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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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30 Energy-Efficient Houses...You Can Build

by Alex Wade and Neal Ewenstein

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ISBN13: 9780878571918
ISBN10: 0878571914
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This book is about how to build tomorrow's house?today. How to build a house that is energy efficient, solar heated, uses every inch of space well, is designed for the people who plan to live there, is elegantly simple, and yet doesn't cost a small fortune.

It is a picture book filled with Neal Ewenstein's photographs of exciting, innovative houses and their small details, both inside and out?partially buried hillside houses, small studio living spaces, and larger one-family dwellings. And it's a workbook with floor plans, drawings, and specifications for each house.

In it you'll learn how to:

  • design efficiently and not waste space
  • Take advantage of solar energy by attaching a solar greenhouse or designing a solar-tempered dwelling
  • Take advantage of shortcuts for foundations, floors, and roofs
  • Use recycled materials
  • Build your own windows, skylights, and doors
  • Use the earth as insulation by building into a south-facing hillside
  • Save money on kitchen and bathroom installations and innovative designs
  • Use post and beam construction to build a sturdy, inexpensive frame
  • Heat more efficiently with wood
  • Avoid hassles with banks and building code officials.

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ISBN:
9780878571918
Author:
Alex Wade and Neal Ewenstein
Publisher:
Rodale Press
Location:
Emmaus, Pa. :
Subject:
Dwellings
Subject:
House construction
Subject:
Habitations
Subject:
House construction -- Amateurs' manuals.
Copyright:
1977
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Volume:
Heft 4
Publication Date:
c1977
Binding:
Trade Paper
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
xviii, 316 p.
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