“Design for Flooding contains considerable useful information for practitioners and students. Watson and Adams fill the void for new thinking…and they advance our ability to create more sustainable, regenerative, and resilient places.” ―Landscape Architecture Magazine

Design for Flooding: Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design for Resilience to Climate Change

Arts & Photography

Watson, Donald

Adams, Michele

Architecture

wiley

Gender and Families (Gender Lens)

When we talk about family values, like whether children need two parents, we are also talking about gender values, because a "yes" answer to this question might imply that only women with husbands should have children. In the same way, when we talk about gender issues, such as whether men should be paid higher wages than women, we are also talking about family issues, because a "yes" answer suggests that husbands should be the family breadwinner. In this updated second edition of Gender and Families, Coltrane and Adams continue to demystify the complexities and connections between gender and family in contemporary culture, with discussions of race, ethnicity, and social class.

Politics & Social Sciences

Coltrane, Scott

Social Sciences

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Gender and Families uses cultural events from our everyday lives to explore how families and gender are mutually produced and inseparably linked. In this updated second edition, Coltrane and Adams continue to demystify the complexities of gender and family with discussions of racial difference, ethnicity, and social class.

Your best friend is getting married, it's up to you to throw the shower. Now what? Forget the paper plateribbon bouquet. Times have changed and people are delving into tradition with contemporary flair. With four unique party themes, Wedding Showers offers menus, decorating ideas, creative projects, and activities to suit a range of personalities and visions, making it the ideal guide for today's shower host. A traditional afternoon of tea invites guests to a selection of mouthwatering cakes, tarts, and cookies. A tropical cocktail party carries the festivities outside. The day-at-the-beach shower takes a fun and casual approach with its bountiful barbecue and brightly colored canopies. An intimate beauty shower centers around luxuriant home-spa treatments followed by pretty boxed lunches. From making the plans to decorating the venue, the authors breathe new life into the long-standing tradition of the wedding shower.

Wedding Showers: Ideas and Recipes for the Perfect Party

Russo, Gia

Reference

Diane Pub Co.

Your best friend is getting married, it's up to you to throw the shower. Now what? Forget the paper plateribbon bouquet. Times have changed and people are delving into tradition with contemporary flair. With four unique party themes, Wedding Showers offers menus, decorating ideas, creative projects, and activities to suit a range of personalities and visions, making it the ideal guide for today's shower host. A traditional afternoon of tea invites guests to a selection of mouthwatering cakes, tarts, and cookies. A tropical cocktail party carries the festivities outside. The day-at-the-beach shower takes a fun and casual approach with its bountiful barbecue and brightly colored canopies. An intimate beauty shower centers around luxuriant home-spa treatments followed by pretty boxed lunches. From making the plans to decorating the venue, the authors breathe new life into the long-standing tradition of the wedding shower.

Chronicle Books+

The baby boomers' babies have started a baby boom of their own, and Baby Showers is the ideal guide for today's host. With four stylish and contemporary party themes, Baby Showers offers menus, decorating ideas, simple projects for favors and gifts, and activities to suit a range of personalities. The cheery Daisy Brunch treats Mom to a sunny morning buffet with a vibrant daisy theme and a delicious array of breakfast treats. Luncheon pampers the expectant guest with a sumptuous and healthy menu, and favor bags filled with natural beauty products. Decorating the Nursery brings family and friends together for fun foods and an afternoon of sprucing up baby's new room. An Heirlooms and Memories shower encourages guests to contribute to a scrapbook that mom and baby will cherish for years to come. Each themed party comes with a "Party Planner" that will help the host to pull off party preparations with ease and flair. From choosing the site and sending the invites, to decorating and hosting a memorable, heartfelt affair, Baby Showers truly deliverseverything but baby.

Baby Showers: Ideas and Recipes for the Perfect Party

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Entertaining & Holidays

Having people over has never been easier-or more enjoyable. Authors Michele Adams and Gia Russo know theres nothing better than good food shared with good friends in the comfort of your own home. A festive environment and a relaxed host are the keys to a successful get-together, and At Home with Friends provides an innovative and affordable approach to accomplish that and more. Ten versatile party menus feature more than 60 simple and elegant recipes, all beautifully illustrated with nearly 100 full-color photographs. Each recipe comes with indispensable timesaving tips, do-ahead steps, and last-minute, store-bought substitutions for the time-pressed host. Every party features two separate checklists-the last-minute version for those with a day or less, and the more leisurely timeframe for hosts with two or more days to plan. From casual brunches and buffets to stylish dinner parties and cocktails, At Home with Friends has everything you need to make the most of any occasion.

At Home With Friends

Regional & International

In this sparkling collection of stories drawn from the surreal edge of life, playful irony vies with more poignant evocations of solitude, mortality, and the dawn of sexual awareness  all bodied forth in a language that is precise, elegant, and immediate. Storytellers are liars, but as Picasso said, art is the lie that tells the truth,” and deceit is a motif here: lies of omission or commission, in words or in deeds, to gain love or repel it, and beyond, to what our lies tell of the rift between body and soul, dream and fulfillment: the essential, often comical ambiguity of human existence. What do we really want? What do we need? And what happens if  or when  we gain the objects of our desires? From the strange erotics of household appliances and grocery shopping, anguish of an unexpected haircut, curious negotiations with sex  including the mystically transformative power of a bikini  to the shock of a child’s first encounter with death, perverse seductions of imagination, tranced midnight zones of travel, and the dark revenge of a life unlived, this collection explores the borderland between inner and outer realities, creating a sharply etched portrait of fraught consciousness struggling for balance between the pains and sudden pleasures of being alive.

Bright Object of Desire

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Biblioasis

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Design for Flooding: Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design for Resilience to Climate Change

Gender and Families (Gender Lens)

Gender and Families (Gender Lens)

Wedding Showers: Ideas and Recipes for the Perfect Party

Wedding Showers: Ideas and Recipes for the Perfect Party

Baby Showers: Ideas and Recipes for the Perfect Party

At Home With Friends

Bright Object of Desire