Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid
 Author: Marianne Cusato Author: Ben Pentreath Author: Richard Sammons Author: Leon Krier Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 728 EAN: 9781402736285 ISBN: 1402736282 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: 2008-01-01 [... more]
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Outside The Bungalow
From Amazon.com: Open the door and step outside to see how the Arts & Crafts aesthetic has shaped gardens over the years as surely as it has influenced architecture and furniture. This follow-up volume to Inside the Bungalow: America's Arts and [... more]
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The Art of Software Architecture: Design Methods and ...
One extra star for trying.: Ever since "The Mythical Man-Month", it has been clear that lack of strong architecture will sink a software project. (It was probably true before TMMM, but that was before my time.) Architecture, implying an [... more]
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Cabin Fever
From Amazon.com: The craze for "getting away from it all" in buildings of log, stone, and unpainted lumber has been a part of American life since the 1800s. From the Gilded Age retreats of the Catskills and Adirondacks to the rugged Wild West [... more]
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Software by Numbers: Low-Risk, High-Return Development
If you know Agile principles, don't bother with this book: The core theory of the book is that feature/stories need to be prioritized based on business value. To anyone doing Agile (Scrum, XP, FDD) this is pretty much standard stuff. What is new in the [... more]
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Hellenistic Architectural Sculpture: Figural Motifs in ...
Welcome addition to meager corpus on Hellenistic sculpture: Prof. Linda Jones Roccos (City University of New York), in: American Journal of Archaeology 102 (1998) 446-447: Here is a most welcome addition to the meager corpus of informative works on [... more]
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In The Romantic Style
Romancing the Home: A unique book! The allure of this decorating style lies in the marriage of rustic and architectural elements with classic, traditional and elegant elements. From distressed textured walls bedecked with art and mirrors, to gorgeous [... more]
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Safari Style
From Amazon.com: As Western lavishness collided with striking native elements in the vast reaches of the East African savanna, the Safari style was born. Blending ethnic African with colonial European, the look emphasizes relaxed yet luxurious living, [... more]
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The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: Ritual, ...
Excellent resource for students of interior design history: With all the books written on Roman architecture and art, I was thrilled to find this comprehensive book on domestic Roman interiors. Written in a reader friendly manner - the book covers all [... more]
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Piranesi: The Etchings
The Definitive catalogue raisonne of Piranesi: Despite the minimal written information, translated from Italian into both English and German, this very generous book does indeed live up to its title of The Complete Etchings. Giovanni Battista Piranesi [... more]
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Gardens of Persia
Disappointment: What a disappointment. Beautiful pictures of archaeological sites, architectural elements, desert scenery; pretty Persian miniatures, nice diagrams and drawings BUT where are the gardens? Oh, maybe after page 100 or so we start to see [... more]
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Casa Adobe
Book Review--New Mexico Magazine: Many people find the lines and textures of an adobe building at once seductive and compelling. This book is all about the unique aesthetic of houses made of mud. Third in a series of four books on popular residential [... more]
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