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  • The Secrets of Hawthorn Place

    A heartfelt and charming dual-time story of the power of love

    by Jenni Keer ...
    'This is definitely up there as one of the best books that I have read. It's got a special place in my heart. Just amazing!' 5* reader review'Gorgeous! Exuberant writing, convincing, adorable characters, romance and a little whimsy' TRACY REES***Love will always find a way . . .***Discover the intriguing secrets of Hawthorn Place in this heartfelt dual-time novel, filled with warmth and charm, ... Read more

    €3.49

  • The Village Inn of Secret Dreams

    The joyfully heartwarming read from Alison Sherlock

    by Alison Sherlock ...
    Series Book 3 - The Riverside Lane Series
    From the bestselling author of The Village Shop For Lonely HeartsAfter escaping her parents’ unhappy marriage to sleepy Cranbridge a long time ago, Belle Clarke dreams of staying at The Black Swan Inn forever.But with the rundown Inn threatened with closure, Belle may be forced to leave, unless a buyer can be found … quickly.So, when her oldest friend Pete Kennedy returns from working abroad with ... Read more

    €3.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fallen Crest Boxset

    by Tijan ...
    "Fallen Crest is a masterfully told story that keeps you on the edge of your seat and rooting for the bad guys." Teresa Mummert, New York Times and USA TODAY best selling author"Fallen Crest is one of my absolute favorite series! Tijan's characters are so dark, so intense, that you can't help but get sucked into their story. If you haven't read this series yet, you're missing out!" - K.A. Robinson ... Read more

    €5.99

  • Building Design, Construction and Performance in Tropical Climates

    Edited by Mike Riley, Alison Cotgrave, Michael Farragher ...
    The design, construction and use of buildings in tropical climates pose specific challenges to built environment professionals. This text seeks to capture some of the key issues of technology and practice in the areas of building design, refurbishment, construction and facilities management in tropical regions.Using a consistent chapter structure throughout, and incorporating the latest research ... Read more

    €66.82

  • Conservation of Historic Buildings

    by Bernard Feilden ...
    Since its publication in 1982 Sir Bernard Feilden's Conservation of Historic Buildings has become the standard text for architects and others involved in the conservation of historic structures. Leading practitioners around the world have praised the book as being the most significant single volume on the subject to be published. This third edition revises and updates a classic book, including ... Read more

    €114.05

  • EnerPHit

    A Step by Step Guide to Low Energy Retrofit

    by James Traynor ...
    In order to meet UK Carbon reduction commitments for 2020 and 2050 building owners will be required to upgrade their buildings to meet an increasingly stringent set of energy performance requirements. In the absence of any clear advice from UK Government on how this can be achieved, the EnerPHit standard offers a very clear methodology. This is a practical guide that gives architects the tools to ... Read more

    €54.15

  • Urban data.

    Tecnologie e metodi per la città algoritmica

    by AA. VV. ...
    Il volume si focalizza sulle nuove modalità progettuali e operative capaci di traguardare i futuri delle città sulle sfide energetiche, sociali e ambientali. I diversi contributi permettono di delineare il quadro teorico e la prassi operativa delle tecnologie digitali e le implicazioni della datizzazione sul progetto e sul modello integrando diverse scale di intervento. NOTA DELL'EDITORE: la ... Read more

    €44.99

  • New Adobe Home

    by Dottie Larson ...
    THE NEW ADOBE HOME PRESENTS THE SOPHISTICATED, elevated use of adobe through a variety of elegant homes in New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Mexico. These homes comprise a combination of history, furnishings, art, and interior and exterior spaces with adobe construction, adobe style, or detailing. This beautiful volume features examples of luxurious adobe or adobe-style homes, including a ... Read more

    €10.19 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Die besten Einfamilienhäuser aus Holz

    Die 50 besten Projekte

    by Katharina Matzig ...
    HOLZ GILT ZU RECHT ALS EINER DER BELIEBTESTEN BAUSTOFFE – er vermittelt Behaglichkeit, ist nachwachsend und ermöglicht zudem eine große Gestaltungsvielfalt. Ob in der Stadt oder auf dem Land, ob massiv oder als Rahmenbau, ob groß oder klein, ob gebrannt, naturbelassen oder geölt – die Möglichkeiten sind unbegrenzt. Der Leser erhält Einblick in 50 individuelle Planungsgeschichten von Architekt ... Read more

    €39.99

  • Three Birds Renovations

    400+ renovation and styling secrets revealed

    by Erin Cayless, Bonnie Hindmarsh, Lana Taylor ...
    Holy reno inspo!Before & aftersStyling how-to'sMoney-saving reno tips'Australia's most fabulous renovators' Real Living magazineWhen best friends Erin, Bonnie and Lana ditched their corporate careers to start Three Birds Renovations, they were rookie renovators with big ideas. Today, with many incredible house transformations under their toolbelt, they're a power trio turning neighbourhood ugly ... Read more

    €12.79

  • Evaluation Sustainability Design

    Life Cycle Thinking and international orientations

    by Elena Fregonara ...
    The book is designed mainly for the students of the Master’s Course in Architecture for Sustainable Design, but also addresses students attending postgraduate second level Masters and PhDs courses. It can support real estate market operators in the evaluation of economic sustainability of projects, both in the case of new building and in retrofit/reuse interventions. ... Read more

    €19.99

  • Restauro dei monumenti

    Cultura, progetti e cantieri 1967-2010

    by Paolo Marconi ...
    Il genio delle arti: storie e interpretazioni - collana diretta da Marcello Fagiolo Questo libro è frutto del lavoro di un Architetto che sa bene in cosa consista il “mestiere” del restauratore di Architettura, in quanto discendente di Capomastri, Musicisti, Pittori, Architetti; imparò i rudimenti del mestiere in una Facoltà di Architettura di grande qualità (quella di Roma) negli anni '50 e nello ... Read more

    €23.99

  • Naive Intention

    by von Ellrichshausen Pezo, Edwin van Gelder ...
    Introduced by an essay about the vague contradiction between intentionality and chance, necessity and accident, reason and futility, authorship and anonymity, the book presents a selection of images that inform Pezo von Ellrichshausen’s cross production between art, architecture and academia. Each page contains a single picture and a brief caption describing it.Beyond a comprehensive depiction of ... Read more

    €10.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Designing Spaces for Natural Ventilation

    An Architect's Guide

    by Ulrike Passe, Francine Battaglia ...
    Buildings can breathe naturally, without the use of mechanical systems, if you design the spaces properly. This accessible and thorough guide shows you how in more than 260 color diagrams and photographs illustrating case studies and CFD simulations. You can achieve truly natural ventilation, by considering the building's structure, envelope, energy use, and form, as well as giving the occupants ... Read more

    €109.45

  • Fortification et pouvoirs souverains (1180-1340).

    Architecture fortifiée et contrôle des territoires au XIIIe siècle. Acte du colloque de Carcassone, 18-21 novembre 2021

    by Collectif Loubatières ...
    Series series Histoire
    Le réseau fortifié de la sénéchaussée royale de Carcassonne, organisé autour de la Cité, surplombe les contreforts de la Montagne noire et des Corbières et constitue aujourd’hui un superbe ensemble patrimonial. L’architecture y prolonge la roche dans un élan vertical s’imposant sur les paysages. Ce spectaculaire ensemble de monuments est emblématique de l’essor des systèmes de fortifications ... Read more

    €19.99

  • The Comedy of Errors

    by William Shakespeare ...
    The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins. Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers, Antipholus of Ephesus and his servant, Dromio of Ephesus. When the Syracusans encounter the friends and families of their twins, a series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to ... Read more

    €0.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rovine e ruderi: conservazione e progetto

    by Saggi Martino ...
    Collana Antico/Futuro diretta da Claudio Varagnoli n.14 Gli studi sulle cause che portano un edificio alle condizioni di rudere sono molteplici, ma il dibattito al quale si assiste sul come conservare un oggetto del genere assume toni sicuramente più pacati in presenza di ruderi tradizionalmente intesi (complessi monumentali isolati) e in prevalenza in contesti non urbani. Un po' meno serenamente ... Read more

    €18.99

  • Natured

    Iroje, Seung H-Sang

    by Seung H-Sang, Hyungmin Pai ...
    A compedium of essays and projects that creates a projective document capable of setting up new scenarios for the architecture of the next decade. This publication wants to transmit the constant values of the Seung H-Sang's architecture, which has been routed on principles and ideals driven by sensuous and essences of raw materials, echoing the extemporal features of the culture where buildings ... Read more

    €20.59 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Profitable and Sustainable Real Estate Investing

    An Investor's Guide

    by Suhail Y Tayeb ...
    Sustainability is no longer a niche strategy in real estate investing. It has become a set of constraints that shape risk, valuation, financing, operating costs, and long-term returns.Ignoring those constraints does not make them go away. It simply pushes risk downstream.This book was written to help investors understand that shift and respond to it intelligently.Profitable and Sustainable Real ... Read more

    €8.99

  • Development of Ultra-High Performance Concrete against Blasts

    From Materials to Structures

    by Chengqing Wu, Jun Li, Yu Su ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering
    Development of Ultra-High Performance Concrete against Blasts: From Materials to Structures presents a detailed overview of UHPC development and its related applications in an era of rising terrorism around the world. Chapters present case studies on the novel development of the new generation of UHPC with nano additives. Field blast test results on reinforced concrete columns made with UHPC and ... Read more

    €200.00

  • Inside Retirement Housing

    Designing, Developing and Sustaining Later Lifestyles

    by Sam Clark ...
    Many developed nations face the challenge of accommodating a growing, ageing population and creating appropriate forms of housing suitable for older people.Written by an architect, this practice-led ethnography of retirement housing offers new perspectives on environmental gerontology. Through stories and visual vignettes, it presents a range of stakeholders involved in the design, construction, ... Read more

    €38.69

  • Bronze Behaving Badly

    Antique Bronze Restoration Series, #1

    by Lucy Branch ...
    Series Book 1 - Antique Bronze Restoration Series
    Learn The Principles of Bronze ConservationLucy Branch runs a bronze conservation company, Antique Bronze Ltd, in London and has worked on some of the most well-known bronze statues, monuments and architectural features in the UK. In this book, she teaches the principles of bronze conservation for those who have had no formal training in the field. She brings her practical expertise together with ... Read more

    €12.49

  • Antony and Cleopatra

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Markus Antonius and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide. The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumvirs and the ... Read more

    €0.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Penitent Watchman

    by A. D Nieve ...
    Having pursuaded himself to be now kind of an idealist churchgoer and real believer, what he later on found out to be actually taking place within the circle of the believers was so appalling that he almost thought regretfully of the voyage of faith he had embarked on. But to his astonishment, the same things luring his fellows in faith happened to be the same holding sway on him. This was the ... Read more

    €4.99