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Solar Outdoor Living is a complete, beginner-friendly guide to hosting unforgettable outdoor gatherings powered entirely by the sun. Blending sustainability, creativity, and practical planning, this book shows how solar energy can transform picnics, parties, and off-grid events into eco-friendly, modern celebrations without sacrificing comfort or fun. Listeners will learn the fundamentals of solar power for outdoor use, including how portable solar panels, batteries, and generators work together to power lighting, music, food cooling, cooking tools, and device charging.

Real Life Organizing offers clutter-free storage solutions and advice that can help you create a Pinterest-worthy home on a small budget: Learn how to organize your home, simplify life, and have more time for the things you love.

Purdy Rubin and Charlotte Figg were just like us - fed up with all those plastic spray bottles full of harsh chemicals under the kitchen sink, most of which were never used. So together they embarked on a mission to find a better solution. In this beautifully illustrated book, Purdy and Charlotte share their knowledge and show us how just a few natural hero ingredients can more than hold their own against 'Big Clean', especially when combined into their easy-to-make recipes.

THE ENTERTAINING AND HEARTWARMING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but where others might settle for a modest bolthole in the French countryside, the Strawbridges fell in love with a 19th-century fairytale château, complete with 45...

Burst Pipe & Leak Repair: How to Identify, Fix, and Prevent Home Plumbing Emergencies is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide designed to help homeowners, renters, and property managers handle plumbing emergencies with confidence. Water leaks and burst pipes can cause severe damage to homes, including ruined floors, ceilings, walls, and personal belongings. This audiobook provides detailed instructions on detecting hidden leaks, performing temporary and permanent repairs, and preventing future plumbing disasters.

Smart Plumbing Repairs: How to Fix Modern Fixtures and Smart Home Plumbing Systems is your complete guide to understanding, maintaining, and repairing the next generation of plumbing technology. Whether you’re a homeowner, DIY enthusiast, or professional plumber, this book teaches you how to diagnose and fix common issues with smart faucets, toilets, showers, water heaters, leak detectors, and more. With the rise of connected homes, smart plumbing systems have become more efficient but also more complex.

In her brilliantly and creatively researched book, Lucy Worsley takes us through the bedroom, bathroom, living room, and kitchen, covering the history of each room and exploring what people actually did in bed, in the bath, at the table, and at the stove—from sauce stirring to breast-feeding, teeth cleaning to masturbating, getting dressed to getting married—providing a compelling account of how the four rooms of the home have evolved from medieval times to today, charting revolutionary changes in society.

Tankless Water Heater Repair: How to Maintain and Fix Your OnDemand System is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide designed for homeowners, renters, and maintenance professionals who want to understand, maintain, and repair their on-demand water heating systems. Tankless water heaters provide endless hot water and energy savings, but without proper care, they can experience leaks, scale buildup, error codes, or performance issues.

Take control of your home’s plumbing system and save hundreds of dollars on repair costs with this easy-to-follow guide! In Kitchen & Bathroom Plumbing Repairs, expert author Trevor Clinger walks homeowners and DIYers through the most common plumbing problems found in kitchens and bathrooms — and shows you how to fix them step-by-step. Whether you’re dealing with a dripping faucet, a clogged drain, or a running toilet, this audiobook provides simple explanations, clear instructions, and professional repair techniques that anyone can follow.

Tired of a humming, clogged, or leaking garbage disposal ruining your kitchen routine? In Garbage Disposal Repair Secrets: Quick Fixes for the Most Common Problems, Trevor Clinger reveals the step-by-step solutions every homeowner needs to diagnose and repair their disposal quickly, safely, and without calling a plumber.

Take a journey to Château-de-la-Motte Husson in the spellbinding memoir from Sunday Times bestselling authors, Dick and Angel Strawbridge. Dick and Angel recount the newest and biggest challenges they faced on the journey to transforming their once derelict and abandoned château in France's...

Critical Path is Fuller's master work - the summing up of a lifetime's thought and concern - as urgent and relevant as it was upon its first publication in 1981. Critical Path details how humanity found itself in its current situation - at the limits of the planet's natural resources and facing political, economic, environmental, and ethical crises.

With the appearance of Grunch of Giants, R. Buckminster Fuller consummates his literary canon, his panoramic lifetime survey of all aspects of the responsibility of human beings for their own destiny. This book is a modern allegory - his long-gestated myth-of the villainy of capitalism and the fecklessness of classic economics. For Fuller, the academic discipline of economics is irrelevant since it derives from an invalid assumption of scarcity.

With this updated edition of his earlier book, A Place of My Own, listeners can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan’s realization of a room of his own—a small, wooden hut, his “shelter for daydreams” — built with his admittedly unhandy hands. Inspired by both Thoreau and Mr. Blandings, A Place of My Own not only works to convey the history and meaning of all human building, it also marks the connections between our bodies, our minds, and the natural world.

The buildings designed in our lifetimes encapsulate the dreams and aspirations of our culture, while also revealing the sobering realities. Whether modest or monumental, they offer a living history of Britain, symbols of the forces that have shaped our modern landscape and icons in their own right. Iconicon is an enthralling journey around the Britain we have created since 1980: the horrors and delights, the triumphs and failures.

In recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. People, many of whom have already embarked upon that great adventure of genealogical research, and who have encountered their ancestors in the archives and uncovered family secrets, are now turning to...

How do you place a bed in an awkward room? How can your space help you be more focused and more productive? How do you set up your room to make you ready for romantic love? It’s simple! In Feng Shui Modern, TikTok influencer Cliff Tan answers these questions and more, explaining the ancient practice of feng shui and how it can be translated to modern homes. Cliff has become an internet sensation with his videos demonstrating the principles of feng shui, and in this practical guide he shows how to apply these principles room-by-room in your own home.

On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment.

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction.

How to Clean Everything is full of genuinely useful tips and tricks, and advice about not just what but also what not to do. Covering everything from laundry to accidents, and cleaning room by room, this audiobook also contains sections on more general household maintenance, particularly useful for renters or anyone living away from home for the first time. Ann's approach is realistic, reassuring and easy to follow, whatever your circumstances.