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  • Off The Grid Homes

    by Lori Ryker ...
    An in-depth look at the strategies employed in sustainable home design. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Everything Guide to Living Off the Grid

    A back-to-basics manual for independent living

    by Terri Reid ...
    Series series Everything® Series
    Do you want to have electricity and hot water at any time, no matter what's going on outside your property? Do you want to have more control over the things you eat and how they are processed? Do you want your family safe from the worries of a bad economy and crime?If you answered "yes" to these questions, then living off the grid may be for you. Although living off the grid takes some hard work, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Log Cabins

    How to Build and Furnish Them

    Ever wanted a cabin or little cottage in the woods but don’t know where to start? With Log Cabins, author William S. Wicks offers clear, practical instructions on how to build your own log cabin-and furnish it, too-while harmonizing the structure’s interior and exterior with the surrounding environment. Topics include: Location scouting and preparation Foundations, tools, and materials Roofs and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Living Off the Grid

    A Simple Guide to Creating and Maintaining a Self-Reliant Supply of Energy, Water, Shelter, and More

    by David Black ...
    In daily life, we can take control of the resources and services we depend on. Electricity and energy don’t have to come off the public utility grid—alternatives abound in solar, wind, and water generated power. Design decisions can drastically affect power consumption, and bio-diesel and alternative fuels can help break the oil habit. Dave Black describes alternatives for eco-pimping your home ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Compact Cabins

    Simple Living in 1000 Square Feet or Less; 62 Plans for Camps, Cottages, Lake Houses, and Other Getaways

    by Gerald Rowan ...
    Discover the best cabin for your lifestyle and location with this illustrated guide featuring sixty-two floor plans for under one,zero feet.Design and build the comfortable cabin that perfectly suits your every desire. The sixty-two plans in Compact Cabins feature innovative storage solutions, clever use of outdoor space, mix-and-match modular elements, and off-the-grid energy options to help you ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Life After Life

    A Novel

    by Kate Atkinson ...
    What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Working Drawings Handbook

    Covering every aspect of drawing preparation, both manual and computer-aided, this comprehensive manual is an essential tool for students, architects and architectural technologists. Showing what information is required on each type of document, how drawings relate to specifications, and how to organize and document your work, this handbook presents a fully illustrated guide to all the key methods ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Building a Low Impact Roundhouse

    by Tony Wrench ...
    Tony covers the process of visualising and designing a house through to the practical side of lifting the living roof, infilling the walls. laying out rooms and adding renewable, autonomous technology. He offers advice on roofs, floors, walls, compost toilets, wood stoves, kitchens, windows and on planning permissions. There are photographs of the dwelling and illustrations from the construction ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Architecture and Adaptation

    From Cybernetics to Tangible Computing

    Architecture and Adaptation discusses architectural projects that use computational technology to adapt to changing conditions and human needs. Topics include kinetic and transformable structures, digitally driven building parts, interactive installations, intelligent environments, early precedents and their historical context, socio-cultural aspects of adaptive architecture, the history and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • How Buildings Work

    The Natural Order of Architecture

    Illustrated with hundreds of illuminating line drawings, this classic guide reveals virtually every secret of a building's function: how it stands up, keeps its occupants safe and comfortable, gets built, grows old, and dies--and why some buildings do this so much better than others. Drawing on things he's learned from the many buildings he himself designed (and in some cases built with his own ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Natural Gas Energy Measurement

    Edited by A. Attari, D.L. Klass ...
    Papers presented at the First and Second IGT Symposium, Chicago, IL, USA, 26-28 August 1985 and 30 April-2 May 1986. ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Materials, Specification and Detailing

    Foundations of Building Design

    Series series Technologies of Architecture
    Continuing in the holistic philosophy of the Technologies of Architecture series, this volume examines the various layers of knowledge, skills and mechanisms that make up the many approaches to the essential function of technical design in the creation of successful buildings.Well-illustrated with case studies, the author draws on his extensive experience in architectural education to provide a ... Read more

    $59.99 USD