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While most construction management books are project based, this book looks at management principles and techniques applied to the day-to-day problems facing a business in the construction industry. It covers: Business strategy Industrial relations Health and safety Managing people Financial management Quantitative methods The text includes end of chapter review questions and a range of illustrative examples. Since the book was first written in 1982 much has changed. The Second Edition has been thoroughly revised and takes account of the increased globalisation of construction, the move from public to private sector work, the drive for productivity, changing procurement methods, new emphasis on life cycle costing and much more. It will provide a valuable text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in construction management, surveying and civil engineering as well as offering useful insights for practitioners undertaking CPD activities.

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9780632064021 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, January 28, 2002), cover price $77.99 | About this edition: While most construction management books are project based, this book looks at management principles and techniques applied to the day-to-day problems facing a business in the construction industry.

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9781444314304 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, May 12, 2009), cover price $69.99

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All over the world, millions of readers are counting the days until the final volume of the Harry Potter saga, when All Will Be Revealed. This is the book to help them while they wait.

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9780575080546, titled "The End of Harry Potter" | Orion Pub Co, May 10, 2007, cover price $12.40 | About this edition: All over the world, millions of readers are counting the days until the final volume of the Harry Potter saga, when All Will Be Revealed.
9780765319340 | Tor Books, March 20, 2007, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Delves into the many mysteries that remain unsolved in the Harry Potter series, including 'Is Albus Dumbledore really dead?

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Product Description: David Langford has written for every issue of SFX, the top-selling British magazine about science fiction, since its launch in 1995. His sparkling column-imaginatively titled "Langford"-is notoriously the first page readers turn to...read more

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9781930997776 | Wildside Pr, November 30, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: David Langford has written for every issue of SFX, the top-selling British magazine about science fiction, since its launch in 1995.

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9781930997783 | Wildside Pr, July 31, 2005, cover price $17.95

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Trolls have smashed down the door, there's a banshee on the roof, the river's caught fire - and this is your starter for ten.
By David Langford (compiler)

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9780575077034 | Orion Pub Co, July 21, 2005, cover price $11.70 | About this edition: Trolls have smashed down the door, there's a banshee on the roof, the river's caught fire - and this is your starter for ten.

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Product Description: DEATH WILL NOT RELEASE YOU Ken Jacklin is a soldier who has died many times. Rossa Corman has a communications talent that depends on pain. Together they must make an excruciating journey via makeshift matter transmitter and persuade a distrustful, war-torn planetary colony to halt research into Anomalous Physics -- the maverick science whose side effects include continent-busting nullbombs, exploding suns, and a mysterious final weapon called the Devourer...read more

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9781930997790 | Wildside Pr, October 31, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: DEATH WILL NOT RELEASE YOU Ken Jacklin is a soldier who has died many times.
9780759241855 | E-Rights/E-Reads Ltd, March 1, 2003, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Ken Jackin has defeated death forty-six times thanks to the extraordinary phenomenon called Anomalous Physics, but now he has his most difficult mission: stop the experiments on a runaway space colony.
9780671656195 | Reissue edition (Pocket Books, February 1, 1987), cover price $2.95

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Product Description: A collection of Langford parodies and pastiches incorporating the whole of The Dragonhiker's Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dune's Edge: Odyssey Two (1988, long out of print) plus some 40,000 words of additional material.

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9780809510825 | Wildside Pr, October 26, 2004, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A collection of Langford parodies and pastiches incorporating the whole of The Dragonhiker's Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dune's Edge: Odyssey Two (1988, long out of print) plus some 40,000 words of additional material.

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Product Description: This title uses the combined breadth of experience of the two authors to provide an overall view of what the construction industry does, how it is managed at the differing levels from workface to boardroom and what it is like to be a working part of that managment operation...read more

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9780750651080 | Butterworth-Heinemann, September 30, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This title uses the combined breadth of experience of the two authors to provide an overall view of what the construction industry does, how it is managed at the differing levels from workface to boardroom and what it is like to be a working part of that managment operation.

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Product Description: This book explains the contemporary management processes and strategies employed by practising professionals during the running of construction projects. It takes its framework from the RIBA Plan of Work and the editors have successfully used this framework to evaluate the architect's role at each stage of the construction process...read more

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9781859461235 | Riba Pubns Ltd, February 1, 2004, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This book explains the contemporary management processes and strategies employed by practising professionals during the running of construction projects.

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9781592241217 | Wildside Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $29.95

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9781592241224 | Wildside Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $17.95

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9781592240579 | Wildside Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $29.99

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9781592240586 | Wildside Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $16.99

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By David Langford (editor) and John Sladek

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9781592242023 | Wildside Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $29.95

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9781592242030 | Wildside Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $17.95

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Product Description: THE LEAKY ESTABLISHMENT is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside. Black comedy overtakes the unfortunate defence-scientist hero Roy Tappen when a "harmless" theft of office furniture lands him with his very own doomsday nuclear stockpile at home...read more

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9781592241255 | Wildside Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: THE LEAKY ESTABLISHMENT is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside.
9781903468005 | Big Engine, February 1, 2001, cover price $12.50

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9781904492115 | Bewrite Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $15.33

This E. & F. N. Spon title is now distributed by Routledge in the US and Canada This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information.Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.
By David Langford (editor) and Arkady Retik (editor)

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9780419222408 | Taylor & Francis, September 15, 1996, cover price $380.00 | About this edition: This E.

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9780203477090, titled "The Organization and Management of Construction: Shaping Theory and Practice" | Spon Pr, June 24, 2003, cover price $380.00

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Product Description: At last, _Up Through an Empty House of Stars_ brings together the best of the never before collected SF reviews and articles that helped build David Langford's towering reputation since 1980. Complementing the review columns collected in _The Complete Critical Assembly_ and the knockabout essays and squibs in _The Silence of the Langford_, this volume's 100 glittering selections mix serious critical insight with the inimitable Langford wit...read more

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9781592240548 | Cosmos Books, May 1, 2003, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: At last, _Up Through an Empty House of Stars_ brings together the best of the never before collected SF reviews and articles that helped build David Langford's towering reputation since 1980.

By David Langford (editor) and Mike Murray (editor)

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9780632059287 | Blackwell Pub, April 1, 2003, cover price $176.00

Miscellaneous:

9781405147552 | Blackwell Pub, April 30, 2003, cover price $154.99

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9780727731487 | Inst of Civil Engineers Pub, March 1, 2003, cover price $78.50

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9781587153983 | Wildside Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $29.95

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9781587153303 | Wildside Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $15.00

The proceedings of the CIB W65 Symposium on the Organization and Management of Construction conference are presented here and in the companion volumes as state-of-the-art papers documenting research and innovative practice in the field of construction. The volumes cover four broad themes: business management, project management, risk management, IT development and applications. Each volume is organized to provide easy reference so that the practitioner can speedily extract up to date information and knowledge about the global construction industry. Managing the Construction Enterprise (Volume One): Covers the firm and its business environment, markets and marketing, human resource management strategic planning, and quality management. Managing the Construction Project (Volume Two): focuses upon productivity, procurement, international projects and human issues in relation to management performance of construction organisations. Managing Risk (Volume Two): incorporates discussion of risk away from regulation by government and those safety risks inherent in the construction process. Managing Construction Information (Volume Three, published in conjunction with Construct IT Centre of Excellence): incorporates material on information systems and methods, application of IT to the design and construction processes and how IT theory and applications are best transmitted to students and practitioners. The work represents a collation of wide ranging ideas and theory about construction and how research has contributed to the development of the industry on a global application of research to the problems of the construction industry.
By David Langford (editor) and Arkady Retik (editor)

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9780419222507 | Taylor & Francis, April 15, 1997, cover price $380.00 | About this edition: The proceedings of the CIB W65 Symposium on the Organization and Management of Construction conference are presented here and in the companion volumes as state-of-the-art papers documenting research and innovative practice in the field of construction.

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9780203477106, titled "The Organization and Management of Construction: Managing Construction Information" | Spon Pr, June 1, 2002, cover price $380.00

The proceedings of the CIB W65 Symposium on the Organization and Management of Construction conference are presented here and in the companion volumes as state-of-the-art papers documenting research and innovative practice in the field of construction. The volumes cover four broad themes: business management, project management, risk management, IT development and applications. Each volume is organized to provide easy reference so that the practitioner can speedily extract up to date information and knowledge about the global construction industry. Managing the Construction Enterprise (Volume One): Covers the firm and its business environment, markets and marketing, human resource management strategic planning, and quality management. Managing the Construction Project (Volume Two): focuses upon productivity, procurement, international projects and human issues in relation to management performance of construction organisations. Managing Risk (Volume Two): incorporates discussion of risk away from regulation by government and those safety risks inherent in the construction process. Managing Construction Information (Volume Three, published in conjunction with Construct IT Centre of Excellence): incorporates material on information systems and methods, application of IT to the design and construction processes and how IT theory and applications are best transmitted to students and practitioners. The work represents a collation of wide ranging ideas and theory about construction and how research has contributed to the development of the industry on a global application of research to the problems of the construction industry.
By David Langford (editor) and Arkady Retik (editor)

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9780419222309 | Taylor & Francis, September 15, 1996, cover price $380.00 | About this edition: The proceedings of the CIB W65 Symposium on the Organization and Management of Construction conference are presented here and in the companion volumes as state-of-the-art papers documenting research and innovative practice in the field of construction.

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9780203477083, titled "The Organization and Management of Construction: Managing the Construction Enterprise" | Spon Pr, June 1, 2002, cover price $380.00

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So you think you know your way around Terry Pratchett's Discworld? Can you tell the difference between 'Ooook' and 'Ooook?' Or are YOU the Wyrdest Link?

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9780575077041 | Victor Gollancz, March 1, 2007, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: So you think you know your way around Terry Pratchett's Discworld?

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9780575073197 | Orion Pub Co, April 25, 2002, cover price $11.65 | About this edition: A follow-up to 'Discworld Unseen University Quizbook', this title presents itself as qualifying tests for various levels of mastery in Ankh-Morpork City's Guilds and other organizations - from the dignified Thieves' Guild to illicit outfits like the feared Breccia (the trolls' Mafia).

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Product Description: Guts: A Comedy of Manners by David Langford and John Grant is a raucously tasteless spoof of horror novels, first written in the late 80s and accepted by a UK publisher, which later changed its mind.

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9781587154485 | Wildside Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Guts: A Comedy of Manners by David Langford and John Grant is a raucously tasteless spoof of horror novels, first written in the late 80s and accepted by a UK publisher, which later changed its mind.

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