Mary Appelhof is the type of person who gives ecology a good name. She is the owner of Flower Press and Flowerfield Enterprises, and has dedicated most of her adult life to the development of products and techniques related to the conversion of organic materials into fertile soil using earthworms. She is also a skilled photographer and holds master's degrees in education and the biological sciences. This is her first book. It is a common sense guide to composting using worms, which does not assail the reader with bombast.
Among the topics covered are how to build a worm box, where to keep it, what kind of stuff worms can recycle and what other creatures live in worm boxes. There is a useful glossary of terms which is an amazing read in its own right, as well suggested reading. This book makes a potentially dry subject something of real interest. SA

Publisher: Flower
Paperback: 100 pages
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Loompanics’ embattled how-to star (author of Selling Yourself to Science and Opium for the Masses) depicts in stark terms the perversely brutal conditions under which millions are forced to live in the “Land of the Free,” plus a few pointers on how one might attempt to stay on the outside or at least survive once in the relentless clutches of the “criminal justice machine.” You Are Going to Prison is packed with all the need-to-know info on our number one growth industry, prison construction and incarceration, which never makes it into movies like The Shawshank Redemption or The Birdman of Alcatraz— who was actually a serial prison rapist who shaved his entire body and ate only red meat. Describes everything from what to say when pulled over by a cop to “cheating the hangman” by injecting peanut butter. Includes a detailed analysis of the dreaded topic of sex behind bars and especially prison rape. SS

Publisher: Loompanics
Paperback: 181 pages