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Boat owners, let us remind you of this simple fact: it's better to be out on the water than working on your boat at the dock. Sandy Lindsey has compiled 1,001 tips to help you keep your boat running--and looking--its best in Boating Magazine's Quick & Easy Boat Maintenance. From deck to hull, from paint to the electrical systems, and from winterizing to preparing for opening day, Lindsey offers up advice to help you maintain your boat in less time and with less expense. Many of these tips are also happily environmentally friendly--for example, replacing expensive boat cleaners with cheaper and less caustic substitutes. With its concise text and clear layout, this guide will become a welcome addition to your boating library. --M. Stein
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A treasure chest of proven labor-savers that can help you get those pesky maintenance chores done faster--so you can get out on the water and play. Here are 1,001 tested tips from Boating Magazine's maintenance expert, giving super-effective yet environmentally friendly ways to clean and maintain all your boat's systems: deck, hull, cabin, engine, bilge, electrical systems, tanks, and gear. Stop working on your boat and go boating!
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Book was a major money saver.......2007-04-11
I bought this book used on Amazon and found it to be extremely helpful. Granted, my boat is not a yacht and most of the wood/deck repair leaned toward Yachts. I still found this to be extremely helpful in repairing my bimini top, an refurbishing all the upholstery. I would have spent 3 times as much money on cleaners if I had not read this book.
unfortunately.......2007-01-05
Amazon asked me for a review of this book. I am grateful to Amazon but it would be better for them if they could send me the book. It has been more than 6 months and I still did not receive the book.
Good, salfe cleaning.......2006-08-31
This book has wonderful ideas about using commonly available items such as witch hazel and petroleum jelly to clean and maintain your boat. Our dock neighbors were so impressed at the cleaning ability of the concoctions this book recommends that everyone now has a squirt bottle of the stuff for their boats. Highly recommended.
Not only saves time, Saves Money.......2006-08-18
My first experience was with the deck wash. The stuff that I was using cost about $10 per bottle. The deck wash that I made from the book worked just as well and it cost me under a dollar to make. I haven't even gone in depth yet.
Great book.......2006-03-20
Excellent read, many money saving tips, really appreciate the fact many of the recommendations are organically based and non harmful to the environment.
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Described by one surgeon as “soul-crushing, diamond-making stress,” surgery on congenital heart defects is arguably the most difficult of all surgical specialties. Drawing back the hospital curtain for a unique and captivating look at the extraordinary skill and dangerous politics of critical surgery in a pediatric heart center, Michael Ruhlman focuses on the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic, where a team of medical specialists—led by idiosyncratic virtuoso Dr. Roger Mee—work on the edge of disaster on a daily basis. Walk on Water offers a rare and dramatic glimpse into a world where the health of innocent children and the hopes of white-knuckled families rest in the hands of all-too-human doctors.
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amazing!.......2006-07-30
I recently became a pediatric cardiac intensive care nurse. I never really understood what it was like to be a family, or cardiac surgeon until reading this book. It is so amazing that someone could write such as informational insiring book, that has no health background. It makes me proud to be a nurse for this type of unit.
A very focused look at one surgical team and congenital heart defects.......2006-04-11
I love to read medical non-fiction, and have read Danielle Ofri, Tilda Shalof, Atul Gawande, and about fifteen other authors who have written about their own journey as a medical student, resident, doctor, surgeon, or nurse. The time I spent as a teen in the hospital for a lung problem left me with a strong desire to understand how hospitals work and how people in the medical field think.
This book's strength and weakness are, strangely, the same thing. Most medical non-fiction that I have read focuses on a variety of procedures, situations, and settings, even when it focuses on one surgeon or doctor. This book focused exclusively on congenital heart defects, so over and over again they described similar surgeries - heart surgery on newborns or older babies. This is wonderful if you are wanting in-depth information on congenital heart defects and how they are treated surgically, but as a casual reader, I got bored of having the same surgical staff, the same kind of operation, the same hospital.
That said, Ruhlman's writing is excellent. I found the level of technical detail perfect for my needs, really enjoyed the historical background info he gave on congenital heart surgery, and got a lot out of learning about Roger Mees and his surgical staff.
But the question is, with all of the generally interesting medical non-fiction out there right now, is this book your best choice among all of the competing books on similar topics?
If you have a particular interest in congenital heart defects, then this is an amazing book. It even gives tips at the end about getting the best care you can for your child with congenital heart disease. The writing is accessible and interesting, and is very focused. I didn't notice the swearing, myself.
But if, like me, your interest is more general, then maybe read a few other books first, like Complications by Gawande, On Call by Transue, A Nurse's Story by Shalof, Singular Intimacies by Ofri, or Baby ER by Humes, and see if your interest leads you in this direction.
Reminds Me of Jon Franklin........2006-01-22
Franklin writes cliff-hangers about brain surgery. Ruhlman writes cliff-hangers about kiddie heart surgey. This effort satisfies my criteria for a good read: good writing, good story, and holds my attention. Plus it'll make you crazy if youre pregnant! 5 STARS! Hey! Who's paying for these million dollar operations?
Absorbing, fascinating and sometimes scary look into pediatric cardiology.......2005-11-02
I handed over my own child at 3 days old to a cardiothoracic surgeon for open heart surgery. I thought that my heart would break. I found as I read this book that the dreadful chill down my spine returned time and time again as I read about the surgeons, parents and children of this book. This book is intriguing if you don't have any experience with CHD, its particularly gripping if you do. Two themes have come up in these reviews repetition and bad language
In terms of repitition it seems that those who objected to the author's explanatory tone are missing the fact that many of us readers may not be medically educated or thankfully not be in the halls of PICU and know that its pronounced PICK U. To fully engross the reader the author needs to have the reader fully equipped to jump into the environment for full enjoyment
Secondly the language is graphic, this is life or death work, we swore more in the restaurant business and it was just french fries for G**ds sake!!!! If it were left out I think it would be less real
I would highly recommend this book for all readers, heart families or not. Its tremendously researched and written. My little boy is 13 healthy months old as a result of the arterial switch described in the first 20 pages. That surgeon could swear every second word for all I care :) !!!!!
Highly recommend...fascinating.......2005-10-11
I thought this book was amazing. My husband was born with transposition of the greater vessels in the late 1960s when the kind of medical knowledge described in this book was very limited. I can see now how lucky he is to be with me still. I live in the Cleveland area and thought it was quite interesting to read about the differences in knowledge and experience among the hospitals here.
I do not work in medicine or anything of the like and I have never read any medical books like this ever, but I found Mr. Ruhlman's descriptions and explanations understandable. Some medical items were certainly over my head, but it was still a fascinating read and I would highly recommend it.
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When the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan went into effect during the Clinton administration, Florida's great grassy wilderness garnered a host of national attention -- and has since become a breeding ground for environmental dispute. What does it take to "save" a forest? How can it be preserved?
Enter W. Hodding Carter. For an Outside magazine feature he's agreed to paddle the ninety-nine-mile waterway in Everglades National Park to examine the landscape from all angles -- physical, political, cultural, and very personal -- and get to the rock-bottom heart of the story. Stolen Water is the outgrowth of Carter's journey.
Through investigative research, eyewitness accounts, and interviews with key players in the conservation controversy, Carter offers a rare portrait of a national treasure. Utterly important, and at times downright hilarious, Stolen Water is a classic American adventure tale, and an environmental parable for our time.
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Provides some facts about the friends & foes of the area.......2005-01-06
Hodding Carter loves the Everglades and Stolen Water: Saving the Everglades from Its Friends, Foes, and Florida reflects this affection as much as it reflects arguments on both sides covering the management and utilization of the wilderness. From restoration plans for the Everglades to author Carter's own quest through the region to consider both its history and future, Stolen Water provides some hard-hitting facts about the real friends and foes of the area.
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Whether you already own a home or plan to build one, The Independent Home will show you how to transform it into an energy-efficient, comfortable, self-sustainable home of the future-- right now. Michael Potts's home has been featured on the ABC evening news as an example of the sane approach to simple living; he demonstrates how one can live well, save money, save resources, and still retain modern conveniences and comfort. The Independent Home proves that it is not necessary to live in mud-floored huts and cook brown rice over a campfire to go back to the land.
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Exploring the Possibilities.......2005-06-01
This book is a motivational book for people considering building an off-grid home. It includes arguments for living independently of the grid or other utility systems, stories and interviews with people who've established independent homesteads, and some general information about design considerations (siting the home for maximum efficiency, ways to generate power, and maintenance issues). Although there are a few tables and graphs, this is definitely not a how-to book; it includes very little detailed information about setting up independent power systems. Instead, the book focuses much more on why people choose to live off grid and how they get along without grid power. The book is illustrated with black-and-white photographs of people and their houses or diagrams of equipment and how it works. End material includes a glossary, a bibliography, and an index.
Unfortunately, many of the interviews with homeowners are rather disjointed. It seems that Potts was striving to convey what people told him as accurately as possible, and so he relied on direct quotes where it would have made more sense to fill out the statements with the details needed to explain what the people really meant or intended to say rather than the exact words they used. For the interviews, Potts chose people in the regions he knew best, namely Northern California, Vermont, Hawaii (Maui), and communities in New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona. No mention is made of independent homes outside of these regions, and very little is mentioned of independent living in other countries. Potts has a tendency to stray off topic and he occasionally includes some information that, while interesting, isn't really about building an independent homestead, such as chapter five, a simplified accounting of our environmental impact on the planet (ecological footprinting), in which everything we do or use is translated into trees. (The details of the accounting system aren't very well thought out, since, for example, Potts equates the impact of 1 mile driven to 10 miles flown, when cars actually get better passenger mileage than airplanes.)
The strongest feature of this book is the encouragement it provides that living independently can be done, and done comfortably today. Many of the people interviewed in this book live relatively ordinary lives, complete with electric lights and refrigerators. Some have vacuum cleaners, and some even have freezers. Significantly, all of them are living in remote areas, where they take responsibility for supplying not only their power, but also their water. Because they realize the limits of their water supply, they use composting toilets, and since they don't have sewage to deal with, their drains have nothing but gray water, which is reused elsewhere around the farm. Most grow some or all of their own food, and consequently generate very little garbage. Many even apply the goal of independence to educating their children, and home school their kids. Overall, the information contained in the book is quite exciting and encouraging, but after reading the book cover-to-cover, I'm no wiser about the details of how I could begin to implement some of these ideas in my own home.
Preaching To The Choir.......2003-01-16
When I ordered this book I thought it was a collection of stories gathered from people who have moved off the grid with some techniques and practices thrown in. Instead what I've found is that it preaches to the choir.
The emphasis is on explaining how we waste energy through our daily on-the-grid lives and what doing so costs in "real" terms of "dead dinosaurs" turned crude oil deposits. If I'm buying this book then it's assumed I already have some concern for the environment and my energy usage, that I already want to "get off the oil" addiction my nation has. Why propound it over and over and over in this book. Why preach environmentalism in a book bought by environmentalists? Why not give them the info they need and the courage to do it through depicting others who've done it already?
There are some stories of how others have gotten off the grid but they are short and don't really go into any of the problems one may encounter or how they can be overcome.
A disappointing book that so easily could have been much much better.
A bedtime book not a build it yourself guide........1999-11-02
I found this book very disappointing. I was looking for more of a "How-To" book which would provide answers and ideas for a mountain cabin. Instead I found it to contain warm hearted informtion in the form of short stories. At a minimum this books title should be modified to "The Independant Home - Good Hearted American Stories of Living Well with Power from the Sun, Wind, and Water.
Poorly written feel-good stories of independent living.......1999-05-28
As an editor and writer, to me this book is awful. The title is misleading: it provides no idea that this is simply a collection of feel-good stories from people who have succeeded in living independently. For the person wanting to start to live independently, this is NOT the book. Except by accidental gleanings from the stories, there is no comparison of technologies, no systematic analysis of how to go about it. The incomplete and inadequate descriptions of technologies are poorly placed and you wonder why they were placed where they were at all; the applied information could be culled into ten pages or less. There is also a nauseating rash of redneck chest-thumping about why America is so great and why it is losing the "race" to go green, presented in the very way that provides an implicit answer: America is great because it is full of greedy, competitive, small-minded, insular, arrogant people built to exploit the country's natural resources - the very ones that (most of) these people - including me - would like to get away from. This is off-set by some (again, accidental) very brief and quiet mention of the usefulness of non-American technologies. I expected more from this book, especially given the reviews it has received already. Much like the authors approach to his own building, the book may be euphemistically called `organic'; otherwise, it may be called just wasteful, inefficient, and poorly focused.
This was a disapointment........1999-03-03
I was looking for a book on technical data for energy independent sytems, how they hooked up to your house, how it interacted with the existing power company system etc. This book has more opinion in it than information. I only read the first three chapters so far but the construction of all the chapters seem to be the same. It starts out with someone's story where they put down the power companies and insert a lot of "save the Earth" jargon. Most of the chapters consist of this type of rhetoric and at the very end of the chapter there is some useful information about a certain system, PV,wind, etc. I was also disappointed to find out that this book was copyrighted in 1993. The field of PV has taken leaps and bounds since this book was published. There is some useful information in this book but in my opinion, it could have been condensed into a short concise booklet of about 45 pages.
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Here is an expert guide that offers you practical solutions to remodeling and retrofitting for energy-conservation needs and code requirements. The book covers all 4 major areas of retrofit: electrical, HVAC, architectural, and control Ñplus techniques necessary for completing any job on time and within budget, as well as the newest and most-requested energy-efficient materials. Included are proven methods for retrofitting glass...walls, roofs, and floors...humidity control devices...lighting fixtures...motors ..attic insulation...air handlers...sensors...and much more!
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Free Software.......2005-12-18
I'm the author and I'm writing to say that all the software that is available with proof of purchase (there's an order form in the book) has been upgraded to full commercial, windows versions. They are for annual hvac loads, peak hvac loads (Manual J method), bin analysis, and zonal cavity lighting. The competion costs about $300 each.
Full of jargon and repetitive........2005-08-15
I was disapinted with this book. It is extremely general and theoretical, never specific. The author uses mostly complicated and technical terms when it is not needed. This book is also very repetitive, certain ideas are repeated over and over.
Free Abridged Edition & Software.......2001-03-30
I am the author of this book and I would like to add a few words to the publisher's remarks.
The book focuses on no-cost and low cost projects for buildings of any type. The projects are arranged within each chapter in order of increasing complexity. The first ones begin with projects that, say will apply to any building (including residences), then they get increasingly complex. So there are projects for any budget and any type of facility. In fact, the emphasis is on those that can be done as part of regular maintenance!
The intended audience is not strictly engineering design professionals as you might expect from the title, but also architects, designers, facility managers, realtors, and small business owners.
Finally, there is a form in the book by which you can request some software (available free from my web site) to evaluate the projects featured in the book. Energy analysis of buildings is a complicated business and it is very educational to have a simple computer routine to study an actual building. The software compliments the projects nicely, allowing many potential projects to be evaluated easily. For example, changing roof color or window shading or operating hours.
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Old book. Facinatingly relevant........2001-08-26
The first chapters are full of information in simple English about the history of sewage, including pictures.
(The dead horse and kids playing in an open sewer is one picture that remains with me since I purchased the book 2nd hand at 11th grade 20 years ago!).
The book shows where the current system is leading us, and clearly states what is needed. It checks what type of people use composting toilets, where they hoped to apply them (20 years ago and same today) and what the problems are. The rest of the book has detailed plans, bibliography and pictures of alternatives that were available then, including experience. Although not always very clear, it's fun reading.
And still an excelent source.
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The Chesapeake Bay is one of the most productive and important ecosystems on earth, and as such is a model for other estuaries facing the demands of commerce, tourism, transportation, recreation, and other uses. Turning the Tide presents a comprehensive look at two decades of efforts to save the bay, outlining which methods have worked and which have not.
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Turning The Tide -- Saving the Chesapeake Bay by Tom Horton.......2002-02-05
Overall, the book was enjoyable to read, it really informed me of the problems the Chesapeake Bay faces each and everyday. I felt that the author used charts, graphs, and examples in a way that helps the reader fully understand the science that he/she is reading. I recommend this book to all of those readers who are affected by the Chesapeake Bay or who just wants to learn more about the environment in general.
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In areas that experience frequent water shortages, gardeners need to find new and innovative ways to grow their gardens. This book provides the answers to such questions as, Which plants will thrive without much water? Different varieties of flowers, ground covers, shrubs, and trees are all discussed. Helpful gardening techniques are provided for the 260 plants featured, including effective irrigation and soil improvement.
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Clean Water Charlie teaches children how they can help improve water quality. Sponsored by NC Assoc. of Soil & Water Conservaton Districts.
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