Author: Caitlin Matthews
Publisher: Barefoot Books
Keywords: barefoot, books, book, princesses
Number of Pages: 63
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 1841481726
ISBN-13: 9781841481722
This warm and humorous collection presents much-loved favorites such as The Princess and the Pea from Denmark and less familiar figures including The Mountain Princess from Persia and The Horned Snake’s Wife from the Iroquois of North America. Caitlin Matthews’s wonderfully dramatic retellings are perfect for reading aloud, while Olwyn Whelan’s bright and witty illustrations are a feast in themselves.
Author: Wil Wheaton
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Keywords: barefoot, dancing
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0596006748
ISBN-13: 9780596006747
Wil Wheaton--blogger, geek, and Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Wesley Crusher--gives us five short-but-true tales of life in the so-called Space Age in Dancing Barefoot. With a true geek’s unflinching honesty, Wil examines life, love, the web, and the absurdities of Hollywood in these compelling autobiographical narratives. chronicle a teen TV star’s journey to maturity and self-acceptance. Far from the usual celebrity tell-all, Dancing Barefoot is a vivid account of one man’s version of that universal story, the search for self. If you’ve ever fall
Author: P. J. Chandler
Publisher: Lulu Enterprises, UK Ltd
Keywords: beekeeper, barefoot
Number of Pages: 111
Published: 2009-05-06
List price: $31.50
ISBN-10: 1409271145
ISBN-13: 9781409271147
THIRD EDITION (2009) A revolutionary book about sustainable, chemical-free, ’natural’ beekeeping, with no heavy lifting. The author strips away all complications, showing how you can make everything you need yourself, using recycled materials and simple tools: you do not need to buy any additional equipment at all! "After reading The Barefoot Beekeeper I knew immediately I had found what I had been thinking about and searching for for years. It inspired me to immediately build several Top Bar hives and change my manner of keeping bees. ...read as much as you can about bees and b
Author: Al Rivera
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: shoeshine, barefoot
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $22.49
ISBN-10: 1438921217
ISBN-13: 9781438921211
Child abuse is beyond the realm of reasonable people, yet it happens far too often. How does a child process abuse? What gives a child the courage to face daily humiliation, pain, and suffering? The damage for many children is beyond repair, and often opens up a lifetime of heartache and shame. As a child, Al Rivera endured the daily verbal and physical abuse of the one person who should have showered him with love: his mother, and from foster parents who took her place in raising him until he was eighteen. Despite daily abuse, however, Al Rivera faced each new day with a smile and with
Author: Elin Hilderbrand
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: novel, barefoot
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-06
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0316018589
ISBN-13: 9780316018586
It’s summer on Nantucket, and as the season begins, threewomen arrive at the local airport, observed by Josh, a localboy, home from college. Burdened with small children,unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues,the women--two sisters and one friend--make their way tothe sisters’ tiny cottage, inherited from an aunt. They’re alltrying to escape from something: Melanie, after seven failedin-vitro attempts, discovered her husband’s infidelity andthen her own pregnancy; Brenda embarked on a passionateaffair with an older student that got her fired from herpres
Author: Johan van Lenge
Publisher: Shelter Publications, Inc.
Keywords: architect, barefoot
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 2007-10-28
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0936070420
ISBN-13: 9780936070421
A former UN worker and prominent architect, Johan van Lengen has seen firsthand the desperate need for a "greener" approach to housing in impoverished tropical climates. This comprehensive book clearly explains every aspect of this endeavor, including design (siting, orientation, climate consideration), materials (sisal, cactus, bamboo, earth), and implementation. The author emphasizes throughout the book what is inexpensive and sustainable. Included are sections discussing urban planning, small-scale energy production, cleaning and storing drinking water, and dealing with septic waste, and al
Author: Jack Laga
Publisher: Sheridan House
Keywords: navigator, barefoot
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2006-09-06
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1574092324
ISBN-13: 9781574092325
The Barefoot Navigator is an unusual and fascinating exploration of the skills of navigation employed by the ancients and transferable to the present day. The first half of the book investigates the navigation capabilities of seafarers long before modern navigation instruments or charts became available. For example, how did the Polynesians manage to populate an area of ocean larger than North America simply by analyzing clouds, currents, wind direction, sun, stars, and the flight patterns of ocean birds? And how did the Vikings routinely travel between Iceland, Greenland and Scandinavia huge
