Design & the Decorative Arts: Victorian Britain 1837-1901
Charles Rennie Mackintosh's chairs, William Morris's wallpapers and carpets, and many more examples show why, during the reign of Queen Victoria, Britain was called the workshop of the world.
1000 Lights. 1000 Leuchten. 1000 Luminaires
Light up your life: Luminary design since the invention of the light bulb Designed to be a companion to the classic title 1000 Chairs, this edition contains an awesome selection of over 1000 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are history's most interesting electric lights, from Edison's first light to Tiffany's beautiful leaded glass shades to completely outrageous designs from the late 1960s and 1970s to the latest high-tech LED lamps. All major styles are represented here?Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern Movement, De Stijl, Postwar, Pop, Radical, Post-Modern, and Contemporary?in 704 pages of truly illuminated works. This definitive reference work is a must-have for collectors and design fans. The editors: Charlotte J. and Peter M. Fiell run a design consultancy in London specializing in the sale, acquisition, study and promotion of design artifacts. They have lectured widely, curated a number of exhibitions, and written numerous articles and books on design and designers,...
1000 Lights. 1000 Leuchten. 1000 Luminaires 
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Learning Foreign and Second Languages: Perspectives in Research and Scholarship by Heidi Byrnes, ISBN 0873528018
This inaugural volume in the MLA series Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures provides an overview of second language acquisition research. Is language a system of linguistic forms to be acquired by the study of grammar, or is language a means of communication, where students learn not by studying rules but by engaging straightaway in the use of language to convey meanings? Which approach is better in the classroom? The vibrant field of second language acquisition research is now carefully examining questions like these.
Written for a nonspecialized audience -- for readers who share an interest in foreign language teaching and learning -- Learning Foreign and Second Languages addresses both theory and methodology. Administrators, department chairs, curriculum and materials developers, teachers, and graduate students will find this collection of essays enlightening.
Learning Foreign and Second Languages: Perspectives in Research and Scholarship by Heidi Byrnes, ISBN 0873528018
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Frommer's New York City with Kids
Family vacations have never been so easy with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places local parents and kids like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go-they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges, and tells you which ones are kid-friendly. Every Frommer's with Kids Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and outdoor activities. You'd be lost without us!
This 10th edition of "Frommer's New York City with Kids" reveals the most fun and educational experiences for kids in the Big Apple. It's full of incredibly detailed tips - right down to which hotels offer cribs and rollaway beds and which restaurants offer high chairs. Inside you'll learn where to find hands-on, interactive museums;...
Frommer's New York City with Kids
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Donna Dewberrys Painted Garden: 15 Projects You Can Paint
7Author is a well-known and successful TV personality with regular how-to shows on PBS and HSN.7Combines latest craze for large outdoor living spaces with Donna's colorful decorative designs.7Provides perforated "Color Recipe Cards" and storage pocket for ease of color matching.Donna Dewberry's Painted Garden features 20 step-by-step projects painted on outdoor furniture and accessories using tough and durable acrylic paints that resist fading and weathering. From Adirondack chairs and patio tables to planters, window boxes, porch pillows and butterfly houses, there's something here for every taste and budget. Readers will enjoy the beautiful color photos of Donna in the garden as well as sidebars of Donna's favorite gardening and outdoor entertaining tips and hints. A bonus section called "Donna's Color Recipes" presents all the paint colors used in the book on handy recipe-sized cards readers can tear out and take to the store to reference colors.
Donna Dewberrys Painted Garden: 15 Projects You Can Paint
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Backyard Dogs (Full Frame)
No choreography, no protective gear, just hardcore fighting where stell folding chairs and paseball bats wrapped in parbed wire are all part of the fight.
Follow three underdogs as they fight their way to the top.
Backyard Dogs (Full Frame)
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Op to Pop: Furniture of the 1960s by Cara Greenberg, ISBN 0821225162
From Joe Colombo's "kitchen in a cart" to Olivier Mourgue's Djinn chairs from 2001: A Space Odyssey, from the lipstickted touch shaped like Marilyn Monroe's lips to Eero Aarnio's space-age Ball chair, sixties furniture still has the power to statle and to delight. Op to Pop is a thorough guide whose original, readable scholarship places sixties furnishings in their social and design contexts, sorting the good from the fad and providing names, dates, and other documentation. From fashion to film, the sixties refuse to fade away and for good reason, as Greenberg proves. A fun, colorful survey of the design of the decade, Op to Pop will enthrall those who lived through the sixties as well as those who are discovering those years a new.
Op to Pop: Furniture of the 1960s by Cara Greenberg, ISBN 0821225162
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1000 Chairs
The ubiquitous chair in all its shapes and forms (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designers. The particular curve of a back-rest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the colour of the entire artefact all reflect the stylistic consciousness of each era. From Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar Aalto via Verner Panton to Eva Zeisel; from Art Nouveau to International Style, from Pop Art to Postmodernism, the phenomenon of the chair is so complex that it requires a reference work as comprehensive as this to do it full justice. They are all here: Thonet's bentwood chairs and Hoffmann's sitting-machines, Marcel Breuer's Wassily chair and Ron Arad's avant garde armchairs. The book, a slightly abbreviated version of our classic title 1000 Chairs, devotes one page to each chair, displayed on its own as pure form, with biographical and historical information about the chair.
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The Areas Of My Expertise
This is an extraordinarily bizarre and extremely funny compendium of totally useless and--as the author himself proudly admits--entirely apocryphal facts. Readers will gain new insight into such edifying topics as On Actuaries and Their Tattoos; learn about the secret, skull-lined tunnel connecting Pottery Barn and theme park Camp Snoopy in the Mall of America; and discover that, according to a helpful table of Omens and Portents for the Coming Year, if Someone speaking in an obviously affected accent...
The Areas Of My Expertise
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