Friday, March 28, 2008

Small Log Homes: Storybook Plans and Advice


  • ISBN13: 9781586850432
  • Condition: New
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Whether you're planning a starter home or a lifelong retreat, Small Log Homes is an indispensable idea book for planning, building, and outfitting your cabin in the woods or on the prairie. Lush photographs show how log-home owners, builders, and contractors around the country have achieved the richness and warmth of cabin living within the bounds of economy and space management. And all without feeling cramped or hamstrung. For more information about log ho... More >>

Small Log Homes: Storybook Plans and Advice

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Designing California Native Gardens: The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens


  • ISBN13: 9780520251106
  • Condition: New
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Inspirational, practical, and easy to use, this book was created with the aim of conveying the awesome diversity and beauty of California's native plants and demonstrating how they can be brought into ecologically sound, attractive, workable, and artful gardens. Structured around major California plant communities--bluffs, redwoods, the Channel Islands, coastal scrub, grasslands, deserts, oak woodlands, mixed evergreen woodlands, riparian, chaparral, mountain meadow... More >>

Designing California Native Gardens: The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens

Sunday, March 23, 2008

The Most Beautiful Wine Cellars in the World



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The most beautiful wine cellars in the world provides a unique perspective on the most beautiful, impressive and atmospheric cellars through which many a wine enthusiast would gladly be allowed to wander. An intercontinental journey through both ancient, hidden-away 'treasure troves' as well as latter-day wine cellars held by wine producing domaines, wine merchants, hotels, restaurants and private individuals. The entries were coordinated by wine connoisseur Jur... More >>

The Most Beautiful Wine Cellars in the World

Friday, March 21, 2008

Tricia Guild Pattern: Using Pattern to Create Sophisticated, Show-stopping Interiors


  • ISBN13: 9780847828920
  • Condition: USED - Good
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Tricia Guild is known for her bold fabric, wallpaper designs, and an extraordinary sense of color and pattern. Following the success of her books on color, she now shares her skills with patterns. The book draws on historical and global patterns. Woven or printed or embroidered, patterns inspire Tricia Guild as she uncovers their origins and explores the exotic. Any pattern can be appropriate for the right room—European checks and stripes, Asian silks and damas... More >>

Tricia Guild Pattern: Using Pattern to Create Sophisticated, Show-stopping Interiors

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Small Spaces: Stylish Ideas for Making More of Less in the Home


  • ISBN13: 9784770020840
  • Condition: New
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Small Spaces is about living comfortably and using space wisely, and where better to find ideas on that subject than Japan, one of the world's most urban and densely populated countries? Tokyo resident Azby Brown, a distinguished architect and designer, has assembled dozens of creative solutions to space and storage problems, illustrating them with photographs and plans of actual living environments in contemporary homes.

The key to his approach is what migh... More >>

Small Spaces: Stylish Ideas for Making More of Less in the Home

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Compact Houses: Architecture for the Environment


  • ISBN13: 9780789313492
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In an age of "McMansions," this international survey of the latest in residential architecture proves that small is beautiful-and responsible. The houses profiled are designed to make maximum use of the smallest possible footprint in order to protect the environment. The houses profiled here prove that efficiency as well as beautiful, thoughtful design can be had in a tiny setting. Each project includes a case history describing its design challenges and how the a... More >>

Compact Houses: Architecture for the Environment

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures


  • ISBN13: 9783764386313
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This internationally prizewinning volume now appears in its second, revised and expanded edition. Since the first edition was published in 2005, it has been adopted as a textbook at many universities. Organized into chapters on "Raw Materials/Building Materials (Modules)," "Building Components (Elements)," "Building Methods (Structures)," and "Buildings (Examples)," the book now includes a new section on translucent materials and an article on the use of glass. The... More >>

Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures

Saturday, March 8, 2008

The Nag Hammadi Library in English



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First published in 1978, The Nag Hammadi Library was widely acclaimed by critics and scholars alike. Containing many of the writings of the Gnostics since the time of Christ, this was the work that launched modern Gnostic studies and exposed a movement whose teachings are in may ways as relevant today as they were sixteen centuries ago. Although some of the texts had appeared in other translations, the 1978 edition was the first and only translatio... More >>

The Nag Hammadi Library in English

Monday, March 3, 2008

Nearby History Exploring the Past Around



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"In the Second Edition of Nearby History, the authors have updated all chapters, introduced information about internet sources and uses of newer technologies, as well as updated the appendices. A comprehensive handbook on investigating the history of your community, family, local institutions, and cultural artifacts, Nearby History guides you in researching the world close at hand. Nearby History provides insights on how to find and use published, unpublished, visua... More >>

Nearby History Exploring the Past Around

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Michael S. Smith Houses



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Creating your dream house—a prospect as exciting as it is daunting. Michael Smith, a favorite among celebrity clientele, reveals the method of his design magic. Offering thoughtful ideas and practical advice, the designer walks the reader through his process, from the gathering of resource material (from magazines and iconic films to something as simple as a shell or a swatch of vintage fabric), expertly pairing simpler and grander elements (or inexpensive with mo... More >>

Michael S. Smith Houses