La fascinación de Gillian Richardson por el mundo natural, que dura toda la vida, impulsa su escritura, invitando a los lectores a explorar las intrincadas conexiones entre la curiosidad humana y las maravillas de la naturaleza. Su obra profundiza en temas inspirados en sus extensos viajes y agudas observaciones, desde el poder explosivo de los géiseres hasta los delicados mecanismos de la dispersión de semillas. A través de una narración vívida y un estilo que equilibra la curiosidad científica con la prosa lírica, fomenta una apreciación más profunda del medio ambiente. Las narrativas de Richardson dan testimonio del poder de la observación y la alegría de compartir descubrimientos.
Futurescapes is a comprehensive resource for practitioners, enthusiasts, and students in landscape, architecture, and urban design. It profiles fifty innovative landscape and garden designers worldwide, offering inspiration for everyone from amateur gardeners to urban policy-makers, blending ecology, art, and design.
In SISSINGHURST: A DREAM GARDEN Tim Richardson reveals the magic and the mystery of these world-famous and most evocative English gardens, famous for their horticulture, their creators and the realisation of personal dreams.
Provides an overview of Machu Picchu, discussing topics such as its history, builders, structural aspects, and construction techniques and materials.
This is the life of a Marine Engineer in the Merchant Navy during the final years of steam propulsion and the transition to diesel power. It includes information for enthusiasts about the machinery and how it worked as well as interesting anecdotes about incidents that occurred during the author's career.
Between 1715 and 1750, a group of politicans and poets, farmers and businessmen, heiresses and landowners began to experiment with the phenomenon that was to become the English landscape garden. This book tells the story of a collection of fascinating characters whose influence changed the landscape of Britain for ever.
“100 projects by fifty of the world's most talented designers of public and private spaces . . . will expand your horizons and thrill the modernist in you.”—Metropolitan Home
An amusing and thought-provoking compendium of columns, articles, essays and reviews from this acute, knowledgeable and irreverent commentator
This combined reprint of Volumes 1 and 2 of the 1892 edition of Practical Carriage Building is perhaps the most complete and accurate contemporary work on the subject. It covers in great depth, and with many illustrations, the materials and tools used, the making and repairing of wheels, the making of carriage parts and their assembly, framing and construction, axles, yokes, whiffletrees, patterns and layouts, and many other useful and fascinating subjects. All sorts of carriages are discussed: buggies, cabriolets and broughams, phatons, rockaways, as well as sleighs and sleds, and express, delivery, and farm wagons. A definitive, easy to follow reference on this early trade that is now enjoying a well-deserved renaissance.
Challenge assumptions from established management thinking and achieve responsible, authentic, and sustainable leadership at your organisation.
Analyses the different ways in which historians over the last three centuries have tried to explain the causes, course and consequences of the English Revolution -- .