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British Architectural Styles

by Trevor Yorke

Here is a compact and useful guide, filled with detailed and original drawings, to help put a date to the variety of period buildings we see around us. It covers an immense range of structures and styles from...

Build Nest Boxes for Backyard Birds: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-206

by René Laubach & ChristynaM. Laubach

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles...

Building Bat Houses: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-178

by DaleEvva Gelfand

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles...

Easy-to-Build Birdhouses: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-212

by Mary Twitchell

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles...

Easy-to-Build Bird Feeders: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-209

by Mary Twitchell

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles...

Easy-to-Build Birdbaths: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-208

by Mary Twitchell

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles...

The Man Cave Book

by Jeff Wilser & Michael H. Yost

What separates the men from the boys? The Man Cave.

Boyhood FortMan CaveWho's allowedNot girls—they have cootiesNot women—they have authorityPrimary materials used in constructionWood, stuff your mom doesn't...

Learn Carpentry Skills

by James Slough Zerbe

Carpentry is the oldest of the arts, and it has been said that the knowledge necessary to make a good carpenter fits one for almost any trade or occupation requiring the use of tools. The hatchet, the saw, and...

Designs on Democracy: Architecture and Design in Scotland Post Devolution

by Stuart MacDonald

Disasters, pandemics, the War on Terrorism? Whatever your memories of the Noughties, this was also a Scottish decade. Design, politics and identity came together.

Balinese Temples

by Julian Davison & Bruce Granquist

Bali is an island with literally tens of thousands of temples, a proliferation of religious architecture probably not equaled anywhere else in the world.

This book is intended as a general introduction to the...

The Honeywood Settlement

by H.B. Creswell

A sequal to The Honeywood File (originally published in 1929, and reissued by Academy Chicago in 2000 - ISBN 0-89733-473-6), it takes the form of an epistolary novel. Some of the great comic characters inhabit...

Manage A Home Build And Renovation Project: How to fulfil your own grand design

by Leonard Sales

Undertaking a building or renovation project can be a bit daunting. But with the help of this book you will be in control at all times, confident in your decision making, and sure of getting the job done on...

Sixteen Acres

by Philip Nobel

A no-holds-barred look at the collision of interests behind the ambitious attempt to raise a new national icon at Ground Zero

When we stand in downtown Manhattan in the future and look up and ask, "Why?"--Why...

Celebration, U.S.A.

by Douglas Frantz & Catherine Collins

A prize-winning reporter, his wife, and their two kids describe life in Disney's vision of the future.

In 1997, six months after the first residents had moved into Celebration, Florida-Disney's town of the future...

The Honeywood File: An Adventure in Building

by H.B. Creswell

In this first U.S. publication of a richly comic classic--originally published in England in the 1920s--the pitfalls and vicissitudes of home building are presented in sharp and unforgettable detail.

Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition

by Jeff Byles

From the straight boulevards that smashed their way through rambling old Paris to create the city we know today to the televised implosion of Las Vegas casinos to make room for America’s ever grander desert...

The English Country House Explained

by Mr Trevor Yorke

Most of England's country houses are packed with masterpieces of art and antiques. They also have vast landscaped gardens, often with lakes and fountains. Recent television series and films (such as Downton...

British Interior House Styles: An Easy Reference Guide

by Mr Trevor Yorke

Here is a compact and easy reference guide, filled with original drawings and diagrams in full colour, which detail the changing uses of space within houses over the centuries. The book shows developments in...

Catalog Living at Its Most Absurd: Decorating Takes (Wicker) Balls

by Molly Erdman

Millions have already been to Gary and Elaine’s. Isn’t it time you dropped by?

Have you ever flipped through the pages of a Pottery Barn catalog and thought, “Who actually lives that way?” Rest assured,...

NKBA Kitchen and Bathroom Planning Guidelines with Access Standards

by NKBA

"Before picking products, consult the NKBA Kitchen and Bathroom Planning Guidelines for tips on designing a functional layout."

—Consumer Reports

NKBA Kitchen & Bathroom Planning Guidelines with Access Standards...