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

Authors:Lloyd Kahn, Blair Allen, Julie Jones,
Publisher: Shelter Publications
Keywords: manual, owners, systems, septic
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2000-01-06
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 093607020X
ISBN-13: 9780936070209

This book is for the 60 million people in the U.S. whose homes have septic systems. It describes a basic gravity-flow septic system including the tank and the drainfield. It will tell you a bit about soil and the ability of microorganisms to purify water-borne pathogens. You will learn what you can do daily (dishes, toilet, washing machine) to promote healthy functioning of a septic system. We will describe common-sense maintenance, periodic tank inspections, and tank pumping when necessary. There is a chapter on what to do if things go wrong, and information on simple graywater systems and

Author: Bob Anderson
Publisher: Shelter Publications
Keywords: revised, anniversary, stretching
Number of Pages: 223
Published: 2000-06
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0936070226
ISBN-13: 9780936070223

Stretching book with 100’s of exercises

Author: Lloyd Kahn
Publisher: Shelter Publications
Keywords: shelter, handbuilt, work, home
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-04-20
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0936070331
ISBN-13: 9780936070339

Building on the enormous success of the original Shelter, Lloyd Kahn continues his odyssey of finding and exploring the most magnificent and unusual hand-built houses in existence. Among the intriguing domiciles described in Home Work are a Japanese-style stilt house accessible only by a cable across a river; a stone house in a South African valley whose roof serves as a baboon trampoline; multi-level treehouses on the South China Sea; and a bottle house in the Nevada desert. Over 1,500 photos illustrate various innovative architectural styles and natural building materials that have gained po

Author: Jeff Galloway
Publisher: Shelter Publications
Keywords: running, book, galloway
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 2002-02-09
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0936070277
ISBN-13: 9780936070278

Olympic athlete Jeff Galloway shows how amateur runners can use the same training principles followed by world-class runners. He tells beginners how to get started, explains his ideas on stress and rest, and reveals secrets for running better. In this completely revised and updated new edition of the classic text on running, Galloway includes training schedules for 5k, 10k, and the increasingly popular half-marathon races, as well as recent insights into motivation, nutrition, and fat burning. Runners at all levels will benefit from this seasoned athlete’s wisdom.

Authors:Lloyd Kahn, Bob Easton,
Publisher: Shelter Publications
Keywords: shelter
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2000-05-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0936070110
ISBN-13: 9780936070117

Shelter is many things - a visually dynamic, oversized compendium of organic architecture past and present; a how-to book that includes over 1,250 illustrations; and a Whole Earth Catalog-type sourcebook for living in harmony with the earth by using every conceivable material. First published in 1973, Shelter remains a source of inspiration and invention. Including the nuts-and-bolts aspects of building, the book covers such topics as dwellings from Iron Age huts to Bedouin tents to Togo’s tin-and-thatch houses; nomadic shelters from tipis to "housecars"; and domes, dome cities, sod iglu

Author: Ellsworth Jaeger
Publisher: Shelter Publications
Keywords: wisdom, wildwood
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 1992
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0936070129
ISBN-13: 9780936070124

This historical guide, originally written in 1945, includes information on making fires, canoeing, using axes and knives, and crafting shelters from hand-gathered materials. Readers also learn about clothing, gear, and useful plants. This book also is an account of life in the 1800s, when survival in the wild depended on one’s skill and ingenuity.