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Waterfront Homes: From Castles to Cot- tages E. Ashley Rooney. This book offers an insider’s tour of more than sixty waterfront homes. Twenty notable architects and designers describe their homes, inside and out. A variety of designs are featured in 400 magnificent color photographs. Their sites are as varied as their designs. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215mm) • 400 color photos • 208 pp. • 978-0-7643-1893-1 • HC • $34.95 Award-winning Green Roof Designs: Green Roofs for Healthy Cities Steven W. Peck. Over 100 photos display award-winning roof designs for private homes, businesses, and public spaces that integrate natural and artificial systems, resulting in more sus- tainable buildings. Details about the plants used, growing media, drainage and irrigation systems, and waterproofing, along with descriptions of challenges overcome and innovations developed, are all provided. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) •100 color photos •176pp. • 978-0-7643-3022-3 • HC • $39.99 Coal Heat Stanley Schuler & Cary Hull. Practical ideas and facts on the safe and efficient use of coal. This hand- book discusses the types of coal and their use, and the equipment, installation, maintenance, and conversion of furnaces to coal. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 51 photos & drawings•158pp.•978-0-916838-37-9•PB•$5.95 Eco-House Renovations: 45 Green Home Con- versions Lucy D. Rosenfeld. This design book shows 45 aesthetically pleasing and practical renovation projects that address everything from the size of the building’s footprint, its energy needs, its use of sus- tainable or even reused materials, and its pollution emissions. Learn about the top ten considerations necessary to the success of an eco-renovation. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 295 color photos • 240 pp. • 978- 0-7643-3929-5•HC•$49.99 Exploring Sustainable Biodiesel Amy Townsend, Billy Broas, Chelsea Jenkins, & Kevin Ray. This book in- troduces readers to some of the challenges facing bio- diesel alternative fuel production, focusing specifically on small-scale producers. The text discusses issues of qual- ity, safety, storage, waste disposal, regulation, and coop- erative politics. A perfect introduction to anyone interest- ed in producing alternative fuels • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) •16 color illus. •320pp. •978-0-7643-2908-1•PB•$30.00 Green Homes: Dwellings for the 21st Century E. Ashley Rooney with David Hartke and John C. Mc- Connell. An indispensable guide to strategies of solar orientation, natural ventilation, and recycling of house- hold water, as well as cutting edge materials and building technologies, such as earth sheltering, thermal mass, super insulation, geothermal heating and cool- ing, and photovoltaic electrical generation—all with- out compromising aesthetic goals. More than 50 green homes in approximately 400 color photos. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 400 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-3033-9 • HC • $39.99 Green Roofs: Ecological Design and Construc- tion Earth Pledge, Foreword by William McDonough. Examine possibilities for city-wide green roof develop- ment using 335 color photographs, 40 in-depth build- ing case studies, and 7 municipal case studies around the world • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 335 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-2189-4 • HC • $39.95 The Hybrid Electric Home: Clean, Efficient, Prof- itable " Craig Toepfer. Through a combination of wind, solar, and other clean and renewable energy technol- ogies, individuals, businesses, and communities can invest in equipment to produce electricity for themselves. This book explains how to reduce reliance on the pow- er companies, restore market forces, increase econom- ic security, create jobs, improve efficiency, and reduce waste. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 105 color & 62 B/Wphotos•144pp. •978-0-7643-3403-0•PB•$24.99 LEEDING the Way: Domestic Architecture for the Future: LEED Certified, Green, Passive & Natural E. Ashley Rooney and Ross Cann, Adam Prince, and Virge Temme. Tour 53 environmentally friendly houses. The homes featured meet a variety of guidelines: LEED, Green, Passive, and Natural. More than 300 images show a wide variety of designs and styles, including cottages and beach houses, prefab- ricated and renovated homes, and much more. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 306 color images • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-4925-6 • HC • $39.99 Mexican Style, Sustainable Tina Skinner. Take a visually rich tour through a burgeoning community on Mexico’s Baja Peninsula and learn how the dream of visionaries is shaping the community of Loreto Bay as a model for the future. That place is wonderfully illus- trated here, from the colorful adobe architecture and Spanish mission furnishings, to the scenes presented by the white sands of the Sea of Cortez and the fertile desert beyond • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 110 color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-2743-8 • PB • $19.95 Natural Building: Creating Communities Through Cooperation Timothy Rieth & Bob Ferris, Editors. Basics in foundations, framing, wall systems, and roofs are explored through the shared experiences of teach- ers, students, and seekers who came together one summer to build a low-impact building. Share with them in this primer course on natural building techniques, materials, and approaches. • 81/2"x11" (215x279mm) • 147 color photos • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-3039-1 • PB • $24.99 Offshore Windpower Christopher Gillis. This com- prehensive survey includes more than 140 photos and illustrations that examine the history of the wind turbine and the current movement to place turbines in coastal waters. The process of building an offshore wind farm is explored. An extensive list of resources enables individuals, businesses, and advocates to tap into wind as a free, natural, and clean source of ener- gy • 81/2"x11" (215x279mm) •142 color photos •160 pp. • 978-0-7643-3743-7 • PB • $29.99 The Passive Solar Primer: Sustainable Architecture David Wright. This comprehensive book provides simple graphics and language to illuminate concepts that include greenhouse effect, heat storage, surface-to-volume ratio, ventilation, and cooling. Tips, rules-of-thumb, regional characteristics, and many other consid- erations are presented to help readers, from initial site selection to visionary design. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 425 photos • 280 pp. • 978-0-7643-3070-4 • PB • $29.99 Windpower Christopher Gillis with a Foreword by R. Nolan Clark. Wind energy is today’s most developed form of “green” power on the planet, with plenty of room to grow. This comprehensive survey examines the history of wind power, from early peoples’ tech- nology to harness the wind for basic mechanical tasks, such as turning grain to flour, through today’s “Wind Rush.” • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 141 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-2969-2 • PB• $24.99 Artisan Crafted Timber Frame Homes Tina Skinner, Introduction by Jonathan Vincent. Explore more than 25 finely crafted timber frame homes, inside and out. Guided by floor plans, this pho- tographic journey takes you from an overall look at the exteriors of stately, custom built homes through the interiors • 11"x81/2" (279x215mm) • 250+ color photos, floor plans • 192 pp. • 978-0- 7643-2486-4 • HC • $39.95 Authentic Log Homes: Restored Timbers for Today’s Homesteads Ferris Robinson. Each gorgeous log home shown was built with reclaimed timbers. The way log homes are sup- posed to look: dove-tailed corners, weathered barn wood, antique heart pine, and ancient beams. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 283 color photos, 27floor plans •176pp. •978-0-7643-2191- 7 • HC • $35.00 Barn Style Living: Design and Plan Inspiration for Timber Frame Homes Tina Skinner & Tony Hanslin. Explore exquisite timber frame homes. Floor plans serve as your tour guide to 30 homes created with the aesthetic of the barn as its inspiration. Enjoy gorgeous great rooms, kitchens, dens, living rooms, and spacious master suites. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 298 color photos & 30 floor plans • 208 pp. • 978- 0-7643-2386-7 • HC • $44.95 Barn Style Homes: Design Ideas for Timber Frame Houses Tina Skinner and Tony Hanslin. Includes stunning images from 38 custom-built homes complete with floor plans. Furnishing and decorating ideas for great rooms, master bedrooms, dining rooms, home offices, kitchens and baths, and lofty hideaways. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 275 color photos, 37 illus. • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-1319-6 • HC • $39.95 The Best of Today’s Log Homes Tina Skinner with the Log Homes Council. Here’s an opportunity to tour 28 beautiful log homes through sumptuous photographs and floor plans. This is a wonderful tool for anyone who dreams of someday building a log home, with hundreds of ideas to sift through. These are real homes, chosen for their outstanding design, tasteful decoration, and real-life, lived-in practicality • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 250+ color photos • 144 pp. • 978-0-7643- 2954-8 • PB • $20.00 Cedar Homes: Ideas for Log and Timber Frame Designs Tina Skinner, Photography by Roger Wade. An intimate tour of more than two-dozen exquisite top-end log and timber frame homes. Stunning overviews of private kitchens, great rooms, master suites, home of- fices, and entertainment rooms. Each home is shown with floor plans. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) •350+color photos•208pp. •978-0-7643-1874-0•HC•$39.95 Cedar Style: A Look at Lovely Log Homes Tina Skinner & Roger Wade. Take a tour of high- end log homes in this inspiring compendium of 25 very fine homes found throughout the United States. More than 200 full-color photographs and detailed floor plans act as a guide in nego- tiating these exquisitely designed, expansive residences • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 200+ color photos•144pp. •978-0-7643-2951-7•HC•$40.00 GREEN ARCHITECTURE & ENERGY CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE: LOG & TIMBER FRAME BACKLIST CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE | 59