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Breathe Cleaner Air & Create a Healthier Home with the Power of Indoor PlantsDid you know indoor air can be up to five times more polluted than outdoor air? Harmful toxins, allergens, and low humidity levels can negatively impact your sleep, health, and overall well-being. Luckily, nature offers a simple, beautiful solution: air-purifying plants. This guide introduces the best indoor plants scientifically shown to filter toxins, improve humidity, and freshen your space—naturally.

Der Charme-Faktor von Altbau ist einzigartig: Mondäne Stuckverzierungen, majestätische Bodenfenster, hohe Decken und hübsche Fachwerkoptik machen aus Wohnung oder Haus einen einzigartigen Blickfang. Mit diesem Ratgeber verliert der Alptraum Altbau-Sanierung im Handumdrehen seinen Schrecken und wird stattdessen zu einem Herzensprojekt, bei dem Sie sich so richtig kreativ austoben können.

In 1867, less than three years after the Civil War left the city in ruins, Hungarian Jewish immigrant Morris Rich opened a small dry goods store on what is now Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Over time, his brothers Emanuel and Daniel joined the business; within a century, it became a retailing dynasty. Join historian Jeff Clemmons as he traces Rich's 137-year history.

Из-за чего аптекари стали героями шекспировской драмы? Что прятал купец в тайной комнате? Для чего гимназист затопил кабинет директора? И как бани разбили два брака? "Ключи от Москвы" — книга, которая открывает 16 дверей самых изысканных, загадочных и необычных домов города. Каждое здание — это не только архитектурная жемчужина Москвы, но и хранилище опасных секретов, пронзительных драм, любви и надежд прежних жильцов. Совершите путешествие в прошлое. Сидя за обеденным столом с Алексеем Толстым, послушайте его истории о парижских устрицах и былой роскоши.

Когда речь заходит об архитектуре, мы тотчас ясно представляем себе предмет, ведь архитектура окружает нас повсюду и сопровождает всю жизнь. Но когда заходит речь об архитекторах – то былая ясность исчезает, предмет разговора начинает скрываться в тумане, хотя имена авторов самых знаменитых зданий многие хорошо знают – Палладио или Корбюзье, Баженов или Растрелли, все мы слышали об этих гениальных зодчих.

The idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as personal identities may seem as new as the work-from-home revolution. But it was second nature to the ancient Romans, for whom the home was in many ways the center of public and private life. Roman authors saw infinite practical and symbolic value in houses, and they have much to say about them. How to Make a Home presents some of the best Roman writings on houses—from buying and selling to designing and decorating.

Imagine this: You’re trying to price a project, but you’re stuck second-guessing yourself because you don’t know how to balance value and profit. Or maybe you’ve spent hours wooing a potential client, only to find they’ve gone with someone else. Worse yet, you’re knee-deep in a project, only to realise your contract didn’t protect you from unexpected changes – and now you’re footing the bill. If any of that sounds familiar, it’s not your fault.

Ciudades de 15 minutos (o de 20 para los expertos menos ambiciosos): este es un poderoso concepto urbanístico que se ha popularizado en los últimos años y que se basa en la idea de diseñar ciudades en las que los servicios y actividades esenciales (trabajo, educación, compras, salud, etc.) estén ubicados a no más de 15 minutos a pie o en bicicleta de los hogares de los residentes.

In Stop Landscaping, Start Life-Scaping, Monique Allen, landscape designer, contractor, and fine gardener, speaks frankly about why you become caught in a spiral of false starts and unsatisfying projects.

This book is the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park. From the first Dutch family to settle on the land through the political crusade to create America’s first major urban park, Sara Cedar Miller chronicles two and a half centuries of history.

For over eighty years, tourists have flocked to Natchez, Mississippi, seeking the "Old South," but what they encounter is invention: a pageant and rewrite of history first concocted during the Great Depression. Paul Hardin Kapp explores how meaning is assigned to place and how meaning evolves over time. In showing how and why the Natchez buildings of the "Old South" were first preserved, commercialized, and transformed into a brand, this volume makes a much-needed contribution to debates over the meaning attached to cultural patrimony.

Sheridan didn't believe in witches, not in 1972. Not until he fell in love with Bronwynn, a dark-haired beauty in North Dallas. Then, he learned more than he wanted about the dark side of magic, witchcraft, and Satanism hidden in the underbelly of Dallas.

Our reliance on industrial agriculture has resulted in a food supply riddled with hidden environmental, economic, and health care costs and beset by rising food prices. With only a handful of corporations responsible for the lion’s share of the food on our supermarket shelves, we are incredibly vulnerable to supply chain disruption.

Noted art historian Harriet F. Senie tackles pivotal subjects and more in Monumental Controversies. Senie places partisan politics aside as she investigates subjects that have not been adequately covered in classrooms or literature and require substantial reconciliation in order for Americans to come to terms with their history. She shines a spotlight on the complicated facts surrounding these figures, monuments, and sites, enabling us to revisit the flaws of our Founding Fathers and their checkered legacies while still recognizing their enormous importance and influence.

"Cuando le pedí al Rebe que me contara su vida, no me respondió pero se puso a llorar. Ni mi abuelo ni mi padre habían pensado en preguntarle cómo había sido su existencia antes de que los osos le devoraran el cuerpo. Yo fui el primero en interesarme en ese pasado. Comprendo la actitud de mis antecesores.

Our buildings are making us sick. Our homes, offices, factories, and dormitories are, in some sense, fresh parasites on the sacred Earth, Nahasdzáán. In search of a better way, author Jim Kristofic journeys across the Southwest to apprentice with architects and builders who know how to make buildings that will take care of us. This is where he meets the House Gods who are building to the sun so that we can live on Earth. Forever.

Country House Collection documents the development of stately homes in England with a trajectory from Medieval times to a burgeoning of the neo-classical style of building in the early to mid 18th-century. The grand houses that appeared in rural locations manifested statements of a ruling class composed of self-made landowners, merchants and families of historic lineage and title.

Sitopía es la continuación de Ciudades hambrientas. Durante incontables milenios, la comida ha dado forma a nuestros cuerpos y hogares, nuestra política y nuestro comercio, nuestros paisajes y nuestro clima. Se podría decir que la comida es la herramienta más poderosa para transformar nuestras vidas y el mundo. Mientras que Ciudades hambrientas explora cómo el viaje de la comida a través de la ciudad ha dado forma a las civilizaciones a lo largo del tiempo, Sitopia comienza con un plato de comida y viaja hasta el universo.

Este libro es para constructores, para quienes hacen viviendas y otras edificaciones para la comunidad. Sean maestros de obras, albañiles, carpinteros, plomeros o algún otro artesano; autoridades de pequeños municipios, que deciden cómo se van a desarrollar las comunidades y sus alrededores; o personas que quieren proyectar o construir su propia casa o indicar al contratista o maestro albañil cómo quieren tener su casa.

Notre-Dame, una chiesa, ma anche il cuore di Parigi e un''cona che supera i confini della Francia. A un anno dal rogo che ha distrutto la Cattedrale e commosso il mondo, Franco Cardini ne fa la protagonista del suo nuovo libro: un'interprete solo apparentemente senza voce della storia d'Europa che ha assistito a molti grandi eventi nel corso dei secoli e può quindi raccontarci il Vecchio continente dal Medioevo a oggi.