Builder's Essentials: Plan Reading & Material Takeoff

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A Complete Resource for Residential and Light Commercial Contractors -- based on the latest construction materials and methods.

Learn how to: * read and interpret building plans
* create an accurate takeoff, using a complete set of working drawings.

Each chapter covers a major construction division, such as concrete, masonry and carpentry -- and uses plans, details and tables to illustrate plan reading and takeoff procedures. A checklist for each material division helps ensure that nothing is left out of your takeoff.

Includes a complete set of residential plans from Home Planners, Inc., the nation's leading provider of home plans. With a detailed material takeoff, from site work to electrical.

With over 160 illustrations, including commercial construction details.

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great help.......2006-11-10

i did not know anything about building materials before and now i am an expert (well almost)

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Bummed in Marietta.......2004-05-20

I am very dissapointed with my book. The condition is ok, but it is an old library book with stickers and stamps throughout.

The best beginners primer on clay I have read........1999-07-17

This book is so complete. I have wanted to work in clay for some time but was a bit intimidated by the process. The clear and colorful photos of all steps with text that includes every detail makes this book perfect for me. I was impressed by the sheer creativity and number of projects that can be made just by handbuilding. I am wildly inspired. The whole book is so juicy!

Fun, informative and easy to understand........1999-04-22

I found this book packed with inspiration. Explains projects thoroughly and has lots of pictures as well. The projects are cute and fun to make. I think is a great book for a beginner.

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Body and Soul is a collection of striking black-and-white images of breast cancer survivors. It presents a thoroughly inspiring and original look at a critically important subject for millions of women.

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Captivates your soul.......2006-11-08

A look into the lives and hearts of real women around the world. Jean demonstrates that the strength and beauty of women transcends any challange that life may presents. She created a sisterhood of women across all walks of life and around the world.

An Uplifting & Beautiful Book!.......2004-10-15

Ms. Karotkin's powerful photographs truly capture the spirit of her subjects, whose stories of coping with breast cancer are told through brief vignettes. This is an inspiring, provocative book that challenges American ideals of physical perfection and redefines what it means to be beautiful. I imagine "Body & Soul" will resonate with anyone who has either experienced breast-cancer first-hand or known someone who has; but I hope that all those teenage girls who aren't happy with their bodies will also read this book and take its message to heart.

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The acclaimed civil rights leader Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) is brought vividly to life in this accessible and well-researched biography. Wells was a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and she helped black women win the right to vote. But what she is most remembered for is the success of her lifelong crusade against the practice of lynching--called by some "our nation's crime"--in the American South. She fought her battle by writing and publishing countless newspaper articles and by speaking around the world. Her outspokenness put her in grave danger many times over, but she would not be silenced, and today she is credited with ending lynching in the United States. Her story is one of courage and determination in the face of intolerance and injustice. AFTERWORD, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX.

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An early voice.......2005-10-24

Ida B. Wells needs to be better known among the American public. This book introduces her to middle and high school students, and it is very well done. She is one of the early voices in Civil Rights.

Ida B. Wells was an African-American woman of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She was born and grew up in the South, born in Mississippi during the Civil War. It is significant the impact of the legacy of slavery on her life -- she recounts how her parents, who were married as slaves, remarried each other as free persons after the war. Wells was a determined and intelligent woman -- her parents died while she was young, yet old enough to be left with the responsibility of her younger brothers and sisters. At the age of 14 she found herself at the head of a household with five younger children.

She worked hard to make sure that her education did not suffer, and eventually (a rarity for women of any colour in America at the time) went to work for a newspaper.

In an incident that foreshadowed Rosa Parks, she was once removed from a train for sitting in the wrong section, despite her ownership of a valid ticket for the seat. She sued the railroad and won (newspaper headlines read 'Darky Damsel Gets Damages' without concern for the racist tone), but the judgment was overturned on appeal, and she later discovered her lawyers had been paid off by the railroads, and the appellate judges had thought she was just being uppity to pursue the matter.

Such was the state of the African-American community that none came to her assistance as she pursued this fight. This made her more determined to organise and fight.

Several of her newspaper partners and other friends in Memphis were lynched for these efforts, and Wells was threatened herself, and left the South, but did not give up her crusade. Where ever she went, through cities and towns in the North as well as over to Europe (where, she said, she felt like she was treated as a real human being equal with others for the first time) she decried the injustice of laws which dismissed charges or gave light sentences if victims were coloured, and prosecuted more strongly, gave out harsher sentences, or even resorted to lynch mobs if the defendant (who was often not guilty) was coloured.

'She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena, and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given the history of the country.'

She continued speaking and publishing up to her death in 1931. She was never afraid of making herself unpopular, and often upset the African-American community by being critical of their complacency (especially the upper and middle classes). She became unpopular by standing against the military service during World War I, because of prejudicial and discriminatory practices, and never quite recovered in popular esteem from that.

But Wells had courage and determination that is rare in persons, male or female, of any colour, of any time, to take on such a task as the exposition and combat of lynching in the South during the post-Civil War decades. Talking directly with governors and even a president, Wells made her voice heard, and it was a difficult hearing in a difficult time.

True American Hero.......2002-10-22

It is a travesty that the name of Ida B. Wells-Barnett is not more widely known in the most common lists of American heroes. This great woman, though little in stature, was a giant in the fight for justice and racial equality in this country. This book was a very thorough look at the life of an early champion of the civil rights movement in America. After my chilren an I read about her being physically thrown off a railcar, sueing the railroad company and actually winning her lawsuit, we could not put the book down. Although many of the discriptions and photographs were gruesome, they offered a realistic and brutally honest look at the horrors of lynching. I would recommend this book for sixth grade and up.

Eye-opening, vivid, highly recommended!.......2000-05-09

Grades 5 and up will find this an excellent biographicalcoverage of the mother of the civil rights movement, providing 178pages packed with facts and black and white illustrations. Thisexamines the life and times of Ida Wells, considering her early years, her civil rights campaign, and her anti-lynching campaign which succeeded in nearly abolishing the popular practice. An eye-opening account of not only her life, but her times. Highly recommended and vivid.

An Absolutely Outstanding Biography of an Amazing Woman.......2000-05-08

If you are not familiar with Ida B. Wells and her work, by allmeans become so immediately. I will be recommending this book toeveryone I know, and I am a children's and young adult librarian. Ida B. Wells is one of the greatest Americans of all time, and most of us have never heard of her. What she did to better the lives of African-Americans and, especially, to stop lynching, is moving, stirring, and heartbreaking. I never knew that people were burned at the stake in the USA, but they certainly were--and the crowds who came to see them die were happy to have so much fun watching "the nigger burn". A great book.

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Here are the very latest sniper training tactics and techniques as taught by the U.S. Army. Chapters cover equipment, marksmanship, field techniques, mission preparation, sniper operations, field communications, tracking/countertracking and sustained training skills. Also includes an in-depth look at sniper weapons of the world and the M21 Sniper Weapon System.

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Highly Recommened.......2007-07-28

Well organized and to the point. Good for basic sniping info and alot of info regarding other sniper related skills such as building a radio antena and necessary checklists for the field. Not up to date. It is still a wealth of info and a great reference and a nice volume for the library.

FM 23-10 Get it.......2007-03-08

Readable text with practical tips for marksmanship and field crafts. Get it.

Perfect.......2002-09-18

It is an exellant sorce for hunters, rifleman, and people who would like to become a hunter or sniper!

Sniper FM 23-10.......2002-03-16

An ok reading. I would reccomend the Military and Police Sniper first

REVIEW OF "FM 23-10 SNIPER TRAINING".......2002-03-13

This book is a good source of information about basic high-power rifle shooting, basic use of telescopic sights, basic marksmanship, basic field craft, that can be applied to hunting medium and big game animals. However the lesson-plan format which the information is presented is hard to follow. But the information is there and can be effectivly used if the reader has some patients.

U.S. Army Sniper Training FM 23-10 CD-ROM

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U.S. Army Sniper Training FM 23-10 CD-ROM
U.S. Army
Manufacturer: Pentagon Publishing
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Binding: CD-ROM

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ASIN: 1601700091

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This field manual provides information needed to train and equip snipers and to aid them in their missions and operations. It is intended for use by commanders, staffs, trainers, snipers, and soldiers at training posts, Army schools and units. This manual is organized as a reference for snipers and leads the trainer through the material needed to conduct sniper training. Subjects include equipment, weapon capabilities, fundamentals of marksmanship and ballistics, field skills, mission planning, and skill sustainment. The left-handed firer can become a sniper, but all material in this book is referenced to the right-handed firer.

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Crowded within the insular world of 1988 East Berlin, their lives conducted amid the cracks in the German Democratic Republic's approved social vision, the nine subjects interviewed in this book formed a loose social network. Ten years later and in a different German state, the stories they tell restore subjective experience to our historical grasp of communism and its collapse. The interviewees include Otto Emersleben, Frank Hörnigk, Ljuba Kirjuchina, Bernd Wedel, Heike Wedel, Peter Graetz, Christoph Hein, Gerlinde Salomon and Thomas Braun.

This work preserves the English expressions verbatim and indicates them with bold-face type. German expressions of particular interest are retained in the text and indicated by italics. At the end of the book there is a comprehensive glossary that includes explanations of geographic, biographical, and historical references made by the interviewees.

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This book examines Sir Joseph Banks' role in promoting "imperial science," in the context of the consolidation of the British State during a time of extraordinary upheaval. Under pressure from the American, French and Industrial revolutions, the State became interested in the possible uses of science for economic and strategic gain. Banks became its principal adviser in scientific matters, and Gascoigne shows how he used personal networks and patronage to integrate scientific concerns into the complex machinery of government.

Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: Journal of Australian Studies

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Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: Journal of Australian Studies
Simon Ryan
Manufacturer: University of Queensland Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B00098KJ86
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Australian Studies, published by University of Queensland Press on September 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1173 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution.(Review) (book reviews)
Author: Simon Ryan
Publication: Journal of Australian Studies (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1998
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Page: 187(1)

Article Type: Book Review

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Science in the Service of Empire: Sir Joseph Banks, The British State, and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution.(Review) (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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Science in the Service of Empire: Sir Joseph Banks, The British State, and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution.(Review) (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Richard Drayton
Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on December 1, 2000. The length of the article is 420 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Science in the Service of Empire: Sir Joseph Banks, The British State, and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution.(Review) (book review)
Author: Richard Drayton
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2000
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 35 Issue: 3 Page: 557

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