While our cities are full of incredible engineering feats, most of us live with little idea of what goes into creating the built environment, let alone how a new building goes up, what it is constructed upon, or how it remains standing.
In Built, star structural engineer Roma Agrawal explains how..
Add beauty and style to your world with this gorgeous guide to pointed pen calligraphy featuring 50 sophisticated styling ideas and 18 illustrated step-by-step projects. Make life lovelier with calligraphy! Internationally known graphic designer Veronica Halim takes beginners through this acces..
The Francis Frith Collection, 2005. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Firmly bound and very carefully read. Both book & unclipped jacket are in excellent clean condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss. Illustrated with b/w photos...
The ultimate users' guide to curating your Zoom background from Room Raters, Twitter's foremost experts in on-screen décor. From the virtual office aficionados and Twitter superstars who brought the world the dreaded embarrassment of “cord violations,” comes a fun, informative guide for everyon..
Great uses for rocks: throwing, skipping, kicking…how about painting? Rock painting is one of the oldest forms of artistic expression known to man. The varied surfaces, shapes, and sizes of rocks also make them perfect for crafts. From brooches to bookends, paperweights to place cards, miniature owl..
Michael Palin's epic voyages have seen him circumnavigate the globe, travel from the North to the South Pole and circle the countries of the Pacific Ocean. This was perhaps the greatest challenge yet: to cross the vast and merciless Sahara desert.Shrugging aside the perils of camel stew and being ru..
An unprecedented visual history of African women told in striking and subversive historical photographs―featuring an Introduction by Edwidge Danticat and a Foreword by Jacqueline Woodson.Most of us grew up with images of African women that were purely anthropological―bright displays of exotica where..
A modern look at a stunning assortment of blooms and the art you can create with a simple flower press.A contemporary look at flowers, flower pressing, and floral arranging, The Modern Flower Press is a vivid collection of pressed flower techniques and the art you can make with them. Explo..