Author: Clarke Snell
Publisher: Lark Books
Keywords: book, earth, adobe, cob, plaster, amp, home, natural, bale, straw, sense, common, guide, alternative, solar, homebuilding, house
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-04-28
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1579902812
ISBN-13: 9781579902810

From Lark Books and Natural Home magazine—which has a circulation of 200,000—comes an illustrated, unique guide to building an earth-friendly home.To create a dwelling that’s both ecologically sustainable and attractive, Natural Home magazine is the place to go. With this exquisitely illustrated guide, packed with 400 photos and illustrations, anyone can put environmentally friendly ideas into beautiful practice. Here’s an intelligent look at how a home is supposed to function and a variety of different building approaches. What’s important is finding the right solution to fit your i

Authors:Clarke Snell, Tim Callaha,
Publisher: Lark Book
Keywords: building, bale, cordwood, cob, roofs, living, straw, plaster, complete, guide, alternative, methods, earth
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 2005-12-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1579905323
ISBN-13: 9781579905323

Clarke Snell and Timothy L. Callahan, whose popular Good House Book helped environmentally-minded readers create an earth-friendly home, have returned with a photo-packed, amazingly complete, start-to-finish guide to "green" housebuilding. This absolutely groundbreaking manual doesn’t just talk about eco-friendly building techniques, but actually shows every step! More than 1,200 close-up photographs, along with in-depth descriptions, follow the real construction of an alternative house from site selection to the addition of final-touch interior details. Co-authors Clarke Snell and Timot

Authors:Clarke Snell, Tim Callahan,
Publisher: Lark Books
Keywords: building, guide, alternative, complete, cordwood, cob, living, bale, roofs, earth, new, methods, plaster, straw
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 2009-08-04
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1600595340
ISBN-13: 9781600595349

The best-selling and highly regarded reference to sustainable construction gets an update! It’s refreshed with a completely revised introduction, a bright new cover, and extensive online resource tie-ins. Plus, it’s now printed on recycled paper with agri-based inks, so it’s greener than ever!This groundbreaking book doesn’t just tell you about “green” house-building techniques: it actually shows you, with more than 1,200 step-by-step photographs that follow the actual erection of an alternative building from site selection to final-touch interior details. Readers will get a clear

Authors:Mark Birkin, Graham Clarke, Martin P. Clarke,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: planning, network, intelligence, retail
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0471498033
ISBN-13: 9780471498032

Retail Geography and Intelligent Network Planning demonstrates the importance of geographical thinking in a wide variety of situations. The book exemplifies the importance of sophisticated and intelligent spatial analysis techniques in dealing with the range of location, distribution and channel management issues which now face retail and service businesses. This technology is especially crucial in an age when traditional channels of physical distribution such as bank branches and shops are increasingly complemented by electronic and virtual channels. Building on the success of Intelligen

Authors:Mark Birkin, Graham Clarke, Martin P. Clarke,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: network, planning, intelligence, amp, geography, retail
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $240.00
ISBN-10: 0471497614
ISBN-13: 9780471497615

Retail Geography and Intelligent Network Planning demonstrates the importance of geographical thinking in a wide variety of situations. The book exemplifies the importance of sophisticated and intelligent spatial analysis techniques in dealing with the range of location, distribution and channel management issues which now face retail and service businesses. This technology is especially crucial in an age when traditional channels of physical distribution such as bank branches and shops are increasingly complemented by electronic and virtual channels. Building on the success of Intelligen

Authors:Amy M. Clarke, Marijane Osborn, Amy M. Clarke, Marija
Publisher: McFarland
Keywords: critical, science, fiction, explorations, fantasy, novels, mystique, essays, twilight, films
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2010-11-21
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0786449985
ISBN-13: 9780786449989

The 13 essays in this volume explore Stephenie Meyer’s wildly popular Twilight series in the contexts of literature, religion, fairy tales, film, and the gothic. Several contributors examine Meyer’s emphasis on abstinence, considering how, why, and if the author’s Mormon faith has influenced the series’ worldview. Others look at fan involvement in the Twilight world, focusing on how the series’ avid following has led to an economic transformation in Forks, Washington, the real town where the fictional series is set. Other topics include Meyer’s use of Quileu

Authors:Arlene Clarke, Marlene Clarke,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Keywords: rom, ariel, free, retellings
Number of Pages: 1584
Published: 2004-04-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0072996250
ISBN-13: 9780072996258

Now packaged with the free ARIEL CD-ROM, this four-genre, thematically-arranged collection groups together selections that retell the same story or events: three interpretations of Cinderella from Walt Disney, The Brothers Grimm, and a Chinese folktale, for example, or the myth of Oedipus as told by Sophocles, Rita Dove, Randall Jarrell, and Sigmund Freud. Retellings includes many frequently taught works of fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as visual texts, and offers a complete introduction to reading, interpreting, and writing about literature.