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	Build Your Own Low-Cost Log Home The basic book for log house building. All construction techniques and professional tips on simplifying the work.
	Pole Building Projects Garden structures, backyard barns, vacation cabins, sheds, and shelters - pole building construction saves time, labor, and money. Good for many sites not suitable for other types of construction.
	Timber Frame Construction By the author of Build a Classic Timber-Framed House, this book specifically deals with post-and-beam structures and includes plans for small Shaker-inspired shed that you can build as your first project.
	The Rammed Earth House Rediscovering the most ancient building material. The Rammed Earth House is an eye-opening example of how the most dramatic innovations in home design and construction frequently have their origins in the distant past.
	The Tire House Book Used tires are a big waste headache -piled up in landfills and tire dumps around the world. Now enterprising builders are using them as a basis for building houses. This book is an overview of how some are doing it.
	The Homestead Builder The classic guide to building cabins and houses from scratch.
	Timber Reduced Energy Efficient Homes Real life building experience with realistic building materials cost analysis. Building homes that look and work better, last longer. Cost comparisons for adobe, tires, frame, passive solar. Numerous drawings and photos. ?I highly recommend this ove
	New Compact House Designs An overview of 27 house designs, 1,250 square feet or less. Small houses require less energy to operate and consume smaller amounts of raw materials.
	Lime and Alternative Binders In East Africa This book looks at the pros and cons of Ordinary Portland Cement compared with alternative binders.
	Quik Stix Set Books Box Beam Sourcebook10 Electric vehicle designs - A builder's "erector set"Build everything from your bed to a portable home to an electric vehicle with components you can recycle yourself thousands of times. A revolution in building design and cons
	Latex Concrete Habitat A manual on construction of low cost, permanent roofs for buildings in war torn and disaster recovery areas. In many war torn and poverty stricken regions, the indigenous architecture has been heavy mud and wattle roofs on thick mud walls. These str
	Earth Construction: A Comprehensive Guide A comprehensive and illustrated handbook which will be essential reading for anyone involved in construction.
	Planet Earth Home Compilation of the entire world's knowledge and technology for new self-sufficient home designs. Organized as a reference work covering virtually all related technologies such as solar, photovoltaic, wind, greenhouses, and more.
	Cob Builders Handbook You can hand sculpt your own home. Cob (an old English word for lump) is old-fashioned concrete, made out of a mixture of clay, sand, and straw.
	Buildings of Earth and Straw Structural Design for Rammed Earth and Straw-Bale Architecture. Straw bale and rammed earth construction are enjoying a fantastic growth spurt in the United States and abroad.
	Prescriptions for a Healthy House Take the mystery out of healthy house building. A great walk-through book for the owner/architect/builder team. Goes through the construction process, explains where and why standard building practices become healthful, what to do differently, and
	Adobe: Build It Yourself Unquestionably the best how-to-do-it book on all aspects of adobe construction. From planning to countertops, comprehensive information about every step in adobe home building.
	Rustic Retreats- A Build it Yourself Guide Get out of town! A rural retreat doesn?t have to be exotic, or large, or expensive. How about a river raft with a small cabin on it? A tree house? Small log cabin?
	The Hand-Sculpted House A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage. This is a building method so old and so simple that it has been all but forgotten in the rush to synthetics.
	Low Cost Pole Building Construction Low cost pole building construction, the complete How-To Book.
	Daylighting for Sustainable Design An Extremely comprehensive reference guide on Daylighting, a major component of sustainable design. Excellent for architects and do-it-yourselfers, includes an index of daylighting resources, manufacturers, literature, and specialist firms.
	Adobe and Rammed Earth Buildings: Design & Construction Expanded sequel to Adobe - Build It Yourself. Numerous diagrams and photographs, in-depth design considerations, detailed information on building codes ? essential book for anyone serious about building with adobe.
	The $50 and up Underground House Book The author himself started with a $50 version and added a $500 addition in 1975 where he still lives and works promoting his book. Also tells how to build root cellars and greenhouses, deal with building codes, solve drainage problems, and more.
	Stone House A Guide to Self-Building with Slipforms. You won?t need to be an expert stonemason or even have much construction experience to build your own house with one of the world?s most traditional building materials--stone.
	The New Ecological Home A Complete Guide to Green Building Options. Shelter, like many other elements of human existence, comes at an extraordinary cost to our planet and its inhabitants.
	The Green Self-Build Book How to Design and Build Your Own Eco-Home. Whether you want a turf roof, solar-powered hot water, a straw bale home, or a super-insulated (and cost-efficient) house, you need to know the essential elements of the process.
	The Natural House A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes. The Natural House is a tour of the construction, costs, and pros and cons of fourteen natural building methods.
	The Slate Roof Bible Understanding, Installing, and Restoring the World's Finest Roof. The profusely illustrated full color format of this comprehensive book, with 330 color photos and hundreds of charts and line drawings, has elevated it into a work of art.
	The Classic Hewn-Log House The Classic Hewn-Log House
	Working Windows A Guide to the Repair and Restoration of Wood Windows. Older homes are gaining in value, especially when the original craftsman details are well maintained, such as antique lead panes and wood windows.
	The Beauty of Straw Bale Homes While enthusiasts of straw bales praise the exceptional energy efficiency of bale buildings, and the wise use of resources involved in utilizing an agricultural byproduct as an affordable construction material.
	Serious Straw Bale A Home Construction Guide for All Climates. With more than 100,000 copies sold, and straw bale projects underway in most regions of North America, we've entered a new era.
	Geothermal Heat Pumps: A Guide for Planning and Installing Introduces basic theory and reviews a wide variety of available heat pump models. Will put any installer, engineer or architect in the position to design, select and install a domestic geothermal heat pump system.Geothermal Heat Pumps is the most
	Shelters, Shacks & Shanties How to Build Them. Shelters, Shacks and Shanties presents lively, step-by-step tutelage on building all types of temporary and long-term accommodations from both natural and man-made materials.
	Box Beam Book Build everything from your bed to a portable home to an electric vehicle with components you can recycle yourself thousands of times.
	How to Make Low-Cost Building Blocks A user's manual for building in remote areas. Straightforward and illustrated methods for building with earth blocks - from plans and soil testing to completed buildings.
	The Indian Tipi: Its History, Construction, and Use (2nd Edition) Detailed instructions on how to put up a tipi with numerous, practical details on comfortable tipi living like how to prevent drips from the places you tie the liner.
	Build It With Bales Updated and expanded version of Straw-Bale Primer. Complete step-by-step guide for building with straw - from start to finish. The best book on this subject we've seen. Author: S.O. Macdonald & Matts Myhrman, ?1995, 79 pages
	Building With Earth This handbook provides practical help in choosing whether and how to build with earth, from soil selection through to construction and maintenance.
	Appropriate Building Materials Appropriate Building Materials: Third EditionThis standard building materials sourcebook summarizes technical data and practical information and identifies appropriate solutions to any given problem in low-cost construction.
	Building with Bamboo This revised handbook brings together the practical experiences of engineers in the field and of research programs testing bamboo.
	Thatching A Handbook Great guide to good-quality thatching. How to achieve the maximum possible roof-life with either cultivated or naturally occurring materials. Easy-to-understand words and pictures.
	Build a Classic Timber-Framed House Today's timber-framed home-building easily becomes an ultra expensive affair requiring exotic tools. Here's advice on how to do it affordably using local materials and common hand tools.
	Building With Stone The art and craft of creating stone structures and projects. Detailed instructions on building walls, fireplaces, dams, barns and repairing old stone structures.
	Building Your Straw Bale Home Covers all the structural and straw bale techniques necessary to completely build a straw bale house.
	Out of the Woods We could just about say, "essential" for anyone building their own home. Evaluates the positive elements and drawbacks of almost every possible design feature.
	The Straw Bale House The Straw Bale House. Imagine building a house with superior seismic stability, fire resistance, and thermal insulation, using an annually renewable resource, for half the cost of a comparable conventional home.
	Design of Straw Bale Buildings The State of the Art. For the first time, a design manual for practicing professionals, drawing on the collective experience of the most senior and respected figures in the rapidly-emerging field of straw bale construction.
	Earthship These three books describe, in great and practical detail, how to build a house from recycled and throwaway building material. The house so built stores heat and water, and is therefore very inexpensive to operate.