Author : Tracy Kidder
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 1999
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780618001910
Tracy Kidder takes readers to the heart of the American Dream: the building of a family's first house with all its day-to-day frustrations, crises, tensions, challenges, and triumphs.
Author : Rex Roberts
Publisher : M Evans & Company
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture, Domestic.
ISBN : 9780871314987
Advises potential home builders about siting, heat, ventilation, size, foundations, building materials, and financing, and explains the advantages of building one's home
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Page : 162 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 1975-05
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Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
Author : John McDonald
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1608934470
John McDonald has been making people laugh for decades with his humorous yarns poking fun at people from away, people from Maine, and life in general. Following up the wildly popular A Moose and a Lobster Walk into a Bar, the "Dean of Maine Storytelling" offers a new collection of stories that will make you laugh till you cry and cry till you laugh. Here's a new round of classic stories brimming with half truths, stretched truths, and wry observations about life in Maine.
Author : Melissa Coleman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062087355
“Lyrical and down-to-earth, wry and heartbreaking, This Life Is in Your Hands is a fascinating and powerful memoir. Melissa Coleman doesn’t just tell the story of her family’s brave experiment and private tragedy; she brings to life an important and underappreciated chapter of our recent history.” —Tom Perrotta In a work of power and beauty reminiscent of Tobias Wolff, Jeannette Walls, and Dave Eggers, Melissa Coleman delivers a luminous, evocative childhood memoir exploring the hope and struggle behind her family's search for a sustainable lifestyle. With echoes of The Liars’ Club and Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Coleman’s searing chronicle tells the true story of her upbringing on communes and sustainable farms along the rugged Maine coastline in the 1970’s, embedded within a moving, personal quest for truth that her experiences produced.
Author : Tedd Benson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 1981-09-01
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1439107076
For centuries, post-and-beam construction has proved to be one of the most durable building techniques. It is being enthusiastically revived today not only for its sturdiness but because it can be easily insulated, it is attractive, and it offers the builder the unique satisfaction of working with timbers. Building the Timber Frame House is the most comprehensive manual available on the technique. In it you will find a short history, of timber framing and a fully illustrated discussion of the different kinds of joinery, assembly of timbers, and raising of the frame. There are also detailed sections on present-day design and materials, house plans, site development, foundation laying, insulation, tools, and methods.
Author : Jacob Watson
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1644262827
We’re Gainin’ By: Jacob Watson We’re Gainin’: Collins Brook, A Maine Free School - A Memoir is set in Maine during the turbulent 1960 and ’70s. It chronicles a man whose traditional public and private schooling focused on the intellectual and physical, and how he discovered in Summerhill schools his emotional and spiritual life. At age 27, Jacob (then Dick) Watson and his wife Sharon founded Collins Brook School and, with volunteer help, built classrooms and dormitories. Democratic school meetings tackled challenges of optional classes, ‘magic meadow’, organic gardening, stealing, bullying, food, and animals: Freya the Newfoundland, Randolph the beef steer, Priscilla the pig, and Washington the mallard duck. When a fateful plan to merge Collins Brook with another Summerhill school collapsed and his marriage ended, Watson found solace sailing the Maine coast and islands. Learning to listen to his still small voice within, he became an interfaith minister and started another Maine school. This book includes photographs, student writing, newspaper articles, bedtime stories, and transcripts of school meetings.
Author : Laura Waterman
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1619020440
In 1971, Laura and Guy Waterman decided to give up all the conveniences of life and live self–sufficiently for the land, in a cabin in the mountains of Vermont. For nearly three decades they created a deliberate life, eating food they grew themselves and using no running water or electricity. Losing The Garden is an honest account of their marriage, seen as idyllic but riddled from within, as well as the event that would end it — the day Guy climbed a summit and sat down among the rocks to die. This is the memoir of a woman who was compelled to ask herself, "How could I support my husband's plan to commit suicide?" In her intimate examination, we explore the intricate and dark family histories of this couple, and reach a deep understanding of the marriage that tried to transcend them. At its heart, this is a love story and an affirmation of life after loss.
Author : Sam Clark
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 1978
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780395266854
Author : Chad Randl
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 30,51 MB
Release : 2004-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568984100
In a fascinating look at this architectural phenomenon, Chad Randl tells the story of the "triangle" house from prehistoric Japan to its lifestyle-changing heyday in the 1960s. Includes an appendix with a complete set of blueprints.
