If you're one of the millions of Americans suffering from back pain, Robert B. Winter, MD, and Marilyn L. Bach, PhD, have the answers and knowledge you need to effectively manage your condition. In "Living Well with Back Pain," Winter and Bach draw on an extensive network of experts to bring you the latest information on: Diagnosing--and even ...
This volume presents the American arts and crafts-era bungalow in all its cozy charm, showing us a wide range of these little houses and the ways in which they have been revitalized, restored, and adapted to modern needs. Also includes many useful ideas for restoration and decoration.
While the Beethoven string quartets are to chamber music what the plays of Shakespeare are to drama, even seasoned concertgoers will welcome guidance with these personal and sometimes enigmatic works. This collection offers Beethoven lovers both detailed notes on the listening experience of each quartet and a stimulating range of more general ...
In this brilliantly photographed essay, esteemed architectural historian and author Robert Winter goes to the heart of America's architecture - in its Heartland. Dozens of architects made their mark on this area of the country, including Robert and James Adams, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Grant Elmslie and William Gray Purcell, Francis Costigan, ...
Now in its fifth printing, this volume provides an architectural and social history of the turn-of-the-century, craftsman-style American dream house in which an owner of modest means could live "simply and artistically". California provided the perfect landscape -- scenically, economically, and socially -- for the proliferation of examples ranging ...
This ambitious volume marks a huge step in our understanding of the social history of the Great War. Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert have gathered a group of scholars of London, Paris and Berlin, who collectively have drawn a coherent and original study of cities at war. The contributors explore notions of well-being in wartime cities - relating ...
Known as "the bible" to Los Angeles architecture scholars and enthusiasts, Robert Winter and David Gebhard's groundbreaking guide to architecture in the greater Los Angeles area is updated and revised once again. From Art Deco to Beaux-Arts, Spanish Colonial to Mission Revival, Winter discusses an impressive variety of architectural styles in this ...
As well as telling the story of how Chuck Yeager reached this momentous achievement, the author also profiles the life of a man who became an American hero and celebrity. The book is split into five chapters detailing each topic; 'The Man', 'The Aircraft', 'The Engine', 'The Flights' and 'The Celebrity Hero', bringing us to how the Bell X-1 now ...
The Arts and Crafts movement arose in England in the late nineteenth century as an impassioned cry against the evils of the Industrial Revolution. Proponents such as William Morris urged an outright revolt against mass-produced, shoddy goods and a return to the honest handcraftsmanship of earlier ages. His American disciple, a furniture maker ...
This is a little competition on this fascinating period of 'entertainment architecture'. It covers work by Neutra, Irving Gill, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alfred Loos and many more. The 1920s are a hugely popular period and whereas Paris and New York have been well documented, L.A. is just waiting to be discovered. This is a pictorial and descriptive ...
A celebration of the Arts and Crafts Movement, which includes essays by familiar architects as well as many lesser-known craftsmen who were part of the movement.
This pocket-sized handbook presents the many commonly performed tests of respiratory function, investigations that are to respiratory medicine what the ECG is to cardiology. Up to one third of emergency admissions are related to breathing difficulties of one sort or another, and a variety of diagnostic investigations are required. Familiarity with ...
Alone among the worlds religions, Islam is not just surviving but flourishing. Yet many people know little about Islam and regard its continuing attraction as something of a mystery. In this book, Du Pasquier, an award-winning Swiss journalist, provides a thorough introduction to Muslim belief, history and culture. He deals not only with topical ...
A guide to sites in LA that remain unknown to most visitors, and even to most Los Angelinos themselves. The Tower of Pallets, the Beaded Kitchen, Struckus House, the Banana Museum, the Lake Shrine, and the Church of Angels are just some of the eccentric sites photographed for the very first time in this historic and amusing examination of LA.
This text aims to bring state-of-the-art music scholarship to life. Drawn from an historical and social context with detailed listening guides, it attempts to provide a thorough overview and understanding of music.
In just 100 years, air and space exploration has progressed from a 12-second, 120-foot flight by two brothers to a 30-year sustained flight, now 7 billion miles from Earth, traveling at 300,000 mph. Drawing on the extensive collection of the National Air and Space Museum and personal collections, this full-colour book chronicles the most ...
Second volume of a two-volume pioneering comparative history of the capital cities of Britain, France, and Germany during the Great War. Leading historians explore these wartime cities, from the railway stations where newcomers took on new identities to the streets they surveyed and the pubs, cafes and theatres they frequented, and examine ...
This excellent text-atlas provides an emphasised surgical focus, with surgical techniques illustrated in elaborate detail. Coverage includes comprehensive discussions of patient evaluation, anterior and posterior operations, taking of bone grafts, post-operative management, complications, and more.
Ernest Batchelder's ceramic tilemaking enterprise began as a modest backyard venture in rural Pasadena, California but quickly grew to national prominence. In 1908 this enterprising young man left a prestigious teaching position to start his own school and factory, with the goal of establishing a West Coast guild of craftspeople. By 1930 the ...
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