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  • The Half-Acre Homestead

    46 Years of Building & Gardening

    Discover the benefits and joys of simple living in this coffee-table book that presents the homestead of Lloyd Khan and Lesley Creed.If you’ve ever researched a DIY home-building project, then you’ve probably come across the books of Lloyd Kahn. If you’ve ever been curious about self-sufficient living, The Half-Acre Homestead is for you. Lloyd, the former shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Tiny Homes on the Move

    Wheels and Water

    by Lloyd Kahn ...
    Series series The Shelter Library of Building Books
    Tiny Homes on the Move chronicles 21st-century nomads — people who inhabit homes that are compact and mobile, either on wheels or in the water. In photos and stories, this fascinating book explores modern travelers who live in vans, pickup trucks, buses, trailers, sailboats, and houseboats that combine the comforts of home with the convenience of being able to pick up and go at any time. With over ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Driftwood Shacks

    Anonymous Architecture Along the California Coast

    by Lloyd Kahn ...
    Appreciate the artistic beauty of driftwood shacks and other beachcombing wonders with this unique hardcover book of photography.Beach life is amazing, and perhaps nothing captures the quirky nature of those drawn to a place where ocean meets sand like driftwood shacks. The unique and whimsical structures are constructed by anonymous builders. They’re shaped by whatever materials are lying nearby ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Shelter

    40th Anniversary Edition

    Edited by Lloyd Kahn, Bob Easton ...
    Series series The Shelter Library of Building Books
    Read the definitive, complete guide to shelters—more than 300,000 copies sold!Shelter is so amazing, so revolutionary, that the best way to describe it is with one word: everything! It’s a history of architecture, a do-it-yourself (DIY) guide, a scrapbook, and a collection of essays and stories. If you’ve ever wondered about any aspect of houses, homes, or other simple structures in which people ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Rolling Homes

    Shelter on Wheels

    by Lloyd Kahn ...
    Series series The Shelter Library of Building Books
    If there’s not a nomadic revolution going on today, there’s certainly a nomadic movement. In the last few years, either for reasons of practicality (high costs of rent or mortgages), change in lifestyle, or the search for adventure, people are customizing all sorts of vehicles for travel.If you search for “van” on Instagram, you find scores of accounts such as #projectvanlife, with 1.2 million ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Tiny Homes

    Simple Shelter

    by Lloyd Kahn ...
    Series series The Shelter Library of Building Books
    There's a grassroots movement in tiny homes these days. The real estate collapse, the economic downturn, burning out on 12-hour workdays – many people are rethinking their ideas about shelter – seeking an alternative to high rents, or a lifelong mortgage debt to a bank on an overpriced home. Homes on land, homes on wheels, homes on the road, homes on water, even homes in the trees. There are also ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Home Work

    Handbuilt Shelter

    by Lloyd Kahn ...
    Series series The Shelter Library of Building Books
    Master builder Louie Frazier's Japanese-style pole house in Northern California, reachable on a 500-foot cable across a riverIan MacLeod's handbuilt stone house in South Africa, where baboons jump on the roof at nightMa Page's bottle house in the Nevada desertArtist Michael Kahn's semi-subterranean sculptural village in ArizonaBill and Athena Steen's strawbale housesIanto Evans' cob houses in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Small Homes

    The Right Size

    by Lloyd Kahn ...
    Series series The Shelter Library of Building Books
    Find inspiration from DIY owner-builders who constructed their own small homes in this coffee-table book filled with photography.Are tiny homes too little for you? Well, small is bigger than tiny! The average American home is 2,500 square feet—that’s too big. The tiny home averages 200–300 square feet—that’s too little. The small homes featured here are 400–1,200 square feet—just right! American ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Septic System Owner's Manual

    by Lloyd Kahn ...
    Learn all about household septic systems—including how to maintain and repair them—whether you’re planning to build or already own a home.More than 28 million households have septic systems, yet few homeowners know how they operate or how to maintain them. The Septic System Owner’s Manual describes the conventional gravity-fed septic system, how it works, how it should be treated (what should and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Builders of the Pacific Coast

    by Lloyd Kahn ...
    Series series The Shelter Library of Building Books
    Meet the DIY builders of the Pacific Coast, whose homes are practical, imaginative, and environmentally friendly.If you’re fascinated by homes and architecture or if you’re seeking inspiration for your own DIY building project, then you have something in common with Lloyd Kahn. In 2004, he discovered a group of unique carpenters along the Pacific Coast of North America. Over a two-year period, he ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Shelter II

    Edited by Lloyd Kahn ...
    Series series The Shelter Library of Building Books
    Shelter II is the second in a series of books about people building their own homes in different parts of the world. The principles outlined in Shelter, published almost 40 years ago, seem even more important today: relearning the still-usable skills of the past and doing more hand work in providing life's necessities. Shelter II provides a basic manual of design and construction for the first ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Race and Secularism in America

    Series Book 30 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    This anthology draws bold comparisons between secularist strategies to contain, privatize, and discipline religion and the treatment of racialized subjects by the American state. Specializing in history, literature, anthropology, theology, religious studies, and political theory, contributors expose secularism's prohibitive practices in all facets of American society and suggest opportunities for ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD