Home & Family

Home & Family

Whether you’re in the market for purchasing a new home or just want to remodel your existing home, publications in this collection, offer much needed advice and consumer information from home financing to repair and painting to planting your very own trees and shrubs.

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How to Prune Trees (Revised 2012)

How to Prune Trees (Revised 2012)

By: Agriculture Dept.

GPO Stock # 001-000-04755-8 ISBN:

Revised 2012. Teaches how to prune trees to produce strong, healthy, attractive plants. Describes how, when and why to prune.

Price: $5.60
Owlie Skywarn children's book about dangerous weather

Owlie Skywarn's Weather Book

By: Commerce Dept., National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

GPO Stock # 003-017-00563-1 ISBN:

Provides an easy to read pamphlet about storms: hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, lightning, emergency preparation kits, safety at school, and more. Although this is for children ages 8 to 12, adults could learn from it also. At head of title on cover: Watch Out Storms Ahead.

Price: $14.00
A Sense of Place: Design Guidelines for Yosemite National Park

A Sense of Place: Design Guidelines for Yosemite National Park

By: Interior Dept., National Park Service

GPO Stock # 024-005-01295-8 ISBN: 9780160904127

A Sense of Place is an architectural and landscape design-guidelines book developed by a team of architects, landscape architects and national park staff for Yosemite Valley, a world-class park area undergoing constant change.

The intent is to inform building and site development and rehabilitation efforts in order to retain a holistic and natural aesthetic within this cherished national park - an essential aspect of long-term preservation goals and contribution to visitor enjoyment of this national treasure. New or altered facilities should be designed to be compatible and respectful of the park setting, both natural and human-made.

The ultimate goal is to enhance the unique sense of place embodied by this extraordinary Valley.  To that end, content was distilled from information gathered on field trips over the course of three years, and includes the following aspects:

  • The characteristics that constitute the appropriate design and rustic style of the park's architecture and the built environment were analyzed by the project team.
  • Sketches and photographs illustrate key design points in building and landscape architecture.
  • Content also encompasses natural-setting characteristics, including scenic views, vegetation, and natural systems and features.

A historic overview on the park and its importance in the history of national park development, wilderness and scenic protection as well as development of a design ethic in Yosemite precedes the guidelines portion of the book.

Price: $93.80

Privatizing Military Family Housing: A History of the Army's Residential Communities Initiative

By: Defense Dept., Army, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Installations, Energy, and Environment

GPO Stock # 008-022-00351-7 ISBN: 9780160910340

By Matthew C. Godfrey and others. Recounts the challenges, successes and lessons learned in the Residential Communities Initiative (RCI) program, the Army's pioneering effort to partner with industry to improve quality of life for soldiers and their families. The RCI program has provided over 27,000 new homes and nearly 23,000 renovated homes across 44 U.S. Army installations, and will eventually replace approximately 98 percent of the on-post family housing in the United States.

Price: $92.40

Como Proteger el Futuro de Su Hijo

By: Federal Trade Commission

GPO Stock # 018-000-00382-1 ISBN: 9780160914393

May 2012. Spanish language edition of: Safeguarding Your Child's Future: Child Identity Theft. Sold in packages of 25 copies only.

Price: $65.80

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 24, Housing and Urban Development, Pt. 0-199, Revised as of April 1. 2012

By: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register

GPO Stock # 869-076-00076-7 ISBN: 9780160907258

The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government.

Price: $92.40

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 24, Housing and Urban Development, Pt. 500-699, Revised as of April 1. 2012

By: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register

GPO Stock # 869-076-00078-3 ISBN: 9780160907272

The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government.

Price: $49.00

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 24, Housing and Urban Development, Pt. 700-1699, Revised as of April 1. 2012

By: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register

GPO Stock # 869-076-00079-1 ISBN: 9780160907289

The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government.

Price: $93.80

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 24, Housing and Urban Development, Pt. 200-499, Revised as of April 1. 2012

By: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register

GPO Stock # 869-076-00077-5 ISBN: 9780160907265

The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government.

Price: $78.40

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 24, Housing and Urban Development, Pt. 1700-End, Revised as of April 1. 2012

By: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register

GPO Stock # 869-076-00080-5 ISBN: 9780160907296

The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government.

Price: $49.00
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