Walking Jane Austen's London
Written by Louise Allen
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: June 25, 2013
Price: $15.95
The London of Jane Austen's world and imagination comes to life in this themed guidebook of nine walking tours from well-known landmarks to hidden treasures --each evoking the time and culture of Regency England which so influenced Austen's wise perspective and astute insight in novels such as
Pride and Prejudice. Extensively...
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eBook.
Designers Abroad: Inside the Vacation Homes of Top Decorators
Written by Michele Keith
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $50.00
Designers Abroad,
Michele Keith's follow-up to her highly successful book
Designers Here and There, features twenty-two vacation homes of today's top interior designers, exquisitely captured in over 200 lush color photographs.
For some, vacation homes offer an opportunity to escape from the office, to shut off, to wind down. For...
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A Place of My Own
The Education of an Amateur Builder
Written by Michael Pollan
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 6, 2013
Price: $11.99
At a turning point in his life, writer Michael Pollan found himself dreaming of a small wood-frame hut in the woods near his house--a place to work, but also a "shelter for daydreams." Weaving the practical with the philosophical, this book presents a captivating personal inquiry into the art of architecture...
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Great Houses of Havana
Written by Hermes Mallea
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $75.00
Great Houses of Havana celebrates one hundred years of creativity, design, and style that made the city "the Paris of the Caribbean." For four hundred years, Havana was the center of Spanish trade in the western hemisphere. With the expansion of the sugar industry, independence from Spain, and North American investment...
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Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II
From Le Corbusier to Rem Koolhaas
Written by Martin Filler
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: August 20, 2013
Price: $29.95
In this much-anticipated sequel to his critically acclaimed
Makers of Modern Architecture (2007)
longtime
New York Review of Books contributor Martin Filler—“probably the best all-round architecture critic currently working in the United States,” according to the architectural journalist David Cohn—offers another penetrating series of concise but authoritative studies on leading exponents...
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Landscapes in Landscapes
Written by Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury
Format: Trade Paperback, 282 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2011
Price: $65.00
A leading figure in the New Perennial planting movement, garden designer Piet Oudolf emphasizes plant structure as the most important aspect of a successful garden. Form and texture are valued as much as color, and perennials--prized for their beauty throughout a natural life cycle--are used almost exclusively. Oudolf challenges conventional approaches...
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Walking Jane Austen's London
Written by Louise Allen
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: July 23, 2013
Price: $7.95
The London of Jane Austen's world and imagination comes to life in this themed guidebook of nine walking tours from well-known landmarks to hidden treasures --each evoking the time and culture of Regency England which so influenced Austen's wise perspective and astute insight in novels such as
Pride and Prejudice. Extensively...
Read more >