Author: Jeanne DuPrau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Two women apply the practice of Zen to the building of a house in the California Sierras.

Author: Gary Snyder
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811222683
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Both Pound and Williams have shown a good poet can revitalize prose style. Earth House Hold (a play on the root meaning of "ecology"), drawn from Gary Snyder's essays and journals, may prove a landmark for the new generation. "As a poet," Snyder tells us, "I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic; the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying intuition and rebirth; the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe." He develops, as replacement for shattered social structures. a concept of tribal tradition which could lead to "growth and enlightenment in self-disciplined freedom. Whatever it is or ever was in any other culture can be reconstructed from the unconscious through meditation...the coming revolution will close the circle and link us in many ways with the most creative aspects of our archaic past."

Author: Michelle Jarvis
Publisher: Paper Mage Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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When everyone you know seems to be plotting for the throne, who do you trust? Ros went looking for love, but found betrayal instead. With her father missing and her chance at love destroyed, Rosalinde has to figure out who she can trust before it's too late. The Great Match did not turn out the way Rosalinde anticipated. She thought she'd end the week with a tolerable husband, but more importantly, a good future king. Instead, she let her heart get swept away in a future she couldn't have, and now she has to pick up the pieces of that broken dream. The worst part--as if anything could be worse than a shattered heart--is that she lost her best friend in the process. Now there's nowhere to turn and no one to help as she struggles to find a way out of the marriage she's being made to uphold in the hopes of getting her father back. But Ros will get him back, no matter what it takes. She has the power to destroy everything and everyone in her path to return the rightful ruler to the throne. And though the hour seems dark, there is light to be found in unanticipated places, in friends both new and old, and in the long-buried secrets finding their way out of the darkness. Ros can succeed, she WILL succeed--she is the new queen, after all, and her kingdom needs her to lead them forward.

Author: David Easton
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1933392371
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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This book is an example of how dramatic innovations frequently have their origins in the distant past. By rediscovering the most ancient of all building materials -- earth -- homebuilders can now create structures that set new standards for beauty, durability, and extraordinarily efficient use of natural resources. Rammed earth marks a step into a sustainable future, when houses combine aesthetics and practicality with a powerful sense of place. The solid masonry walls permit design flexibility while providing year-round comfort and minimal need for added heating or cooling. From the equatorial tropics to the coldest northern latitudes, the builder and resident of a rammed earth house will experience the satisfaction of creating permanence in a world dominated by the disposable.

Author: Gary Snyder
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201957
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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"As a poet," Snyder tells us, "I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic; the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying intuition and rebirth; the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe." He develops, as replacement for shattered social structures. a concept of tribal tradition which could lead to "growth and enlightenment in self-disciplined freedom. Whatever it is or ever was in any other culture can be reconstructed from the unconscious through meditation...the coming revolution will close the circle and link us in many ways with the most creative aspects of our archaic past."

Author: Rebecca Scherm
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101980117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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“Compulsively readable.” —The New York Times Book Review “Inventive and thrilling. . . . I couldn’t put it down.” —Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half “It’s a thrill to read this novel.” —Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror The gripping story of one scientist in outer space, another who watches over him, the family left behind, and the lengths people will go to protect the people and planet they love For twenty years, Alex has believed that his gene-edited super-algae will slow and even reverse the effects of climate change. His obsession with his research has jeopardized his marriage, his relationships with his kids, and his own professional future. When the Son sisters, founders of the colossal tech company Sensus, offer him a chance to complete his research, he seizes the opportunity. The catch? His lab will be in outer space on Parallaxis, the first-ever luxury residential space station built for billionaires. Alex and six other scientists leave Earth and their loved ones to become Pioneers, the beta tenants of Parallaxis. But Parallaxis is not the space palace they were sold. Day and night, the embittered crew builds the facility under pressure from Sensus, motivated by the promise that their families will join them. At home on Earth, much of the country is ablaze in wildfires and battered by storms. In Michigan, Alex’s teenage daughter, Mary Agnes, struggles through high school with the help of the ubiquitous Sensus phones implanted in everyone’s ears, archiving each humiliation, and wishing she could go to Parallaxis with her father—but her mother will never allow it. The Pioneers are the beta testers of another program, too: Sensus is designing an algorithm that will predict human behavior. Katherine Son hires Tess, a young social psychologist, to watch the experiment’s subjects through their phones—including not only the Pioneers, but Katherine’s sister, Rachel. Tess begins to develop an intimate, obsessive relationship with her subjects. When Tess and Rachel travel to Parallaxis, the controlled experiment begins to unravel. Prescient and insightful, A House Between Earth and the Moon is at once a captivating epic about the machinations of big tech and a profoundly intimate meditation on the unmistakably human bonds that hold us together.

Author: Larry S. Chalmers
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Designs for earth sheltered housing work with nature, rather than against, to minimize energy consumption for heating and cooling

Author: Rob Roy
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 1550923757
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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The only how-to manual on the subject directed to mainstream owner-builders An earth-sheltered, earth-roofed home has the least impact upon the land of all housing styles, leaving almost zero footprint on the planet. Earth-Sheltered Houses is a practical guide for those who want to build their own underground home at moderate cost. It describes the benefits of sheltering a home with earth, including the added comfort and energy efficiency from the moderating influence of the earth on the home's temperature-keeping it warm in the winter and cool in the summer-low maintenance, and the protection against fire, sound, earthquake and storm afforded by the earth. Extra benefits from adding an earth or other living roof option include greater longevity of the roof substrate, fine aesthetics, and environmental harmony. The book covers all of the various construction techniques involved including details on planning, excavation, footings, floor, walls, framing, roofing, waterproofing, insulation and drainage. Specific methods appropriate for the inexperienced owner-builder are a particular focus and include: pouring one's own footings and/or floor the use of dry-stacked (surface-bonded) concrete block walls post-and-beam framing plank-and-beam roofing, and drainage methods and self-adhesive waterproofing membranes. The time-tested, easy-to-learn construction techniques described in Earth-Sheltered Houses will enable readers to embark upon their own building projects with confidence, backed up by a comprehensive resources section that lists all the latest products such as waterproofing membranes, types of rigid insulation and drainage products that will protect the building against water damage and heat loss.

Author: Frederick Converse Beach
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 824

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Author: Ronald Rael
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568987675
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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"The ground we walk on and grow crops in also just happens to be the most widely used building material on the planet. Civilizations throughout time have used it to create stable warm low-impact structures. The world's first skyscrapers were built of mud brick. Paul Revere Chairman Mao and Ronald Reagan all lived in earth houses at various points in their lives and several of the buildings housing Donald Judd's priceless collection at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa Texas are made of mud brick." "While the vast legacy of traditional and vernacular earthen construction has been widely discussed, little attention has been paid to the contemporary tradition of earth architecture. Author Ronald Rael founder of Eartharchitecture.org provides a history of building with earth in the modern era focusing particularly on projects constructed in the last few decades that use rammed earth mud brick compressed earth cob and several other interesting techniques. Earth Architecture presents a selection of more than 40 projects that exemplify new creative uses of the oldest building material on the planet."--BOOK JACKET.