The City Homesteader: Self-Sufficiency on Any Square Footage Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Every human takes up space, not just to live but for its sustenance. "The City Homesteader: Self-Sufficiency on Any Square Footage" is a guide for being as self-sufficient as possible when space is at a premium, such as in a packed city. In the modern age, rediscovering self-sufficiency may be what's...

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Field Dressing and Butchering Upland Birds, Waterfowl, and Wild Turkeys Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The first thing this book has going for it, is the size, since this is a book that you can carry with you on hunting trips as a step by step guide, or how to. Not only are the instructions absolutely complete but they are easy to follow, and the equipment required is inexpensive and in some cases free.Every...

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The Northwest Herb Lover's Handbook: A Guide to Growing Herbs for Cooking, Crafts, and Home Remedies Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is Mary Preus' second book about herbs. The first, "Growing Herbs", covered the basics but was limited in scope. This book expands on the first, guiding the reader deeper into the world of herbs as well as describing 50 of the best-known herbs in detail. While the book is focussed on growing herbs...

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Handbook of Natural Gas Transmission and Processing Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)****"We suddenly have over a one hundred year supply of natural gas at current consumption rates and that number has been growing by about one decade more each year since 2005." If the above quotation is confirmed, Peak gas era is just unfolding, and it pays to learn the best technology to push its energy...

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High Trail Cookery: All-Natural, Home-Dried, Palate-Pleasing Meals for the Backpacker Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I was interested in this book because it advertised recipes for making your own dehydrated foods. But this book misses the point of wilderness tripping. The fact is most backcountry hikers want foods that can be mixed and matched as desired. All the recipes call for complex proteins such as eggs, milk,...

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Dining In The Raw Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Rita Romano talks intelligently and to the point on how to eat healthy. For a reader that doesn't know the first thing about eating raw foods, how to start, what's good for them and what's bad, this book is exceptional. It is well laid out and is chock full of information. My profuse thanks to Rita...

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Never Be Fat Again: The 6-Week Cellular Solution to Permanently Break the Fat Cycle Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Awesome! I give this book ten stars. Never Be Fat Again has got to be the best book on weight control ever written. I keep going on diets and the pounds keep coming back. For so many years I have tried to lose weight only to lose and regain the same 25 pounds over and over while gaining more weight every...

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Audel Air Conditioning Home and Commercial (Audel Technical Trades Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I received the book very quickly! I was really surprised how fast it arrived! The book is perfect for someone just needing to have a reference for troubleshooting or someone wanting a better knowledge of AC.Click Here to see more reviews about: Audel Air Conditioning Home and Commercial (Audel Technical...

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Keeping the Harvest: Preserving Your Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs (Down-to-Earth Book) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I bought three books on canning and this book was the best. It is simple to understand, has pictures of the way things should look, such as the canning jars in a not water bath. I was canning tomatos and this book was so easy to follow. It listed the different methods for canning, as stating the best...

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Dr. Mercola's Total Health Cookbook & Program: 150 Delicious Grain-Free Recipes & Proven Metabolic Type Plan to Prevent Disease, Optimize Weight and Live Longer Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book has much information about healthy diet, lifestyle and medicine. Dr. Mercola pointed out in a recent talk we attended in Philadelphia that the third leading cause of death for Americans was --doctors. Sorry, doc, but iatrogenic (doctor-caused) complications are plentiful. Still, this statistic...

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The Urban Homestead (Expanded & Revised Edition): Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Process Self-reliance Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I've read various books on self-sufficiency in the past ten years, but this one is different. First, it doesn't tell you how to recreate a 19th-century homestead, which is beginning to seem to me like another version of faux chateaux, but which also is not going to work very well if it is not surrounded...

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Backcountry Cooking: From Pack to Plate in Ten Minutes (Backpacker Field Guides) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is excellent. It may not have the largest number of recipes, but the ones it does have are well thought out, backpacker friendly, and just plain good. The book has a lot of variety too. Each recipe is organized into two parts, the pre-hike preparation (what to do at home) and then then a on-trail...

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Wire-Wrapped and Beaded Jewelry Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you are looking for a book with easy to follow directions, this is the one for you. Whether you are a beginner or experienced jewelry maker, don't miss this one. This book includes twelve beautiful unique jewelry projects. The step-by-step intructions are accompanied by step-by-step photographs that...

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The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I was introduced to this book by a deciple of Ann Wigmore, who was teaching a class in living foods. After a short time on the diet I was able to stop taking my hypo-thyrodism medication forever. The book is recommended as a great starter in uncooked foods, as it is inexpensive and gives the theory behind...

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118 Degrees Delicious: Live Vegan Raw Food Recipes for Life (Volume 1) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a phenomenal cookbook. Whether your curious about trying a vegan diet or if you've been vegan your whole life... this is book should an essential in your kitchen a kitchen. I will be buying multiple copies to give as gifts for all my friends. Can't wait to try out all of these recipes!Click Here...

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Essential Eating: A Cookbook: Discover How to Eat, Not Diet Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)People spend most of their adult lives searching for the right program to lose weight. I was no different. I had tried every diet imaginable. The "no carb diet", (my cholesterol jumped up 23 points), "pre-package food diet", ( I gained 8 lbs. as soon as I went back to normal eating), "liquid diet,(won't...

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Homesteading: A Back to Basics Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More (Back to Basics Guides) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you are looking for real information on homesteading, this is NOT the book. At best the information is very general and almost worthless. The author has information on buying food from CSAs, Co-ops,and farmers markets. How about more info on growing your own food. There's nothing on raising beef...

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