Wind energy is the fastest growing source of energy in the world, and by the year 2020 it is projected to supply at least 12 percent of global electrical demand. Wind Power Basics provides a clear understanding of wind and wind energy...
Home economics
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Author:Chiras, Dan.Summary: -
Author:Mammar, LydiaSummary:Trucs de grand-mère, remèdes maison, recettes miracles… tous ces petits secrets ont pour point commun d’avoir réussi à traverser le temps sans perdre de leur efficacité. Les plus étonnants s’apparentent presque à des formules magiques!...
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Author:Wisner, EricaSummary:Heating with wood is often considered a natural and economical alternative to electricity or fossil fuels. However, even with a fairly new and efficient woodstove, many cords of wood are required for burning over the course of a single...
- Author:Gleeson, KerrySummary:
Find out how to get organized at work, get more done, and carve out more time to do what you really want to do. We all juggle work life and personal life and worry that we spend too much time and effort paying the bills to fulfill our...
- Author:Strohmeyer, SarahSummary:
Kat, a compulsive consumer at New Jersey's many malls, loves to shop until she drops--and it's taking a heavy toll on her marriage. Why else would her husband be using a secret bank account of his own? Finally, Kat is persuaded to join...
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Author:Becker, JoshuaSummary:Most of us know we own too much stuff. We feel the weight and burden of our clutter, and we tire of cleaning and managing and organizing. While excess consumption leads to bigger houses, faster cars, fancier technology, and cluttered...
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Author:Kondo, MarieSummary:Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles'Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that...
- Author:Moylan, BrianSummary:
From Brian Moylan, the writer of Vulture's legendary Real Housewives recaps, a table-flipping, finger-pointing, halter-topping VIP journey through reality TV's greatest saga...
- Author:Leeds, ReginaSummary:
Professional organizer Regina Leeds is an expert at uncluttering chaotic lives in only minutes a day. Her magic formula (eliminate, categorize, organize) transforms small chunks of time into big changes. With hundreds of tips and tricks...
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Author:Burch, Mark A.Summary:While the voluntary simplicity movement has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, it is still often stereotyped as being mainly concerned with a thrifty lifestyle. But simple living has much deeper implications than just cleaning...
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Author:Ramlow, Bob.Summary:Heating water with the sun is a practice almost as old as humankind itself. Solar Water Heating, now completely revised and expanded, is the definitive guide to this clean and cost-effective technology. Beginning with a review of the...
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Author:Chiras, Dan.Summary:The future will be powered by renewables. As we transition away from finite and polluting fossil fuels, clean, reliable, and affordable renewable technologies such as solar electricity will become the mainstay of our energy supply....
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Author:Pink, SarahSummary:The study of everyday life is fundamental to our understanding of modern society. This book provides a coherent, interdisciplinary way to engage with everyday activities and environments. Arguing for an innovative, ethnographic approach...
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Author:Lawrence, Robyn GriggsSummary:In 2004 The Wabi-sabi House helped popularize this ancient Japanese philosophy in North America. Far more than home dEcor, wabi-sabi is a state of mind: living modestly in the moment, stripping away the unnecessary, finding satisfaction...
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Author:Will, Oscar H.Summary:Fueled by a failing economy and a passionate desire for a return to simpler times, a new wave of homesteaders is seeking the good life and the kind of true satisfaction that can only be built, not bought. Many of these modern pioneers...
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Author:Roth, Eileen, Miles, ElizabethSummary:What’s the favorite four-letter word of people who are less than fully organized? “Help!” So many technological, social and economic changes affect your life that you need organization just to keep up, let alone advance. Many people...
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Author:Weston, AnthonySummary:Dysfunctional cities, catastrophic climate change, ever-deepening distance from nature-today we see environmental disaster everywhere we look. In Mobilizing the Green Imagination, philosophical provocateur Anthony Weston urges us to...
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Author:Scott, Jennifer L.Summary: - Author:Summary:
In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands' work clothes as their husbands did working below ground, arguably making the home as much a site of...
- Author:Edited by William Campbell, Foreword by Brian BarthSummary:
For anyone who wants to learn how to catch a runaway pig, mend a fence post, milk a cow, or throw an unforgettable barn party, this engaging volume delivers timeless advice on accomplishing tasks big and small around the house, garden,...
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