Sunday, April 30, 2006

St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography


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Ireland's patron saint has long been shrouded in legend, but the true story of St. Patrick is far more inspiring than the myths. In St. Patrick of Ireland, Philip Freeman brings the historic Patrick and his world vividly to life. Patrick speaks in his own voice in two remarkable letters he wrote about himself and his beliefs, new translations of which are included here and which are still astonishing for their passion and eloquence. Born late in the fourth century ... More >>

St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography

Saturday, April 29, 2006

Cities for People



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For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people. ... More >>

Cities for People

Japan Style: Architecture Interiors Design


  • ISBN13: 9780804835923
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Enter the world of the stylish Japanese house, where every object in sight is a work of art. Japan Style introduces 20 special residences. With more than 200 color photographs, this book showcases the stunning beauty of old homes, and reveals how they are cared for by their owners.

Traditional Japanese homes, with superbly crafted fine wood, great workmanship and seasonal interior arrangements, have an aesthetic of infinite simplicity. Unlike Japanese inns... More >>

Japan Style: Architecture Interiors Design

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Building Green, New Edition: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roofs



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The best-selling and highly regarded reference to sustainable construction gets an update! It’s refreshed with a completely revised introduction, a bright new cover, and extensive online resource tie-ins. Plus, it’s now printed on recycled paper with agri-based inks, so it’s greener than ever!This groundbreaking book doesn’t just tell you about “green” house-building techniques: it actually shows you, with more than 1,200 step-by-step photographs that fol... More >>

Building Green, New Edition: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roofs

Engineering Drawing Fundamentals Version With CD/ROM 2002



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Engineering Drawing and Design offers the most comprehensive program available. The new exciting full-color text, supplemented with a broad spectrum of learning tools, brings real-world engineering drawing and design right into the classroom.... More >>

Engineering Drawing Fundamentals Version With CD/ROM 2002

A Passion for Interiors: A Private Tour


  • ISBN13: 9780307719997
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In her most personal book, Carolyne Roehm shares her lifelong love of classical architecture and design, graciously inviting us into her favorite spaces in three remarkable homes: her own dazzling Manhattan prewar duplex, her antique-filled Colonial-era stone house in Connecticut, and a special friend’s Aspen residence evocative of eighteenth-century Sweden. Each is an architectural showpiece as well as a superlative example of her polished style: never fussy, alw... More >>

A Passion for Interiors: A Private Tour

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Great Houses Of Texas



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In Great Houses of Texas, author Lisa Germany takes the reader on a tour of twenty-five Texas houses—some are lavish and monumental, others more diminutive and intimate, but taken together they relay the story of residential architecture in the Lone Star State.

Dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day and scattered across the state from the East Texas town of Jefferson to El Paso, from the cosmopolitan cities of Houston and Dallas to the gr... More >>

Great Houses Of Texas

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage: The Real Goods Solar Living Book


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Are you ready for the Cob Cottage? This is a building method so old and so simple that it has been all but forgotten in the rush to synthetics. A cob cottage,cobb, however, might be the ultimate expression of ecological design, a structure so attuned to its surroundings that its creators refer to it as "an ecstatic house."
The authors build a house the way others create a natural garden. They use the oldest, most available materials imaginable—earth, clay, sa... More >>

The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage: The Real Goods Solar Living Book

Building With Cob: A Step-by-step Guide


  • ISBN13: 9781903998724
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The ancient method of cob building uses a simple mixture of clay sub-soil, aggregate, straw and water to create solid structural walls built without shuttering or forms, onto a stone plinth. It is now undergoing a renaissance as an 'eco-friendly' building material because of its amazing 'green' credentials. 'Building with Cob' shows how to apply this ancient technique in a wide variety of contemporary situations, covering everything from design and siting, mixing, b... More >>

Building With Cob: A Step-by-step Guide

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications



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With its wide variety of topics and up-to-date coverage, the fifth edition is an excellent resource for landscape planners and designers, scientists, and environmentalists. It focuses on environmental problems associated with land planning, landscape design, and land use. New coverage is included on adaptive planning as an approach necessary to build a sustainable landscape. Greater emphasis is placed on systems and updated case studies are integrated throughout the... More >>

Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications

Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design



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Clearly written and profusely illustrated, Patterns of Home brings the timeless lessons of residential design to homeowners who seek inspiration and direction in the design or remodel of their homes. Patterns of Home promises to become the "design bible" for homeowners and architects. The 10 patterns described in the book -- among them, "capturing light" and "the flow through rooms" -- are drawn from hundreds of principles and presented with clarity by the authors, ... More >>

Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design

Friday, April 21, 2006

Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, 2nd Revised Edition


  • ISBN13: 9781935202127
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Since the first edition of Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn was published in 2008, interest in edible gardening has exploded across the United States and abroad. Even First Lady Michelle Obama is doing it! This greatly expanded second edition of the book documents the eight Edible Estates regional prototype gardens that author Fritz Haeg has planted in California, Kansas, Texas, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and England, and includes personal accounts from ... More >>

Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, 2nd Revised Edition

Narrow Houses: New Directions in Efficient Design


  • ISBN13: 9781568988733
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Since the beginning of the housing boom of the 1950s, the size of the average North American house has steadily grown while the size of the average family has decreased. Today, a growing number of homebuyers seeking smaller, more efficient residential designs are rediscovering a centuries old housing prototype: the narrow house. Measuring twenty-five-feet wide or less, these "infill" or "skinny" houses, as they are often called, are on the rise in cities and suburbs... More >>

Narrow Houses: New Directions in Efficient Design

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History



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This volume presents a history of the ways in which human beings have shaped the landscape at cult sites, in cities and on great private estates, from prehistoric times to the present, throughout the world. The book considers what the evolution of the design of the landscape reveals about the development of society and culture, examining famous cities, palaces and parks, as well as lesser-known designed landscapes, and even sites now vanished from around the world. ... More >>

Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History

Color in Interior Design CL



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Create dazzling color schemes for any indoor space. You'll quickly sharpen your color skills--and open the door to a more rewarding and profitable career with John F. Pile's Color in Interior Design. He takes the mystery out of working with color, showing you step-by-step how to plan color relationships in an organized and systematic way...prepare color schemes for interiors...make color charts...select materials...put together color samples...work with additive ... More >>

Color in Interior Design CL

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Shelter


  • ISBN13: 9780936070117
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Shelter is many things - a visually dynamic, oversized compendium of organic architecture past and present; a how-to book that includes over 1,250 illustrations; and a Whole Earth Catalog-type sourcebook for living in harmony with the earth by using every conceivable material. First published in 1973, Shelter remains a source of inspiration and invention. Including the nuts-and-bolts aspects of building, the book covers such topics as dwellings from Iron Age huts to... More >>

Shelter

Cottages on the Coast: Fair Harbors and Secret Shores


  • ISBN13: 9780789310705
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With her successful books Cottages by the Sea and Coastal Retreats, Linda Leigh Paul has beautifully captured the dream home in an ideal setting. Now she broadens her scope by visiting the most picturesque and private seaside cottages on all three coasts of the United States, from the cliffs of Big Sur to the dunes of Nantucket to Florida's sandy beaches on the Gulf of Mexico. The most charming cottages in the country are here, including a 1924 stone cottage ... More >>

Cottages on the Coast: Fair Harbors and Secret Shores

Monday, April 17, 2006

Suzanne Kasler: Inspired Interiors



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Suzanne Kasler is known for her classically inspired rooms, pretty palettes, and comfortable spaces. She brings Southern charm, European sensibility, and a respect for architectural details to her interiors. Her neutral palette, spiced with hits of color, creates warm spaces that are elegant yet inviting. Inspired by fashion, Kasler uses a scarf as a throw, adds grosgrain or satin banding to the bottom of a chair cover, accents draperies with Chanel-like piped borde... More >>

Suzanne Kasler: Inspired Interiors

Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation


  • ISBN13: 9780976605485
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Asphalt to Ecosystems is a compelling color guidebook for designing and building natural schoolyard environments that enhance childhood learning and play experiences while providing connection with the natural world. Intended for parents, teachers, school administrators, designers, environmentalists, and community volunteers, this book is a fantastic resource that will inspire readers to transform their own school grounds.
With this book, Danks broadens our notio... More >>

Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Setting Tile


  • ISBN13: 9781561580804
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A beautiful tile job can make a room. And now with the help of this book and new, readily available materials, you can design and install your own tile floors, walls, countertops and shower stalls. All the up-to-date information you need is right here.Amazon.com Review
Michael Byrne's Setting Tile is packed with more than enough information for those thinking of taking on a tile job in their home. It is so detailed and thorough that it serves as a Tile 1... More >>

Setting Tile

Saturday, April 15, 2006

The Paris Apartment: Romantic Decor on a Flea-Market Budget


  • ISBN13: 9780060391690
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The Paris Apartment is a popular shop in New York's East Village, where visitors can step back in time and immerse themselves in the beauty and romance of antique furnishings. Reflecting an unusual mix of design influences (Baroque, rococo, neoclassical and Art Deco) and personal taste, its style is luxurious, playful, and wholly original. In The Paris Apartment, Claudia Strasser, the founder and owner of the shop, offers readers the quintessential guide to achievin... More >>

The Paris Apartment: Romantic Decor on a Flea-Market Budget

Serene Gardens: Creating Japanese Design and Detail in the Western Garden



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A practical introduction to the traditions of Japanese Zen gardens. Using natural materials such as wood, bamboo, rocks and pebbles, and emphasizing the value of shape in trees and shrubs and the subtlety of colour through the varied greens of foliage and moss, the book explains how western plants and materials can be used to achieve the natural, minimalist look so beloved by Japanese garden designers. There are instructions and tips for selecting plants and materia... More >>

Serene Gardens: Creating Japanese Design and Detail in the Western Garden

Friday, April 14, 2006

Architectural Drafting and Design



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ARCHITECTURAL DRAFTING AND DESIGN, 6E is an ideal book for all architectural drafters and CAD operators, whether beginning, intermediate, or advanced. An important feature of this best-seller is its step-by-step instructions for the design and layout of each type of drawing associated with a complete set of architectural plans, with projects that can be completed using either CAD or manual drawing methods. The basics of residential design, commercial drafting, basic... More >>

Architectural Drafting and Design

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Forgotten Modern: California Houses 1940-1970



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Forgotten Modern Long Product Description:  #pd-fixedwrapper1 {width:800px; overflow: auto;} .pd-img1 {border-style: solid; border-width: 3px; border-color: #B8B8B8; float: left; margin-top: 10px; margin-left:15; } .pd-content1 {} .pd-content2 {float: left; width:350px; margin-left: 15px; line-height: 45px;} Forgotten Modern reveals the work of the innovative architects building in California from the 1930s to the 1970s. With groundbr... More >>

Forgotten Modern: California Houses 1940-1970

Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings



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For more than half a century, this book has been a fixture in architecture and construction firms the world over. Twice awarded the AIA's Citation for Excellence in International Architecture Book Publishing, Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings is recognized for its comprehensiveness, clarity of presentation, and timely coverage of new design trends and technologies. Addressing mechanical and electrical systems for buildings of all sizes, it provides d... More >>

Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

The Function of Ornament


  • ISBN13: 9788496540507
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Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society as material to work with. Architecture's materiality is therefore a composite one, made up of visible forces (structural, functional, physical) as well as invisible forces (cultural, political, temporal). Architecture progresses through new concepts that connect with these forces, manifesting itself in new aesthetic comp... More >>

The Function of Ornament

Gaudi: The Complete Buildings



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The complete works of the great Antoni Gaud? (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Anyone who visits Barcelona today will come across the works of Antoni Gaud??the architect who has attracted art-lovers from all over the world to Spain. It was here, in the capital of Catalonia, that the famous master of architecture produced nearly all of his works, including villas for the well-to-do bourgeoisie, the expansive G?ell Park (which today is open to the public), ... More >>

Gaudi: The Complete Buildings

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Palm Springs Holiday


  • ISBN13: 9781423604761
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This is the story of Palm Springs in its golden years, a city that had it all, including marvelous midcentury Modern architecture, fabulous fly-in hotels, and a swinging nightlife. Through vintage photographs, postcards, and other ephemera, Palm Springs Holiday recalls the Palm Springs area from the 1910s through the 1960s, where people vacationed in the desert, dined, danced, and lounged poolside. Features vintage images of the Coachella Valley and shots of the are... More >>

Palm Springs Holiday

Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being


  • ISBN13: 9780674057487
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Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther Sternberg explores in Healing Spaces, a look at the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place. Sternberg immerses us in the discoveries that have revealed a complicated working relationship between th... More >>

Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being

Monday, April 10, 2006

All About Creating Japanese Gardens


  • ISBN13: 9780897214896
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Japanese gardens have long been appreciated for providing beautiful, tranquil spaces that evoke feelings of sanctuary, often in short supply these days. This practical guide to Japanese gardening teaches you how to: • Use centuries-old garden design techniques to create tranquil spaces that evoke a feeling of sanctuary.• Select and arrange plants and ornaments in a traditional design while at the same time emphasizing your personal tastes.• Calm your busy lif... More >>

All About Creating Japanese Gardens

Sunday, April 9, 2006

SAS for Mixed Models, Second Edition



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The indispensable, up-to-date guide to mixed models using SAS. Discover the latest capabilities available for a variety of applications featuring the MIXED, GLIMMIX, and NLMIXED procedures in SAS for Mixed Models, Second Edition, the comprehensive mixed models guide for data analysis, completely revised and updated for SAS 9 by authors Ramon Littell, George Milliken, Walter Stroup, Russell Wolfinger, and Oliver Schabenberger. The theory underlying the models, the fo... More >>

SAS for Mixed Models, Second Edition

Feng Shui For Dummies



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Benefit from the ancient Chinese art of Feng ShuiTake a look around you. What do you see? Whether or not you're aware of it, your environment profoundly affects your health, wealth, family life, relationship, and yes, even your destiny.Feng Shui (pronounced fung shway), which means wind water, is the ancient Chinese study of harmony and energy flow between you and your physical surroundings. Now, Feng Shui For Dummies, 2nd Edition shows you how you can apply ... More >>

Feng Shui For Dummies

Saturday, April 8, 2006

Glamour: Making it Modern


  • ISBN13: 9781933231563
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Glamour. It's hard to define yet most know it when they see it. Today, glamour may still invoke the sophistication and refinement of the golden years of Hollywood art deco, but country, industrial and even nature glamour have joined the more traditional modes. The 21st century has brought glamour and her sisters, decoration and ornamentation back into home design news. Today's most cutting-edge homes embrace design of every kind from every corner of the globe. It... More >>

Glamour: Making it Modern

Friday, April 7, 2006

The Japanese Bath


  • ISBN13: 9781586850272
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Time to watch the moon rise over the garden--the aesthetic of the Japanese bath exquisitely captured in photgraphy and text.
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The Japanese Bath

How to Build Your Own Greenhouse


  • ISBN13: 9781580176477
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For avid gardeners, the biggest downside of the hobby is the limited growing season in much of the country. Gardening during the winter is often reduced to tending houseplants and browsing seed catalogs for next summer’s tomato choices.

Master Gardener and builder Roger Marshall enthusiastically presents his case for home greenhouses with a thorough examination of everything the potential builder needs to know. Marshall’s coverage of the subject begins ... More >>

How to Build Your Own Greenhouse

Colonials


  • ISBN13: 9781561585649
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A lavishly illustrated guide to remodeling or building a Colonial home... More >>

Colonials

House Beautiful 750 Designer Secrets: Exclusive Design Ideas from the Pros



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House Beautiful gives us an inside look at how interior designers create their magic. It's savvy, elegant, inspiring, and sure to equal the success of 750 Decorating & Design Ideas, which has sold nearly 65,000 copies.

Even those of us with great taste and a natural talent for decorating know that there are certain insider design skills and secrets accessible only to professionals with years of experience. House Beautiful: 750 Designer Secrets gives e... More >>

House Beautiful 750 Designer Secrets: Exclusive Design Ideas from the Pros

Thursday, April 6, 2006

Classic Homes of Los Angeles



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A luxurious showcase of the finest homes in the oldest neighborhoods of Los Angeles and environs. This volume offers an exclusive look into the classic homes and gardens in the legendary neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles. Famed for its lavish homes and celebrity residents, one finds here a panorama of richly detailed architectural styles, from Craftsman, Tudor and Georgian to Spanish Colonial and Tuscan examples. Shown here is the estate of the great Hollywood... More >>

Classic Homes of Los Angeles

Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City



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The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern American history. To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. But consummate power broker Robert Moses, the father of many of New York’s most monumental development projects, thought neighborhoods like Greenwich Village were badly... More >>

Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City

Wednesday, April 5, 2006

Las Vegas Then and Now


  • ISBN13: 9781571458537
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A photographic journey through the history of one of America's most distinctive towns, Las Vegas. Part of the highly successful "Then and Now" series, each spread shows an image of Las Vegas as it was, and how it is currently.... More >>

Las Vegas Then and Now

Tuesday, April 4, 2006

Sustainable Urban Development Reader



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Building on the success of its first edition, the second edition of the Sustainable Urban Development Reader expands its selection of classic material on sustainable community development. As in the previous edition, it begins by tracing the roots of the sustainable development concept in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, before presenting classic readings on a number of dimensions of the sustainability concept. Topics covered include land use and urban desig... More >>

Sustainable Urban Development Reader

Living in Style: Paris



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Arguably the most stylish city in the world, Paris has long been known for its sleek, sophisticated interiors. This inspiring volume takes us on a tour of the French capital's most notable dwellings. These luxurious living quarters will truly take your breath away! The decor ranges from classic to contemporary, with intriguing choices of furniture, finishes and materials. Reto Guntli's spectacular yet accessible photography makes you feel right at home.... More >>

Living in Style: Paris

Monday, April 3, 2006

Home Quick Planner: Reusable, Peel & Stick Furniture & Architectural Symbols


  • Design Your Own 2-D Model Home

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The Home Quick Planner includes 700 precut, reusable peel-and-stick, 1/4-inch scale furniture and architectural symbols, plus a 5,600 square-foot floor plan grid to help you design your own building, remodeling and decorating projects. (Also good for moving.) Symbols include everything you need from tables, chairs, couches, beds and pianos to every standard kitchen cabinet and appliance, an extensive assortment of bathroom fixtures and cabinets (for example, twelve ... More >>

Home Quick Planner: Reusable, Peel & Stick Furniture & Architectural Symbols

Sunday, April 2, 2006

Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu



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In 1911, a young Peruvian boy led an American explorer and Yale historian named Hiram Bingham into the ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Hidden amidst the breathtaking heights of the Andes, this settlement of temples, tombs and palaces was the Incas' greatest achievement. Tall, handsome, and sure of his destiny, Bingham believed that Machu Picchu was the Incas’ final refuge, where they fled the Spanish Conquistadors. Bingham made Machu Picchu famous, and his ... More >>

Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu

Design*Sponge at Home



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A new home décor bible by one of the Web’s most popular and beloved design bloggers Grace Bonney created her daily Web site Design*Sponge as an antidote to the fussy (and expensive) shelter magazines of her mother’s generation. The New York Times has dubbed the site, with its 60,000 daily readers, “Martha Stewart Living for millennials.” DESIGN*SPONGE at Home is Bonney’s definitive guide to home décor for her fellow design sponges—those house-proud yo... More >>

Design*Sponge at Home