Even if your home’s decor hasn’t changed since 1976, you can refresh, revamp and revitalize it at the holidays with just a few simple strokes. Unlike regular decorating — where you agonize over paint colors, upholstery choices and...
Art and architecture
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Author:Taylor, KelleySummary: - Author:McMillan, Patricia Hart, McMillan, Katharine KayeSummary:
Do you long to create picture-perfect rooms, but can’t quite seem to achieve them? Do you want better functioning spaces for working, playing or living? Do you clamor to express your personal style? If you said “yes” to any of these...
- Author:Carey, James, Carey, MorrisSummary:
Home Maintenance For Dummies is a hands-on, step-by-step guide to properly maintaining your home. Your home requires regular maintenance to operate safely and efficiently. The expert advice in this second edition of Home Maintenance For...
- Author:Rehfeld, BarrySummary:
Zero energy homes produce at least as much energy as they consume through a combination of energy efficiencies, passive design, and renewable energy production. California has adopted zero net energy as the new residential standard for...
- Author:Kellner, JessicaSummary:
Housing is a fundamental human right. For most of human history, our homes were built by hand from whatever local materials were available. However, since the Industrial Revolution, most housing has become little more than quickly...
- Author:Gibbons, GailSummary:
Gail Gibbons combines clear, simple wording with her signature illustrations to present all the steps involved in building a house. From the architect who draws the plans, through the various types of workers who construct it, to the...
- Author:Payne, Bridget WatsonSummary:
Why is art magical' How can it make us happy' How Art Can Make You Happy offers the keys to unlocking a rich and rewarding source of joy in life. This easy, breezy handbook is full of insight that will help regular people...
- Author:Shand, JenniferSummary:
Have you ever wondered how bridges don't fall down or how really old buildings stay standing up? Basic principles of architecture and engineering, including an introduction to bridges, locks, arches, columns, and skyscrapers, are...
- Author:Saltz, JerrySummary:
"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity ... This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, for the person who understands that practical talk can coax out...
- Author:Barnes, MollySummary:
In this accessible, easy-to-read, detailed guide for artists, students, and aspiring art professionals, gallery owner Molly Barnes takes the mystique out of selling art. With the art market generating over a billion dollars in sales...
- Author:Williamson, MargauxSummary:
"Like all my favorite art, these paintings bring out that covetous feeling. I want to wear them, dance to them, show them off as an example of how life feels to me: dirty, dumb, terrifying, spiritual, and so funny."-Miranda...
- Author:Settis, Salvatore, Naffis-Sahely, AndréSummary:
What is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasure belong? This eloquent book by the internationally renowned art historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions, igniting a new debate about the Pearl of the Adriatic and...
- Author:Beck, LaurenSummary:
Like England's Arthur and France's Charlemagne, the Cid is Spain's national hero, and for centuries he has served as an ideal model of citizenship. All Spaniards are familiar with the story of the Cid and the multifarious...
- Author:Jaybee, Kay.Summary:
Immoral Views is a collection of titillating tales of voyeuristic sex, written by five of erotica's sultriest mistresses. A deliciously dissolute anthology of sex in public, and the illustrated versions are illustrated by John...
- Author:Heer, JeetSummary:
Nominated for a 2014 Saskatchewan Book Award Françoise Mouly, an editor and publisher of uncommon taste and creativity, and an artist in her own right, has spent nearly four decades transforming comics. With her husband, Art Spiegelman...
- Author:Heer, JeetSummary:
In a partnership spanning four decades, Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman have been the pre-eminent power couple of cutting-edge graphic art. From Raw magazine to the New York, where she serves as art editor, Mouly and Spiegelman have...
- Author:Biesty, StephenSummary:
This children's book explores the innermost workings of some extraordinary buildings and machines. From helicopters to submarines, skyscrapers to coal mines, open up a fascinating world packed with unique and detailed cutaway drawings....
- Author:King, JamesSummary:
2016 Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award for Non-Fiction — Winner David Milne is one of Canada’s finest artists, a man whose work speaks to the intricate beauty of the world as he experienced it. David Milne (1882–1953) dedicated his...
- Author:Goddard, JohnSummary:
Exploring Hamilton through its heritage museums. Inside Hamilton’s Museums helps to satisfy a growing curiosity about Canada’s steel capital as it evolves into a post-industrial city and cultural destination. With an emphasis on...
- Author:Goddard, JohnSummary:
Inside the Museums views Toronto’s heritage museums for the first time as a single community — linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit Campbell House, 160 Queen Street West, at the northwest...
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