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The Chippewa
Biography of a Wisconsin Waterway
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Inspired by August Derleth’s seminal book The Wisconsin, Richard D. Cornell traveled the Chippewa River from its two sources south of Ashland to where it joins the Mississippi. Over several decades he returned time and again in his red canoe to immerse himself in the stories of the Chippewa River...
Perfect Order
Recognizing Complexity in Bali
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group...
Swan
Poems and Prose Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Widely regarded as the "rock star" of American poetry, Mary Oliver is a writer whose words have long had the power to move countless readers. Regularly topping the national poetry best-seller list and drawing thousands to her sold-out readings across the coutnry, Oliver is unparalleled in...
Little House Off the Grid
Our Family's Journey to Self-Sufficiency
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Like so many other city-dwellers, Cam and Michelle Mather longed for a simpler, quieter life in the country. When they found a century-old farmhouse on 150 acres of land that was in their price range, they jumped at the chance to make their move. The fact that the home was “off-grid” with no power...
by Lynn Haney
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2007
Roughing it doesn't have to be uncomfortable...or expensive!
Camping in Comfort is the complete guide to help you enjoy the latest advances in outdoor gear without wasting money on expensive, unnecessary paraphernalia. Packed with information on tents, sleeping gear, clothing, footwear, and...
The Self-Sufficient Home
Going Green and Saving Money
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
How to cut heating and cooling costs, utilize solar energy, construct nonflush toilets and solar showers, collect rainwater, and apply permaculture techniques. Hundreds of photographs and diagrams illustrate ways to use natural resources and embrace self-reliance. Sustainable living advice from self-reliance...
The Pocket Guide to Prepping Supplies
More Than 200 Items You Can?t Be Without
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
You will need more than just food and water when the grid goes down.
Many people know what they need to survive a doomsday scenario. They stock high-calorie foods and clean water, they find their own sources of power and heat, and they prepare to defend themselves, if need be. With all they...
Tornado Hunter
Getting Inside the Most Violent Storms on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Like the deadly tornadoes it documents, this potent combination of high adventure and hard science is terrifyingly timely in our era of global warming and climate change. The Weather Channel, now America's most watched programming, has in recent years shown us a relentless series of hurricanes, tsunamis,...
All we need is hemp!
One plant, 1000 uses.
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Could hemp be the most versatile and indispensable plant on earth?
The pressing objective of this public information encyclopaedia (270 illustrations) is to put hemp firmly back in the spotlight, with all its excellent applications: biofuels, food, bio plastics, paper, textiles, construction...
Ether pur
projet écologique mondial de la Nation Essénienne
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Avant que les hommes ne tissent la trame d'un réseau mondial de communication artificiel, les montagnes et les grands arbres formaient déjà un vaste réseau de communication subtil qui entourait la Terre. A travers ce réseau, les hommes savaient communiquer entre eux et avec les êtres de la nature,...
Building Hoover Dam
An Oral History Of The Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Andrew J. Dunar and Dennis McBride skillfully interweave eyewitness accounts of the building of Hoover Dam. These stories create the richest existing portrait of the building of Hoover Dam and its tremendous effect on the lives of those involved in its creation: the gritty, sometimes grisly realities...
by Masaru Emoto
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Dr. Masaru Emoto's stunning water-crystal photographs have enchanted millions of people in his many books. His groundbreaking work has shown that thoughts and words have a direct effect on water- crystal formation, and since our bodies are mostly water, our thoughts and words certainly affect not...
by David J. Mackey
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Reflections is a collection of photographs and writings by the author from his journeys in the northeast and northwest over several decades of his life. The author's visual and informational elements address artistic aspects, poetic inspirations and occasionally the characteristics of reflective light...
Garbage
The Saga of a Boss Scavenger in San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Garbage is a memoir of an exceptional trash collector from the streets and wharves of San Francisco. This is a rollicking first-person narrative that recounts an incredible life led and has amazing nuggets of wisdom scattered throughout its pages.
Stefanelli was trained to be a scavenger by his...