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by Garold (Gary) Oberlender, Robert Peurifoy
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
The definitive guide to formwork design, materials, and methods--fully updated
Formwork for Concrete Structures, Fourth Edition, provides current information on designing and building formwork and temporary structures during the construction process. Developed with the latest structural design recommendations...
Women & Recovery: Sex, Sobriety, & Stepping Up
Practical Suggestions for Quality Living in Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
In Women and Recovery: Sex, Sobriety and Stepping Up, Ann D. Clark, Ph.D, provides readers with a no-nonsense, step-by-step guide to giving up anything. Clark explains how to conquer addictions using a lighthearted approach. Addressing such problems as substance abuse, overeating, shopping, or simply...
How to Tie a Scarf
33 Styles
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
From designer silk squares to chunky homemade knits, this guide is filled with inspired ways to style your scarves. Inside you'll find:
• Step-by-step tutorials for square, oblong, and embellished scarves
• Styles for the summer, fall, winter, and spring seasons
• DIY scarf accessories featuring camera straps, tote bags, necklaces, and more
Make: Props and Costume Armor
Create Realistic Science Fiction & Fantasy Weapons, Armor, and Accessories
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Have you been trying to think of a way to conquer your local comic convention through cosplay? Do you gaze with envious eyes upon the fan-made suits of armored awesomeness strolling around every year on Halloween? Do you have a spot on your wall, bookshelf, or desk that desperately needs to be filled...
SOUTHERN LIVING Style Guide
Decorating Tips and Tricks from the South's Most Beautiful Homes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Learn how to live Southern in every room of the house—from entryways and living rooms to kitchens and bedrooms—with more than 200 ideas for creating stylish spaces with paint, furniture, fabrics, accessories, and more.
Fashion Embroidery
Embroidery Techniques and Inspiration for Haute-Couture Clothing
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This practical step-by-step guide to haute couture embroidery covers everything from machine and hand stitching, to tambour beading, goldwork and monogramming.
Whether you are interested in adding monogrammed initials to your favourite bathrobe, stitching a flower on your favourite jacket,...
by Wongvipa Devahastin Na Ayudhya, Jane Doughty Marsden
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
With over 150 photographs and insightful text, this Thai design book showcases some of the best interiors in the country.
Known for its beautiful traditional and contemporary handicrafts, it's no wonder that Thailand is home to some of the most beautifully decorated houses in the world. Elegant,...
Laboratory Lifestyles
The Construction of Scientific Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
A generously illustrated examination of the boom in luxurious, resort-style scientific laboratories and how this affects scientists' work.
The past decade has seen an extraordinary laboratory-building boom. This new crop of laboratories features spectacular architecture and resort-like amenities....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design offers a compelling collection of original essays that seek to examine the shifting role of interior architecture and interior design, and their importance and meaning within the contemporary world.
Interior architecture and interior design are...
Flow
Interior, Landscape and Architecture in the Era of Liquid Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Flow combines cutting-edge scholarship with practitioner perspectives to address the concept of 'flow' and how it connects interiors, landscapes and buildings, expanding on traditional notions of architectural prominence. Contributors explore the transitional and intermediary relationships between...
Inside the Royal Wardrobe
A Dress History of Queen Alexandra
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside the Royal Wardrobe overturns the popular portrait of a vapid and neglected queen, examining the surviving...
Fashioning Identity
Status Ambivalence in Contemporary Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
We dress to communicate who we are, or who we would like others to think we are, telling seductive fashion narratives through our adornment. Yet, today, fashion has been democratized through high-low collaborations, social media and real-time fashion mediation, complicating the basic dynamic of identity...
Being Gorgeous
Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Being Gorgeous explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical tropes of femininity. This is protest through play – a pleasurable misbehaviour that reflects a feminism for the twenty-first...
by Anon
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Contained within this antique book is a fascinating analysis of Tudor Gothic Furniture. A book that will be of considerable value to those with an interest in historical furniture, this text comes complete with a plethora of exquisite illustrations and fascinating information – one not to be missed...