Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Covering the 17th through the early 20th centuries, each title in this renowned series concentrates on a specific theme from the rich and varied world of ornamental design. Each high quality volume is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing thousands of high-resolution, copyright-free images, allowing for easy transfers of selected items...read more

Product Description: Integrating Wireless Devices in the Enterprise provides a solution that every enterprise can use, described in terms of scope, feasibility and return on investment, architecture, and data structures. The solution Wheeler offers here is scalable from a single handheld and single desktop to small workgroup to large enterprise environments...read more

Product Description: oversize art book with beautiful illustrations

Product Description: With an international clientele--among whom may be numbered royalty, giants of industry, and leaders of state--it is no wonder that interior designer and decorator of renown Alberto Pinto feels himself best suited to the shadows--albeit the shadows of the great...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Bomber Pilot, a realistic and touching love story, skillfully evokes the atmosphere of London in 1943, as the stalwart Brits maintain a cherry bravado while bombs bring death and destruction to the magnificent city. In Bomber Pilot, William Wheeler, a former pilot in the U...read more

An examination of the past year's commemorative stamps includes the full story behind each stamp, from tributes to the Hubble Telescope and Navy submarines to pictures of the diversity of undersea life, and offers full-color reproductions of the year's stamps.

Product Description: This primary source reader in the popular Discovering series contains a multi-part pedagogical framework that guides students through the process of historical inquiry and explanation. The text emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This text provides you with the opportunity to "do" history, examining and evaluating primary source evidence as a historian would.

Product Description: Bernard Molitor is the only one of the great Parisian 'ebenistes' whose activity bridges the 'ancien regime' and the Bourbon Restoration, his career spanning a continuous period from 1785 to 1820. His work is a unique reflection of the numerous political and social changes of those years, including many an echo of the 'ancien regime' alongside a new sobriety during the Revolution and Republic, and in the end boldly looking forward to nineteenth century ecelecticism and to twentieth century Modernism...read more

Discusses the tools, equipment, and techniques used in carving wood, with sections on lettering, gilding, and selecting timber. Shows readers how to use a simple gouge or chisel to transform a piece of wood into sculpture. All the traditional carving styles--in-the-round, relief, panels, mouldings, and edgings--are easily mastered by following these expert step-by-step instructions. Readers learn about all important tools and how to use them.Patterns and instructions for carving flat designs and freestanding sculpture are accompanied by information on grain characteristics and the artistic principles of balance and proportion