Monday to Friday, they teach school, practice law, push paper, pound a keyboard, or run a company. But they start their weekends with a trip to the nearest home-improvement center. They're owner-builders, men and women just like you who know the satisfaction of doing it themselves—of adding a deck, remodeling the den, or building a dream house from the ground up. The Builder's Secret will introduce you to some owner-builders who've renounced ordinary weekend pleasures in favor of lengthy, backbreaking—but ultimately exhilarating—home-building projects. Inside, you'll meet a Connecticut architect and his "city-girl" wife who lived in a tent for a year while constructing their dream house, a flutist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra who began renovating commercial real estate in his spare time when his country home neared completion, and a divorced mother of three who says that she built more than her house during those two years on the job—she rebuilt her life, too. You'll meet others whose stories will inspire you to start that dream project of your own. A few of these owner-builders learned to build during childhood, others didn't pick up a hammer until they were grown. But all discovered that the highest reward of building was not what they got for their toil but what they became by it. "This chronicle of owner-builders is really a 'why-to' manual, revealing how tremendously satisfying it can be to sleep beneath a roof that you built yourself."—Kevin Ireton, editor of Fine Homebuilding magazine "Building your own house is both frustrating and rewarding by turns. You will enjoy the stories chronicled in The Builder's Secret—they have the whiff of sawdust and reality."—Witold Rybczynski, professor of architecture, McGill University "Gives all those who have ever dreamed of building their own house valuable insights into the physical and spiritual process. This book reveals that the satisfaction of achieving one of life's basic goals—creating your own shelter—is within the reach of anyone."—Will Beemer, director of The Heartwood School Read an interview with the author ////////here.

The Builder's Secret: Learning the Art of Living Through the Craft of Building

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Ehrenhaft. George

Crafts & Hobbies

Prima Lifestyles

Covers the four subject areas of ACT exams and contains preparation chapters, subject reviews, and sample exams with answers

Barron's How to Prepare for the Act (BARRON'S HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE ACT AMERICAN COLLEGE TESTING PROGRAM ASSESSMENT (BOOK ONLY))

Test Preparation

Lehrman, Robert L.

Obrecht, Fred

Mundsack, Allan

College & High School

B E S Pub Co

Covers the four subject areas of ACT exams and contains preparation chapters, subject reviews, and sample exams with answers.

Barron's How to Prepare for the ACT: American College Testing Assessment (Barron's How to Prepare for the Act American College Testing Program Assessment (Book Only))

This shorter version of the new, full-size ACT test preparation manual has been thoroughly updated to reflect the most recent ACTs. It presents a diagnostic test plus two full-length model tests with questions answered and explained. It also presents advice on coping with the new ACT Writing Test. This book’s subject reviews cover English, math, reading, and science reasoning.

Pass Key to the ACT

Barron's Educational Series

The author presents a self-assessment writing test and five practice SAT II Writing Tests with explained answers for multiple-choice questions and performance evaluation charts for written essays. There is also a self-scoring guide that reflects SAT II standards for the essay questions. Additional features include a grammar and punctuation review plus advice on style and usage. This updated edition contains more than two dozen student essays, each of them analyzed and scored. And for students taking the new-format SAT, which replaces the old SAT II beginning in Spring 2005, this manual offers detailed advice and practice for the SAT's all-new essay-writing component.

SAT II Writing (Barron's How to Prepare)

Barron's Eduational Series, Inc.

A lively, in-depth discussion of ETHAN FROME. Students are taken on an exciting journey of discovery through every scene or chapter. Also included are unique text notes, ideas for themes or term papers, notes on the author's life as well as a glossary.

Ethan Frome (Barron's Book Notes)

Literature & Fiction

Bromberg, Murray

Literary

Discusses the qualities of effective college application essays and offers tips on topics, composition, rewriting, editing, and proofreading

Writing a Successful College Application Essay: The Key to College Admission

Book by Ehrenhaft, George, Lehrman, Robert L.

Barron's Pass Key to the ACT, American College Testing Program

Reference

A guide to reading "Ethan Frome" with a criticial and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.

Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome (Barron's Book Notes)

Classics

A guide to reading "The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.A guide to reading "The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire" with a critical and appreciative mind

Tennessee Williams's the Glass Menagerie and a Streetcar Named Desire (Barron's Book Notes)

WILLIAMS, Tennessee

Children's Books

Barrons Educational Series. Inc.

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