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Kiko Denzer and Hannah Field, maker and baker, invite you into the artisan tradition. First, build a masonry oven out of mud. Then mix flour and water for real bread “better than anything you can buy.” Total cost? Hardly more than a baking stone – and it can cook everything else, from 2-minute pizza to holiday fowl, or a week’s meals.
Clear, abundant drawings and photos clarify every step of the process, from making “oven mud,” to fire, and to bread. Informative text puts it all into context with artisan traditions of many ages & cultures. Beautifully sculpted ovens (by the author and readers) will inspire the artist in anyone. And the simple, 4 step recipe (based on professional and homestead experience) promises authentic hearth loaves for anyone, on any schedule.
From weekend gardeners to "simple living," back-to-the-landers; Peace Corps volunteers to neighborhood community-builders; third-graders to earth-artists of all ages, this book feeds many hungers!
• updated, expanded, re-written, & revised.
• foreword by Alan Scott, the grandfather of wood-fired ovens and artisan bread.
• super-insulated design holds heat longer with less wood burned.
• 8 pages of color photos.
• Plus: mobile ovens, rocket mass heaters for the home, hay-box cookers, and more..
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The Solar Food Dryer describes how to use solar energy to dry your food instead of costly electricity With your own solar-powered food dryer, you can quickly and efficiently dry all your extra garden veggies, fruits, and herbs to preserve their goodness all year long-with free sunshine! Applicable to a wide geography-wherever gardens grow-this well-illustrated book includes:

Complete step-by-step plans for building a high-performance, low-cost solar food dryer from readily available materials
Solar energy design concepts
Food drying tips and recipes
Resources, references, solar charts, and more

Eben Fodor is an organic gardener with a background in solar energy and engineering. He works as a community planning consultant in Eugene, Oregon.

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Price: $8.93 [Notify me when price goes down.]

When it comes to making your business more profitable and successful, don't look to re-engineering for answers A better way is to apply the concept of kaizen, which mean making simple, common-sense improvements and refinements to critical business processes.The result: greater productivity, quality, and profits achieved with minimal cost, time, and effort invested. In this book, you discover how to maximize the results of kaizen by applying it to gemba--business processes involved in the manufacture of products and the rendering of services--the areas of your business where, as the author puts it, the "real action" takes place..
Price: $16.75 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The first comprehensive guide of its kind, Building an Affordable House is for homeowners and building contractors who want to incorporate proven cost-saving techniques into their projects. Written by a contractor who has been nationally recognized for his innovative approach to cost control, this book shows readers how to generate significant savings on major projects such as building a new home or adding on to an existing one. The first section provides an economical approach to planning projects, while the second reveals the quality-conscious, cost-cutting strategies the author has uncovered through direct construction experience and extensive consultation with industry experts. The third section covers finish details from drywall to flooring, with emphasis on saving money without compromising quality or distinctive results. Handy features include floor plans, resource listings, and project management tools..
Price: $13.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Active field researchers and award-winning teachers Hoyer and MacInnis provide students with an accessible and topical introduction to consumer behavior. A broad conceptual model helps students see how all chapter topics tie together, and real-world examples reinforce each concept and theoretical principle under review. The text also focuses on the implications of consumer behavior research for marketers.

Updated to reflect the most recent research and examples, the Fourth Edition features streamlined content and organization—from 21 to 20 chapters—as well as a new interior design and new photos and advertisements. In addition, several pedagogical features make the material accessible and meaningful to marketing students: chapter-opening cases show the anecdotal application of concepts, while end-of-chapter questions and exercises require students to investigate consumer behavior issues and analyze advertisements and marketing strategies. A range of technology resources supports instructors and students throughout the term.

• New! The chapters on culture have been reorganized to include recent developments in academic research, such as new information about the values that characterize Western culture. Consolidated and streamlined coverage also includes privacy, social class influences, household consumption, demographics, and diversity.
• New! Updated and expanded coverage includes an examination of AMA's new definition of marketing, consumer behavior as related to environmental issues (such as recycling), the effects of memory and retrieval, and word-of-mouth communication, among others.
• New! Chapter-opening cases focus on companies and topics such as Swatch, ING Direct, iPod, Shopping.com, beer advertising, product placement, consumer behavior in China and Thailand, buzz marketing, and identity theft.
• New! Cases on consumer behavior are available through the HMXChange Business Case Database. This online resource allows business instructors to assemble, maintain, and update casebooks from any web-accessible location. The result is a printed casebook tailored to meet course objectives.
• New! Designed specifically for users of the Fourth Edition, the technology package includes the Online Teaching Center, HM Testing, basic and premium PowerPoint slides, Blackboard/WebCT course cartridges, Overhead Transparencies with additional advertising examples, videos, and the Online Study Center with ACE practice tests.
• Consumer Behavior is known for the inclusion of chapters and topics that often do not appear in other textbooks for this course, such as "Symbolic Consumer Behavior" and "The Dark Side of Consumer Behavior," which explores obesity, theft, and compulsive spending.

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Price: $26.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

278,000 copies in print..
Price: $7.99 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Spend like a miser, profit like a mogul

Who says you have to spend money to make money?Savvy real estate investors follow the examples of Donald Trump and Walt Disney, turning substantial profits on properties without incurring the debt, risk, and maintenance costs of ownership—and now, so can you!

In How to Make Money with Real Estate Options, real estate expert Thomas Lucier introduces you to the low-risk, high-yield investment vehicle that can earn big bucks even for small investors. Lucier explains what real estate options are, how they work, and why they are the tools of choice for thousands of successful investors. Step by step, he shows you how to:

• Locate potential option properties using the Internet, want ads, and "bird-dogs"
• Contact and negotiate with property owners
• Perform due diligence and avoid options pitfalls
• Prepare an option agreement that protects you
• Insure real estate options with title insurance
• Package and sell optioned properties for optimum profits

Packed with no-nonsense advice on how to identify the most profitable properties and manage every step of the option process, How to Make Money with Real Estate Options is a practical guide to one of the secret weapons of savvy investors..
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This 2008 book shows how to design products for all aspects of manufacturability and use multifunctional product development teams and Concurrent Engineering principles to achieve the goals cited in the sub-title:

DESIGN FOR LOW COST. The book presents many effective methodologies to design low-cost products by concurrently engineering products in multifunctional teams that will simplify concepts, optimize architecture, optimize the use of modules and off-the-shelf parts, have pre-selected vendors help design custom parts, understand and avoid previous problems, and then thoroughly design for manufacturability for quick launches without expensive change orders.

DESIGN IN HIGH QUALITY. Chapter 10 shows how to design quality and reliability into the product with poka-yoke and 50 design guidelines.

DESIGN FOR LEAN MANUFACTURE. The book shows how to standardize parts and design products for lean production, JIT, build-to-order, and mass customization.

DESIGN QUICKLY FOR FAST PRODUCTION. Chapter 3 shows how thorough up-front work is the key to quickly developing products, avoiding changes, and achieving fast ramps..
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Introduction and History. Trees and Log Preparation. Basic Tools for Log Buildings. Building Site and Cost Considerations. Log House Designs.
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