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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Rick Joy, an architect based in Tucson, Arizona, owes his reputation to his innovative residential designs, which respond gracefully to their desert environment. Joy exploits natural and passive energy-saving techniques and unusual materials, such as rammed earth and rusting steel, to create striking architectural solutions for living in a hot, dry climate. In this film, Joy takes viewers through the Desert Nomad House, built in 2005, which is composed...
82) Daphne Deane
Author
Publisher
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Former classmates Keith Morrell and Daphne Deane meet again when he comes to check his family's deserted house. But their lives-his full of wealth and society; hers focused on faith and simplicity-couldn't be more different. Despite his engagement to another woman, they are drawn to each other in friendship, and Daphne finds herself pulled into a mystery at the old Morrell home.
83) I'll walk alone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Thirty-year-old interior designer Alexandra Moreland, struggling to deal with the disappearance of her son, fights to uncover who is behind a plot to destroy her sanity and life after she is indicted for identity theft and suspected of murder.
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Series
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English
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This heartstring-tugger is certain to win fans. -Publishers Weekly STARRED Review for A New Leash on Love Animal portrait painter Mia Chambers and architect Ben Thomas have volunteered at the High Grove Animal Shelter for years, and they share a complicated history. Ben has secretly loved Mia all this time, but she was married to his best friend. Now she's newly widowed, with a young son, and Ben doesn't know how to tell her what's in his heart. All...
85) People that Changed the Course of History: The Story of Frank Lloyd Wright 150 Years After His Birth
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Although you may not recognize the name of this famous American architect, you may be more familiar with some of his most popular buildings. From the Guggenheim Museum in New York City to Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic designs have given him the distinction of being the first architect to develop a distinctly American style. Learn more about this critically acclaimed architect during the 150th anniversary of his birth. Wright...
Author
Language
English
Description
Kate Muller Chapman arrived in New Mexico at the time Santa Fe Style architecture was just developing. In the 1920s and 1930s Kate designed adobe houses, and directed local workmen during construction. Well versed in the tenets of the evolving Santa Fe Style, Kate also added her own distinctive touch to the projects. Kate Chapman skillfully directed rehabilitation projects preserving the essential historic character of nineteenth century adobes while...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this program, we'll explore the exciting race underway to design greener products of all sorts. You can work toward a green career as an architect, interior designer, industrial engineer, or product designer within a myriad of businesses. This is a contest that will reward those who can envision or help create the "greener mousetraps" of tomorrow. Jobs profiled in this program include: Architect, Interior Designer, Consultant, and Landscape Designer....
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Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
San Francisco architect Stratton Fields has just discovered that a contest was rigged against him and that the man who engineered the cheat, Ty DeVere, is determined to keep Stratton from success. But when Stratton's enemies, including Ty, start dying mysteriously-and Stratton encounters several apparitions-he wonders if he unknowingly made a deal with a supernatural force. Or maybe he murdered these people himself and has no memory of his deeds....
90) Michel-Ange
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Language
Français
Description
Michel-Ange (Michelangelo Buonarroti) (Caprese, 1475 - Rome, 1564)
Michel-Ange, comme Léonard de Vinci, avait plusieurs cordes à son arc et était à la fois sculpteur, architecte, peintre et poète. Il porta à leur apothéose le mouvement musculaire et l'effort, équivalents plastiques de la passion, à ses yeux. Il façonna son dessin, le poussant jusqu'aux limites extrêmes des possibilités de son âme tourmentée. Il n'y a aucun paysage dans...
91) Never Tell
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the memories of an August night nine years ago when a car crash robbed her of her family, artist Erica Stewart has focused her life on her thriving Houston boutique. No one is more surprised than Erica when a new man walks into her life.
Texas born and bred, Hunter McCabe is a successful architect who is smitten the moment he meets Erica. He's determined to pursue her-;despite her efforts to keep him at a distance.
But someone is watching...
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Series
Hickory Ridge romance volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Ethan and Sophie long to share a future together. But the secrets they're not sharing could tear them apart.
Sophie Caldwell has returned to Hickory Ridge, Tennessee, after years away. Despite the heartaches of her childhood, Sophie is determined to make a home, and a name, for herself in the growing town. A gifted writer, she plans to resurrect the local newspaper that so enchanted her as a girl.
Ethan Heyward's idyllic childhood was shattered...
Author
Series
Second chance at love volume 4
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Eileen Connor hopes that a demanding bilingual job at an ad agency in Geneva will help her forget the man who broke her heart in New York. Instead, she falls in love with architect Matt Edwards-all too likely to be another disastrous choice.
94) Sons and Lovers
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Series
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English
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Sons and Lovers, by D. H. Lawrence, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of...
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Language
Español
Description
Este libro es una biografía elegíaca del poeta, en el que Rilke habla a través de sus cartas, enlazadas artesanalmente por la autora. Se trata de un poeta que parte en busca de su propia voz, su sí mismo, en una enconada lucha con su propia naturaleza. Lou Andreas-Salomé muestra el revés de la trama de la creación, el riesgo vital que supone encontrar al poeta en cada uno de nosotros y, a la vez, el poder salvador que entraña. En un mundo...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
I.M. Pei leads viewers through some of his more famous creations, such as the Louvre, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the National Gallery of Art, and the Bank of China, and also speaks candidly about his life, his early years in China, his schooling at both Harvard and MIT, and his approach to architecture and design.
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Series
Publisher
Nomad Press / Bookmasters
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"What style building do you live in? Is it a skyscraper, a Victorian home, or a modern building? In Architecture: Cool Women Who Design Structures , readers ages 9 to 12 examine the stories of women who are today designing the houses, schools, museums, and public spaces where we spend our time. Architecture is the planning, designing, and construction of buildings and other structures. It's architects who figure out what style of building fits best...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Despite the flow of books on William Blake, this first full-length life biography published in 1863 remains essential to those who would understand one of the greatest of Englishmen, for the author, Alexander Gilchrist, had one advantage which has been denied to his successors - he could still find people who had known Blake. These personal reminiscences give the book an actuality which few of the later ones have touched. The second and best edition...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Notable Book: This national bestseller is a vivid biography of the meteoric rise and tragic death of art star Jean-Michel Basquiat Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was the Jimi Hendrix of the art world. In less than a decade, he went from being a teenage graffiti artist to an international art star; he was dead of a drug overdose at age twenty-seven. Basquiat's brief career spanned the giddy 1980s art boom and epitomized its outrageous...
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Español
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Primer libro del cantante Andrés Borque.
"Echar la vista atrás es bueno a veces, como diría Karina, y otras veces te encuentras con ERRORES. Yo he cometido cientos de ellos, aunque para mí eso no es necesariamente malo, entre otras cosas porque si no, no habría escrito este libro.
En él encontrarás mis "greatest hits": desde desastres amorosos, al habitual horror que es encontrar compañeros de piso. Todo esto contado desde el humor, porque...
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