books about: home-scale     books:       Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People Tim Reiterman Tarcher, 2008 For the first time in paperback, Tim Reiterman’s Raven provides the definitive history of the Rev. Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the murderous ordeal at Jonestown three decades ago. This PEN Award–winning work explores the ideals-gone-wrong, the intrigue, and the grim realities behind the Peoples Temple and its implosion in the jungle of South America. Reiterman’s reportage clarifies enduring misperceptions of the character and ...             Creating Moments of Joy: A Journal for Caregivers, Fourth Edition (NEW COVER) Jolene Brackey Purdue University Press, 2008 Jolene Brackey has a vision. A vision that will soon look beyond the challenges of Alzheimer's disease and focus more of our energy on creating moments of joy. When a person has short-term memory loss, his life is made up of moments. But if you think about it, our memory is made up of moments, too. We are not able to create a perfectly wonderful day with someone who has dementia, but it is absolutely attainable to create a perfectly wonderful ...             Fit Moms For Life: How To Have Endless Energy To Outplay Your Kids Dustin Maher Morgan James Publishing, 2011 Discover the 5 secret pillars that, when combined, will result in rapid fat loss, but more importantly lasting fat loss.  This will be the last fitness book you will ever need.  Fit Moms For Life talks about what it takes to make this a lifestyle and not just another flash in the pan diet and exercise program that you do for a few weeks and stop. Get to know 31 amazing women who have taken the Fit Mom For Life Challenge and dropped ...             Invisible: A Novel Ginny L. Yttrup B&H Books, 2013 Ellyn DeMoss -- chef, café owner, and lover of butter -- is hiding behind her extra weight. But what is she hiding? While Ellyn sees the good in others, she has only condemnation for herself. So when a handsome widower claims he’s attracted to Ellyn, she’s certain there’s something wrong with him.   Sabina Jackson -- tall, slender, and exotic -- left her husband, young adult daughters, and a thriving counseling practice to spend a year ...             Creating Lifelike Figures in Polymer Clay: Tools and Techniques for Sculpting Realistic Figures Katherine Dewey Potter Craft, 2008 Polymer-clay crafters everywhere can learn how to sculpt realistic 6"-8" figures using the author's simple techniques. A well-known polymer clay teacher and sculptor, she shares a wealth of information that's accessible even to beginning sculptors. She covers the essentials, the fundamentals of figurative modelling and how to make the tools that will ensure success. She shows readers how to recreate faces and expressions, torsos, legs, hands and ...             David and the Phoenix Edward Ormondroyd SMK Books, 2009 When young David moves into his new home, he decided that it would be more fun to go exploring the mountains around him, rather than unpack. When he reaches the summit of the mountain, he is met by a Phoenix, after getting over their initial fright, they become good friends, and the phoenix decides to show him the magical wonders of his world. During their adventures there are many narrow escapes!             The Conscientious Marine Aquarist: A Commonsense Handbook for Successful Saltwater Hobbyists Robert M. Fenner TFH Publications, 2001 Drawing upon a lifetime of aquatic experience, marine biologist Bob Fenner demystifies the process of planning, setting up, stocking, and managing a beautiful, thriving slice of the tropical ocean. A leading advocate for the responsible collection and care of wild-caught specimens, Fenner starts with the basics and proceeds to give the reader the scientific background and expert-level secrets to being a smarter consumer, better reef steward, ...             Flashback Gary Braver Forge Books, 2005 If you could relive your childhood, would you? What if you had no choice? On the thirty-fifth anniversary of his parents' mysterious drowning, Jack Koryan returns to his family beach cottage. During a swim, Jack is attacked by a school of rare jellyfish whose toxic stings put him in a coma for three years. When he awakens, he finds that the jellyfish toxin has left him with an extraordinary memory that impresses his doctors. This discovery is ...             Coach Yourself Thin: Five Steps to Retrain Your Mind, Reclaim Your Power, and Lose the Weight for Good Greg Hottinger, Michael Scholtz Rodale Books, 2011 Today dieters are more frustrated than ever before: Neither restrictive dieting nor a moderate middle-of-the-road approach has curtailed the obesity epidemic. As professional weight loss coaches, Greg Hottinger and Michael Scholtz have developed a new weight loss paradigm that has produced impressive results for the Biggest Loser Club online members. Hottinger and Scholtz's unique strategy helps readers identify the obstacles that are sabotaging ...             The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market ... Harvey Ussery Chelsea Green Publishing, 2011             The Garden Primer Barbara Damrosch Workman Publishing Company, 1988 A 688-page volume jam-packed with practical information, advice, tips, and quirky wisdom, both basic enough for the novice and complete enough to help those with more experience improve their gardening habits, The Garden Primer leads all readers down the path to a simpler and more successful garden. Combining easy "how-to" instruction with quirky wisdom and tried-and-true advice, the author reassuringly guides the reader through the flower ...             The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to ... Rodale Books, 1996 End your worries about garden problems with safe, effective solutions from The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control ! * Easy-to-use problem-solving encyclopedia covers more than 200 vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, trees, and shrubs * Complete directions on how, when, and where to use preventive methods, insect traps and barriers, biocontrols, homemade remedies, botanical insecticides, and more * More than 350 ...             Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House Franklin Toker Knopf, 2003 Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told. When he got the commission to design the house, Wright was nearing seventy, his youth and his early fame long gone. It was the Depression, and Wright had no work in sight. Into ...             Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking: The Ultimate Guide for Home-Scale and Market Producers Gianaclis Caldwell Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012 The key to becoming a successful artisan cheesemaker is to develop the intuition essential for problem solving, and developing unique styles of cheeses. There are an increasing number of books on the market about making cheese, but none approach the intricacies of cheesemaking science alongside considerations for preparing each type of cheese variety in as much detail as Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking . Indeed, this book fills a big hole in the ...             Man On Top: Lose Fat, Get Fit, and Control Your Weight For Life Roland Denzel Fit Ink Publications, 2012 Amazon Bestseller "Man on Top  - Lose Fat, Get Fit, and Control Your Weight for Life" THE BUSY MAN'S WEIGHT LOSS MANUAL!     'Man on Top. One of the most sound weight loss books I have read. I couldn't have written anything better myself.' - Dr. Spencer Nadolsky     Praise from Alan Aragon , MS, Author of Girth Control, The Science of Fat Loss & Muscle Gain, & Columnist, ...             Parkinson's Disease For Dummies Michele Tagliati, Gary Guten, ... For Dummies, 2007 If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease you’re probably wrestling with fear, despair, and countless questions about the future. It’s brighter than you think. In Parkinson’s Disease for Dummies, you’ll discover how to keep a positive attitude and lead an active, productive life as this user-friendly, guide pilots you through the important steps toward taking charge of your condition. It helps you: Make ...             The Pine Barrens John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968 Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens. The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acid to be good for farming. On ...             Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening--With ... Sepp Holzer Chelsea Green Publishing, 2011 Sepp Holzer farms steep mountainsides in Austria 1,500 meters above sea level. His farm is an intricate network of terraces, raised beds, ponds, waterways and tracks, well covered with productive fruit trees and other vegetation, with the farmhouse neatly nestling amongst them. This is in dramatic contrast to his neighbors' spruce monocultures. In this book, Holzer shares the skill and knowledge acquired over his lifetime. He covers every aspect ...             Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture Toby Hemenway, John Todd Chelsea Green, 2001 Permaculture is a verbal marriage of "permanent" and "agriculture." Australian Bill Mollison pioneered its development. Key features include: use of compatible perennials; non-invasive planting techniques; emphasis on biodiversity; specifically adaptable to local climate, landscape, and soil conditions; highly productive output of edibles. Now, picture your backyard as one incredibly lush garden, filled with edible flowers, bursting ...             Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades, 6th Edition: The Complete Guide to Organic Gardening Steve Solomon Sasquatch Books, 2007 This is the updated 6th edition of Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades, which has evolved from a self-published pamphlet to the master guide to organic vegetable gardening over the past 28 years. Steve Solomon, who was a founder of the Territorial Seed Company, was one of the early proponents of organic gardening, and the first to codify and refine the best practices of small-plot vegetable gardening in the Pacific Northwest. The approaches ...              search for books all-natural, caregivers, cheesemaking, chemicals, commonsense, conscientious, cultivation, extraordinary, fallingwater, flashback, gardening, hobbyists, home-scale, information, integrative, invisible, livestock, mastering, parkinson, permaculture, practical, problem-solving, producers, realistic, saltwater, sculpting, small-scale, successful, techniques, vegetables books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen electronics: Belkin Slim 15" Notebook Polyester Backpack, Black/Light Gray (Windows) home  impressum - about us