The Book of Bamboo

The Book of Bamboo
Author: David Farrelly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1984
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

Bamboo’s amazing versatility, strength, and beauty have given it a larger role in human culture than any other plant. Both sustainable and plentiful, it has been used for millennia to make objects ranging from clothing and housing to more exotic luxuries like phonograph needles and children’s toys, to name but a few. This acclaimed sourcebook--part history, part illustrated catalog, part cultivation guide--details the myriad uses of bamboo, along with an immense bounty of information and lore on how to grow, maintain, and harvest this extraordinary plant; how to use it in craft and construction projects, including floors, fences, papers, and play equipment; and bamboo’s place in the literary, visual, and musical arts. An encyclopedic roster of more than 1,200 bamboo species is a book in itself, as is author David Farrelly’s A-to-Z catalog of artifacts made from bamboo: acupuncture needles, blowguns, bridges, kites, ships, violins, windmills, and a thousand other things. Strong, flexible, and beautiful in both its natural and finished states, bamboo is an abundant resource that could beneficially replace many less sustainable materials currently in use, and continue to transform our culture in the process.

Interpreting Objects and Collections

Interpreting Objects and Collections
Author: Susan M. Pearce
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 1994
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0415112885

Bringing together the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections, this volume examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things.

Anagram Solver

Anagram Solver
Author: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 719
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1408102579

Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.

Steuben Crystal

Steuben Crystal
Author: Steuben Glass (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1956
Genre: Crystal glass
ISBN:

The Stonewares of Yixing

The Stonewares of Yixing
Author: Kuei-hsiang Lo
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9789622091122

Despite its beauty, individuality and variety of design, the red or brown unglazed stoneware produced at Yixing in Jiangsu Province has received less attention than other branches of Chinese ceramic art. The Yixing potters have always specialized in the making of teapots, whose use became widespread during the Ming period as a result of the innovation of making tea from rolled leaves, rather than using it in the fine-ground, powdered from in which it had previously been supplied.

The Facts on File Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases

The Facts on File Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases
Author: Martin H. Manser
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780816070350

Provides pronunciations, origins, and meanings for words and phrases from foreign sources, ranging from everyday terms to words in the news and the specialized languages of cooking, music, the arts, and the law.

Minton

Minton
Author: Joan Jones
Publisher: Shire Publications
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1995
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780747803041