Provides structural engineers, architects, contractors, and professionals who are only occasionally engaged in building design and construction, with samples of contract drawings for commercial construction projects that illustrate the necessary structural details. Explains what should be shown and specified, and the conventions for doing so in accompanying text and notes. Covers foundations, concrete, masonry, steel, and timber. Assumes readers already know how to render the drawings, either by hand or computer. No bibliography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Structural Details Manual

Arts & Photography

Williams, David R.

Architecture

McGraw=Hill

Tired of correcting the same mistakes year after year, hoarse from endless repetition of the same rules, at long last frustrated by the inability of students to grasp his words of wisdom, Professor David Williams has put it all down in a book: the dirty truth about what college professors and other teachers are really looking for as they grade student papers. Outrageous and wise, Sin Boldly! goes where no other how-to-write handbook has dared go before. Personal, perceptive, and purposefully provocative, this book offers students crucial advice on the entire writing process. From choosing a paper topic to adopting a persuasive voice, shaping an argument, and organizing an essay; from political correctness (or lack thereof) to matters of style, punctuation, and usage, Sin Boldly! is crammed with information, ideas, and examples that will entertain and instruct even the most confident students in their quest for the A+ they all think they deserve.

Sin Boldly! Dr. Dave's Guide to Writing the College Paper

Reference

Williams, Dave

Words, Language & Grammar

Basic Books

This book discusses, in relatively simple language, the importance of even minute amounts of certain trace elements for the protection of human health and how insufficiency or excess may produce serious diseases. It also examines the use of metal chelators in the treatment of such diseases.

Trace Elements Medicine and Chelation Therapy (RSC Paperbacks)

Taylor, David M.

Royal Society of Chemistry, [

Searching for God in the Sixties

This paradigm-breaking book dares to rethink the whole of the '60s experience, not from a political or sociological but from an historical/theological perspective. Camille Paglia wrote that "the spiritual history of the sixties has yet to be written." This is that book. Since the Old Testament was replaced by the New, we have had in Western culture a constant back and forth between the law and the spirit, between the establishment and the awakening, between the rational head and the irrational heart. If the '50s were all structure, the '60s were another romantic effort to escape the control of the rational and give full vent to the repressed spirit. Who are we, anyhow, when all the lies are stripped away? The romantics of the '60s, like the Transcendentalists, rejecting the very idea of sin, dared to open the cage and let the repressed id come forth, only to find that the light at the end of the long dark tunnel of consciousness was the gleam in Charlie Manson's eye. With the election of Barack Obama, the Sixties has finally ended, not because he fulfills the ideals of that decade, but because he, like Jojo, has returned us to where we once belonged. Bush may not be the last hippy, but his approach to life, to governing, purely intuitive and from the gut, a rejection of his father's rationality, was the last breaking wave of that ocean storm. Paradoxically, Bush was much more like Bill Clinton in being led by his id, his passions, than any true conservative. The book's chapters each correspond to a line in Emily Dickinson's poem "Finding is the first act." The parallel to Dickinson's experience in the psychic wilderness demonstrates just how much the experience of the '60s was part of an ongoing American story and not an aberration. Though it seems contradictory, this book argues for an appreciation of the three '60s: 1960s, 1860s, 1660s, each a chapter of the religious core of the American story. The central theme of the decade, a romantic rebellion against neo-orthodox cynicism, may well have been a mistake, but a necessary mistake, a correction that had to be made. Postmodernism's rejection of the essential romanticism that drove that decade, its emphasis on contingency and absence, is but another signifier for our powerlessness in the hands of an angry God. The enemy turned out to be not them, nor the social structure, but us. Hence the final line of the Dickinson poem: "Jason sham too."

History

Americas

UNKNO

The man for a new country: Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie

Gray's Pub

Mayor Gerry: The remarkable Gerald Grattan McGeer

Douglas&McIntyre

I know the pain of saying "good-bye" to someone you love. It's awful. The pain is real. The lonely Christmases, the empty birthdays, and the weary holidays all serve as gruesome reminders that your loved one is gone. The feelings are real. The emotions are intense. Feelings and emotions are not dependable or accurate most of the time, but God's Word is. 
This book is written for you. It will help you get close to God so you can let Him help you through the sadness and mourning over your loved one. But don't invite the spirit of grief into your life. 
Grief is not the same as mourning. Your mourning is simply an outward expression of an inward pain. Your mourning will turn to dancing!

Grief and Mourning

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Decapolis Books

Your pastor loves you and spends countless hours praying for you and preparing fresh meals from God's Word for you. In this book you will learn how the pastor - the man of God - is an important key to your personal wealth, and how by honoring him, you can actually be setting yourself up for a financial blessing from God. Honor your pastor, esteem him, value him, appreciate him, and love him. Look for ways to bless him, and the blessing will come to you as well.

Your Pastor: A Key To Your Personal Wealth

Business & Money

Personal Finance

Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/G. Dust jacket is edge chipped and scuffed; covered with mylar.

Wilderness Lost: The Religious Origins of the American Mind

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Susquehanna Univ Pr

The Enterprising Musician's Guide to Performer Contracts

The Enterprising Musician’s Guide to Performer Contracts is an empowering resource that provides detailed, plain-language explanations of the clauses commonly found in legal agreements such as engagement (gig) contracts, artist-management contracts, and producer agreements. Musicians from all musical styles will be able to decipher contracts offered to them and improve terms to their benefit. In clear detail, David Williams dissects the most common clauses in performer contracts, revealing how to avoid pitfalls and properly amend content to address each musician’s needs. Seasoned performers, emerging artists, and music students of all levels will find this handy volume an invaluable compendium of conflict-free guidance as they navigate their careers in the music industry.

Music

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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