For those who love to live in old houses or want to invest in one, this completely revised and updated book levels no stone unturned. From evaluating a property to making foundation repairs to adding on a porch, it's a comprehensive guide to every aspect of making renovations and repairs--whether you already live in, or are contemplating buying, ...
This title is the definitive book on the revival of conservative ideas and the ascendancy of conservative intellectuals and politicians in America since the close of the last World War. It provides a comprehensive overview of how conservatism emerged as a political force.
This work offers practical advice on how to build a fence, from laying out to digging post holes, anchoring the posts and installing gates. Also covered is the evolution of the wooden fence, types of fence, design factors, materials, gates, maintenance, and repair and finishing.
A companion to The Archaeology of Rock-Art (Cambridge 1998), this new collection edited by Christopher Chippindale and George Nash addresses the most important component around the rock-art panel - its landscape. The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art draws together the work of many well-known scholars from key regions of the world for rock-art and ...
This text provides a guide to do-it-yourself housebuilding, from building a new home from scratch to specific remodelling projects. All systems are covered, including plumbing and electricity, as well as interior and exterior finishing. Over 1000 illustrations, drawings and diagrams are provided.
Dale Carnegie's workshops on public speaking were the basis for his classic "How to Win Friends and Influence People". This book distills his wisdom on the topic of public speaking.
For years, golf fans have wanted to know more about what life is really like on the PGA Tour. What goes on in a player's mind when he's standing over a clutch 6-foot putt? Who has the hottest temper? What do players talk about between shots? Who are the funniest pranksters on the Tour? What methods do the pros use to relax in pressure-packed ...
It has been said that Herbert Hoover was responsible for saving more lives than any other person in history with his efforts in the Commission of Relief in Belgium. This side of Hoover is the focus of Nash's comprehensive volume.
The third volume of Herbert Hoover's biography, this book is concerned with the year 1917-1918, when the USA entered World War II. As the war intensified in Europe, Hoover founded and led the Commission for relief in Belgium, which eventually evolved into one of the greatest humanitarian enterprises in history. It also brought Hoover into ...
Since the publication of God and Man at Yale in 1951, William F. Buckley Jr. has been the most visible spokesman for American conservatism. He has also been one of the most prolific. This volume, a complete bibliography of Buckley's written work from 1951 through 2000, is a fitting way to mark Buckley's fiftieth year as a public intellectual. ...
In this volume spiced with anecdotes and enhanced by primary-source documents, George H. Nash examines how books, libraries, and a rigorous classical education molded the minds and lives of America's Founding Fathers. More than any other group of political leaders in our history, the statesmen who led and preserved the American Revolution were men ...
Rock-art - the ancient images which still scatter the rocky landscapes of Europe - is a singular kind of archaeological evidence. Fixed in place, it does not move about as artefacts as trade objects do. Enigmatic in its meaning, it uniquely offers a direct record of how prehistoric Europeans saw and envisioned their own worlds. European Landscapes ...
Enigmatic, esoteric and fascinating, the rock-art of the British Isles has for a long time been a well kept secret at home and abroad. However, dedicated work by rock-art researchers over the last few decades has seen the discovery of hundreds of new panels and the publication of several high quality regional surveys and numerous survey reports ...
A thought provoking collection of essays which take a cognitive approach to landscape, examining the phenomonology and symbolism of landscapes and monuments. The contributions are: Establishing a discourse: the language of landscape (George Children and George Nash); Monumentality and the landscape: long chambered tombs around the Black Mountains ...
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