The Reflection in the Pool
Author : Jason Koxvold
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 2019-06-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780998518084
Reflections on the Pool
Author : Cleo Baldon
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Swimming pools
ISBN :
Book Description
"Reflections on the Pool" spotlights forty stellar examples of pool design, ranging from the nature-inspired designs of Isabelle Greene to the vanguard mid-century pools of Thomas Church and the brilliant Mexican-style architecture of Ricardo Legorreta, plus popular tourist sites. An engaging text details the swimming pool's spread to America in the 19th century and California's influence on its popularity, while 100 luminous photos showcase the pools themselves in all their splendor.
Reflections from the Dating Pool
Author : Cindy Drummond
Publisher : Cindy Drummond
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1999159705
Book Description
After the initial shock of witnessing the arrest of the man she had been in love with for six years, Cindy and her two daughters fled their beloved family home and sought refuge in her parent's basement. Betrayed and heartbroken, Cindy knew she needed to act fast. She refused to let the actions of one deceitful person define her, so within weeks of her life being turned upside down, she created and executed an event for women. Her sold-out "Women Only Weekend" gave her shaken confidence the boost she needed to embark on a new challenge; 50 DATES IN 52 WEEKS. Follow Cindy's 18 month dating journey as she shares her words of wisdom on loneliness, the importance of finding a tribe and the power of falling in love again...with herself. You don't have to be single to love this book. It's a story about starting over, a book about gratitude, and a book about creating the life you desire. If you have ever been stuck, discouraged or scared to start over, this book will inspire you, nudge you out of your comfort zone and encourage you to get comfortable with being uncomfortable because after all....YOLO.
Contested Waters
Author : Jeff Wiltse
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0807888982
Book Description
From nineteenth-century public baths to today's private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States, Jeff Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban poor, leisure resorts for the masses, and private clubs for middle-class suburbanites. As sites of race riots, shrinking swimsuits, and conspicuous leisure, swimming pools reflect many of the tensions and transformations that have given rise to modern America.
Lost in the Reflecting Pool
Author : Diane Pomerantz
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2024-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781960876737
Book Description
The Whale in My Swimming Pool
Author : Joyce Wan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0374301883
Book Description
Now in board book! The story of a boy who discovers a whale in his pool one hot summer day.
The Diving Pool
Author : Yoko Ogawa
Publisher : Picador
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 14,43 MB
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429924950
Book Description
The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool--a peculiar infatuation that sends unexpected ripples through her life. A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, taking meticulous note of a pregnancy that may or may not be a hallucination--but whose hallucination is it, hers or her sister's? A woman nostalgically visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boarding house run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg. Hauntingly spare, beautiful, and twisted, The Diving Pool is a disquieting and at times darkly humorous collection of novellas about normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities.
Pool
Author : JiHyeon Lee
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1452150389
Book Description
What happens when two shy children meet at a very crowded pool? Dive in to find out! Deceptively simple, this masterful book tells a story of quiet moments and surprising encounters, and reminds us that friendship and imagination have no bounds.
The Springboard in the Pond
Author : Thomas A. P. Van Leeuwen
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 2000-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262720328
Book Description
Although others have written eloquently on the relationship of water to built form, until now no one has investigated the swimming, pool as a quintessentially modern and American space, reflecting America's infatuation with hygiene, skin, and recreation. In The Springboard in the Pond, Thomas van Leeuwen looks at a familiar hole - the domestic swimming pool - and discovers an icon indispensable to the reading of twentieth-century modernism. At one level, the book is a rereading of modern architecture that will leave that story permanently altered. At another level, it is the story of the origin and evolution of the private swimming pool as a building type and cultural artifact. And at still another level, it is a material philosophy of water. Van Leeuwen explores the human relationship to water from a variety of viewpoints: social, religious, artistic, sexual, psychological, technical, and above all architectural.
Poolscaping
Author : Catriona Tudor Erler
Publisher : Storey Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781580173858
Book Description
A guide to landscaping around pools that provides tips and ideas for choosing the best flowers and plants, descriptions of plants that thrive in a pool environment, and photographs of a variety of different pool landscapes.
