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The Mold Survival Guide: For Your Home and for Your Health 7 reviews
Jeffrey C. May, Connie L. May
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
The Mold Survival Guide
+ Antidote to Mold Allergies
+ It's more than mold
+ Calm and Information Guide
+ Tips on prevention are particularly well done
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Homes That Heal (and those that don't) : How Your Home Could be Harming Your Family's Health 8 reviews
Athena Thompson
New Society Publishers, 2004
SICK HOME OR HEALING HOME, THAT IS THE QUESTION
+ Healthy Information about your home
+ The healthy home handbook
+ Healthy Homes 101
+ Empowering and Enlightening
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The Electrical Sensitivity Handbook: How Electromagnetic Fields (Emfs Are Making People Sick)
Lucinda Grant
Weldon Pub, 1995
A resource guide for the latest environmental illness electrical sensitivity from electromagnetic fields (EMFs). This international expos explains the intricacies of the disease with U.S. resources for medical, legal, and EMF services.
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What Every Home Owner Needs to Know About Mold and What to Do About It 15 reviews
Vicki Lankarge
McGraw-Hill, 2003
Mold and what to do
+ For the home owner dealing with their insurace company
Everyone needs the knowledge concerning what to do about mold. Many people are needlessly sick not realizing that this is the culprit behind it.
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Builder's Guide to Mixed Climates: Details for Design and Construction3 reviews
Joseph Lstiburek
Taunton, 2000
Direct and informative
+ A Better Way to Build
+ great illustrations
Well focused and aimed at the home builder in areas where average winter temperatures drop below 45 F (disregard back cover, which says "above 45 F") with 20 inch annual rainfall or more, e.g., Washington D.C., St Louis, or Seattle, it contains a complete discussion of insulation, ventilation, and ...
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Field Guide for the Determination of Biological Contaminants in Environmental Samples, Second Edition
AIHA
AIHA, 2005
This second edition of AIHA's Field Guide incorporates the most recent findings and research that reflect prevailing occupational health and safety and industrial hygiene practices. Its nine chapters provide the most current solutions to problems facing professionals working with biological contaminants This guide serves as an academic and professional reference.
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Clean and Green: The Complete Guide to Non-Toxic and Environmentally Safe Housekeeping20 reviews
Annie Berthold-Bond
Ceres Press, 1994
lots of info
+ Another Great "Green Cleaning Book"
+ Clean and Green
+ great book, but supply your own common sense
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Damp Indoor Spaces and Health
Committee on Damp Indoor Spaces and Health
National Academies Press, 2004
Covers a broad range of topics. While not only examining the relationship between damp or moldy indoor environments and adverse health outcomes, it also discusses how and where buildings get wet, how dampness influences microbial growth and chemical emissions and much more.
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Starting Points for a Healthy Habitat2 reviews
Carl E. Grimes
G M C Media, 1999
Life altering, life correcting, life saving.
+ An Essential Reference Book
I suffered a three-strike attack on my health several years ago, first with a dangerous gas leaking into an office building, then with a massive plumbing flood that combined with the gas to generate incredible amounts of mold/fungus, etc., finally with a mix of kerosene/jet fuel and heavy ...
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Naturally Clean: The Seventh Generation Guide to Safe & Healthy, Non-Toxic Cleaning5 reviews
Jeffrey Hollender, Geoff Davis, ...
New Society Publishers, 2006
Informative book
+ A must have.
+ Naturally Clean
+ What an amazing book!
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The Homeowner's Guide to Mold6 reviews
Michael A. Pugliese
R.S. Means Company, 2006
Read this book if you are buying a house!
+ A clear and helpful resource with an available author.
+ A very educational book with an accessible and extremely helpful author
+ Mold remediation for the home owner
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The Healthy Living Space: 70 Practical Ways to Detoxify the Body and Home7 reviews
Richard Leviton
Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 2001
an almost overwhelming amount of information
+ Dont be confused
+ Giant!
+ It's all here!
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Home Safe Home13 reviews
Debra Lynn Dadd
Tarcher, 1997
EYE OPENER!
+ great info without hysteria
+ Best book I've read on the Subject!
+ very comprehensive
+ lots of info
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Allergy Free: An Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide
Konrad Kail, Bobbi Lawrence, ...
Alternativemedicine.com Books, 2000
Explores self-help options for treating allergies.
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The New Natural House Book: Creating a Healthy, Harmonious, and Ecologically Sound Home7 reviews
David Pearson
Fireside, 1998
For a healthy house read this book
+ The Natural Home
+ A perfect book for those serious about change...for the better
Our home, especially if we have the opportunity to build from scratch, should reflect a great deal about our worldview. The visitor should be able to tell from what he sees and from a few simple questions how the owner feels about some of the most pressing questions of our time, including the ...
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Your Naturally Healthy Home: Stylish, Safe, Simple3 reviews
Alan Berman
Rodale Press, 2001
For Those Concerned with Health
+ Your Naturally Healthy Home
This book is an excellent. It is both a guide to bulding home, and at the same time a guide to the toxins in our home furnishing and ways to minimize our exposure. More and more people are concerned about the chemicals impregnated in the fabrics, woods, paints, and plastics we buy. For instance, ...
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Builder's Guide to Cold Climates (2006)
Joseph Lstiburek, 2006
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Moisture Control Handbook: Principles and Practices for Residential and Small Commercial Buildings3 reviews
Joseph Lstiburek, John Carmody
Wiley, 1996
An excellent practical reference
+ Tons of info and diagrams
+ Moisture Control Handbook review
This is an excellent introductory overview of practical problems and solutions relating to moisture control in buildings. The diagrams are outstanding! The emphasis is on moisture problems and solutions in low-rise framed buildings. My only disappointment is that the underlying physics are not ...
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Prescriptions for a Healthy House9 reviews
Paula Baker-Laporte, Erica Elliott, ...
New Society Publishers, 2001
Good one.
+ Vital information, a lot of it came as a shock!
+ A must have for your library if your're into healthy homes
+ Walking her talk
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Clean House Clean Planet78 reviews
Karen Logan
Pocket, 1997
Going Green
+ Good book but poorly organized
+ Synopsis
+ Good informative book
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