History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

Book Description

Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

Customer Reviews:

Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Got Sun? Go Solar: Get Free Renewable Energy to Power Your Grid-Tied Home

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Got Sun? Go Solar.... a grerat foundation resource
Got Inspired
Very good intro to subject
A very good review of "how to" switch to Solar Power
Got Sun? Go Solar...

Got Sun? Go Solar: Get Free Renewable Energy to Power Your Grid-Tied Home
Rex A. Ewing
Manufacturer: PixyJack Press, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0965809870
Release Date: 2005-06-15

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A straight-talking book tells grid-connected homeowners how to use free energy from the sun and wind to reduce or even eliminate their electric bills, and what to expect from this independent, thoughtful lifestyle. Whether you live in the sun-soaked Southwest, or windy North Dakota, alternative energy has come of age with affordable modern technology. Now with rebates and incentives from most states, installing a home system is an economically-attractive and environmentally-responsible option. Chapters include: - Why invest in alternative energy for your home? - Is it legal and safe? - How solar electricity really works - Batteries or not? - Sizing a system to fit your home and your needs - Got Wind? - What does it cost? - Does your state offer rebates or incentives? - Permits, Paperwork and Financing - The Nuts & Bolts: what to look for, what to avoid - Who does the installation? - Extensive appendix with resources, manufacturers, sizing worksheets, glossary, and more

Customer Reviews:

Got Sun? Go Solar.... a grerat foundation resource.......2007-09-22

After cruising the web for Solar info, I decided on this as my first solar personal library resource, and am happy I did. After a full career in computer systems hungry for power, I had little background knowledge of electricity, current, even some helpful history. This book has provided me with just the right amount of background on (residential) electricity for me to learn about PV systems, what they can provide, and where to start.

This book is well written and an easy and fast read, informative without being overly or self-rightously technical, gives web and other sources to follow, and adds some humor and anecdotes to keep your interest high.

I like doing my own projects, intending to follow up with more technical design and installation books and web resources, and an online tutorial, culminating with my mostly-self designed rural grid-tie PV solar system.
I found this book to be a great motivator toward that goal.

Got Inspired.......2007-06-14

This book read quite nicely. The book's theme could be classified as a advanced introduction. I read this book before I purchased components for my rooftop PV system. The book was not a How-To, but served as a catalyst for inspiration and further study. The appendix was very detailed. Could I have read most if not all information on the web? Yes, but I would have had to filter through allot of sales hype. After the read,I was better educated and asked quality questions to the vendors who made my PV project come to fruition. I would recommend this title to anyone planning a solar project.

Very good intro to subject.......2007-05-18

Book is a very good introduction to the subject. It's well organized.

A very good review of "how to" switch to Solar Power.......2007-05-17

A very good technical discussion in lay language of the solar and wind systems.

Got Sun? Go Solar..........2007-05-14

Very informative and fun to read. I think I will read it again when my PV instalation is complete.

Logs, Wind and Sun: Handcraft Your Own Log Home ... Then Power It with Nature

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An inspiring and entertaining book.
Enjoyable reading with a wealth of information
Interesting, informative and easy to read!
A Must Read for Log Home Wannabes

Logs, Wind and Sun: Handcraft Your Own Log Home ... Then Power It with Nature
Rex A. Ewing , and Lavonne Ewing
Manufacturer: Pixyjack Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0965809838

Customer Reviews:

An inspiring and entertaining book........2005-10-17

A very inspiring and fun read! Written by a couple who had the courage to pursue their dreams, this book is written for you and me with lots of details, wit and humor.

One of the funnest books I have read in years.

Enjoyable reading with a wealth of information.......2003-08-31

I have been reading everything I can find about log homes. Most of the books I have read are more like an information text book. Lots of facts but boring. Logs Wind and Sun gives you the facts and how to use them along with a very enjoyable story of the trials and tribulations the authors encountered building there own log home. This gives you a much better idea of what to expect building your own log home from scrath or from a kit. The detailed information on solar and wind energy is a real eye opener. It opened up a whole new possibility of finding what my wife and I want in a piece of land to build our retirement log home on. We thought that land with no power was out of the question. Now we know that is exactly what we want. With this book you have nearly all the information you need to build a self sufficient log home. If your dream is to have a log home in the mountains far from the "rat race", Logs Wind and Sun is a must have book. Live your dreams!

Interesting, informative and easy to read!.......2003-01-18

When I started reading Logs Wind and Sun, I imagined I would skim the more detailed parts about construction since I don't plan to build a log home. I bought the book because I was interested in solar and wind generated electricity. But in the end, I read everything. Whenever I tried to skim, I soon came across something that caught my interest and, before I realized it, I was totally entranced with the story. The framed inserts break up the flow of the text and add little tid bits of information just when some variety is necessary. Rex's Maxims and LaVonne's Verities are a novel way of introducing light humor while at the same time making an important point. The illustrations were very concise, attractive and easily understandable. The photography was out of this world and the photos very appropriately located within the text. Every photo enhanced the message on the page where it was found. Logs Wind and Sun is clearly a product of team work, the story of a couple who, working together, accomplished their dream. I loved it, and also learned what I wanted to know about solar and wind power.

A Must Read for Log Home Wannabes.......2002-10-16

Logs, Wind and Sun is one of those rare books that is both packed with useful information and enjoyable to read. I only wish it had been available five years ago when my husband and I started drawing up plans for our own log home. We spent hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars trying to get utilities to our remote mountain building site. This book clearly lays out alternative power solutions that can give you the freedom to live with all the modern conveniences you need miles from the nearest power pole. The authors personal experience provides the framework for the book, but they have obviously done their homework, and all their recommendations are backed up by copious facts. The book is generously sprinkled with photos and illustrations that de-mystify and explain and personal stories that entertain and inspire. LaVonne's Verities and Rex's Maxims give you personal insights and quips. And the writing is several notches above most other how-to books, offering emotional insights into the process of building your own home, as well as the more expected practical fare. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who's ever dreamed about building a log home.

House in the Sun: A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert

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House in the Sun: A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert
George Olin
Manufacturer: Southwest Parks & Monuments Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1877856398

Book Description

A profusely illustrated and lively primer on the plants and animals of the Sonoran Desert. This classic includes scores of photographs by top southwestern nature photographers.

Sun-inspired House: house designs warmed and brightened by the Sun

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Great Overview for Anyone Interested in Building a Passive Solar Home
passive home review
Great book with wonderful ideas.
Great Resource
A collection of home designs which blends floor plans and modification ideas with sun-inspired homes for all climates

Sun-inspired House: house designs warmed and brightened by the Sun
Debra Rucker Coleman
Manufacturer: Sun Plans
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0976731800

Book Description

The Sun-Inspired House illustrates numerous house design concepts related to the sun. It also addresses the related subjects of passive solar, passive cooling, energy- efficient construction, green building, and sustainability. Over 50 house plans show examples of integrated concepts. Numerous examples, photos, and testimonials from homeowners describe the livability of these sunny and comfortable houses built in North America.

Customer Reviews:

Great Overview for Anyone Interested in Building a Passive Solar Home.......2007-03-25

This book defines the basic components of a pasive solar home and provides guidelines for building a home with plenty of house plans as examples. It also lists lots of references for more technical information about both passive and active solar heating and cooling.

passive home review.......2007-03-14

i like the book a lot. it has good beginning information, and good resources in the back.

Great book with wonderful ideas........2007-01-31

I really like this book and their web site also. I am in a planning stage of building a house and at this time I think I will use the author to design my home when I am ready. They have many good ideas. Buy this book, it is a good one.

Great Resource.......2006-09-24

Debra Rucker Coleman's book, The Sun Inspired House, showcases passive solar houses that are comfortable the year around, light filled, beautiful, healthy for the residents, and good for the environment. These houses cut energy bills in half and cost very little additional to build. Coleman inspires the reader to want to live in a passive solar house, and walks them through the process of making that happen. Her reviews of current books, design analysis software, and websites point the way to more detailed information on all aspects of the design and construction process.
With over 25 years experience working and living with passive and active solar systems, this is the book on passive solar design I recommend for prospective homeowners, architects, and homebuilders.
Daryl Bergquist, Earth Steward Solar Consulting, Blountsville, Alabama

A collection of home designs which blends floor plans and modification ideas with sun-inspired homes for all climates.......2006-05-22

A 'sun-inspired' room is sunny, open, warm in winter and cool in summer, and integrates sustainable design principles with efficiency and useful design basics. And THE SUN-INSPIRED HOUSE illustrates a range of concepts related to the sun, using fifty house plans to demonstrate integrated concepts. This is a collection of home designs which blends floor plans and modification ideas with sun-inspired homes for all climates. Blends of design and construction information provide an architect's expertise under one cover. What it lacks in glossy color photos is more than made up for in practical application designs and insider information paired with homeowner testimonials that they actually work. A top pick.

Diane C. Donovan, Editor
California Bookwatch

Southwest Home Plans: 138 Sun-Loving Designs for Building Anywhere

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Southwest Home Plans - There must be something better
Great Floor Plans..
Still searching for good Southwestern House Plans
Review

Southwest Home Plans: 138 Sun-Loving Designs for Building Anywhere
Inc. Home Planners
Manufacturer: Home Planners
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1881955354

Book Description

· A unique collection of homes that celebrate the casual lifestyle of the Southwest.

· A rich diversity of styles; from Santa Fe to Southwest Contemporary.
· Filled with exquisite exterior renderings and detailed descriptions of each design.
· Homes from 1,578 to 5,102 square feet.
· Complete construction blueprints are available separately.

Customer Reviews:

Southwest Home Plans - There must be something better.......2001-11-02

It's the best I've found for true SW style homeplans, but many of the plans are not SW -- just houses with tile roofs. They're all 2,000 sq. ft & up, many twice that size, which puts them out of reach for me (too expensive to build)

Great Floor Plans.........2000-10-11

However I just wished there had been more real life photos instead of the monochrome sketches to help actually visualize what the house would look like after construction. Definitely useful for someone planning to build adobe style.

Still searching for good Southwestern House Plans.......2000-02-28

Although the book does have a few Pueblo-style plans like those featured on the front and back cover, very little of the book is devoted to them. Most of the houses it contains are what I would term as fairly traditional, nonsouthwestern houses; their tile roofs seem to be the basis for their inclusion. I have yet to find a good collection or two of southwestern plans. Most of the floor plans were unappealing to me as well.

Review.......2000-02-15

If you are looking for a book with ideas of "pueblo style" or southwestern adobe style homes, this is not it. The cover is misleading, leading you to believe this book contains many if not all, this style. There are only a few (count 3 or 4) plans in the true pueblo style.

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Provides how-to strategies, tips and techniques

Sun Country Elegant
Patricia Hart McMillan
Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Interior Transformations

ASIN: B0002Z0HUG

Customer Reviews:

Provides how-to strategies, tips and techniques.......2001-02-02

Sun Country Elegant takes the reader on a survey of unique and beautiful homes ranging from the Florida Keys to the Big Sky Country. Patricia McMillan showcases every aspect of the home with an informative text that is enhanced with stunning color photography of sun-swept living rooms, bedrooms, dining rooms, baths, kitchens, sunrooms, patios, terraces and gardens. Highly recommended for personal, professional, and community library interior design collections, Sun Country Elegant offers the readers much more than a pleasant browsing through interior design ideas and concepts, it also provides how-to strategies, tips and techniques, as well as resources to make possible any reader's design to emulate what they've seen or use these examples to spark their own creative ideas for interior design and decoration.

Chasing the Rising Sun: The Journey of an American Song

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enriching
great book!!!!!
Terrific book
An American journey

Chasing the Rising Sun: The Journey of an American Song
Ted Anthony
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0743278984

Book Description

Chasing the Rising Sun is the story of an American musical journey told by a prize-winning writer who traced one song in its many incarnations as it was carried across the world by some of the most famous singers of the twentieth century.

Most people know the song "House of the Rising Sun" as 1960s rock by the British Invasion group the Animals, a ballad about a place in New Orleans -- a whorehouse or a prison or gambling joint that's been the ruin of many poor girls or boys. Bob Dylan did a version and Frijid Pink cut a hard-rocking rendition. But that barely scratches the surface; few songs have traveled a journey as intricate as "House of the Rising Sun."

The rise of the song in this country and the launch of its world travels can be traced to Georgia Turner, a poor, sixteen-year-old daughter of a miner living in Middlesboro, Kentucky, in 1937 when the young folk-music collector Alan Lomax, on a trip collecting field recordings, captured her voice singing "The Rising Sun Blues." Lomax deposited the song in the Library of Congress and included it in the 1941 book Our Singing Country. In short order, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, and Josh White learned the song and each recorded it. From there it began to move to the planet's farthest corners. Today, hundreds of artists have recorded "House of the Rising Sun," and it can be heard in the most diverse of places -- Chinese karaoke bars, Gatorade ads, and as a ring tone on cell phones.

Anthony began his search in New Orleans, where he met Eric Burdon of the Animals. He traveled to the Appalachians -- to eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina -- to scour the mountains for the song's beginnings. He found Homer Callahan, who learned it in the mountains during a corn shucking; he discovered connections to Clarence "Tom" Ashley, who traveled as a performer in a 1920s medicine show. He went to Daisy, Kentucky, to visit the family of the late high-lonesome singer Roscoe Holcomb, and finally back to Bourbon Street to see if there really was a House of the Rising Sun. He interviewed scores of singers who performed the song. Through his own journey he discovered how American traditions survived and prospered -- and how a piece of culture moves through the modern world, propelled by technology and globalization and recorded sound.

Customer Reviews:

enriching.......2007-08-30

There is a book on Amazon
"Chasing the Rising Sun"
And it's been enriching for many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one

Anthony is the Author
he was a midnight oil burner
He drove around and researched hard
to tell the story of Georgia Turner

the only thing the reader needs
is Ted Anthony's book
He takes you with him on his journey
and permits you to take a look

------ organ solo ------

Oh mother, tell your children,
to do what I have done,
be touched by the characters the author meets
In "Chasing the Rising Sun"

The observations are profound
The variations of the song fascinating
There are so many great aspects of this book
I found myself vacillating

There is a book on Amazon
"Chasing the Rising Sun"
And it's been enriching for many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one

great book!!!!!.......2007-07-25

This book "Chasing The Rising Sun: Journey Of An American Song", authored by Ted Anthony, has really moved me in a mighty way. I started playing bluegrass/folk music in 1962, when I was in college in Eastern Pennsylvania. I know it is one of the first songs I tried to learn to play after I started playing guitar, mandolin, etc. The minor sounds of it were mysterious and alluring. And when I finally got it, I was thrilled. Most of the "folkie" bands of the period had their own version of HOTRS, and I guess Joan Baez's version was my favorite. So when I saw this book I knew I wanted it, just to take me back to the "good ole days". It did that and much more. It took me on a journey with the author and his lovely wife. It took me right along with them to Tennessee, Eastern Kentucky, Southwest Virginia, New Orleans, and many other locations, in search of the song's origins and carriers. Mr. Anthony did this in a sometimes humerous, sometimes educational, and always in a way that made me want to see where we and the song were going next. I couldn't put it down, and it made me feel I was right there meeting and talking with the artists and the mountain people who sent this mysterious song on it's journey from Appalachia to the world. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves to go along with the author to discover what lies along the way.

Terrific book.......2007-06-21

At one point in "Chasing The Rising Sun", author Ted Anthony references "The Wizard of Oz". Considering the journey he himself undertakes to find the source of the song "House of the Rising Sun", the reference could not be more appropriate. Like Dorothy on her own quest for home, Mr. Anthony ranges far and wide to places he never knew existed, he encounters interesting characters along the way and he discovers that the journey has changed him as a person.

"Chasing The Rising Sun" is about much more than the search for a classic song's genesis. It's about the making of modern American values and culture. It's an examination of who we are as a people and how we got here. And it's a look at how we tell our stories now and throughout our history.

Sprinkled with humor, history and pathos, "Chasing The Rising Sun" not only brought Ted Anthony to new places. It just may do the same for you. Sure, "there's no place like home". But what has that home become?

An American journey.......2007-06-20

On the most basic level, this is a book about a song that all of us know. And it tells that story beautifully - of Georgia Turner, the Kentucky hill woman sang it around her house in the 1930s, of the cranky New Yorker who recorded her singing it, and of the many musicians who did their own versions. But it's also a look at how culture spreads, and one man's journey to follow that culture. It's a wonderful book. The section when the author meet's Turner's children - and plays her recording for them for the first time - is absolutely riveting.

First Digs: The Quasi-Adult's Guide to Decorating with Style---Without Blowing Your Budget

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:)
Easy-to-read and easy-to-use
The only problem is she didn't write it 12 years ago!
Excellent for budget-minded decorators!
look cool for cheap

First Digs: The Quasi-Adult's Guide to Decorating with Style---Without Blowing Your Budget
Yee-Fan Sun
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0312347286
Release Date: 2006-05-02

Book Description

Good-bye dorm and hello new home! Whether you rent, buy, or share a first home or apartment, getting it to look great without spending a lot of money can be a challenge. Yee-Fan Sun comes to the rescue with this engaging guide to decorating, refurbishing and repurposing so you can leave those milk crate bookshelves and sagging futons behind. Packed with do-it-yourself solutions and guidance on how to personalize your new space, First Digs covers everything you need to know to decorate, organize, and maintain a comfortable, fashionable space that reflects your personal style. First Digs features: Tips on painting like a pro Savvy bargain hunting info How to spruce up home furnishings Ways to prioritize and allocate a miniscule budget DIY projects for lighting, slipcovers, window treatments, wall-hangings, and more! Photos and line drawings throughout. Learn how to make the move into your first home a little easier, much more creative, and a lot of fun.

Customer Reviews:

:).......2007-05-18

Great ideas for someone on a tight budget. I bought this and gave it to my cousin who is going to college. Perfect gift for the graduate... great ideas for dorms/first apartments! :)

Easy-to-read and easy-to-use.......2006-06-26

I loved the book! There are lots of good tips and pointers, and for people like me who don't know how to do some home projects, the instructions were easy to follow and easy to use.

I ended up buying 3 copies - one for me and two to give away to friends! Totally encourage you to check this out.

The only problem is she didn't write it 12 years ago!.......2006-06-15

This is the book I wish I'd had when I was just starting out on my own, and the book I wish I'd thought to write after moving house about 10 times since I first started college!
Yee-Fan does a great job of fitting all kinds of information into this book, and speaks in a voice that is easy to read but not patronizing to first-time renters. She's been there, done that, and wants to pass all that she's learned, good and bad, on to you!
Everyone has lived in the white cardboard-box style apartment, and signed the lease that says "no painting, no restoration, no personality." This book has a TON of ways to get around all that and really make a rental your own. Once you read this book from cover to cover, you can satisfy your need for more by culling through countless articles on the website.
I'll be buying a copy for every person I know that moves out on their own.

Excellent for budget-minded decorators!.......2006-05-09

First, let me start by saying that I thought there would be more pictures in this book. I'm very visual and that's usually what drives me to buy decorating books. But that alone did not distract me, and since it's mentioned numerous times in the book that the author is also the editor of Digsmagazine.com, I can pop in there to augment all the great information in this book.

Usually books about decorating, which is such a visual thing to begin with, have lots of pictures and very little text. If there is a lot of text in the book, it's usually pretty boring and hard to stay focused. Not so with this book. Yee-fan Sun's style of writing is very conversational and easy to read. The best part is that unlike other books on budget decorating or appealing to the newly free, she takes into consideration that many of us on a budget are renting and usually aren't allowed to make changes to our pads. Yee-fan provides plenty of easy, inexpensive, and temporary ways to inject personality into the cookie cutter apartments that we live in. Since she's lived all over the world on a starving student's budget, Yee-fan really knows what she's talking about.

It's a lot of reading, but if you want to give your place a huge dose of personality without blowing the budget, this is the book for you!

look cool for cheap.......2006-02-12

Yee-fan really knows what she is talking about... too many style books offer great ideas, but their idea of a "budget" includes $200 pillows. Buy this book for amazing style on a realistic budget!

The Independent Home: Living Well With Power from the Sun, Wind, and Water (A Real Goods Independent Living Book)

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Exploring the Possibilities
Preaching To The Choir
A bedtime book not a build it yourself guide.
Poorly written feel-good stories of independent living
This was a disapointment.

The Independent Home: Living Well With Power from the Sun, Wind, and Water (A Real Goods Independent Living Book)
Michael Potts
Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback

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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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