Crafting the Considerate House
Crafting the Considerate House

Author: David Gerstel

Publisher: Latitude 67

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0982670958

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Crafting the Considerate House tells the story of designing and building a home for our times-one that is mindful of both environmental and dollar costs, yet responsive to our needs and wants. In his fast moving narrative David Gerstel - a highly skilled builder and an author with several admired books that have enjoyed strong sales for decades to his credit - involves the reader in the challenge and excitement of creating a house that is highly energy efficient, healthy, and a pleasure to live in. You experience the project up close from the first imaginings through the final construction of interior finishes. You meet and share in the camaraderie of the remarkable craftspeople who worked alongside the author. Even as you are entertained by the lively and thoughtful chronicle, you are educated in the crafting of a sturdy, dollarwise, and striking home.

Haunted House
Haunted House

Author: Virginia Loh-Hagan

Publisher: Cherry Lake

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1634705521

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Haunted House guides students as they conceive and set up their own haunted house for their friends and community. The considerate text includes easy-to-follow lists and will hold the readers' interest, allowing for successful mastery and comprehension. Written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience, these books maintain a lower level of complexity with clear visuals to help struggling readers along. A table of contents, glossary with simplified pronunciations, and index all enhance achievement and comprehension.

Book Design and Production
Book Design and Production

Author: Pete Masterson

Publisher: Aeonix Publishing Group

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0966981901

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If you are a writer working with a publisher (large or small) or if you are a small or first time publisher, BOOK DESIGN AND PRODUCTION will help you understand the book production process and the principles of good cover and interior book design. It will allow you to look at a book design and immediately see the common errors and to see that a book is following the traditions of good book design that gives credibility to your message. Whether you do the work yourself of hire it done, BOOK DESIGN AND PRODUCTION will help you get your book done right. Use this book to guide you through the book design and production process.

The Musician's Journey
The Musician's Journey

Author: Dr. Jill Timmons

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-02-13

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0199982007

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The Musician's Journey escorts musicians, performing artists, music teachers, and advanced music students along the road toward a successful career, offering a vast array of resources to guide them from envisioning the process to achieving the practical details. Jill Timmons provides key tools throughout the journey, from sources as diverse as the world of myth to current brain research, which illuminate compelling real-world examples of music entrepreneurs who forged their own paths to success. Included are chapters on careers in higher education; guidance in how to develop a business plan; general tips on grant writing and financial development; a separate section exploring the stories of other successful musicians; and personal narrative taken from the author's work as a professional musician and consultant. The book includes an extensive bibliography of additional resources, and the companion website offers downloadable worksheets and questionnaires to help readers along their way.

Nail Your Numbers
Nail Your Numbers

Author: David Gerstel

Publisher: Latitude 67

Published: 2018-01-03

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780982670903

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A complete guide to estimating accurately and bidding wisely. Includes guidance on: Selecting the right jobs to bid. Accurately figuring labor costs and obtaining reliable sub and supplier quotes. Astutely marking up for overhead and profit. And moving beyond the competitive bid rat race to getting paid for estimates.

Young House Love
Young House Love

Author: Sherry Petersik

Publisher: Artisan

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1579656765

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This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

Things I'm Seeing Without You
Things I'm Seeing Without You

Author: Peter Bognanni

Publisher: Penguin Books

Published: 2019-04-09

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0735228051

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When tragedy strikes, Tess drops out of school and moves in with her funeral director dad, forcing her to examine life, death, and the boy she thought she knew and loved in a brand new light.

A Poetry Handbook
A Poetry Handbook

Author: Mary Oliver

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780156724005

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With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably short space. "Stunning" (Los Angeles Times). Index.