RSS Builder by B!Soft Cumberland Books http://www.cumberlandbooks.com Brief announcements of significant changes and additions to the website. en-us saenz@cumberlandbooks.com saenz@cumberlandbooks.com Books about cows Thu, 15 May 2008 10:18:00 -0400 All about cows. We're pleased to offer two new books from Storey Publishing, both excellent. Anyone who knows little about cows except that they want to raise them on pasture, for meat or milk or both, needs a copy of Grass-fed Cattle. And if you'd like to get some extra work out of the cows you raise, take a look at Oxen: a Teamster's Guide.

]]> Back to Basics Thu, 1 May 2008 09:19:16 -0400 Back to Basics. After a long, long wait one of our favorite books is now back in print. It's a bit cheaper and the photographs have been updated, but otherwise the third edition is identical to the second. We think that's a good thing.

New catalog coming. We still can't justify the expense of printing and mailing a catalog, but enough people have asked that we have decided to do a 2008 catalog and distribute it electronically. Lord willing, it will be available in a month or two. The website will probably be reorganized at the same time.

]]> New book: A-Z of Crochet Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:09:02 -0400 New A-Z handcraft book. The handcrafters in our household have never been so complimentary about an instructional series. So we're pleased to offer the very latest book in the series, A-Z of Crochet.

]]> Price increase Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:45:17 -0500 Price increase. Our credit card processing fees have increased from 0% to 3%, and so we have increased our prices accordingly. However, you can take a 3% discount if you mail in your order. Details here. ]]> New book from Jerome Lange Tue, 1 Jan 2008 10:34:52 -0500 Organizing the INGs. The second volume in Jerome Lange's series Remembering the Fish is now available. An important companion to the first volume, The Seven Keys, this book completes the set of "keys" and assembles them in a way that clearly conveys what is needed to take a good-sized garden from the beginning of the season through to the end.

]]> Free Plain Talk conversations Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:26:00 -0500 Free Plain Talk conversations. For those of you with the bandwidth, we've posted links to mp3 files of the Plain Talk series that you're welcome to download for free. See the Plain Talk page for details.

]]> New novel from Wendell Berry Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:44:02 -0500 New Wendell Berry novel. Take a stand against the supersizing of the novel by enjoying this marvelous (and at 160 pages, marvelously short) tale of boyhood life in Port William during the early 1940s, seen through the eyes of Berry's alter ego Andy Catlett.

]]> New fiction from Janice Holt Giles Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:24:13 -0500 New fiction. Even though not much of what we carry is light, we think light reading is a fine thing, especially when it also teaches you a few useful things. Janice Giles wrote some of our favorite light fiction, and we thought it was time to fill out our selection of her books. Take a second look at her page to see the six new books we've added.

]]> Holiday News Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:36:33 -0500 Livestock Protection Dogs. For awhile we've thought about getting a dog to live and work with our animals. When a friend offered us a Great Pyrenees puppy, we accepted and then scrambled to find a good book that talked about how to raise and train a livestock protection dog. The kids have decided that this one is by far the best, and so now we offer it to you.

New collections. We've taken many of our books that fit together with one another and made them into collections that can be purchased with one click. You'll find them scattered throughout the website, and we've listed them all at the top of our gift ideas page.

]]> Need faster shipping? Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:15:36 -0500 Need faster shipping? Instead of ordering online, call us at (606) 787-4089 to place your order, and ask for USPS Priority shipping. We'll send you an email invoice using Google Checkout, and once you've paid that we'll send your order right away. ]]> Lower price for Omnivore's Dilemma Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:59:15 -0400 Lower price for Omnivore's Dilemma. Michael Pollan's book is now out in paperback, and so we will be selling our remaining hardcover copies at the new lower price. ]]> Everything I Want to Do is Illegal Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:17:11 -0400 Joel Salatin's new book is aimed at a more general audience than usual, namely American citizens. Based on stories of his continual run-ins with food regulators, he shows that, in the name of protecting the citizenry, government bureaucrats are in fact wreaking senseless havoc throughout society. Everything I Want to Do is Illegal makes it clear that the modern state is not your friend.

]]> New books Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:33:01 -0400 The A-Z handcraft series. The handcrafters in our household have never been so complimentary about an instructional series. So we now carry A-Z of Knitting, along with A-Z of Quilting and A-Z of Embroidery Stitches.

Mushrooms. We loveto eat them, we want to learn to grow them, and we thought you might too. So we've added two books that come highly recommended for the amateur mushroom cultivator, Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms and The Mushroom Cultivator.

]]> Curiosity: Silicon Valley millionaires Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:27:15 -0400 a few million doesn’t go as far as it used to.” ... [more] ]]> Carson history volumes now sold separately. Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:24:40 -0400 Carson history volumes now sold separately. We still sell Clarence Carson's Basic History of the United States as a set, but you can now buy individual volumes if you prefer. ]]> Curiosity: Dangerous roads Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:59:08 -0400 The most dangerous roads in the world ... [more]

]]> Curiosity: Farming the old-fashioned way Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:25:11 -0400 ditched theory for practice, running a Welsh farm using 17th Century methods.” ... [more] ]]> New Book: Whizbang Garden Cart Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:43:36 -0400 The Whizbang Garden Cart. Herrick Kimball is back, this time with plans for a device that is both the most generally useful Whizbang gizmo so far, and also the simplest one to construct.

]]> Curiosity: Edward Tufte Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:41:50 -0400 Edward Tufte, the father and reigning champion of information design ... [more] [more] ]]> Dealing with the harvest Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:40:32 -0400 Preserving the harvest. Please take a look at our five new books on how to keep food: Home Cheese Making, Meat Smoking and Smokehouse Design, Root Cellaring, Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving, and Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning.

Preparing the harvest. We now carry four very good cookbooks: The Grassfed Gourmet, The Farmer and the Grill, Great Sausage Recipes, and The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery. Bon appétit!

]]> Good deals on music CDs. Wed, 30 May 2007 11:09:02 -0400 music page. ]]> These just in Mon, 14 May 2007 20:06:09 -0400 These just in. We now have copies of these books in stock: The American Boy's Handy Book, The Field and Forest Handy Book, Shannon Hayes' new grassfed cookbook The Farmer and the Grill, and Eric Sloane's Weather Almanac.]]> Curiosity: Cooking school Thu, 10 May 2007 21:53:14 -0400 $84,000 of debt ... [more] ]]> Curiosity: laptops in the schools Sat, 5 May 2007 08:32:28 -0400 create the George Lucas and Steve Jobs of the future, then laptops are extremely useful.” ... [more] ]]> New pages on agrarianism Fri, 4 May 2007 10:04:27 -0400 agrarian thought and one for agrarian practice. And both pages have a number of new titles added to them.]]> New author: Sir Albert Howard Fri, 4 May 2007 10:03:33 -0400 Sir Albert Howard, offering two of his books. (Individual book descriptions are still being revised.)]]> New author: Jacques Ellul Thu, 3 May 2007 10:43:41 -0400 Jacques Ellul, offering three of his books. (Individual book descriptions are still being revised.)]]> New author: Wendell Berry Tue, 1 May 2007 16:40:01 -0400 Wendell Berry, offering twenty of his books. (Individual book descriptions are still being revised.) Also check out the sidebar with links to many of his works that are online.]]> New author: Eric Sloane Tue, 1 May 2007 11:33:57 -0400 Eric Sloane, offering nineteen of his books. (Individual book descriptions are still being revised.)]]> Recent Additions Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:16:58 -0400 saenz@cumberlandbooks.com As part of our annual rethinking of the bookstore in preparation for the next catalog, we have decided to add more than sixty books (so far) to our offerings. Twenty are by Wendell Berry and nineteen by Eric Sloane; the rest are mostly practical introductions to various basic homesteading skills.

It takes awhile to get the descriptions written for these books, along with the essays that tie things together. In the meantime, though, all the books are in stock and it seemed good to make them available now. I've added a Recently Added page that contains links to the individual book pages; right now those pages contain only publisher's descriptions, but they'll be replaced with our own descriptions as soon as possible, and we'll announce it when that job is done.

]]> Welcome Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:01:10 -0400 saenz@cumberlandbooks.com