The Life Of The House

Download The Life Of The House full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Life Of The House ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The Life of the House

Author : Henrietta Spencer-Churchill
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847838560
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Life of the House by : Henrietta Spencer-Churchill

Download or read book The Life of the House written by Henrietta Spencer-Churchill and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Respected author and designer Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill’s newest book inspires us to incorporate time-tested design principles into modern living. A noted authority on period homes and historic styles, Henrietta Spencer-Churchill celebrates the life of great rooms over the years and the evolution of their architectural features and interior decoration. Featuring a stunning selection of historic homes in both England and the United States, The Life of the House reveals the best of architectural and furnishing details from the last three hundred years, with ideas on updating these spaces for modern times. The book is organized by room, including the living room, from formal reception rooms to the modern-day family room; the library, once a gentleman’s retreat and now often a home office or den; the dining room, once a formal status symbol, now frequently a casual open-plan room; and the kitchen, once a servants’ area, now a multifunctional family space. Chapters on creative modern uses of such traditional rooms as ballrooms and conservatories are also included. With photographs of exquisite interiors from every important historical period and Spencer-Churchill’s fascinating text revealing life behind the scenes in these houses, this book is filled with creative ideas on incorporating traditional style into contemporary settings.

Real Life at the White House

Author : John Whitcomb
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415939515
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (395 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Real Life at the White House by : John Whitcomb

Download or read book Real Life at the White House written by John Whitcomb and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irresistible chronological overview of daily life in the presidential residence. Divided into 42 chapters representing each succeeding administration, this survey is brimming with fun facts, tantalizing tidbits, and memorable anecdotes detailing two centuries of domestic bliss and strife in the White House. From George Washington, who chose the sight and initiated work on the presidential mansion, to Bill Clinton, whose well-documented White House escapades titillated and scandalized the nation, each individual president has contributed to the mystique of the most readily recognized home in the U.S. Together with scores of drawings, portraits, and photographs, the breezy text chronicles the significant physical, social, and emotional changes wrought by each First Family as they sought to personalize daily life in the White House.

Life as a House

Author : Brent Harold
Publisher : Seaboard Press
ISBN 13 : 9781596637481
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (374 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Life as a House by : Brent Harold

Download or read book Life as a House written by Brent Harold and published by Seaboard Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold, author of several previous books, discusses the real world considerations of construction along with a brief history of architecture, while bringing a writer's sensibility to the challenges and details of his many projects. To build a house, to take control of this basic of life-it's a perennially compelling dream, appealing to the deepest part of us. Never more so than in the current housing crisis. "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach" -overcoming this proverbial putdown of the impracticality of academics, an English professor teaches himself carpentry renovating an old fixer-upper, and designs and builds a house, thereby dramatically re-directing the course of his life. Like Thoreau's WALDEN, whose spirit hovers over this book, LIFE AS A HOUSE brings a writer's sensibility to details of design and construction, including the human factors such as the price of home heating fuel, job insecurity, and unplanned parenthood . Told with poetry, humor and warmth, this is a story of personal transformation and of how the creative impulse gives meaning to life, with all the pleasures and inconveniences thereof. ABOUT THE AUTHOR BRENT HAROLD is a former professor of English, a columnist for the CAPE COD TIMES, and author of WELLFLEET AND THE WORLD and OWNING THE SIERRA NEVADA. Praise for OWNING THE SIERRA NEVADA "A wonderful book I loved it. I fell in love with the Sierra again sight unseen ... a grand writer " --Annie Dillard "A fascinating and compelling story, told with the same easy charm and intelligence that Harold brings to his newspaper columns. .." --CONTRA COSTA TIMES ..". an edgy West, the West of metaphor...a simple little book about decades of yearning." -LOS ANGELES TIMES Praise for WELLFLEET AND THE WORLD ..". uncommon wit and literary grace." -Robert Finch, author, THE CAPE ITSELF "Charming .... enticing." -Howard Zinn, A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF TH

House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery

Author : Liz Rosenberg
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763699063
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery by : Liz Rosenberg

Download or read book House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery written by Liz Rosenberg and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life. Once upon a time, there was a girl named Maud who adored stories. When she was fourteen years old, Maud wrote in her journal, “I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them.” Not only did Maud grow up to own lots of books, she wrote twenty-four of them herself as L. M. Montgomery, the world-renowned author of Anne of Green Gables. For many years, not a great deal was known about Maud’s personal life. Her childhood was spent with strict, undemonstrative grandparents, and her reflections on writing, her lifelong struggles with anxiety and depression, her “year of mad passion,” and her difficult married life remained locked away, buried deep within her unpublished personal journals. Through this revealing and deeply moving biography, kindred spirits of all ages who, like Maud, never gave up “the substance of things hoped for” will be captivated anew by the words of this remarkable woman.

My Life in Houses

Author : Margaret Forster
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448192579
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis My Life in Houses by : Margaret Forster

Download or read book My Life in Houses written by Margaret Forster and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.’ So begins Margaret Forster’s journey through the houses she’s lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home of today. This is not a book about bricks and mortar though. This is a book about what houses are to us, the effect they have on the way we live our lives and the changing nature of our homes: from blacking grates and outside privies; to cities dominated by bedsits and lodgings; to the houses of today converted back into single dwellings. Finally, it is a gently insistent, personal inquiry into the meaning of home.

The House of Life

Author : Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The House of Life by : Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Download or read book The House of Life written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A House of My Own

Author : Sandra Cisneros
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385351348
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A House of My Own by : Sandra Cisneros

Download or read book A House of My Own written by Sandra Cisneros and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction From Chicago to Mexico, the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided inspiration for her now-classic works of fiction and poetry. But a house of her own, a place where she could truly take root, has eluded her. In this jigsaw autobiography, made up of essays and images spanning three decades-and including never-before-published work-Cisneros has come home at last. Written with her trademark lyricism, in these signature pieces the acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature shares her transformative memories and reveals her artistic and intellectual influences. Poignant, honest, and deeply moving, A House of My Own is an exuberant celebration of a life lived to the fullest, from one of our most beloved writers.

The House of Life

Author : Mario Praz
Publisher : Non Pareil Books
ISBN 13 : 9781567923995
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (239 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The House of Life by : Mario Praz

Download or read book The House of Life written by Mario Praz and published by Non Pareil Books. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In simplest terms, it is a house tour, but Mario Praz's Roman apartment was no ordinary house it was a wunderkammer, a house of wonders, rooms replete with objects d'art and sculpture, walls hung with paintings and prints, bureaus overflowing with postcards and ephemera. And Praz is no ordinary guide; he leads you, the reader, through each room discussing the objects therein. What emerge are his passions, his immense erudition, his insatiable curiosity, his undeniable amiability, his infectious enthusiasm. What emerges is a multi-layered disquisition on the nature of art, on the challenge of investigation and discovery, on the way in which art and the objects we choose to surround us tell stories.

Life in the English Country House

Author : Mark Girouard
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300058703
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (587 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Life in the English Country House by : Mark Girouard

Download or read book Life in the English Country House written by Mark Girouard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's Slade lectures given at Oxford University in 1975-76.

The Big House

Author : George Howe Colt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439124914
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Big House by : George Howe Colt

Download or read book The Big House written by George Howe Colt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries, birthdays, breakdowns, and love affairs for five generations interweaves Colt’s final visit with memories of a lifetime of summers. Run-down yet romantic, The Big House stands not only as a cherished reminder of summer’s ephemeral pleasures but also as a powerful symbol of a vanishing way of life.

A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses

Author : Larry Haun
Publisher : Taunton Press
ISBN 13 : 1600854028
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses by : Larry Haun

Download or read book A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses written by Larry Haun and published by Taunton Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From one of Fine Homebuilding's best-loved authors, Larry Haun, comes a unique story that looks at American home building from the perspective of twelve houses he has known intimately. Part memoir, part cultural history, A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses takes the reader house by house over an arc of 100 years. Along with period photos, the author shows us the sod house in Nebraska where his mother was born, the frame house of his childhood, the production houses he built in the San Fernando Valley, and the Habitat for Humanity homes he devotes his time to now. It's an engaging read written by a veteran builder with a thoughtful awareness of what was intrinsic to home building in the past and the many ways it has evolved. Builders and history lovers will appreciate his deep connection to the natural world, yearning for simplicity, respect for humanity, and evocative notion of what we mean by "home.""--

The Life of Property

Author : Timothy Jenkins
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845456672
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Life of Property by : Timothy Jenkins

Download or read book The Life of Property written by Timothy Jenkins and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longstanding and resilient local ideas of property and practices of inheritance control the destinies of those living in Bearn, a region of south-west France in the foothills of the French Pyrenees. Based on extensive fieldwork and archival research that combines ethnography and intellectual history, this book explores these long-term continuities of a particular way of life within a broad framework. These local ideas have found expression twice at the national level: first, in sociological arguments proposed by Frederique Le Play about the family that shaped debates on social reform and the repair of national identity in the last third of the nineteenth century-debates that would play a part in subsequent European thought and in contemporary European social policy. Second, they fed into late twentieth-century sociological categories through the influential work of Pierre Bourdieu. This study of Bearn illustrates the multi-layered life of local concepts and practices, and the continuing contribution of the local to modern European national history.

Rachel Carson

Author : Paul Brooks
Publisher : Sierra Club Books for Children
ISBN 13 : 9781578050178
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Rachel Carson by : Paul Brooks

Download or read book Rachel Carson written by Paul Brooks and published by Sierra Club Books for Children. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Carson is arguably the most important environmentalist of this century. Her Silent Spring, published in 1962, is one of those rare books that changed the course of history. Paul Brooks, who was Carson's editor for many years, has selected excerpts from her works (Under the Sea-Wind, 1941; The Sea Around Us, 1951; The Edge of the Sea, 1955; Silent Spring, 1962; and The Sense of Wonder, 1965) that illustrate her remarkable talent for writing popular science. From these excerpts, as well as Carson's letters and unpublished writings and the recollections of those who knew her, Brooks has created an intimate portrait of the writer at work.

Man of the House

Author : Tip O'Neill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780360312203
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Man of the House by : Tip O'Neill

Download or read book Man of the House written by Tip O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shadow in the House of Life

Author : Valerie James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781728805290
Total Pages : 749 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Shadow in the House of Life by : Valerie James

Download or read book Shadow in the House of Life written by Valerie James and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two medical students with unique abilities are thrust into a most unusual murder investigation that soon draws the attention of the most powerful man in Egypt, the god king Khnum Khufu. Nothing is as it seems when dark forces conspire to conceal the truth as political intrigue ensues and young love blossoms.

Life of the Party

Author : Olivia Gatwood
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN 13 : 1984801902
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Life of the Party by : Olivia Gatwood

Download or read book Life of the Party written by Olivia Gatwood and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling debut collection of raw and explosive poems about growing up in a sexist, sensationalized world, from a thrilling new feminist voice. i’m a good girl, bad girl, dream girl, sad girl girl next door sunbathing in the driveway i wanna be them all at once, i wanna be all the girls I’ve ever loved —from “Girl” Lauded for the power of her writing and having attracted an online fan base of millions for her extraordinary spoken-word performances, Olivia Gatwood now weaves together her own coming-of-age with an investigation into our culture’s romanticization of violence against women. At times blistering and riotous, at times soulful and exuberant, Life of the Party explores the boundary between what is real and what is imagined in a life saturated with fear. Gatwood asks, How does a girl grow into a woman in a world racked by violence? Where is the line between perpetrator and victim? In precise, searing language, she illustrates how what happens to our bodies can make us who we are. Praise for Life of the Party “Delicately devastating, this book will make us all ‘feel less alone in the dark.’ ”—Miel Bredouw, writer and comedian, Punch Up the Jam “Gatwood writes about the women who were forgotten and the men who got off too easy with an effortlessness and empathy and anger that yanked every emotion on the spectrum out of me. Imagine, we get to live in the age of Olivia Gatwood. Goddamn.”—Jamie Loftus, writer and comedian, Boss Whom Is Girl and The Bechdel Cast “I’ve read every poem in Life of the Party. I’ve read each of them more than once. In some parts of the book the spine is already breaking because I’ve spent so much time poring over it and losing hours in this world Olivia Gatwood has partly created, but partly just invited the reader to enter on their own, caution signs be damned. This book is enlightening, inspiring, igniting, and f***ing scary. I loved every word on every page with a ferocity that frightened me.”—Madeline Brewer, actress, The Handmaid’s Tale, Orange Is the New Black, and Cam

Wayward

Author : Dana Spiotta
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 059331249X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Wayward by : Dana Spiotta

Download or read book Wayward written by Dana Spiotta and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “furious and addictive new novel” (The New York Times) about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning as she flees her suburban life. “Exhilarating ... reads like a burning fever dream. A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad.” —The New York Times Book Review Samantha Raymond's life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into "the Mids"—that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of a certain age suddenly find themselves contemplating motherhood, mortality, and, in this case, the state of our unraveling nation. When she falls in love with a beautiful, decrepit house in a hardscrabble neighborhood in Syracuse, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life—and her family—as she grapples with how to be a wife, a mother, and a daughter, in a country that is coming apart at the seams. Dana Spiotta's Wayward is a stunning novel about aging, about the female body, and about female complexity in contemporary America. Probing and provocative, brainy and sensual, it is a testament to our weird times, to reforms and resistance and utopian wishes, and to the beauty of ruins.