From the Land

From the LandBy: Elegant rusticity meets unpretentious luxury in the work of this award winning architecture firm. Howard Backen, principal of the architecture firm Backen, Gillam & Kroeger, is at the center of a popular movement in home design that emphasizes elegant simplicity and embraces the rustic charm of natural materials. This volume, the first on his work and that of the firm, is an artful exploration of this aesthetic, featuring farmhouses in the Napa

Equally illuminating is the light he shines on the brilliant circles in which the Borgias moved and the thrilling era they helped to shape—a time of wars and political convulsions that reverberate to the present day

[and] amazing” (Booklist) novel in the Gideon series

and burrows into the fallen leaves for a long nap

From Tuscany to Umbria to Naples and more

Through the analysis of time-stamped texts

With text by Margot Robbie and Andrew Mukamal

Hers was a rags-to-riches story that saw her cross paths with Karl Marx

' Ellie Taylor

Carol Off and a CBC TV crew encountered an Afghan man with a story to tell

When they head for a trek across the moors to take their minds off everything

In this paradigm-shifting book

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