Combining home design with health and environmental concerns, here is the first comprehensive handbook to show how to turn any house or apartment into a sanctuary for enhancing your well-being. Lavishly illustrated with more that 100 stunning, full-color photos and scores of color charts and drawings, THE NATURAL HOUSE BOOK provides both inspiration and easy, practical suggestions for using toxin-free materials, improving air and water quality, saving energy, and designing or adapting every room for holistic living--toxin-free, elegantly simple, environmentally benign, and nourishing to the body, mind, and spirit.

The Natural House Book

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

David Pearson

Home Improvement & Design

Simon&Schuster, Inc.

People usually think of books in terms of their contents, their texts, with less thought for books as artefacts. In fact books may possess all kinds of potentially interesting qualities beyond their texts, as designed or artistic objects, or because they have unique properties deriving from the ways they have been printed, bound, annotated, beautified or defaced. This text explores books from the Middle Ages to the present day to show why books may be interesting beyond their texts. Books can develop their own individual histories, which provide important evidence about the way they were used and regarded in the past, and which make them an indispensable part of the fabric of our cultural heritage. This book will raise awareness of an important aspect of the life of books in the context of the ongoing debate about their future. Extensively illustrated with a wide range of images, this book is not only approachable but also thought-provoking.

Books as History: The Importance of Books Beyond Their Texts

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

British Library

Puss-in-boots (Literacy Links)

Janet Hillman

Mimosa Publications

Earth to Spirit

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Chronicle Books LLC.

From the author of The Natural House Book comes a provocative volume for anyone interested in design, designing or building which integrates the lessons of the past with today's technology to create structures where the land, the home, and the spirit coexist harmoniously. 146 color photos. 18 illustrations.

Earth to Spirit. In Search of Natural Architecture

Photography & Video

New Zealand society: A sociological introduction

Paul Spoonley

Dunmore Press

The Story of Stock Car Driver David Pearson.

21 Forever: The Story of Stock Car Driver David Pearson

Jim Hunter

Sports & Outdoors

The Strode Publishers

Get Your Life Back

Fiona C. Kennedy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Robinson

This second printing of David Pearson's English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800 includes a new introduction and a number of additional references and relevant points that have come to light since the book was first published in 2005. This well-regarded work provides guidance on recognising and dating English bindings of the handpress period, from the middle of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth. During this time, bookbinding was a handcrafted process and every binding made, however ordinary by the standards of its day, was a unique artefact. English Bookbinding Styles deals not only with the luxury end of the market (where so many binding studies have concentrated) but with the whole spectrum of binding options, the cheap and temporary with the permanent, the plain and middling, as well as the fine. In addition to providing practical help in placing particular bindings within their time and place, the book encourages a new approach to historic binding, concentrating not so much on binders and workshop attributes as on what a binding can tell us about previous owners and their approach to books. Well illustrated with over 250 photographs, the book fills a long-recognised gap in the literature and will be valued by librarians, book historians, booksellers, collectors, and anyone who deals with early books. Like the authors successful Provenance handbook, English Bookbinding Styles has become an essential reference work and a building block in the knowledge toolkit needed to develop a true understanding of books in their historical context.

English Bookbinding Styles 1450 - 1800: A Handbook

Oak Knoll Press

Practical and inspiring, this volume sets out the basic principles of the healing home and aims to show us how we can create a home that is healthy, harmonious and ecologically sound. The book examines the interior elements from air and light to furniture and furnishings. It looks at living spaces themselves - from sleeping to eating spaces - and how to introduce comfort and a sense of well-being into the home. A 16-page essay highlights organic buildings, independent energy supplies and living "off the grid", and the spiritual principles of the healing home.

The New Natural House Book

Conran Octopus

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