Offers advice on homesteading and self-sufficiency with tasks organized by month, with topics including backyard chicken care, cooking and eating seasonally, and no-till gardening.
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You long to live a more self-reliant lifestyle, less dependent on fast food, consumerism, and other undesirable aspects of modern civilization. How do you begin to change your corner of the world without giving up everything you know and love?
You long to live a more self-reliant lifestyle, less dependent on fast food, consumerism, and other undesirable aspects of modern civilization. How do you begin to change your corner of the world without giving up everything you know and love?
Describes how to live a self-sufficient, sustainable family life and not be dependent on modern industrial society and its emphasis on continuous consumption for survival.
If you've ever thought about pursuing a self-sufficient lifestyle on your own rural homestead or survival retreat but feared you didn't have the money or skills to do it, you simply must read this book. It is a goldmine of practical steps and instructions to take you from dreami…
The streets of San Francisco ooze with danger, sex, poets, and technology in this hard-boiled mystery, creating a story that is at turns hilarious, thrilling, and obscene. Set in the 1980s, this is the tale of an idealistic and angst-ridden writer who struggles with day-to-day r…
"If you've ever wondered why you bother to go to work, or why so much of consumer culture is crap, then this is the book for you. ... Filled with practical tips as well as inspiring reflections, here you can learn how to throw off your shackles of anxiety, bureaucracy, debt, gov…
"If you've ever wondered why you bother to go to work, or why so much of consumer culture is crap, then this is the book for you. ... Filled with practical tips as well as inspiring reflections, here you can learn how to throw off your shackles of anxiety, bureaucracy, debt, gov…
In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32,000 of student debt. Ilgunas set himself an ambitious mission: get out of debt as quickly as possible. Inspired by the frugality and philosophy of H…
"In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32,000 of student debt. Ilgunas set himself an ambitious mission: get out of debt as quickly as possible. Inspired by the frugality and philosophy of …
"In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32,000 of student debt. Ilgunas set himself an ambitious mission: get out of debt as quickly as possible. Inspired by the frugality and philosophy of …
1. Introduction -- 2. The Parisian prototype : 19th-century Bohemia -- 3. The beats : political poetics -- 4. The 1960s : a generation in revolt -- 5. The underground -- 6. Get back to work : the demise of the underground -- 7. On the margins of the workaday world : productivity…
"The iconoclastic ingenuity of bohemians, from Gerard de Nerval to Allen Ginsberg, continually captivates the popular imagination; the worlds of fashion, advertising, and even real estate all capitalize on the alternative appeal of bohemian style. Persistently overlooked, howeve…
