Wrightscapes : Frank Lloyd Wright's Landscape Designs
Here is the first book to examine the environmental landscape designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, probably the world's best known and most influential architect. WRIGHTSCAPES analyzes 85 of his works, and pays particular attention to site planning, landscape design, community scale, and regional planning.
An epic tale of high adventure and deep humanity set in mythic India, this novel by Newbery medalist Lloyd Alexander offers a feast of many flavors--moving experiences, childlike humor, dark tragedy, anguish at promises broken and joy at promises kept.
Lloyd Alexander - The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio
A beautiful Kirkassi girl, cold-eyed villains and smiling killers, a bazaar merchant peddling slightly used dreams—could any young adventurer ask for more? Not Carlo Chuchio, who is seeking hidden treasure on the legendary Road of Golden Dreams. With Baksheesh, the world's worst camel-puller, Carlo leads a caravan through the realm of Keshavar. Robbed of all but his underdrawers, mistaken for a mighty warrior and then for a crown prince, Carlo risks his life for a prize that may not even exist. Newbery medalist Lloyd Alexander weaves a glorious tale of adventure, love, and the treasures that matter most.
This definitive visual record features a cross-section of Wright's freestanding and built-in furniture. Heinz's introduction precedes a chronological tour through Wright's houses with several buildings explored in depth, including the Susan Lawrence Dana House, the Ward Willits House, and the later, more expansive, Barnsdall House. His 'Usonian' period is examined together with the fabrics, rugs and colours which Wright worked on concurrently.
QI: The Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson“To impress friends with your cleverness, beg, borrow or buy John Lloyd and John Mitchinson’s The Book of General Ignorance, an extraordinary collection of 230 common misperceptions compiled for the BBC panel game QI (Quite Interesting).” —Financial Times
“This book would make even Edison feel small and silly, for it offers answers to questions you never thought to ask or had no need of asking as you already knew, or thought you knew, the answer.” —The Economist
