A Minnesota Garden
We moved into our "slice of heaven" in 1990. At the time, I knew next to nothing about landscaping, gardening or houses in general. Our corner lot had 12 mature trees on it (from pines to maples). The problem: too much shade, not enough air [... more]
Suite101 |
Small Plants For Small Spaces
GardenLine / Trees and Shrubs / Small Plants For Small Spaces More of us are moving into condominiums or town houses with small courtyards or otherwise limited garden space. In choosing plant material for such spaces, it is important to keep ... [... more]
University of Saskatchewan |
Richard Scarry
Illus. in full color. Shows and tells what busy people do every day to build houses, sail ships, fly planes, keep house, and grow food. Illustrated in full color. This car-and- truck-filled alphabet extravaganza that starts with an ambulance and ... [... more]
Random House |
David Gilmour
David Gilmour is a novelist who's earned the praise of literary figures as diverse as William Burroughs and Northrop Frye, and publications as diverse as The New York Times and People Magazine. His latest novel, Lost Between Houses, was a ... [... more]
Random House |
Diane Kanner
Wallace Neff may have been the preeminent architect of Spanish colonial-revival houses in Southern California, but surprisingly little has been written about him, despite the publicity he received for designing great estates for Hollywood legends ... [... more]
Random House |
Alison Weir
Acclaimed author Alison Weir has been prolific with her books on English royalty covering everything from the Houses of York and Lancaster to the reigns of the Tudors and beyond. Now this remarkable historian brings to life the extraordinary tale ... [... more]
Random House |
Albert Frey: Houses 1 + 2
 Save your money: The captionless pictures are an amateurish mish-mash--a wall here, a cupboard there, a flower pot, etc.--that intends to explain the houses by showing their components. There might be one or two actual pictures of the complete houses, [... more]
CDN$20.84
Amazon CA |
Glass Houses
From Amazon.com: Billy Joel has always wanted to be a rocker. That he made his name on piano ballads and was relegated to soft rock radio even disturbs him, if recent interviews are to be believed. For 1980's Glass Houses, Joel opted to take on the new [... more]
CDN$12.99
Amazon CA |
Haunted Houses of California: A Ghostly Guide to Haunted ...
Lacks any real depth: This book was a dissapointment, but I love the subject of haunted houses, so I keep it around. Antoinette May concentrated more on the history of the actual buildings than on the hauntings themselves, and in one case (a story about [... more]
CDN$11.41
Amazon CA |
Houses Of The Holy
Chronique amazon.fr: Encore sous le choc du succès commercial de Led Zeppelin IV, Jimmy Page décide d'affûter ses talents de producteur en réalisant un album au son encore plus gigantesque, Houses Of The Holy, sorti en 1973. [... more]
CDN$14.99
Amazon CA |
Case Study Houses
From Amazon.com: The first thing you notice about Case Study Houses: The Complete CSH Program, 1945-1966 is its size: it's big. Contained within its 16-inch frame is the history of Arts & Architecture magazine's famed program created to inspire the [... more]
CDN$12.95
Amazon CA |
Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles: ...
Well done all around.: You could think of this as a coffee-table version of the McAlester's Field Guide to American Houses (which I also recommend.) In this case each house is an historical landmark as well as an exemplar of an architectural style, and [... more]
CDN$98.00
Amazon CA |
