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Midori Haus
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Author : Chie Kawahara
language : en
Publisher: Hybrid Global Publishing
Release Date : 2017-11-18
Midori Haus written by Chie Kawahara and has been published by Hybrid Global Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-18 with Architecture categories.
Managing a major remodel of your home involves learning various aspects of a construction project: permitting; hiring contractors; clarifying what you really mean and want; managing a budget; overseeing quality, avoiding regrets; doing what’s right for yourself and standing up for yourself. It’s a big job. The learning curve is high and often we homeowners don’t get to apply the skills we learned again. In this book, the stories of a couple going through this learning curve is told through the lens of a novice just like a conversation with a homeowner over a cup of tea. What they thought they wanted (a brand new house in modern minimalist style with solar panels and recycled materials) is very different than what they ended up with (remodel of a 90-year-old house in the classic Arts and Crafts style to meet the stringent international building standard called Passive House). What caused this shift? How did they choose the contractor? How did they navigate out of overwhelm of green building choices? How did they manage the relationships? What would they do differently? Was it worth it? This book chronicles the journey by a couple from choosing the location through living in the house after the renovation completion. It wasn’t all about finding smart people and following expert guidance. When expert opinions diverged and they got stuck in analysis paralysis they had to trust their judgment and chose what they felt was right for them. After all, they’ll be living in the house for years after the experts are gone. Reviews for MIDORI HAUS: "Chie Kawahara is a storyteller. Her book, Midori Haus, tells a compelling story in a conversational style about a couple who wanted to remodel an older home that would use as little energy as possible—and was comfortable and healthy to live in. Anyone who has an interest in green building—doing right for oneself and the planet—will find a friend in this book." -Jim Gunshinan, Editor, Home Energy Magazine “Midori Haus serves as a journey of adapting, learning, greening, nurturing, and caring for an old house by renewing the house to address current and future environmental challenges. The narrative is delightfully educational – the design process of achieving the passive house standard will be better understood through these stories and conversations.” -Alison G. Kwok, Ph.D., AIA, CPHC, University of Oregon "The international Passive House standard has gained a deserved reputation as the fastest growing building energy efficiency standard in the world. Unsurprisingly, publications about it have mostly been by and for industry professionals. Midori Haus represents an alternative, introducing readers to Passive House through the eyes of a homeowner undertaking a remodeling project. Chie Kawahara takes readers along on her journey of discovery and remodeling triumph. She makes the process understandable and accessible and readers are given practical tools they can use on their own Passive House projects. There's nothing like a good case study told by the people involved to bring abstract concepts to life. Midori Haus doesn't disappoint." -Elrond Burrell, Architect, CPHD, blogger "In this delightful book, Chie Kawahara describes the process she and her husband went through to purchase a 1920s bungalow and turn it into a state-of- the-art, healthy, green, Passive House. This account of their experiences is highly instructional for anyone considering buying and renovating a house, and it’s a wonderful read!" -Alex Wilson, Founder, BuildingGreen, Inc.
Zwei Fremde In Der Dunkelheit
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Author : Shizuko Natsuki
language : de
Publisher: Edel Elements - ein Verlag der Edel Verlagsgruppe
Release Date : 2014-09-12
Zwei Fremde In Der Dunkelheit written by Shizuko Natsuki and has been published by Edel Elements - ein Verlag der Edel Verlagsgruppe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-12 with Fiction categories.
Diago wartet schweigend. Sein Gefühl sagt ihm, dass die geheimnisvolle Fremde die intime Dunkelheit bewahren will, um ihm etwas anzuvertrauen. Sie zögert, holt tief Luft und sagt: "Es ist schlicht und ergreifend so, dass ich eine gewisse Frau liebend gern umbringen würde..." Die Starautorin der asiatischen Krimiwelt - die "japanische Agatha Christie"!
Subpar Parks
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Author : Amber Share
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2021-07-13
Subpar Parks written by Amber Share and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-13 with Humor categories.
**A New York Times Bestseller!** Based on the wildly popular Instagram account, Subpar Parks features both the greatest hits and brand-new content, all celebrating the incredible beauty and variety of America’s national parks juxtaposed with the clueless and hilarious one-star reviews posted by visitors. Subpar Parks, both on the popular Instagram page and in this humorous, informative, and collectible book, combines two things that seem like they might not work together yet somehow harmonize perfectly: beautiful illustrations and informative, amusing text celebrating each national park paired with the one-star reviews disappointed tourists have left online. Millions of visitors each year enjoy Glacier National Park, but for one visitor, it was simply "Too cold for me!" Another saw the mind-boggling vistas of Bryce Canyon as "Too spiky!" Never mind the person who visited the thermal pools at Yellowstone National Park and left thinking, “Save yourself some money, boil some water at home.” Featuring more than 50 percent new material, the book will include more depth and insight into the most popular parks, such as Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and Acadia National Parks; anecdotes and tips from rangers; and much more about author Amber Share's personal love and connection to the outdoors. Equal parts humor and love for the national parks and the great outdoors, it's the perfect gift for anyone who loves to spend time outside as well as have a good read (and laugh) once they come indoors.
Iced In Paradise
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Author : Naomi Hirahara
language : en
Publisher: Prospect Park Books
Release Date : 2019-09-03
Iced In Paradise written by Naomi Hirahara and has been published by Prospect Park Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-03 with Fiction categories.
Leilani Santiago is back in her birthplace, the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i, to help keep afloat the family business, a shave ice shack. When she goes to work one morning, she stumbles across a dead body, a young pro surfer who was being coached by her estranged father. As her father soon becomes the No. 1 murder suspect, Leilani must find the real killer and somehow safeguard her ill mother, little sisters, and grandmother while also preserving a long-distance relationship with her boyfriend in Seattle.
The Global Soul
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Author : Pico Iyer
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-08-31
The Global Soul written by Pico Iyer and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-31 with Travel categories.
Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of floatingness. In the transnational village that our world has become, travel and technology fuel each other and us. As Iyer points out, "everywhere is so made up of everywhere else," and our very souls have been put into circulation. Yet even global beings need a home. Using his own multicultural upbringing (Indian, American, British) as a point of departure, Iyer sets out on a quest, both physical and psychological, to find what remains constant in a world gone mobile. He begins in Los Angeles International Airport, where town life — shops, services, sociability — is available without a town, and in Hong Kong, where people actually live in self-contained hotels. He moves on to Toronto, which has been given new life and a new literature by its immigrant population, and to Atlanta, where the Olympic Village inadvertently commemorates the corporate universalism that is the Olympics' secret face. And, finally, he returns to England, where the effects of empire-as-global-village are still being sorted out, and to Japan, where in the midst of alien surfaces, Iyer unexpectedly finds a home. "As a guide to far-flung places, Pico Iyer can hardly be surpassed," The New Yorker has written. In The Global Soul, he extends the meaning of far-flung to places within and all around us.
An Eternal Lei
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Author : Naomi Hirahara
language : en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date : 2022-03-22
An Eternal Lei written by Naomi Hirahara and has been published by Turner Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-22 with Fiction categories.
It's the middle of the pandemic and Hawaii has been virtually closed to tourists. So when Leilani Santiago and her young sisters save a mysterious woman wearing an unusual lei from drowning in Waimea Bay in Kaua‘i, questions abound. Who is she and where did she come from? Leilani suddenly finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation when the lei is traced back to her best friend, the very pregnant Courtney Kahuakai, and her family’s flower business. While the woman is in a medically-induced coma at a local hospital, Leilani sets out to discover her identity and her connections to the island. She is drawn deeper into the mystery, only to stumble into secrets that prove deadly. When Leilani’s investigation puts her family in danger, her survival and the safety of those dearest to her will depend on her sense of ingenuity and the strength of her island community.
Herr F
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Author : Momus
language : en
Publisher: CulturBooks
Release Date : 2015-05-04
Herr F written by Momus and has been published by CulturBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-04 with Fiction categories.
The devil has given Herr F eternal fame in exchange for his eternal soul. But Herr F, knowing that everything living forever is sooner or later screaming forever, is determined to squelch and squander this fame, return to obscurity, and die. Herr F, the take of infamous musician and writer Momus on the Faust legend, is an experimental narrative about bargaining for immortality soaked in abstracted ideas of German-language literature, drawn mostly from English translations of twentieth-century figures like Brecht, Kafka, Rilke, Klee, Fassbinder, and Adorno. Behind the narrative is also, of course, Goethe and his (worked and reworked) Faust.
Mothers And Others
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Author : Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-15
Mothers And Others written by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-15 with Social Science categories.
Mothers and Others finds the key in the primatologically unique length of human childhood. Renowned anthropologist Sarah Hrdy argues that if human babies were to survive in a world of scarce resources, they would need to be cared for, not only by their mothers but also by siblings, aunts, fathers, friends—and, with any luck, grandmothers. Out of this complicated and contingent form of childrearing, Hrdy argues, came the human capacity for understanding others. In essence, mothers and others teach us who will care, and who will not.
Midori By Moonlight
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Author : Wendy Nelson Tokunaga
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2007-09-18
Midori By Moonlight written by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-18 with Fiction categories.
Midori's dream seems about to come true. When she falls in love with Kevin, an American English teacher, she readily agrees to leave home and start a new life with him in San Francisco.
I Am A Japanese Writer
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Author : Dany Laferrière
language : en
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Release Date : 2011
I Am A Japanese Writer written by Dany Laferrière and has been published by Douglas & McIntyre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Fiction categories.
A devilishly intelligent new novel by the internationally bestselling author and Prix Mï??dicis winner. A black writer from Montreal has found the perfect title for his next book: I Am a Japanese Writer. His publisher gives him an advance on the strength of the title alone. The problem is, he can't seem to write a word of it. He can scarcely summon the energy to put pen to paper, and so he nurses his writer's block by taking long baths, re-reading the works of Japanese poet Basho and engaging in amorous intrigues with rising pop star Midori and her entourage of vampire girls. For the writer, though, the title isn't just a title: he really does believe he is a Japanese writer. He makes this declaration in a mall, and, the next thing he knows, he's an international celebrity. The book becomes a cult phenomenon, even though he still hasn't written a word of it. In Japan, it sets off a cultural revolution. A Japanese writer even publishes a book called I Am a Malagasy Writer. On the nightly news, a Japanese officer declares, "I Am a Korean Soldier." No wonder a pair of attachï??s from the Japanese embassy has been following our hero around. At first, he is delighted to discover his celebrity. But things quickly go wrong. Part postmodern fantasy, part Kafkaesque nightmare and part travelogue to the inner reaches of the self, I Am a Japanese Writer calls into question everything we think we know about what-and who-makes a work of art.