From planning decorative schemes to preparing the surfaces, and then applying the finishes, this book will help the user decorate a home with confidence and flair. It includes advice on selecting and applying the most suitable paints, wallpapers and tiles, plus a whole range of wood finishes, including traditional French and modern paints and stains. Whatever materials you are working with - from gloss paint or metallic foils to stripped wood floors - the authors explain how to prepare different surfaces, whatever their condition. It also containd step-by-step diagrams, colour photographs and hints and tips from interior designers.

Collins DIY Guide: Painting & Decorating (Collins DIY Guides)

Arts & Photography

Day, David

Jackson, Albert

Architecture

HarperCollins Publishers

Describing how to achieve a cottage garden, the authors who have won two gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show, give advise on which flowers, shrubs and trees to choose and how to plant them. Included is information on adding ponds, walls and other features.

Making a Cottage Garden

Whiten, Faith

Whiten, Geoff

PLUMBING AND CENTRAL HEATING

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David Day

Collins

After a detailed look at the elements that make up a design, this handbook contains illustrated garden plans which provide ideas to be used in their entirety or in part to suit a particular garden. This includes plans for: a year-round border; a low-maintenance garden; and a family garden.

Collins Garden Planning and Design

Stevens, David

Photography & Video

HarperCollins

Create calming, peaceful spaces in your home with white and neutral tones with the first home decorating book from The White Company, published as this much-loved brand celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary. “The thing about white is that it goes with everything, it is a canvas for life, whoever you are and whatever your tastes. You just can’t beat it.”—Chrissie Rucker 
Whether you live in a tiny city apartment, a rambling country cottage or an elegant town house For the Love of White offers the definitive book on decorating with white and neutral ones. From room schemes for light, bright family kitchens and calming bedrooms to the all-important finishing touches—this is a book to be inspired by again and again. 
Illustrated with specially commissioned photography by leading interiors photographer, Chris Everard and organized into three sections—Country, Town and Coastal—the book provides both the advice and the inspiration needed to transform your home.

For the Love of White: The White and Neutral Home

Rucker, Chrissie

History & Criticism

Harper

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Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes With Errata Sheet

Science & Math

Athanasios; Pillai Papoulis

Mathematics

McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.

Introduction to Management Science, 2e offers a unique case study approach and integrates the use of Excel. Each chapter includes a case study that is meant to show the students a real and interesting application of the topics addressed in that chapter. This most recent revision has been thoroughly updated to be more “user-friendly” and more technologically advanced. These changes include, a completely new chapter on the art of modeling with spreadsheets. This unique chapter goes far beyond anything found in other textbooks and are based on the award winning methodologies used by Mark Hillier in his own course. The technology package has also been greatly enhanced to include, Crystal Ball 2000 (Professional Edition) a Management Science Online Learning Center, and an Excel add-in called Alver Table for performing sensitivity analysis. Crystal Ball is the most popular Excel add-in for computer simulation and includes OptQuest (an optimizer with simulation) as well as a forecasting module. The Management Science Online Learning Center (website) includes several modules that enable students to interactively explore certain management science techniques in depth. Solver Table is an Excel add-in developed by the author to help perform sensitivity analysis systematically, as well as substantially expanded coverage of computer simulation, including Crystal Ball. We now have two chapters on computer simulation instead of one, where the second chapter features the use of Crystal Ball.all.

MATLAB for Engineers Explained

Computers & Technology

Gustafsson, Fredrik

Bergman, Niclas

Computer Science

Springer

This concise yet comprehensive book provides a positive, lively, future-oriented narrative introduction to American government and politics. We the People presents material with a currency and relevancy that captures the vivid world of real-life politics. In addition, the text challenges readers to think critically; by giving contextual understanding of major concepts and issues, it encourages them to think about the implications for society and themselves. We the People delves deeper into the basics than most brief books, and each of the 17 chapters (including 3 policy chapters) concludes with a reading selection (each from a different paper around the country) and an extensive bibliography. The seventh edition has been thoroughly updated to capture recent developments, including the 2006 elections.

We The People

Patterson, Thomas

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

For one semester courses in Art Appreciation or Introduction to Art. This best-selling exploration of traditional and contemporary art and artistic media focuses on art as seen from the artist's point of view, treating artistic techniques and introductory aesthetic principles. It is a clear, concise presentation with illustrations and a strong emphasis on the elements and media.

The Art of Seeing

Zelanski, Paul

Fisher, Mary Pat

Prentice-Hall

Offers a global overview of art from prehistoric times to the present while explaining the historical, social, and political context of each artistic period

Art History: Revised Edition (Volume 2)

Marilyn Stokstad

Stephen Addiss

Chu-tsing Li

Marilyn M. Rhie

C hristopher D. Roy

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