Authors:Chris Magwood, Peter Mack,
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Keywords: straw, building, news, wiser, living, series, earth, designing, bale, complete, guide, mother
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0865715181
ISBN-13: 9780865715189
Straw bale houses are easy to build, affordable, super energy efficient, environmentally friendly, attractive, and can be designed to match the builder’s personal space needs, esthetics and budget. Despite mushrooming interest in the technique, however, most straw bale books focus on “selling” the dream of straw bale building, but don’t adequately address the most critical issues faced by bale house builders. Moreover, since many developments in this field are recent, few books are completely up to date with the latest techniques.More Straw Bale Building is designed to fill this gap. A
Author: Wenxuan Cao
Publisher: Long River Press
Keywords: house, straw
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2006-04-10
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1592650546
ISBN-13: 9781592650545
A landmark work in Chinese children’s literature, The Straw House centers around ordinary village life in Jiangnan, south China, in the 1960’s. Through several interwoven, deeply moving stories centering on a young boy, Sangsang, we bid farewell to the i
Author: Hal Lieberman
Publisher: Boson Books
Keywords: straw, throne
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 1886420181
ISBN-13: 9781886420182
Throne of Straw, a play of the Holocaust, has been performed in Los Angeles at UCLA’s MacGowan Hall, the Odyssey Theater, and the Los Angeles Actors Theatre; in New York City at the St. Clements; in Cleveland at the Jewish Community Center; and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Hal Lieberman served as Dramatist-in-Residence. France Culture commissioned a translation that was broadcast nationally. It was published in paper format by the University of Wisconsin Press in The Theatre of the Holocaust (1982).
Author: Michael Marshall
Publisher: Jove
Keywords: men, straw
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2002-07-30
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0515134279
ISBN-13: 9780515134278
The first in an explosive trilogy of thrillers from Michael Marshall. This book takes the serial-killer book ands adds a chilling new dimension, combining pace, narrative and a genuinely disturbing conspiracy story. The Straw Men. They kill people. Any people. Sarah Becker is the fifth girl to be abducted by this maniac. Judging from the state of the bodies that have been found, her long hair will be hacked off and she will be tortured. She has about a week to live. Former LA homicide detective John Zandt has an inside track on the perpetrator - his own daughter was a victim two years ago. But
Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Clarion Books
Keywords: gold, straw
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2001-04-23
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0618056017
ISBN-13: 9780618056019
What fills a hand fuller than a skein of gold? By order of the king, two boys, Tousle and Innes, must find the answer to this puzzling riddle within seven days or be killed. A former nursemaid to the queen"s child tells the boys that the banished queen may have the answer they seek. Danger presents itself at every turn, for the boys are pursued by the Great Barons, who are secretly plotting against the king. Another pursuer, the greedy King"s Grip, reveals a strange story of a little man who once spun straw into gold of incredible beauty for the queen but then disappeared with her firstborn so
Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: gold, straw
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-04-20
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0547237766
ISBN-13: 9780547237763
Author: Darryl Strawberry
Publisher: Ecco
Keywords: way, finding, straw
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2010-05-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0061704210
ISBN-13: 9780061704215
Former baseball slugger Darryl Strawberry, whose achievements on the field were often overshadowed by his struggles off the field, recounts the highs, the lows, and the lessons learned along the way that allowed him to survive. The youngest son of Henry and Ruby Strawberry, Darryl grew up in one of Los Angeles’s toughest neighborhoods but channeled his energy into basketball and baseball. The New York Mets drafted him in 1980, and he was voted the National League Rookie of the Year in 1983. Strawberry went on to be the first National League player voted to the All-Star Game in each
