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Use this guide to begin forging your ironclad existence, powered by your own hands and ingenuity, in this unpredictable world. "Survival Projects for Off-Grid Living" is your indispensable guide to establishing independence and resilience in a world fraught with unforeseen challenges. This book contains over 200 illustrative diagrams.

If you’ve ever wanted to live more sustainably, support your health naturally, or explore foraging with confidence, Wildcrafting Herbal Remedies and Natural Medicines is your trusted guide. Whether you're a curious beginner or a nature lover ready to go deeper, this hands-on book walks you through identifying, harvesting, and preparing wild herbs—safely, ethically, and with purpose. This isn’t just another herb book—it’s a practical, respectful path to wellness. Whether you live in the city or countryside, you’ll gain skills to reconnect with nature and care for your body, home, and community.

It is July 2003. In the middle of its maiden voyage, the luxury cruise ship Emerald Dolphin suddenly catches fire and sinks. What caused it? Why didn't the alarms go off? What was its connection to the revolutionary new engines powering the ship? NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt races to...

This book is for you or for the person you know with piles upon piles of books and mail that take up their living room and plague their lives. This is for the people who feel like they are suffocating under the mess and clutter and feel like they have to burn down their houses to properly start over. This book is also for those who feel like they are throwing parts of themselves away when they think about giving away or throwing away their stuff. This book is for people who live in a mess, but don't know where to start or how to fix it.

From one of Fine Homebuilding's best-loved authors, Larry Haun, comes a unique story that looks at American home building from the perspective of twelve houses he has known intimately. Part memoir, part cultural history, A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses takes the reader house by house over an arc of 100 years.

Are you sick and tired of your messy home, disorganized rooms, and things away from its place? Have you tried countless other organization solutions but nothing seems to work? Do you finally want to say goodbye to mess, overpacked kitchen cabinets, kids toys everywhere, and discover something that actually works for you? If so, then this book is for you. You see, living a worry-free life with a beautiful organized home doesn’t have to be complicated.

Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable - for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment - yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck’s follow-up to his best-selling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer’s guide to making change in cities, and making it now.

Amazon best-selling author Allyson Hodge presents the remarkable findings of the impact of minimalism on our mental health and how to incorporate it into our daily lives. Based on her expertise of over 15 years of working with clients as well as her personal experience of transformation from a sufferer of anxiety and panic attacks to a perfectly healthy and satisfied individual, Allyson answers the question: How can minimalism impact our mental health?

Do you feel like your house is constantly cluttered, and you don't know where to start? We’ve all been there. You start out with the best of intentions, but before you know it, your house is cluttered again. It feels like a never-ending battle. But what if I told you that there was a better way? A way that didn’t involve hours of grueling clean-up every day? Learn how to declutter your home once and for all—without any stress or struggle. You will be able to finally get rid of the clutter that’s been holding you back for years!

Clutter is a common problem, and it’s one that is nearly impossible to ignore. The more it remains in front of you, the more you will feel the stress and anxiety you wish would just go away. While the mess won’t clean itself, if you commit yourself to the process and give it your all the first time around, you won’t need another decluttering session ever again.

What if financial independence didn’t require vast land, crushing debt, or industrial scale—just intelligence, discipline, and ten well-managed acres? First published in 1858, Ten Acres Enough by Edmund Morris is one of the most practical and quietly radical books ever written about small-scale farming, homesteading, and self-reliant living. Morris documents, in clear and methodical detail, how he escaped city dependence and built a profitable, sustainable livelihood on limited land—using careful planning, diversified production, and relentless attention to costs and returns.

Join Joe Sugg, our favourite YouTube star, on a journey to discover the healing powers of nature in a noisy digital world. Having grown-up in the rise of the digital age and as one of the UKs biggest TV and online stars, Joe knows better than anyone how it feels to be overwhelmed by the world wide web and its endless stream of content. Experiencing feelings of anxiety and burnout, Joe has come up with his very own creative and practical ways to let nature in, that are accessible no matter where in the world you live, from the city to the seaside.

You know the how-to behind decluttering your home. It's easy! What's not so easy is getting into the right mindset where you are happy to let go of things you know are not adding to your life. Why is it so hard? The secret is finding the right message to make everything click in your mind, and you will discover this in 100 Ways to Declutter Your Home.

A permaculture expert and popular YouTube Homesteader shares the skills and the delights of becoming a part of your own food story in this inspiring, accessible, and beautiful invitation to a more abundant, healthy, and connected life. Have you ever wanted to experiment with growing your own...

From the cleaning and homekeeping expert and creator of the wildly popular Clean Mama blog comes a simple and accessible cleaning guide with a proven step-by-step schedule for tidying a home in just ten minutes a day. Becky Rapinchuk, the “Clean Mama,” understands that many people don’t...

Overwhelmed by the clutter? Struggling with the emotional weight of possessions can't be let go of? Hoarding disorder is a complex condition that can leave people feeling trapped and isolated, battling with obsessive thoughts and emotional attachments to items that no longer serve them. This book on hoarding, addresses the root causes of hoarding disorder, helping people understand it as a genuine illness rather than a simple lack of organization. Explore the emotional connections that fuel the accumulation of clutter and learn effective strategies for hoarding treatment.

At the close of the twentieth century, corporate capitalism extended its reach over the globe. While its defenders argue that globalization is the only way forward for modern, democratic societies, the spread of this system is failing to meet even the most basic needs of billions of individuals around the world. Moreover, the entrenchment of this free market system is undermining the foundations of healthy societies, caring communities, and personal wellbeing.

HGTV meets Downton Abbey! A ready-for-TV story—with charm and humor in abundance—about a Los Angeles producer who moves to England to save his ancestral castle from ruin. Hollywood producer Hopwood DePree had been told as a boy that an ancestor—who he was named for—had left his...

The most beautiful guide to the Danish custom of hygge, the everyday life philosophy for better living. Hygge is a feeling of belonging and warmth, a moment of comfort and contentment. This beautiful little book will help you to find hygge and embrace it every day. Make a pot of coffee, relax in your favourite chair and discover for yourself how life is better with hygge.

With real-world considerations in mind, disaster preparedness consultant David Black shows us how to stay alive when tragedy strikes. His step-by-step actions can help us make it safely through a variety of crises, from catastrophic weather to terrorism to civil unrest. Black presents tailor-made plans for individuals, businesses, organizations, small groups, and communities to follow, in all regions of the country and broken down by type of emergency and environment.