The Tire House Book

Author: Ed Paschich
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 0865342156
Category : Tire houses
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
Using "landfill" tires and a revolutionary process, houses are being built that are both revolutionary and evolutionary. Find out how you can be more responsible when you build a home, improve a home, or add a garden. Learn about constructed wetlands, solar air conditioning, and xeriscape landscaping.

Mainstreaming Sustainable Architecture

Author: Ed Paschich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
"Sustainable Architecture" is a term that groups together a number of approaches to architecture that choose materials and techniques that can be maintained for the long-term without exhausting non-renewable resources. Mainstreaming Sustainable Architectureillustrates a systems approach to design and construction in which the various components--such as passive solar techniques, earth air conditioning, vapor-permeable ceilings, and cellulose insulation--operate synergistically to achieve environmental goals. This case study ofCasa de Paja(House of Straw) demonstrates that many elements of sustainable architecture can be incorporated without sacrificing sophisticated design and without added expense. While no technical background is needed to understand the principles behind sustainable design, architects and engineers will find enough detail in the drawings and appendices to adapt these techniques to their own construction.

The Blue House

Author: Phoebe Wahl
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1984893386
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22

Book Description
In the tradition of Virginia Lee Burton's The Little House comes a heartfelt story about a father and son learning to accept the new while honoring and celebrating the old. For as long as he can remember, Leo has lived in the blue house with his dad, but lately the neighborhood is changing. People are leaving, houses are being knocked down, and shiny new buildings are going up in their place. When Leo and his dad are forced to leave, they aren't happy about it. They howl and rage and dance out their feelings. When the time comes, they leave the blue house behind--there was never any choice, not really--but little by little, they find a way to keep its memory alive in their new home.

House of Chains

Author: Steven Erikson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765315748
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 678

Book Description
Fantasy-roman.

Follow Me Around the Garden

Author: Camille Garoche
Publisher: Scribblers
ISBN: 9781911242321
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
When the rain stops, Luna the cat takes the three puppies out of their country house and into the garden. The pets have fun exploring the greenhouse and pond, only to stumble upon a surprise birthday party for Luna. This humorous and charmingly-illustrated picture book features 50 lift-up flaps which reveal details such as frolicking animals and hidden messages.

The House in the Night

Author: Susan Marie Swanson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547528302
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45

Book Description
A spare, patterned text and glowing pictures explore the origins of light that make a house a home in this bedtime book for young children. Naming nighttime things that are both comforting and intriguing to preschoolers—a key, a bed, the moon—this timeless book illuminates a reassuring order to the universe.

Andy and the Tire

Author: Craig John Lovik
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780590405881
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

Book Description
A lonely boy in a new town makes some friends after learning how to ride on top of a Super Zoom tire.

Celia's House

Author: D. E. Stevenson
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
ISBN: 9781410495976
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Celia Dunne knows that changing her will to leave Dunnian to her grand-nephew will ruffle family feathers. She also knows that the grand family estate has stood empty far too long, and intends for that to change after she's gone. Following the Dunnes through youthful antics, merry parties, heartbreaks, love, and marriages, Celia's House is an enchanting family novel that begs to be read over and over again.

The Good House Book

Author: Clarke Snell
Publisher: Lark Books
ISBN: 9781579902810
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
A guide to building an eco-friendly, energy-efficient, and sustainable house that is in harmony with the local climate and site.

House Beautiful

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 916

Book Description