Product Description: This story is about a young man’s transformation into manhood in WWII by road building in the Central American jungles and bridge building on European battlefields. Along the way, he has his first passionate romance with an eighteen-year-old Polish refugee, Carmen...read more

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Examines ancient engineering and its progression from tent dwellings and simple slingshots to the construction of roads and aqueducts and such achievements as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (view table of contents)

Product Description: Beam and lumber requirements for many jobs aren t always clear, especially with changing building codes and lumber products. Most of the time you rely on your own rules of thumb when figuring spans or lumber engineering. This book can help you fill the gap between what you can find in the building code span tables and what you need to pay a certified engineer to do...read more

Product Description: Basic engineering principles are offered in non-technical language that the builder can put to use on his jobs. Includes understanding engineering requirements on the plans and how to meet them, sizing of structural members using only preliminary plans, and requirements for steel, concrete, and masonry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)