
ilość książek w kategorii: 16366
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American Family Home, 1800-1960
ISBN: 9780807841518 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the nineteenth century, architects and family reformers launched promotional campaigns portraying houses no longer as simply physical structures in which families lived but as emblems for family cohesiveness and identity. Clark explains why, despite the fear of standardization and homogenization, the middle class has persisted in viewing the single-family home as the main symbol of independence as as the distinguishing sign of having achieved middle-class status.
In the nineteenth century, architects and family reformers launched promotional campaigns portraying houses no longer as simply physical structures in...
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226,23 |
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Woodwright's Workbook: Further Explorations in Traditional Woodcraft
ISBN: 9780807841570 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Roy Underhill is America's best-known master of traditional woodcraft. Creator of the popular PBS series The Woodwright's Shop, Roy has inspired millions--from professional craftsman to armchair woodworker--with his talent, knowledge, and enthusiasm.
Roy returns here with his third book. The Woodwright's Workbook features step-by-step instructions for a selection of projects from his television series. All projects are illustrated with photographs and measured drawings. Included here are plans for tool chests, workbenches, lathes, and historical reproductions of items... Roy Underhill is America's best-known master of traditional woodcraft. Creator of the popular PBS series The Woodwright's Shop, Roy has inspire...
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127,82 |
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Turners and Burners: The Folk Potters of North Carolina
ISBN: 9780807842768 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 473 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This richly illustrated portrait of North Carolina's pottery traditions tells the story of the generations of "turners and burners" whose creations are much admired for their strength and beauty. Perhaps no other state possesses such an active and extensive ceramic heritage, and one that is entirely continuous. This book is an attempt to understand both the past and the present, the now largely vanished world of the folk potter and the continuing achievements of his descendants. It is a tribute that is long overdue.
From the middle of the eighteenth century through the second quarter... This richly illustrated portrait of North Carolina's pottery traditions tells the story of the generations of "turners and burners" whose creations ar...
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248,03 |
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Woodwright's Eclectic Workshop
ISBN: 9780807843475 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For more than ten years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft, or 'how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it.' Through his popular PBS series, The Woodwright's Shop, ' and his previous books, Roy has inspired millions--from professional craftspeople to armchair woodworkers--with his talent, knowledge, and enthusiasm.
Roy returns now with his fourth book, The Woodwright's Eclectic Workshop. It features step-by-step instructions for many projects featured on the television... For more than ten years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft, or 'how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing ...
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140,02 |
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Raised in Clay: The Southern Pottery Tradition
ISBN: 9780807844816 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Raised in Clay is a remarkable portrait of pottery making in the South, one of the oldest and richest craft traditions in America. Focusing on more than thirty potters in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, and Kentucky, Nancy Sweezy tells how families preserve and practice the traditional art of pottery making today.
First published in 1984, Sweezy's book documents the last generation of potters to have direct contact with preindustrial pottery traditions. It portrays the personalities of the potters, treating this aspect as carefully as the traditions... Raised in Clay is a remarkable portrait of pottery making in the South, one of the oldest and richest craft traditions in America. Focusing on ...
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198,03 |
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The Woodwright's Apprentice: Twenty Favorite Projects from the Woodwright's Shop
ISBN: 9780807846124 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For more than twenty years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft with muscle-powered tools. With his four previous books and his popular PBS series, The Woodwright's Shop, now in its sixteenth season, Roy has inspired millions to take up chisel and plane. The master woodwright returns here with instructions for handcrafting an appealing selection of projects from the American woodworking tradition.
The Woodwright's Apprentice begins with directions for building a workbench. Each successive project builds new skills for the apprentice... For more than twenty years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft with muscle-powered tools. With his four previous books a...
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138,02 |
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Building Doors & Gates: Instructions, Techniques and Over 100 Designs
ISBN: 9780811726788 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. All about building entrances to the home. Detailed charts for identification of parts and joints, steps for constructing and hanging, exercises for perfecting building skills, and dozens of designs.
All about building entrances to the home. Detailed charts for identification of parts and joints, steps for constructing and hanging, exercises for pe...
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87,81 |
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Slipcasting
ISBN: 9780812219982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Best known as one of the most widely used industrial ceramic techniques, slipcasting has become increasingly attractive to individual artists and craftspersons. Slip, a water and clay solution, is poured into porous molds. As the mold absorbs water from the slip, a layer of clay forms a cast. The excess slip is removed from the mold and the cast is stiffened, removed, dried, and fired in a kiln. Since the molds can be based on anything from delicate sculpture to found objects, slipcasting frees artists from the constraints of other ceramic techniques while allowing them to create multiples... Best known as one of the most widely used industrial ceramic techniques, slipcasting has become increasingly attractive to individual artists and c... |
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129,22 |
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Adobe: Build It Yourself
ISBN: 9780816509485 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book explores the depths of adobe and enables the reader to build their own home intelligently and realistically. With an emphasis on adobe construction, McHenry discusses the planning of every aspect of one's home from the financing to the foundation, the floors to the fireplaces. The prospective builder must be prepared for a long period of frustration, doubt, worry, and plain hard work, but the helpful ideas found on the pages of this book will encourage readers to build despite the challenges. McHenry describes this process as a tremendous puzzle, for which one must create and...
This book explores the depths of adobe and enables the reader to build their own home intelligently and realistically. With an emphasis on adobe const...
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107,68 |
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Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person
ISBN: 9780819562005 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A flowing collection of poetry that is also a guide for life.
A flowing collection of poetry that is also a guide for life.
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91,81 |
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Tribology in Chemical-Mechanical Planarization
ISBN: 9780824725679 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The role that friction and contact play in the processes of wear and planarization on material surfaces is central to the understanding of Chemical-Mechanical planarization (CMP) technology, particularly when applied to nanosurfaces. Tribology in Chemical-Mechanical Planarization presents a detailed account of the CMP process in a language that is suitable for tribology professionals as well as chemists, materials scientists, physicists, and other applied scientists and engineers in fields of semiconductors and microelectronics. The first half of the book is devoted to CMP, while the other...
The role that friction and contact play in the processes of wear and planarization on material surfaces is central to the understanding of Chemical-Me...
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1330,47 |
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Home Machinists Handbook
ISBN: 9780830615735 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Here's everything the do-it-yourselfer needs to set up, and operate a handy-man's machine shop. Areas covered range from shop requirements and proper lighting to buying, using, and storing tools.
Here's everything the do-it-yourselfer needs to set up, and operate a handy-man's machine shop. Areas covered range from shop requirements and proper ...
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128,02 |
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Be Your Own Architect
ISBN: 9780830633364 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This illustrated guide shows prospective home buyers just how easy it is to design homes to fit their exact needs and wants, while saving thousands of dollars in architectural fees. Covers choosing and using drafting tools, selecting energy-efficient materials, laying out rooms to maximize space, and more
This illustrated guide shows prospective home buyers just how easy it is to design homes to fit their exact needs and wants, while saving thousands of...
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120,02 |
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Grinding Technology: Theory and Applications of Machining with Abrasives
ISBN: 9780831132477 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Presenting a comprehensive and consistent treatment of grinding theory and its practical utilization, this new edition focuses on grinding as a machining process using bonded abrasive grinding wheels as the cutting medium. Logically organized, this self-contained resource starts with a description of abrasives and bonded abrasive cutting tools; then moves on to thermal analyses of the grinding process for conventional, creep feed, and superabrasive grinding; and ends with methods for enhancing and optimizing of grinding operations, simulation of grinding processes, and computer control of...
Presenting a comprehensive and consistent treatment of grinding theory and its practical utilization, this new edition focuses on grinding as a machin...
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503,85 |
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Inside Japanese Ceramics: Primer Of Materials, Techniques, And Traditions
ISBN: 9780834804425 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This practical and supremely useful manual is the first comprehensive, hands-on introduction to Japanese ceramics. The Japanese ceramics tradition is without compare in its technical and stylistic diversity, its expressive content, and the level of appreciation it enjoys, both in Japan and around the world. Inside Japanese Ceramics focuses on tools, materials, and procedures, and how all of these have influenced the way traditional Japanese ceramics look and feel. A true primer, it concentrates on the basics: setting up a workshop, pot-forming techniques, decoration, glazes, and kilns...
This practical and supremely useful manual is the first comprehensive, hands-on introduction to Japanese ceramics. The Japanese ceramics tradition is ...
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165,94 |
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Simplify Your Space: Create Order & Reduce Stress
ISBN: 9780849915116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Practical tips for organizing the spaces in your home help meet the needs for order in life. Would you like to clear out some of the clutter in your home? Do you ever wonder where all this stuff has come from feeling like things have maybe gotten a bit out of control? Join Marcia Ramsland, the organizing pro, as she leads you in a room-by-room approach to simplifying your home and office. Simplifying your space is the process of organizing your belongings and letting go of the excess until your surroundings are peaceful and in order. Using the CALM approach;... Practical tips for organizing the spaces in your home help meet the needs for order in life. Would you like to clear out som... |
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75,97 |
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The Potter's Odyssey
ISBN: 9780865340039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Many books about ceramics provide technique upon technique, tool upon tool, recipe upon recipe. Mastery of gadgets and quick, tricky how-to-do-it techniques may seem the way to go. But this leaves no place for adventure. This book has good recipes, of course, but it is really for those who will ultimately create their own new recipes and forms. The motivation is in the mind. Guideposts are necessary and they must be visualized. This book is written in the belief that the motivation will find the method. * * * * * Willard Spence pioneered the development of special glazes, mixing over two...
Many books about ceramics provide technique upon technique, tool upon tool, recipe upon recipe. Mastery of gadgets and quick, tricky how-to-do-it tech...
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91,81 |
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Indian Pottery of the Southwest
ISBN: 9780865340671 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Pottery is one of the earliest and oldest crafts in the history of mankind. It has evolved from the utilitarian to the purely artistic, from cooking pots to storyteller dolls. Native American pottery has flourished in the American Southwest since 300 B.C. This selected bibliography is a guide for both the collector and the general reader who would like additional information about Native American pottery and potters. * * * * * Marcia Muth is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1919 and grew up in Indiana and western New York State. A former...
Pottery is one of the earliest and oldest crafts in the history of mankind. It has evolved from the utilitarian to the purely artistic, from cooking p...
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51,81 |
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Adobe Remodeling & Fireplaces: A Comprehensive Guide to Expansion, Restoration and Maintenance of Adobe Homes
ISBN: 9780865340862 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this one volume are clear and thorough instructions on remodeling adobe houses plus how to build an adobe fireplace. Illustrations and practical instructions make working from this book a pleasure. Designed for use by the most inexperienced person as well as the professional builder. Based on 48 years of the author's experience. * * * * * Myrtle Stedman was known as an "Artist in Adobe," designing, building, and remodeling adobe homes under a contractor's license. She was also a well-known artist whose academic training started in 1927 when she was a student in the Houston Museum of Fine...
In this one volume are clear and thorough instructions on remodeling adobe houses plus how to build an adobe fireplace. Illustrations and practical in...
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59,81 |
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Adobe Architecture: A Simple Guide with Plans for Building with Earth
ISBN: 9780865341111 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Dreaming of building an adobe home? This classic guide, with floor plans ranging from a small casita to larger ones gives 18 comprehensive period designs for the traditional adobe (the earthern "bricks" used all over the world) house adapted to building materials, plumbing, heating and small lot sizes of today. Thousands of readers have found this a valuable handbook. The authors also venture into actual adobe brick-making, construction techniques, furnishing, even how to make a horno, a traditional Indian oven. Illustrated, detailed diagrams, house plans. The first seeds for the concept for...
Dreaming of building an adobe home? This classic guide, with floor plans ranging from a small casita to larger ones gives 18 comprehensive period desi...
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59,81 |