Authors:Clarke Snell, Tim Callaha,
Publisher: Lark Book
Keywords: building, guide, alternative, complete, cordwood, cob, living, bale, roofs, earth, new, methods, plaster, straw
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 2009-08-04
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1600595340
ISBN-13: 9781600595349
The best-selling and highly regarded reference to sustainable construction gets an update! Its refreshed with a completely revised introduction, a bright new cover, and extensive online resource tie-ins. Plus, its now printed on recycled paper with agri-based inks, so its greener than ever!This groundbreaking book doesnt just tell you about green house-building techniques: it actually shows you, with more than 1,200 step-by-step photographs that follow the actual erection of an alternative building from site selection to final-touch interior details. Readers will get a clear sense of the
Author: Gerald E. Frug
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: building, walls, communities, city, making
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 069100742X
ISBN-13: 9780691007427
American metropolitan areas today are divided into neighborhoods of privilege and poverty, often along lines of ethnicity and race. City residents traveling through these neighborhoods move from feeling at home to feeling like tourists to feeling so out of place they fear for their security. As Gerald Frug shows, this divided and inhospitable urban landscape is not simply the result of individual choices about where to live or start a business. It is the product of government policies--and, in particular, the policies embedded in legal rules. A Harvard law professor and leading expert on urban
Author: Mark T. Berger
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: building, thirdworlds, state, nation
Number of Pages: 10
Published: 2007-09-21
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0415495210
ISBN-13: 9780415495219
This book examines the history of nation-building during the era of decolonization and the Cold War, and on the more recent post-Cold War and post-9/11 pursuit of nation-building in what have become known as collapsed or failed states. In the post-Cold War and post-9/11 era nation-building, or what is increasingly termed state-building, has taken on renewed salience, making it more important than ever to set the idea and practice of nation-building in historical perspective. Focusing on both historical and contemporary examples, the contributors explore a number of important themes that re
Authors:Ivor H Seely, Roger Winfield,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: building, surveying, quantities, explained
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1998-12-21
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0333719727
ISBN-13: 9780333719725
This guide is a thorough rewrite and update of a classic text used by generations of students that utilizes a standardized and structured approach in line with current QS practice. It includes many new worked examples, figures, and schedules and is filled with clear, handwritten dimensions with detailed explanatory notes. An introduction to computerized measurement is also provided.
Author: Cal Henderso
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Keywords: building, web, generation, applications, optimizing, sites, scalable, scaling
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-05-16
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0596102356
ISBN-13: 9780596102357
Learn the tricks of the trade so you can build and architect applications that scale quickly--without all the high-priced headaches and service-level agreements associated with enterprise app servers and proprietary programming and database products. Culled from the experience of the Flickr.com lead developer, Building Scalable Web Sites offers techniques for creating fast sites that your visitors will find a pleasure to use. Creating popular sites requires much more than fast hardware with lots of memory and hard drive space. It requires thinking about how to grow over time, how to make the
Authors:Jay Pridmore, Hedrich Blessing,
Publisher: Pomegranate
Keywords: building, catalog, pomegranate, book, auditorium
Number of Pages: 63
Published: 2003-08
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0764924966
ISBN-13: 9780764924965
Commissioned by Ferdinand Peck and produced by architects Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler--soon to be leaders of the Chicago School--in 1889, the Auditorium Building was a wondrous complex, housing a hotel, offices, stores, and a theater. Adler’s engineering skills overcame the problem of a foundation that had to support an unevenly distributed weight; Sullivan designed the stunning theater, which was spanned by four elliptical arches studded with 3,500 incandescent electric lights and decorated with gold leaf. Adler created a hydraulic stage--with twenty-six lifts--and one of the first
Author: Tom Woolley
Publisher: Spon Pre
Keywords: building, impact, environment, products, guide, handbook, companion
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2000-06-14
List price: $99.98
ISBN-10: 0419253807
ISBN-13: 9780419253808
This new handbook provides a detailed reference for environmentally concerned purchasers of building products, Invaluable for the speifier, this handbook will be useful to all interested in finding greener ways of designing and building.
