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Feast your eyes on some of the hottest fireplace designs and hearth products available today. This book is a must for people who already own a fireplace and seek design inspiration, people who want to retrofit an existing fireplace, and people who are installing a new fireplace in their home. An inspiring guide to today's vast assortment of hearth products, it features over 225 gorgeous color photographs of dressed-up fireplaces and stoves, and helpful tips to help you design a fireplace environment. These wonderful gas and woodburning fireplaces are attractively adorned to spark your imagination. Whether your style is classic, traditional, or contemporary, you'll be sure to find designs that suit you. This is an invaluable resource that no current or future fireplace owner or designer should be without.
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Great photos, lots of ideas.......2007-02-26
I like this book by far the best out of the 4 "idea" books I got on fireplaces. I was looking for different types of stone fireplaces and accompanying mantles, etc and this book had a slew of them.
Hands Down...The Best.......2006-10-11
We are building a new home, and were looking for photographs of fireplaces to develop design ideas of our own. The absolute best book I've found for our application is this Schiffer Book by Melissa Cardona entitled "The Fireplace Design Sourcebook" It has more photographs than any book I've found, and an enormous variety of fireplace designs to peruse. Another excellent book is The Better Homes & Gardens book "Fireplace Decorating & Planning Ideas", which also contains construction "how to" information.
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The Art of Maine in Winter
Carl Little
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The Art of Monhegan Island
ASIN: 0892725923 |
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The Art of Maine in Winter presents more than eighty works by the finest American painters who capture the beauty of winter in Maine. Winslow Homer and Rockwell Kent, for example, stayed well into the winter, creating some of the most memorable images of Maine ever made. Snow on a meadow, ice blocks in a bay, frozen winter streams, sea smoke hovering over the ocean, and houses becoming gingerbread fantasies after a snowstorm -- these are the glories of winter in Maine that have inspired artists for almost two hundred years.
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A full-color collection of breathtaking works of art.......2002-12-09
Compiled, written, and edited by Maine art expert Carl Little and Arnold Skolnick (owner and founder of Chameleon Books), The Art Of Maine In Winter is a visually splendid, full-color collection of breathtaking works of art capturing Maine during the winter months. Ranging from abstract-style oil on canvas landscapes of snow, to woodcuts of young people enjoying simple winter sports, to impressionistic renditions of hard work among tall trees, The Art Of Maine In Winter presents an eclectic variety of gorgeous artworks, along with brief yet thoughtful commentary on the spirit of the art itself and the land reflected in the artist's view. The Art Of Maine In Winter is a welcome and highly recommended addition to any personal, art school, or community library Art History collection.
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This is a book of striking reproductions of Maine landscape paintings by famous 19th and 20th century painters. The paintings have been selected by Arnold Skolnick and are accompanied by Carl Little's commentary, which includes biographical notes about each painter and selected bits of interesting details about the painting scene in Maine that began shortly after the Civil War and has continued to the present day.
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so disappopinting.......2007-03-23
This book (like the first edition) has really great paintings. I mean yes: the editors made really fine choices of art works to include and discuss. Absolutely wonderful. However - the PROBLEM is that they're all 6 inches by 4 inches. This (and the first book) really should have been done in a large format. For once, a coffeetable book-style would have been absolutely perfect. It would have been worth the extra money not only to see the images larger but also because many are rarely seen images and at last, worth seeing well. Yes - the selections are quite that good. But the miniscule format they chose to print it is disappointly teensy. Detail is lost. Is not for scholars or real art lovers; you emerge hungry with no options. I'd rather not see them at all.
A lovely pick for any Maine fan........2006-12-14
PAINTINGS OF MAINE: A NEW COLLECTION must be defined as such because author Carl Little originally collaborated with Arnold Skolnick to provide the original volume back in 1991. Here Skolnick serves as picture editor on a new volume which visits Maine landscapes through art, gathering works from three generations of the Wyeth family as well as many other well-known American artists who painted Maine scenes. A lovely pick for any Maine fan.
Diane C. Donovan
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Art of the Maine Islands
Carl Little
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The artists' paradise.......1999-07-20
Carl Little, a poet, essayist, art critic and (to make ends meet) Director of Public Relations for College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, has made it his life's work to glorify his great loves: language, painting, and Maine. In Art of the Maine Islands he collaborates once again with his `Comrade in Art,' designer Arnold Sklonick--this time to offer an assortment of artists all in one way or another captivated by the charm of Maine's chilly dark air, red rocks and frothing waters. Little and Skolnick have the breadth of appreciation to have included contemporary art along with the more staid efforts of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. The book's lively and diverse ninety-six pages probably are more designed to invite leafing through on a coffee table, than to increase the dry and dusty clutter on the scholar's bookshelf. It is homage to a place artists have always loved--and in its colorful pages you can see why.
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Alvin Booth: Corpus
Manufacturer: Edition Stemmle
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ASIN: 3908161940 |
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My current favorite.......1999-12-07
I was only able to view this book for a few minutes, but I'm in love. As soon as the Holiday season is over I'm planning on buying it for myself. Beautiful images that are warm, rich, and extremely textural. Mr Booth, in my opinion was able to capture emotion and expression in a way that most photographers who deal with the figure as a subject never do.
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Sir Aymar, a knight of great skill and deep honor, journeys the countryside of Middle Age Europe, displaced from his own lands, fighting for his chance to return home and reclaim the towers that are "the tallest and most beautiful in all the land." While visiting a friendly lord, Aymar becomes entangled in a matter of court intrigue, a twisted knot of murder and deceit that threatens to destroy old friendships and innocent lives -- even when truth and honor prevail. Hermann, international comics superstar and creator of Jeremiah, Bernard Prince, Comanche, Blood Ties, and Rodrigo, is one of comics most skilled and versatile storytellers, a master of light, shadow, composition, and character. Few creators of graphic fiction are capable of producing such a sweeping, ambitious work that succeeds so gloriously on so many levels. The Towers of Bois-Maury is Hermann's masterwork, a series of vast scope, breathtaking imagery, and emotional intensity and is another essential Venture graphic album, produced in a beautiful laminated hardcover English-language edition in association with Strip Art Features
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Slight Short Stories-Stick to Prince Valiant.......2007-06-11
I have to confess that I was very dissapointed with the three volumes of the Bois-Maury series. As a category of creative fiction, Franco-Belgian graphic novels have a very good reputation. Hermann is famous as one of the better known author/illustrators. But in the final analysis, the three books of this series are not really novels. They are more similar to not very well thought out short stories. The artwork was decent but could not save very slight short stories to which the art is tied. If you are interested in historical graphic novels, stick to Hal Foster's Prince Valiant books. Foster's artwork is superior and he had the time and space to tell substantial stories.
Medieval tale .......2005-01-09
Hermann, one of the finest European comics artist (author of numerous books and series: Jeremiah, Jugurtha, Bernard Prince) created this medieval tale where one can find the most amazing and a very believeable world of medieval knights, damsels, vagabonds, bandits and peasants etc, who do love, wander ceaselessly, fight for glory or just survival, work long hours for a lousy pay, steal to avoid hunger or just to further themselves in life and suffer wounds, torture, rape or some other misery, all in the context of the 12th century Europe. This is the first installment of this magnificent 12-odd volume saga that unfortunately has not been published in English in its entirety, which is truly a shame. This very humane, multidimensional saga begins with a story of a landless knight Aymar and his squire Olivier who dreaming about retaking his family casttle - his fabled Bois-Maury. But there is also another hero - the common laborer Germain, whose misadvetures parallel the knight's adventures and exploits. Excellent story, fabulous drawing style, acurate recreation of armor, weaponry, costumes, architecture, landscapes etc . In short, a must for medieval history afficionados and comics lovers alike...
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Dateline Soweto: Travels With Black South African Reporters
William Finnegan
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Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who--fearing government disapproval--may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited several of these reporters during the May 1994 election and describes their post-apartheid working experience in a new preface and epilogue.
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1926. The Memoirs of Burnham, gold miner, hunter, explorer and Chief of Scouts under Lord Roberts in the Boer War. He was also well known to Theodore Roosevelt, Hopkinson Smith, Richard Harding Davis, Thomas Nelson Page, and other prominent Americans who enjoyed his company. Contents: The Making of a Scout; First Lessons in Scouting; The Tonto Basin Feud; My Smuggler Friend; Ups and Downs in Globe; The Necktie Party; Gold Mining; The Call to Africa; The Long Trail; The Trek North; The War Cloud; Mashonaland; The First Matabele War; When the Compass Failed; Carrying Dispatches; The Dash to Capture the King; Wilson's Last Stand; Forbe's Retreat; After the War; The Jameson Raid; The Second Matabele War; Rhodesia's Darkest Hour; The M'Limo; Klondike; An Opinion of the Boers; Paardeburg and Modder River; The Pietersburg Failure; Cattle Lifting Near Brakpan; Taken Prisoner at Sanna's Post; Escape from the Boers; Cutting the Railroad; Wounded; Rewards; The Great War and the Prospector; and The Latest Adventure.
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Riveting adventure, humbly told.......2007-09-23
Scouting on Two Continents is the autobiography of one of the greatest scouts who ever lived, and is packed with his incredible adventures. The stories that Burnham tells are simply amazing--hiding in plain sight and yet avoiding capture, floating on a river past an enemy camp, and knifing through unknown terrain crawling with bad guys and somehow managing to get back home in one piece.
Burnham's stories are riveting, but his presentation is humble. His writing style is detailed and to the point, making his adventures all the more believable. While generally exuding the confidence that he must have felt while on most of his missions, Burnham doesn't neglect writing about his fears and failures. Through them we see the side of a man who absolutely hated returning from a mission without success, but at times knew that that was all he could do. He also presents himself as a man who was at times too brash, taking unnecessary risks to perform feats that served his ego but not his mission.
Burnham's book also provides a glimpse at the history of the Old West and of the wars in Africa around the turn of the 20th century. His insights are valuable, but racism creeps into many of his judgments about the enemies he fights.
Overall, this book reads well and is full of fantastic adventures, but it will only be appreciated by the reader who takes the time to carefully read and understand the man and the societies in which he lived and fought. It is not riveting like a modern thriller, but rather because its stories are true, personal, and well-told.
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Scouting on Two Continents
Manufacturer: Ivan Deach, Jr.
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Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering at front and spine.
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Scouting on Two Continents
Fredrick Burnharn
Manufacturer: Wolfe Pub Co
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excellent journal of wars in Africa and United Stated.......1998-01-02
Burnham gives a first hand and personal account of the intricacies of the Boer and Apache Wars. Be sure to have a couple of free days; when you pick this book up you will not be able to put it down.
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Raising PG Kids in an X Rated Society
Tipper Gore
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Douchebagbookwrittenbyadouchebag.......2007-03-29
My favorite part is that she doesn't admit about being in a band called the Wildcats when she was young.
Just so you know..........2004-11-17
I should specify. I read this book four years ago after I heard about it from Jello Biafra, perhaps the most knowledgable source and victim of Tipper Gore's autocracy. I often feal that I have trouble finding new points to talk about as a political activist and speaker but his are just so shocking and therefore to my taste. If he has tried to point anything out through his spoken word albums and countless speaches (which belive me he has), his highlight would have to have been the energy he put into exposing Tipper's connections with the Religious Right. Phyliph Schalfly of the Eagle Forrum has stated being inspired by Tipper when Tipper spoke at one of the Eagle Forrum's functions ,these functions promoting that woman's place is the home, and tipper has worked with Joe Lieberman who has held six senate commities against rock and rap vs. Tipper's husband Gore's petty two. It is also widely acknowledged that the PMRC (Tipper's action group) sends its information out to people through mail-order christian and televangelist packages. Another reviewer has spoken about the Back in Control center so I don't think I need to continue with that but to sum this up, it is obvious that 'Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society' (gee what a creative title) is not the radical ideology and protection based book it claims to be, but works as a soap box for the Religious Right of America. I cannot tell you, furthermore how shocked I was to find that it may have caused complications to print this review four years ago when I read the book (I'm 16 now) makes me skeptical of the book's influence on major corporations like Amazone and whether they my be taking some of what Tipper says about out of control children to heart. To any concerned parent who would question my sanity after exposure unfiltered sex and violence, I would encourage them to come to my house, let me cook them dinner, discuss the issues Tipper fails to address properly in her book with me, and then invite them to hang out with my racialy and sexualy diverse friends while we engage in one of my favourite activities of the day: Discussing philosophy, poetry (often musical), religion, and American foreign policy over the low hum of music by the Dead Kennedies, Anti-Flag, Rammstein, Alexisonfire, Death by Stereo, Led Zeplin, and Pink Floyd. I would then challenge my guests to portray me and my friends as deranged psychopathic killers as opposed to modern day thinkers of truth and wisdom. Personnaly, I think Hobbes would have been proud.
Doesn't understand that music is ENTERTAINMENT.......2003-11-20
This is just an over protective mom with no creditials writing what she feels. It goes to link a man falling off bleachers and dying to violent lyrics in music? Sorry lady, people slip and fall sometimes. She continually condemns bands such as Def Leppard and Motely Crue for all of societal evils. The books seems to make the assumption that violence would not even exist if rock and roll were not around. This book is only good for research purposes to prove how wrong it is.
Something is wrong with you if you don't agree with me...........2001-12-18
Ok, the title is obviously sarcastic but it is also what I believe to be the underlying idea of censorship. Why does the government, Tipper Gore, or anyone else get to decide what is right and wrong for everyone else to see, learn and watch? This denotes that her opinion is somehow better than everyone else's and it isn't enough for her to be absolute in her own beliefs as an individual, everyone else has to agree.
People should be allowed to freely express themselves by saying whatever they want to say no matter how many people find it offensive. If you don't like it, leave. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and has the right to express it (even Tipper). The problem comes when an opinion gets forced down everyone's. Censorship SHOULD be allowed in the private sector though, such as this very website, because censorship is a form of expression in itself when it comes to your own material. In other words, "If you don't like my website because certain words aren't allowed, make your own." It is the totalitarian attitude that the government should be allowed to censor every single form of communication that blatantly disregards the very 1st amendment.
Adults should be able to decide what they want to see hear and listen to. Now of course this book is directed at parents for their kids so that leads to the question, who gets to decide what kids can and can't watch? The answer is simple: their parents! I think it's a parent's responsibility to raise a child as they see fit. Given that in this book she only gives advice, but in the real political world she believes in imposing censorship. It's probably a good idea to know the author J. How would Tipper Gore like it if the powers shifted and someone was telling her how to raise her kids?
ALSO: I highly recommend ALL PARENTS see the South Park Episode: Cripple Fight. It has great messages about censorship along with the private sector and the government and more! Plus it is great fun!
well its different!!.......2001-07-24
Im never suprised by what right wing fundamentalists will come up with next...There's often a string of ideas that are put together to form a belief system, but with this you dont even get that. It's a confusing read that seems to contradict itself...concerned with a way to raise your kids "the good way"... this is more of a list of how to find "every nasty thing society has ever produced" viewed by an artistically devoid and philosophically empty mind set. To me this seems like the sort of thing the SPANISH INQUISITION would be proud of touting about than a genuinely open minded aproach to parenting. Living in Europe Im removed from the blinkered media that exists in the US so can understand how someone could be allowed to release this as a viable parenting guide. Bordering on the edge of racism and blatant bigotist philosophy I feel that this book is a warning sign that shows that the people in power in the US are as removed from society as you could possibly get. This is more than out of touch. If you need this as a guide to parenting then you have failed in life due to the fact you have been sitting in a glass container for too many years.
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Plantation Ladies Can't Stand Those Jungle Drums!.......2006-01-13
If there's one thing that makes a southern belle like Tipper Gore nervous, it's the endless throbbing of the drums from the slave quarters on a hot, still southern night.
That pretty much sums up the real source of Tipper's discomfort with so-called "obscene" rap music.
The irony is, this southern politician's wife is so completely obtuse, so tone-deaf, so just plain cotton-pickin' stupid that she still has NO IDEA why ghetto blacks would resent a patrician white woman (with a cornpone accent a yard long) lecturing them on "justice" and "decency." Tipper Gore really, really doesn't understand that when she tells Ice T to clean up his act she sounds just like her grandmother complaining about those low-down, shiftless darkies -- and those drums. Always those drums, from the slave quarters late at night.
Notice that Tipper's ideas about how art corrupts could be applied to books and poetry as well as to popular music. For example, one could argue that a beloved southern novel like GONE WITH THE WIND, with its images of sub-human darkies and benign slave owners, does at least as much harm as the worst of gangsta rap. One set of lies begets another set of lies. Hate makes hate. But this kind of insight is far beyond Tipper Gore, who finds no need to examine her own conscience or the dark side of her own heritage. All she wants to do is silence those drums -- those awful, throbbing drums.
It does have an effect and that effect is harmful.......2004-05-16
I was very impressed by Mrs. Gore's ability to articulate the effects of the explicitly sexual and or violent lyrics and images which inundate our children's lives. It is a very well researched, thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of this cancer in our society. And make no mistake about it, it is a cancer.
These words and images are teaching our children to derive pleasure from the debasement, the torturing and the killing of other human beings. When people state that this entertainment has little or no effect upon people, I say that these people have little knowledge of history. Societies have been moved by the power of a person's words to excite the passions of its citizens. Our education system is based upon the belief that the words of a teacher or a writer has the ability to transform a child's view of the world.
Look at our current society. Children massacring their classmates; junior high and high schools with day care centers because teens and preteens think nothing of sex and nothing of bringing a child into the world. They are following the lessons that are preached in the songs and videos of their rock star idols .
The notion that parents' can isolate their children from this entertainment, that a parent's value system can make a child impervious to this seduction, is unrealistic and unhealthy As Hillary Clinton stated, "It Takes a Village" to raise a child. Adults, but even more so children, are extremely dependent, and this is as it should be, upon their relationships with their peers to find their meaning in life. Our children are meant to find their ultimate joy not with us but with their peers.
In enumerable situations, the government has made a decision regarding what is harmful to children and thus limits what can be presented to a child. We do not allow children to smoke or even to be seduced into smoking by allowing cigarette advertisements in our schools. We do not allow alcohol advertisements in our school. We do not allow teachers to advocate to their students the butchering of Jews or the enslavement of African Americans. We do not allow adults to sexually seduce a willing adolescent.
Is this censorship? Of course it is. No society has been free of censorship. Up until the 1960's our country thought nothing of censoring what it thought to be lewd and indecent. This did not in anyway threaten our freedom to criticize our government. Except for the few true theocracies, the two have little relationship to one another. If anything, tyrannical governments usually find it to their advantage to dull the senses and the morality of the citizens with licentious entertainment. Look at ancient Rome. Even in our own society as we see more filth being thrown into our faces, we are gradually seeing suppression of criticism of the government in the name of homeland security.
We need to see that our society is contradicting itself in saying that children should be shielded from certain forms of behavior except when that behavior is performed by entertainers.
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Witch hunt.......2000-10-13
Wow.... Everything you ever feared about Tipper is true. She is a danger to free expression. The only place I could find this book was in CHRISTIAN book stores. The religious right rides again.
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The formation of NATO represented a turning point in the history of both the United States and the other Atlantic powers. For the first time in peacetime, America had engaged in a permanent alliance linking it to Western Europe both in a military and in a political sense. NATO: A History tells the complete story of this historic alliance, from its shaky beginnings through its triumphs and failures to its current new grouping of nations.
Peter Duignan's concise yet comprehensive history details
- How the founding of NATO had unintended consequences, such as weakening the long "special relationship" between the United States and Britain
- The ongoing conflicts between the allies over their respective contributions to the alliance
- How NATO successfully deterred the Soviet Union from blackmailing or "Finlandizing" Western European countries
- The reorganization of NATO in the 1990s and its cooperative arrangements with former Warsaw Pact members
- The continuing contentious debate over enlarging NATO
- The critical importance of NATO membership to new members such as Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic
- The development of the new post—cold war European-American relationship
- NATO's controversial involvement in Yugoslavia
- NATO's clash with Russia over Kosovo
- The role of NATO as we enter the twenty-first century
As NATO celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, the world remains a dangerous place. NATO: A History represents a fitting tribute to this historic cooperative alliance of nations and its changing mission as the cold war has ended.
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This digital document is an article from Utopian Studies, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2005. The length of the article is 1630 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Spectral Methods in Soliton Equations (Pitman Monographs and Surveys in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 73)
I D Iliev ,
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Soliton theory as a method for solving some classes of nonlinear evolution equations (soliton equations) is one of the most actively developing topics in mathematical physics. This book presents some spectral theory methods for the investigation of soliton equations ad the inverse scattering problems related to these equations. The authors give the theory of expansions for the Sturm-Liouville operator and the Dirac operator. On this basis, the spectral theory of recursion operators generating Korteweg-de Vries type equations is presented and the Ablowitz-Kaup-Newell-Segur scheme, through which the inverse scattering method could be understood as a Fourier-type transformation, is considered. Following these ideas, the authors investigate some of the questions related to inverse spectral problems, i.e. uniqueness theorems, construction of explicit solutions and approximative methods for solving inverse scattering problems. A rigorous investigation of the stability of soliton solutions including solitary waves for equations which do not allow integration within inverse scattering method is also presented.
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Spectral Methods in Soliton Equations
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- The Architecture of O'Neil Ford: Celebrating Place
- The Art of 3-D : Computer Animation and Imaging, 2nd Edition
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Fireplace: Decorating and Planning Ideas (Better Homes and Gardens(R))
What's In Style: Fireplaces (What's In Style)
Fireplace Design & Decorating Ideas
Fire Places: A Practical Design Guide to Fireplaces and Stoves Indoors and Out
Ideas for Great Fireplaces (Ideas for Great)
