The President's House
1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home
Written by Margaret Truman

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00

As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting–but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence, part goldfish bowl, and part national shrine, the White House is both the most important address in America and the most intensely scrutinized... Read more >

740 Park
The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
Written by Michael Gross

Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95

For seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas; another at one time had a live-in service staff of 16. To this day... Read more >

Rubble
Unearthing the History of Demolition
Written by Jeff Byles

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95

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 of dreams, demolition has long played an ambiguous role in our lives. In lively, colorful prose,... Read more >

Fallingwater Rising
Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House
Written by Franklin Toker

Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $25.00

Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told.

When he got the... Read more >

Pushing the Limits
New Adventures in Engineering
Written by Henry Petroski

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95

In the ever increasing push for longer bridges, taller buildings, bigger stadiums, and grander projects of all kinds, engineers face new challenges that redefine our sense of both aesthetics and functionality. Pushing the Limits describes two dozen adventures in engineering that provide a fresh look at the past, a unique view... Read more >

The Unending Mystery
A Journey Through Labyrinths ansd Mazes
Written by David W. McCullough

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00

The Unending Mystery is a charming, offbeat, generously illustrated exploration of a form that has had
a place in the culture of almost every civilization since the beginning of human history—and is now experiencing a
modern revival.

Labyrinths appear on Neolithic rock outcroppings and in some of the oldest legends from the... Read more >

The Architecture of Happiness

Written by Alain De Botton

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $18.00

One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us.

And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from... Read more >

Vogue Living
Houses, Gardens, People
Written by Hamish Bowles

Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $75.00

This unique book of thirty-six spectacular houses and gardens—whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and society—draws not only on stories that have appeared in the pages of Vogue and Vogue Living over the past two decades but also on images that have never before been published. Vogue... Read more >

Building Suburbia
Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000
Written by Dolores Hayden

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $16.95

For almost two centuries Americans have been moving to the suburbs in search of affordable
family housing, unspoiled nature, and small-town sociability—only to find that their leafy
new neighborhoods are part of the growing metropolitan sprawl. It is to this contested cultural landscape, where most Americans now live, that Dolores Hayden... Read more >

Grand Avenues
The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C.
Written by Scott W. Berg

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2009
Price: $15.95

Grand Avenues tells the riveting story of Pierre Charles L’Enfant and the creation of Washington D.C.--from the seeds of his inspiration to the fulfillment of his extraordinary vision.

L’Enfant’s story is one of consuming passion, high emotion, artistic genius, and human frailty. As a boy he studied drawing at the most prestigious... Read more >