With rising energy costs, homeowners are beginning to examine the energy efficiency of their own homes, asking questions about where energy comes from and how much it costs, how to choose new appliances and what options exist for...
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Author:Scheckel, PaulSummary: - Author:Chiras, Dan.Summary:
The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy shows home and business owners how to make dramatic improvements in energy efficiency and tap into clean, affordable sources of renewable energy for heating, cooling, and generating...
- Author:Busby, Karen, Muller, Adam, Woolford, Andrew, Busby, Karen, Carter, Jennifer, Curle, Clint, Failler, Angela, Fallding, Helen, Giesbrecht, Jodi, Grzyb, Amanda, Jacob, George, Jaeger, Stephen, Moses, A. Dirk, Muller, Adam, Nállim, Jorge A., Norman, Ken, Perla, Armando, Petrasek, David, Phillips, Ruth B., Powell, Christopher, Reid, Mary, Simon, Roger I., Sinclair, Struan, Woolford, AndrewSummary:
"The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays...
- Author:Okakura, KakuzoSummary:
The 1904 book that famously declared "Asia is one" was among the first studies in English to reference Zen as it explored the roots of Japanese beauty. Like the author's The Book of Tea, this volume emphasized the...
- Author:Moyle, FrannySummary:
Franny Moyle traces and analyzes the life and work of an extraordinary artist against the backdrop of an era of political turbulence and cultural transformation, to which his art offers a subtle and endlessly refracting mirror.
- Author:Crary, DuncanSummary:
James Howard Kunstler is best known for his unflinching commentary on the collapse of the American dream in the face of the reality of Peak Oil. Written as a long-form conversational interview, The KunstlerCast explores urban planning,...
- Author:Lewis, Ben.Summary:
An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million-and might not be the real thing. For two centuries, art dealers and historians searched in...
- Author:Underwood, EleanorSummary:
This book of Geisha culture and history features beautiful antique photographs and a wealth of information. Geisha have the odd distinction of being both legendary and real, and this book helps clarify those differences. Myth by nature...
- Author:Cameron, JuliaSummary:
The newest audiobook from beloved author Julia Cameron, The Listening Path is a transformational journey to deeper, more profound listening and creativity. Over six weeks, listeners will be given the tools to become better listeners -...
- Author:Laing, OliviaSummary:
What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live if we're not intimately involved? Olivia Laing explores these questions by traveling deep into the work and lives of some of the century's most original artists.
- Author:Gardner, JamesSummary:
Some nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre each year to enjoy its incomparable art collection. Yet few of them are aware of the remarkable history of that place and of the buildings themselves-a fascinating...
- Author:Bouchard, Michel MarcSummary:
At the end of the Great War, to protect his village from the Spanish flu epidemic, a priest commissions an Italian painter to decorate the local church with a fresco dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The painter is to choose, among four...
- Author:Lamster, MarkSummary:
Biography of award-winning modernist architect Philip Johnson (1906-2005), best known for the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. Discusses his early childhood in Ohio, personal relationships as a gay man, development of his career...
- Author:Strathern, PaulSummary:
A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and...
- Author:Hodge, SusieSummary:
See the world through Hokusai's eyes and be inspired to produce your own masterpieces. Have you ever wondered exactly what your favorite artists were looking at to make them draw, sculpt, or paint the way they did? In this charming...
- Author:Matisse, Pierre H.Summary:
Nazi planes were bombing Paris the day a lifelong, more personal war began for Pierre. It was the day he lost his identity.Born into a famous family, Pierre Matisse grew up immersed in the art world of Paris and the French Riviera,...
- Author:Guelberth, Cedar RoseSummary:
For builders of natural homes (straw bale, cob, adobe, rammed earth, and other natural materials), this unique step-by-step guide takes the confusion out of choosing, mixing, and applying natural plasters. From principles to...
- Author:James, SarahSummary:
Sustainability may seem like one more buzzword and cities and towns like the last places to change, but The Natural Step for Communities provides inspiring examples of communities that have made dramatic changes toward sustainability...
- Author:John, W. D.Summary:
This authoritative and definitive work contains the first formal history of antique trays every published. Each of its six chapters is written by a different authority. They discuss: Lace-Edge Painting The "Chippendale" Style Trays...
- Author:Levinson, CynthiaSummary:
A lyrically told, exquisitely illustrated biography of influential Jewish artist and activist Ben Shahn"The first thing I can remember," Ben said, "I drew."As an observant child growing up in Lithuania, Ben Shahn...
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