Average customer rating:
|
New Strawbale Home, The
Catherine Wanek Manufacturer: Gibbs Smith, Publisher ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1586852035 |
Book Description
Although straw bale construction is beginning to enter the mainstream, many people continue to wonder what a straw bale house looks like. The New Strawbale Home answers definitively, "Anything you want!" Innovative architects and builders are reinventing this century-old technology to create thick-walled modern houses of unsurpassed natural beauty. < BR> The New Strawbale Home compiles floor plans and images from thirty cutting-edge homes across North America, from California to Quebec, New Mexico to New England, showcasing a spectrum of regional styles and personal aesthetic choices. This practical guide discusses varying climate considerations and essential design details for problem-free construction and low maintenance, and also points out the ecologically friendly, energy-saving aspects of straw bale construction. The New Strawbale Home beautifully illustrates how building with straw bales allows for maximum personal creativity-whether the finished product is an urban home, a country hideaway, or anything in between. < BR> The New Strawbale Home includes information on budget considerations, code compliance, siting for energy efficiency, structural systems, and finishing touches. Also included are the valuable insights and experience of architects, contractors, and owner-builders, plus an extensive resource section. < BR> Author and photographer Catherine Wanek organized the building of a straw bale greenhouse in 1992 and has been an advocate for straw bale construction ever since. She produced and directed the Building with Straw video series, and spent nearly five years publishing and editing The Last Straw Journal. Her first book, The Art of Natural Building, was published in 2002. Wanek lives in Kingston, New Mexico. < BR>Customer Reviews:
Nice pictures.......2007-05-20
Nice picture book, not a build it manual.......2005-08-24
price per square foot included in this book.......2004-04-17
Beautiful photographs and the down and dirty details.......2003-11-15
Most of the homes are in the higher-end spectrum and I was disappointed that I didn't see less expensive (but maybe not as fancy) homes included. However I did like the coverage of the co-housing communities who use straw bale building.
Overall, a lovely book that you will drool over if you like straw bale or any other natural building.
Average customer rating:
|
Beads and Threads: A New Technique for Fiber Jewelry
Diane Fitzgerald , and Helen Banes Manufacturer: Flower Valley Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0962054364 |
Book Description
What beautiful, showpiece necklaces you can make following the instructions in this book - wearable art in the most exciting sense. The materials and tools needed are inexpensive and readily available, the work portable, the results striking. When you wear the necklaces you make, they elicit admiration and praise. The book opens with an exciting gallery of the work done by Helen Banes and many of her students. Once your appetite is whetted by what you have seen, then Diane Fitzgerald explains how the neckpieces are made and presents you with 19 projects for making your own. Each project is shown with a full page color photograph of the completed piece and a working diagram for it. Profusely illustrated in color.Customer Reviews:
Beads and Threads.......2006-03-21
Unleashed Creativity!.......2005-11-24
Should be titled "Weaving necklaces with a few beads".......2005-10-13
Showcases a new technique for making fiber jewelry.......2001-07-04
A wonderful new weaving and jewelry technique.......1999-01-26
Average customer rating: |
First Photographs: People, Places, and Phenomena As Captured for the First Time by the Camera
Gail Buckland Manufacturer: Macmillan Pub Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0025180703 |
Average customer rating: |
First Photographs: People, Places, and Phenomena as Captured for the First Time by the Camera
Gail Buckland Manufacturer: Macmillan Pub Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000O93LBC |
Average customer rating: |
Madman, Volume 4: Heaven and Hell (G-Men from Hell 1-5)
Mike Allred , and Laura Allred Manufacturer: Dark Horse ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1569715815 |
Book Description
Frank Einstein has never led a normal life -- as far as he knows -- but lately his topsy-turvy times have been undeniably loony. In this fourth collection chronicling the life of comics' coolest undead guy, Frank goes from holiday giddiness to super-secret paranoia, friends become enemies, and sworn enemies become ... saviors? In this tome of 136 colorful pages, Frank makes amends with a beatnik ghoul, meets Santa Claus, gets his house fixed up, and goes on an unexpected adventure. It turns out fellow undead foes, Mattress and Crept, have gotten themselves in a snag, and it's up to Frank to find out what's up. Mysteries are explained, but there's plenty of confusion to take its place. It's a kooky book -- take a look!
Average customer rating: |
Uncle Henry: A Documentary Profile of the First Henry Wallace
Richard S Kirkendall Manufacturer: Purdue University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1557532680 |
Book Description
Average customer rating:
|
Bars, Babes and Bimbo's
Al Culler Manufacturer: Out-East Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0968944566 |
Book Description
Infamous for his travel writings - most of his fans can?Customer Reviews:
neon nastiness.......2002-11-02
Average customer rating:
|
Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER
Pamela Grim Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0446677574 |
Amazon.com
In this outstanding collection of stories and "lessons," Pamela Grim, an emergency medicine physician, reveals the painful truths learned from the daily witnessing of the underside of life, where most who enter are addicts, idiots, drunks, and psychotics whose poor choices have led them to the end of the line. The ER is a more tragic, chaotic, and weird place than any TV show has ever portrayed. A man walks in with a butcher knife imbedded in his skull, a teenage girl asks incredulously, "I'm pregnant?" after delivery, and the best kind of cop dies on the table while his killer is saved in the next room. Grim brilliantly captures the adrenaline-fueled chaos of code calls in inner-city ERs, where the unrelenting pressure puts doctors and nurses alike in a perpetual state of shell shock. In this environment, doctors must make split-second decisions under the specter of malpractice suits and the knowledge that every moment weighs in on whether the patient will live or die. Fortunately, Grim is the sort of storyteller who can make a reader cry then laugh out loud in a matter of pages. She is a no-nonsense doctor--and author--whose compassion and wisdom are as unexpected and brightly illuminated as the resurrection of the 4-year-old with no pulse who was crushed by the family car.Between the pressure and the bruises left by each death, burnout is inevitable. Grim's response is to head for Nigeria with Doctors Without Borders, and later to Bosnia and a Kosovar refugee camp, where once again she is "awestruck by the suffering God can inflict." The dearth of technology and supplies and the low survival rates make a shocking contrast to the miracles achieved in American hospitals. Grim considers some profound issues--the nature of grief, the humanitarian aid paradox in which helping out can indirectly enable corrupt governments, and the despair of trying to save lives when so many are dying. Ultimately, she realizes that the answer is in the particular; it is saving individual lives that makes her work--and life itself--meaningful. This is one powerful page-turner with the potential to change minds as well as lives. --Lesley Reed
Book Description
In this outstanding collection of stories and "lessons," Pamela Grim, an emergency medicine physician, reveals the painful truths learned from the daily witnessing of the underside of life, where most who enter are addicts, idiots, drunks, and psychotics whose poor choices have led them to the end of the line. The ER is a more tragic, chaotic, and weird place than any TV show has ever portrayed. A man walks in with a butcher knife imbedded in his skull, a teenage girl asks incredulously, "I'm pregnant?" after delivery, and the best kind of cop dies on the table while his killer is saved in the next room. Grim brilliantly captures the adrenaline-fueled chaos of code calls in inner-city ERs, where the unrelenting pressure puts doctors and nurses alike in a perpetual state of shell shock. In this environment, doctors must make split-second decisions under the specter of malpractice suits and the knowledge that every moment weighs in on whether the patient will live or die. Fortunately, Grim is the sort of storyteller who can make a reader cry then laugh out loud in a matter of pages. She is a no-nonsense doctor--and author--whose compassion and wisdom are as unexpected and brightly illuminated as the resurrection of the 4-year-old with no pulse who was crushed by the family car.Between the pressure and the bruises left by each death, burnout is inevitable. Grim's response is to head for Nigeria with Doctors Without Borders, and later to Bosnia and a Kosovar refugee camp, where once again she is "awestruck by the suffering God can inflict." The dearth of technology and supplies and the low survival rates make a shocking contrast to the miracles achieved in American hospitals. Grim considers some profound issues--the nature of grief, the humanitarian aid paradox in which helping out can indirectly enable corrupt governments, and the despair of trying to save lives when so many are dying. Ultimately, she realizes that the answer is in the particular; it is saving individual lives that makes her work--and life itself--meaningful. This is one powerful page-turner with the potential to change minds as well as lives. --Lesley ReedCustomer Reviews:
Just here trying to save a few lives.......2007-08-25
True Picture of the ER.......2007-07-31
disappointing .......2005-06-16
a grear look at emergancy room life.......2005-02-03
Grim determination to make a difference.......2004-09-12
Average customer rating: |
Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives : Tales of Life and Death from the ER
Pamela MD Grim Manufacturer: Warner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000O659K6 |
Average customer rating: |
Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives, Tales of Life and Death from the ER
Pamela Grim Manufacturer: New York: Warner Books, 2000 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NVFFT2 |
Average customer rating:
|
The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid--America's First World War II Victory
Craig Nelson Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0142003417 Release Date: 2003-09-30 |
Book Description
Immediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to restore the honor of the United States with a dramatic act of vengeance: a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, eighty brave young men, led by the famous daredevil Jimmy Doolittle, took off from a navy carrier in the mid-Pacific on what everyone regarded as a suicide mission but instead became a resounding American victory and helped turn the tide of the war. The First Heroes is the story of that mission. Meticulously researched and based on interviews with twenty of the surviving Tokyo Raiders, this is a true account that almost defies belief, a tremendous human drama of great personal courage, and a powerful reminder that ordinary people, when faced with extraordinary circumstances, can rise to the challenge of history.Customer Reviews:
Poor knowledge of detail.......2007-08-30
just a great historical book about an impossible mission.......2007-01-22
Great History of the Doolittle Raid.......2006-07-23
The First Heroes is a must read.......2006-03-23
Not researched but well embellished.......2006-03-04
Average customer rating: |
The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid: America's First World War II Victory (Audiofy Digital Audiobook Chips)
Manufacturer: Audiofy/Blackstone ProductGroup: Book Binding: Cards ASIN: 1599126605 |
Product Description
This Audiofy audiobook chip packs Raymond Todd's full 19 hour reading of "The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid: America's First World War II Victory" on a tiny memory card. A single Audiofy audiobook chip, hardly larger than a stamp, holds a complete digital audiobook, and saves the last listening position automatically, unlike CDs. With an SD memory card slot or low-cost adapter - like those for digital cameras - this Audiofy audiobook chip can be played on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh desktop computers or laptops (Microsoft Windows XP/2000/Me/98, or Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above) or transferred to Apple iPod media players. Audiobook chips also move seamlessly to most Palm OS and Pocket PC handheld PDAs with SD expansion slots, as well as Treo and Windows Mobile "smartphones" (Palm OS 5.2 or Windows Mobile 2002 and above)... Immediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, daredevil flyer Jimmy Doolittle led a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo itself. This is the true account of how ordinary people, when faced with extraordinary circumstances, can rise to the challenge of history.
Average customer rating: |
The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid (Unabridged)
Craig Nelson Manufacturer: audible.com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Download ASIN: B00029DHBS |
Average customer rating: |
The First Heroes The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid- America's First World War II Victory
Craig Nelson Manufacturer: Viking Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000J176ZC |
Average customer rating: |
The First Heroes The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid- America's First World War II Victory
Craig Nelson Manufacturer: Viking Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000J0ZJ5M |
Average customer rating: |
When Indians Became Cowboys: Native Peoples and Cattle Ranching in the American West
Peter Iverson Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0806128844 |
Average customer rating: |
When Indians Became Cowboys: Native Peoples and Cattle Ranching in the American West
Peter Iverson Manufacturer: Univ of Oklahoma Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000V2M2VW |
Average customer rating: |
Incineration of Hazardous Waste 2: Toxic Combustion By-Products
Wm Seeker Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 2881246133 |
Book Description
This book is based on papers delivered at the Second International Congress on Toxic Combustion By-products: Formation and Control, held at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, 26-29 March 1991. Covering analysis of the process from system design to air quality, this book will be of interest to researchers in the field of combustion science, chemical manufacturers, incinerator designers and operators, and environmental scientists.
Average customer rating: |
Incineration of Hazardous Waste: Toxic Combustion By-Products
Wm Seeker Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 288124517X |
Book Description
This book is based on the papers delivered at the First International Congress on Toxic Combustion By-Products: Formation and Control held at the University of California, Los Angeles, August 26-29, 1989. The topics explored include areas critical to the development of advanced designs of combustion devices and new control strategies, and to the development and implementation of appropriate government regulations. The papers focus particularly on combustion of waste. This is in response to public concern about further degradation of the environment, long-term health effects, and the popular perception that incineration poses an necessary hazard to both humans and the environment. Other subjects covered include an overview of the emissions, health risks and existing regulations, continuous emissions monitoring and control, processing of solids and liquids, fundamental chemistry, metals emissions, PAH/soot chemistry, gas transport, and advanced combustion and control systems. Researchers in the fieldBooks:
Recommended Books