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July 18, 2010

Best Price The Ultimate Southern Living Christmas Book: Over 400 Ways to Celebrate the Season – Southern Living Style

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The Ultimate Southern Living Christmas Book: Over 400 Ways to Celebrate the Season – Southern Living Style Overview

For the first time, Southern Living has collected in one volume all the inspiration, advice and instruction you need for the best of Christmas decorating, entertaining, and gift giving. Building on 30 years of Southern Living Christmas creativity, you’ll find glimmering table settings, beautiful room decorations, charming gifts, and the most filling and fulfilling Christmas meals ever. Southern Living ’s signature approach supplies readers with no-fail instructions, tips, and illustrations that, working together, create a Christmas season beyond compare. Whether a guide or a gift, The Ultimate Southern Living Christmas Book is one book that will keep on giving Christmas after Christmas.

The Ultimate Southern Living Christmas Book: Over 400 Ways to Celebrate the Season – Southern Living Style Review

Well, it finally was released. I was so excited to see that this book was on the way and I certainly haven’t been disappointed. I just love all the decorating ideas in this book – my husband grabbed it and off he went to the store to buy the stuff it recommends. Sure was beautiful when he was done. This book makes decorating elegantly so very beautiful for the holidays, and it just gives you so many nice ideas. But, the RECIPES! Yikes! Better buy those elastic waisted pants because you’ll need them after these awesome dishes. You know it’s bad when you want to start with the first recipe and just make everything else afterwards. That’s how it is with this book. It’s really that good! You won’t be disappointed with this book. I just love it!

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June 20, 2010

Best Price The Straw Bale House (A Real Goods Independent Living Book)

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The Straw Bale House (A Real Goods Independent Living Book) Overview

Get a leg up on the first Little Pig with The Straw Bale House, your guide to inexpensive, durable, earth-friendly construction that will stand up to much more than the Big Bad Wolf. Authors Athena Swentzell Steen and Bill Steen founded the Canelo Project, which promotes innovative building; David Bainbridge is a California restoration ecologist; and David Eisenberg is an alternative-materials builder who pioneered straw bale wall testing. Between them, they have encyclopedic knowledge of their subject. The book is comprehensive, broadly covering why and how to build with straw and then focusing on the details, which are both intellectually and aesthetically delightful.

Beside being cheap, clean, and lightweight, straw also provides advantages like energy efficiency and resistance to seismic stresses. For the nervous Martha Stewart types, there are scads of black-and-white and color plates of strikingly beautiful interiors and exteriors from New Mexico to southern France. Both new and experienced builders will appreciate the clear, simple instructions and diagrams, as well as practical explanations for dealing with building codes and insurers. The Straw Bale House shows us advantages so numerous and dramatic that you’ll wonder why we ever moved on to sticks and bricks. –Rob Lightner

The Straw Bale House (A Real Goods Independent Living Book) Review

For someone who knew nothing about straw bale construction this book was not only informative, but also inspiring. The Straw Bale House contains a lot of good information about the specifics of straw bale construction. I found that because it covered information about straw bale construction from start to finish it couldn’t go into as much detail about any one aspect as much as I would have liked. However, my feeling is that this book was designed to get you interested and then send you out to gather the more specific information for yourself. It has proven effective at inspiring me.

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March 22, 2010

Buy, Cheap, Low Price, Discount, A Vision of a Living World: The Nature of Order, Book 3

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A Vision of a Living World: The Nature of Order, Book 3 Review

Alexander’s long-awaited third book in the four-volume Nature of Order series finally provides a practical guide to creating great places based on his concepts of “centers”, “wholeness” and “structure-preserving transformations.”

Page after page of photos and diagrams give weight to Alexander’s process-oriented approach to building.

This tome should be required reading for anyone who has wondered whether there is a way to reinvent our cities and suburbs away from “sprawl” and into vibrant, living places.

A Vision of a Living World: The Nature of Order, Book 3 Overview

In Book 3 of this four-volume work, Alexander presents hundreds of his own buildings and those of other contemporaries who have used methods consistent with the theory of living process.

Nearly seven hundred pages of projects, built and planned in many countries over a thirty-year period, illustrate the impact of living process on the world. The book provides the reader with an intuitive feel for the kind of world, its style and geometry, which is needed to generate living structure in the world and its communities, together with its ecological and natural character.

The projects include public buildings, neighborhoods, housing built by people for themselves, public urban space, rooms, gardens, ornament, colors, details of construction and construction innovation. The many buildings shown, and the methods needed to design and build these buildings, define living structure in a practical way that can be understood and copied.

“. . . Alexander’s approach presents a fundamental challenge to us and our style-obsessed age. It suggests that a beautiful form can come about only through a process that is meaningful to people. It also implies that certain types of processes, regardless of when they occur or who does them, can lead to certain types of forms.”-Thomas Fisher, former editor of Progressive Architecture.

Christopher Alexander is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, architect, builder, and author of many books and technical papers. He is the winner of the first medal for research ever awarded by the American Institute of Architects, and Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for 40 years.

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February 27, 2010

Buy, Cheap, Low Price, Discount, Living in Morocco

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Living in Morocco Review

This is an excellent book for anyone interested in interior design or Morocco.
Full of beautifull photos of guest houses and private homes in Morocco. The book is presented beautifully and would make a great present for someone special or even as a gift to yourself.

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ARABIAN NIGHTS IN CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO THOUGH IT LIES JUST ACROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN FROM EUROPE, BARELY A STONE’S THROW FROM SPAIN’S SOUTHERNMOST TIP, MOROCCO COULDN’T POSSIBLY BE FARTHER AWAY. WITH ITS MOUNTAINOUS AND DESERT LANDSCAPES, LABYRINTHINE SOUKS, DELECTABLE CUISINE, EXQUISITE RUGS AND TEXTILES, VIBRANT MOSAICS, FRAGRANT ODORS, MESMERIZING MUSIC, AND WELCOMING PEOPLE, MOROCCO IS A MOST ALLURING AND TANTALIZINGLY EXOTIC DESTINATION. DIGGING A LITTLE DEEPER INTO THE MYTH OF MOROCCO, BARBARA AND RENE STOELTIE BRING US THIS ECLECTIC SELECTION OF HOMES THAT DEMONSTRATE ALL THAT IS MOST WONDERFUL ABOUT MOROCCAN STYLE. FLIPPING THROUGH THESE PAGES OF FAIRY TALE INTERIORS (IDEALLY WHILST SIPPING A STEAMING CUP OF SWEET, FRAGRANT MINT TEA) YOU’LL BE INSTANTLY TRANSPORTED.

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February 26, 2010

Buy, Cheap, Low Price, Discount, Living in Morocco

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Living in Morocco Review

This is an excellent book for anyone interested in interior design or Morocco.
Full of beautifull photos of guest houses and private homes in Morocco. The book is presented beautifully and would make a great present for someone special or even as a gift to yourself.

Living in Morocco Overview

ARABIAN NIGHTS IN CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO THOUGH IT LIES JUST ACROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN FROM EUROPE, BARELY A STONE’S THROW FROM SPAIN’S SOUTHERNMOST TIP, MOROCCO COULDN’T POSSIBLY BE FARTHER AWAY. WITH ITS MOUNTAINOUS AND DESERT LANDSCAPES, LABYRINTHINE SOUKS, DELECTABLE CUISINE, EXQUISITE RUGS AND TEXTILES, VIBRANT MOSAICS, FRAGRANT ODORS, MESMERIZING MUSIC, AND WELCOMING PEOPLE, MOROCCO IS A MOST ALLURING AND TANTALIZINGLY EXOTIC DESTINATION. DIGGING A LITTLE DEEPER INTO THE MYTH OF MOROCCO, BARBARA AND RENE STOELTIE BRING US THIS ECLECTIC SELECTION OF HOMES THAT DEMONSTRATE ALL THAT IS MOST WONDERFUL ABOUT MOROCCAN STYLE. FLIPPING THROUGH THESE PAGES OF FAIRY TALE INTERIORS (IDEALLY WHILST SIPPING A STEAMING CUP OF SWEET, FRAGRANT MINT TEA) YOU’LL BE INSTANTLY TRANSPORTED.

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February 22, 2010

Buy, Cheap, Low Price, Discount, The Straw Bale House (A Real Goods Independent Living Book)

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The Straw Bale House (A Real Goods Independent Living Book) Review

This book would seem to be an indispensible starting point for anyone looking into the straw bale home concept. If the thought of a poorly-insulated, energy-guzzling, expensive, bland, mass-produced, contractor-built home doesn’t quite appeal to you, this book is essential, for it shows that inexpensive doesn’t have to mean low quality nor unattractive. In fact, bales and other “natural”, low-cost building materials can yield attractively individual results in part because they are easy and fun to work with, enfranchising the future owner to be his or her own designer and builder. The inspiring photos included in the book help make the case for the aesthetic advantages. Of course, the most important function is to show how to build the straw bale home. In this respect, the book succeeds admirably, giving diagrams to illustrate the major techniques being used and showing how simple straw bale building is. Incidentally, this would make an attractive book for your coffee table even if you are just mildly interested in the subject. One warning though: even including the index and other back-of-the-book sections, there are only 297 pages, not 336!

The Straw Bale House (A Real Goods Independent Living Book) Overview

Get a leg up on the first Little Pig with The Straw Bale House, your guide to inexpensive, durable, earth-friendly construction that will stand up to much more than the Big Bad Wolf. Authors Athena Swentzell Steen and Bill Steen founded the Canelo Project, which promotes innovative building; David Bainbridge is a California restoration ecologist; and David Eisenberg is an alternative-materials builder who pioneered straw bale wall testing. Between them, they have encyclopedic knowledge of their subject. The book is comprehensive, broadly covering why and how to build with straw and then focusing on the details, which are both intellectually and aesthetically delightful.

Beside being cheap, clean, and lightweight, straw also provides advantages like energy efficiency and resistance to seismic stresses. For the nervous Martha Stewart types, there are scads of black-and-white and color plates of strikingly beautiful interiors and exteriors from New Mexico to southern France. Both new and experienced builders will appreciate the clear, simple instructions and diagrams, as well as practical explanations for dealing with building codes and insurers. The Straw Bale House shows us advantages so numerous and dramatic that you’ll wonder why we ever moved on to sticks and bricks. –Rob Lightner

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December 29, 2009

Check Out Feng Shui: The Art of Living (Mini Book) (Petites) for $0.01

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Feng Shui: The Art of Living (Mini Book) (Petites) Review


Feng (wind) Shui (water) is the Chinese art or practice of positioning objects to complement the patterns of yin and yang. This wonderful little book can fit in the back pocket of your jeans, yet the text is not so small that you need a magnifying glass to see what it says.

Feng Shui has gained popularity in this New Age in which we live. The philosophy, however, is ancient and respected Chinese Art. Although it takes years to master Feng Shui, this little red book is filled with tips that are easy for any beginner, such as I am, to create a more peaceful and energetic environment.

Not all of the tips answer the question “why,” but some do. I think this is part of the philosophy, for how can anyone explain art or trust? There are many topics covered in this book, including sustenance, light and reflection, water, color and scent, nature, and more.

These are some of the tips. (1) Goldfish represent wealth and fertility and should never be placed in the kitchen or bedroom. (2) Get rid of the clutter because “hoarding creates stale energy.” (3) Sharp corners and angles in your furniture create a disruptive flow, while rounded objects create harmony. (4) Cool colors create passive energy while warm tones are energetic and passionate. (5) Keep your windows clean to enhance clarity and vision.

This little book of art and philosophy are filled with golden nuggets. For me, it is 5 stars.

Victoria Tarrani

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Nearly a philosophy. – – USA
One of my friends in Chicago practices Feng Shui in her home, office, even her car. What I find when I visit her is a sense of peace. I’ve carried this little pocket edition from country to country, shared it with my troops, and given many copies away. Facing an enemy is made easier by the bond we share through common knowledge.

Feng Shui – The Art of Living – –
Wonderful! Simple tips for creating a peaceful and nurturing environment without having to read through pages and pages of ‘WHY’. Short and sweet (but thorough) and small enough to keep at my desk for office use, as well! Fabulous colors throughout covering topics from ‘Home’ to ‘Love’ – and we could all use a little more ‘Love’………

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