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The Knife Designer's Sketchbook provides new knife makers with reference tables, a heat-treating guide, and design options. Also included are 20 blank knife design templates complete with US and metric measured rules to provide accurate knife sketch dimensions. This is a "must-have" for the new knife maker. The heat-treating table alone will save knife makers a lot of time and headache!

An anthology of pieces from The Biomimicry Manual, a feature on Inhabitat.com, by Dr. Tamsin Woolley-Barker. Dr. Tamsin is an Evolutionary Biologist, Innovation and Organizational Design Consultant, and the author of TEEMING: How Superorganisms Work to Build Infinite Wealth in a Finite World (and your company can too). Dr. Tamsin introduces nature-inspired strategies for designing sustainable success. She consults for a Fortune 500 and global clientele, providing biomimicry keynotes, workshops, and consulting.

The Florentine bourn Ferruccio Vitale spent his adult life in pursuit of a new landscape architectural practice and its aesthetics. One by one, he created a new artistic language, expanded the profession’s client base, supported alternative educational programs, founded institutions of excellence and reflected America in its art. Vitale’s design theory was based on Rationale design, a formal composition using: point, line, plane, solid, void, light, shadow, and then secondarily elements of tone, shade, color, texture, pattern. In achieving this opposition of Olmsted, Vitale garnered support from like-minded colleagues, allied design professionals and faculty in many of America’s leaning ...

Explore senior cohousing and get insights from a leading expert. Charles Durrett and Jean Nilsson deliver an entertaining and inspiring read for anyone interested in senior cohousing for themselves, their family members, or others in their area. Learn the value of community through real life examples, senior cohousing projects across the U.S. Find out how they did it, and how you can do it too.

The Healthy Home Blueprint discusses the health and well-being of the family, and why it should be the central component of the home’s design. Each area of the home should be comfortable, balanced, and healthy. The building materials, furnishings and consumer products used in the home should support the health and welfare of each family member. Our health and well-being are our most precious assets and should be treated as such. The air we breathe and water we drink should be treated as the important life sustaining source they are. There are many factors we must take into consideration with wellness design, beginning with the most basic elements of life and expanding into our ...

THE SCHNADELBACH COLLECTION il Giardino Italiano / The Italian Garden; by Maria Paolo Ponti. Translation by Edward G. Lawson, Edited by R. Terry Schnadelbach, FAAR: (LAUDpress 2010) Written in 1915 by Maria Paolo Ponti, the manuscript, Il Gardino Italino, was a little known writing on the villa garden rehabilitation underway in Florence, Italy, early in the Twentieth Century. Translation in English in 1919, of this rare Ponti book was the work of the first American Academy in Rome's Prize in landscape architecture, Edward G. Lawson, 1915-1919. The two writings are virtually unknown to scholars and historians. They are of major significance as the first Italian book to have descr ...