Hardscaping : High Style, Low Maintenance Outdoor Spaces (Home & Garden)

Hardscaping — the use of materials such as stone, wood, brick, and tile in landscape design — has become enormously popular in recent years. Low maintenance, durable, and attractive, hardscaping brings a totally unique, personalized look to any outdoor space, and increases curb appeal and property value. This gorgeous, full-color reference, written by the host of HGTV’s Garden Architecture, explains how to blend function and materials to create a beautiful, long-lasting outdoor living space. Projects range from simple to complex, and the author covers every issue from budgeting to planning and installation.

* Covers porches, patios, retaining walls, walkways, steps, poolscapes, driveways, and more
* Practical advice on choosing and working with contractors and designers
* Beautifully illustrated with 200 full-color photos
* How to establish and stick to a budget
* Details the properties of popular materials such as wood, concrete, asphalt, pre-cast and natural stone


Hardscaping : High Style, Low Maintenance Outdoor Spaces (Home & Garden)

Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History

People have shaped the landscape around them since prehistoric times, creating places as diverse in form and meaning as Stonehenge, the Forbidden City of Beijing, Versailles, and New York’s Central Park. Overflowing with hundreds of plans, drawings, and photographs, many created specially for this book, this engrossing volume spans the history of landscape design and reveals a great deal about the development of societies, and how cities, parks, and gardens embody cultural values.

Examining famous and lesser-known sites, some now vanished, this comprehensive survey leads the reader from ancient Egyptian royal cemeteries to the magnificent gardens of Renaissance and Baroque Europe, and from great 18th-century English estates and American public gardens to the earthworks and other landscape projects of today.

A feast for the historian, landscape designer, and gardener alike, this new book has no equal.
630 illustrations, 430 in full color, 544 pages, 85/8 x 111/2″


Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History

Accounting and Auditing for Trusts and Estates

Description
The definitive Fiduciary Accounting Seminar by one of the most renowned experts in the United States. Designed for CPAs, attorneys, trust officers, estate administrators, attorneys who serve as trustees, executors, administrators, conservators and guardians. • More than 150 DVD Chapter markers you can instantly access with your remote control. Complete Table of Contents. 15 Menu screens. • Hundreds of charts of accounts and visual summaries as VIDEO OVERLAYS throug… More >>

Accounting and Auditing for Trusts and Estates