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  • Sunset Editors: Homeowners Guide to Wood Stoves
  • Sargent, Thelma: The Homeric Hymns; a Verse Translation
  • Dunne, Margaret: House Cleaning Made Easy: Tips, Tricks and Strategies for Getting Job Done Fast
  • Lucas, Ted: How to Build a Solar Heater: A Complete Guide to Building and Buying Solar Panels, Water Heaters, Pool Heaters, Barbecues, and Power Plants
  • How to Design and Build Your Own House
    by Lupe Didonno, Phyllis Sperling
    ISBN 0394752007 (0-394-75200-7)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

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    Book summary:

    This book guides you systematically through the whole process of designing and building your own house. It offers practical assistance from the moment you begin thinking about the kind of house you want. It helps you focus your ideas and translate them into working plans. It shows you how to estimate costs. Then, step by step, it shows you how to construct the house -- explaining and illustrating every step systematically so that you can proceed confidently from beginning to end.

    Here are complete, clear instructions on everything you need to know, including:
    -- How to decide what you want the house to be like -- inside and outside, and in relation to the environment and neighborhood
    -- How to translate your ideas and decisions into working drawings
    -- How to deal with all the components of a house: structural (roof, floor, walls, columns, foundations), mechanical (plumbing and heating), electrical, interior and exterior finishing materials
    -- How to establish the exact dimensions of everything, how to decide and specify where components go (from windows, heating ducts, and electrical outlets to toilets and showers)
    -- How to choose and specify those parts of the house (windows, doors, furnace, hardware) that can be purchased prefabricated and ready to install
    -- How to estimate costs of everything specified
    -- How to incorporate the latest energy-conserving materials and equipment
    -- Step-by-step directions on how to build the house section by section, from excavation and foundations to floors, walls, and roof; fireplaces, chimneys, and stairs; plumbing, heating, and electricity; wood shingles, gutters, and waterproofing; how to lay brick and principles of brick construction...everything!

    Practical information is provided on purchasing materials and tools. And, throughout the book (exactly where needed) are pertinent instructions on basic techniques such as how to mix and work concrete, build forms, lay block, toe-in a nail, install a lockset, cut gypsum board and tile. Tables are included for calculating heat loss, loads, distances between structural elements, and so on. And the 748 line drawings illustrate every aspect of design and construction.

    With its clarity and authority -- and its extraordinary wealth of specific, detailed instruction -- this is the single most comprehensive and useful book ever published on how to design and build your own house. [via]

  • United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development: How to Insulate Your Home and Save Fuel
    How to Insulate Your Home and Save Fuel
    by United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
    ISBN 0486235211 (0-486-23521-1)
    Softcover, Dover Pubns

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  • Mason, Bernard Sterling: How to Make Drums, Tomtoms and Rattles: Primitive Percussion Instruments for Modern Use
  • Sunset: Ideas for Great Wall Systems
    Ideas for Great Wall Systems
    by Sunset
    ISBN 037601721X (0-376-01721-X)
    Softcover, Sunset Books

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    Book summary:

    A planning and shopping guide presents dozens of permanent and portable wall systems for holding books, electronics, and keepsakes, pictured in more than one hundred photographs. [via]

  • Sunset: Ideas for Great Windows & Doors
    Ideas for Great Windows & Doors
    by Sunset, Scott Atkinson
    ISBN 0376017538 (0-376-01753-8)
    Softcover, Leisure Arts

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  • Sunset Editors: Ideas for Landscaping and Garden Remodeling
  • Illustrated Guide Gardening
    by Carrol C. Calkins
    ISBN 0394217071 (0-394-21707-1)
    Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group

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  • Weltman, Barbara: J.K. Lasser's New Rules for Small Business Taxes
  • Bean, L. L., Staff: The L. L. Bean Guide to the Outdoors
    The L. L. Bean Guide to the Outdoors
    by Bean, L. L., Staff, Bill Riviere, J. Nicoletti
    ISBN 0394519280 (0-394-51928-0)
    Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

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  • Sunset Books: Landscaping Illustrated
    Landscaping Illustrated
    by Sunset Books
    ISBN 0376034599 (0-376-03459-9)
    Softcover, Leisure Arts

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  • Cole, Christopher: Make Your Own Doll's House: A Practical Guide Showing How to Make the Building of Your Choice in Miniature
  • Fling, Helen: Marionettes: How to Make and Work Them
    Marionettes: How to Make and Work Them
    by Helen Fling, Charles Forbell
    ISBN 0486229092 (0-486-22909-2)
    Softcover, Dover Pubns

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  • McBaine, Susan: Miniature Needlepoint Rugs for Dollhouses: Charted for Easy Use
  • Adkins, Jan: Moving Heavy Things
  • The Next Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools
    by Stewart Brand
    ISBN 0394739515 (0-394-73951-5)
    Hardcover, Point

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    Book summary:

    The Next Whole Earth Catalog Paperback: 608 pages Publisher: POINT; dist by Random House; 1st edition (October 1980) Language: English ISBN-10: 0394739515 ISBN-13: 978-0394739519 Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 10.7 x 1.6 inches Shipping Weight: 5.2 pounds [via]

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  • Welsh, Kate Shoup: Not Your Mama's Beading: The Cool And Creative Way to String 'em Along
  • Swenson, Amy: Not Your Mama's Crochet: The Cool And Creative Way to Join the Chain Gang
  • Dixon, Heather: Not Your Mama's Knitting: The Cool And Creative Way to Pick Up Sticks
  • Eisenberg, Ronni: Organize Yourself
    Organize Yourself
    by Ronni Eisenberg, Kate Kelly
    ISBN 0471657506 (0-471-65750-6)
    Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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  • Ready-To-Use Art Deco Borders
    by Ted Menten
    ISBN 0486249670 (0-486-24967-0)
    Softcover, Dover Pubns

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    Book summary:

    Hundreds of borders and enrichments, including frames, corners, cartouches, for the busy working artist are copyright-free and easy to use in this inexpensive collection. Add graphic excitement to menus, catalogs, greeting cards and all sorts of advertisements without statting. 32 black-and-white plates, with hundreds of individual motifs.
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  • Fulves, Karl: Self-Working Table Magic: Ninety-Seven Foolproof Tricks With Everyday Objects
  • Harrington, Philip S.: Star Ware: The Amateur Astronomer's Guide to Choosing, Buying, and Using Telescopes and Accessories
  • Harrington, Philip S.: Star Ware: The Amateur Astronomer's Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Buying, and Using Telescopes and Accessories
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    Sunset Complete Home Storage
    ISBN 037601766X (0-376-01766-X)
    Softcover, Lane Pub Co

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  • Bergmann, Craig: Sunset Midwestern Landscaping Book
  • Sockit, Sarah: Tease: 50 Inspired T-shirt Transformations by Superstars of Art, Craft, And Design
  • Terence Conran's New House Book
    by Terence Conran
    ISBN 0394546334 (0-394-54633-4)
    Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

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  • Carlin, Lesley: Things You Need to Be Told: A Handbook for Polite Behavior in a Tacky Rude World
  • U. S. Navy: Tools and Their Uses
    Tools and Their Uses
    by U. S. Navy
    ISBN 0486220222 (0-486-22022-2)
    Softcover, Dover Pubns

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  • Treehouses: The Art and Craft of Living Out on a Limb
    by Peter Nelson, David Larkin
    ISBN 0395629497 (0-395-62949-7)
    Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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    Book summary:

    Treehouses lift the spirits. They inspire dreams. They represent freedom: from adults or adulthood, from duties and responsibilities, from an earthbound perspective. If we can't fly with the birds, at least we can nest with them. With lively writing and beautiful photographs, Treehouses paints a fascinating portrait of this ingenious branch of architecture. It provides a brief history of treehouses, from Caligula through the Medici to Queen Victoria. It shows how to design and build a treehouse, from picking the right tree to shingling the roof. And it tells the stories of dozens of treehouses and the people who built them, from simple platforms nailed together by kids to arboreal palaces constructed and lived in by grown-ups. The centerpiece of the book is a photo essay showing Pete Nelson building a spectacular octagonal treehouse thirty feet up an old-growth fir on Saltspring Island in British Columbia. With two hundred square feet of floor space, cedar paneling, and leaded French doors, the Saltspring treehouse is one of the finest specimens of the treehouse builder's art. Anyone who has ever built a treehouse, or dreamed of it, or read Swiss Family Robinson, will find Treehouses irresistible.
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  • Rogers, Gay Ann: Tribal Designs for Needlepoint: 30 Original Designs Adapted from Eskimo, Polynesian, and Indian Art
  • Sunset Editors: Wall Systems and Shelving
    Wall Systems and Shelving
    by Sunset Editors
    ISBN 0376017112 (0-376-01711-2)
    Softcover, Leisure Arts

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  • Hackleman, Michael A.: Waterworks: An Owner-Builder Guide to Rural Water Systems
  • Sze Mai-Mai: Way of Chinese Painting
    Way of Chinese Painting
    by Sze Mai-Mai
    ISBN 0394701666 (0-394-70166-6)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

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  • Wilson, Jean Verseput: Weaving You Can Use
  • Locke, Jim: The Well Built House
    The Well Built House
    by Jim Locke
    ISBN 0395629519 (0-395-62951-9)
    Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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  • Sunset Books: Woodworking Projects II
    Woodworking Projects II
    by Sunset Books
    ISBN 0376048883 (0-376-04888-3)
    Softcover, Leisure Arts

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  • Franck, Frederick: The Zen of Seeing: Seeing Drawing As Meditation