Wall tiles offer endless possibilities for decorative schemes -- and they provide water- and heat-resistant finishes too. Written for beginners and those with tiling experience, this easy-to-use guide explains all the tiling techniques you need, helping you create a professional finish every time.
This comprehensive, fully illustrated book, written by a team of specialists, will cover all areas of home decorating in familiar and user-friendly Haynes style, with step-by-step explanations and sequences of colour photographs. The book is divided into four main parts, covering interior painting, wallpapering, tiling and exterior painting, each going into all the detail expected in a chunky 224-page volume. For anyone embarking on a decorating programme at home, this one-stop source will provide all the information needed. The perfect book for any decorating job, however simple or complex Sunday Post
Biography of Chris Pirillo, currently Business Owner at LockerGnome, previously High-Level Strategic Consulting at Pirillo.com and High-Level Strategic Consulting at Pirillo.com.
Wall tiles offer endless possibilities for decorative schemes -- and they provide water- and heat-resistant finishes too. Written for beginners and those with tiling experience, this easy-to-use guide explains all the tiling techniques you need, helping you create a professional finish every time.
Discover the stories passed down over time from the people of the Ozark region. Oral history is shared through the years to provide a perspective on the landscape and people who inhabit the beautiful, culturally rich area. These oral histories show essential connections among settlers in a challenging landscape. Written to inspire history buffs, outdoor enthusiasts, travelers, tycoons in training and students of all ages, this path-breaking collection will take readers deep into a region averse to change, tricky to know, yet brimming with American culture.
In the 1880s, a new medical term flashed briefly into public awareness in the United States. Children who had trouble distinguishing between similar speech sounds were said to suffer from "sound-blindness." The term is now best remembered through anthropologist Franz Boas, whose work deeply influenced the way we talk about cultural difference. In this fascinating work of literary and cultural history, Alex Benson takes the concept as an opening onto other stories of listening, writing, and power—stories that expand our sense of how a syllable, a word, a gesture, or a song can be put into print, and why it matters. Benson interweaves ethnographies, memoirs, local-color stories, modernist novels, silent film scripts, and more. Taken together, these seemingly disparate texts—by writers including John M. Oskison, Helen Keller, W. E. B. Du Bois, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Elsie Clews Parsons—show that the act of transcription, never neutral, is conditioned by the histories of race, land, and ability. By carefully tracing these conditions, Benson argues, we can tease out much that has been left off the record in narratives of American nationhood and American literature.
Most of the old factories are long gone and many workers have retired. Combining history, memory and heritage, Theatres of Memory: Industrial Heritage of 20th Century Singapore takes a stroll through Singapore’s industrial past. From Jurong to Redhill and Kallang, the book uncovers the many hands that enabled the island’s transformation from a colonial entrepôt to an industrial nation. Along the way, we will meet the pioneers of industry—government officials and production workers, men and women, Singaporeans and foreigners. We will hear laughter on the assembly line, descend into the quiet dark of the night shift, and relive the products once made in Singapore, from Rollei cameras and Acma refrigerators to carbonated soft drinks and Bata shoes.
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