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2018.
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English
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"In Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave, Joanna Gaines walks you through how to create a home that reflects the personalities and stories of the people who live there. Using examples from her own farmhouse as well as a range of other homes, this comprehensive guide will help you assess your priorities and instincts, as well as your likes and dislikes, with practical steps for navigating and embracing your authentic design...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"The prospect of revamping a yard is daunting. Where do you start? How do all the various areas come together in a beautiful, cohesive way? The Beginner's Guide to Starting a Garden simplifies the process by showing you how to spend fewer hours (and a minimal amount of money) in the garden by tackling one small area at a time. You'll find garden plans for ten unique areas--the entryway, the shady areas under trees, and more--that can be linked together...
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English
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The Principles of Beautiful Web Design is the ideal book for anyone who wants to design stunning websites that provide a great user experience. Perhaps you're a developer who wants to understand how to make your applications more visually appealing, or you're a novice who wants to start on the path to becoming a designer.
This book will teach you how to:
• Understand what makes "good design," from discovery through to implementation
• Use color...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Provides inspiration for turning a tired garden into an enlivening treat." -The English Garden
Your garden, just like your house, sometimes needs a makeover. The change can be as minor as replacing a shrub or as major as pulling everything up and starting from scratch. No matter the size of your space or the scope of the project, the sage advice in Garden Renovation will help you turn your yard into a paradise. Bobbie Schwartz draws on her...
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English
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"The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement--precision--in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future." -- Amazon.
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Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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The essential and bestselling guide to typography from beloved design educator Ellen Lupton-revised and expanded to include new and additional voices, examples, and principles, and a wider array of typefaces.
"Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."-I Love Typography
The bestselling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded third edition: This is the definitive guide to using typography...
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Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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Turn your outdoor landscape into a rich, living canvas of color and texture. Encouraging experimentation, Stephanie Cohen and Nancy J. Ondra show you how to plan a garden that incorporates unique combinations of plants to achieve stunning effects. With an overview of garden design fundamentals and 20 sample garden plans, Cohen and Ondra will inspire you to play with creative juxtapositions of vibrant hues and subtle textures. Let your imagination...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"This thoughtful, intelligent book is all about connectivity, addressing a natural world in which we are the primary influence." -The New York Times Books Review
Many gardeners today want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife, but they also want beauty, a space for the kids to play, privacy, and maybe even a vegetable patch. Sure, it's a tall order, but The Living Landscape shows you how to do it. You'll learn the strategies for...
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Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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Here is the ultimate resource for finally turning your dream into reality. With photos, blueprints, and diagrams, Fears thoroughly covers the process of constructing the cabin you've always wanted. From buying land, construction materials, deciding on lighting, the water system, and on-site constructions-such as shooting ranges, an outhouse, or an outside fire ring-this is a book filled with nuggets of wisdom from a specialist in the field: J. Wayne...
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Pub. Date
1995.
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First edition.
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English
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Elements of Garden Design does what few gardening books do--it addresses the process of conceiving a whole garden, as opposed to a single element like color or a particular class of plant. Joe Eck explores the idea of a garden, and offers a practical approach to translating concepts such as "intention" and "harmony" into the solid forms of hedges and terraces, paths and rooms. Novice and experienced professional alike will find both food for thought...
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2018.
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English
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"In this beautiful, inspiring, and practical book we are invited to look deeply at the landscape around us and create sacred respites from our busy worlds." -Rosemary Gladstar, herbalist and author
We all need a personal sanctuary. A place where we can be in harmony with the natural world and nurture our bodies, minds, and souls. And this sanctuary doesn't have to be a far-away destination-it can be in your own backyard. In Creating Sanctuary,...
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English
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This volume is a guide to all the basics of landscaping, from assessing the property to choosing plants -- projects, plant lists, sample plans, irrigation and much more. The author provides every crucial step in designing and implementing a landscape plan: from assessing specific needs and planning a budget and time line, to making the best choices for a successful garden. She describes 200 of her favorite plants, shrubs and trees and includes a new...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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This Is What Democracy Looked Like, the first illustrated history of printed ballot design, illuminates the noble but often flawed process at the heart of our democracy. An exploration and celebration of US ballots from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this visual history reveals unregulated, outlandish, and, at times, absurd designs that reflect the explosive growth and changing face of the voting public. The ballots offer insight into...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Garden Refresh is a thoughtful, accessible, and creative guide for the savvy home gardener on how to create a beautiful, productive and healthy garden without spending crazy amounts of cash or using an excess of Earth's valuable natural resources. This budget and earth-friendly guide presents itself in different chapters that focus on key specific areas where a gardener can save, such as on designing a garden, soil, plants, water, maintenance, and...
16) CSS master
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English
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"This book will show you how to write better, more efficient CSS, and to take advantage of the plethora of the new cutting-edge CSS features available to the front-end developer. You'll also learn to master tools that will improve your workflow" -- back cover
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English
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The third edition of The Essential Garden Design Workbook is fully updated with new color photograph and illustrations, garden plans, and growing information for the top fifty plants no designer should be without. You'll also find updated information on designing with computer-aided design (CAD), details on sustainability ad biodiversity, and important advice on working with contractors.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Third edition.
Language
English
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This comprehensive guide to planning and choosing the perfect deck offers step-by-step instructions on how to design and build a deck that enhances the home, while also serving the family's needs. Deck Designs 4th Edition offers guidance for both DIY projects and for working with contractors. The first part of the book covers topics such as how to decide on a design, tips on identifying uses for the structure, and common building themes and variations....
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Prefabrication offers a simple path to the green home of your dreams, and in her latest book, Prefabulous author Sheri Koones highlights the many ways of using prefabrication to create almost-off-the-grid homeshouses that are not only environmentally friendly but often operate at nearly zero annual energy cost.
Taking energy from the grid when necessary and returning any excess energy produced, almost-off-the-grid homes function on a fraction...
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