Building by Philip Wilkinson
	List Price:   $15.99 Unit Price:   $12.79 You Save:   $3.20 (20%) ISBN-10:   0789460262 ISBN-13:   9780789460264 Publisher:   DK Publishing, Inc. Series:   Eyewitness Bks. Edition:   illustrated Category:   Non-Fiction Pub. Date:   May 2000 Pages:   64 Format:   Hardcover Ages:   9 to 12 Grades:   4 to 7
Subjects
HOUSE CONSTRUCTION_JUVENILE LITERATURE
Description/Notes
Here is an exciting and informative guide to structures in which we live, work, play and worship. Superb color photographs offer a unique 'eyewitness' view of buildings from the ground up. See incredible stone gargoyles, where linenfold wood paneling is found, what a Japanese screen is made of and how a hammer-beam roof is supported. Learn how stained glass is made, the difference between hipped and gabled roofs, how medieval tiles were made, what pantiles are and how stonemasons dress and carve stone. Discover the recipe for limewash, what a leggett is, what the three Greek 'orders' were, how towers are built and how houses are built on mountainsides, and much, much more! Part of the 'DK Eyewitness Books', this volume continues the vivid photographic tradition of the series, showing actual objects in real-life close-up detail. It presents the kind of insight into subjects that only a visit in person could ever hope to match.