People tend to leave home in search of rest and relaxation,heading to hotels, campsites, or rentals to get away from thereminders of day-to-day life. But that doesn't need to be the case.The things we associate with vacation — outdoor living areas,spacious rooms, and cozy sleeping areas — can be brought into thehome, making every day like a vacation. 100+ Tips.Ideas: RestfulHomes features dozens of ideas for making the home more like agetaway, all illustrated with lavish color photos.
From the Ferris wheel to the integrated circuit, feats ofengineering have changed our environment in countless ways, big andsmall. In Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering, DukeUniversity's Henry Petroski focuses on the big: Malaysia's1,482-foot Petronas Towers as well as the Panama Canal, a cutthrough the continental divide that required the excavation of 311million cubic yards of earth. Remaking the World tells the stories behind the man-made wondersof the world, from squabbles over the naming of the Hoover Dam tothe effects the Titanic disaster had on the engineering communityof 1912. Here, too, are the stories of the personalities behind the wonders, from the jaunty IsambardKingdom Brunel, designer of nineteenth-century transatlanticsteamships, to Charles Steinmetz, oddball genius of the GeneralElectric Company, whose office of preference was a batteredtwelve-foot canoe. Spirited and absorbing, Remaking the World is acelebration of the creative instinct and of the men and women
Lighting plays an essential role in good design, drawingattention to certain places and highlighting details that mightotherwise go unnoticed. 100+ Tips.Ideas: Areas with Light features dozens of ideas to get light into the home and use it asan essential part of the design, all illustrated with gorgeouscolor photography. Featuring both natural and manmade sources oflight, this book provides endless inspiration.
