Take a journey through your home from top to bottom. You'll be surprised by all the dirt you discover

Richard A. Slinde, a longtime domestic cleaner, has seen how messy homes can become during his more than thirty years of cleaning houses and apartments, both big and small. In "Domestic Olympics: The Ultimate Housecleaning Guide," Slinde provides step-by-step, room-by-room guidance for cleaning your home in fun and easy ways.

Each room is fair game for cleaning-your kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and every nook and cranny in between. You'll learn time-saving cleaning routines specifically created for each room in your house. Along the way, you'll also discover how to evaluate cleaning products, wash your walls, shampoo your furniture, eliminate roaches and other pests, and engage in a top-to-bottom spring cleaning that will ensure you haven't missed a thing.

It doesn't matter whether you rent or own, whether you have a big family or live by yourself, "Domestic Olympics" provides practical tools and strategies that can make your life easier and your living quarters cleaner.

Whether you're looking for help to hook up a cable box, troubleshoot a TV or Internet problem, or rewire your whole house for cable TV service, phone or Internet, look no further the "Cable TV Wiring" book can help you. Written with the "do-it-yourself" homeowner in mind, the following chapters break down the components that make up the cable TV system in your home. One secret every professional technician knows is, when it comes to years of trouble free service, forget all the technical jargon, sticking to the "basic fundamentals" is key. With help from name brands like IDEAL, NETGEAR, LEVITON, MONSTER, HDMI and EXTREME-BROADBAND, the Cable TV Wiring book offers plenty of pictures and easy to read text. It's a well-known fact that some stores are selling sub-standard wire and consumers are buying and installing sub-standard wire in their homes. Many times this poor wiring leads to poor service on your TV, phone and Internet. With the Cable TV Wiring book you will learn about differences in wiring, connectors and signal amplifiers, as well as how to make proper connections, which splitters to use, and the ones to avoid, plus much more. Many cable companies are charging customers to send a truck out to repair simple problems inside the home or problems caused by the customer. With a little know-how you can perform the most common repairs on you own. If this book saves you the cost of one service call, it will have paid for itself.

This comprehensive and classic text, originally published in the early 1900's, was written to assist farmers and mechanics instructors, and was the first book on the subject to deal exclusively with the operation, care, and repair of farm machines. Divided into six distinctive sections ranging from the preparation of the seed bed to harvesting, The Operation, Care, and Repair of Farm Machinery offers detailed information and instructions on how to use and care for dozens of different machines, including: Plows Harrows Tillers Spreaders Cultivators Sowers Diggers Harvesters Pickers Presses Mowers Binders Planters Pulverizers Loaders Drills Listers Rotary hoes

Over the next twenty years, practicality and efficiency will be two of the biggest components of how we define energy sources, and we will need to fully understand our individual pivotal role in this transformation. David Nelmes makes the process virtually effortless with his groundbreaking work, "The Rewards of Making Energy-Efficient Choices."

Drawing on his vast experience as a home energy inspector specializing in heating and air conditioning, electrical wiring, and interiors and insulation, Nelmes is fully qualified to show you how to live a greener and more efficient life without sacrificing the normal comforts of home. Nelmes offers firsthand insight on how energy conservation, along with the use of solar, wind, and fuel cell technology, will help us all steer away from using foreign fossil fuels.

With a straightforward and easy-to-understand style, Nelmes gives you specific advice on how to convert your home and your car to become more environmentally friendly, affordable, and resourceful. Accompanied by illustrations, charts, helpful photographs, and numerous Web site references, Nelmes covers topics such as Energy efficiency and conservation Best methods for heating and cooling Efficient hot water creation Renewable solar and wind energy Domestic power for your vehicle In addition to reducing your impact on the air, water, and soil, "The Rewards of Making Energy-Efficient Choices" will help you go green by spending a little green today and saving a lot of green tomorrow

Easy-to-care-for, productive, inexpensive, and full of personality, chickens are popping up in backyards throughout the country--in the suburbs, rural towns, and even on city plots. All it takes to keep a small flock is a bit of land and a properly designed coop.
Just like houses, chicken coops come in all sizes and styles to meet the needs of any chicken family. Author Judy Pangman has combed the country identifying the top chicken coop designs, from utilitarian to high-style. The result is this ultimate collection of 45 building plans that are sure to meet the needs of any chicken owner.
The featured designs include basic easy-to assemble hoop houses, A-frames, and multi-storied wooden structures, as well as larger models for small commercial farms. There are also a variety of moveable coops that can be rotated around the yard, and low-budget coops constructed from found and repurposed materials.
Pangman shares inspirational and instructive stories about the participating coop designers/ builders. Enthusiastic communities of chicken-keepers have organized chicken tours in cities such as Seattle, highlighting the fun and fantastic imagination of some coop architect/builders. There are designs echoing the house styles of the neighborhood, as well as the most contemporary trends in architecture. Building a chicken coop offers a great outlet for any would-be architect who wants to stick to the miniature, scaled-down building
A 16-page color section shows detailed photos of many of the featured coop plans, as well as some amazing kits and one-of-a-kind coops built from recyclables.
With its comprehensive building plans and chicken-laden stories, "Chicken Coops" is sure to inspire a sunny-side-up, no-yolks-barred attitude in all chicken owners who dream of building a bigger, better coop to house their flock.