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Becoming happier is easier than you think. With this practical, hands-on guide to all things joyful, you can bliss out in no time. You'll learn how to:Lighten up--once and for allWork shorter and play longerPractice pleasing yourself firstAttract more fun-friendly people Go from dull routine to dynamic lifestyleMaster the pleasure principleFind meaning moment by momentForgive, forget, and follow your blissReinvent your happy selves, one day at a timeThis book is all you need to be all you can be, happily!--starting now.Meera Lester (San Jose, CA), ever an optimist who sees the miraculous and the extraordinary existing alongside the ordinary in her daily life, frequently pushes herself outside the boundaries of her comfort zone in order to have personal growth, spiritual renewal, and, most importantly, happiness. She is an internationally published author who has written hundreds of articles and more than two dozen books, including 1001 Ways to Do Good and The Everything Law of Attracti

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ISBN: 9781605500287
Format: paperback
Size: 6.25 x 5.5
Manufacturer: Adams Media
Category: Discountable Products
Sub Category: Simple Living

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Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills--the kind employed by our forefathers--and adapt them for a better life in the twenty-first century need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide. Countless readers have turned to Back to Basics for inspiration and instruction, escaping to an era before power saws and fast food restaurants and rediscovering the pleasures and challenges of a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle. Now newly updated, the hundreds of projects, step-by-step sequences, photographs, charts, and illustrations in Back to Basics will help you dye your own wool with plant pigments, graft trees, raise chickens, craft a hutch table with hand tools, and make treats such as blueberry peach jam and cheddar cheese. The truly ambitious will find instructions on how to build a log cabin or an adobe brick homestead. More than just practical advice, this is also a book for dreamers--even if you live in a city apartment you will find your ima

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ISBN: 9781602392335
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Size: 11x8.8
Manufacturer: Skyhorse Publishing
Category: Discountable Products
Sub Category: Simple Living

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Backyard Medicine is a beautiful book, packed with nearly 300color photographs and over 120 herbal remedies that you can make yourself. It gives a fascinating insight into the literary, historic,and world-wide application of the fifty common plants that it covers. It is the sort of book you can enjoy as an armchair reader or use to harvest and make your own herbal remedies from wild plants. Anyone who wants to improve his or her health in the same way that human-kind has done for centuries around the world, by using local wild plants and herbs, will find this book fascinating and useful.

Condition: new
ISBN: 9781602397019
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Size: 6x9
Manufacturer: Skyhorse Publishing
Category: Discountable Products
Sub Category: Simple Living

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Dating from the Golden Age of American Farming, this volume is both a tribute to days gone by and a resource for present day homeowners,farmers, and ranchers striving toward greater self-sufficiency. Here you will find hundreds of clever ways to transform those odds and ends that might seem like junk into very useful gadgets and tools, from a treadmill that can power a dairy separator and churn, to a drinking fountain for chickens. Other devices include a rig for moving large trees; a self-feeder for bees; a hand garden cultivator; and gates that lift over snowdrifts. It's full of useful illustrations and includes a whole section of tried-and-true tips.

Condition: new
ISBN: 9781602391031
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Size: 5.3x7.8
Manufacturer: Skyhorse Publishing
Category: Discountable Products
Sub Category: Simple Living

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Who doesn't want to shrink their carbon footprint, save money, and eat homegrown food whenever possible? Even readers who are very much on the grid will embrace this large, fully-illustrated guide on the basics of living the good, clean life. It's written with country lovers in mind--even those who currently live in the city.Whether you live in the city, the suburbs, or even the wilderness, there is plenty you can do to improve your life from a green perspective. Got sunlight? Start container gardening. With a few plants, fresh tomatoes, which then become canned tomato sauce, are a real option. Reduce electricity use by eating dinner by candlelight (using homemade candles, of course). Learn to use rainwater to augment water supplies. Make your own soap and hand lotion. Consider keeping chickens for the eggs. From what to eat to supporting sustainable restaurants to avoiding dry cleaning, this book offers information on anything a homesteader needs--and more.

Condition: new
ISBN: 9781602397477
Format:
Size: 11x8.8
Manufacturer: Skyhorse Publishing
Category: Discountable Products
Sub Category: Simple Living

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In daily life, we can take control of the resources and services we depend on. Electricity and energy don't have to come off the public utility grid--alternatives abound in solar, wind, and water generated power. Design decisions can drastically affect power consumption, and bio-diesel and alternative fuels can help break the oil habit. Dave Black describes alternatives for eco-pimping your home and lifestyle for independence, economy, and a more integrated way of life. Equally valuable for the urban dweller vaguely concerned about the size of his or her carbon footprint and the rural self-sufficiency enthusiast, Living Off the Grid can help anyone take control of his or her life and way of living.

Condition: new
ISBN: 9781602393165
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Size: 5x7.6
Manufacturer: Skyhorse Publishing
Category: Discountable Products
Sub Category: Simple Living

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Novices eager to collect tasty wild mushrooms will find this unique guide invaluable. Unlike others, it focuses only on those types that are both safe to eat and delicious. Most important, it presents the eight rules of mushroom gathering in a straightforward fashion--including Never, never take a mushroom with gills and If a mushroom smells rotten, it is rotten. Among the many mushrooms covered are the cep; the red-cracked, larch, bay, and birch boletes; hen of the woods, chanterelle, trumpet chanterelle, hedgehog fungus, common puffball, horn of plenty, and cauliflower mushroom. Each is identified with several color photographs and identification checklist, and there's also information on mushroom season, handling, storage, and cooking, complete with recipes.

Condition: new
ISBN: 9781602391604
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Size: 7.5x9.7
Manufacturer: Skyhorse Publishing
Category: Discountable Products
Sub Category: Simple Living

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Say Goodbye to Yesterday's Clutter Transform your home and schedule so they perfectly meet your current needs and reflect who you are and what you value now. Changes and life transitions often leave people with unbalanced schedules and homes full of obsolete items. Certified Professional Organizer Susan Fay West shows you how to make room for your new interests and responsibilities while honoring your past. Inside you'll find: Step-by-step advice for decluttering and reorganizing every room in the home Specific tips for where to start and how to stay motivated Reflective questions and exercises to help you make no-regrets decisions Time-management strategies to create and maintain a regular schedule About the Author: Susan Fay West is a Certified Organizer Coach and Certified Professional Organizer who holds specialty certificates in life transitions, ADHD, and chronic disorganization from the Institute for Challenging Disorganization. West has written on a topic dear to my heart, gett

Condition: new
ISBN: 9781440308529
Format: paperback
Size: 5.5''w x
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Category: Simple Living
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Many people know one or two things they can do to save money, like cutting back on vacations and meals out, but beyond that, they're stumped. When they look at their current lifestyle, they have no idea where they can trim the fat without sacrificing their quality of life.That's exactly what this guide will do. It will help you identify small, painless changes you can make to your daily habits that can add up to big savings--while bringing you closer as a family. By grouping these money-saving tips into a room of the house or errand on a to-do list, you can immediately put your suddenly frugal plan into action--and instantly begin saving money.By pinpointing the dollar amount associated with each cost-saving step, financial whiz and mom Leah Ingram will inspire you to embrace--and enjoy--your new frugality.Leah Ingram (New Hope, PA) is the author of several lifestyle books and hundreds of newspaper, magazine, and web articles. She has written for USA Weekend, Parade, and Woman's Day, a

Condition: new
ISBN: 9781440501821
Format: paperback
Size: 5-1/2inch x 8-1/2inch
Manufacturer: Adams Media
Category: Discountable Products
Sub Category: Simple Living

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What Makes a Man, a Man? For centuries, being a man meant living a life of virtue and excellence. But then, through time, the art of manliness was lost. Now, after decades of excess and aimless drift, men are looking for something to help them live an authentic, manly life—a primer that can give their life real direction and purpose. This book holds the answers. To master the art of manliness, a man must live the seven manly virtues: Manliness, Courage, Industry, Resolution, Self-Reliance, Discipline, Honor. Each chapter covers one of the seven virtues and is packed with the best classic advice ever written down for men. From the philosophy of Aristotle to the speeches and essays of Theodore Roosevelt, these pages contain the manly wisdom of the ages—poems, quotes, and essays that will inspire you to live life to the fullest and realize your complete potential. Learn the art. Change your life. Become a man.

Condition: new
ISBN: 9781440312007
Format: paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Manufacturer: HOW Design
Category: Discountable Products
Sub Category: Simple Living

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The winning team behind The Joy of Keeping Chickens returns, this time with a complete guide to building and maintaining a root cellar--even if it's just a dark and cool closet. This cheap, easy, energy-saving way will keep the harvest fresh all year long. Here, readers will learn: Which fruits and vegetables store best How to build a root cellar in the country, suburbs, or city How to deal with specific environmental challenges Storage techniques ranging from canning to pickling and smoking to drying Recipes for everything from tomato sauce to venison jerky Root cellaring isn't just for off-the-grid types or farmers with large gardens. Storing food makes good sense, both financially and environmentally. And root cellars can easily fit anywhere. In this intelligent, convincing book, authors Megyesi and Hansen show how to make them part of every reader's life.

Condition: new
ISBN: 9781602399754
Format:
Size: 6x9
Manufacturer: Skyhorse Publishing
Category: Discountable Products
Sub Category: Simple Living

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Finally backyard farmers who want to keep a few hens for eggs have a bible that's attractive enough to leave out on the coffee table, and inexpensive enough to purchase on a whim. This comprehensive guide, written in charming prose from the perspective of an organic farmer, will appeal to readers who are interested in raising chickens, or simply want the best knowledge about how to cook them. With this in mind, farmer and animal expert Jennifer Megyesi discusses all the basic details of raising the birds--general biology, health, food, choosing breeds, and so on--and she cuts through the smoke to identify what terms like organic, free-range, and so on really mean for poultry farmers and consumers. No chicken book would be complete without information on how to show chickens for prizes, and this is no different, but The Joy of Keeping Chickens also stresses the importance of self-sustainability and organic living, and the satisfaction of keeping heirloom breeds. Readers will appreciate

Condition: new
ISBN: 9781602393134
Format:
Size: 6.1x9.1
Manufacturer: Skyhorse Publishing
Category: Discountable Products
Sub Category: Simple Living

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When the going gets rough, the rough . . . start raising their own food. In the first full-color guide of its kind, author and small farm owner Laura Childs reveals exactly what it takes to start raising your own animals, including chickens, geese, goats, sheep, pigs, and cows. Childs discusses what you can expect to harvest from your animals--from eggs to milk to meat to wool--based on her own real-life experiences. Whether you want to raise a few chickens for eggs alone, try your hand at a few goats with the aim to make your own cheese, or are looking to sustain your family and make some extra money from raising and selling beef, this is the book for you.Childs offers general information for each breed and animal, from how to get started to what to feed and where to house the animals. This invaluable guide is the perfect first book for anyone interested in starting a backyard barnyard or a small farm--or simply dreaming about the idea.

Condition: new
ISBN: 9781602397453
Format:
Size: 6x9
Manufacturer: Skyhorse Publishing
Category: Discountable Products
Sub Category: Simple Living

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Anyone considering a shift to a greener way of living must get this inspirational and practical guide. With easy-to-read layouts and simple text, it runs the full ecological gamut, from geothermal heating to crop rotation to soap making. The Bridgewaters, well-regarded garden writers, help readers answer questions such as how much land they really require, whether or not to depend entirely on natural forms of energy, and which farm animals will best meet their needs. There's practical information on building an insulated flue-pipe chimney, identifying edible wild plants, and composting with worms. In addition to recipes for jams, rhubarb wine, and other delicious foods, three A-Z sections offer planting and harvesting instructions for vegetables and salad crops, fruits, and herbs.

Condition: new
ISBN: 9781602391635
Format:
Size: 6.5x9.5
Manufacturer: Skyhorse Publishing
Category: Discountable Products
Sub Category: Simple Living