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Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats
Dawn Day Biehler · University of Washington Press
Format: Print book
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From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City, Dawn Day Biehler argues that the urban ecologies that supported pests were shaped not only by the physical... |
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Caring for the Dying: The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death
Henry Fersko-Weiss · Conari Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Caring for the Dying describes a whole new way to approach death and dying. It explores how the dying and their families can bring deep meaning and great comfort to the care given at the end of a life. Created by Henry Fersko-Weiss, the end-of-life doula model is adapted from the work of birth... |
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Sew a Modern Home: Quilts and More for Every Room
Melissa Lunden · That Patchwork Place
Format: Book
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Melissa Lunden presents 19 practical quilting and sewing projects for living rooms, bedrooms, dining rooms, and nurseries. This beginner-friendly book teaches a range of techniques. |
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The Zero Waste Solution: Untrashing the Planet One Community at a Time
Adam Minter · Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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Waste is something we all make every day but often pay little attention to. Thats changing, and model programs around the globe show the many different ways a community can strive for, and achieve, zero-waste status. Scientist-turned-activist Paul Connett, a leading international figure... |
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Walden on Wheels: On The Open Road from Debt to Freedom
Ken Ilgunas · New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
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In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32,000 of student debt. Ilgunas set himself an ambitious mission: get out of debt as quickly as possible. Inspired by the frugality and philosophy of Henry David... |
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Our Sun: Biography of a Star
Christopher Cooper · Race Point Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Our sun is one star among 50 billion in the galaxy. Our galaxy is only one among 50 billion in the universe. With a vastness this incomprehensible, it is easy to feel like we are mere specks of sand on an endless shore. But our sun is special. Though roughly 150 million kilometers separate... |
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Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town
Mirta Ojito · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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2014 International Latino Awards FinalistThe true story of an immigrant's murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in the war on immigration In November 2008, Marcelo Lucero, a thirty-seven-year-old undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant, was attacked... |
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Outward Bound Backpacker's Handbook
Glenn Randall · Falcon pr pub co
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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A comprehensive guidebook, backed by the renowned program Outward Bound, to aid outdoors lovers into the area of backpacking. |
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How to Make White People Laugh
Negin Farsad · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Negin Farsad is an Iranian-American-Muslim female stand-up comedian who believes she can change the world, one joke at a time. In HOW TO MAKE WHITE PEOPLE LAUGH, Farsad shares her personal experiences growing up as the "Other" in an American culture that has no time for nuance. |
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Unraveling U.S. Health Care: A Personal Guide
Roberta E. Winter · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Unraveling U.S. Health Care is a guidebook to the health care system that provides a timely and thorough explanation of U.S. health care, written in readable laymen’s terms. Roberta Winter educates and informs general readers about useful information that will empower their health... |
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Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
Michael Farquhar · Random House
Format: eBook
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“Michael Farquhar doesn’t write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwin’s smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it.”—Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington... |
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