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The Contractor's Legal Kit: The Complete User-Friendly Legal Guide for Home Builders and Remodelers
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3D Construction Modeling
3D Construction Modeling is a user friendly book that walks you through the construction process for a small house. It is not only practical but the only guide that shows you step-by-step how to build a construction model using SketchUp 4.0. The book and CD-ROM feature a trial version of the modeling software, video tutorials and real-world construction details in ten easy graphic lessons. This unique narrative is designed to introduce novices to key features of construction modeling as well as inform advanced users of the advantages of preconstruction visualization. 3D Construction Modeling uses an innovative, simple comic format to bring busy professionals and students up to speed and enhance productivity in a very short period of time..
Price: $50.00
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The Laminated Wood Boatbuilder: A Step-by-Step Guide for the Backyard Builder
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The Portland Cement Association's Guide to Concrete Homebuilding Systems
Your one-source guide to Concrete-Based Homebuilding Systems. Residential contractors, architects, and developers will welcome this first total guide to the latest concrete-based homebuilding systems (CBHSs). With lumber costs still on the rise after doubling the early '90s, The Portland Cement Association Guide to Concrete Homes, by Peter VanderWerf and W. Keith Munsel, can deliver, durable, cost-efficient, esthetically pleasing alternative building materials and construction methods. It's all spelled out in an authoritative sourcebook that explains and compares the various types of CBHSs and lists special materials and tools for building them--provides case histories of concrete homes already built and in use--and contains data vital to building professionals who want to learn tomorrow's techniques today..
Price: $24.99
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How I Built My Retreat Cabin in the Woods and Lived to Write About It: A Multi-Message Memoir with Tips & Techniques for the Do-It-Yourself Builder
If you have ever longed for a secluded place in which to "get away from it all," here is the book that will tell you what is required to make your dreams come true. Whether you want to build a hideaway just for escaping your crowded city during weekends, or you want to construct a country cabin in which to retire, you need to know beforehand exactly what you will face if you decide to do it all yourself. Read this book and learn from the author's experiences. For readers with little interest in the technical details of carpentry, the author has placed an "Interlude" after each chapter, effectively turning this volume into two books. The Interludes are accounts of experiences the author and his wife, Alma, had while pursuing their cabin-building quest. These sixteen, humorous, sometimes-poignant memories and observations offer unique insights into the pleasures and perils of rural life. The Interludes, alone, are worth the price of this book..
Price: $16.99
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Timber Construction for Architects and Builders
Written by one of the country's leading practitioners and authorities on timber architecture and construction, and featuring chapters by a top wood scientist and several renowned timber engineers, this book may well be the most complete and readable introductory guide ever prepared on modern timber construction. It offers you guidance on every phase of timber construction, from traditional joinery to contemporary materials, and from architectural details to construction strategies, including evaluation and rehabilitation of existing structures. Eminently readable and full of valuable advice, this book provides a conception-to-completion overview essential to anyone interested in or involved with timber construction..
Price: $360.36
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Residential Structure & Framing: Practical Engineering & Advanced Framing Techniques For Builders
Find practical engineering and advanced framing techniques for builders and remodelers. Advice on using the latest building materials and methods helps create strong, durable, high-quality structures.
Price: $20.74
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Communication Mosaics: An Introduction to the Field of Communication (with CD-ROM and Speech Builder Express™/InfoTrac®)
Julia Wood, a leading scholar in the field of communication, brings us a new edition of the extremely popular COMMUNICATION MOSAICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD OF COMMUNICATION. The new edition continues with the holistic approach to the field of communication by first explaining the basic processes central to all communication contexts (e.g. listening, perceiving, using verbal and nonverbal communication, establishing climate), and then applying these processes to various contexts (interpersonal, small group, public, organizational, intercultural, and mass communication). Through reviewer and student-praised "Student Voices" features, seamless and thoughtful integration of diversity, skill-building pedagogy and real-life examples, students are exposed to the vast world of communication and the tools needed to become effective communicators. This book will provide readers with a clear understanding of the fundamental skills and processes that are a part of the broad array of communication encounters in personal, professional and public life in the 21st century..
Price: $16.74
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