childhood behavioral disorders. In this parenting classic, Dr. Stanley Turecki, one of the nation's most respected experts on children and discipline--and himself the father of a once difficult child--offers compassionate and practical advice to parents of hard-to-raise children. Based on his experience with thousands of families in the highly successful Difficult Children Program he developed for Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, his step-by-step approach shows you how to: Identify your child's temperament using a ten-point test to pinpoint specific difficulties Manage common--often "uncontrollable"--conflict situations expertly and gently Make discipline more effective and get better results with less punishment Get support from schools, doctors, professionals, and support groups Understand ADHD and other common diagnoses, and decide if medication is right for your child Make the most of the tremendous potential and creativity that many "difficult" children have Drawing on his experience with thousands of families in his highly successful Difficult Child Program, Dr. Turecki shows parents how to: Identify their child's difficult temperament using a ten-point test to pinpoint specific difficulties Manage typical conflict situations expertly and kindly Make discipline more effective and get better results with less punishment Get support from schools, doctors, and others Understand ADHD and other common diagnoses, and decide whether medication is right for their child Make the most of the child's creativity and potential -->

The Thimbleberries Guide For Weekend Quilters offers 25 All-New Thimbleberries Quilts Beautiful quilts for even the busiest quiltmakers Lynette Jensen works her design magic to bring you quilts of all sizes that are amazingly quick and easy to put together-- and look terrific when they're done. To help you make the most of your quilting time, Lynette includes these special features: Fast techniques that really work: Look for the special "Make It Tonight" and "Make It in a Weekend" icons to locate superquick and easy projects. More color choices: Don't stall out at the fabric store. More than 40 gorgeous photos show alternative color schemes and simplify your fabric selection. Easy-to-use illustrated format: Hundreds of color illustrations with step-by-step directions show you what to do at a glance.

Gift Local 01-31-2001 $9.95.

Quilters love Lynette Jensen's designs for their strong sense of color and their folk art appeal. This book includes clear, step-by-step directions that allow even beginning crafters to learn how to make gorgeous quilted projects. Full-color layouts & how-to diagrams.

As it was centuries ago for the Persian poet Attar, so it is for us today: The rose remains a flower of mysterious beauty, of many moods, with myriad symbolic associations. Parker celebrates the rose, pairing her exquisite full-color photographs of blooms from her own garden with evocative poems by such diverse writers as Sappho, Emily Dickinson, John Milton, e.e. cummings, T.S. Eliot, and Jorge Luis Borges, among others. 84 photos.

"23 tried and true quilt desihns made in both traditional and modern fabrics"--Front cover.

You're in good company! 33 percent of quilters say landscape is their favorite quilt design, according to the latest Quilting in America survey. The Art of Landscape Quilting covers all aspects of designing and quilting landscape quilts through detailed instructions and concepts you will benefit from, regardless of your skill level. This one-stop resource for landscape quilting features 16 upscale step-by-step projects, and 20 partial projects; plus tips, tricks and techniques from the authors - including foremost sewing expert Nancy Zieman. With prints and supplies available at chains and independent shops, all you need is this book and your own creative sprit.

"Squeaky¿s Farm" is the story of Squeaky, our now fifteen-year-old cat, a dearly loved, highly respected family member. After her harrowing early years on the streets of Seattle, Washington, Squeaky chose to spend the rest of her life with us. She may have re-thought that commitment after we flew her to Spain¿s Extremadura region to live at Lagar La Señora, a dilapidated near-ruin of a stone house at the center of a rustic seventeen-acre farm. In Extremadura, ¿lagar¿ can mean ¿farmhouse,¿ ¿rustic farm,¿ ¿place where olive trees and vineyards grow,¿ or ¿building where wine-making equipment is located.¿ It was all of that for us.