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African Interiors
Brief summary
We've searched far and wide, through Africa's deserts and jungles, cities and wildlife reserves, islands and mountains, to uncover the continent's most inspirational dwellings; our goal was to find the kind of interiors that defy description, and we think the results will definitely leave you speechless.
Nestled within these pages you'll find lush modern homes mingling with mud huts, funky artists' studios, elegant lodges, minimalist houses, ornate traditional homes, townships and much more-all lovingly built and decorated with sensitivity, creativity, craftsmanship, individuality, and sensuality. Inside Africa captures the beauty and diversity of African living.
Countries featured: Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, and Tunisia.
ISBN:9783836508704
Author:Frederic Couderc, Laurence Dougier and TASCHEN
Family Houses
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Everyone has their own opinion about how the ideal family home should look.
This difference out clearly in the various reports in this book, which range from historic country houses that have belonged to the same family for generations to distinctive, recently built homes for young families with children.
ISBN:9789077213568
Author:Wim Pauwels
Step by Step Home Design and Decorating
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The ultimate practical reference tool for home design and decoration, Step by Step Home Design & Decorating is the only book that does everything step-by-step.
When it comes to restyling, redecorating, and sprucing up your home, the big question is where to start. From the planning stages through the finishing touches, everything you need to know to give your home a complete makeover is in Step by Step Home Design & Decorating.
Comprehensive in its scope and utterly practical, Step by Step Home Design & Decorating is an indispensable single-volume reference for anyone restyling their home.
Highlights:
• Covers color schemes, designing layouts, and choosing flooring or lighting
• Learn to make blinds, tile a bathroom, hang wallpaper, and more
• Clear instructions and photography are provided to help at every stage
• Theme tips: "5 ways with rugs" and "10 ways to refresh an old kitchen," etc.
• Includes ideas for a working with a limited budget
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ISBN:9780756689766
Author:DK Publishing
Caribbean Style
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What visitor to the Caribbean has not been entranced by the beauty and spirit of its tropical islands? In Caribbean Style, more than 600 spectacular full-color photographs and an illuminating text re-create the houses, gardens, and lifestyle of this enchanting region.
A trendsetting book that combines travel and design, Caribbean Style offers a previously unseen view of the islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Barté lé my, Antigua, Nevis, Montserrat, Barbados, Haiti, and Jamaica. The book includes information on island vegetation and colors, plantation houses, town houses, popular houses, contemporary houses, and gardens. In addition, the Architectural Notebook provides plans and information on different types of houses on the various islands.
These pages take you from plantation manor houses with gracious verandahs that catch the mild, cooling winds to brightly painted native dwellings adorned with imaginative wood trim; from colonial plantation gardens with rows of majestic palm trees and winding water canals left from earlier days to simple town-house gardens with bright patches of bougainvillea’s. Caribbean Style explodes with an intense profusion of images and colors.
With this vivid portrait of the Caribbean, you will almost feel the soft breezes, inhale the fragrance of tropical flowers, and luxuriate in the warmth of the sun.
ISBN:9780500283615
Author:Suzanne Slesin and Stafford Cliff
Encyclopedia of Roses
Brief summary
A new edition of this A-Z guide to the world's favourite flower, from the experts at the RHS
From the Barkarole to the Moonbeam, discover everything you need to know about roses with the RHS Encyclopedia of Roses, the definitive A-Z guide to over 2,000 species. Every rose is thoroughly catalogued with detailed descriptions from the size of their flowers and their scent, to growing habits, cultivation, breeding and name origins.
Keep your roses blooming following practical advice on care, cultivation and the latest growing techniques? Plus an introduction on rose history, anatomy, special gardens and the breeding of new varieties makes the RHS Encyclopedia of Roses the ultimate reference for every rose enthusiast.
ISBN:9781405373852
Author:Brigid Quest-Ritson and Charles Quest-Ritson
Bedrooms Creating and Decorating the ...
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Providing a host of ideas for creating an attractive, comfortable bedroom for adults or children, this interior design guide features excellent advice on how to organize the room, the best styles of decoration, the appropriate lighting, and the choice of bed.
The book is organized into easy-to-use sections, starting with making the best use of space, proceeding to the initial planning, offering decorative options, learning all about the bed, choosing the rest of the furnishings, and, lastly, offering ideas on where to go for what.
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ISBN:9781903221921
Author:Mary Gilliatt
Island Living: Inland Retreats &...
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To live on an island is to live a life apart. Author Linda Leigh Paul’s Island Living captures the most charming island homes, including homes on the East Coast’s Barrier Islands, the Northwest’s San Juan and Gulf Islands, the Pacific’s Hawaiian Islands, and the Great Lakes’ Apostle Islands, among other homes on privately owned or low-density islands.
The island home reflects its owner’s reason for escape, whether it’s a person who turns to island living to feel more of this world, or the person who wishes to remove himself from the mainstream. Regardless, the island homeowner is individualistic and creative, and every space in Island Living speaks of a space that is its owner’s dream come to life, be it simplicity or utter luxury.
With more than 150 images and written in the transporting and distinctive tone that Paul’s readers have come to expect, Island Living is a book of fantasy?the home that is both refuge and wish embodied.
ISBN:9780789318299
Author:Linda Leigh Paul
More Garden Woodwork in a Weekend
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Richard Blizzard explains clearly and simply how to construct a whole new array of indispensable and stylish garden items using straightforward materials and techniques.
The designs are graded for difficulty and new techniques are introduced progressively so beginners can tackle the simpler projects with confidence, and increase their skills gradually.
Experienced woodworkers are not forgotten, and the more complex projects provide a satisfying challenge that can nevertheless be completed quickly and easily. Full step-by-step instructions throughout are accompanied by 'exploded' isometric drawings to show exactly how each item is constructed, and superb color photographs of the finished projects.
ISBN:9780715311936
Author:Richard E. Blizzard
Complete Guide to Orchids
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Complete Guide to Orchids
1. Simple techniques and professional tips for growing orchids indoors.
2. Up-to-date expert advice guides readers on how to water, fertilize, light and propagate orchids.
3. A pictorial troubleshooting section helps homeowners diagnose any ailments their orchids might suffer. • Includes bonus in-depth information on the history of orchids so homeowners understand why orchids require certain growing conditions and care.
4. Invaluable resource for both novice and experienced orchid lovers.
ISBN:9780696236631
Author:Miracle Gro
Starting Gardening Usborne First Skills
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By following step-by-step instructions young, green-fingered beginners will be able to develop basic gardening skills. Through a range of projects and activities children will learn how to grow and care for a variety of plants, from planting salad bulbs to growing a sunflower.
It includes Usborne's Internet links.
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ISBN:9780746056585
Author:Cheryl Evans and Sue Johnson
Flower Arranging
Brief summary
Impressive but achievable flower arranging
Flower Arranging recognizes that we all love fresh flowers in our homes and want to keep them looking fabulous, without costing the earth or being too complicated. This book offers the solutions; with simple step-by-steps and clear photos, you can now create impressive but achievable flower arranging for all occasions - from pretty flowers in the home to striking bouquets for weddings.
Featuring over 70 arrangements, using 38 most widely available flowers. Packed with insider tips and tricks for achieving stunning results with minimum effort and for keeping your flowers fresh and beautiful for as long as possible. There are also features on weddings throughout the year, showing you how to make beautiful pew ends, buttonholes and table arrangements for each season.
While other flower arranging books look impressive, but leave you wondering just how to achieve such beautiful arrangements at home, Flower Arranging isn't just about showing off, it's about showing how.
ISBN:9781405362313
Author:Mark Welford and Stephen Wicks
Classic Kitchens
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Classic Kitchens presents around thirty classically inspired kitchen designs, set in a contemporary context. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of photos, providing ideas for creating the classic kitchen, selecting cookers, work surfaces, floors and other features.
ISBN:9789077213667
Author:Beta Plus
Make It in Minutes Faux Flower Arrang...
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The craft of faux flower arranging is ready for a contemporary update—and Melody Thompson, a Texas Master Florist, is just the person to do it. Founder of a successful Austin, Texas floral boutique, Melody has extensive experience creating personal and original designs for weddings and special events.
Here, she reveals her secrets for getting professional results in less than one hour. Vivid color photos display 40 beautiful and varied arrangements and styles for accents, centerpieces, wreaths, topiaries, and bouquets.
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ISBN:2030309000007
Author:Melody Thompson
Minimal Living
The Wisdom of Crowds
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The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few
In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant–better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.
With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, behavioral economics, artificial intelligence, military history, and politics to show how this simple idea offers important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, run our companies, and think about our world.
ISBN:9780385721707
Author:James Surowiecki
King of the Cloud Forests
Why the Whales Came
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Book Summary of Why the Whales Came Gracie and her friend have always been warned to stay away from the Birdman and his side of the island. But then, they discover the Birdman is not who they thought.
They build up friendship with him, but when the children get stranded on Samson Island they don't know whether to believe the birdman's story that the island is cursed.
ISBN:9781405229258
Author:Michael Morpurgo
Encyclopedia of Gardening
Brief summary
Fully revised and updated edition of the world's finest and most authoritative source of gardening advice, from the experts at the RHS
Marking 20 years since first publication, the updated edition of the RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening is the classic reference for keen gardeners. Packed with unrivalled gardening advice you'll find guidance and step-by-steps on everything from pruning to propagation. Plus new topics reflect current trends including how to grow fruit and vegetables in containers and green roofs.
Whatever you’re level of skill in the great outdoors, expert tips and guidance from Editor Christopher Brickell and a team of specialist contributors, the RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening will help you create and keep your garden perfect all year round.
ISBN:9781409383949
Author:Christopher Brickell
Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
From a breathtaking new voice, a novel about a splintered family in Kenya—a story of power and deceit, unrequited love, survival and sacrifice.
Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His grief-stricken sister, Ajany, just returned from Brazil, and their father bring his body back to their crumbling home in the Kenyan dry lands, seeking some comfort and peace.
But the murder has stirred memories long left untouched and unleashed a series of unexpected events: Odidi and Ajany’s mercurial mother flees in a fit of rage; a young Englishman arrives at the Ogandas’ house, seeking his missing father; a hardened policeman who has borne witness to unspeakable acts reopens a cold case; and an all-seeing Trader with a murky identity plots an overdue revenge.
In scenes stretching from the violent upheaval of contemporary Kenya back through a shocking political assassination in 1969 and the Mau Mau uprisings against British colonial rule in the 1950s, we come to learn the secrets held by this parched landscape, buried deep within the shared past of the family and of a conflicted nation.
Here is a spellbinding novel about a brother and sister who have lost their way; about how myths come to pass, history is written, and war stains us forever.
Kenyans, Yes We Can
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I have been writing for about half my life – the second half. I got going in Kenya, where I started publishing articles on management and IT topics almost as soon as I arrived in the late seventies. Then, through Rotary, the Kenya Institute of Management, KEPSA, AIESEC… opportunities arose for me to speak and write about various other topics. Three years ago, my arm was twisted into becoming a columnist for Business Daily, as a result of which I have since then delivered nearly a hundred articles, on a wide variety of subjects.
Early last year I decided it would be nice to pull some of my speeches and writing together in book form, and happily Jacaranda Designs were up for working with me as publisher. But how to select which pieces to include?
As my wife and I were browsing through the material, she spotted that what bound much of it together was a spirit of hopefulness. And that’s what led her to proposing the title, Kenyans, yes we can! It also rather easily enabled me to select which articles were aligned with that message. Close to eighty made it into the book, which I divided into five sections, each representing a theme:
• Leading Kenya – Yes, we can!
• Making good use of technology
• Developing vibrant future generations
• Putting management on the national agenda
• Mobilizing volunteerism
Note that the book is not titled ‘Kenyans, yes we will!’ For while I have no doubt that we can reach that middle income status by 2030, I’m not sure enough that enough of us have yet set their minds to doing so.
ISBN:6164000918018
Author:Eldon, Jacaranda
