Enid Bradshaw

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

A Guide to Building, Furnishing & Decorating

Doll's Houses

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Essential Guide to Building and Renovating

This book reveals how construction projects work from the inside so owners can participate as equals to make theirs a success.

What Your Contractor Can't Tell You, 2nd Edition

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#paperback #magazine #modelships #building

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Model ship Builder

California

425 photos -50 drawings -10charts

The Outdoor How-to-Build-it Book

Ship Models From Kits

#paperback #learning #reading #vocabulary #building

Pennsylvania

The 24-page book, Do I Have To..., introduces early learners to teacher-focused concepts that will help them gain important reading comprehension and social skills.

The vibrant illustrations and engaging leveled text in the Little Birdie Books' Leveled Readers work together to tell fun stories while supporting early readers. Featuring grade-appropriate vocabulary and activities, these books help children develop essential skills for reading proficiency.

Do I Have To...

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Byron D. Halsted

Nathaniel Tripp

And How to Build Them

First published in 1881, this beautiful volume presents dozens of practical examples of barns and outbuildings, both large and small - complete with illustrations, floor plans, and building instructions. Here are a wealth of designs, including a western cattle barn with covered cattle stalls and feeding apparatus; a portable pigpen with self-closing doors; a corn house and self-feeding corn crib; ice houses; springhouses; granaries; dog houses; pigeon houses; and more. Close attention is paid to choosing the correct foundation and materials for a particular structure. The reader is also taught to take into account the overall aesthetic of the farm when planning the location of one building in relation to another as well as in relation to the surrounding landscape. Combining sturdy practicality with fine craftsmanship, Barns and Outbuildings is a fascinating tribute to the beauty of the farm and the ingenuity of the American farmer. (4 1/2 X 7 1/4, 240 pages, illustrations, diagrams)

Barns and Outbuildings

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A #hardcover #reference #dreamhome #house #building #thisoldhouse #normabram #memoir #homebuilding 

America's Favorite Carpenter and His Wife, Laura, Build Their Dream Home

"Norm Abram's New House is the story of how Norm and Laura built their family home from the ground up. In it, Norm details the process of construction at every stage, from preparing the site to choosing the fixtures to creating a special habitat for their pet parrots. We watch as the house is designed, the foundation is excavated, the cement is poured, the frame is raised, the roof is shingled, and the interior work nears completion. Throughout, Norm explains his building decisions, describes the work he did himself, and shares both personal insights and marvelous anecdotes about his family and the skilled tradesmen who worked alongside him. There are moments of joy, disappointment, delay, and magic. Moving-in day is truly a triumph - the fulfillment of a dream." "Illustrated with photographs and drawings, and written in the author's down-to-earth voice, Norm Abram's New House is a unique combination of great storytelling and home-building wisdom - a book for anyone who's ever fantasized about building the perfect home."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Norm Abram's New House

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Massachusetts

The Boy Mechanic

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#hardcover #ya #building #political #life #bush #democratic #texas 

Oklahoma

Tales of a Political Life, from LBJ to George W. Bush and Beyond

How did the Democratic Party-of JFK, LBJ, and civil rights-fall from glory? How did Texas, home of its most promising players, become Bush territory? What do politicians on either side need to do today to get our country back on track? Ben Barnes has the answers. His political savvy and bravado made him a standout in the rough-and-tumble world of Texas politics. He won a seat in the Texas Legislature in 1960, and four years later he became the youngest speaker of the House since the Civil War. In 1968, he helped Congressman George Herbert Walker Bush get his son into the National Guard-a controversy that would rage during the 2004 presidential election. In 1970, Lyndon Johnson told the public that Ben was destined to be the next U.S. president to hail from Texas. Barnes's rollicking memoir recalls the glory days of his Texas past and blazes a trail for our country's future.

Barn Burning Barn Building

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Leonardo da Vinci's Machines

Michigan

How to Build Fanciful Bird Houses

Over 30 fabulous birdhouses and feeders: a log cabin, a country cottage, a '50s diner, a San Francisco row house, and many others. Full-color photos, detailed patterns, grids, and instructions, plus charts on hole size, perch height, and feeding--and tips on attracting and protecting preferred species. "Some of these projects look so good, you hardly want to put them outside. None of them are difficult to build."--Booklist.


The Bird House Book

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The Art and Craft of Living Out on a Limb

Treehouses lift the spirits. They inspire dreams. They represent freedom: from adults or adulthood, from duties and responsibilities, from an earthbound perspective. If we can't fly with the birds, at least we can nest with them. With lively writing and beautiful photographs, Treehouses paints a fascinating portrait of this ingenious branch of architecture. It provides a brief history of treehouses, from Caligula through the Medici to Queen Victoria. It shows how to design and build a treehouse, from picking the right tree to shingling the roof. And it tells the stories of dozens of treehouses and the people who built them, from simple platforms nailed together by kids to arboreal palaces constructed and lived in by grown-ups. The centerpiece of the book is a photo essay showing Pete Nelson building a spectacular octagonal treehouse thirty feet up an old-growth fir on Saltspring Island in British Columbia. With two hundred square feet of floor space, cedar paneling, and leaded French doors, the Saltspring treehouse is one of the finest specimens of the treehouse builder's art. Anyone who has ever built a treehouse, or dreamed of it, or read Swiss Family Robinson, will find Treehouses irresistible.

Treehouses

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Illinois

How and Why To Build a Wine Cellar  

Wood Magazine Editors

In excellent condition. No marks no page folding. Binding is tight. 

Texas

Small Furniture You Can Make

Provides diagrams and instructions for making shelves, stands, frames, racks, occasional tables, and accessories.

Wood

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#hardcover #crossword #puzzle #building #trivia #fun #clues #game

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Iowa

Its as tall as a four-storey building

Tallest ever crossword book

Rowan Moore

Ohio

Power and Desire in Architecture

In an era of brash, expensive, provocative new buildings, a prominent critic argues that emotions—hope, power, sex, our changing relationship to the idea of home—are the most powerful force behind architecture, yesterday and (especially) today. We are living in one of the most dramatic periods in modern architectural history: a time when cityscapes are being redrawn on a yearly basis, architects are testing the very idea of what a building is, and whole cities are being invented overnight, both here in the United States and in exotic locations around the world. In this bold and wide-ranging new work, Rowan Moore—former director of the Architecture Foundation, now a leading architecture critic—explores the reasons behind these changes in our built environment, and how they in turn are changing the way we live in the world. Taking as his starting point dramatic examples such as the High Line in New York City and the outrageous island experiment of Dubai, Moore then reaches far and wide: back in time to explore the Covent Garden brothels of eighteenth-century London and the fetishistic minimalism of Adolf Loos; across the world to assess a software magnate's grandiose mansion in Atlanta and Daniel Libeskind's failed design for the World Trade Center site; and finally to the deeply naturalistic work of Lina Bo Bardi, whom he celebrates as the most underrated architect of the modern era. Provocative and personal, iconoclastic and transforming, Why We Build is that rarest of things: a book about architecture that is also, on every page, a book about people—those chosen few who design buildings, and the rest of us, who use them every day.

Why We Build

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Christy Hale

Book shows some signs of use such as unobtrusive worn pages, markings, discoloration, bends, etcs. See picture for details.

A Celebration of Building

A collection of illustrations, concrete poetry, and photographs that shows how young children's constructions, created as they play, are reflected in notable works of architecture from around the world.

Dreaming Up

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David Macaulay

No dust cover. Light wear on cover. No other flaws.

A Story of Roman Planning and Construction

Award-winning author-illustrator David Macaulay brings readers into a beautiful exploration of Roman buildings and construction.



With black and white illustrations and detailed explanations, this comprehensive and visual resource is perfect for young readers interested in history, architecture, and Roman civilization.

City

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A 1974 Caldecott Honor Book



Readers worldwide recognize Caldecott Medal winner David Macaulay's imaginary Cathedral of Chutreaux. This critically acclaimed book has been translated into a dozen languages and remains a classic of children's literature and a touchstone for budding architects.Cathedral's numerous awards include a prestigious Caldecott Honor and designation as aNew York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year for Macaulay's intricate pen-and-ink illustrations.

Journey back to centuries long ago and visit the fictional people of twelfth-, thirteenth-, and fourteenth-century Europe whose dreams, likeCathedral,stand the test of time.

This title has been selected as a Common Core text exemplar (Grades 6-8, Informational Texts: Science, Mathematics, and Technical Studies).

Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction

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#hardcover #woodworking #projects #shelving #storage #building 

Provides instructions for making shelves, chests, a TV stand, firewood box, audio rack, boxes, and closet organizers

Shelving and Storage

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This is an 1978 library cooy. Please see photos for further information.

Time-Life's most popular how-to guides for the home owner are now completely updated for the '90s with up-to-the minute codes, tools, tips, and techniques. Highly illustrated with step-by-step instructions.

Outdoor Structures

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Fair vintage condition, sturdy and readable but has some staining and sun damage on the cover, as pictured. The front endpage is missing and has left a ragged edge, as pictured. The cover image is not actually part of the book, but is a very cute tiny watercolor some previous owner put on with masking tape. 

Colorado

Vintage Book 1947

Cabins, Cottages, and Summer Homes

#hardcover #Ark #Faith #Building #ArkEncounter

Georgia

By Faith the Ark Was Built

See the vision of this full-sized, all-wood ark come together, dream by beamLocated in Williamstown, Kentucky, the Ark Encounter is a one-of-a-kind historically themed attraction. In an entertaining, educational, and immersive way, it presents a number of historical events centered on the Ark and the Flood as presented in the Book of Genesis.View the skills and techniques of the Amish craftsmen primarily responsible for the timber construction of this amazing structureDiscover the construction details of the largest timber-framed building in the world: 510 feet long; 85 feet wide; 51 feet high based on the Bible's dimensions (300 cubits long; 50 cubits wide; 30 cubits high) and using the Hebrew long cubit of 20.4 inchesLearn fascinating facts that include how the 3.3 million board feet of wood used could be laid out from Kentucky to Philadelphia, over 600 miles!The project is an engineering masterpiece gathering some of the most skilled craftsman and contractors in the country. It presents the world with a reminder of the Bible's account of the Ark. Here are the details of how it all came together!

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