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Ptsd and Me: The Story of My Struggle with Myself After Iraq - Hardcover

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by Dennis James Williams (Author)When Dennis James Williams returned home after fighting in Iraq, he had a hard time fitting back into society. He was under financial stress and could not communicate with his wife. Much of his time was spent trying to find a place to work so he could provide for his family. But what turned out to be his worst problem was something he didn't want to admit he had-post-traumatic stress disorder. In this gut-wrenching personal account, Williams looks back at a do...

A Poet, On Park Hill? Outside The Box: Black and White Edition - Paperback

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by Rowan Blair Colver (Author)A Poet, On Park Hill? Outside the Box. A strong contender in the canon of brutalist literature, this colour edition of the popular autobiographical book about the life and experiences of a real resident on the infamous flats includes a brand new section starting from after the original publication until leaving the estate. What's it like to be one of the people who live on those grim looking concrete creations from the mid 20th century? Ever wondered what sort of...

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by Rafael Barreto (Author)Many structures have been discovered around the world which builders and purposes are unknown. In spite of studies of all kind made by archeologists and scientists, there is no clue about who bult them or for what purpose Number of Pages: 38 Dimensions: 0.1 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 19, 2014

Vastu Homes and Cities: Vedic Architecture in Harmony with Natural Law - Paperback

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by Maharishi Vastu (Author)This book contains the most important information that exists in the field of architecture and urban planning. It introduces Vastu building, the world's most ancient and powerful system of construction, which is based on Natural Law. It shows how to build ideal homes, villages and cities that create a coherent and harmonious influence on their citizens, resulting in reduced problems and greater success, health, prosperity, and happiness. Number of Pages: 222 Dimensi...

EMP Protecting Housing and Solar: A National EMP protection plan as well as EMP protection of family, homes and communities. Protection is achieved vi - Paperback

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by Don White (Author)This book addresses how to protect against a cataclysmic nuclear EMP (electromagnetic pulse) event. Testifying before congress and elsewhere, experts are in unanimous agreement that an upper atmospheric EMP explosion is not if, but when. It can impact an area like New England states, the East or West Coast, or the entire nation, depending on the explosion altitude. While not instantly killing humans and destroying infrastructure, it ends modern civilization and throws exp...

The Optical Corrections of the Doric Temple: Form and Meaning in Greek Sacred Architecture - Paperback

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by Tapio Uolevi Prokkola (Author)The optical corrections of the Doric temple were first mentioned by the Roman architect and writer Vitruvius. According to him they were meant to prevent optical distortions that otherwise would make the temple look faulty. This explanation has ever since been repeated by most scholars although some of them maintain that the corrections were actually implemented to bring vitality to the otherwise too static appearance of the temple. Yet, it is obvious that the...

Friar Park: 1919 Estate Auction Catalogue - Paperback

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by Scott Cardinal (Editor), The Cardinals (Author)Before musician George Harrison purchased Friar Park in 1970, the 19th century mansion and gardens it was occupied by many others, including Sir Percival David and Roman Catholic nuns belonging to the Salesians of Don Bosco order. The nuns ran a local school in Henley, the Sacred Heart School. The most celebrated was its original owner Sir Frank Crisp. Upon his death his family instructed Land Agents Messrs, LOFTS & WARNER and Auctioneers ...

Passive Solar (Post Tensioned Concrete) Earth Sheltered Housing - Paperback

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by Lon Simmons (Author)Lon Simmons was building green homes long before anyone ever heard of them, building passive solar earth sheltered homes, which many consider to be the strongest, safest, most indestructible, longest lasting, and most energy efficient residences ever built in the United States. A tireless advocate of developing solar and alternative energy, he uses this book to describe his efforts in building passive solar earth sheltered homes and make a case for a sustainable energy ...

Interior Design: Make Your Home Look Amazing (Luxurious Home Decorating on a Budget) - Paperback

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by Ralph Armani (Author)***SPECIAL OFFER *** LIMITED TIME OFFER 40% OFF (Regular Price $4.99) This #1 Best Selling Critically Acclaimed Book is now available Globally on Amazon - Download it Now This book is the definitive resource for Interior Design and Decorating. Interior design is crucial in making your home as aesthetically pleasing as possible. Even the slightest knowledge about interior decorating on a budget can help improve the look and value of your home and allow it to showcase...

A History of Art in Ancient Egypt - Volume II - Paperback

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by The Perfect Library (Editor), Charles Chipiez (Author)"A History of Art in Ancient Egypt - Volume II" from Charles Chipiez. Influential French architect, Egyptologist, Iranologist, and an avid historian of the ancient world's architecture (1835-1901). Number of Pages: 512 Dimensions: 1.03 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: March 25, 2015

Architecture: Classic and Early Christian - Paperback

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by T. Roger Smith (Author)Architecture: Classic and Early Christian is an authoritative overview of this period of architecture, complete with dozens of illustrations. Number of Pages: 258 Dimensions: 0.54 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: April 04, 2015

Frank Lloyd Wright: Historic American Buildings Survey, Volume 2 - Paperback

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by Marc Rochkind (Author)The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) was started in 1933 as one of the New Deal make-work programs, to employ jobless architects, draftspeople, and photographers. Its purpose is to document the nation's architectural heritage, especially those buildings that are in danger of ruin or deliberate destruction. Today, the HABS is part of the National Park Service and its repository is in the Library of Congress, much of which is available online at loc.gov. Of the...

Frank Lloyd Wright: Historic American Buildings Survey, Volume 3 - Paperback

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Chapters Eight & Nine: Glazing & Copperfoil - Paperback

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by Stained Glass Association of America (Author)Chapter Eight, Glazing, and Chapter Nine, Copperfoil, from the Stained Glass Association of America's Reference and Technical Manual, Second Edition. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.1 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: August 11, 2015

Chapter Thirteen: Painting for Stained Glass - Paperback

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by Stained Glass Association of America (Author)Chapter Thirteen, Painting for Stained Glass, from the Stained Glass Association of America's Reference & Technical Manual, Second Edition. The use of glass paint and silver stain has enriched the lives of stained glass artists more than most of us realize. Paint fired on glass was the first surface treatment of glass in leaded windows. The term 'stained glass, ' however, resulted from the later use of silver stain which, upon firing, permea...

Chapter Twenty-One: Lighting - Paperback

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by Stained Glass Association of America (Author)Chapter Twenty-One, Lighting, from the Stained Glass Association of America's Reference and Technical Manual, Second Edition. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.15 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: August 11, 2015

10-Minute Declutter: Complete Expert Guide: Declutter Your Home. Declutter Your Life. - Paperback

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by Josh Evans (Author)10-Minute Declutter: Complete Expert Guide Our life is one big clutter. This is mainly because everything is dynamic - ever changing This means we're always on the go, always learning, always moving, always buying new things, and always picking something up, which means we'll likely leave clutter everywhere. When the clutter piles up, then it doesn't become conducive for relaxation, learning, growth, and even becomes a source of stress. 10-Minute Declutter: Complete Exp...

Amazing Cityscapes Adult Coloring Book: Amazing Architectural Adult coloring pages - Paperback

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by Adult Coloring (Author)The Amazing Cityscapes Adult Coloring Book is loaded with unique, coloring pages for you to unwind and color. The have both line and edge drawing pages to give you more of a challenge when coloring.Coloring the complicated city plans and city streets will calm you are make you want to take up architecture. Coloring is a great form of color therapy. This is the perfect way for any stressed out adult to relax. The pictures are imprinted on substantial 8.5 x 11 high qua...

Shipping container homes: blueprint how to build a shipping container home for cheap and live mortgage free for rest of your life - Paperback

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by Rebbeca Simpson (Author)Planning to build shipping container home looking for answer. Shipping container homes are next big think in housing market probably do to the fact that housing prices are ridiculously high, not to mention the prices on everything are climbing through the roof. Shipping containers are widely available and are becoming rather inexpensive it is easy to build it justify with modern architect and design. Well let me tell you, there are thousands of people everyday turni...

The Lighthouses: Adult Coloring Book Vol.1: Lighthouse Sketches for Coloring - Paperback

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by Alicia Lasley (Author)The Lighthouses: Adult Coloring Book Vol.1 Lighthouse Sketches for Coloring This Coloring Book is a part of 4 Lighthouse Coloring Book Series (Volume 1) This collection of beautiful lighthouses around the world will captivate and excite adult Colorists. You can give this book as a value gifts for you families, Friends, and Yourself This Book Contains: - Over 40 Lighthouse sketches for coloring - Printed on the front of Pages only for easy coloring and displaying. You...

American Owner Builder: The Step By Step Guiide to Owner Building - Paperback

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by Matthew Sipek (Illustrator), Leeza Sipek (Author), Hazel Foote (Author)American Owner-Builder is an easy to follow publication written for anyone wishing to owner build it is an easy to understand step by step guide that details the entire process of building your dream home in a financially responsible manner. American Owner-Builder provides a wealth of information to give you every chance of succeeding in your development saving yourself many thousands of dollars in the process. Even if ...

Paris: Adult Coloring Book Vol.3: City Sketch Coloring Book - Paperback

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by Hector Farr (Author)Paris: Adult Coloring Book Vol.3 City Sketches for Coloring Book This Coloring Book is a part of Wonderful Cities In Europe Series (Volume 3) This collection of beautiful places around Paris will captivate and excite all adult Colorists. This Book Contains: - Over 40 Sketches of Famous Sightseeing places for coloring - Designed Both in Portrait and Landscape pages - Printed on the front of Pages only for easy coloring and displaying. You don't Need to worry about bleed-...

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by Institute for Career Research (Author)URBAN PLANNING IS A CAREER WHOSE TIME has come. The concept of urban planning, or regional planning, has been around for centuries but only in recent years has the need for planning become so acute that essentially every city, county, state, and some private corporations, all have planners on their payrolls. The simplest reason for this new appreciation for planning is that there are more people but the same amount of land to live on. This requires pla...

Petaluma: A History in Architecture - Hardcover

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by Katherine J. Rinehart (Author), Katherine J. Rhinehart (Author)Petaluma's past is uniquely reflected in its historic architecture. The town's earliest commercial buildings tightly lined the waterfront of the Petaluma River, at one time the busiest transportation corridor in the North Bay. After the railroad arrived, an already thriving dairy and manufacturing city became the nation's largest poultry and egg producer. A vital economy brought factories like the impressive Sunset Line & T...

Rapid City: Historic Downtown Architecture - Hardcover

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by Adirenne Merola Kerst (Author), Patrick D. Roseland (Author), Jean Oleson-Kessloff (Author)With the opening of the Black Hills region of South Dakota due to the discovery of gold in 1874, the business-savvy founders of Rapid City, in 1876, saw the potential of this area as a focus for urban development. It was nestled within the beauty of the Black Hills, rich in natural resources, adjacent to a viable water source and in line with major trade routes. Thus, a thriving commercial district e...

Missions of Central California - Hardcover

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by Robert A. Bellezza (Author)After the discovery of Alta California, the Spanish Crown charged the first Franciscan friars to enter into the New World through Lower Baja, with a succession of conquistadors, explorers, and soldiers, on a trail called El Camino Real or "The Royal Road." The settlement began in 1769 at Mission San Diego de Alcala, a new port and military presidio with buildings of mud, brushwood, and tule grass. Fr. Junipero Serra, the legendary mission presidente and founding ...

Home Design in an Aging World - Paperback

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by Jeffrey Rosenfeld (Author), Wid Chapman (Author)Home Design in an Aging Worldexamines changing norms and social strains in an aging world and looks at their implications for home design. Jeffrey P. Rosenfeld and Wid Chapman discuss senior home design in seven rapidly aging nations: Brazil, China, India, Israel, Japan, Sweden, and the United States. All seven of these nations are faced with the challenge of providing housing for populations that are living longer than ever before. The cross...

Nature's Harmonic Unity: A Treatise on Its Relation to Proportional Form - Paperback

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by Samuel Colman (Author)2009 Reprint of the original 1912 edition. Paperback 327pp. With 302 illustrations by the author. Baumring's Top Pick for an Understanding of Harmonic Order of Nature. Beautiful Analysis of the Harmonic Structure of All Types of Forms in Nature Clearly Showing the Order of their Form. "A monumental work of great erudition showing the fundamental unity of all design in nature, from the microscopic to the galactic, but most especially the unity of design in architecture...

Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776-1858 - Paperback

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by Faherty (Author)A rich analysis of how post Revolutionary Americans conceptualized the early Republic through metaphors of home buildingAuthor BiographyDUNCAN FAHERTY is Assistant Professor, Department of English, Queens College, City University of New York. Number of Pages: 268 Dimensions: 0.6 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 01, 2009

Gone from Texas: Our Lost Architectural Heritage - Paperback

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by Willard B. Robinson (Author)The architecture of an area reflects and indeed embodies its history. When a significant portion of that architecture is lost, so is the grasp later generations have on their heritage. With more than 250 historical photographs and drawings and thoughtful commentary, Willard Robinson recaptures for Texans the cultural history of their state through the architecture that is gone. This handsome volume is unique in picturing comprehensively both public and private b...

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by J. O. Wengstroms (Author)A reprint of an 1890's catalog of a Stockholm manufacturer of wooden houses, with floor plans and perspective drawings of 86 pavilions, bathinghouses, balconies, verandas, kiosks, and dwelling houses. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.23 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Publication Date: September 09, 2002

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by R. Alan Culpepper (Editor)A collection of essays on John 6 illustrating various current approaches to biblical interpretation. To understand this chapter, one must deal with most of the issues that confront serious readers of the Fourth Gospel. Historical issues and questions regarding the composition of the Gospel, the nature of the Johannine community, the literary design of the Gospel and its theology all come to focus in a unique way in John 6. The essays in this volume are written by ...