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	The Passive Solar House Using Solar Design to Heat & Cool Your Home James Kachadorian	Details
	"The book is suffused with a sensitivity to environmental issues of all sorts, a useful perspective in these resource-limited times. An essentially simple book, elegant in presentation and forceful in argument; recommended for extensive scientific and/or broader home-building collections." --Library Journal

	Green by Design Creating a Home for Sustainable Living by Angela Dean	Details
	Green by Design provides a thorough analysis of what it means to build green and offers advice on what to consider when designing a sustainable home. Green by Design features full-color photographs and line drawings of floor plans that show different examples of successful sustainable homes.

	House That Jill Built A Woman's Guide to Home Building by Judy Ostrow Photography: Karen Leffler	Details
	Few experiences are as mind-and-body wrenching or as ultimately fulfilling as the design and building of one's own home. Now, an exhilarating new book offers an inside look at the process from a woman's perspective.

	Independent Builder Sam Clark	Details
	This is a comprehensive manual of design and building methods for owner-builders as well as professional builders and their clients. In addition to presenting specific building techniques, the book explains the design principles and planning processes that underlie all good building, so that readers can develop their own exceptional designs, independently

	Mexican Details by Karen Witynski and Joe P. Carr	Details
	In their sixth book, Mexican Details, designers Karen Witynski and Joe P. Carr travel through the Southwest in celebration of the character-rich details of Mexican furniture, architectural elements, and handcrafted accents that resonate with beauty and originality.

	Natural Home Heating The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Options Greg Pahl	Details
	Here is the comprehensive guide to heating your home without heating up the planet. For warm feet and a clear conscience, this is the book you need." --Bill McKibben, author of Enough! Staying Human in an Engineered World

	Small Adobe House by Agnesa Reeve Photography: Robert Reck	Details
	Building or remodeling an adobe house is an artistic endeavor, with all the satisfaction and occasional frustration of any artistic effort. But once you've lived sheltered by adobe walls, you won't want anything else.

	The Sauna A Complete Guide to the Construction, Use, and Benefits of the Finnish Bath Rob Roy	Details
	This completely revised and expanded edition of The Sauna. contains everything you ever wanted to know about the famous “Finnish bath.” In this inviting book, Roy shares his infectious enthusiasm for the sauna and provides a complete, detailed guide to sauna building, along with resources for equipment and supplies.

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