Habla Espanol?: Essentials Edition

Edward Allen

Reference

Harcourt School

A serio-comic novel about a young man who once wore blue chambray work shirts, was skinny, and knew things beyond question, and who now wonders about flesh and love, despair and food, and anger.

Straight Through the Night

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin

Instead of relying on the usual price elasticity technique, this book combines economic and engineering analysis to study economic growth and energy demands to the year 2000. It asserts that future energy demand will be determined by two basic factors--the gross national product (GNP) and the efficiency with which energy is used to produce this output in the household, commercial, industrial, and transport sectors of the economy. Labor hours multiplied by a productivity factor results in the GNP. This study predicts that, in the long run, productivity in the United States will recover most of the sharp losses registered in the past five years. The study points out the decelerating population growth, the higher number of women in the labor force, and new investments as having an influence on this situation. After projecting the size and composition of each of the four energy consuming sectors that account for the total GNP. Energy and Economic Growth estimates efficiency improvements for each. It shows, for example, that higher levels of thermal insulation will reduce sharply energy needs for household heating and cooling. Similarly, the study notes that improvements in energy consumption per dollar of output can be made for each of the energy intensive manufacturing industries, nothing that although the savings in energy are significant, none is a consequence of pushing improvements to known technological limits. Finally, the book establishes the price elasticities that are inherent in the calculated energy requirements and checks these against elasticity estimates made by other researchers.

Energy and Economic Growth in the United States

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

The MIT Press

Remember grade-school workbooks where you completed the problems and exercises right on the page? Teach Yourself to Build is a more sophisticated sort of workbook that quickly and directly involves the student or do-it-yourselfer in designing the architectural forms of simple buildings in various materials. It allows readers simultaneously to select appropriate structural systems, lay out structural plans, choose finish materials, develop construction details, and in general to perform many of the major design tasks necessary to make the building a reality.  Beginning with a simple lesson on drawing freehand to scale, Teach Yourself to Build presents some basic criteria for deciding on a structural system, outlines a simple procedure for laying out framing, gives worked examples of stair, dimensional, and board footage calculations, and teaches the rationale of concrete framing systems, steel connections, and masonry spanning devices. With the help of these instructions, the student is soon designing a steel-frame office tower, a wood-frame retail establishment, an all-brick house, a classroom building of reinforced concrete, and a large museum of fire-resistant construction.  Teach Yourself to Build contains exercises in all the major systems of construction—wood, masonry, steel, and concrete. These cover dozens of skills which are indispensible to the designer, from choosing a structural system to working with major building code provisions. Naturally, this workbook should be accompanied in its use by standard reference books on construction; however, it gives information on many topics which are not covered elsewhere in print.  Entirely handwritten and illustrated by the authors, the exercises in Teach Yourself to Build have been used and tested in classrooms and studios at MIT. The student edition of the book is perforated and punched so that pages can be removed for grading and reassembled in a standard three-ring binder, while the other edition has a regular paperback binding suitable for reference and self-instruction.

Teach Yourself to Build

Arts & Photography

Gale Beth Goldberg

Architecture

Teach Yourself to Build - Student Edition

Designed for an introductory survey course in building construction, this text deals with the common materials of building and the methods by which they are incorporated into buildings. Written by a former MIT architectural member, it features clear, direct writing and simple, local organization based on the well-known CSI format. The book covers all of the most common construction systems and materials, including light wood frame, masonry bearing wall, steel frame, and reinforced concrete. Included are over 400 line drawings and 300 photographs.

Fundamentals Of Building Construction

Allen, Edward

Joseph Iano

Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

Form and Forces: Designing Efficient, Expressive Structures

Wiley Professional Development (P&T)

The Architect's Studio Companion: Rules of Thumb for Preliminary Design

John Wiley&Sons

Instructor's Manual to Accompany 'Fundamentals of Building Construction, Materials and Methods, Fourth Edition'

John Wiley and Sons

How Buildings Work: The Natural Order of Architecture

Oxford University Press

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