Customer Review: This is THE design book to currently own. It has wonderful pictures of real gardens. It is a wonderful book and well worth having in your personal library.
Customer Review: I bought this book as a required reading for school. It was very easy to read and covered many interesting topics. I would recommend this book to anyone that is interested in learning more about the urban environment.
Customer Review: Dan Snow is a rare bird, a genuine Renaissance man. He is humbly engaged in one rare and rugged profession; that of a stone mason -constructing incredible sculptures out of massive walls of rocks he finds near his worksites throughout New England. The raw physicality and organic beauty of what he... more info
Customer Review: This is a practical straight forward guide to Architecture for the non-architect. Also of use to those interested in building design and architectual history.
Customer Review: Marie-Antoinette is something of an enigma, some feel she is the misunderstood tragic heroine of the Ancient Regime and some feel she is that Austria wh*re, who may or my not have said, let them eat cake, and spent France into Revolution, I feel she is probably all of this and more. One thing is for... more info
Customer Review: Michael Dirr is the guy you go to to identify and even diagnose woody plants. No color plates but fine line drawings. Anecdotal in nature sometimes, and with sharp delineation of properties of each tree or shrub. He has this book also broken up in two different versions, (plants of the northern and... more info
Customer Review: My husband and I purchased this book to get ideas for a new home. We want to "bring the outdoors in," and this book is full of ideas to do just that.
Customer Review: I loaned this book to my friend [we're both rockaholics]and she's having a hard time giving it back [maybe I should buy one for her]. I have acquired several books on stonescaping, building with rock, etc., this is one of the good ones, wonderful pictures too.
Customer Review: The beautiful color photographs of the artfully designed and master-crafted stonework are nicely done! It seems apparent to me that the stone mason has a definite love for his chosen profession and for any project precisely crafted. This book is not a "how-to-do-stonework-101." It is the meshing... more info
Customer Review: If you've ever drooled over perfectly arranged landscapes designed with fabulous color combinations, texture, and an array of plants all sizes and shapes who's colors are pleasing to the eye, this book is your tool. There are many garden companies that offer pre-designed gardens, but they're... more info