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Here is a revolutionary approach for heating rooms and generating hot water. Author Gaelan Brown has worked with engineers and compost scientists to refine methods of composting that can heat greenhouses, barns, buildings, and hot water, all without combustion.

A timeless classic to hiking in New Hampshire, with three brand-new hikes.

"A wonderful read... An historical novel of the highest quality."-Iain Pears

Explorer's Great Destinations puts the guide back into guidebook.

Higuchi Ichiyo, Japan's first woman writer of stature in modern times, wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multi-volumed diary. This book is made up of a critical biography, interlaced with extracts from the diary, and Robert Danly's translations of nine representative stories.

Tips and techniques for managing a prevalent co-existing condition.

A trailblazing philosopher's exploration of the latest brain science-and its ethical and practical implications.

A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and '80s San Francisco with an openly gay father.

From a dazzling, award-winning young poet, a collection that paints life as a celebration in the dark.

"No contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."-Harold Bloom

One of the most powerful (though deceptively simple) of current ideas is Erik H. Erikson's insight into the nature of the interrelationships of the psychogenic development of an individual and the historical development of the times.

Ortega deals here with the roots and historical justification of philosophy, and the question of philosophy's essential unity.

Lauded by the "Virginia Quarterly" as "the best Civil War novel ever written, " "Jacob's Ladder" resonates with all the bitter glory and deep human shame of America's greatest war.

A remarkable document of an era that permanently changed the American political landscape.

"Oracular, almost biblical at times, and as deeply embedded in the particulars of nature as the superb later poetry."-John Ashbery

The nation's favorite literary farmer pays homage to the life of the senses.

"If you are planning or have ever planned to be a bride, this book will make you think and then make you cry."-Boston Globe

A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001 and a Washington Post Book World 2001 Rave.

Sometimes controversial, invariably fascinating, Lacan's psycholinguistic approach to analysis of the psychoses is seen here in virtually unmediated form.

A woman of captivating presence whose affairs scandalized Kenya, Beryl Markham became famous after her pioneering transatlantic solo flight in 1936.

This book, a companion to the authors' Escape from Babel, describes therapy with a number of patients who had defeated numerous clinicians and become "veterans" of the system. Using a flexible approach that emphasizes relationship, hope, and a plan for the future, the authors turn these cases around, setting the clients on a path of independence and health.

For those who have had it with the "Boys of Summer" playing "The Summer Game" on a "Field of Dreams", here is a blackly funny reality check--featuring a rogue's gallery of cheats, misers, sadists, racists, egomaniacs, substance abusers, gamblers, and criminals who have participated in America's favorite sport.

Born into a Georgia sharecropper family, Hosea Hudson moved to Birmingham, Alabama, to work in the steel mills in the turbulent 1930s and '40s and became a member of the Communist Party. This collaborative oral autobiography gives a vivid picture of the life and times of a black radical.

Lace up your boots, grab this guide, and explore the great outdoors!

The first-and still the best-guide to Oregon's wine country from well-connected local wine experts.

Cat Urbigkit journeys alone to spend a season on Wyoming's open range tending to a herd of domestic sheep as they give birth amid the challenges of nature - from severe weather to a wealth of predators. Her only companions are the livestock guardian animals (BIG dogs and a pair of burros named Bill and Hillary!) that repeatedly prove their worth in devotion to protecting the herd.

The Maine dogfish are gone-fished to the brink of extinction. Gone too is Linda Jane, and with her the love and the subjunctive Maine that they might have shared. And what of that fabled "Old Maine"? Is it gone for good?

The ultimate guidebook for extraordinary adventures.

The definitive, comprehensive guide to Virginia Beach, Richmond and surrounding areas, with hundreds of lodging, dining, and recreational recommendations.