The $50 & Up Underground House Book teaches how to build the lowest cost, most sunshine-filled, best ventilated and driest underground houses of all. It teaches how to incorporate greenhouses, root cellars and fallout shelters into an underground home. It covers both hillside and flat land design, and explains how to solve drainage problems with dependable gravity rather then expensive, failure-prone building materials. It also details ways to pass or otherwise deal with the building codes.
Mies Van Der Rohe's Farnsworth House: Postcard Book
Photographer Paul Clemence celebrates a revered icon of modern architecture, the Farnsworth House, located near Plano, Illinois, and designed in 1951 by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Striking architetural details are captured in 20 eye-catching B & W postcards. Whether mailing or framing the stunning images, this book is a must-have for devotees of architecture, design, Modernism, the Bauhaus, Mies van der Rohe, and photography.
Sandra Cisnero's The House on Mango Street (Bloom's Guides)
In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros draws on her own experience as a Hispanic woman writer facing obstacles in a patriarchal community resistant to change. Published in 1984 to instantaneous acclaim, the book is made up of lyrical passages, interconnected vignettes, and meditations and observations that resemble prose poems. Cisneros's structurally and thematically bold work explores the often violent coming of age of a young Mexican-American woman.
In only seven days you can finish any of these 50 colorful afghans, pillows, baby quickies, and many more. A great variety...special section on baby afghans, as well as afghans to suit each room in the house....Fifty afghans are illustrated in color, and diagrams and step-by-step instructions are all very easy to follow.
In only seven days you can finish any of these 50 colorful afghans, pillows, baby quickies, and many more. A great variety...special section on baby afghans, as well as afghans to suit each room in the house....Fifty afghans are illustrated in color, and diagrams and step-by-step instructions are all very easy to follow.
