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The Sloyd System Of Wood Working, by B. B. Hoffman, 1892, is a classic 19th century introduction to the Swedish Sloyd system of pedagogical manual training based upon the Naas theories as espoused by Otto Salomon, author of The Teacher's Hand-Book Of Slojd. Produced from the rare original in the collection of Gary Roberts, Publisher - www.toolemerapress.com"The object of this book is to give an account of the theory and practical application of the "Sloyd System" of manual training. It also includes a list and drawings of the models of the "Rodhe System" for children of the age of five to eleven years, filling the void between the kindergarten and the Sloyd system. In the treatment of the practical work, as few technical expressions as possible have been used, so that a teacher who may have had no previous experience in work of this kind may nevertheless be able to follow out a course of manual training in wood work without any outside assistance." From: Economy In Education: A Practical Discussion Of Present Day Problems In Educational Administration. R. N Roark. 1905. Hoffman's Sloyd System Of Wood-Working by B. B. Hoffman, A. B., formerly Superintendent of the Baron De Hirsch Fund Trade SchoolsMORE Sloyd / Slöjd readings from Toolemera Press:The Teacher's Hand-Book Of Slöjd, by Otto Salomon 1891 - ISBN: 9781519715548 Kindle ASIN: B08KNQ8SVQSlöjd In Great Britain And America: 1890-1906 - ISBN: 9780989747776The Sloyd System Of Wood Working by Benjamin B. Hoffman 1892 - ISBN: 9781087863580Text Book Of Swedish Home Sloyd, by Anna Peterson 1922 - ISBN: 9780989747714Toolemera Press preserves the printed history of early crafts, trades and industries. Visit www.toolemerapress.com for the online museum and book shop.

Regrets. We've all had a few. While regrets are all too common in our day-to-day lives, you definitely don't want to have any regrets in your next remodeling project, home addition, or your new custom-built home. Why? Because those regrets are far too costly both in terms of financial impact and the price of living with a poor choice for years to come.As qualified professional contractors with more than three decades of experience, we've heard from countless satisfied customers who have done things the correct way.Sadly, we've also had to correct the things that someone else didn't do, did incorrectly, or shouldn't have done.Since we can't help everyone in person - as much as we would like to - we wrote Remodeling and New Construction with no Regrets to guide you through some of the most critical decisions you'll make as you begin to think about, plan for and live through your new home construction or remodeling process.In these pages you'll find some of the biggest mistakes we've seen homeowners make over the years - from hiring the wrong firm to not planning for the home they actually need, to fundamental financial miscalculations that can sabotage a project.It is our hope that you will learn from these experiences and use them to systematically eliminate the chance of regrets cropping up in your project.

16 Medicinal Plants to Keep in Your House Bilingual Edition In English and Germany Languange Lite Version.Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times. Plants synthesise hundreds of chemical compounds for functions including defence against insects, fungi, diseases, and herbivorous mammals. Numerous phytochemicals with potential or established biological activity have been identified.The earliest historical records of herbs are found from the Sumerian civilisation, where hundreds of medicinal plants including opium are listed on clay tablets. The Ebers Papyrus from ancient Egypt, c. 1550 BC, describes over 850 plant medicines. The Greek physician Dioscorides, who worked in the Roman army, documented over 1000 recipes for medicines using over 600 medicinal plants in De materia medica, c. 60 AD; this formed the basis of pharmacopoeias for some 1500 years. Drug research makes use of ethnobotany to search for pharmacologically active substances in nature, and has in this way discovered hundreds of useful compounds. These include the common drugs aspirin, digoxin, quinine, and opium. The compounds found in plants are of many kinds, but most are in four major biochemical classes: alkaloids, glycosides, polyphenols, and terpenes.Medicinal plants are useful to keep on hand to treat common ailments. You can reach for certain medical plants to relieve headaches, tummy trouble and even irritation from bug bites. Plants can be consumed in teas, used as garnish, applied topically as essential oil or consumed as a pill.It's important to remember that you should always double check with your doctor before consuming or using anything new for your body. If you choose to grow some of these plants, remember to take proper care according to the plant's care guidelines and refrain from using any pesticides or other harmful chemicals on your plants.

With humor and a down-to-earth style, this book is easy to read and contains invaluable tips for all caregivers!- Private care is too costly for many. The result is caring for their elderly loved ones at home.Often, these caregivers are still working full-time and taking care of other family and professional responsibilities. Even for someone who is retired, adding the role of caregiver for an elderly loved one is often more challenging than anyone ever anticipates.- Based on experience and research, this book provides caregivers quick ideas to help resolve some common problems.As a college professor with experience working in an adult psychiatric unit, Lisa Santiago shares her inspiration for writing this book: "I saw many individuals whose mental illnesses hindered their abilities to function in everyday life and I became familiar with the systems put in place to help them. In addition to that, I keep up with advances in brain and memory research in order to share this with my students. All of this knowledge related to the brain and mental illnesses led me to believe that I was fully prepared to easily care for my grandma as Alzheimer's tried to take her further away. It didn't take long for me to learn that I was wrong! I needed more options. I needed quick and simple solutions.I had to combine all I witnessed, all I studied, and all of my ingenuity in order to ensure physical, mental, and emotional health for both of us. When colleagues, friends, and friends of friends began calling me for help with their loved ones, I shared my tips. They said I should write a book to help everyone in the world - so I did, and I hope it makes life happier for everyone who gives so much without even thinking about it. It's a gift for all caregivers."WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS BOOK: - Easy tips that you can use quickly - no need to sit and read for hours! - Cheap and easy ways to keep your home clean and safe. - Systems to minimize memory losses. - Easy to understand explanations of current research findings related to the brain and memory. - Simple ideas to add much-needed exercise and movement to the day - while seated! - Learning that giving control means gaining control. - Reasons to smile and laugh instead of cry. - And so much more...Alzheimer's: Quick Tips for Caregivers, Vol. I: Living with a Wild Raccoon is a vital resource for anyone caring for those suffering from Alzheimer's or dementia. This book has invaluable, and often cost-free, tips to help improve the quality of life for both the caregiver and the care-receiver. It is also an informative and instructive resource for eldercare staff at all levels.

Is your home filled with stuff? Want to declutter but not sure how? Are you longing for some space in your busy life?This practical and easy-to-read book provides an adaptable game plan to declutter your home and your life once and for all. There is guidance on how to organize your remaining things, tips on changing your consumer behavior so you can keep your house in order and an entire chapter devoted to alternatives to throwing unwanted items in the trash.It answers all your burning questions such as what minimalism is, how to deal with the emotions evoked by sentimental items and what to do if your screwdriver, bra or tax returns don't spark joy but you feel like you have to keep them anyway!As a busy, modern mama, you know there must be more to life than stuffing clothes back into too-full closets, finding ways to cook dinner around mountains of mess on kitchen counters and stumbling on toys left all over the floor. You have heard about decluttering and know it could be an answer to your woes. Maybe you have read about it and given it a go. After all, the end result sounds so inviting. But some of the instructions sound far-fetched, abstract or just too hard. Know that you CAN embrace minimalism in the best way that suits you and your family. This book provides easy, practical tips to help you declutter in a realistic way and shows that it can take less time and be more fun than you think. Imagine how great it will be when you declutter your home and your life. There are benefits in so many areas: A tidier house that is a breeze to keep clean Finding everything you love and use easily in your organized home More time to spend with your family on fun experiences and activities Fewer arguments over toys, plus kids who create, imagine and dream Knowing your unwanted stuff is being used by people who need and love it Never being stuck in a consumer culture in which you buy stuff to feel good Living your best life with the time and space to do exactly what you want to do And, of course, jettisoning all those crumpled shirts and never ironing again!I have distilled an avalanche of advice and my learnings from a month of decluttering into simple and practical tips to help busy, modern mamas, just like you and me, to embrace minimalism in a realistic way to remain clutter-free forever. This refreshingly non-judgmental book includes tips on: Deciding what to do with unwanted items: donate, sell, give away or trash Reducing your consumption going forward by hiring or not purchasing at all Embracing minimalism in other areas of your life including a digital declutter Making decisions about kids' artwork, old photo albums and that unsightly vase left to you by your dearly departed grandmother If you follow the suggestions in this book, your house will feel spacious, you will feel better and you will give the world the best gift of all-a mama who is calm and happy. Follow the advice in this book and find the real you-the one that you know is in there but has been drowned by all your stuff. Don't wait another restless night in your overcrowded bedroom to read this book. To gain your life back, grab this book today.

Indian food is one of the world's most popular cuisines. Even as it has transformed the contemporary urban foodscape in this age of globalization, social scientists have paid scant attention to the phenomenon. The essays in this book explore the relationship between globalization and South Asia through food. Udipi restaurants, Indian food in colonial times, dum pukht cuisine, staples of the prepared food industry like Bangalore's MTR Foods, Britain's curry culture, Indian fast food in California-these and other distinctive aspects of South Asia's food and culture are examined to gain new insights into subcontinental food and the ways in which it has influenced the world around us

Stone-Working Machinery and the Rapid and Economical Conversion of Stone - Second Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

You can start to successfully declutter today, regardless of how much 'stuff' you have! Love Your Clutter Away offers a detailed, easy-to-follow solution to overwhelming clutter.Find joy in this new strategy that helps you feel better about yourself as you declutter, even when you feel you can't let go. It's like having a supportive friend along to walk with you through each room in your house, explaining how to sort, organize, and choose the best things to keep. Everything from home offices to kid's rooms to stuff from the past can be less cluttered with the Love Your Clutter Away approach. Written by a former professional organizer who successfully combined a psychology degree with a passion to help clients love themselves and their calm, clean homes.In Love Your Clutter Away, learn about: The secret to decluttering How to set the stage for a clutter free home Decluttering techniques for each room in the house Easy solutions to paper clutter How to deal with clutter from the past Where to put things to organize your home How to fill your life with things other than clutter - 'things' that matter How to create an amazing life and keep a calm, clutter free home

The Ladies' Book Of Etiquette, And Manual Of Politeness: A Complete Hand Book For The Use Of The Lady In Polite Society. This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions.2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

If you want to know how this new, proven revolutionary lifestyle can help free you from worry, stress and financial problems in while helping you live a healthier life, keep reading...In Minimalist Living: 2 Books in 1: Declutter Your Mind + Minimalist Budget using Minimalism Essentials to Declutter, Organize and Simplify Your Life, you will discover: The powerful method used by success gurus such as Brian Tracy in order to help you focus on your most important priorities to save you time and free you from unnecessary stress Ten warning signs to look out for in order to avoid getting mental clutter and let it affect your life Eight helpful ways that would dramatically shift your thinking from negative to positive Nine benefits on how meditation can help free you from thoughts of worry and anxiety How to get more done in less time to avoid getting overwhelmed mentally and physically Seven strategies that are easy to implement for achieving the necessary work-life balance How to effectively declutter your home to free up more space and provide a better stress-free environment The benefits of a less is more minimalist lifestyle and how to start freeing yourself from things you don't really need A Bonus Chapter on being free from Digital Clutter - featuring eight proven ways on how to achieve digital decluttering and not let all the noise affect you The main reason why your mind is filled with so much clutter - and how you can fix it Eight simple ways you can apply instantly to start saving money How to dramatically shift your thinking from a negative mindset to a positive one when it comes to money Six strategies you can use in order to budget the right way Easy steps on how you can come up with a financial plan that lets you both save more and earn more A seven-part solution in order to free you from compulsive spending once and for all A powerful budgeting strategy that would help align your spending with your money-saving goals Bonus Chapter on saving money when dealing with the five biggest areas that take up more than 50% of our expenses Eleven practical techniques to help you get out of debt - regardless of the amount ... and much, much more!With easy-to-follow techniques on each chapter to help you get immediate results - even if you have tried all the Budgeting books out there but not getting significant results, have a very busy lifestyle or have never tried Minimalism or Mindfulness before, you can experience freedom from mental clutter, fix your financial situation and improve your life overall with this bundle on Minimalist Living.So if you want to experience stress-free living and get relief from both mental and digital clutter and financial issues this year, click the "Buy Now" button to get started.

NEWEST/UPDATED VERSION! Get Organized Fast! Clutter has a cost. It steals your storage space, robs your time and energy, and takes away the peace and beauty of your home. Don't pay for it another minute-get organized, now! This updated and expanded edition of the bestselling Organize Now! features even more quick, effective organizing ideas. Easy-to-follow checklists show you how to organize any part of your life in less than one week. You spend more time organizing and less time reading-a perfect fit for your busy lifestyle! Long-term goals help keep the clutter away for the months and years to follow, so you can maintain the order you create. You'll find help with everything from time management and routines to mental clutter, paperwork, pets, purses, toys, rooms and life events such as moving and celebrating the holidays. Exclusive money saving tips show you how to use your organizing efforts to cut costs around the house and even make a little money. Don't let piles of paperwork, overflowing closets and overbooked schedules drain your resources and energy anymore. Take control with Organize Now!