Home & Garden

Ask a Plumber  
By Western Media Products

The first in our home repair and maintenance series, Ask a Plumber is 3-1/2 hours of conversation with a 27-year veteran plumber. In a fun and relaxed manner, your host and guest go through the entire hours explaining water and gas systems and fixtures giving fixit and maintenance tips. This should be in your home repair library. The lessons you learn will immediately save you hundreds of dollars in plumber house calls.

• Item# 0176
• 3 hr. 30 min., 3 audio CD's, 0-9647401-7-6
• $14.95

Clean Your Clutter, Clear Your Life
...a practical manual using Feng Shui principles
By Gaylah Balter

Author Gaylah Balter draws on her many years of experience and expertise in providing a step-by-step guide for every aspect of clutter cleaning. She also shows you how to use Feng Shui, organizing techniques, and humor to create a better life free of all kinds of clutter. You will learn: how to identify clutter, how to understand clutter, how to access your clutter, how clutter affects you, why people keep clutter, how to get started cleaning your clutter, how to remain free of clutter, how to use Feng Shui to help you, and tips from the experts.

Fast Feng Shui 
9 Simple Principles for Transforming Your Life by Energizing Your Home
By Stephanie Roberts, Lotus Pond Press

Fast Feng Shui takes the mystery out of how to change your life by rearranging your home, with 9 simple principles that are easy for anyone to learn and apply.

This clear and effective approach to contemporary Western feng shui integrates personality type and the power of your intention to address energetic obstacles to prosperity, romance, career, creativity, and more. You'll discover feng shui as a path of self-transformation and personal growth as you activate your "power spots" to initiate essential life changes and make progress toward your goals.

Over 180 affirmations and visualizations make the mystical practice of feng shui user-friendly and fun. Includes tips for getting rid of clutter, enhancing your physical well-being, and creating personalized rituals and ceremonies.

"Fast Feng Shui is a delightful book and filled with great tips and lots of positive affirmations.  It is good for beginners and for advanced students.  You can open it at any page and find useful information. I love this book!"
~ Louise L. Hay, author of You Can Heal Your Life and Empowering Women

"In the often complex world of feng shui, Fast Feng Shui is a breath of fresh air. Stephanie Roberts takes ancient concepts and makes them applicable to modern life in a way that is fun, valuable, and fast."
~ Denise Linn, author of Feng Shui for the Soul, and Space Clearing

"Fast Feng Shui is one of the best introductions to feng shui I have read. … Don't wait to begin using these simple "cures" to effect positive, dynamic changes in every area of your life."
~ Carol Bridges, author of The Code of the Goddess, Sacred Earth Feng Shui Oracle, and A Soul in Place: Reclaiming Home as Sacred Space

"Finally, a fun and easy-to-understand feng shui book that is logical, coherent, and user friendly."
~ Robin Lennon, Home Design from the Inside Out

"Fast Feng Shui is a fabulous, fun, smart, effective way to empower yourself and your environment and begin to attract and create the life you really want. It makes the mystical easy and accessible."
~ Sonia Choquette, PhD, author, Your Heart's Desire, True Balance, and The Psychic Pathway

Feng shui consultant Stephanie Roberts, … has written an excellent, accessible feng shui primer for anyone with a busy life. Fast Feng Shui is a gold mine of information. Whether covering the basics—the ba gua energy map, the five elements, and the power of intention—or elucidating the nine core principles she has drawn out of feng shui, Roberts is witty, precise, and to-the-point. This book is suitable for readers with any level of expertise with the art of feng shui. Roberts Westernizes feng shui with wit, wonder, and practical insight.
~ New Age Retailer, October 2001

Invaluable and highly recommended reading for metaphysical students with an interest in interior home design, Fast Feng Shui is enhanced for the reader with 108 "Quick Tips" and more than 180 affirmations and visualizations for empowering and activating feng shui changes.
~ Midwest Book Review, September 2001

Fast Feng Shui is a clear and simple approach to improving the energy of your home and your life. … a fun, effective way to bring harmony and balance into your home, and new energy into your life. Along the way you'll discover that this ancient practice can be a powerful ally on your journey of self-discovery and personal growth!
~ Independent Publisher Online, "highlighted title", August, 2001

This fresh publication is a fast-lane tool with a speedy yet substantive overview, to-the-point tips flagging intention, affirmation and visualization, and quick cross-referencing that puts you in the driver's seat with a clear view!
~ Feng Shui :45 Newsletter, August 31, 2001

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
STEPHANIE ROBERTS is a graduate of the professional feng shui training program at the Metropolitan Institute of Interior Design in Long Island, NY, and has studied with the Geomancy Feng Shui Education Organization (GEO) as well as with many other leading teachers of both traditional Chinese and contemporary Western feng shui. As an undergraduate, she studied Asian art history at Harvard University, where she earned her degree magna cum laude.

Stephanie has been a guest panelist on the National Feng Shui Teleconference Series, analyzed the feng shui of the New York Stock Exchange for TheStreet.com, and has been interviewed about feng shui by WPIX-TV in New York City and by the Associated Press.

Prior to becoming a feng shui consultant, Stephanie developed training seminars and self-instructional materials for some of America's leading corporations. An expert in helping audiences of all levels understand and apply new information, Stephanie now uses her twelve years experience in training design to teach readers of the Fast Feng Shui™ Series how to transform their lives with feng shui—just like she did! A former resident of New York City, Stephanie now lives on Maui with her beloved.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Author's Note

INTRODUCTION

   How Feng Shui Works
   What to Expect from Feng Shui
   How to Use This Book

YOUR FENG SHUI TOOL BOX

   The Ba Gua Energy Map
   The Five Elements
   The Power of Your Intention
   Working with Your Feng Shui Type

THE FAST FENG SHUI PRINCIPLES

   1. Know What You Want
      How to set goals and priorities for feng shui work
   2. Locate Your Power Spots
      How to identify which areas of the home to concentrate on, based on
       personal goals and priorities
   3. Create a Path for Chi
      Tips for identifying and removing obstacles to progress, insight, and
      opportunities
   4. Repaint, Repair, Renew
      How and why to make home maintenance an integral part of feng
      shui
   5. Clean Up Your Clutter
      Tips for releasing old energy to make room for the new
   6. Neutralize Negative Influences
      Advice on recognizing and removing harmful influences in the home
   7. Activate Your Power Spots
      Tips for enhancing and activating your personal power spots for
      greatest effect
   8. Work on Yourself as Well as Your Home
      Suggestions for holistic health and well-being
   9. Evaluate Your Results
      Advice for maximizing positive change and self-discovery

Resources: recommended books & videos; feng shui suppliers and training programs

Glossary
Index

• Item# 3030
• 240 pgs., softcover, 1-931383-03-0
• $19.95

Fast Feng Shui for Prosperity
8 Steps on the Path to Abundance
By Stephanie Roberts, Lotus Pond Press

The modern practice of feng shui is based on the premise that certain areas of your home impact specific aspects of your life. When the spaces in your home that govern your finances are cluttered, stagnant or missing from your floor plan, it can be difficult to attract and hold on to money. Poor feng shui can also lead to increased arguments and miscommunication, affect your reputation at work, and hinder your personal growth—all of which may contribute to financial difficulties. Feng shui practiced in this way works from the outside in: by improving the chi of our external environment we aim to improve our financial experience, whether in subtle or dramatic ways.

Feng shui also recognizes that we ourselves are the most powerful factor in our space. In order to create lasting improvement in our financial circumstances, we need to create an inner environment (thoughts, feelings, and beliefs) that supports our long-term prosperity, rather than leading—as it so often does—to over-spending, under-earning, and ever-increasing debt. This is feng shui practiced from the inside out: by uncovering inner blocks to prosperity and embracing key lessons from the ba gua (the feng shui energy map), we empower ourselves to experience abundance in all aspects of our lives.

This title is due to be published Sept. 6, 2005.  You may place a pre-publication order.  Your credit card will not be charged until we ship the book to you.

• Item# 309X
• 214 pgs., softcover, 1-931383-09-X
• $19.95

Fast Feng Shui for Singles 
108 Ways to Heal Your Home and Attract Romance
By Stephanie Roberts, Lotus Pond Press

Fast Feng Shui for Singles is for anyone who is looking for ways to bring more love and romance into your life. Now you can use the power of contemporary Western feng Shui to transform your home and your heart into environments that welcome romance and support a lasting, loving relationship with the man or woman of your dreams!

Fast Feng Shui for Singles presents an entirely new and unique approach to using feng shui for love and romance by tailoring your strategies to the specific needs and challenges of each of the five phases of the Fast Feng Shui Relationship Cycle. It starts with helping you to heal the heartache caused by the failed relationships of the past, and shows you how to clear your home of stale relationship energy before you try to attract a new romantic partner. You'll learn feng shui tips and techniques to help you through the dating game, as well as ways to nurture and support a budding relationship once you connect with someone special.

Along the way, you'll find a wealth of journaling exercises, meditations and rituals for healing your home and heart, activating your social life, and overcoming barriers to intimacy, communication, and commitment.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fast Feng Shui for Your Home Office
Creating a Workspace that Works for You
By Stephanie Roberts

Achieve New Levels of Success by Designing Your Home Office With Feng Shui When your home office has good feng shui, your mood, attitude, energy, concentration, and productivity will all improve ... so you can achieve your goals with greater ease and speed. Whether you are setting up a new home office or want to make some improvements to your current workspace, Fast Feng Shui for Your Home Office shows you exactly what to do, including how to:
- Identify the advantages and drawbacks of your office location and layout, so you know what to fix and what to leave alone.
- Use your personal lucky directions to choose the best place to put your desk.
- Find and correct harmful influences, such as EMF exposure, that can keep you from functioning at your best.
- Clear out stale and limiting energy by getting rid of clutter and removing obstacles to progress.
- Arrange your office furniture to encourage a good flow of ideas and opportunities.
- Create a workable office in a shared or multi-purpose space.
Includes step by step directions for combining both the compass and doorway methods of feng shui for best results.

• Item# 3103
• 264 pgs., softcover, 9781931383103
• $24.95

Feng Shui For Skeptics
Real Solutions Without Superstition
By Kartar Diamond

Although feng shui became trendy in the 1990's, it is still misunderstood by many Westerners. Most books on the subject are filled with inaccuracies that portray feng shui as nothing more than placebos and symbolic gestures.

Kartar Diamond's Feng Shui for Skeptics: Real Solutions Without Superstition, explains a complex subject in a user-friendly way. It begins with an overview of feng shui as a metaphysical earth science. Diamond discusses clearly how it affects your health and well being. She details how shapes and architecture have predictable impact on people with interpretations of dozens of design concepts.

Chapter 5 offers a series of fascinating case studies, including the Divorce House, the Creative House, the Crime House, the Crazy House, the Infertile House, the Romance House, and the Wealth House. Additional chapters describe how accidents, specific health problems and sleep disturbances can be a result of a problem environment. Also covered is the origin of so many misconceptions and conflicting theories.

• Item# 3786
• 264 pgs., softcover,
• 9780967193786
• 0967193788
• $14.95

The Feng Shui Matrix
Another Way to Inherit the Earth
By Kartar Diamond

The Feng Shui Matrix: Another Way to Inherit the Earth gives out meditation techniques to help the average person actually see the chi (energy) which we normally are not aware of. Readers learn how to properly draw a floor plan and take a careful compass reading. This is crucial in order to implement all the remedies.
The book is focused on dispensing ways to help readers make money and enhance relationships. In the chapters I Spend, Therefore I Am and What's Love Got to Do With It?, Diamond shows how bad feng shui can sabotage our ability to save money or maintain relationships.

The most remarkable chapters contain insight into the 72 different house types that exist throughout perpetuity as well as guidelines for using the best spaces in newer constructions.

Diamond draws from her formidable experience and remains true to her preference for using practical and inconspicuous solutions. There is no mention of using superstitious Chinese placebos so commonly promoted in other books

• Item# 3793
• 176 pgs., softcover,
• 9780967193793
• 0967193796
• $19.95

Gardening with Soul
Healing the Earth and Ourselves with Feng Shui and Environmental Awareness
By Gaylah Balter

You will find many interesting and unusual garden quotes, ideas, facts, and tips throughout this book.  The scope is large, in the sense that the environment, history, gardening, Fen Shui, and so much more are covered.  At the same time, it is tempered by an engaging, open, and simple style of writing plus a beautiful and artistic format to increase your pleasure.  Gardening with Soul joins other spiritual gardening books that are becoming a new genre of gardening literature.  Join Ms. Balter on a journey to find soul in your garden and discover ways to feed your own soul at the same time.

Gaylah Balter is a Feng Shui consultant and teaches classes on Feng Shui, gardening with Feng Shui, cleaning clutter with Feng Shui, meditation, and the six healing sounds.

• Item# 6115
• 146 pp., softcover, 0-9707861-1-5
• $18.00

Stage Your Home for Profit
Book with DVD
Created by Peggy Selinger-Eaton, written by Gayla Moghannam

Sell Your Home Faster Choose from Multiple Offers Increase the Value of Your Home

A potential home buyer will walk through your home in 3-4 minutes. Let's make those moments profitable and memorable.

Make a small room feel large, an outdated bathroom upgraded, and a boring family room look spectacular, all using your existing furniture and accessories. These techniques work. Peggy has used them to sell thousands of homes.

Whether your dream price is $100,000 or $10,000,000, Peggy will be right at your side with her book and DVD to help you present the best home possible to all incoming buyers.

You don't need to be a decorator to stage your home for sale. Peggy makes it easy, fun, and profitable. Staging five to twenty homes a week, a staggering industry number, Peggy has developed modern and inexpensive techniques for every home owner.

This new release was published in January 2006 as an update to the original book "The Art of Staging." Includes new chapters and over 70 additional photographs!!!

• Item# 6003
• 126 pgs., softcover, DVD, 0-9761660-0-3
• $29.99

Your Low-Tax Dream House
A New Approach to Slashing the Cost of Home Ownership

By Steve Carlson, Upper Access, Inc.
We've slashed the price of this small-press classic that has helped so many people to obtain better houses. Why? A big publisher has issued a revised edition entitled The Best Home for Less (Avon, $12.50). The newer edition should be at your bookstore, or you could special-order a copy from us. Meanwhile, we still have some copies of the original (1989) book, and the information in it is still good. So while supplies last, we're offering the 1989 edition cheap! At this price, you'll want to order copies for any of your friends who might be thinking about home ownership.

• Item# 226*2
• 300 pp., softcover
• Sale price, just $4.95

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