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  • Your House, Your Garden: A Foolproof Approach to Garden Design

    Gordon Hayward, Janet Fredericks, Richard Felber

    Hardback

    A breakthrough in inspiring yet practical do-it-yourself garden and landscape design, including dozens of detailed plans.

  • Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces

    Jan Johnsen

    Hardback

    Gardentopia is that rare marriage of the art of landscaping and the technical knowledge of how to compose a landscape—boiled down to readily understood and easily executed actions. This book puts you in the driver’s seat and shows you how to chart the course to your own personal garden utopia.” - Margie Grace, Grace Design Associates

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    Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities

    John King

    Hardback

    A two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco’s iconic Ferry Building

  • Why Buildings Fall Down: Why Structures Fail

    Matthys Levy, Mario Salvadori, Kevin Woest

    Paperback

    The authors examine buildings of all kinds, from ancient domes like Istanbul's Hagia Sophia to the state-of-the-art Hartford Civic Arena. Their subjects range from the man-caused destruction of the Parthenon to the earthquake damage of 1989 in Armenia and San Francisco.

  • Why the Earth Quakes: The Story of Earthquakes and Volcanoes

    Matthys Levy, Mario Salvadori, Michael Lilly

    Paperback

    “At last an inviting book on earthquakes, written by scientists whose easily understandable prose takes us on a tour not only of seismology but also of modern building technologies, volcanoes, and that California constant, the magnificent rubbing and pushing of tectonic plates beneath us.” —San Francisco Chronicle Book Review