books about: buildings

books about: buildings

books:

Buildings

Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods

Edward Allen, Joseph Iano

Wiley, 2003

Excellent Resource
I am still using my 1985 Edition! It is a resource you will want to keep around. The technical background and drawings are great! It has some of everything - residential and nonresidential. Thanks Edward Allen-great book.

Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and ...

Ahmed Rashid

Viking Adult, 2008

A deeply troubling book
Ahmed Rashid has long been a leading expert on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Muslim states of Central Asia that were once part of the Soviet Union. In 2000, the year before 9/11, he published 'Taliban', a book which politicians rushed to read after the attack on the ...

Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual

David McFarland

Pogue Press, 2007

Review by a novice to Dreamweaver & CS3
I needed to program my first web site using Dreamweaver CS3. I had designed the web site and programmed it in a higher level language which didn't give me access to the html code. I needed this access capability for SEO (search engine optimization) purposes. Although I ...

Building Construction Illustrated

Francis D. K. Ching

Wiley, 2008

Undervalued as a professional resource and ARE study guide
Please dont let this simple architectural graphic resource book that has been around now for decades be viewed as unworthy of your time, because it certainly has been beneficial as part of the resoureces needed for me to pass the ARE's and for a quick review in my ...

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Patrick M. Lencioni

Jossey-Bass, 2002

Best book I've read all year
I read a great number of titles on leadership, organizational development, and team building. This book, told as a fable, is a very quick read and will seem unlike any other book of this sort you've read. As you read it, you'll feel as though the author has been ...

The Fred Factor: How passion in your work and life can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary

Mark Sanborn

Doubleday Business, 2004

Great book to encourage those who have served you exceptionally well
This is one of those very wise yet simple and encouraging books about how to serve others uncommonly well in an ordinary seeming job. Fred, and ordinary postal carrier doing an extraordinary job right here in Denver serves as the focus of this exceptional true ...

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't

Robert I. Sutton

Business Plus, 2007

Die Keinearschlochregel
A**holes create a toxic work environment, destroying productivity. Sutton introduces the Total Cost of A**holes (TCA) metric. In the case of a salesman named Ethan, the cost was estimated at $160,000, including time spent by Ethan's manager, HR professionals, senior ...

104 Activities That Build: Self-Esteem, Teamwork, Communication, Anger Management, Self-Discovery, Coping ...

Alanna Jones

Rec Room Publishing, 1998

Great Activities!
This is the best book, filled with fun activities to use in therapeutic groups! I ordered another one because someone took my original copy and I can't live without it.

His Needs, Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage

Willard F. Harley Jr.

Revell, 2001

his needs her needs a must read for people who want all they can enjoy out of their marraige.
I enjoy the cd so I can listen in the car. I think every spouse should want to be all they can be and in turn allow their partner to be all they can be. The cd gives examples of how we "destroy" our marriages without realizing it. Amarriage takes time, effort, love and ...

Stone by Design

Lew French

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2005

True Beauty
This book is pure pleasure. The artfulness in creating the spaces we live in with stone in pattern, an organic extension of this earth. This is not a 'paint by numbers' how-to book, rather, like looking at a Rembrandt, ultimate examples of stone taken to true art.

Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning

American Library Association, 1998

PRAXIS for Library Science
According to many in my grad program, this ALA book is a must read for passing the PRAXIS for Library Science. Pay particular attention to the Appendixes.

Solar Power Your Home For Dummies (For Dummies (Home & Garden))

Rik DeGunther

For Dummies, 2007

This book answered ALL my questions clearly!
My husband and I have become increasingly consciencious about saving our natural resources. It has been our goal to add solar panels to our house but most of the books out there were not written for the average person. This book answered all our questions in a ...

The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio

William J. Bernstein

McGraw-Hill, 2002

A Must Read for Your Library
William Bernstein has written another must read for the individual investor who wants to chart his own course in the investment world. I was first introduced to this book at a local AAII chapter meeting. Everyone there who had read this book highly recommended it. I ...

Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

Toby Segaran

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

Great, simple presentation of some powerful techniques
Programming Collective Intelligence is a book about applying data mining techniques to analyse collections of data. There is submerged information in Ebay prices, in Facebook profile networks, in collections of movie reviews, in news sites, in the stockmarket; this ...

Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website

Barrie M. North

Prentice Hall PTR, 2007

Excellent Introduction to Joomla
If you are looking for a well written book about Joomla then this is the one. I read it from cover to cover except for one chapter. Joomla is a very powerful CMS engine, and because of that, the developers of this engine will always struggle to provide a simpler user ...