An award-winning architect and educator demystifies the process of making architecture and explains why good architectural design matters.The design of cities and buildings affects the quality of our lives. Making the built environments in which we live, work, and play useful, safe, comfortable, efficient, and as beautiful as possible is a universal quest.What many don't realize is that professional architects design only about five percent of the built env...

The plaza has been a defining feature of Mexican urban architecture and culture for at least 4,000 years. Ancient Mesoamericans conducted most of their communal life in outdoor public spaces, and today the plaza is still the public living room in every Mexican neighborhood, town, and city—the place where friends meet, news is shared, and personal and communal rituals and celebrations happen. The site of a community’s most important architecture—church, government buildings, and marketplace...

The back story about "Lil Hal's Giant Christmas Box" goes like this. . .Hal's uncle Clarence had a car repair shop. Hal really loved to watch his uncle at work. But for weeks he was kept away so Hal won't see his uncle's very special project. Clarence had acquired a used racecar that needed repairs. The car had a Delco light plant for a motor and used airplane landing tires.In the meantime, to distract Lil Hal's curiosity, a big box weighted with bricks was wrapped and plac...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 401 thru 405 delivers five unforgettable adventures that capture everything readers love about the Golden Age of science fiction. From alien civilizations and relentless machines to impossible fortunes and dark supernatural visions, this collection proves why vintage sci-fi continues to inspire generations of readers.Journey beyond the known universe in The Gate to Xoran by Hal K. Wells, where an ordinary man stumbles into a myste...

The back story about "Lil Hal's Giant Christmas Box" goes like this. . .Hal's uncle Clarence had a car repair shop. Hal really loved to watch his uncle at work. But for weeks he was kept away so Hal won't see his uncle's very special project. Clarence had acquired a used race car that needed repairs. The car had a Delco light plant for a motor and used airplane landing tires.In the meantime, to distract Lil Hal's curiosity, a big box weighted with bricks was wrapped and pla...

This collection gathers five remarkable stories from the era when science fiction magazines were overflowing with daring ideas and unforgettable characters. Explorers push deeper into space, brilliant navigators chart impossible routes and ordinary people find themselves trapped in situations far beyond anything they expected.The writers behind these tales helped shape the early imagination of the genre. Their stories explore distant worlds, dangerous assignments and strange discov...

Step back into the wild imagination of early science fiction. These five rare tales carry listeners across eerie lunar mysteries, strange Martian encounters, unsettling scientific experiments and a voyage that reveals something terrifying hidden deep inside a ship’s cargo hold.Written during the formative decades of the genre, these stories capture the fearless creativity that defined vintage science fiction. The authors explored ideas that were bold for their time—visions of alien...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 191 thru 195 - Five Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960sThe Street That Wasn't There by Carl Jacobi and Clifford D. SimakThe Shipshape Miracle by Clifford D. SimakHot Planet by Hal ClementEverest by Isaac AsimovThe Visitor by Ray Bradbury

Lost Sci-Fi Books 181 thru 200 - Twenty Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60sTime Enough at Last by Lynn VenableThe Deadly Dust by Murray LeinsterHappy Ending by Fredric Brown and Mack ReynoldsLiving Space by Isaac AsimovJokester by Isaac AsimovThe Machine Stops by E. M. ForsterBreakfast at Twilight by Philip K. DickThe Magnificent Possession by Isaac AsimovFlowering Evil by M...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 191 thru 200 - Ten Lost Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60sThe Street That Wasn't There by Carl Jacobi and Clifford D. SimakThe Shipshape Miracle by Clifford D. SimakHot Planet by Hal ClementEverest by Isaac AsimovThe Visitor by Ray BradburyThe Last Man in New York by Paul MacNamaraThe Portable Star by Isaac AsimovThe Blonde From Barsoom by Robert F. Young

(Piano Solo Sheets). A beautiful piano solo arrangement of this standard classic.

(Guitar Educational). Whether you're just getting started with lead guitar, or you're a pro player looking to rekindle or expand your creativity, Pentatonic Plus is your ultimate guide to the myriad possibilities that surround the familiar pentatonic scale. Including hours of comprehensive video lessons by guitar author and teacher Carl Culpepper, this book/video teaching system presents pentatonic connections and concepts through a variety of scale applications, licks, solos, techniques a...