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INTRODUCTION Star-gazing is one of the oldest human occupations. To locate the ancient constellations, many of them forty or fifty centuries old, is to see the world through the eyes of our earliest known ancestors, to re-enter the Bronze Age 'DreamTime', when the myths, the mysterious,...

INTRODUCTIONA BRIEF HISTORY OF FLOORSWay back in 1880, in a lecture delivered to the Society of Arts in London, the architect Robert W. Edis declaimed on the subject of fitted carpets: TJ.Î is a matter of astonishment to me that there are still a large number of people who are content to keep this...

Introduction "How did you feel?" my professor inquired. I didn't know what he meant. "When you cUcked the shutter, what were you feeling?" he asked, referring to a photograph of mine projected on the screen. "You connected with something there. Think about what it was. Pay attention to it next...

Introduction^DC^ater is a valuable asset in any garden, an inspiring element in the overall design, guaranteed to attract interest. Subtle reflections, soothing splashes, gentle, cool streams and cascading falls all play their part. The level plane of a body of water acts as a natural foil for...