Furniture Projects (Better Homes & Gardens Wood Shop Library)

Furniture Projects (Better Homes & Gardens Wood Shop Library) Review

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42 projects with step-by-step instructions.

125 full-color photos, including one of each finished project, how-to photos, and easy-to-read diagrams to guide woodworkers.

Ranch House Style

Ranch House Style Review

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If you grew up in postwar America, chances are you lived in or next to a ranch-style house. And the things we loved about ranches when we liked Ike are still attractive—perhaps more so—today: the liberation that comes with open-plan living, the casual feel of easy kitchen access, the comfort of having bedrooms and children near at hand, the convenience of one-level living, and the everyday luxury of smooth indoor-outdoor flow. So it’s no surprise that the ranch is in style again—and this book showcases the best of it. Whether that style is the mid-century modern of Corbusier and the Eameses, or the cross-cultural awareness of the sixties, or the Pop Art and plastic of the seventies, Ranch House Style offers inspiration and instruction on re-creating these looks in your own home.

But this book isn’t just for style mavens with professional decorators. Because if there’s any one completely American, democratic architectural style, it’s the ranch house. Ranches, in all their glory (and sometimes utter lack of it), are everywhere, usually affordable, just waiting for the right shag carpet to restore their hipness, the right flea-market find to liven up that patio. And Ranch House Style shows how—with examples of the ranch’s flexibility for any decorating style, from Victorian and French Country to thoroughly contemporary, from primary homes in the suburbs to vacation getaways on the shore, from vintage gems to newly built originals. It also shows how to solve the special challenges that come with one-story living in a decades-old house, including how to expand into today’s more spacious footprints, how to renovate for modern amenities, and how best to use the ranch’s typically large plot of land.

Remarkably, there hasn’t been a book on ranches available in decades. Despite the millions that exist across the entire country, the ranch has been ignored by the high-design community. To address that insult to ranch lovers, Ranch House Style also includes thoroughly researched, authoritative material on the style’s history, sociological context, architects, designers, and furniture. This is a serious work that stands alone in its field, in addition to being a beautiful, inspirational, and practical decorating book.

So come visit the ranch—both the remarkably familiar and the strikingly original, from modest to luxurious, in styles from charming to mod—available in neighborhoods everywhere, here showing in all its coolness.

Big Pulp Fall 2011

Big Pulp Fall 2011 Review

Big Pulp is a modern amalgam of the classic newsstand of the Golden Age of pulp and popular fiction. Each issue you'll find science fiction and horror, romance and mystery--sometimes in the same story!--just as you would have on a street corner in the 1930s, when publishers offered dozens of magazines catering to all kinds of reading tastes. In this issue, you'll find: 

Science Fiction - On the Road from Galilee by James R. Stratton; Built for the Kill by Malon Edwards; Nether-Air Ambush by WC Roberts; Luna Springs by Patrick Hurley; My Dumb Summer Job by Jamie Mason

Romance - Sensitive Ice by Keyan Bowes; A Kiss and Makeup by Shannon Shuren; Lightning Strikes by Michael D. Turner; Misunderstood Identity by Walter Giersbach

Fantasy - Blood Tells by Conda Douglas; One Night in Manhattan by Edward Morris; What Happened While Don Was Watching the Game by Floris Kleijne

Mystery - Flight Risk by Jason Ridler; Virus by Paul Von Hippel

Adventure - Promises by Fred Warren; Thirst by Jens Rushing

Horror - Aboard the Lady Maria by Jennifer Povey; Virgin Sacrifice by Michael D. Turner; Parker/Jesse by Jonathan Golden; Paying for It by Ed Kratz; By Association by Philip Roberts; The Annual Scarecrow Festival and The Lodger In The Ripper's Room by John Davies

Her Secret Place

Her Secret Place Review

Coming of age novel set in the early 1970's in a tiny New Mexico village. Lizzy faces discrimination, prejudice, and abuse.. She doesn't lose her hope and belief that life is good and will get better. Enjoy exploring a time when teenagers weren't tied to their cell phones and computers. Experience a cultural setting that most of us didn't know existed. Lizzy deals with rejection from her mother and she suspects that her father sexually abused her when she was very young. She lives in a Hispanic culture that doesn't open it's arms to gringoes. Her intelligence is left lagging in a school system that gets the teachers who can't find jobs elsewhere. Lizzy can't even find a good book to read, which is tortuous for her! She learns life lessons in La Mesa that have nothing to do with books. She learns to stand up for herself and to find solutions in impossible situations. Through hard work and determination, she orchestrates a better life for herself.

Bouquets from Beads (Dover Craft Books)

Bouquets from Beads (Dover Craft Books) Review

A bible for beaders, this guide applies principles and techniques of both Oriental and Western styles of flower arrangement to beadwork. Full instructions, including step-by-step diagrams, show how to create 44 different varieties of flowers. A chapter on Christmas ornaments features beadwork renditions of mistletoe, stars, trees, and other seasonal motifs.

At Home in Bali

At Home in Bali Review

Since early this century, Bali's paradisiacal beauty and the remarkable spirit of its people have attracted a steady stream of artists, architects, anthropologists, mystics, and celebrities from all over the world, and the new residents have interpreted traditional Balinese style with elegant, chic, eccentric, and unusual results.

Featured in this exquisitely illustrated volume are some twenty of the most exceptional homes on the island, all shown in their lush tropical surroundings. They include homes in the traditional village style; pondoks, or the single-pavilion dwellings of the rice fields; royal palaces, such as Woolite heiress Carole Muller's luxury cottage on the upper terrace of the summer palace of East Bali's last king; beach houses; temples; spectacular mountain residences; and homes with magnificently designed gardens.

A visitor's guide and an international source list of Balinese wares completes this insider's tour of the island. Photographed by Isabella Ginanneschi, who lives half the year in Bali, and written by architect and garden designer Made Wijaya, At Home in Bali is the next best thing to being there.

Designing for Zero Waste: Consumption, Technologies and the Built Environment (Earthscan Book Series on Sustainable Design)

Designing for Zero Waste: Consumption, Technologies and the Built Environment (Earthscan Book Series on Sustainable Design) Review

Designing for Zero Waste is a timely, topical and necessary publication. Materials and resources are being depleted at an accelerating speed and rising consumption trends across the globe have placed material efficiency, waste reduction and recycling at the centre of many government policy agendas, giving them an unprecedented urgency. While there has been a considerable literature addressing consumption and waste reduction from different disciplinary perspectives, the complex nature of the problem requires an increasing degree of interdisciplinarity. Resource recovery and the optimisation of material flow can only be achieved alongside and through behaviour change to reduce the creation of material waste and wasteful consumption. This book aims to develop a more robust understanding of the links between lifestyle, consumption, technologies and urban development.

Monks in the Marsh: A Little Bird'N B&B Adventure

Monks in the Marsh: A Little Bird'N B&B Adventure Review

Jack and Anne Logan's Little Bird'N bed and breakfast sits quietly alongside an expansive marsh on the lonely north Oregon coast. Their stately Victorian beauty is the base for their guests' small adventures-birdwatching, beach combing and conversations by the fire with glasses of wine, locally roasted coffee and Jack's marvelous biscotti. Or, this is how it should be! Before dawn, before Thanksgiving morning actually arrives, and too soon for the monks, the door bell rings and rings. A small man nervously shifts from foot to foot in the freezing air on the dimly lit porch with water running from his nose turning to ice, cheeks blue and eyes darting from door to marsh. Nervous energy keeps the man from freezing. An embezzling Chicago accountant, a trio of monks, a distraught sister, a local lapsed Catholic, and the unexpected arrival of Jack's aunt and uncle combine to make this Thanksgiving weekend at the Bird'N truly unforgettable.

The Farmhouse: New Inspiration for the Classic American Home

The Farmhouse: New Inspiration for the Classic American Home Review

America's quintessential house style is reinvented for the 21st century family in this book. Farmhouses evoke nostalgic memories, real or imagined, of a simpler life, and deep, nourishing connections to the seasons and the land. This remarkable collection details and celebrates today's interpretation of the American farmhouse by focusing on traditional elements as adapted for modern needs, such as porches, roofs, windows, mudrooms, doorways, vestibules, fireplaces, and nooks. The 20 homes in this book represent today's best interpretations of this classic style in new and renovated homes designed for modern living. In suburban and rural communities from Maine to California, The Farmhouse celebrates an enduring American icon. This engaging tour, including over 300 color photographs and drawings that vividly showcase the farmhouse of today in a variety of settings and seasons, will delight, instruct, and inspire homeowners, architects, designers, and builders alike. Site and floor plans plus sidebars with historical detail are also included.

The Ultimate Baseball Road-Trip: A Fan's Guide to Major League Stadiums

The Ultimate Baseball Road-Trip: A Fan's Guide to Major League Stadiums Review

The Ultimate Baseball Road-Trip is a comprehensive guide to all the diverse and fascinating ballparks throughout the country by two entertaining young writers whose love for the game of baseball and the game of life overflows from each page. Josh Pahigian and Kevin O'Connell's approach to skillfully planning and fully appreciating a road-trip or a visit to a single park is funny and irreverent and loaded with information designed to make the most of the experience.

Part travel manual, part ballpark atlas, part baseball history book, part restaurant and city guide, and, not least, part epic narrative, The Ultimate Baseball Road-Trip encompasses all the essential elements of a full-blown baseball road-trip. Included are ticket and travel information, a detailed guide to the best and worst seats in each park, folklore and statistics on each park, tips on each park's trademark foods, and profiles of nearby sports bars and baseball attractions, all within a lively narrative that reminds us that baseball is often the ultimate metaphor for the important things in life.

Tudor Style: Tudor Revival Houses in America from 1890 to the Present

Tudor Style: Tudor Revival Houses in America from 1890 to the Present Review

The Tudor house is one of America's keystones-- a type of home that has attracted homeowners for more than a century. Its basic elements-- the steep gabled roofs, mullioned windows made of leaded glass, and half-timbering-- are instantly recognizable and iconic. Tudor Style showcases the wide variety of Tudor homes and how American Tudor style differs from their English counterparts.

Renowned photographer Paul Rocheleau and architectural historian Lee Goff have traveled across the United States, from the suburbs of metropolitan New York to Lake Forest, Illinois, from St. Louis to Los Angeles, capturing the unique Tudor styles each geographic location offers. The Tudors featured in the book range from modest homes to grand estates, making this a perfectly accessible book for all Tudor homeowners and aficionados. In addition to displaying the architectural structures of these buildings, Goff examined the history of these houses, why they became so popular in the United States, and what their appeal is today.

The first book ever on this wildly popular style, Tudor Style will delight architecture enthusiasts who have been desperately waiting for a book on this favorite architectural style.

Special Needs, Special Ministry

Special Needs, Special Ministry Review

Jesus told us to reach out to everyone-and that includes children with special needs and their families. Here are true, inspirational stories from families who share the struggles and successes of parenting children with special needs. Special Needs-Special Ministry is a practical, real-world guide to help you! Learn from the successes and failures of churches with special-needs programs; launch or further develop a special-needs ministry; and gain insight from experts in the field: Pat Verbal (a gifted leader, speaker, teacher, and founder of Ministry to Today's Child), Louise Tucker Jones (award-winning author and inspirational speaker) and more!

Villa

Villa Review

John Saladino's powerful new book is nothing less than a master class in interior and garden design. Villa focuses on the stone ruin in Southern California that Saladino painstakingly refashioned into his dream house, and it shows how his principles and passions guided him through the five-year process of reconstruction, restoration, and decoration. With the aid of plans and drawings, as well as numerous photographs of the house — how it looked in the 1920s, shots of when he bought it, and snaps taken during reconstruction — Saladino traces the architectural work involved. Then, in a superbly illustrated tour of the house and grounds, he proves that he practices what he’s preached for more than 30 years. Juxtaposing light and dark, old and new, classical and modern, monumental and miniscule, hard and soft, Saladino creates the serenely timeless interiors and gardens that are his hallmark.

Equestrian Style: Home Design, Couture, and Collections from the Eclectic to the Elegant

Equestrian Style: Home Design, Couture, and Collections from the Eclectic to the Elegant Review

Elegant equestrians in impeccable attire; glorious hunt balls held in museums; a procession of regal foxhunting paintings in a home fit for a polo king and his brood—the world of horses is full of imagery. Extending far beyond the stable, the racetrack, and the polo field, our love of all things equine appears everywhere from our closets to our dining rooms.

Now journalist and horse-world fixture Vicky Moon captures the equestrian way of life with an unprecedented peek into dozens of stunning residences. You’ll visit a French-accented mansion decorated with contemporary horse art; an equestrian resort on 395 acres, complete with cottages for rent and a large private collection of carriages; a spa with a swimming pool for horses; and a working barn that Kathryn Ireland decorated to do double duty as a home for a professional horseman, riding instructor, and model whose students included Jackie Kennedy Onassis.

Horse enthusiasts will be delighted to find familiar names and faces of the horse world gracing these luxurious pages, from art masters of the past such as painter George Stubbs and sculptor Herbert Haseltine to today’s most popular artists, including Liza Todd Tivey and Beverly Zimmer. Equestrian devotees, such as the up-and-coming star Mayan Lopez, show jumper Georgina Bloomberg, and the late Allaire du Pont, are profiled with their beloved horses and the collections and fashions that reflect their passions. With beautiful photographs, richly detailed stories, and practical advice, Equestrian Style is certain to inspire horse lovers everywhere to bring a stylish bit of the stable into their homes.

In this luxurious tour through stylish equestrian-themed interiors, Vicky Moon captures the rich details—from the coveted to the quirky—of the art, architecture, clothing, and people inspired by the classic horse motif.

Equestrian style begins with a basic love of horses. It is more than a feisty, wet Jack Russell terrier, a pair of Wellington boots, and a tweed jacket. It goes beyond hanging a hunting print on the dining room wall to actually leaping over stone walls on your favorite hunter. An unspoken equestrian philosophy surpasses wearing an Hermès scarf; it celebrates riding over jumps in an Hermès saddle. Equestrian style reaches its apex among people ­who not only love horses, but also practically live with them. It is an enduring tradition.

Parallel Lines: The Glasgow Supremacy

Parallel Lines: The Glasgow Supremacy Review

Parallel Lines: The Glasgow Supremacy Feature

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Parallel Lines is an edgy, fast-paced crime thriller set in the streets of Glasgow that tells the story of the deadly rivalry between Detective Sergeant Gus Thoroughgood and his criminal nemesis, Declan Meechan. With Meechan on the verge of complete control of Glasgow's lucrative drug trade after bludgeoning his rivals into bloody submission, Thoroughgood vows to be the cop that will bring the crime lord down. The lethal intensity of their conflict is heightened by the presence of Celine Lynott, the woman who broke Thoroughgood's heart ten years earlier, and looks set to do so all over again when she agrees to be Meechan's wife. Parallel Lines is a powerful and compelling story with a real sting in the tail. About the Author: R. J. Mitchell graduated from Glasgow University in July, 1989 with a Masters Degree in Medieval History before joining Strathclyde Police Service later that year. After a twelve-year Police career, in which he undertook a variety of uniform and plain clothes duties, he left to begin a new career as a sportswriter. He is currently a sportswriter with the Glasgow Evening Times. Publisher's website: http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/ParallelLines-TheGlasgowSupremacy.html

Caught

Caught Review

Emma Holsten’s ex-husband stole five hundred million dollars and a nuclear weapon from a criminal organization. Without telling Emma, her ex hid a clue to the money and nuke’s location with her. Then he was murdered. Now someone is trying to kill her. Rollin Hanson, a mercenary bad boy, and Burke Cherlenko, a suave crime lord, offer to protect her and help her find the missing money and weapon. While she’s attracted to both—and Rollin seems the best of the two—she can’t trust either. Emma must determine which man to trust, find the money and the nuke, before time runs out.

Entertainment Center Coffee Table: Downloadable Woodworking Plan

Entertainment Center Coffee Table: Downloadable Woodworking Plan Review

Build it as a stand alone project or use it as the centerpiece for the entertainment center featured as our 20th anniversary cover project. The 45"-long coffee table touts 4 larger drawers and sturdy construction.

Featured in the September 2004 issue.

About WOOD Magazine downloadable plans

• For error-free construction, each downloadable plan includes a bill of materials, a cutting diagram, a detailed supplies listing, and, when necessary, a mail-order buying guide for hard-to-find hardware.
• For a clear idea of how our projects go together, each downloadable plan includes an exploded-view drawing with helpful details. All drawings are done professionally by the WOOD Magazine staff of woodworkers and illustrators.
• Large color photos and step-by-step instructions show exactly how we built the project in the WOOD magazine shop. We build each project ourselves to work out any bugs before you ever get the plan.
• Detail drawings and step-by-step illustrations provide necessary dimensions and machining processes you'll need to make the building process as straightforward as possible.

Note: This is a downloadable woodworking plan. All other materials must be purchased separately.