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Casual Living

Author : Judith Wilson

Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 34,75 MB

Release : 2010-10-14

Category : Design

ISBN : 9781849750417

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Many of us live stressful lives, so we deserve a home that delivers no-fuss style for comfortable living. Casual Living puts such a goal firmly within reach. In the first section, Casual Style, Judith maps out the two facets of the look—Country Casual and City Casual—so you can identify the style that suits you best. Next, Casual Elements focuses on the different ingredients that come together to create the perfect home. In part three, Casual Rooms, Judith shows how the style translates to every room in the house, from Relaxed Kitchens to Soothing Bathrooms and Cozy Sitting Rooms to Tranquil Bedrooms, taking in Children’s Spaces along the way. We can’t all achieve the perfect, stress-free life, but in Casual Living Judith Wilson will inspire you to create a practical, welcoming, and comfortable home that you’ll enjoy and appreciate every day.



The Casual Vacancy

Author : J. K. Rowling

Publisher : Little, Brown

Page : 550 pages

File Size : 24,10 MB

Release : 2012-09-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0316228559

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A big novel about a small town... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity, and unexpected revelations? A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other.



Detached America

Author : James A. Jacobs

Publisher : University of Virginia Press

Page : 474 pages

File Size : 14,16 MB

Release : 2015-09-09

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 0813937620

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During the quarter century between 1945 and 1970, Americans crafted a new manner of living that shaped and reshaped how residential builders designed and marketed millions of detached single-family suburban houses. The modest two- and three-bedroom houses built immediately following the war gave way to larger and more sophisticated houses shaped by casual living, which stressed a family's easy sociability and material comfort and were a major element in the cohesion of a greatly expanded middle class. These dwellings became the basic building blocks of explosive suburban growth during the postwar period, luring families to the metropolitan periphery from both crowded urban centers and the rural hinterlands. Detached America is the first book with a national scope to explore the design and marketing of postwar houses. James A. Jacobs shows how these houses physically document national trends in domestic space and record a remarkably uniform spatial evolution that can be traced throughout the country. Favorable government policies, along with such widely available print media as trade journals, home design magazines, and newspapers, permitted builders to establish a strong national presence and to make a more standardized product available to prospective buyers everywhere. This vast and long-lived collaboration between government and business—fueled by millions of homeowners—established the financial mechanisms, consumer framework, domestic ideologies, and architectural precedents that permanently altered the geographic and demographic landscape of the nation.



A Summer Place

Author : Tricia Foley

Publisher : Rizzoli Publications

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 47,38 MB

Release : 2021-04-06

Category : House & Home

ISBN : 0847870006

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For this ode to summer living, noted designer and author Tricia Foley discusses how to create airy and relaxed homes, which capture the essence of the seaside. A Summer Place reflects the natural charm, understated beauty, and sophistication of the properties of notable tastemakers of Long Island's idyllic seaside community of Bellport-Brookhaven, where Foley resides. This beautifully photographed collection of homes offers inspirational ideas for making your home a personal sanctuary. Featured are modern residences by the sea designed around their water views, nineteenth-century shingle-style cottages that have been restored for today's living, and artist retreats filled with color, pattern, and unique style. Many of these houses, with their screened porches, handcrafted outbuildings, and summer gardens have ideas that translate to seaside living anywhere. Some are decorated with subtle hues of sky blue, white floorboards, and comfortable rustic or contemporary furnishings. The grounds vary from manicured lawns that roll down to the sea to wild landscapes of seagrass, and lovely pergolas dripping with wisteria to working cutting gardens. With sections on summer decorating style, casual outdoor entertaining, seasonal flowers, and weekend guest tips, this book shares several ways to enjoy summer living at home.





The Art of Gathering

Author : Priya Parker

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 40,8 MB

Release : 2020-04-14

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1594634939

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"Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!" --Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, an exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together—at home, at work, in our communities, and beyond. In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive--which they don't have to be. We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved. At a time when coming together is more important than ever, Parker sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play. Drawing on her expertise as a facilitator of high-powered gatherings around the world, Parker takes us inside events of all kinds to show what works, what doesn't, and why. She investigates a wide array of gatherings--conferences, meetings, a courtroom, a flash-mob party, an Arab-Israeli summer camp--and explains how simple, specific changes can invigorate any group experience. The result is a book that's both journey and guide, full of exciting ideas with real-world applications. The Art of Gathering will forever alter the way you look at your next meeting, industry conference, dinner party, and backyard barbecue--and how you host and attend them.



Life on Mar's

Author : Mar Jennings

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 21,38 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Interior decoration

ISBN : 9780578120829

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Casual Luxury is the cure for all design dilemmas. My six principles will work in your home regardless of its size, your personal style, and in any room. Casual Luxury has no boundaries. Emmy-nominated TV Host, Lifestyle Expert and best-selling author Mar Jennings is known for his signature style: Casual Luxury. He is a master at making it quickly understood and easy to apply with his trademark tips and techniques--Casual Luxury made simple and sMARt. Mar's inventive and original blueprint for design infuses Mother Nature's colors and textures throughout the home and garden. For the first time he shares how Casual Luxury can be broken down into six design principles that anyone can apply. The book invites us all inside his Westport, Connecticut, home, as we explore with him his six design principles for creating a Casual Luxury home, room by room. This deluxe oversized coffee table book is filled with photographic essays highlighting his philosophy, plus practical applications and resourcefulness applicable for any home or space. Like an entire season of a design show, LIFE ON MAR'S: Creating Casual Luxury will allow readers access to an encyclopedia of great ideas to apply in their home. This lifestyle expert does it with simplicity and style, balancing natural solutions with everyday elegance. Having a beautiful home or apartment is an attainable goal, says Jennings. If I can do it by mixing price points, my personal style, and local resources then you can, too! His award-winning website marjennings.com is one of the best resources for home and garden tips. Mar has served as host and producer of an Emmy-nominated lifestyle show featuring the best of the best from along the eastern seaboard, and as an in-house host and lifestyle expert for FOX. He is also an expert for Celebrations.com, and a correspondent and home and garden expert for The Better Show, a nationally syndicated lifestyle TV program that centers around all things which aim to make your life better. Mar has appeared on ABC, The Today Show, HGTV's White Room Challenge and Flea Market Flip and many more. Connecticut viewers will also know Mar as host of the Dream Room Makeover, Dream Wedding, Backyard Makeover, and many years of the annual Holiday Wishes series. As a top lifestyle expert, Mar has been featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. His home and gardens have been profiled in many national publications, including Better Homes and Gardens, Decorating magazine, Home magazine, Quick & Simple magazine, Creative magazine, Small Gardens magazine, Westport Magazine and AtHome magazine. In addition, his gardens were chosen and featured in In the Garden, a pictorial essay by renowned photographer Stacy Bass. Mar Jennings is also the author of the best selling LIFE ON MAR'S: A Four Season Garden, a nationally acclaimed gardening book, sold world-wide.



The Business Casual Yogi

Author : Vish Chatterji

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 223 pages

File Size : 27,47 MB

Release : 2019-10-15

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 168383870X

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Learn how to drive success and balance through adopting the principles of the world’s oldest and most successful fitness regime: Yoga. Yoga has long been embraced by the Western world for its physical, mental, and spiritual benefits—combining lifestyle philosophy and rewarding physical exercise with socio-economic practices for internal and external strength, focus, and calm. As yoga has found a home in mainstream society, its frameworks and techniques are proving increasingly relevant to leadership demands of the modern business world. This practical guidebook provides accessible methods for using yoga and Ayurveda as a means to fully unlock the creativity and leadership potential required to achieve career success, while simultaneously finding inner harmony and overall well-being. The authors—a successful California technology entrepreneur turned executive coach and a world-renowned Himalayan yofa master with a PhD—have created a real-world approach to establishing a lasting balanced lifestyle without the need for any prior yoga experience. In this illuminating book, they leverage their understating of the priorities of the busy modern professional to present a simple and accessible system for changing your life through yoga. Filled with physical and mental exercises, personalized guides for diet and lifestyle, and tools such as meditation and breathing exercises, The Business Casual Yogi has an easy-to-follow framework that will help you attain greater happiness, balance, and success. “An excellent book that makes the ancient wisdom tradition of Yoga accessible to a modern audience.” —Gopi Kallayil, Chief Evangelist, Brand Marketing, Google, and author of The Internet to the Inner-net and The Happy Human “The teachings of The Business Casual Yogi have helped me become a better person and leader. We all know the “what” —that yoga is good for us. For an engineer like me, I needed the “why” and the “how.” This book illustrates that and helps create a roadmap to achieve balance between body, mind and career success.” —Tuhin Halder, Vice President of Finance & Operations, Comcast Corporation “For those professionals looking to take their business and their personal lives to the next level, Vish has provided all the necessary tools and ingredients for your journey. Truly a book that personally inspires through introspection and one you will want to continually refer too.” —Jim Schlager, Principal, Moss Adams Wealth Management



Casual Conversation

Author : Renia White

Publisher : BOA Editions

Page : pages

File Size : 39,45 MB

Release : 2022

Category :

ISBN : 9781950774562

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"Renia White's debut poetry collection pushes against state-sanctioned authority and societal thought while ruminating on Black joy"--



Massive/Micro Autoethnography

Author : Daniel X. Harris

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 255 pages

File Size : 46,69 MB

Release : 2022-11-25

Category : Education

ISBN : 9811683050

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This book presents the creative, arts-based and educative thinking resulting from a “21 day autoethnography challenge” set of self-guided prompts arising from the large-scale collaborative, creative, and global project to explore Massive and Microscopic Sensemaking during COVId-19 Times. It employs a guiding methodological framework of critical autoethnography, narrating the macro and micro experiences of COVID-19 from a first-person, and critically, culturally-informed perspective. The book features chapters creatively responding to the 21-day pandemic experiment through digital autoethnographic artworks, writings, and collaborations. It allowed authors to build embodied sensibilities, practice autoethnographic forms of writing and making, and transform personal experiences through the COVID-19 moment into critical understanding of scale, sense-making, and the relationality of humans, nonhumans, and the planet.