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  • The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective: Easy Techniques for Mastering Perspective Drawing on Location (Urban Sketching Handbooks)

    • ASIN: 1631591282
    • ISBN: 1631591282
    • Manufacturer: Quarry Books

    A good sketch starts with good bones.The fourth book in the Urban Sketching Handbook series uses drawings and simple steps to explain the often challenging and overwhelming concepts of perspective in practical and useful ways for on-site sketching. Most books are either too abstract or don't provide enough information that relates to what you actua... [Read More]

  • Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition

    • ASIN: 1603580298
    • ISBN: 1603580298
    • Brand: Chelsea Green Pub Co
    • Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Publishing

    The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for... [Read More]

  • Control Systems Engineering

    • ASIN: 1118170512
    • ISBN: 1118170512
    • Brand: Wiley
    • Manufacturer: Wiley

    Control Systems Engineering, 7th Edition has become the top selling text for this course. It takes a practical approach, presenting clear and complete explanations. Real world examples demonstrate the analysis and design process, while helpful skill assessment exercises, numerous in-chapter examples, review  questions and problems reinforce key co... [Read More]

  • RHS Practical House Plant Book: Choose The Best, Display Creatively, Nurture and Care, 175 Plant Profiles

    • ASIN: 0241317592
    • ISBN: 0241317592
    • Manufacturer: DK

    It's official: living with houseplants is good for your wellbeing! Turn your living space into an indoor oasis with our handy, easy to follow guide. Discover key indoor gardening design principles and learn how to care for your houseplants and keep them healthy. The RHS Practical Houseplant Book contains a dozen stunning step-by-step projects to he... [Read More]

  • The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity (The MIT Press)

    • ASIN: 0262036037
    • ISBN: 0262036037
    • Brand: MIT
    • Manufacturer: The MIT Press

    How developments in science and technology may enable the emergence of purely digital minds―intelligent machines equal to or greater in power than the human brain.What do computers, cells, and brains have in common? Computers are electronic devices designed by humans; cells are biological entities crafted by evolution; brains are the containers a... [Read More]

  • Melancology: Black Metal Theory and Ecology

    • ASIN: 1780991894
    • ISBN: 1780991894
    • Manufacturer: Zero Books

    Melancology addresses the notorious musical genre black metal as a negative form of environmental writing that ‘blackens’ the cosmos. This book conjures a new word and concept that conjoins ‘black’ and ‘ecology’: melancology, a word in which can be heard the melancholy affect appropriate to the conjunction. Black metal resounds from the... [Read More]

  • 101 Things I Learned® in Advertising School

    • ASIN: 045149671X
    • ISBN: 045149671X
    • Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press

    Providing unique, accessible lessons on advertising, this title in the bestselling 101 Things I Learned® series is a perfect resource for students, recent graduates, general readers, and even seasoned professionals.   The advertising industry is fast paced and confusing, and so is advertising school. This installment in the 101 Things I Learned�... [Read More]

  • Shipping Container Homes: The Ultimate Guide to Building Shipping Container Homes for Sustainable Living, including Plans, Tips, cool ideas, and more!

    • ASIN: B01M2Y2LFD

    Start Your Very Own DIY Shipping Containers At HomeA project so easy you can do it all by yourself!If you want to build your own shipping container home while spending less amount of cash, then keep reading!Shipping container homes are once again becoming popular trend in the midst of today’s most recent home innovations. This is because there ar... [Read More]

  • Gardening with Less Water: Low-Tech, Low-Cost Techniques; Use up to 90% Less Water in Your Garden

    • ASIN: 1612125824
    • ISBN: 1612125824
    • Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
    • Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC

    2016 Silver Nautilus Book Award Winner for Green Living & Sustainability Are you facing drought or water shortages? Gardening with Less Water offers simple, inexpensive, low-tech techniques for watering your garden much more efficiently — using up to 90 percent less water for the same results. With illustrated step-by-step instructions, David Bai... [Read More]

  • The Amazon Way on IoT: 10 Principles for Every Leader from the World's Leading Internet of Things Strategies (Volume 2)

    • ASIN: 0692739009
    • ISBN: 0692739009
    • Manufacturer: John E. Rossman

    Need help developing your Internet of Things strategy and plan? This is the book to help business people understand and build their IoT strategy.In this detailed analysis of IoT and Amazon's approach to it, John Rossman guides readers with practical insights and recommendations into the strategies and mindset transforming business and society."John... [Read More]

  • Strange Candy (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter)

    • ASIN: 0425215210
    • ISBN: 0425215210
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author's short story collection-including an all-new Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter story-now in paperback. From a woman who marries into a family of volatile wizards to a couple fleeing a gang of love-hungry cupids, from a girl who seeks sanctuary in the form of a graceful goose to the disgruntled superhero Captain ... [Read More]

  • Life After Carbon: The Next Global Transformation of Cities

    • ASIN: 1610918495
    • ISBN: 1610918495
    • Manufacturer: Island Press

    The future of our cities is not what it used to be. The modern-city model that took hold globally in the twentieth century has outlived its usefulness. It cannot solve the problems it helped to create—especially global warming. Fortunately, a new model for urban development is emerging in cities to aggressively tackle the realities of climate cha... [Read More]

  • Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

    • ASIN: 0300078153
    • ISBN: 0300078153
    • Brand: James C Scott
    • Manufacturer: Yale University Press

    Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics―the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-i... [Read More]

  • Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre

    • ASIN: 1602399840
    • ISBN: 1602399840
    • Brand: SKYHORSE
    • Manufacturer: Skyhorse

    Start a mini farm on a quarter acre or less, provide 85 percent of the food for a family of four and earn an income. Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family’s food on just a quarter acre—and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the ... [Read More]

  • Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road

    • ASIN: 0295994681
    • ISBN: 0295994681
    • Manufacturer: University of Washington Press

    Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longhurst, a historian and avid cyclist, tackles that question by tracing the contentious debates between American bike riders, motorists, and pedestrians over the shared road. Bike Battles explores the diffe... [Read More]

  • Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America

    • ASIN: 0547247966
    • ISBN: 0547247966
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    What would it take?That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children’s Zone, a ninet... [Read More]

  • Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

    • ASIN: 0802779654
    • ISBN: 0802779654
    • Brand: Walker Books Ltd
    • Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA

    Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has crafted a biography that dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishments of a mythic figure whose early-seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between... [Read More]

  • An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers

    • UPC: 035313643897
    • ASIN: 1600610862
    • ISBN: 1600610862
    • Brand: HOW Books
    • Manufacturer: HOW Books

  • Thirst

    • ASIN: B01HFNLJAE

  • Luxury Nautical Indoor Hanging Pendant Light, Small Size: 8"H x 9.5"W, with Coastal Style Elements, Hooded Design, Pretty Brushed Nickel Finish and Acid Etched Glass, UQL2531 by Urban Ambiance

    • UPC: 819342023338
    • ASIN: B071RFFGZW
    • Brand: Urban Ambiance
    • Size: 8" H, 9.5" W, 9.5" D
    • Manufacturer: Urban Ambiance

    STYLE AND DESIGN INSPIRATION: Small in size and designed in a Nautical style, its round design is both attractive and modern. An island, located of the shore of Cape Cod, Nantucket has a long been a shining example of a New England seaport town. Many of New England's elite, call this island home during the summer months. The Nantucket Collection em... [Read More]

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