Bold and manageable, Mark Lewison's What Would You Do With This Room? My 10 Foolproof Commandments to Great Interior Design, written by Sherri Houtz with John R. Haigh, is a gem of instruction to design types who have the heart to do-it-themselves, but need a little direction. In the case of this interior design book that blends common sense with savoir-faire, Mark's mantra is, "keep it simple, keep it simple, keep it simple!" It takes effort to execute design plans, but with these easy to use tools and insights designing rooms is a breeze. From keeping one's lifestyle in mind to following fashion, and from personalizing your home's look and feel to being fearless, this style guide is the perfect missive for new homebuyers and novice designers. First detailing each of his ten design commandments, Lewison follows by demonstrating how readers can synthesize the commandments to execute designs, making a room "pop" with fun and imagination. -- www.booksurge.com.

Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.

Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.

After buying an old Methodist church to renovate into their home, a plucky 50something couple who gets excited by reclaimed wood and deals on Craigslist goes to work, undaunted by risks to their marital relationship, creaky bodies and bank account.The 126-year-old structure has been stripped of pews, the altar, even the kitchen sink. The wiring is a Frankenstein mix of early 20th century knobs and tubes, copper wire and modern Romex. And the seller discloses the 40-foot bell tower is "rooted," which the intrepid homebuyers Tyler and Monica take to mean as "rotted." Friends wonder if there are bats in their belfry, literally and metaphorically, as the pair spends months juggling contractors of varying dependability, wandering around a thousand home improvement stores and sanding miles of wood floors, laboring to prove the doubters wrong. Based on the real-time memoir Monica blogged by night, Church Sweet Home chronicles the amusing, exhausting and ultimately satisfying fixer-upper follies of turning a derelict community treasure into a dream home.

This book covers virtually every type of witness and witness situation that a lawyer is likely to encounter.

Whether you'd like to be an art director or already are one, this book contains valuable solutions that will help you get ahead. This comprehensive, thorough professional manual details the set-up of the art department and the day-to-day job duties: scouting for locations, research, executing the design concept, constructing scenery, and surviving production. You will not only learn how to do the job, but how to succeed and secure future jobs. Rounding out the text is an extensive collection of useful forms and checklists, along with interviews with prominent art directors, relevant real-life anecdotes, and blueprints, sketches, photographs, and stills from Hollywood sets.

An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.