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  Home Fires - How Americans Kept...

  Sean Patrick Adams

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  “Easily the most thorough and best-grounded account of the coal-based system of heating in the nineteenth-century United States . . . authoritative.” —The New England Quarterly 
   
  Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the “industrial hearth” appeared in American cities, the methods that entrepreneurs in home heating markets used to convince consumers that their product designs and fuel choices were superior, and how elite, middle-class, and poor Americans responded to these overtures. 
   
  Adams depicts the problem of dwindling supplies of firewood and the search for alternatives; the hazards of cutting, digging, and drilling in the name of home heating; the trouble and expense of moving materials from place to place; the rise of steam power; the growth of an industrial economy; and questions of economic efficiency, at both the individual household and the regional level. Home Fires makes it clear that debates over energy sources, energy policy, and company profit margins have been around a long time. 
   
  The challenge of staying warm in the industrializing North becomes a window into the complex world of energy transitions, economic change, and emerging consumerism. Readers will understand the struggles of urban families as they sought to adapt to the ever-changing nineteenth-century industrial landscape. This perspective allows a unique view of the development of an industrial society not just from the ground up but from the hearth up. 
   
  “This smartly written and well-informed book focuses on a subject that very few people think about—the history of home heating in America.” —Choice

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  My Days and Dreams

  Edward Carpenter

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  Hard to imagine now, but there have been times and places where just wearing sandals could get you labeled as being in rebellion against established society. Two such places were Berkeley, California in the early 1960s and Millthorpe, England in the 1880s. Millthorpe was home to Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), an English socialist poet, philosopher, and activist who abandoned his upper crust life and university sinecure to grow market vegetables and handcraft sandals for a living. Carpenter’s search for the well-lived life, his passions and concerns resonate uncannily with the mood of long ago Berkeley. In this frank memoir, Carpenter explores how he “escaped from the domination of Civilization in its two most fatal and much-detested forms, respectability and cheap intellectualism.”   - Summary by Sue Anderson

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  Small List Big Results

  Barry Stevenson

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  Small List Big Results: An Expert Guide on How to Create a Profitable Mailing List. Discover the Steps on How to Profit From a Targeted Email ListAn email list is like a handy list of subscribers. It is a list of email IDs that you have gathered from people, usually over time. These are people who have seen what you have to offer and have allowed you to send information whether in the form of updates or promotions for a service that you offer directly to their inbox. According to the Direct Marketing Association, for businesses in the USA alone, this strategy results in 4,300 percent ROI or return on investment.In this audiobook, you will learn what an email list is and all the benefits of building a profitable email list. You will discover how to create a target email list and how to earn significant profits from your mailing list.This audiobook will cover the following topics:- Why Build an Email List- How to Build an Email List- Know Your Audience- Building a Targeted Email List- Building a Landing Page- You’ve Got Them Hooked, So Reel Them In- Make Some Money, Honey- Deep Diving Into Affiliate Marketing- One Last Revision Before the Final Test- And many more!With email lists, over time, you know your audience well. That gives you insights into what is working for your brand. To learn more, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!

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  The Hidden Lives of Owls - The...

  Leigh Calvez

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  In this New York Times bestseller, a naturalist probes the forest to comprehend the secret lives of owls. Leigh Calvez takes listeners on an adventure into the world of owls: owl-watching, avian science, and the deep forest-often in the dead of night. These birds are a bit mysterious, and that's part of what makes them so fascinating. Calvez makes the science entertaining and accessible while exploring the questions about the human-animal connection, owl obsession, habitat, owl calls, social behavior, and mythology.

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  Burners and Black Markets - How...

  Lance Henderson

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  Tired of being spied on? Encrypt yourself & explore a deep web of exotic goods, banned items & secret files... anonymously and free. If you want to live the life of a superhacker, spy or CIA agent, be James Bond or Ethan Hunt for a time and look good doing it...this is your book. Invisibility. Cybersecurity. Opsec. Assassins. Youll learn it in hours, not years. It's all here. See the hidden wiki and hundreds of deep web sites the govt doesn't want you to see, all for free. And the best burner phones & laptops money can buy. Exotic weapons. Tor darknets. Dark Freenets. Dark Linux. How to be anonymous, anywhere. Buyer & Vendor Opsec for Black Markets should you need an 'exotic' item. Secrets that master Tor users don't know that keep you hidden from the NSA, the FBI, or just plain old IRS bullies. Secrets only superhackers at the NSA know but now are yours for the taking. Sound good? Don't wait too long. Get it today because tomorrow may be too late!

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  Wisconsin's Flying Trees in...

  Sara Witter Connor

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  A look at how the Wisconsin lumber industry and the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory contributed to Allied efforts in World War II. 
   
  Wisconsin’s trees heard “Timber” during World War II, as the forest products industry of the Badger State played a key role in the Allied aerial campaign. It was Wisconsin that provided the material for the De Havilland Mosquito, known as the “Timber Terror,” while the CG-4A battle-ready gliders, cloaked in stealthy silence, carried the 82nd and 101st Airborne into fierce fighting throughout Europe and the Pacific. Author Sara Witter Connor follows a forgotten thread of the American war effort, celebrating the factory workers, lumberjacks, pilots, and innovative thinkers of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory who helped win a world war with paper, wood, and glue.

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