An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Tiny Game Hunting
A good beginner's book on natural pest control
If you are going to buy one book to learn how to control pests in your home and garden without using toxic pesticides, this is the one. Addressing a comprehensive list of common and occasional pests, this book tells how to identify pests (complete with pictures), control them, and prevent invasions in the first place. Ants, bedbugs, bees, clothes moths, carpet beetles, cockroaches, fleas, flies, lice, mosquitoes, rats and mice, silverfish, spiders, termites, ticks, and more.
ttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520221079?ie=UTF8&tag=debralynndadd&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0520221079
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe
A Voyage from 1 to 10
This is one of my most favorite books of all time. Before I read this book, numbers were abstract to me...after I could see numbers alive in nature. Filled with drawings and inspiring quotations, this book explores mathematical principles as expressed in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, the human body, the symbolic language of folk sayings and fairy tales, myth and religion, and art and archetecture. It's a comprehensive quide to the petterns that recur through the universe and underlie human affairs. Numbers will never be abstract again.
Losing Our Cool
It's time to rethink air conditioning
The first-ever book-length look at the consequences of air conditioning on our health and the environment. Learn how greenhouse emissions increased and ozone depletion skyrocketed once air conditioners became prevalent, and the tremendous amount of electricity we use to keep our bodies cool. Lots of suggestions are given for minimizing negative effects, including reducing indoor heat, using fans, utilizing cool roofs, and increasing vegetation. But this book really got me rethinking using air conditioning at all (and I live in hot and humid Florida). If you live and work half the year in air conditioned buildings, please read this book.
Toxic Metal Syndrome
Toxic metals and how they harm our health
I've put most of my attention over the years on eliminating toxic chemicals made from petroleum from my home, but there is a whole other class of toxic substances: toxic metals. Though this book was written as a possible treatment for Alzheimer's, it contains a lot of basic information about toxic metals--our exposures to them and how they affect our health--which we all need to know. Included are aluminum, mercury, lead, cadmium, iron, and manganese.
Not Just a Pretty Face
Toxic chemicals in beauty products and what they do to your body
Do beauty products really make women more beautiful, or are they filled with toxic chemicals? A group of breast cancer activists and environmentalists did the research and found many chemicals linked to birth defects, infertility, and other illnesses. This book tells their story, and outlines the good news about safer technologies and products.
