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Integrate I-5: Reimagining Interstate 5 in Downtown Seattle - Paperback

$42.12

by Cheval Tepier (Author)A technical study proposing 3 miles of Interstate 5 in Seattle be rerouted into a deep-bore tunnel. This will simultaneously enhance the highway's throughput, relink a divided downtown and restore 100 acres of land to the City's inventory. Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.42 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: April 30, 2019

The Stage of Time: Secrets of the Past, The Nature of Reality, and the Ancient Gods of History - Paperback

$14.02

by Matthew R. LaCroix (Author), Ben Finney (Editor), Gil Croy (Illustrator)The Stage of Time will bring you through an adventurous exploration into understanding the secrets of consciousness, ancient history, and the very nature of reality itself. Be prepared to question the world you live in and everything you thought you knew about the universe, human origins, and the lost civilizations of the past. Discover thought-bending evidence from some of the oldest text ever written and learn the re...

$25.87

by Sophy Burnham (Author) Number of Pages: 416 Dimensions: 0.93 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 20, 2000

The Preservationist's Guide to Technological Change and the American Home: 1600-1900 - Paperback

$19.95

by Lee Perry (Author) Number of Pages: 312 Dimensions: 0.78 x 9.12 x 5.94 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: August 20, 2000

The Crisis of the African-American Architect: Conflicting Cultures of Architecture and (Black) Power - Paperback

$26.95

by Melvin L. Mitchell (Author)another missing piece of our rich history and profound contribution to western civilization. For history buffs please put this book on your must read list... Number of Pages: 416 Dimensions: 1.04 x 9.08 x 6.24 IN Publication Date: November 19, 2002

Battle Creek Letters: (Adventist Home, Message to young people, Adventist institution counsels, Letters to Battle Creek members and more inf - Paperback

$24.46

by Ellen G. White (Author)Powerful counsels to the remnant church of these days. These Ellen White letters let us know the atmosphere during the days of Dr. Kellogg and more. This is a new big print edition (A4) and a (13pt) letters for those people who have problems with vision. Number of Pages: 106 Dimensions: 0.22 x 11.69 x 8.27 IN Publication Date: December 15, 2020 Large Print: Yes

The Origin of the Mosque of Cordoba: Secrets of Andalusia - Paperback

$13.99

by Marvin H. Mills (Author)This book represents twenty years of thought and research on perhaps the greatest Islamic monument in Spain- the Mosque of Cordoba. The unfolding of the mystery of its origin goes back to Atlantis when an era of world civilization made possible the birth of a community called Tartessos in Andalusia. This sophisticated society welcomed the trading Phoenicians in the 12th century BC. Together they designed and built essentially the structure that Islam adapted to thei...

James Mont: The King Cole Penthouse - Paperback

$76.43

by Todd Merrill (Author)The first book devoted to James Mont, the important and uniquely American Mid-Century interior and furniture designer. He established his reputation in America for creating custom clandestine bars during prohibition for Hollywood stars and East Coast mobsters. By the mid-thirties he had a thriving design business based in New York City. His aesthetic was defined by combining post-Deco glamour with Oriental accents such as exotic finishes, smoked mirrors, and an abundan...

Store Design: A Complete Guide to Designing Successful Retail Stores - Paperback

$20.23

by William R. Green (Author)As a professional working with retail clients and their facilities, Store Design is an invaluable resource for all project stakeholders in the retail environment. It's a concise but complete overview of the design perspectives critical to creating spaces that excite, energize, and, most importantly, motivate consumers to make purchases. Retail design is different. It's a specialty. When done well, it works like magic. You want to build successful store magnets to a...

Debacle: Failing to Rebuild the Twin Towers: A Collection of Essays - Paperback

$13.48

by Joe Wright (Editor), Alexander Butziger (Editor), Edward Cline (Introduction by)Why aren't the World Trade Center Twin Towers being rebuilt taller, stronger, and safer? Why is what pretty much everyone took for granted on September 12, 2001, not coming true? Why are iconic 110-story Towers being replaced with a bunch of shorter buildings topped by pointless spires? Ten years after the original disaster and ten years into the disaster that is the rebuilding process, New Yorkers and out-of-t...

Passive Annual Heat Storage: Improving the Design of Earth Shelters (2013 Revision) - Paperback

$40.43

by John Hait (Author)Still the World's Most Advanced Text on Earth Sheltering and Passive Solar Design Passive Annual Heat Storage (PAHS) is a method of collecting heat in the summertime, by cooling the home naturally, storing it in the earth naturally, then returning the heat to the home in the winter. It includes extensive use of natural heat flow methods and the arrangement of building materials to direct heat from wherever you get it to wherever you want it, all without using machinery t...

Universal Design For Safety: Creating Safe & Accessible Living Spaces For All Ages - Paperback

$32.33

by Steve Hoffacker (Photographer), Steve Hoffacker (Author)"Universal Design For Safety: Creating Safe & Accessible Living Spaces For All Ages" is a book written for consumers who want to do their own remodeling and renovation to remain in their home and age in place successfully (or just get the most out of their home for the next few years) as well as the professionals who will help them or provide it. The objective is for anyone to achieve a safe, accessible, comfortable, visitable, an...

Water Features for patios and gardens - Paperback

$24.79

by Penny Swift (Author), Janek Szymanowski (Author)Water Features for Patios and Gardens is an inspirational guide to water features and patios and gardens that will turn your home into a lifestyle experience. It is a comprehensive, practical guide to designing, building and installing ponds, formal pools and the full range of water features for patios and gardens of all sizes and styles. Whether you want to create an ambitious water garden which will attract wildlife and birds, build a prett...

Architectural Conservation: Principles and Practice - Paperback

$106.49

by Aylin Orbasli (Author)This book provides an introductory text for students in built environment disciplines, as well as those who manage or own historic properties, and those embarking upon architectural conservation professionally. It is designed to give an understanding of the main principles, materials and problems in the field of conservation and it features a number of case studies.Back JacketThis book provides a comprehensive introduction to the principles and practice of architectur...

Art and Its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium - Paperback

$90.65

by Andrew McClellan (Editor)Bringing together essays by museum professionals and academics from both sides of the Atlantic, Art and its Publics tackles current issues confronting the museum community and seeks to further the debate between theory and practice around the most pressing of contemporary concerns. Brings together essays that focus on the interface between the art object, its site of display, and the viewing public. Tackles issues confronting the museum community and seeks to furt...

The Pantheon: Design, Meaning, and Progeny, with a New Foreword by John Pinto, Second Edition - Paperback

$61.20

by William L. MacDonald (Author), John Pinto (Foreword by)The Pantheon in Rome is one of the grand architectural statements of all ages. This richly illustrated book isolates the reasons for its extraordinary impact on Western architecture, discussing the Pantheon as a building in its time but also as a building for all time. Mr. MacDonald traces the history of the structure since its completion and examines its progeny--domed rotundas with temple-fronted porches built from the second century...

$77.40

by Anthony Blunt (Author)Francesco Borromini is one of the great geniuses of Baroque architecture, perhaps the greatest in inventiveness and in use of spatial effects. Here is the first book in English to survey the whole work of the master. The author, former Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, is known internationally for his many works on French and Italian architecture and painting. In this lucid and fully illustrated account, Anthony Blunt charts Borromini's career and analyzes a...

Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art - Paperback

$28.95

by Thomas Hoving (Author)From Simon & Schuster, Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a unforgettable autobiography for any arts and culture fans. A former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals his bold and brash life at its pinnacle: the clandestine deals which secured blockbuster exhibitions for the museum and made him a legend.Author BiographyThomas Hoving was a museum executive, consultant, and director for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He i...

Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Declineof America's Man-Made Landscape - Paperback

$20.00

by James Howard Kunstler (Author)The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of cartoon architecture and parking lots. In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness. The Geography of Nowhere talli...

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by Simon Goldhill (Author)It was destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago, and yet the Temple of Jerusalem--cultural memory, symbol, and site--remains one of the most powerful, and most contested, buildings in the world. This glorious structure, imagined and re-imagined, reconsidered and reinterpreted again and again over two millennia, emerges in all its historical, cultural, and religious significance in Simon Goldhill's account.Built by Herod on a scale that is still staggering--on an earth and ro...

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by Llewelyn Morgan (Author)For 1,400 years, two colossal figures of the Buddha overlooked the fertile Bamiyan Valley on the Silk Road in Afghanistan. Witness to a melting pot of passing monks, merchants, and armies, the Buddhas embodied the intersection of East and West, and their destruction by the Taliban in 2001 provoked international outrage. Llewelyn Morgan excavates the layers of meaning these vanished wonders hold for a fractured Afghanistan. Carved in the sixth and seventh centuries, ...

Building the Timber Frame House: The Revival of a Forgotten Craft - Paperback

$25.00

by Tedd Benson (Author), James Gruber (With), Jamie Page (Illustrator)For centuries, post-and-beam construction has proved to be one of the most durable building techniques. It is being enthusiastically revived today not only for its sturdiness but because it can be easily insulated, it is attractive, and it offers the builder the unique satisfaction of working with timbers. Building the Timber Frame House is the most comprehensive manual available on the technique. In it you will find a shor...

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by Witold Rybczynski (Author)In City Life, Witold Rybczynski, bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, looks at what we want from cities, how they have evolved, and what accounts for their unique identities. In this vivid description of everything from the early colonial settlements to the advent of the skyscraper to the changes wrought by the automobile, the telephone, the airplane, and telecommuting, Rybczynski reveals how our urban spaces have been shaped by the landscapes and lifestyles o...

False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes - Paperback

$24.95

by Thomas Hoving (Author)Delving into one of the most sacrosanct areas of culture--fine art collecting--Thomas Hoving presents a gallery of art fakes, fakers, and the suckers who fell for the scams. False Impressions from Thomas Hoving reveals the biggest, the best, the most embarrassing, and the most costly forgeries in history--many of them unknown until now.Author BiographyThomas Hoving was a museum executive, consultant, and director for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is from New York...

Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life: How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect, and Happiness - Paperback

$18.99

by Karen Rauch Carter (Author)An essential and accessible guide to increasing happiness, improving your financial well-being, and bettering your health through the timeless Chinese art of feng shui. Promising health, wealth, and happiness, feng shui offers endless appeal--at leastBack JacketLike sushi, Giga Pets, and Jackie Chan, feng shui has made its way West in a big way. Promising health, wealth, and happiness, feng shui offers endless appeal -- at least in concept. Unfortunately, feng sh...

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres: A Study of Thirteenth-Century Unity - Paperback

$116.28

by Henry Adams (Author)This first paperback facsimile of the classic 1913 edition includes thirteen photographs and numerous illustrations of the great cathedrals of Northern France. Henry Adams referred to this book as "A Study of Thirteenth-Century Unity," and its expansive scope, together with the author's deep understanding of the period, makes it a classic in art history as well as in American literature. He wrote, "I wanted to show the intensity of the vital energy of a given time, and ...

High Gothic: The Classic Cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, Amiens - Paperback

$90.63

by Hans Jantzen (Author), James Palmes (Translator)This engaging study introduces the reader to one of the greatest achievements of Western art: the climactic phase of Gothic architecture in the first half of the thirteenth century. Through a comparative analysis of the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Amiens, the author illuminates the technical, theological, artistic, and social factors that formed the High Gothic synthesis. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarship, he successively characteri...

The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order - Expanded Edition - Paperback

$71.93

by Otto Georg Von Simson (Author)The description for this book, The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order, will be forthcoming.Back JacketThis essay seeks to understand Gothic architecture as an image, more precisely, as the representation of supernatural reality. To those who designed the cathedrals, as to their contemporaries who worshiped in them, this symbolic aspect or function of sacred architecture overshadowed all others. To us, it has beco...

Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art - Paperback

$50.40

by Bruce Altshuler (Editor)Collecting the New is the first book on the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not yet withstood the test of time, it defies the traditional understanding of the art museum as an institution that collects and displays works of long-established aesthetic and historical value. By acquiring such art, museums gamble on the future. In addition, new technologies and alternative conceptions of the a...

$15.95

by Amos Ih Tiao Chang (Author), David Wang (Foreword by)Frank Lloyd Wright first noted the affinity between modern Western architecture and the philosophy of the ancient Chinese writer Laotzu. In this classic work, Amos Ih Tiao Chang expands on that idea, developing the parallel with the aid of architectural drawings and Chinese paintings. Now with a new foreword by David Wang, this book reveals the vitality of intangible, or negative, elements. Chang writes that these qualities make architec...

Winding the Clock on the Independence Square: Jackson County's Historic Truman Courthouse - Paperback

$20.25

by David W. Jackson (Author)Independence Square in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, has been in the middle of some of the most pivotal events in local and U.S. history. Throughout this entire 185+year history, Jackson County's Courthouse on Independence Square has stood as a monument to the past and symbol for our future. After its 2013 restoration, what a perfect 'time' to "wind the clock" as we look back on the history of Independence Square and Jackson County's Historic Truman Court...

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by Albert Degenova (Editor), Alice D'Alessio (Editor), Jude Genereaux (Editor)The Clearing Folk School is where Norbert Blei taught a weeklong writing workshop every summer for nearly 40years. e school, built by landscape architect Jens Jensen, is situated atop one of the most beautiful bluffs in DoorCounty. is is Norbert Blei's DoorCounty, the subject of much of his writing. Nearly two years prior to his death in 2013, Norbert invited some of his long-time students (all accomplished writer...