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Books That Work Expands Product Line With the Release of Country Living Gardener: Great Home Gardens and Country Living Style.


PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California
Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries.
, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 1996--Books That Work, the leader in home and garden consumer software, today released two new CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc.
CD-ROM
 in full compact disc read-only memory

Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser).
 titles, Country Living Style and Country Living Gardener: Great Home Gardens.

Country Living Style offers the essence of country inns, gardens, antique stores and a museum together in an easy to navigate (1) "Surfing the Web." To move from page to page on the Web.

(2) To move through the menu structure in a software application.
 format for inspiring new decorating ideas.

Country Living Gardener: Great Home Gardens provides stunning photographic tours of lush and vibrant gardens, complete helpful hints from the country's most illustrious il·lus·tri·ous  
adj.
1. Well known and very distinguished; eminent. See Synonyms at noted.

2. Obsolete Shining brightly.
 home garden designers.

Both titles are published and distributed by Books That Work in connection with Country Living magazine, a leading lifestyle publication.

Country Living Style

Country Living Style includes photographs, video demonstrations, detailed instructions, and diagrams illustrating the beauty of the country living lifestyle. Commentary from interior decorators, architects, homeowners, and Country Living magazine editors make this a great resource for decorating, cooking and crafts projects.

Country Living Style, awarded the Editor's Choice for Top 100 software products by HomePC magazine, also offers more lifestyle information with a direct connection to the Internet and the HomeArts web site.

Country Living Gardener: Great Home Gardens

With Country Living Gardener: Great Home Gardens you can meet the nationally renowned gardeners of ten stunning gardens. This CD-ROM features an encyclopedia encyclopedia, compendium of knowledge, either general (attempting to cover all fields) or specialized (aiming to be comprehensive in a particular field). Encyclopedias and Other Reference Books
 with nearly 500 plants and resources listing sources and societies, by plant.

An easy-to-use main menu lets you create a personalized per·son·al·ize  
tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es
1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner.

2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify.
 scrap book, explore gardens, browse (1) To view the contents of a file or a group of files. Browser programs generally let you view data by scrolling through the documents or databases. In a database program, the browse mode often lets you edit the data. See Web browser.  featured plants and learn new tips and techniques. Garden tours are presented with maps, photographs, narration, interviews and text.

This title also provides Internet capabilities to link to the HomeArts web site for more creative home resources on World Wide Web.

Previously available direct from Hearst New Media, Country Living Style and Country Living Gardener: Great Home Gardens are now available on CD-ROM for Windows at retail computer software stores nationwide for around $30. The two products can also be found sold as a bundle for around $50.

Country Living Magazine

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The American Home is a center of intercultural exchange located in Vladimir, Russia. The home is designed to model a typical American suburban home and its main focus is the ESL school that provides lessons for Russian students.
 and family life. It focuses on American country decorating and includes editorial on furnishings furnishings

the extra type or quantity of hair on the head, tail, ears or legs, specified for a particular breed. For example, the feathers in setters, the beard in Bearded collies, the eyebrows in Schnauzers.
, cooking, antiques, home building, real estate, and travel.

More About Books That Work

Books That Work, based in Palo Alto, is the leading developer of 3D design and visualization Using the computer to convert data into picture form. The most basic visualization is that of turning transaction data and summary information into charts and graphs. Visualization is used in computer-aided design (CAD) to render screen images into 3D models that can be viewed from all  software for the home and garden. Books That Work's award-winning library of products include Visual Home, 3D Landscape, 3D Kitchen, 3D Deck, Home Improvement Encyclopedia, and Garden Encyclopedia.

To order products, phone 800/242-4546 or 415/326-4280. For more information, contact Books That Work, 2595 East Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303. Main No.: 415/326-4280. Visit the Books That Work Web site at http://www.btw.com.

Books That Work also publishes home and garden content on the Internet at http://homecentral.com and http://gardening.com.

CONTACT: Books That Work

Laura Grams, 415/843-4441

grams@btw.com
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