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The Woman Hobby Farmer: Female Guidance for Growing Food, Raising Livestock, and Building a Farm-Based Business

KAREN LANIER · Lumina Media
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Hobby farming is alive and thriving in semi-rural, suburban, and rural areas across the country, and female farmers have been cited as the fastest growing sector within the farming community in recent years. With more than 1 million women in the United States and Canada describing farming...
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Foreclosure Survival Guide, The: Keep Your House or Walk Away With Money in Your Pocket

Stephen Elias · NOLO
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback

In foreclosure? Know your options If you're one of the millions of Americans in danger of losing your house, The Foreclosure Survival Guide provides the practical information you need, including: the ins and outs of foreclosure how to decide if you should try to keep your...
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Graduate Programs in the Biological/Biomedical Sciences & Health-Related Medical Professions 2015

Peterson's · Peterson's; 49 edition
Format: Hardcover

Peterson's Graduate Programs in the Biological/Biomedical Sciences & Health-Related Medical Professions 2015 contains profiles of 6,750 graduate programs at over 1,200 institutions in the biological/biomedical sciences and health-related/medical professions. Informative data profiles...
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2015 International Plumbing Code

International Code Council · ICC
Format: Print book

With an emphasis on design and installation for optimum performance, the 2015 INTERNATIONAL PLUMBING CODE SOFT COVER sets forth established requirements for plumbing systems. This important reference guide includes provisions for fixtures, piping, fittings, and devices, as well as design...
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Graduate Programs in the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences 2015

Peterson's · Peterson's; 49 edition
Format: Hardcover

Peterson's Graduate Programs in the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences 2015 contains details on over 11,000 graduate programs of study across all relevant disciplines-including the arts and architecture, communications and media, psychology and counseling, political science and international...
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8 Ways to Avoid Probate

Mary Randolph · NOLO; Tenth Edition edition
Format: Book

Some simple planning can spare families the cost and delay of probate court proceedings after a loved one's death. Probate can drag on for years, and can easily cost  thousands of dollars -- money that would otherwise have gone to survivors. 8 Ways to Avoid Probate offers simple...
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Confessions of a Bad Teacher: The Shocking Truth from the Front Lines of American Public Education

John Owens · Sourcebooks
Format: Book

An explosive new look at the pressures on todays teachers and the pitfalls of school reform, Confessions of a Bad Teacher presents a passionate appeal to save public schools, before its too late. When John Owens left a lucrative job to teach English at a public school in New York Citys...
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Protecting the Planet: Environmental Champions from Conservation to Climate Change

Budd Titlow · Prometheus Books
Pages: 587
Format: Hardcover

Climate change is often associated with predictions of dire calamities. But in the past, heroic individuals have stepped forward to meet even the most ominous ecological challenges. This book tells an inspirational story--a story both of pioneering environmentalists who raised our collective...
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Utopia is creepy : and other provocations

Nicholas Carr · W W Norton
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

With a razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley s unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade s worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is Creepy offers...
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Teaching Montessori in the Home: Pre-School Years: The Pre-School Years

Elizabeth G Hainstock · Plume
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

The great, pioneering achievement of Maria Montessori was to recognize the crucial importance of a child's first six years of development. During this time, a child's power of absorption are at their highest, and lifelong attitudes and patterns of learning are formed. It is for this very...
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The Executor's Guide: Settling a Loved One's Estate or Trust

Mary Randolph · NOLO; Sixth Edition edition
Format: Book

The step-by-step guide to serving as an executor. If you need to wrap up the affairs of a loved one who has died, you may feel overwhelmed - especially when you're grieving. But you can do it, and this book will show you how. A roadmap to follow. The Executor's Guide will lead...
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2015 International Mechanical Code

International Code Council · ICC
Format: Print book

For the most current mechanical codes that address the design and installation of the most current mechanical systems, use the 2015 INTERNATIONAL MECHANICAL CODE SOFT COVER. Designed to provide comprehensive regulations for mechanical systems and equipment, it includes coverage of HVAC,...
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Idea to Invention: What You Need to Know to Cash In on Your Inspiration

Patricia Nolan-Brown · AMACOM
Pages: 254
Format: Print book

You don't have to be a mechanical genius to be an inventor. Anyone can invent - a parent wrestling with a baby sling ...a coach frustrated with slick-soled running shoes ...an office worker determined to keep the computer cords untangled. Inventing is simply finding clever solutions...
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