Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Want to take advantage of solar power in your home? Whether you're looking to save on your energy costs by adding a few solar components or you want to build a solar-powered house from the ground up, Solar Power For Dummies takes the mystery out of this energy source and shows you how to put it to work for you!

This friendly, hands-on guide is packed with tips for making your home more energy-efficient though solar power-and helping the planet at the same time. You'll see how to survey your home to determine your current household energy efficiency and use, and evaluate where solar power would best benefit you. You'll also calculate what the return on your investment will be before you make any decisions. Once you've decided on a project, you'll see whether it's best to hire a contractor or do it yourself. We leave no stone unturned-you'll also discover how to:

 * Choose and install your best solar system
 * Handle small to large solar projects
 * Heat and cool your house with solar energy
 * Install exterior solar lighting
 * Handle swimming pool, water heater, or ventilation solar projects
 * Create greenhouses or solar rooms
 * Build, buy, or sell a solar home
 * Finance your solar investments
 * Take advantage of tax rebates and incentives associated with solar power
 * Avoid the worst solar mistakes

Featuring ten of the easiest and cheapest do-it-yourself solar projects, Solar Power For Dummies is the fun and easy way to meet your energy needs with this clean power source!

Solar Power Your Home for Dummies

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

The Hopperstad Stave Church Replica

Massachusetts

How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

A national bestseller, Brunelleschi's Dome recounts how one genius bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to engineer the impossible--the construction of a dome over the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in 1418. An ALA Notable Book of the Year. Illustrations & halftones throughout.

Brunelleschi's Dome

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

Architecture & Design Library 

Take a photographic tour of the most popular periods and fashions in interior design and architecture. Each book features the insights of an expert design writer and numerous fine examples of a particular style's architectural elements, period and geographic facets, and distinguishing decorative flourishes. Stunning photography showcases both exterior and interior details to give readers a full understanding of each style. Informative and inspiring, this series presents design writing at its best. A must-have for home design enthusiasts!

English Country

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#hardcover #MedievalArt #Painting #Sculpture #Architecture #Art #Medieval #Life #Artist #Renaissance box -oversized ￼ There is a $7.50 purchase minimum when buying from my shop. There is a platform fee, packaging, travel costs and of course my time. My prices are extremely low, and so please if you don’t need another book, please buy one for a friend. Thanks for understanding. 😊I'm on Instagram as karrisbookstore. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, 4th Thru 14th Century

An overview focussing on church buildings and the works they contain, shows the continuity and evolution of art styles from the early Christian to the late gothic period. Nearly 700 very good illustrations, 73 in color. The text draws heavily from primary sources to provide background and contempora

Medieval Art

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From Bauhaus to Our House

#paperback #chicago #architecture #chicagoarchitecture #handbook

Illinois

A Photographic Guide to the City's Architectural Landmarks and Other Notable Buildings

Chicago's Famous Buildings

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North Carolina

A Novel

Fact and fiction blend in a historical novel that chronicles the relationship between seminal architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney, from their meeting, when they were each married to another, to the clandestine affair that shocked Chicago society.

Loving Frank

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#paperback #WesternCivilization #History #Christianity #ChristianityInHistory #Architecture #Worship #Influence Please note this is a study course
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2000 years of Christianity impact on the world

The history of Christianity and western civilization

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Wisconsin

Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan

The Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide series provides the first comprehensive visitors' guide to all of Wright's buildings in the United States. Each guide is written and compiled by an acknowledged expert on Frank Lloyd Wright, Thomas A Heinz. With his highly readable and informative style, Heinz presents each building page by page, providing brief histories and background details, information on accessibility and viewing, and directions from Interstate routes. Every entry is accompanied by a photograph and location map produced by the author. There are four books in the Field Guide series: Upper Great Lakes, MetroChicago, West, and East. Each guide is arranged geographically, beginning in the northwest and ending in the southeast of the region covered. Full alphabetical and geographical lists enable buildings to be easily accessed either by location or name.

Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide, Upper Great Lakes

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Pennsylvania

#hardcover #hmedesign #interiordesign #architecture


An Exclusive Showcase of Chicago's Finest Designers

More than 250 photographs of the work of nearly 50 leading interior designers in the Greater Chicago area.

Spectacular Homes of Chicago

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Beautiful pictures throughout with lots of good design ideas. #nonfiction #architecture #hardcover 

American Design

Second Homes is a stuning collection with over 250 full-color photographs of quintessential second homes across America, encompassing the coountry's regions, designs, and tastes.

Second Homes

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South Carolina

In a contemplative essay that develops a parallel between void, space, time, and the science of vision in Laotzu's philosophy and in modern architecture, Amos Ih Tiao Chang reveals the vitality of intangible, or negative, elements. He writes that these qualities make architectonic forms "come alive, become human, naturally harmonize with one another, and enable us to experience them with human sensibility."


The author expands Frank Lloyd Wright's thoughts on the affinity between Laotzu's philosophy and modern Western architecture by discussing "Natural Life-Movement in Architectonic Vision," "Variability and Complement," "Balance and Equilibrium," and "Individuality and Unity." He accompanies his text with architectural drawings and four Chinese paintings.

The Tao of Architecture

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Design Ideas for Great American Houses

Creative inspiration and expert advice for anyone considering a home remodel

Small Homes

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Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

A Living Portrait

Beacon Hill

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Back Bay

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Celts: The History and Legacy of One of the Oldest Cultures in Europe

A Dark History

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cloth hardcover, good vintage condition. Pages show slight wear. Tight binding. Cover with staining. Rubbed edges. Bumped corners.  #hardcover #california #missions #helenbauer #childrens #kids #homeschool #history #architecture #vintage

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California Mission Days: California State Series
Published by California State Department of Education, 1957

#paperback #franklloydwright #architect #architecture #design #biography

Oregon

A Life

Pulitzer Prize?winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable?s biography of America?s greatest architect

Renowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way she introduces Wright's masterpieces, from the tranquil Fallingwater to Taliesin, rebuilt after tragedy and murder-not only exploring the mind of the man who drew the blueprints but also delving into the very heart of the medium, which he changed forever.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century

In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Home and City Life, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes—among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus, and Boston's Back Bay Fens. But Olmsted's contemporaries knew a man of even more extraordinarily diverse talents. Born in 1822, he traveled to China on a merchant ship at the age of twenty-one. He cofounded The Nation magazine and was an early voice against slavery. He managed California's largest gold mine and, during the Civil War, served as the executive secretary to the United States Sanitary Commission, the precursor of the Red Cross. Rybczynski's passion for his subject and his understanding of Olmsted's immense complexity and accomplishments make his book a triumphant work. In A Clearing in the Distance, the story of a great nineteenth-century American becomes an intellectual adventure.

A Clearing in the Distance

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Idaho

The Architecture of Daydreams

At a turning point in his life, writer Michael Pollan found himself dreaming of a small wood-frame hut in the woods near his house--a place to work, but also a "shelter for daydreams." Weaving the practical with the philosophical, this book presents a captivating personal inquiry into the art of architecture, the craft of building, and the meaning of modern work. Line drawings throughout. Size C. 320 pp. National ads & publicity. 35,000 print.

A Place of My Own

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s sex life is almost as interesting as his architecture. #romance #architecture  #fiction #hardcover #historicalfiction 

Florida

Fact and fiction blend in a historical novel that chronicles the relationship between seminal architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney, from their meeting, when they were each married to another, to the clandestine affair that shocked Chicago society

#architecture #paperback #history #italy #nonfiction #renaissance 

Rik DeGunther

Solar Power Your Home for Dummies

Pates and Krueger

The Hopperstad Stave Church Replica

Ross King

Brunelleschi's Dome

Julie Fowler

English Country

James C. Snyder

Medieval Art

Tom Wolfe

From Bauhaus to Our House

Ira J. Bach

Chicago's Famous Buildings

Nancy Horan

Loving Frank

Vision form ministries

The history of Christianity and western civilization

Thomas A. Heinz

Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide, Upper Great Lakes

Ross King

Brunelleschi's Dome

Brian Carabet; John Shand; Panache Partners LLC Staff (Editor)

Spectacular Homes of Chicago

Chippy Irvine

Second Homes

Amos Ih Tiao Chang

The Tao of Architecture

Editors of Fine Homebuilding

Small Homes

Barbara W. Moore; Gail Weesner

Beacon Hill

Barbara W. Moore; Gail Weesner; Constance Schnitger (Illustrator)

Back Bay

Martin J. Dougherty

A Dark History

Helen Bauer

California Mission Days: California State Series Published by California State Department of Education, 1957

Ada Louise Huxtable

Frank Lloyd Wright

Witold Rybczynski

A Clearing in the Distance

Michael Pollan

A Place of My Own

Nancy Horan

Loving Frank

Ross King

Brunelleschi's Dome