Castle

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Full-color photos. Take a look behind the walls of these fascinating

fortresses and learn how they were built to house hundreds of people and

animals; how a young boy rose from lowly page to noble knight; and what life

was like for the castle residents. "A welcome addition to the popular series."

School Library Journal.




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Castle

Sustainable Preservation: Greening Existing Buildings

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A guide to green strategies for preservation and adaptive reuse—and the power of preservation/reuse as a green strategy.Buildings account for nearly forty percent of both total energy use and carbon emissions in the United States. With one of the country's leading preservation architects as your guide, Sustainable Preservation explores the power of adaptive reuse to reduce those numbers and move us toward sustainability. It shows how an icon such as H.H. Ri... More >>

Sustainable Preservation: Greening Existing Buildings

Traffic Engineering

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A detailed exploration of the principles and practices of the design, operation, control, and management of highways and streets.... More >>

Traffic Engineering

The American Barn

• ISBN13: 9780785825869
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An examination of nearly 400 years of the American barn’s form and function illustrated with more than 200 of the authors stunning photographs. Barns come in many flavors: freshly painted or collapsing, adorned or plain, towering or long and low; tucked away in valleys or spotted from the highway; wood, stone or brick. The American Barn will be treasured by anyone intrigued by the country’s rich agricultural history and these deceptively complex buildings.... More >>

The American Barn

150 Best Kitchen Ideas

• ISBN13: 9780061704406
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New ideas on how to design, build, and decorate a kitchen are always of essential value to architects, designers, and homeowners. This new addition to a successful series offers an extensive collection of both modern and traditional kitchen designs from all over the world, plans devised by distinguished international architects and designers who have worked to achieve practical, innovative, and stunning solutions adapted to the specific needs and particular tastes ... More >>

150 Best Kitchen Ideas

In Search of Paradise: Great Gardens of the World

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In Search of Paradise is a survey of the great gardens of the world, presented through photographic images and the descriptions of the garden designer and writer Penelope Hobhouse. Here you will find the oases of the Middle East, the gardens of Chinese scholars, Japanese sages and Renaissance humanists, French baroque gardens, the English landscape garden of Capability Brown and his followers. Here too are the gardens of the great modern designers, among them Robert... More >>

In Search of Paradise: Great Gardens of the World

Rome

• ISBN13: 9780199546831
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Capital and showcase of the Roman Empire and the center of Christian Europe, the city of Rome is the largest archaeological site in the world. In the new Second Edition of her popular handbook, Amanda Claridge again presents an indispensable guide to all significant monuments in Rome dating from 800 BC to 600 AD, including such breathtaking structures as the Capitoline Hill, the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, the Mausoleums of Augustus and Hadrian, the Circus Maximus,... More >>

Rome