The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Process Self-reliance Series)

The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Process Self-reliance Series) Review

The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Process Self-reliance Series) Overview

"The Urban Homestead is the essential handbook for a fast-growing new movement: urbanites are becoming gardeners and farmers. Rejecting both end-times hand wringing and dewy-eyed faith that technology will save us from ourselves, urban homesteaders choose instead to act. By growing their own food and harnessing natural energy, they are planting seeds for the future of our cities. If you would like to harvest your own vegetables, raise city chickens, or convert to solar energy, this practical, hands-on book is full of step-by-step projects that will get you started homesteading immediately, whether you live in an apartment or a house. It is also a guidebook to the larger movement and will point you to the best books and Internet resources on self-sufficiency topics. Projects include: * How to grow food on a patio or balcony * How to clean your house without toxins * How to preserve food * How to cook with solar energy * How to divert your grey water to your garden * How to choose the best homestead for you Written by city dwellers for city dwellers, this illustrated, smartly designed, two-color instruction book proposes a paradigm shift that will improve our lives, our community, and our planet. Authors Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen happily farm in Los Angeles and run the urban homestead blog www.homegrownrevolution.org."

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The Creative Process in the Individual (with linked TOC)

The Creative Process in the Individual (with linked TOC) Review

The Creative Process in the Individual (with linked TOC) Overview

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Thomas Troward (1847-1916) was an English author whose works influenced the New Thought Movement and mystic Christianity. In THE CREATIVE PROCESS IN THE INDIVIDUAL Thomas Troward scientifically explains the sequence of creative action including the the divine right of creation.

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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement Review

A lot of principles outlined in The Goal are accepted practice today. It espouses that constraints exist in any organization & that the focus on 'local optimums' is meaningless. From these, Goldratt goes about constructing (not fully however) how a constraint could be identified, elevated, and eventually resolved. While the book indicates that the goal of any organization is to make money, I would also submit that the book indirectly points out that the goal is to identify and resolve all constraints within an organization (manufacturing, HR, sales, marketing) so that the only constraint would be the market place.

A point to note is that this book was written over 25 years ago when 'accepted norms' in manufacturing in particular & organizations in general were much different. From that standpoint, this book is a pioneer.

At the end, you do wish there was more input on HOW one could resolve the constraints. But as Goldratt himself adds, he realized this and addressed them in his subsequent publications.

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement Overview

In this intriguing, readable business novel, which illustrates state-of-the-art economic theory, Alex Rogo is a UniCo plant manager whose factory and marriage are failing. To revitalize the plant, he follows piecemeal advice from an elusive former college professor who teaches, for example, that reduction in the efficiency of some plant operations may make the entire operation more productive. Alex's attempts to find the path to profitability and to engage his employeesi n the struggle involve the reader; and thankfully the authors' economic models, including a game with match sticks and bowls, are easy to understand. Although some characters are as anonymous as the goods manufactured in the factory, others ring true. In addition, the tender story of Alex and his wife's separation and reconciliation makes a touching contrast to the rest of the book. Recommended for anyone with an interest in the state of the American economy.

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