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George Birdsall who previously sold 50,000 copies of his first Feng Shui Book ( "Feng Shui - The Key Concepts"), has now written this "20 A4 page introductory book" to give readers a quick overview of some Feng Shui concepts and how they can apply them in their lives to make a difference.While giving an overview to Feng Shui he shows how the symbolic nature of furnishings, colours and layouts can have an impact on your relationships, wealth, happiness,...
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A photographic tour through designers' own spaces, from a Greenwich Village town home to a Park Slope brownstone and beyond.
Designers' homes often serve as laboratories where they are free to experiment. These spaces are filled with the designer's most personal and cherished objects, furnishings, and artwork that are concentrated expressions of their style and interests. New York Design at Home profiles 27 homes and looks at how these creative professionals-among...
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Home Gardener's Small Gardens is the essential guide to improving a small garden and turning the most modest-sized space into a stunning outdoor area. It offers lushly illustrated strategies for making the most of a confined space-whether backyard, terrace or courtyard. Get started with an informative discussion of small garden types, appropriate plants, problems and opportunities, design, and planning. The excitement truly begins with a look at the...
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“Home Gardener's Small Gardens” is the essential guide to improving a small garden and turning the most modest-sized space into a stunning outdoor area. It offers lushly illustrated strategies for making the most of a confined space-whether backyard, terrace or courtyard. Get started with an informative discussion of small garden types, appropriate plants, problems and opportunities, design, and planning. The excitement truly begins with a look...
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Some say that the twilight hours are the best time to enjoy a garden; a time when the spirit of the place really comes alive. It is also the time when many people pass front gardens on their return home, have a few spare minutes for garden maintenance, or want to enjoy the garden for entertaining. Full of easy maintenance advice, planting ideas for evening fragrance, colour, lighting, design, and attracting wildlife, this is a book for how people...
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Beginning gardeners and experts alike will appreciate this practical advice on virtually every aspect of gardening-from choosing a plot to selecting flowers and water features. The instructions and advice encompass plans and proven techniques for planting traditional English, Japanese, herb, and rock gardens, and building structures such as fences and walls, arches, pergolas and trellises, as well as decking and pathways. More than 300 color photographs,...
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El libro es una recopilación de textos relacionados con diversos problemas sociales en torno al diseño. Enfatiza las distintas dimensiones sociales que atraviesa: crea empatía a partir del enfoque del diseño para todos, permite acortar la brecha de género y muestra los contextos socioculturales que permiten un correcto ejercicio del diseño.
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Formulating Ideas Uninterrupted is a pictorial story of A.P. Oliveira's industrial and graphic design work over the years, from the first sketches to the final releases. This book is a personal perspective from an individual whose works range widely across industries, including product concepts and industrial design to brand identity. Oliveira's journey of designing is fascinating, with many lessons learned along the way. In today's world of design,...
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Featuring an extensive collection of full-color photographs, 150 Best Eco House Ideas features eco-friendly house designs created by internationally renowned architects and designers who have achieved practical, innovative, and stunning solutions adapted to the specific needs and tastes of their clients. Included here are the latest innovations in sustainable home design, including solar paneling, wind energy systems, environmentally-friendly heating...
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George Birdsall who previously sold 50,000 copies of his first Feng Shui Book ( "Feng Shui - The Key Concepts"), has now written this "24 A4 page book" to give readers a quick overview of some Feng Shui concepts and how they can apply them in their lives to make a difference.While giving an overview to Feng Shui he shows how the symbolic nature of furnishings, colours and layouts can have an impact on your relationships, wealth career and more.Chapters...
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In the vast expanse of architectural design, the interplay between light and space forms the foundation of our built environment. Natural lighting, in particular, stands as a beacon of inspiration, guiding architects, designers, and builders toward sustainable, luminous spaces that resonate with the rhythms of nature and elevate the human experience. In this exploration of natural lighting in architecture, we embark on a journey of discovery-a journey...
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Many UX techniques fall apart in the real world of overflowing backlogs, two-week sprints, and stubborn stakeholders. Yet wireframing persists, despite its much-anticipated demise. Wireframes are fast and easy to make, can be created and understood by anyone, and function as both creative ideation and practical communication tools.
Leaning on decades of collective experience, Michael Angeles, Leon Barnard, and Billy Carlson show us how to use...
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The essential and bestselling guide to typography from beloved design educator Ellen Lupton-revised and expanded to include new and additional voices, examples, and principles, and a wider array of typefaces.
"Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."-I Love Typography
The bestselling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded third edition: This is the definitive guide to using typography...
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CSS Grid Layout will transform the way you design and develop for the web-and Rachel Andrew will change the way you grok the spec. Learn to use Grid Layout within a system that includes existing methods to perform the tasks they were designed for-and take advantage of this pivotal moment in the evolution of layout.
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The web design industry has changed dramatically in the last year. Everything that was common practice before is now outdated and everyone is clambering to keep up. Get ahead of the curve with the future of responsive web design, RESS. Responsive Web design with Server Side components gives you the best of both worlds. Instant RESS Implementation How-to is an introduction to using server-side languages such as PHP to build a website that can easily...
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Fashion forecasting is a complicated area that is explored in the extensive e-book "Principles of Fashion Forecasting: A Guide to Evaluating Fashion Trends". Through its in-depth analysis, the book provides significant insights into the concepts, practices, and methodologies associated with predicting and evaluating fashion trends. Using examples from social media, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence, the handbook highlights the paradigm...
57) Organic Vegetable Gardening at Home: Sustainable Planning, Soil Preparation, Seed Selection, Pest Co
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Do you want to explore the wonders of Organic Vegetable Gardening at Home? Are you eager to learn how Sustainable Planning, Soil Preparation, Seed Selection, Pest Control, and Harvesting can transform your backyard into a healthy garden oasis?Grow your green thumb with the complete guide to Organic Vegetable Gardening at Home: Sustainable Planning, Soil Preparation, Seed Selection, Pest Control, and Harvesting. With the rise of organic vegetable...
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Design and Culture: A Transdisciplinary History offers an inclusive overview that crosses disciplinary boundaries and helps define the next phase of global design practice. This book examines the interaction of design with advances in technology, developments in science, and changing cultural attitudes. It looks to the past to prepare for the future and is the first book to offer an innovative transdisciplinary design history that integrates multidisciplinary...
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Jardinage Durable est un livre qui initie les lecteurs à l'importance de la durabilité dans la culture des jardins et des espaces verts. L'ouvrage apporte de précieux conseils à ceux qui veulent rendre leur jardin plus durable, du choix des plantes à l'utilisation des techniques d'irrigation et de compostage.L'auteur explore les avantages environnementaux et économiques de l'utilisation de pratiques durables dans l'entretien des jardins, tout...
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Exploring the significant influences of Turkish dress on French fashion
While French fashion has historically set the bar across the Western world, the cultural influences that inspired it are often obscured. Dressing à la Turque examines the theatrical depictions of Ottoman costumes, or Turkish dress, and demonstrates the French fascination for this foreign culture and its clothing. The impact, however, went far beyond costumes worn for art...