If you practice building renovation, rehabilitation, or preservation, you need to understand the specifics of obsolete construction in order to work in a nondestructive and unobtrusive manner.Historical Building Construction encourages the design of "elegant" and safe solutions to the structural problems caused by changes in use, changes in architectural design, or changes in the mechanical plant. It enables modern engineers to understand what assumptions their predecessors made, what materials they used, how they designed structures, and how their designs were built. Architects renovating older buildings, while not usually responsible for structural design, need to understand the design restrictions forced on them by the original structures. A guide to the physical construction of buildings from the 1840s to the present, Historical Building Construction uses narrative, drawings, and photographs to describe the development of masonry, wood, and steel construction, modern curtain walls and concrete slabs, and the use of cast iron and patented floor construction. It provides case histories to show how this information is applied to actual projects, ranging from brownstones to skyscrapers. In order to show a consistent and well-documented set of examples evolving in chronological order, New York City is used as model, since many examples of obsolete forms are still available for examination. The general information given applies, with few exceptions, to buildings of the same types built all over the United States during the same period, and these are referenced as needed. Every designer who works on old structures or studies them will find in Historical Building Construction help in the process of analyzing existing conditions in a building and suggestions for dealing with what lies hidden behind floor, wall, and ceiling finishes.

Historical Building Construction: Design, Materials, and Technology

Arts & Photography

Friedman, Donald

Architecture

W.W.Norton&Company

A guide to renovation design for architects and engineers. The design of renovations is like any other building design, but more complicated, because the questions that architects and engineers face in the process are complicated by the existing building's form, materials, peculiarities of age, and construction. The Design of Renovations outlines the basic pertinent principles of design and construction and explains how to apply them to renovation that meets the physical and aesthetic needs of the job, given the constraints of the materials involved. Dozens of actual case studies illustrate the practical application of the theory, methods, and procedures.

The Design of Renovations (Norton Professional Book)

Oppenheimer, Nathaniel

An essential reference for building professionals, owners, managers, and individuals planning to purchase or renovate a building An experienced investigator explains why buildings should be inspected, what to look for, how to do it, when to hire a professional, and how to understand what architects and engineers are talking about once a survey has been carried out. The scope includes ordinary wood-frame houses and small commercial structures as well as larger buildings. Illustrated

The Investigation of Buildings: A Guide for Architects, Engineers, and Owners (Norton Professional Book)

Winner of the Association for Preservation Technology (APT) 2012 Lee Nelson Book Award, this book is an updated edition of the classic text detailing the ins and outs of old building construction. A comprehensive guide to the physical construction of buildings from the 1840s to the present, this study covers the history of concrete- , steel- , and skeleton-frame buildings, provides case histories that apply the information to a wide range of actual projects, and supplies technical data essential to professionals who work with historic structures. 157 photos and drawings

Farbman is a hustling New York lawyer with a shiska wife and two kids, living beyond his financial and emotional means. Dunned by his creditors and distressed by an undiagnosed malaise of the soul, Farbman embodies the conflict between our altruistic impulse to help others and our selfish desire to elbow our way to the front of the line. The novel begins on Forty-Second Street in New York City. Farbman is on his way to an out-of-town funeral. He is rushing from a meeting with his unforgiving banker, to his chaotic office, to his parents' home, and then to the airport. Running late, Farbman considers canceling the trip, but doesn't. After the funeral, his lust for a fellow mourner leads him to an encounter with a mystic rabbi. The Hand Before the Eye is the often comic story of a contemporary man. With energetic and ironic prose, Donald Friedman take us into Farbman's world of law and medicine. Through Job-like suffering, Farbman gains enlightenment, learns the spiritual lessons of justice and healing. Finally , he understands that the good life offers us two true gifts: meaningful work and the love of another.

The Hand Before the Eye

Literature & Fiction

Mid-List Press

A literary mystery told in two braided narratives, opens with the unexplained explosion of Albert Snaedeker, a psychiatrist, on the operating table during routine surgery. His cousin, a magazine publisher, assigns reporter and sometime novelist, Owen Berk, to investigate. Berk not only pursues the whodunnit, howdunnit questions but, intrigued by the bizarre death and the people surrounding it, turns them into characters in a new novel. In it, Snaedeker's surgeon's depressed wife has an imagined flowering when she is indoctrinated into the world of S/M. We read Berk's novel in alternating chapters with the framing novel until they converge and Berk falls in love with the now-divorced wife of the surgeon, wondering how much of his passion is for her, how much for the fantasy figure he has turned her into.

Corrupted Humours: A Novel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

BookBaby

Volume 2 of the Proceedings of the Fifth International Construction History Congress, held in Chicago in June 2015. The volume contains general information about the congress, keynote addresses, and the second third of the papers presented.

5ICCH Proceedings Volume 2

Leslie, Thomas

Bowen, Brian

History

lulu.com

Still Phyllis: A Caregiver's Memoir of Dementia and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Medical Books

Nursing

Toplight Books

The clever and charmingly illustrated 94-page book that every one of the 78 million pet dogs in this country will want to get for his person! Inside You’re My Dawg, Dog you’ll find 146 dog terms, idioms, proverbs and metaphors explained for people. On a single page you will find quotes from Shakespeare and Rihanna, Pre-Socratic philosophers, Black Sabbath and the NASDAQ. You’re My Dawg, Dog gives us fascinating etymologies and vivid examples of familiar phrases like “dog days”, “dogfight”, “Dogfish”, and the “dog collar” worn by clergymen. Colorful dog terms are defined, like “black dog” which was Churchill’s nickname for his bouts of depression, “tough dog to keep on the porch”—Hillary’s descriptive for Bill, and “doggie style,” which the author drily explains is not “Vogue for Airedales and Cocker Spaniels.” Not just a book for dog lovers, but also for readers and word-lovers. Seventy-five men and women randomly surveyed were uniformly enthusiastic upon reading a draft of You’re My Dawg, Dog. Visit the Praise page at www.welcomebooks.com/dawg for more quotes: BY DONALD FRIEDMAN ILLUSTRATIONS BY J.C. SUARÈS “Loved it! Great idea that should appeal widely. Illustrations are fun, funny and first-rate.” — Massachusetts speechwriter with Golden Retriever “Shows how dogs possess our language as they possess our souls. If only we knew what they call us. A wonderful book.” — Theater producer with a much-loved stray rescued in 1997 “Simple, but brilliant idea—pulled off marvelously.” — Berkeley clinical psychologist with Portuguese Water Dog “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” —Groucho Marx

You're My Dawg, Dog: A Lexicon of Dog Terms for People

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

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Historical Building Construction: Design, Materials, and Technology

The Design of Renovations (Norton Professional Book)

The Investigation of Buildings: A Guide for Architects, Engineers, and Owners (Norton Professional Book)

Historical Building Construction: Design, Materials, and Technology

The Hand Before the Eye

Corrupted Humours: A Novel

5ICCH Proceedings Volume 2

Still Phyllis: A Caregiver's Memoir of Dementia and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

You're My Dawg, Dog: A Lexicon of Dog Terms for People