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Moon Sense: Use Simple Moon Phases for Time, Direction, and Planning Your Month When the power goes out or the phone dies, most people feel blind. Moon Sense shows you how to use the night sky as a backup clock, compass, and quiet planner you always carry with you. In this compact, no‑jargon guide, home inspector and environmental author Marko Vovk teaches you how to read simple Moon phases at a glance, then turn them into “good enough” time, direction, and a calmer monthly rhythm. Inside, you’ll learn how to: Read the eight main phases using only three ideas: shape, side, and order...

Every grocery trip feels ordinary until your joints ache, your energy crashes, and your doctor adds another pill to the list. Poisoned at the Grocery Store pulls back the curtain on that familiar building and shows how it slowly rewires your body, one bright package at a time. This book walks you through boxed snacks, canned soups, plastic wrapped meats, “fresh” bakery cases, gleaming produce, and even farmers markets, exposing how each step can feed inflammation, hormone chaos, and chronic disease. You see how sugar, altered grains, seed oils, dyes, preservatives, plastics, and forever...

Most restaurant meals look harmless—even “healthy.” The lighting is soft, the menu promises fresh and grilled, and you honestly feel like you’re trying. But behind the photos and friendly servers, a second kitchen is quietly running your life. In Poisoned at the Restaurant: What Restaurants Really Feed You and How to Take One Meal Back, home inspector and health investigator Marko Vovk pulls back the curtain on what actually happens between the truck and your table. He shows how fast‑food windows, chain dining rooms, cafeterias, and even “nice” sit‑down places rely on the ...

What if the food in your pantry is quietly poisoning you? After inspecting more than 18,000 homes over 45 years, I’ve seen what most people really eat: boxes, cans, frozen dinners, and mystery ingredients that do not belong in a healthy body. I finally got tired of watching families eat ultra‑processed, chemical‑laden “food,” so I turned to gardening and pressure-canning real ingredients in glass jars. For over a decade, I’ve been filling shelves with safe, shelf‑stable meals that survive power outages, freezer failures, and supply‑chain chaos—while actually tasting better...

"Project 2025 Quick Review" offers readers a concise and accessible overview of the Heritage Foundation's extensive 900-page document, Project 2025. This book distills the complex proposals of the original document into an easy-to-understand format, allowing readers to grasp the potential future direction of American governance without navigating the dense original text. The review explores the origins of Project 2025, developed by the Heritage Foundation in collaboration with over 80 conservative organizations, and its $22 million budget. Readers will gain insights into critical proposals ...

In 1943, ordinary people grew nearly half of America’s vegetables in their own yards, school lots, and community patches. In less than a lifetime, that power was handed to fertilizer plants, factories, and long supply chains you do not control. When shelves empty, trucks stop, or labels lie, most modern households have no backup plan. Backyard Food Security shows you how to build one. Drawing on more than 45 years of home inspection work and decades of hands‑on gardening, Marko Vovk walks you through a practical, no‑nonsense system for turning dead soil, tubs, and small patches of ...

Most people race through life too fast to see what’s quietly hurting them. A concrete duck on a porch doesn’t. She just watches. For over 45 years, forensic home inspector and environmental author Marko Vovk has walked through thousands of houses, rentals, and Airbnbs, seeing the same patterns repeat: cluttered rooms, blue‑lit nights, toxic air, junk food, stressed‑out families, and “normal” routines that slowly destroy health. In The Duck Who Watched, those decades of real experience become one unforgettable street and one silent witness named Lady. From her spot on the porch, ...

Heaven is not what anyone expected—especially Elliott, a chronically overworked middle manager who wakes up in the afterlife to discover the system is held together with sticky notes, misfiled tickets, and badly labeled heavens. Instead of harps and clouds, he’s reassigned to “Dog Heaven,” where the goodest boys have performance reviews, squeaky toys have seniority, and even tennis balls have halos. When Elliott uncovers neighboring heavens—Bird Heaven, Fish Heaven, Zoo Heaven, and a mysterious department for “Cat‑Adjacent Things”—he realizes the entire operation runs like...

"Make Your Home Healthy Again" is a comprehensive guide that empowers homeowners to create a safer, healthier living environment. This book takes readers on a room-by-room journey through their homes, offering practical advice and actionable strategies to address common health hazards and improve overall well-being. The book begins by emphasizing the importance of indoor air quality, providing insights into common pollutants and effective ventilation techniques. It then delves into specific home areas, starting with often-neglected spaces like attics and basements, highlighting potential ...

The Anunnaki spaceship, Anu's Hope, journeys to a ravaged, ecologically degraded Earth in search of the truth behind humanity's downfall. Captain Enlil and his advanced crew must confront not only Earth's ruined landscape—scarred by nuclear disasters, environmental mismanagement, and the detritus of human technological arrogance—but also the uncomfortable possibility that their own ancient interventions in human evolution may have set these events in motion. Throughout the exploration, the crew wrestles with ethical dilemmas about whether they should intervene to "fix" what remains or ...

This book exposes the unfolding nuclear energy crisis and its impact on human health and the environment. From the Manhattan Project's legacy to today's disasters, it reveals how radiation permeates our world in real time. The author uncovers suppressed truths about nuclear accidents, waste disposal issues, and long-term health effects as they happen. Readers will discover the hidden costs of this technology—contaminated landscapes, cancer clusters, and genetic damage passed to future generations. The book examines how governments and industry downplay risks while pursuing atomic ...

"Forever Chemicals: The Global PFAS Crisis" is a comprehensive exploration of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the ubiquitous synthetic chemicals that have infiltrated our environment and daily lives. This meticulously researched book delves into the fascinating yet troubling history of PFAS, from their accidental discovery and widespread industrial adoption to the growing recognition of their devastating environmental and health impacts. The authors take readers on a journey through time, tracing the development of PFAS from the laboratories of chemical giants to their pervasive...

No-Mow Living reveals the hidden costs and risks of America’s grass obsession. Lawns waste trillions of gallons of water and billions in chemicals while eating up weekends and pushing families toward injury and illness. City codes punish anyone brave enough to plant wildflowers or food instead. This book shows how lawns became tools for control and how families everywhere are now winning freedom with native gardens and genuine nature. Discover a new way to save money, restore wildlife, and actually enjoy your yard.

Unlock the invisible world affecting personal health and wellness. Every home and office is filled with unseen electromagnetic fields from phones, Wi-Fi routers, smart meters, and everyday appliances. Living in Electrosmog stands apart from other EMF books by blending hands-on investigation, real case studies, and science-backed solutions that anyone can use—no PhD required. This book skips jargon and hype, focusing instead on what actually works for everyday families: clear steps to reduce exposure, practical guides for measuring hot spots, and proven strategies for creating safer, ...

Welcome "BIAS: How Our Minds Deceive Us", a book that explores how our minds work and why we think the way we do. It examines different types of bias that affect our choices and views. We start by examining how social influence shapes our actions. Then, we dive into authority bias and how it impacts our trust in leaders. We also explore in-group prejudice and how it creates divisions between people. Media influence is a key topic, showing how news and social platforms change our opinions. We look at cognitive dissonance, which explains why we sometimes ignore facts that don't match our ...

Hidden Drivers of Population Decline is a white paper–driven book that explains why today’s falling birth rates are not just about lifestyle, money, or “personal choice.” Instead, it shows how modern health, environmental, and medical risks are quietly creating empty cradles by removing future parents and children from the population long before they appear in official statistics. Drawing on more than 45 years of residential and commercial inspections, environmental investigation, expert‑witness work, and research, Marko Vovk connects what happens inside real homes, buildings, and...

Deep Down, The Rabbit Hole Poetry" offers an immersive exploration of the tumultuous years of 2023 and 2024 as the world navigated uncertainty and upheaval. Against this backdrop, a poet emerges, wielding their pen as a beacon of truth in a sea of chaos. This collection of over 125 poem stories provides a raw and unfiltered examination of the human experience, from the mundane to the profound. In the first chapter, "Death, Life, and the Brief Dance Between," themes of guilt, grace, and introspection set the stage for a deep exploration of the complexities of existence. The poet reflects on ...

Drawing on research, real‑world cases, and insights from Pets: The Hidden Costs of Companionship, Indoor Pets, Hidden Costs examines how dogs and cats in small, sealed homes affect indoor air quality, asthma, allergies, mental health, hoarding, family formation, and urban pollution. It shows how powerful marketing and social narratives turn animals into child substitutes, normalize multi‑pet households in unsuitable spaces, and hide the true time and money required to care for them responsibly. Written for households, clinicians, housing professionals, and policymakers, this book offers...

"Empty Cradles" examines the rapid decline in global birth rates, highlighting both social and environmental causes. The author, an engineer and investigator, draws from decades of research, home inspections, and personal experience to outline the many factors influencing fertility and demographic shifts.Key Themes Global Trends: Birth rates have declined significantly in countries such as Japan, South Korea, the United States, and many European nations. In the mid-1900s, families often had four or more children, whereas today, most developed countries average less than two children per ...

Breathe in, are you sure the air is safe? Every fire tells a different story, but not every story gets a happy ending. This book reveals the invisible dangers hidden in everyday wood smoke, sawdust, and the logs you might bring home tonight. Forest fires and backyard burns don’t just warm hands; sometimes, they send clouds of toxic fallout across city blocks and quiet country roads. Some smoke drifts in loaded with dangerous chemicals, hidden poisons, or even radioactive dust sucked up from old factory soil and contaminated timber. Other times, deadly bacteria or unpredictable metals ride...