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The Noise Free Home
- The Four-Step Soundproofing Method to Bring Peace and Quiet Back to Your Life
- Narrated by: Nicholas Audsley
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
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Publisher's summary
Is noise impacting your quality of life at home?
Neighbour and traffic noise adversely affects many homeowners. The Noise Free Home introduces a proven four-step soundproofing method that will protect your home from unwanted noise. Used by soundproofing installers and backed up by acoustic testing, this method will help you restore the peace and quiet you have been longing for.
When you've listened to this audio book, you will know how to:
- Identify problem noise areas in your home that can be soundproofed,
- Avoid common mistakes when having soundproofing installed, saving you time and money,
- Reduce unwanted noise in your home once and for all,
- Create a calm home environment so you no longer feel you have to move.
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There are 62 LEGO bricks for every person in the world, and at age 30, Jonathan Bender realized that he didn't have a single one of them. While reconsidering his childhood dream of becoming a master model builder for The LEGO Group, he discovers the men and women who are skewing the averages with collections of hundreds of thousands of LEGO bricks. What is it about the ubiquitous, brightly colored toys that makes them so hard for everyone to put down?
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Be careful if you already like Lego
- By Matthew Center on 03-14-11
By: Jonathan Bender
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Haunted
- The Incredible True Story of a Canadian Family's Experience Living in a Haunted House
- By: Dorah L. Williams
- Narrated by: Katina Kalin
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The Williams family gave into an odd, overwhelming desire to purchase and move into a Victorian home they had come upon by chance...but shortly after moving in, strange things began to happen. It became abundantly clear that the Williams' new home was haunted.
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This purchase will haunt me for a long time
- By GI Joe with Kung-Fu Grip on 03-16-14
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The Design of Future Things
- By: Donald A. Norman
- Narrated by: Bill Quinn
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Design of Future Things, best-selling author Donald A. Norman presents a revealing examination of smart technology, from smooth-talking GPS units to cantankerous refrigerators. Exploring the links between design and human psychology, he offers a consumer-oriented theory of natural human-machine interaction that can be put into practice by the engineers and industrial designers of tomorrows thinking machines.
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The design of future cars - a view from 2007
- By Lieberoth on 01-17-14
By: Donald A. Norman
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At Home
- A Short History of Private Life
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write a history of the world without leaving home.”
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Bryson does it again
- By Robert on 10-15-10
By: Bill Bryson