Shell Chic: The Ultimate Guide to Decorating Your Home With Seashells by Marlene Hurley Marshall, ISBN 158017440X
Lucky Sea Bean, Purple Unicorn, Pink Scallop Moon, Crab's Eyes, Yellow Landsnail, Pearly Nautilus -- splendid names for natural works of art that have captured the imaginations of artists, architects, society collectors, and beach worshipers for centuries. In 18th-century England, shell mania knew no limits. Country estates were outfitted with grottoes, where every surface was covered with intricate layers and patterns of shells. Later, throughout much of the 19th century, shell-encrusted furniture was displayed in upper-class homes, and sailors' valentines were brought from Barbados to waiting sweethearts. In the 20th century, Frank Lloyd Wright was greatly influenced by a univalve design while working on plans for the Guggenheim Museum. "Certainly, " said Wright, "Divinity is manifest here in these shells in their humble form of life, such greatness with such simplicity."
Clearly, shells capture a romance and an exotic flavor that continue to enchant and inspire. Now Shell Chic brings the design and imagination of today's shell enthusiasts and artisans to the home. This is a book to be savored for its eccentric decorative flair, its lavish sense of fun, and its practical instructions for shell projects and design ideas that will work in any home decor. Frames, chandeliers, unusual boxes, mirrors, a child-size clawfoot tub -- all are fabulous possibilities for shell encrustation. Memories of peaceful beach vacations become ravishing decorative items when glued to lampshades and screens.
In all, 14 step-by-step illustrated projects and 20 design ideas cover everything readers need to know to create richly marvelous objects. To lend inspiration, there are profiles of contemporaryshell artists photographed with their creations. One profile features Marian McEvoy, editor of House Beautiful, who has embellished her Manhattan apartment with an estimated 15,000 shells.
Art Nouveau by Alastair Duncan, ISBN 0500202737
Alastair Duncan, a recognized expert on the period, tells the story of the meteoric rise and fall of Art Nouveau, which began as a general reaction by young artists and designers to the stifling traditionalism and revivalism of the mid-nineteenth-century fine and decorative arts. The "new art" first made itself felt around 1895, in architecture, furniture, glass, ceramics and the other applied arts, and fell into eclipse after World War One, until its rediscovery in the 1960s. The author recounts the history of this important modern movement in detail, introducing the main personalities - Galle, Lalique, Tiffany and others - and relating their aims and accomplishments to the background from which the movement emerged.
Art Nouveau by Alastair Duncan, ISBN 0500202737 
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Fun with Wizard of Oz Stencils by Paul E. Kennedy, ISBN 0486402428
Enchanting precut stencils of Dorothy and Toto, the Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow, and other Oz characters--for creating eye-catching posters and decorating walls, furniture, and other flat surfaces..
Fun with Wizard of Oz Stencils by Paul E. Kennedy, ISBN 0486402428
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Oracle PL/SQL 101 by Christopher Allen, ISBN 007212606X
Learn to use SQL and PL/SQL in your Oracle database.
Get step-by-step details on performing database tasks quickly and easily.
Oracle PL/SQL 101 explains how to use SQL to work with data in a database, and how to automate complicated tasks using PL/SQL. Youll learn by doing--each chapter contains hands-on exercises designed to teach the concepts presented. This easy-to-follow book starts with database basics and then teaches how to store, retrieve, and manipulate data, control SQL*Plus, create and use SQL functions, and write PL/SQL programs.
Oracle PL/SQL 101 by Christopher Allen, ISBN 007212606X
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Salt City Blues
Three weeks before Christmas, Robin is working two nights a week in a bar just so she can keep her exotic-pet store open. That?'s where she meets Freddy Sanchez, who turns up dead in a burnt-out store two days later. It looks like the local gangs could be involved ?{ but there?'s the question of how Freddy came to acquire a labradoodle, a rare breed of dog of which there are only two in the area . . .
Salt City Blues
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