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Get the everyperson’s guide to running from “America’s coach” Jeff Galloway, and experience the unforgettable lifetime accomplishment of running a marathon.

If you haven’t already begun training for a marathon, you’ve probably thought about doing so. Former Olympic athlete and record-setting distance runner Jeff Galloway is here to say, “You can do it!” Jeff has been coaching runners for more than 50 years. He is the official training consultant for the runDisney series of races. With the new edition of Marathon, he’ll guide you every step of the way. Jeff has updated his unique programs that show runners how to train for—and finish—a marathon.

Jeff’s revolutionary run walk run® method of training has enabled hundreds of thousands of people to complete marathons, and you can be among them. This innovative method opens marathon running to everyone, including those who may be out of shape, overweight, or past their athletic prime. Discover how to set up a personal training program, stay motivated, avoid injuries, burn fat, and more. You won’t have to compromise your career or family life to be successful. This new edition includes updated training schedules with recovery components, and most training weeks require only 3 x 30 minutes of running or walking. You’ll also appreciate the latest information on nutrition, mental training, eliminating injuries and exhaustion, and step-by-step instructions that give you control of your training regime.

Jeff’s motivation techniques have kept countless marathoners on the road to their goals. This book shows you how to keep the fun in your run and how to stay away from aches and pains. With such guidance, it’s possible for almost anyone to achieve the lifetime goal of finishing a marathon—while enhancing health, stamina, and life quality.

Benefit from coverage of topics like these:

• Training and inspiration
• Food and fat-burning
• Dealing with injuries and getting older

Learn everything you need to know about running, with one of the world’s most popular running books, updated to include Jeff Galloway’s revolutionary method of training.

A new runner who’s looking to begin, a high school athlete who’s preparing for track & field season, an experienced marathoner aiming to get faster—whatever your situation, if you’re interested in running, this is the book for you. Olympic athlete Jeff Galloway introduces the same training principles that are used by world-class runners to help you improve!

Galloway’s Book on Running shows beginners how to get started, explains Jeff’s ideas on stress and rest, and reveals secrets for running better. This revised and updated edition includes training schedules for 5K, 10K, and increasingly popular half-marathon races, as well as recent insights into motivation, nutrition, and fat-burning. Perhaps most notably, Jeff has updated this version to include his Run Walk Run® method of training, which has helped tens of thousands of runners to train injury-free for races of varying distances, including marathons.

Book Features:

• Jeff’s unique Run Walk Run method of training
• Training principles used by elite runners that apply to runners of all levels
• Tips for getting started, secrets for running better, and insights into stress and rest
• Detailed training charts for 5K, 10K, and half-marathon races

Runners at all levels will benefit from this seasoned athlete’s wisdom. Get Galloway’s Book on Running, and get your training on the right track.

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 should not go down the drain), how it should be maintained, and what to do if things go wrong. Written by Lloyd Kahn, with illustrations by Peter Aschwanden, this is your straightforward, easy-to-understand guide to small-scale residential wastewater disposal.

The Septic System Owner’s Manual is perfect for the average homeowner, based on conventional systems, providing practical advice on how to keep these systems up (or should we say down?) and running. You’ll also appreciate information on the evolution in composting toilet systems, designs for simple graywater systems, and some typical alternatives to the standard, gravity-fed septic system. There’s a chapter with advice to any community that’s faced with town-wide septic upgrades and a chapter on the history of waterborne waste disposal.

Homeowners will especially find this book useful in terms of the following:

• Working systems: By understanding septic system principles, you will know how to maximize its useful life.
• Partially failing systems: You may be able to nurse along an ailing system or even bring it back to life.
• Failing systems: You are given a discovery process to search for the problem.
• Alternative systems: You will understand how they work and what purposes they serve.

Get this comprehensive book, and get to know the ins and outs of your septic system. It could save you countless repair bills and countless headaches!

Get the everyperson’s guide to running from “America’s coach” Jeff Galloway, and experience the unforgettable lifetime accomplishment of running a marathon.

If you haven’t already begun training for a marathon, you’ve probably thought about doing so. Former Olympic athlete and record-setting distance runner Jeff Galloway is here to say, “You can do it!” Jeff has been coaching runners for more than 50 years. He is the official training consultant for the runDisney series of races. With the new edition of Marathon, he’ll guide you every step of the way. Jeff has updated his unique programs that show runners how to train for—and finish—a marathon.

Jeff’s revolutionary run walk run® method of training has enabled hundreds of thousands of people to complete marathons, and you can be among them. This innovative method opens marathon running to everyone, including those who may be out of shape, overweight, or past their athletic prime. Discover how to set up a personal training program, stay motivated, avoid injuries, burn fat, and more. You won’t have to compromise your career or family life to be successful. This new edition includes updated training schedules with recovery components, and most training weeks require only 3 x 30 minutes of running or walking. You’ll also appreciate the latest information on nutrition, mental training, eliminating injuries and exhaustion, and step-by-step instructions that give you control of your training regime.

Jeff’s motivation techniques have kept countless marathoners on the road to their goals. This book shows you how to keep the fun in your run and how to stay away from aches and pains. With such guidance, it’s possible for almost anyone to achieve the lifetime goal of finishing a marathon—while enhancing health, stamina, and life quality.

Benefit from coverage of topics like these:

• Training and inspiration
• Food and fat-burning
• Dealing with injuries and getting older

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, has published several books—including some of the most definitive titles on owner building, such as Shelter and Tiny Homes. Lloyd has showcased hundreds of builders in his books. Now, for the first time ever, he spotlights the work of himself and his wife, Lesley Creed.

Starting with a vacant half-acre piece of land, back in the 1970s, the couple built their own home, created a garden with vegetables and fruit, and began raising chickens, bees, and goats. This book presents every aspect of their homestead, from the kitchen and dining area to the shed and workshop. It also introduces several fascinating aspects of their lifestyle, such as crafting and small-scale farming. It goes on to cover cooking, foraging, fishing, birds, butterflies, and tools.

Book Features

• Detailed look at a homestead built entirely by hand
• More than 500 full-color photos, illustrating every facet of home life
• Tips about building skylights, greenhouses, living roofs, and more
• Section on unique kitchen tools, as well as useful tools for construction

Lloyd and Lesley have never paid rent and never had a mortgage. This coffee-table book is their story of building and maintaining their own home, over a 46-year period, on a small piece of land in Northern California.

Travel to 10 different countries, and learn about the children, their families, and their unique homes.

As the saying goes, a picture is worth 1,000 words—and that’s never been more true than with Wonderful Houses Around the World. The informative book introduces children to a variety of cultures with 10 glorious, two-page photographic spreads of homes and the families who live inside. Each exterior picture is accompanied by an illustration of the home’s interior, with various family members engaged in typical daily activities. Descriptive captions explain the everyday lives of the children and families: where each house is located, the environmental conditions that affect the house design, how each family lives in the home, and their possessions— all providing interesting glimpses of life in other cultures.

There has never been a photographer of buildings like Yoshio Komatsu. He has traveled extensively around the world for more than 25 years, photographing hand-built homes. The 10 houses profiled here include a red-mud dwelling with thatched towers in Togo, a yurt in Mongolia, a donut-shaped communal building in China, and more. Other countries visited in this educational book include Bolivia, India, Indonesia, Romania, Senegal, Spain, and Tunisia.

Book Features

• Spotlight on 10 homes in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America
• Large, full-color photo of each home
• Detailed interior illustrations by Akira Nishiyama
• Captions and text about the children’s daily lives

Fascinating and unique, Wonderful Houses Around the World gives children a welcome introduction to other places and other lives throughout the world.

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 have lived, this is the book for you.

First published in 1973, Shelter remains a source of inspiration and invention. Including the nuts-and-bolts aspects of building, the book covers such topics as dwellings, from Iron Age huts to Bedouin tents to Togo's tin-and-thatch houses; nomadic shelters, from tipis to “housecars;” and domes; dome cities; sod iglus; and even treehouses.

Authors Lloyd Kahn and Bob Easton recount personal stories about alternative dwellings that demonstrate sensible solutions to problems associated with using materials found in the environment—with fascinating, often surprising results.

Shelter is many things:

• a visually dynamic, oversized compendium of organic architecture, past and present;
• a how-to book that includes more than 1,250 illustrations; and
• a Whole Earth Catalog-type of sourcebook for living in harmony with the earth by using every conceivable material.

• Master builder Louie Frazier's Japanese-style pole house in Northern California, reachable on a 500-foot cable across a river 
• Ian MacLeod's handbuilt stone house in South Africa, where baboons jump on the roof at night 
• Ma Page's bottle house in the Nevada desert 
• Artist Michael Kahn's semi-subterranean sculptural village in Arizona 
• Bill and Athena Steen's strawbale houses 
• Ianto Evans' cob houses in Oregon 
• The Archlibre group of countercultural builders in the French Pyrenees 
• Bill Coperthwaite's spectacular 3-story yurt in the Maine woods 
• Bill Castle's finely-crafted log home and sauna in the NY Appalachians 
• A commune in the Tennessee mountains 
• The "Flying Concrete" brothers in Mexico and their far-out sculptural structures 
• Barns in California, Washington, and Connecticut 
• Photo-essays of Lloyd Kahn's trips to Nevada, the Mississippi Delta, Costa Rica, Nova Scotia, and Baja California 
• Photos of buildings all over the world by photographers Yoshio Komatsu and Kevin Kelly + more, lots more.…

Shelter, it turns out, had a major influence on builders, and included are buildings our 1973 book inspired, so this is truly a sequel.

Stretch with the pocket edition of the most popular fitness book in the world—more than 3.75 million copies sold, translated into 24 languages!

The benefits of stretching are bountiful, from increased blood flow and better range of motion to improved physical performance and decreased risk of injury. Maximize your fitness journey with the most popular fitness book in the world! Stretching by Bob Anderson has been proven effective for decades. Now, with this pocket 40th Anniversary Edition—perfect for travel, a locker, or a desk drawer—a new generation can enjoy the advantages of stretching.

With step-by-step illustrations by Jean Anderson, the Stretching Pocket Book is user-friendly. It’s the book that people tell their friends about, that trainers suggest for virtually every sport and activity, and that medical professionals recommend to people just starting to get back into shape. It features stretching routines specific to a variety of individuals, including sports enthusiasts, travelers, children, gardeners, and wheelchair users. A new section titled “Stretches for the Digital World” presents stretches for people using mobile phones and/or computers—to combat “tech neck”—as well as tips for better posture and stretches to do in an office environment.

This 40th Anniversary Edition contains:

• 150 stretches with simple instructions for each stretch
• 17 stretching routines for everyday activities
• 10 stretching routines for computer users and office workers
• 37 stretching routines for different sports
• Graphic index of all 150 stretches, useful for medical professionals and body workers in prescribing stretches for patients
• Tips on back care, body tools (e.g., personal massagers), and more

Stretching is a great addition on your path to better health. Get started with the guide that has been helping people around the world for more than 40 years.

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 and are ephemeral—short-lived victims of wind, waves, and high tides.

Lloyd Kahn has spent many years hiking and camping along Northern California beaches. As an author and expert on building, he has always been fascinated by driftwood shacks. At first, he simply studied and admired them, but he soon began photographing them. Driftwood Shacks compiles his favorites from over the years. It features 60 structures, as well as the following:

• Sculptures, seaweed, and sunsets
• Birds, sea lions, sea otters, and whalebones
• Anglers, surfers, sea caves, and beach art
• A section on the Lost Coast

Driftwood Shacks is a coffe-table book for beachcombers and beach lovers everywhere, all of whom share a deep, emotional connection to the ocean and its surroundings.

Take a greener approach to building with this informative, easy-to-follow handbook—more than 200,000 copies sold internationally!

Whether you’re a DIY builder or simply want to understand construction to better communicate with your contractor, Johan van Lengen can help. As a former United Nations worker and prominent architect, Johan has seen, firsthand, the need for a green approach to housing. This comprehensive book clearly explains every aspect of this endeavor, including design, materials, and implementation.

Discover the many options and important decisions you can make—such as siting and climate considerations—that are inexpensive, sustainable, and could save you thousands of dollars while helping the environment. Included are sections about urban planning, small-scale energy production, cleaning and storing drinking water, dealing with septic waste, and more. Plus, all the information is applied to three distinct regions: humid areas, temperate areas, and desert climates. Hundreds of instructional drawings allow even novice builders to get started with ease.

Inside you’ll find:

• Bio-architecture, basic design, and site planning for humid and dry climates
• Material tips about adobe, rammed earth, bamboo, plaster, wood, concrete, and ferro-cement
• Information on foundations, roofs, floors, walls, doors, windows, and eco-techniques
• Introductions to solar heating, water-powered electricity, water purification, composting toilets, and more

The Barefoot Architect is a perfect book for these times of increased worldwide concern for the environment and for those who desire to build eco-conscious dwellings by utilizing natural resources.

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 made multiple trips up the coast, shooting photographs and interviewing builders. The result of his efforts was Builders of the Pacific Coast, a spotlight on nearly 50 amazing builders and structures between San Francisco, California, and Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Every featured building is rich in culture, innovative design, and artistic creativity.

Three builders in particular are prominently featured: Lloyd House, master craftsman and designer, who created a series of unique homes on a small island; Bruno Atkey, builder of numerous houses and lodges made from hand-split cedar; and SunRay Kelley, barefoot builder tuned into nature, who designed and built wildly imaginative structures. In addition, you’ll see working homesteads, sculptural buildings of driftwood, homes that are beautiful and practical, live-aboard boats, caravans, and examples of stunning architectural design—all in an incomparable full-color book with coffee-table appeal.

Inside you’ll find:

• images of builders and their creations along the Pacific Coast of North America
• Stunning designs and innovative structures
• Fine craftsmanship with local materials
• Form plus function

A continuation of Lloyd’s journeys into the creative processes of owner-built homes, this book explores unique techniques, use of sustainable materials, and essential dedication to natural elements. With more than 1,000 stunning photographs, as well as detailed drawings of the homes, this collection creates a template for a future filled with forward-thinking architecture.

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 followers; #vanlifecamper; 472,000 followers, or #fosterhunting, 930,000 followers.

This book focuses on DIY vehicles, with most of the 80 or so shown here fitted out for the road by their owners, similar to the way that the homes in all of Shelter’s building books were built by hand, by the owners. There are vans, sedans, trucks, buses, and trailers with a wide array of designs and styles. A number of the units are 4-wheel drive for off-road travel.

The book is not only fun to browse through, but is full of practical information (such as stoves, heaters, battery charging, solar power, refrigerators, and kitchens designed for the road) — for anyone wanting to create their own movable home. These owner builders describe their homes, provide photos and share their secrets. There are dozens of floor plans, all sorts of sleeping arrangements, and some unique “stealth vehicles” — designed to be under the radar, so that passers-by have no idea that someone is sleeping in a parked vehicle.

There is a European minivan outfitted by a young German woman who just graduated from architectural school and took a sabbatical to go surfing. There are a number of camper truck shells, all completely different. There’s a converted school bus that is used in both cold weather for skiing, and in warm climates (such as Baja California) for surfing. A $200,000 Land Rover and a $300 pickup truck camper shell. There’s a converted horse trailer furnished with Victorian antiques that is used at Burning Man. A tiny Geo Metro (3-cylinder sedan) that is ingeniously designed for sleeping, cooking, and eating in the stealth mode.

This is the the latest addition to The Shelter Library of Building Books, which started with Shelter in 1973 and includes Home Work, Builders of the Pacific Coast, Tiny Homes, and more.

This book couldn’t be more timely.

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 homes are getting bigger and bigger, but small homes are less expensive, use fewer resources, are more efficient to heat and cool, and are less costly to maintain and repair. They are desirable for those who want to avoid a bank mortgage or high rents yet need more room than a tiny house can offer.

Lloyd Kahn has been a leader in the green-building movement for over 40 years. In Small Homes, he presents 120 small homes via more than 1,000 full-color photographs. The homes vary from unique and artistic to simple and low-cost. Some are ordinary buildings that provide shelter at a reasonable cost, and some are inspiring examples of design, carpentry, craftsmanship, imagination, creativity, and homemaking. Some are built with natural materials, such as cob or straw, and some with recycled wood or lumber milled on-site. Some are old homes that have been remodeled, while many were designed and built from scratch. Many are in the country, some in small towns, and some in large cities. Dozens of builders share their knowledge of building and design, with artistic, practical, and/or economical homes in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, France, Germany, Spain, New Zealand, and Lithuania.

Inside you’ll find

• 120 homes in the range of 400–1,200 square feet
• Owner-builder techniques
• Variety of construction methods
• Inspiration from owner-builders
• Small homes in both rural and urban areas

The underlying theme with Shelter’s books, which span more than 40 years, is that you can create your own home with your own hands, using mostly natural materials. A computer can’t build your home for you. You still need a hammer (or nail gun), a saw—and human hands.

Stretch with the most popular fitness book in the world—more than 3.75 million copies sold, translated into 23 languages!

The benefits of stretching are bountiful, from increased blood flow and better range of motion to improved physical performance and decreased risk of injury. Maximize your fitness journey with the most popular fitness book in the world! Stretching by Bob Anderson has been proven effective for decades. Now, with this 40th Anniversary Edition, a new generation can enjoy the advantages of stretching.

With step-by-step illustrations by Jean Anderson, Stretching is user-friendly. It’s the book that people tell their friends about, that trainers suggest for virtually every sport and activity, and that medical professionals recommend to people just starting to get back into shape. It features stretching routines specific to a variety of individuals, including sports enthusiasts, travelers, children, gardeners, and wheelchair users. A new section titled “Stretches for the Digital World” presents stretches for people using mobile phones and/or computers—to combat “tech neck”—as well as tips for better posture and stretches to do in an office environment.

This 40th Anniversary Edition contains:

• 150 stretches with simple instructions for each stretch
• 17 stretching routines for everyday activities
• 10 stretching routines for computer users and office workers
• 37 stretching routines for different sports
• Graphic index of all 150 stretches, useful for medical professionals and body workers in prescribing stretches for patients
• Tips on back care, body tools (e.g., personal massagers), and more

Stretching is a great addition on your path to better health. Get started with the guide that has been helping people around the world for more than 40 years.