Author: April Graney
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1462740995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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When an American family visits a marvelous mud house in Kenya, they learn a wonderful lesson about true contentment, faith, and joy.
Author: Ken Buchanan
Publisher: Rising Moon
ISBN: 9780873585934
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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A family builds an adobe house in the Southwest desert.
Author: Sophie Masson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648256328
Category : Human-animal relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Building a mudbrick house is an adventure for everyone - Mum, Dad, kids and even Tess, the family dog! Heading out to the block to help make bricks, seeing their house take shape week by week, the children decide that Tess needs her own house too... With warmth, sensitivity and liveliness in words and pictures, this book recreates the fun--and work!--of a special family experience, building your own unique house.
Author: K. S. Jagadish
Publisher: I. K. International Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 8189866214
Category : Architecture and energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 93
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Building construction using stabilized mud (soil) has been in vogue in different parts of the world for nearly six decades. However, the desirable practices have not been placed on a firm footing due to sporadic nature of the constructions. The situation is complicated due to the highly variable nature of soil as a construction material. This monograph is an attempt to summarise the best practices for the use of stabilized mud. It is essentially based on the experiences at ASTRA (Application of Science and Technology to Rural Areas) and Dept. of Civil Engineering. Indian Institute of Science, for more than three decades.
Author: Atulya K. Bingham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781849147521
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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I couldn't teach another lesson. Nor could I tolerate another day with a boss, a punch card, and the indigestion I suffered from bolting my muesli. This was why I'd spent the past five months camping in a remote Turkish field. Then the first winter storm crashed through the valley, turning my tent into a canvas pole dancer. It dawned on me I might need a house. There were only two problems: I had just $6000 left in my account, and 6 weeks before winter. "Despite having very little money, almost no building experience, and endless naysayers who told her she would fail, Atulya K. Bingham completed her lovely earthbag home. Her personal, inspirational story shows how anyone can build their own sustainable home with earthbags." Dr. Owen Geiger, Director of the Geiger Research Institute of Sustainable Building, author of the Natural Building Blog and Earthbag Building website. "A joy from beginning to end - a brave, funny, moving account of building a new life and a new home out of mud in Turkey's mountain wilderness." Sara Crowe, author of Bone Jack (Nominated for the Carnegie Medal in 2015).
Author: Bertram T. Knight
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN: 9780516203652
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Lifecycles are a core topic in every science curriculum, and in this series, vivid photographs and age-appropriate text help to show how things grow. These titles, on topics that are not often covered in books of this type, will augment any library or classroom collection.
Author: George J. Kunnath
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351418769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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This book examines Dalit mobilization and the transformation of rural power relations in the context of intense agrarian violence involving Maoist guerrillas and upper caste militias backed by state forces in Bihar in the 1980s. The book investigates why thousands of Dalits took up arms and highlights the specificities of Dalit participation in the Maoist Movement and develops an anthropology of the Maoist Revolution in India.
Author: Christina Jarvis
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1644212269
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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A fascinating deep dive into Kurt Vonnegut’s oeuvre and legacy, illuminating his unique perspective on environmental stewardship and our shared connections as humans, Earthlings, and stardust. Vonnegut’s major apocalyptic trio—Cat’s Cradle, Slapstick, and Galápagos—prompt broad global, national, and species-level thinking about environmental issues through dramatic and fantastic scenarios. This book, Lucky Mud and Other Foma, tells the story of the origins and legacy of what Kurt Vonnegut understood as “planetary citizenship” and explores key roots, influences, literary techniques, and artistic expressions of his interest in environmental activism through his writing. Vonnegut saw writing itself as an act of good citizenship, as a way of “poisoning” the minds of young people “with humanity . . . to encourage them to make a better world.” Often that literary activism meant addressing real social and environmental problems—polluted water, soil, and air; racial and economic injustice; isolating and dehumanizing technologies; and lives and landscapes desolated by war. Vonnegut’s remedies took many forms, from the redemptive power of the arts to artificial extended families to vital communities and engaged democracies. Reminding us of our shared connections as humans, as Earthlings, as stardust, Lucky Mud helps fans, scholars, and book lovers of all kinds experience how Vonnegut’s writings purposely challenge readers to think, create, and love.
Author: J. D. Dickey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493013939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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Washington, DC, gleams with stately columns and neoclassical temples, a pulsing hub of political power and prowess. But for decades it was one of the worst excuses for a capital city the world had ever seen. Before America became a world power in the twentieth century, Washington City was an eyesore at best and a disgrace at worst. Unfilled swamps, filthy canals, and rutted horse trails littered its landscape. Political bosses hired hooligans and thugs to conduct the nation's affairs. Legendary madams entertained clients from all stations of society and politicians of every party. The police served and protected with the aid of bribes and protection money. Beneath pestilential air, the city’s muddy roads led to a stumpy, half-finished obelisk to Washington here, a domeless Capitol Building there. Lining the streets stood boarding houses, tanneries, and slums. Deadly horse races gouged dusty streets, and opposing factions of volunteer firefighters battled one another like violent gangs rather than life-saving heroes. The city’s turbulent history set a precedent for the dishonesty, corruption, and mismanagement that have led generations to look suspiciously on the various sin--both real and imagined--of Washington politicians. Empire of Mud unearths and untangles the roots of our capital’s story and explores how the city was tainted from the outset, nearly stifled from becoming the proud citadel of the republic that George Washington and Pierre L'Enfant envisioned more than two centuries ago.
Author: Richard Glover
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0732290295
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 17
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This frank and funny thought provoking memoir describes how Richard and his friend Philip built a mudbrick house in the bush on weekends..
