'Get Smart' About Your Chosen Business Venture! This updated book contains the detailed content and out-of-the-box ideas to launch a successful Furniture Rental Company. This Business Plan Book provides the relevant content needed to become much more knowledgeable about starting a profitable furnitu...

This is the manual for anyone who wants to become a skilled upholsterer! 15 skill-building projects for seats, stools, cushions, armchairs, sofas, and more - Beginner-friendly basics , with instruction on stripping furniture, webbing, tying springs, stuffing, making cutting plans, and more - Step...

Kimbel and Cabus were among the most progressive design reformers of their time. Modern Gothic is the first publication to explore the timeless American immigrant success story of the trailblazing New York City design team who captured national attention with their imaginative furniture forms and ...

The first comprehensive study of Knoll's innovative textile designs and the company's role within the history of interior design In 1940, Hans Knoll founded a company in New York that soon earned a reputation for its progressive line of furniture. Florence Schust joined the firm and helped establ...

What is craft? How is it different from fine art or design? In A Theory of Craft , Howard Risatti examines these issues by comparing handmade ceramics, glass, metalwork, weaving, and furniture to painting, sculpture, photography, and machine-made design from Bauhaus to the Memphis Group. He describ...

Anna Katharine Green was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 11th, 1846. Anna’s initial ambition was to be a poet. However that path failed to ignite any significant interest and she turned to fiction writing. She published her first - and most famous work in 1878 - ‘The Leavenworth Case’. ...

Jon Anderson is the enigmatic lead singer and founding member of Yes. He is also a composer, artist, writer, dreamer, lyricist, poet and musician, with a career spanning more than fifty years. Many books have been written about the band, but until now none have covered Jon's early years in his first...

Thousands of readers have found Fr. Mark Boyer’s The Liturgical Environment: What the Documents Say to be a useful compendium of the church’s law and guidelines on the liturgical environment. Rooted in the norm of active participation as the guiding principle for all liturgical celebration, ea...

Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects speak, dreams reveal hidden truths, and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the wondrous tales of the Arabian Nights, their profound impact on the ...

"I want you to go out and buy Mother Chicago . It is one of the most revelatory, provocative, frightening books I've ever read about Chicago." --Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune  Chicago history as told by the relics of her forgotten people and places. The observed made real to exorcise the hauntings ...

Have you always wanted to create with epoxy resin but didn’t know where to begin? Tired of vague tutorials or shallow books that don’t help when things go wrong? “From Beginner to Pro with Epoxy Resin” is more than just a craft book— it's a step-by-step journey , designed to take you fro...

Rediscover the lost art of British craftsmanship and become truly self-reliant in your workshop. For centuries, every British household possessed the knowledge to create, maintain, and repair the tools that built our nation. From medieval Sheffield guild workshops to the ingenious make-do-and-mend s...

Praise for The IKEA Edge “A very good book from a talented business leader [that links] values, culture, and the achievement of business and social objectives together. I have read it now three times and learned something from every passage.” ―Michael Spence, recipient of the Nobel Memorial ...

Celebrate Star Trek: The Original Series and the show’s distinctive Midcentury modern design that would change design– and television–forever. Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-1969) was the first installment of one of the most successful and longest-running television franchises of ...

Take your jewelry design beyond metal! Comprehensive guide to creating wooden jewelry, with techniques presented by progressive skill learning - 14 step-by-step jewelry projects to create, each fresh and modern, including rings, necklaces, pendants, and pins - Learn woodworking skills and practic...

This stunning art, culture and history book profiles China's most prolific and dynamic city. Shanghai's tumultuous history has resulted in the progressive and stylish city of today. For more than a century and a half artists have been both documenting the city's changes and leading its way into th...

This stunning art, culture and history book profiles China's most prolific and dynamic city. Shanghai's tumultuous history has resulted in the progressive and stylish city of today. For more than a century and a half artists have been both documenting the city's changes and leading its way into th...

When four religious leaders walk across the road, it's not the beginning of a joke. It's the start of one of the most important conversations in today's world. Can you be a committed Christian without having to condemn or convert people of other faiths? Is it possible to affirm other religious tr...

A revealing new look at modernist architecture, emphasizing its diversity, complexity, and broad inventiveness   “[Frampton] remains a formidable force in architecture . . . The Other Modern Movement offers an opportunity to re-examine the Western canon of 20th-century architecture—which F...

Originally inspired by a progressive vision of a working environment without walls or hierarchies, the open plan office has since come to be associated with some of the most dehumanizing and alienating aspects of the modern office. Author Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler traces the history and evolution of ...