One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research, and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of price-gouging, middlemen, and a series of elusive money games in need...

"This versatile guide brings together more than 2,000 helpful hints, practical tips, and remedies from days gone by and shows you how they can benefit your health, lifestyle, home, and garden. All have been researched and tested and more often than not you'll find the ingredients right there in your cupboard. Did you know you can make wooden platters look like new just by rubbing them with a solution of vinegar? Or that you can get your linen as white...

Encourages thrift behaviors including planting a garden, cooking at home, cutting one's own hair, exercising with a gym membership, and avoiding or repaying credit card debt.

Profiles a range of common household objects--from soap and scissors to keys and toilets--to explain the basic principles of how they function.

"In her late twenties, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the consumerism cycle that grips so many of us: earn more, buy more, want more, rinse, repeat. Even after she worked her way out of nearly $30,000 of consumer debt, her old habits took hold again. When she realized that nothing she was doing or buying was making her happy--only keeping her from meeting her goals--she decided to set herself a challenge: she would not shop for an entire year....

Delicious when fresh and effortless to cure and preserve, garlic is a great choice for homesteads and gardens. 'Growing Garlic' is a comprehensive primer for anyone looking to add garlic to their harvest and includes detailed instructions and informative photographs that help ensure that your garlic crop is a success. 'Growing Garlic' covers a broad range of important topics, including selecting the right variety of garlic for your wants and needs,...

Recounts the author's experience in restricting his personal possessions to only one hundred items, and includes his reflections on consumerism, the culture of materialism, and the personal growth he found on his journey.

Nobody has everything they need, all the time - so how can we make do with what we have? Economics is all about understanding the choices we make to solve this problem. With bright, infographics pictures, this informative book describes why markets are so important, how businesses work out what to sell, and how governments choose how to run a country. Includes Usborne Quicklinks to specially selected websites for more information.