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Editor’s Pick:
Ask Jackie: Canning basics
NONFICTION
Food, Home, and Farming/Gardening
Ask Jackie: Canning basics
From a columnist at Backwoods Home Magazine. These are recommended books. For others, see here: Jackie Clay's books
CUHK Series:Urban Gardening: Hong Kong Gardener's Journal
”Living in a crowded city need not mean uprooting one’s connection with Nature. Arthur van Langenberg takes the mystery out of city gardening. He shows, in down-to-earth terms, how it is possible to connect with Mother Earth while managing with restricted spaces, the elements and pests which include birds, dogs, cats and the occasional philistine neighbour. Established gardeners and rank beginners alike will find something helpful among these pages, which are sprinkled with anecdotes, recipes, photographs, illustrations, home-grown humour and grass-roots philosophy. Non-gardeners will also enjoy this celebration of nature and ecology in words and pictures. “
How to Grow Tomatoes, Peppers, and Eggplant: Planting and Growing Organic Heirloom Tomatoes, Sweet Bell Peppers, Chili Peppers, and Gourmet Eggplant
Homesteading Made Simple: A No-Fluff Guide To Living A Self-Sufficient Life
This has poor reviews for being extremely basic. As it’s free, maybe someone will want the very basic anyway.
Quick and Easy Gardens: A Beginner's Guide to Container Gardening
The Poverty Cookbook: My Favorites
100 Year Old Recipes You Can Still Make Today: SOUPS AND SALADS
Fix My Noisy Hot Water Heating System How to Eliminate air from a hot water heating system
Perfume--Homemade Ecstasy: Perfume Made Easy at Home
This is the first of three books (the other two aren't free at the moment, but have been in the past.) The whole story is this:Ask Jackie: Canning basics
From a columnist at Backwoods Home Magazine. These are recommended books. For others, see here: Jackie Clay's books
CUHK Series:Urban Gardening: Hong Kong Gardener's Journal
”Living in a crowded city need not mean uprooting one’s connection with Nature. Arthur van Langenberg takes the mystery out of city gardening. He shows, in down-to-earth terms, how it is possible to connect with Mother Earth while managing with restricted spaces, the elements and pests which include birds, dogs, cats and the occasional philistine neighbour. Established gardeners and rank beginners alike will find something helpful among these pages, which are sprinkled with anecdotes, recipes, photographs, illustrations, home-grown humour and grass-roots philosophy. Non-gardeners will also enjoy this celebration of nature and ecology in words and pictures. “
How to Grow Tomatoes, Peppers, and Eggplant: Planting and Growing Organic Heirloom Tomatoes, Sweet Bell Peppers, Chili Peppers, and Gourmet Eggplant
Homesteading Made Simple: A No-Fluff Guide To Living A Self-Sufficient Life
This has poor reviews for being extremely basic. As it’s free, maybe someone will want the very basic anyway.
Quick and Easy Gardens: A Beginner's Guide to Container Gardening
The Poverty Cookbook: My Favorites
100 Year Old Recipes You Can Still Make Today: SOUPS AND SALADS
Fix My Noisy Hot Water Heating System How to Eliminate air from a hot water heating system
Perfume--Homemade Ecstasy: Perfume Made Easy at Home
Health
Workout In A Book - Resistance Bands
Sodium Bicarbonate - Full Medical Review
NOT FREE IN ALL COUNTRIES
“ for all individuals interested in taking responsibility for their health and medical treatments. It is the first comprehensive medical review of sodium bicarbonate, which is an essential medicinal for every emergency room, intensive care ward, dental office, clinic and home medicine cabinet. Sodium bicarbonate (Baking Soda) is one of the most useful substances in the world of medicine; it has been used for decades as an adjunct in chemotherapy and is used commonly in emergency room and intensive care wards around the world. This book has a special focus on the use of sodium bicarbonate for cancer treatment but also covers its use in areas of kidney disease, diabetes, treatment of flu, the common cold and other areas of general medicine. Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) is a true work horse medicine that does everything from saving lives in a heartbeat to curing or diminishing a common cold.”
Healer: The Pioneer Nutritionist and Prophet Dr. Hazel Parcells in Her Own Words at Age 106
The story of pioneer nutritionist and prophet Dr. Hazel Parcells (1889-1996), told in her own words at age 106. Dr. Parcells shares her wisdom about how to live a vibrantly healthy life using principles of self-healing she developed and practiced for more than sixty years.
Workout In A Book - Resistance Bands
Sodium Bicarbonate - Full Medical Review
NOT FREE IN ALL COUNTRIES
“ for all individuals interested in taking responsibility for their health and medical treatments. It is the first comprehensive medical review of sodium bicarbonate, which is an essential medicinal for every emergency room, intensive care ward, dental office, clinic and home medicine cabinet. Sodium bicarbonate (Baking Soda) is one of the most useful substances in the world of medicine; it has been used for decades as an adjunct in chemotherapy and is used commonly in emergency room and intensive care wards around the world. This book has a special focus on the use of sodium bicarbonate for cancer treatment but also covers its use in areas of kidney disease, diabetes, treatment of flu, the common cold and other areas of general medicine. Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) is a true work horse medicine that does everything from saving lives in a heartbeat to curing or diminishing a common cold.”
Healer: The Pioneer Nutritionist and Prophet Dr. Hazel Parcells in Her Own Words at Age 106
The story of pioneer nutritionist and prophet Dr. Hazel Parcells (1889-1996), told in her own words at age 106. Dr. Parcells shares her wisdom about how to live a vibrantly healthy life using principles of self-healing she developed and practiced for more than sixty years.
Ideas/Theory
Free to Flourish
“This book suggests two reasons why people in democratic countries should be concerned about the gradual erosion of individual freedom. First, individuals need to be in control of their own lives if they are to flourish - to have happy and meaningful lives. Second, as people have become more dependent on governments to manage their lives for them, governments have tended to take on more responsibilities than they can cope with. If this trend continues, the likely result is failure of democratic government and widespread disappointment and unhappiness. The author is optimistic that it may be possible to avoid such an outcome by improving political behaviour and policy processes. He urges citizens who are concerned about the future of democracy to become more engaged in political and policy-making processes in order to help encourage the development of better norms of political behaviour. The book tackles some big issues: the meaning of happiness; the motivations that people have to control their own lives; the concept of national happiness; the criteria we should use in considering whether some societies are better than others; the meaning of social progress; the cultural and institutional drivers of progress; and the greatest threats to progress.”
Luxury of Less: The Five Rings of Minimalism
Analysis Without Paralysis: 12 Tools to Make Better Strategic Decisions (2nd Edition)
From well-respected technical publisher. This focuses on business but I think the 12 tools could easily transfer(be adapted) to other aspects of life.
Free to Flourish
“This book suggests two reasons why people in democratic countries should be concerned about the gradual erosion of individual freedom. First, individuals need to be in control of their own lives if they are to flourish - to have happy and meaningful lives. Second, as people have become more dependent on governments to manage their lives for them, governments have tended to take on more responsibilities than they can cope with. If this trend continues, the likely result is failure of democratic government and widespread disappointment and unhappiness. The author is optimistic that it may be possible to avoid such an outcome by improving political behaviour and policy processes. He urges citizens who are concerned about the future of democracy to become more engaged in political and policy-making processes in order to help encourage the development of better norms of political behaviour. The book tackles some big issues: the meaning of happiness; the motivations that people have to control their own lives; the concept of national happiness; the criteria we should use in considering whether some societies are better than others; the meaning of social progress; the cultural and institutional drivers of progress; and the greatest threats to progress.”
Luxury of Less: The Five Rings of Minimalism
Analysis Without Paralysis: 12 Tools to Make Better Strategic Decisions (2nd Edition)
From well-respected technical publisher. This focuses on business but I think the 12 tools could easily transfer(be adapted) to other aspects of life.
True Accounts
BESET: A Desperate Search for Happiness in Times of Crisis
This is Someone's Loved One: An Undertaker's View (Visceral History)
The Genteel Poor
“the story of four generations of a colorful and talented family spanning the Confederate War, World War I, The Great Depression, and World War II. It also includes the 500 year history of the New Orleans/Gulf Coast area, including its cultural and ethnic evolution, starting a century and a half before the area was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.” Written by an already established author.
Transformative Travel in Nepal: Fulfilling a Dream in the Himalayas
“What Kate learned about herself during the challenging and sometimes excrutiating, but always stimulating, adventure of trekking at high altitude over rough terrain truly transformed her in ways that often did not become apparent until many years later.”
Ole Man on the Porch: The Trooper
“Although he includes a gracious plenty of comical episodes enhanced by cartoonist Levi Powell (also a retired North Carolina State Highway Patrol member), Gregory pulls no punches with himself or with others. Without hesitation, he admits his weaknesses. Without malice, he shows us ours too. He speaks to issues that we’ve become complacent with and largely ignored. From experience and the refuge of retirement he can do that. He can be straight forward. He can be daring. He does, and in Ole Man on the Porch … He is.”
The Jade Locket: A Memoir
North/South Korean negotiations 1946
Tanks for the Memories: An Oral History of the 712th Tank Battalion in World War II
The Greatest Civil War Battles: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
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FICTION
BESET: A Desperate Search for Happiness in Times of Crisis
This is Someone's Loved One: An Undertaker's View (Visceral History)
The Genteel Poor
“the story of four generations of a colorful and talented family spanning the Confederate War, World War I, The Great Depression, and World War II. It also includes the 500 year history of the New Orleans/Gulf Coast area, including its cultural and ethnic evolution, starting a century and a half before the area was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.” Written by an already established author.
Transformative Travel in Nepal: Fulfilling a Dream in the Himalayas
“What Kate learned about herself during the challenging and sometimes excrutiating, but always stimulating, adventure of trekking at high altitude over rough terrain truly transformed her in ways that often did not become apparent until many years later.”
Ole Man on the Porch: The Trooper
“Although he includes a gracious plenty of comical episodes enhanced by cartoonist Levi Powell (also a retired North Carolina State Highway Patrol member), Gregory pulls no punches with himself or with others. Without hesitation, he admits his weaknesses. Without malice, he shows us ours too. He speaks to issues that we’ve become complacent with and largely ignored. From experience and the refuge of retirement he can do that. He can be straight forward. He can be daring. He does, and in Ole Man on the Porch … He is.”
The Jade Locket: A Memoir
North/South Korean negotiations 1946
Tanks for the Memories: An Oral History of the 712th Tank Battalion in World War II
The Greatest Civil War Battles: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
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FICTION
Nature Survival, War, and other Hardship
The Generosity of Strangers: When War Came to Fornelli
“a series of vignettes chronicling the real life experiences of a young girl and her family in war-torn Italy in the 1940s. The story is set in the town of Fornelli--a tiny hilltop community in Italy's mountainous heart.”
The Generosity of Strangers: When War Came to Fornelli
“a series of vignettes chronicling the real life experiences of a young girl and her family in war-torn Italy in the 1940s. The story is set in the town of Fornelli--a tiny hilltop community in Italy's mountainous heart.”
Politics, Terrorism, and Intrigue/Conspiracy
The Insiders
“The Insiders enthralls you with an alarming tale of how corrupt CEOs, secret societies, corporate deceit, domestic espionage, murder for hire, and cunning manipulation are destroying the American dream, influencing our daily lives, and reshaping global society.”
Huahuqui
“A simple request to retrieve a strange object from deep underwater puts Kelly in the middle of an international, political and spiritual nightmare – a nightmare that threatens to change the course of human history.”
The Insiders
“The Insiders enthralls you with an alarming tale of how corrupt CEOs, secret societies, corporate deceit, domestic espionage, murder for hire, and cunning manipulation are destroying the American dream, influencing our daily lives, and reshaping global society.”
Huahuqui
“A simple request to retrieve a strange object from deep underwater puts Kelly in the middle of an international, political and spiritual nightmare – a nightmare that threatens to change the course of human history.”
Collapse, Post-Apocalypse, Speculative Futures
Cloud Crash: A Technothriller
“A MAD BOMBER crosses the country with nothing to lose and orders to kill. He won't stop until the "cloud computing" that powers the internet is destroyed. But he's not acting alone--he's part of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of power.”
The Missing Link
Humour: "When the Internet collapses, society responds almost immediately…by having a meltdown."
The Journey Begins (The Long Journey Home)
Cloud Crash: A Technothriller
“A MAD BOMBER crosses the country with nothing to lose and orders to kill. He won't stop until the "cloud computing" that powers the internet is destroyed. But he's not acting alone--he's part of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of power.”
The Missing Link
Humour: "When the Internet collapses, society responds almost immediately…by having a meltdown."
The Journey Begins (The Long Journey Home)
“Brad, a US Navy SEAL stationed in Djibouti, wakes up one morning to find everyone else on the base dead…(He) cannot contact anyone anywhere. All he hears are a few automated distress calls. Brad takes care of his dead and readies himself for a trip…He takes an Armed, Computerized Patrol Boat and heads… (around Asia) to the Bearing Straits. … he follows the coast down to Washington. There he gets another vehicle and starts across country to Jacksonville. He finds out that roughly ten percent of the world's population is still alive. With no law enforcement left and all the world's weapons just laying around for anyone to pick up, chaos reigns. Women and children become currency. A human life is worth less than nothing. Along the way Brad picks up a crew of people he has rescued from dire straits. He finds out that the Journey Home is going to take a lot longer than he thought.” Book One must be approximately the first third of this story.
Book Two On The Pacific Rim (The Long Journey Home)
is, I gather, the middle part where "In this tale of an Apocalyptic Earth, Brad and his crew continue on their way to Jacksonville, Florida in the USA. However, a stop over in Vietnam brings them a few problems. Vika, a Russian lieutenant and Earl an MIA from the Vietnam War in the 60's and 70's make an appearance. Between the Army and Navy of New Vietnam, Slave Traders, Pirates, and General Run of the Mill Scum, Brad has his hands full. Book Three, Hong Kong Trade Off (The Long Journey Home)
I gather finishes it up.
Glass House: Climate Change in the Third Millennium
"’Like sheep mounting each other on the way to the slaughterhouse’, observes the cynical, opportunistic geologist, Professor Richard Tournier, as eco-disaster slowly overwhelms Britain. Appointed to a key government committee to mitigate the effects of catastrophic climate change, Tournier cheerfully chronicles the self-interest, greed and vanity of our rulers as the disaster unfolds.”
NEW WORLD TRILOGY
“contains the complete NEW WORLD TRILOGY, which includes DAY ZERO, AGENT ZERO and NEW WORLD.... Set in a near-future dystopia, DAY ZERO and AGENT ZERO trace the events leading to and following the World Revolution and the emergence of the struggle towards New World Dynamics, which is examined further in NEW WORLD.”
Shareable Futures: The Future Reclaimed as a Commons
“Where our future used to be, we now face a massive debt…. we consumed like there was no tomorrow. And as a result of the economic and environmental crises triggered by our multi-decade spending spree, tomorrow now seems to be shrinking to a little black dot.
”Shareable.net launched the Shareable Futures series, where some of today's most visionary and accomplished literary futurists imagine futures where technology has changed the rules of ownership and access, and people are able to share transportation, living spaces, lives, dreams, everything and anything. These are futures in which we are surviving and even thriving, largely by learning to share our stuff.
"The short stories and speculative essays of the Shareable Futures series are ultimately hopeful, but they are not utopian propaganda; our writers come from the perspective that the laws of social thermodynamics are impossible to escape. Instead of utopia, these stories give readers troubles and ambiguities, vividly conceived characters and places, compelling narratives and intelligent speculation… "
Just Reading
Out Of The Darkness - A Catholic Mans Guide To Breaking Pornography Addiction
Michael Jackson (Behind The Mask: What Michael Jackson's Body Language Told The World)
By a trained micro expressions reader
Amy Chua: Life of a Tiger Mother
“ In January, 2011 Chua published her explosive memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, which propelled her into the spotlight. Within weeks, Amy Chua was on Time.com 's top ten list of the most thoughtprovoking, angerinducing, and viral viewpoints of the year. Before 2011 ended, she was nominated one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. In Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Amy Chua details her own unique take on parenting and uses her own family model as proof that Chinese mothers raise successful children. Chua argues that although people hesitate to accept the notion of cultural stereotypes in parenting, the truth is that many studies support significant measurable differences in parenting between Chinese and Westerners. The book created a firestorm of controversy and sparked a robust and active dialogue about how cultural styles impact upbringing. “
Gold Stars
“If a reality television program gave cash rewards for random acts of kindness, would you be more willing to help your neighbor? If everyone watched this show and were thus ‘motivated’ to serve at every opportunity, what would be the net effect?”
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