books about: environmentally     books:       The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance William McDonough, Michael Braungart North Point Press, 2013 From the authors of Cradle to Cradle , we learn what’s next: The Upcycle The Upcycle  is the eagerly awaited follow-up to  Cradle to Cradle , one of the most consequential ecological manifestoes of our time. Now, drawing on the lessons gained from 10 years of putting the Cradle to Cradle concept into practice with businesses, governments, and ordinary people, William McDonough and Michael Braungart envision the next step in the ...             Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid Marianne Cusato, Ben Pentreath, ... Sterling, 2011 Sick of McMansions? Marianne Cusato, creator of the award-winning Katrina Cottages, is a champion of traditional architectural principles: structural common sense, aesthetics of form, appropriateness to a neighborhood, and sustainability. She presents the definitive guide to what makes houses look and feel right, revealing the dos and don'ts of livable home design. Hundreds of elegant line drawings--rendering the varieties of architectural ...             Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop Tim Ormsby, Eileen J. Napoleon, ... ESRI Press, 2010 Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop introduces principles of GIS as it teaches the mechanics of using ESRI’s leading technology. Key concepts are combined with detailed illustrations and step-by-step exercises to acquaint readers with the building blocks of ArcGIS® Desktop including ArcMap™, for displaying and querying maps, ArcCatalog™, for organizing geographic data, and ModelBuilder™, for diagramming and processing solutions to complex ...             Compact Cabins: Simple Living in 1000 Square Feet or Less Gerald Rowan Storey Publishing, LLC, 2010 The setting might be a sparkling lakefront, a cool clearing in the woods, a breathtaking mountaintop, or an expansive beach, but the dream of a modest retreat from everyday life often includes a simple little cabin. In cabin getaways of the imagination, the cares of the world recede, time slows down, and the day’s pace is set by leisure and quiet activities. Compact Cabins presents 62 design interpretations of the getaway dream, with ...             Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration Scott Doorley, Scott Witthoft, ... Wiley, 2012 " If you are determined to encourage creativity and provide a collaborative environment that will bring out the best in people, you will want this book by your side at all times." -- Bill Moggridge , Director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum " Make Space  is an articulate account about the importance of space; how we think about it, build it and thrive in it." -- James P. Hackett , President and CEO, Steelcase ...             Office 2010 For Dummies, Book + DVD Bundle Wallace Wang For Dummies, 2010 A value-priced book-and-DVD bundle for getting started with the latest release of Microsoft Office Eager to harness the power of Office 2010? Then this is the perfect book-and-DVD package for you! Featuring the enormously popular Office For Dummies book, the bundle also includes a must-have three-hour instructional DVD replete with step-by-step instructions covering the most essential Office 2010 tasks. You'll feel as though you have an ...             Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction Christopher Bascom Rawlins Metropolis Books/Gordon de Vries Studio, 2013 As the 1960s became The Sixties, architect Horace Gifford executed a remarkable series of beach houses that transformed the terrain and culture of New York's Fire Island. Growing up on the beaches of Florida, Gifford forged a deep connection with coastal landscapes. Pairing this sensitivity with jazzy improvisations on modernist themes, he perfected a sustainable modernism in cedar and glass that was as attuned to natural landscapes as to our ...             Organic Body Care Recipes: 175 Homemade Herbal Formulas for Glowing Skin & a Vibrant Self Stephanie Tourles Storey Publishing, LLC, 2007 Radiantly healthy skin, hair, feet, hands, eyes, and nails. Commercial beauty products make this promise every day and live up to it with varying degrees of success. Stephanie Tourles offers a better solution to everyone frustrated with the endless cycle of expensive, synthetic, famous-name cosmetics that often fall short of expectations. Take control of beauty treatments with homemade products that use safe, nourishing ingredients to pamper the ...             It's Only Natural: 200 natural cleaning product recipes to have a green, healthy and allergy free home and ..., 2013 By using natural cleaning products, not only will you be saving potentially hundreds of dollars each year but it is also an environmentally sound alternative to toxic, allergy producing house hold cleaning products. These cleaning recipes will not only leave your home and garden chemical free but are safe for children, pets, friendly for those who suffer from chemical allergies and ideal for those who just want to be more environmentally ...             Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the 2012 International Building Code Francis D. K. Ching, Steven R. Winkel Wiley, 2012 An easy-to-use, updated illustrated guide to the 2012 edition of the International Building Code This unique reference to the 2012 International Building Code marries the graphic skills of bestselling author Frank Ching with the code expertise of Steven Winkel, FAIA. It pulls out the portions of the building code that are most relevant for the architect and provides an easy-to-understand interpretation in both words and illustrations. Rather ...             Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World Ross Chapin Taunton Press, 2011 Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small Scale Community in a Large Scale World introduces an antidote to faceless, placeless sprawl — small scale neighborhoods where people can easily know one another, where empty nesters and single householders with far-flung families can find friendship or a helping hand nearby, and where children can have shirt-tail aunties and uncles just beyond their front gate. The book describes inspiring pocket ...             Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections, and Solutions G. Tyler Miller, Scott Spoolman Cengage Learning, 2008 In this current, thought-provoking environmental science textbook, G. Tyler Miller and new coauthor Scott Spoolman bring the concept of sustainability to the forefront. Students are engaged and motivated with vivid case studies and hands-on quantitative exercises. As the authors showcase four scientific principles of sustainability, they immerse students in the many practical steps they, as individuals, can take toward more sustainable ...             Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition Merriam-Webster Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2003 The Eleventh Edition of America's best-selling dictionary! An attractive burgundy leather-look version featuring more than 225,000 clear and precise definitions and newly added words and meanings. Special sections include A Handbook of Style, Foreign Words and Phrases, and Biographical Names and Geographical Names. Includes an electronic version of the dictionary and a free one-year online subscription. Current copyright 2011.             The Greenest Home: Superinsulated and Passive House Design Julie Torres Moskovitz Princeton Architectural Press, 2013 Passive is the new green. Passive Houses—well insulated, virtually airtight buildings—can decrease home heating consumption by an astounding 90 percent, making them not only an attractive choice for prospective homeowners, but also the right choice for a sustainable future. The Greenest Home showcases eighteen of the world's most attractive Passive Houses by forward-thinking architects such as Bernheimer Architecture, Olson Kundig ...             Architectural Design with SketchUp: Component-Based Modeling, Plugins, Rendering, and Scripting Alexander Schreyer Wiley, 2012 "... the book is wonderfully illustrated with full color and descriptive images that complement each tutorial or exercise. Alex's teaching background really rings through as every item is nicely structured and very informative.  Overall Alex's  book is a winner. Well structured, illustrated and most of all easy to read and understand. While the overall theme is based in architecture, the techniques can be applied to any discipline and the wide ...             Marrakesh by Design Maryam Montague Artisan, 2012 Moroccan design, from the tiled floors to the colored walls, sculpted ceilings, embroidered fabrics, Berber tents, fountains, gardens, and more In a world filled with beige interiors, Morocco is the perfect antidote: a refuge for addicts of saturated color, a haven for devotees of intricate pattern, a destination for admirers of striking architecture. For anyone who wants to add Morocco's spicy design mix into their own home, Maryam Montague, ...             HOLD: How to Find, Buy, and Rent Houses for Wealth Steve Chader, Jennice Doty, ... McGraw-Hill, 2012 USA TODAY BESTSELLER Take HOLD of your financial future! Learn how to obtain financial freedom through real estate. The final book in Gary Keller’s national best-selling Millionaire Real Estate Investor trilogy teaches the proven, reliable real estate investing process to achieve financial wealth: 1. Find – the right property for the right terms and at the right price. 2. Analyze – an offer to make sure the numbers and terms ...             Landscape Graphics Grant Reid Watson-Guptill, 2002 Announcing the new revised edition of the classic industry reference! Landscape Graphic s is the architect’s ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear instruction on graphic language and the design process, the basics of drafting, lettering, freehand drawing and conceptual diagramming, ...             Running a Restaurant For Dummies Michael Garvey, Andrew G. Dismore, ... For Dummies, 2011 The easy way to successfully run a profitable restaurant Millions of Americans dream of owning and running their own restaurant — because they want to be their own boss, because their cooking always draws raves, or just because they love food. Running a Restaurant For Dummies covers every aspect of getting started for aspiring restaurateurs. From setting up a business plan and finding financing, to designing a menu and dining room, you'll ...             Handmade Houses: A Century of Earth-Friendly Home Design Richard Olsen Rizzoli, 2012 Showcasing one hundred years of innovation and environmental sensitivity, Handmade Houses celebrates some of the world’s most idiosyncratic homes from Big Sur to Sardinia. Author Richard Olsen  unveils the components used for their construction, including driftwood, boulders, and even old wine vats. The first study of the handmade-homes phenomenon since its inception in the late 1960s, Handmade Houses revisits the subject’s roots and ...              search for books abundance, architectural, architecture, collaboration, collegiate, community, component, component-based, connections, designing, dictionary, earth-friendly, environment, illustrated, international, large-scale, marrakesh, merriam-webster, modernist, neighborhoods, principles, rendering, restaurant, scripting, seduction, small-scale, solutions, superinsulated, sustainability, understanding books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms home  impressum - about us