Product Description: Alexios, a young man living with his family in Greece, journeys to Anatolia, Turkey to see the ancient cities of the Classical & Byzantine world. He enters a small village where he stops at a kafenio and meets an old storyteller who warns him not to proceed to a palace nearby...read more

Product Description: This set of proceedings is based on the International Conference on Advances in Building Technology in Hong Kong on 4-6 December 2002. The two volumes of proceedings contain 9 invited keynote papers, 72 papers delivered by 11 teams , and 133 contributed papers from over 20 countries around the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book concentrates on presenting facts and opinions about the ways in which people respond to built form, drawing on a wide range of literature written by theorists, critics, and practicing architects. The subject matter incorporates perspectives from the psychology of aesthetic appreciation, the linguistic content of built form, the social ramifications of architecture, and, as an extension of this, the often fraught dialogue between the architect and the engineer...read more

Product Description: Experienced carpenter Scott Schuttner explains how to make professional-quality. With information on straight-run, L-shaped and open-riser stairs, this unique book/video set will prepare readers and viewers for virtually any basic stairbuilding project they faced. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Shows imaginative designs for bathrooms and the showers, bathtubs, sinks, fixtures, and accessories which can be used to decorate them

Product Description: Drawing upon extensive new first hand interview material from Debbie Harry, Chris Stein and many other significant players in the band’s long history and a huge archive of personal materials and unpublished interviews, Blondie: Parallel Lines is the definitive eye-witness account of the group’s long and often tumultuous existence...read more

Product Description: The Builder's Comprehensive Dictionary puts a wealth of construction and building information right at your fingertips. Look at what you'll find: Almost 10,000 construction term definitions, over 1,100 detailed illustrations of tools, techniques, and systems...read more

Product Description: Dear reader:  Even though I wrote this book, I would like to strongly recommend you do not buy it, but purchase my newer book instead. Here's why: The book shown here is described as  a 1998 book, but it was actually written in 1991!  The only thing that was changed in 1998 was the cover...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, Building charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume, aimed at students and young professionals as well as general readers, explores the materials, classic texts, instruments, and theories that have propelled modern engineering, and the famous and not-so-famous buildings designed through the ages. The book concentrates on developments since the industrial and scientific revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Also included are extensive reference materials: appendices, a glossary, bibliography, and index.

Product Description: The opportunity has been taken, while revising and bringing the book up to date, to examine more closely the legal and contractual framework within which claims are to be avoided, asserted and assessed. This is not intended to detract from the central purpose of the book, which is still to put the subject of claims in perspective, but rather (continuing the metaphor) by filling in the background to lend greater clarity to the main subject and improve the balance of the picture...read more

Discusses building stresses, falsework, lifting devices, ropes, ladders, wood construction, masonry, native homes, the pyramids, safety, and the cultural and physical aspects of architecture