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Author : Sarah Susanka,Kira Obolensky
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 9781561583768
Provides a review of social trends and their effect on architecture and design.
Author : Sarah Susanka
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781561586059
Offers a look at twenty-five examples of small designs to show readers what they need to know to plan the home that best fits their goals and lifestyles.
Author : Debi Gliori
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994-06
Category : Dwellings
ISBN : 1564023710
Unable to find a new house to their liking, members of a growing family decide to build an addition onto their old house.
Author : Yoshi Ueno
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781646141050
Little Mouse and Big Bear live on opposite ends of the same road, and they both would like a friend. But every morning, Little Mouse and Big Bear pass by each other, unnoticed. Until one day, their eyes meet! It's a little awkward at firs—as most new friendships can be—but soon enough they're sipping warm tea together in Big Bear's cozy home, and making plans to meet again the following Sunday. When a nasty storm blows into town will it wreck everything they've built? This tale of friendship and bravery will warm your heart like a cookie and a warm drink shared with a friend.
Author : Thomas C. Hubka
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1584653728
The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic architectural study of the development of the connected farm buildings made by 19th-century New Englanders, which offers insight into the people who made them.
Author : George Howe Colt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439124918
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.
Author : Diane Jacobson
Publisher : Penticton, BC : Theytus Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1894778200
Grade level: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, i, s.
Author : John Michael Vlach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015027250235
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
Author : Sarah Susanka
Publisher : Random House
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781588366122
Have you ever found yourself asking, “Is this all there is to life?” Or wondering if this bigger life you have created is actually a better life? And do you wonder how it all got so out of control? In her groundbreaking bestseller The Not So Big House, architect Sarah Susanka showed us a new way to inhabit our houses by creating homes that were better–not bigger. Now, in The Not So Big Life, Susanka takes her revolutionary philosophy to another dimension by showing us a new way to inhabit our lives. Most of us have lives that are as cluttered with unwanted obligations as our attics are cluttered with things. The bigger-is-better idea that triggered the explosion of McMansions has spilled over to give us McLives. For many of us, our ability to find the time to do what we want to do has come to a grinding halt. Now we barely have time to take a breath before making the next call on our cell phone, while at the same time messaging someone else on our Blackberry. Our schedules are chaotic and overcommitted, leaving us so stressed that we are numb, yet we wonder why we cannot fall asleep at night. In The Not So Big Life, Susanka shows us that it is possible to take our finger off the fast-forward button, and to our surprise we find how effortless and rewarding this change can be. We do not have to lead a monastic life or give up the things we love. In fact, the real joy of leading a not so big life is discovering that the life we love has been there the entire time. Through simple exercises and inspiring stories, Susanka shows us that all we need to do is make small shifts in our day–subtle movements that open our minds as if we were finally opening the windows to let in fresh air. The Not So Big Life reveals that form and function serve not only architectural aims but life goals as well. Just as we can tear down interior walls to reveal space, we can tear down our fears and assumptions to open up new possibilities. The result is that we quickly discover we have all the space and time we need for the things in our lives that really matter. But perhaps the greatest reward is the discovery that small changes can yield enormous results. In her elegant, clear style, Susanka convinces us that less truly is more–much more.
Author : Amy Feely Morsman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813930039
Using newspapers, periodicals, organization records, and numerous letters from Virginia planation families, Morsman captures how these frustrated elites made sense of embarrassing postwar changes, in the private but also in the public spheres they inhabited. Morsman suggests that the planters' adaptations may have been carried away from the crumbling plantations by their adult children into the urban house-holds of the New South. --Book Jacket.
Author : John Walsh,Patrick Reynolds
Publisher : Godwit Pub.
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Architect-designed houses
ISBN : 1869798465
Sixty outstanding architect-designed new New Zealand homes. John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds are back with their third handsome New Zealand residential architecture book, which this time covers 60 projects built since 2007 and ranging from the small - baches, studios and apartments-through to the big-substantial new residences and conversions, homes with budgets to match their scale. Walsh and Reynolds have track records as New Zealand's preeminent architectural writer and photographer respectively. This time they are joined by a team of eminently well qualified contributing writers who, under John Walsh's editorial supervision, bring together a very significant survey of residential architecture endeavour in recent years. Thoughtfully written, beautifully photographed and handsomely produced, this massive book is unrivalled. Complete with plans, and enormously comprehensive, it is both a celebration and a sourcebook of New Zealand's best architectural work.
Author : Stephen D. Cox
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300154955
""The Big House" is America's idea of the prison - a huge, tough, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling with rules and punishments, overwhelming in size and the intent to intimidate. Stephen Cox tells the story of the American prison - its politics, its sex, its violence, its inability to control itself - and its idealization in American popular culture. This book investigates both the popular images of prison and the realities behind them : problems of control and discipline, mainenance and reform, power and sexuality. It conveys an awareness of the limits of human and institutional power, and of the symbolic and iconic qualities the "Big House" has attained in America's understanding of itself"--Jacket.
Author : Sarah Susanka,Marc Vassallo
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Dwellings
ISBN : 9781561588275
C.1, GENRAL FUNDS, BARNES & NOBLES, 3/30/2010, $32.00.
Author : John M. Eason
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226410340
Now more than ever, we need to understand the social, political, and economic shifts that have driven the United States to triple its prison construction in just over three decades. John Eason goes a very considerable distance here in fulfilling this need, not by detailing the aftereffects of building huge numbers of prisons, but by vividly showing the process by which a community seeks to get a prison built in their area. What prompted him to embark on this inquiry was the insistent question of why the rapid expansion of prisons in America, why now, and why so many. He quickly learned that the prison boom is best understood from the perspective of the rural, southern towns where they tend to be placed (North Carolina has twice as many prisons as New Jersey, though both states have the same number of prisoners). And so he sets up shop, as it were, in Forrest City, Arkansas, where he moved with his family to begin the splendid fieldwork that led to this book. A major part of his story deals with the emergence of the rural ghetto, abetted by white flight, de-industrialization, the emergence of public housing, and higher proportions of blacks and Latinos. How did Forrest City become a site for its prison? Eason takes us behind the decision-making scenes, tracking the impact of stigma (a prison in my backyard-not a likely desideratum), economic development, poverty, and race, while showing power-sharing among opposed groups of elite whites vs. black race leaders. Eason situates the prison within the dynamic shifts rural economies are undergoing, and shows how racially diverse communities can achieve the siting and building of prisons in their rural ghetto. The result is a full understanding of the ways in which a prison economy takes shape and operates."
Author : Valérie Fontaine
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773065021
A young girl describes what it’s like when her mom’s new friend comes to stay — a moving story about domestic violence that ends on a hopeful note. The young girl tells us that her mom’s new friend is just like the big bad wolf. At first the wolf is sweet and kind to her mom, though the girl notices the wolf’s cold eyes from the very beginning. When her mom arrives home late one day, the wolf suddenly hurls angry words and terrible names at her. From that day on her mother doesn’t smile anymore. The girl is careful to clean her room and brush her teeth and do everything to keep the peace, but the wolf is unpredictable, throwing plates on the floor, yelling at her mother and holding the girl’s arm so tightly she is left with bruises. Whenever the yelling begins, she hides under the covers in her room. How will she and her mom cope as the wolf becomes increasingly fierce? Valérie Fontaine and Nathalie Dion have created a powerful, moving story about violence in the home that ends on a note of hope. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.9 Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2 Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.