Media Studies: Texts, Institutions and Audiences

This textbook provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field of media studies. Written by two highly experienced lecturers, the volume covers media texts, media institutions and audiences and the media

Humor & Entertainment

Taylor, Lisa

Willis, Andrew

Television

Wiley/Blackwell

This textbook provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field of media studies. Written by two highly experienced lecturers, the volume covers media texts, media institutions and audiences and the media

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

By use of checklists, this book provides a practical tool for the building specifier. This new edition features changes to specification classifications (resulting from revisions to the Common Arrangement and SMM7) and the latest British Standards and Codes of Practice.

Specification Writing: For Architects and Surveyors

Arts & Photography

Willis, C. J.

Architecture

The Architect in Practice

Engineering & Transportation

Chappell, David

Engineering

Blackwell Science Inc.

The history books will add the Bre-X saga to other legendary frauds like the South Sea Bubble. When the Bre-X bubble burst, the stock that had soared from fifty cents in 1994 to the equivalent of $286 in 1996 was worth nine cents in May 1997, before trading halted forever. And the Busang deposit, supposedly as much as 200 million ounces of gold, worth about $70 billion U.S. – the biggest gold find in history – was actually the century’s biggest fraud. How did this happen, right under the noses of the financial world? In this book the experienced investigative team from The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business that broke the story of Bre-X’s troubles has combined forces to answer that question. With literally hundreds of Bre-X interviews behind them, and drawing on resources from several continents, they have been able to explain the twists and turns of this complex tale. The result is a fascinating true story that reads like the wildest fiction.

The Bre-X Fraud

Business & Money

Goold, Douglas

Investing

MCCLELLAND STEWART

The measurement of building elements is a core subject for quantity surveying students. Responding to the recently published second volume of the New Rules of Measurement (NRM2) by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the 12th edition of Willis's Elements of Quantity Surveying explains, from first principles and to NRM2 standards, the measurement process for all the key building elements. This edition begins with an overview of the need for measurement and the differing rules governing measurement at different stages of the design or project cycle. As in previous editions the focus remains the detailed measurement of building elements, but the text has been fully revised in line with the NRM2 rules. A range of new and revised examples illustrating the use of NRM2 rules are a key feature of the book, which concludes with guidance on how to use the data collected during the measurement process to create the tender documents. In the 12th edition the hallmarks of previous editions – clarity and practicality – have been maintained while ensuring the book is fully up to date, providing the student of quantity surveying with a first class introduction to the measurement of building elements.

Willis's Elements of Quantity Surveying

Lee, Sandra

Trench, William

This classic text has long provided the student of architecture and the young practitioner with a readable guide to the profession, outlining an architect's duties to client and contractor, the key aspects of running a building contract, and the essentials of management, finance and drawing office procedure. The Ninth Edition has again been thoroughly revised to bring it up to date. Revisions include new planning and building regulation requirements, changes in architectural education, the latest RIBA Code of Conduct and form of architects' appointment, new legislation on limited liability partnerships, changes to the standard forms of contract, and adjudication.

Science & Math

Technology

The measurement of building elements is a core subject for all quantity surveying students and this classic text, first published in 1935 under the authorship of Arthur J. Willis, sets down the measurement process from first principles and covers the main building elements. It also considers computerised measurement techniques using standard descriptions.  For the tenth edition greater explanation has been added to the measured examples and a chapter on steel framing has been added. Different approaches to measurement have been included to reflect the use of schedules and spreadsheets in practice including computer data entry.

The Architect in Practice was first published in 1952. Originally written by a quantity surveyor and an architect it has remained, through its nine editions, a leading textbook used in the education of architects world-wide. While the format of the book has developed, the message and philosophy remains the same as the original: to provide the student of architecture and the young practitioner with a readable guide to the profession, outlining an architect's duties to client and contractor, the key aspects of running a building contract, and the essentials of management, finance and drawing office procedure. The tenth edition follows in that tradition. The authors, still an architect and a quantity surveyor, have brought the text fully up to date. Major revisions in this edition include: <ul>
<li>Revised sections on Planning and the Building Regulations</li> <li>Changes to the education of architects in the UK have been detailed</li> <li>Discussion of the new ARB Architects Code: Standards of Professional Conduct and Practice which came into force in January 2010</li> <li>The commentary on the RIBA Standard Form for the Appointment of an Architect 1999 (SFA/99) has been updated</li> <li>The latest RIBA Standard Agreement 2010 (S-10-A) is now discussed</li> <li>All references to JCT contracts have been updated to refer to the latest revisions of the 2005 suite of contracts</li> <li>Now also includes reference to education, registration and CPD requirements of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland</li> </ul>
The tenth edition of The Architect in Practice will continue to provide the guidance and advice all students and practising architects need in the course of their studies and in their profession.

Willis's Elements of Quantity Surveying has become a standard text in the teaching of building measurement – a core part of the curriculum for quantity surveyors. Particularly in the latter editions it has eclipsed the other books on building measurement, partly because of the heritage, but mostly because of the logical approach and copious use of examples to guide the student. The new 11th edition has been fully updated to recognise the introduction of the New Rules of Measurement (NRM) by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), which reflect the way the modern QS works and provide a standard set of measurement rules that are understandable by all those involved in a construction project. Key features: <ul>
<li>First published in 1935, has been used by many generations of quantity surveyors and lecturers</li> <li>New edition fully updated to include the RICS new rules of measurement (NRM)</li> <li>Many examples updated to reflect current QS practice</li> <li>Revisers have extensive experience of teaching the subject through College of Estate Management courses</li> </ul>

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Media Studies: Texts, Institutions and Audiences

Media Studies: Texts, Institutions and Audiences

Specification Writing: For Architects and Surveyors

The Architect in Practice

The Bre-X Fraud

Willis's Elements of Quantity Surveying

The Architect in Practice

Willis's Elements of Quantity Surveying

The Architect in Practice

Willis's Elements of Quantity Surveying