Book Description
The host of "The New Yankee Workshop" and master carpenter of "This Old House" presents the story of how he and his wife, over four years, built the home of their dreams in rural Massachusetts
Author : Norm Abram
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 1997-06-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780316004107
The host of "The New Yankee Workshop" and master carpenter of "This Old House" presents the story of how he and his wife, over four years, built the home of their dreams in rural Massachusetts
Author : Norm Abram
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 38,2 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780316004756
Complete, step-by-step directions--accompanied by photographs and line drawings--highlight a collection of ten, Shaker-inspired designs for woodworkers of various skill levels. Simultaneous. TV tie-in. 60,000 first printing. BOMC.
Author : Norm Abram
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 1996-06-01
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780316004947
Norm Abram is America's most famous master carpenter, appearing in The New Yankee Workshop and This Old House. In this book, Abram presents a series of sixty lessons for carpenters of all levels of expertise.
Author : Norm Abram
Publisher : This Old House
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 2001-09
Category : House & Home
ISBN :
Ask Norm - Practical answers from America's most trusted remodeling expert, responding to tough questions.
Author : Dwan Abrams
Publisher : Urban Soul
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 29,86 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1622862473
Lyric Stokes lives, by most standards, a charmed life. Married to Michael Stokes, a prominent heart surgeon, she has financial security and lives in the lap of luxury. All is not perfect, though. Lyric feels inadequate because she gave birth to a daughter, rather than the son that her husband so desperately wanted. After an unexpected turn of events, Lyric discovers that she's pregnant again, but now she has to decide whether she even wants to keep the child she has longed for. She seeks solace in her church, where her daughter also feels at home;but they can't get Michael to join them. Disagreeing with organized religion, he has put his job before all else, including God. The distance between the couple grows further every day. Nigel Fredericks has a history of stalking women. He's been accused, but never convicted. Now he's set his sights on Lyric. She's at a low point in her life, and Nigel knows just how to take advantage of that vulnerability. Lyric's life is turned upside down. Nigel is like a cancer eating away at her mental stability, her marriage, and ultimately, her life. Will Michael reevaluate his priorities and his faith in time to save his family?
Author : Norm Abram
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 1995
Category :
ISBN : 9780316004879
Author : Norm Abram
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 1994
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780316004862
With clear instructions for each phase of construction, the host of PBS's New Yankee Workshop introduces the building plans for ten handsome outdoor furnishings, including a garden swing, child's wagon, and colonial fences. Simultaneous.
Author : Marc Kristal
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781419724046
The New Old House presents 18 private historic homes, from North America to Europe, and traces the ingenious ways architects have revitalized and refreshed them for a new generation. Most of the renovations occurred in the last decade, but all of the homes have origins reaching back into the past, in some cases hundreds of years. Projects and firms featured include Greenwich House, Allan Greenberg; Longbranch, Jim Olson; Astley Castle, Witherford Watson Mann; Hunsett Mill, Acme; Cotswolds House, Richard Found; plus more than a dozen others. These projects address such timely factors as sustainability, multiculturalism, preservation, and style, and demonstrate the unique beauty and elegance that comes from the interweaving of modernity and history.
Author : Sasha Abramsky
Publisher : Halban
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1905559658
This is the story of Sasha Abramsky's grandparents, Chimen and Miriam Abramsky, and of their unique home at 5 Hillway, around the corner from Hampstead Heath. In their semi-detached house, so deceptively ordinary from the outside, the Abramskys created a remarkable House of Books. It became the repository for Chimen's collection of thousands upon thousands of books, manuscripts and other printed, handwritten and painted documents, representing his journey through the great political, philosophical, religious and ethical debates that have shaped the western world. Chimen Abramsky was barely a teenager when his father, a famous rabbi, was arrested by Stalin's secret police and sentenced to five years hard labour in Siberia, and fifteen when his family was exiled to London. Lacking a university degree, he nevertheless became a polymath, always obsessed with collecting ideas, with capturing the meanderings of the human soul through the world of great thoughts and thinkers. Rejecting his father's Orthodoxy, he became a Communist, made his living as a book-dealer and amassed a huge, and astonishingly rare, library of socialist literature and memorabilia. Disillusioned with Communism and belatedly recognising the barbarity at the core of Stalin's project, he transformed himself once more, this time into a liberal and a humanist. To his socialist library was added a vastrove of Jewish history volumes. Chimen ended his career as Professor of Hebrew and Jewish studies at UCL, London and rare manuscripts expert for Sotheby's. With his wife Miriam, Chimen made their house a focal point for left-wing intellectual Jewish life: hundreds of the world's leading thinkers, from at their table. The House of Twenty Thousand Books brings alive this latter-day salon by telling the story of Chimen Abramsky's love affair with ideas and with the world of books and of Miriam's obsession with being a hostess and with entertaining. Room by room, book by book, idea by idea, the world of these politically engaged intellectuals, autodidacts and dreamers is lovingly resurrected. In this extraordinary elegy to a lost world, Sasha Abramsky's passionate narrative brings to life once more not just the Hillway salon, but the ideas, the conflicts, the personalities and the human yearnings that animated it. 'The sheer richness of this marvellous book - in terms of its style, think Borges, Perec - amply complements the wondrous complexity of the family - in terms of its subject-matter, think the Eitingons, the Ephrussi - about which Sasha Abramsky writes so lovingly. And as a portrait of London's left-wing Jewish intellectual life it is surely without equal.' Simon Winchester 'I loved this touching and heartfelt celebration of a scholar, teacher and bibliophile, a man whose profound learning was fine-tempered by humane wisdom and self-knowledge. We might all of us envy Sasha Abramsky in possessing such a remarkable grandfather, heroic in his integrity and evoked for us here with real eloquence and affection.' Jonathan Keates 'Sasha Abramsky has combined four kinds of history - familial, political, Jewish, and literary - into one brilliant and compelling book. With him as an erudite and sensitive guide, any reader will be grateful for the opportunity to be immersed into the house of twenty thousand books.' Samuel Freedman 'The House of Twenty Thousand Books is a grandson's elegy for the vanished world of his grandparents' house in London and the exuberant, passionate jostling of two traditions - Jewish and Marxist - that intertwined in his growing up. It is a fascinating memoir of the fatal encounter between Russian Jewish yearning for freedom and the Stalinist creed, a grandson's unsparing, but loving reckoning with a conflicted inheritance. In the digital age, it will also make you long for the smell of old books, the dust on shelves and the collector's passions, all on display in The House of Twenty Thousand Books.' Michael Ignatieff
Author : Norman Brosterman
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,13 MB
Release : 2002-04-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780810990708
Inventing Kindergarten reconstructs the origins of the most successful system ever devised for teaching young children about art, design, mathematics, and natural history.