• Easy, fun, inexpensive ideas make any room more livable fast • Eleven how-to projects make DIY doable • Fun with friends—great weekend and volunteer projects for buddies and groups Painting and accessorizing walls are surely the easiest, fastest, and least expensive ways to change the look and mood of a room. And it’s low-risk, too: Hate the look? Paint it over. But no one will hate the looks inThe Naked Wall, the book that shows exactly how to dramatically transform rooms instantly. The first section, Dress It, covers tips, techniques, and inspiration for choosing color, painting, accenting, and adding faux finishes, trompe l’oeil, murals, wallpaper, plaster, fabric, brick, tile, and wood. In section two, Accessorize It, the experienced and talented authors explain choosing and hanging art, framing art, displaying collections, and dressing the wall with mirrors, screens, textiles, and more. Eleven great how-to fast-and-fabulous projects—great for girlfriends and groups of friends—show exactly how to take walls from buck naked to best dressed.

In college, there's a surprise around every corner… The #1 Student Handbook; Updated 3rd Edition But that doesn't mean you can't be prepared! From sharing a bathroom with 40 strangers to sharing lecture notes, The Naked Roommate is your behind-the-scenes look at EVERYTHING you need to know about college (but never knew you needed to know). From sharing a bathroom with 40 strangers to sharing lecture notes, The Naked Roommate is the behind-the-scenes look at everything students need to know about college (but never knew they needed to know). Completely revised and updated, this essential guide used by hundreds of thousands of students is packed with expert advice on everything from managing money to managing stress—plus hilarious, outrageous, and telling stories from students on over 100 college campuses: College Living Dorm do's, don'ts, and dramas Lying, noisy, nasty roommates Finding Friends Facebook and MySpace Friend today, gone tomorrow Classes To go or not to go? How to get an A, C, or F Dating 16 kinds of college hookups Long distance = BIG concerns The Party Scene The punch in the "fruit punch" Sex, drugs, and the truth Money Grants, loans, and loose change Credit cards and online gambling The Naked Roommate is the #1 bestselling college life guide, and Harlan Cohen is the top voice on college life. Through his speaking engagements, college tour, music, and website, he has reached thousands of students with his message of relaxing, being yourself, and making the most of the college years. With calendars, planners, and The Naked Roommate being used as the first year experience guide at colleges across the country, The Naked Roommate is the top name in college life advice. PRAISE FOR THE NAKED ROOMMATE "If The Naked Roommate existed when I went to college, I would have devoured every page before I stepped foot on campus." Linda J. Sax, Associate Director of the Higher Education Research Institute and Director of the CIRP Freshman Survey "The most useful guide [on college life]. (Five stars)" The Daily Orange, Syracuse University "The Naked Roommate is one of the best and most practical college advice guides I've read." Andrew Tinnin, administrator at the University of Michigan Naked Roommate Article (PDF)

Hendrik Petrus Berlage, the Dutch architect and architectural philosopher, created a series of buildings and a body of writings from 1886 to 1909 that were among the first efforts to probe the problems and possibilities of modernism. Although his Amsterdam Stock Exchange, with its rational mastery of materials and space, has long been celebrated for its seminal influence on the architecture of the 20th century, Berlage's writings are highlighted here. Bringing together Berlage's most important texts, among them "Thoughts on Style in Architecture", "Architecture's Place in Modern Aesthetics", and "Art and Society", this volume presents a chapter in the history of European modernism. In his introduction, Iain Boyd Whyte demonstrates that the substantial contribution of Berlage's designs to modern architecture cannot be fully appreciated without an understanding of the aesthetic principles first laid out in his writings.

"This series of reports is in a sense a continuation, but with a decided expansion, of the plan of the English ruling cases, as it takes the cases from the British empire, instead of from England only, but it continues the English ruling cases in the sense that it will include the most important cases from the English courts decided since that series terminated."--Pref.