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The definitive guide to understanding and managing the effects of water on buildings
Water in Buildings: An Architect's Guide to Moisture and Mold is a detailed and highly useful reference to help architects and other design professionals create dry, healthy environments, without jeopardizing a project with poor liability management. Much more than a book of "quick fixes," this practical guide illuminates an essential understanding of the "whys" of moisture problems, including valuable information on how water behaves and how its performance can be anticipated and managed in building design.
With a special emphasis on water's role in creating mold, an issue of growing concern and liability, Water in Buildings offers the most up-to-date information on rainwater management, below-grade water management, foundations, wall and roof construction, mechanical systems, moisture, and much more! Providing authoritative guidance to designers and builders, this definitive guide features:
* Clear explanations of how water interacts with building materials and equipment
* An in-depth exploration of the paths of leaks
* Numerous case studies on such well-known structures as Mount Vernon, Independence Hall, and Wingspan (Frank Lloyd Wright)
* Numerous descriptive drawings and photographs
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An excellent resource; an entertaining read.......2006-01-13
Bill Rose has truly outdone himself in penning this text. With a conversational style, and laced with amusing anecdotes, Rose clarifies the fine points of a technically sophisticated topic: how does water interact with the built environment?
This book is a must-read not only for architects, but for home inspectors, engineers, industrial hygienists, and others involved in the investigation of water damage in buildings.
6 stars ******
Bravo!
Wane A. Baker, P.E., CIH
MICHAELS ENGINEERING INC.
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Steinberg's classic work covers the history of printing with movable type in the following periods: the creative century from 1450-1550 which witnessed the invention and beginnings of practically every single feature that characterizes the modern printing piece, the era of consolidation from 1550-1800, the 19th century in which the era of mechanization began the invention of lithography and ended with Morris's rediscovery of the Middle Ages, the heyday of the private presses from 1900-1950 and finally, the postwar world. Co-published with The British Library.
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Five hundred years of Czech printing
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- Stunning photography of Greek Island architecture
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White Motif: The Cyclades Islands of Greece
Howard Bond
Manufacturer: Goodrich Press
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Stunning photography of Greek Island architecture.......1997-02-13
Stunning large-format black-and-white photographs of buildings and people in the Greek Islands. The often minimalistic images eloquently capture the spirit of the islands and their inhabitants. Highly recommended for lovers of Greece, Mediterranean architecture and fine-art photography
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Tamsin Cates, bored high school student, and her fox spirit friend, Kitsune, skip school and tangle with makeovers, Valentine's Day, tropical islands, pirates, and giant monkeys.
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Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly MacCarthy : A Biography
Hugh Cecil , and
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ASIN: 0575036222 |
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In 1969, Mark Edmundson was a typical high school senior in working-class Medford, Massachusetts. He loved football, disdained schoolwork, and seemed headed for a factory job in his hometown—until a maverick philosophy teacher turned his life around.
When Frank Lears, a small, nervous man wearing a moth-eaten suit, arrived at Medford fresh from Harvard University, his students pegged him as an easy target. Lears was unfazed by their spitballs and classroom antics. He shook things up, trading tired textbooks for Kesey and Camus, and provoking his class with questions about authority, conformity, civil rights, and the Vietnam War. He rearranged seats and joined in a ferocious snowball fight with Edmundson and his football crew. Lears’s impassioned attempts to get these kids to think for themselves provided Mark Edmundson with exactly the push he needed to break away from the lockstep life of Medford High. Written with verve and candor,
Teacher is Edmundson’s heartfelt tribute to the man who changed the course of his life.
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The Student Becomes the Teacher.......2007-10-20
Mark Edmundson's book has received mixed reviews, but I found it to be refreshing, enlightening, and inspiring. He relates his high school self in an open, forthright way, revealing his ignorance, his oppositional, immature (even for a 17-year-old) behavior, and his preoccupation with shallow, insignificant pastimes. I think that aptly describes most high school seniors. He and his classmates conspired together to undermine any teacher who attempted to do interfere with the intellectual malaise of the school. The few students who were actually interested in education were ridiculed and despised. This was to change as a small class met day after day with an amazing teacher who changed the classroom dynamic and in doing so, successfully altered the way his students listened, thought, reacted, interacted, learned, and even the way they lived.
This change was not an accidental happenstance. It was a well-planned strategy. As the students persistently refused to read the literature for their homework, the Teacher read it aloud in class. He used Socrates' example, posing questions for them to answer, or at least to think about. Unfortunately, his initial efforts produced little fruit. As a result, he changed the seating in the classroom to allow for open exchange of ideas. He raised the question of an important experiment by a man named Milgram, which involved testing the willingness of people of different nationalities to use electrical shocks on people in order to produce desired results on a memory task. This exercise interested the students and opened up the first real discussion. A few weeks later, the Teacher led the class in a similar experiment involving one of their own. Using these unusual but brilliant methods, he showed his students "the pleasure and pain of sticking to your way, of seeing things as truly as a human being can". To quote a familiar adage, he dared them to be different.
His next ploy was to throw out the curriculum and introduce a collection of books that would teach them to question authority, to recognize herd behavior, and empower them to make educated choices. He encouraged them to examine themselves, to explore their deepest thoughts and beliefs and allow themselves to be free from illusions. The Teacher then invited a group of representatives from Students for a Democratic Society to visit the class, and as a result had students actually skipping other classes so they could sit in on his class. The visitors were against the Vietnam conflict, and vociferously against the unnamed perpetrators who had oppressed native Americans, enslaved African Americans, and continued to exploit Filipinos, the Vietnamese, and other "poor, inconvenient people who lay between the arrogant republic and its hunger for more". The author reveals that the Teacher was "nearly gleeful" the day his class was visited by "commies", because people who usually did not think were thinking, and people who did not usually talk were actively discussing issues. He wasn't interested in swaying the students to any particular viewpoint, he just wanted to stimulate them to have a viewpoint.
When the students came to his next class, the Teacher found them drowsy and again unmovable, so he invited them outside into the snow, where he began a spirited snowball fight. The upshot was what author Mary Pipher calls "a moment", with everyone panting, laughing, drenched with cold, wet, snow, but filled with life. The Teacher was again triumphant, because from this time forward the class began to change.
The students began to be interested in the Teacher as a person, even as they realized that he was aware of them as individuals. He introduced a variety of music, including current rock and roll compositions, as another format for stimulating analytical thought and intelligent discussions. Students who never asked or answered questions in any classes began to interact. They were still working their way through his series of books by reading aloud in class, so the Teacher used diverse means to pry open the cobwebbed minds of his group. He believed that if you impelled people to be boldly imaginative, and rigorously discerning, they could affect positive change in their lives. A turning point came when the questions were not related to the meaning of a book, but moved forward to inquire about the truth of that meaning, and whether there were life-changing truths to be found like gold nuggets and used to guide, to refine, to transform.
I admire the way the Teacher showed his students by his example that it was not just okay but important and necessary to be unique, an individual, to be aware of which matters are weighty, and which are shallow, to be knowledgeable and affect change with words rather than your fists, to be unfailingly honest, to be accepting of others' opinions, feelings, and thoughts, to really listen, to challenge your students with large words and larger questions, concepts, and ideals, to teach them to create their own path to freedom and their own particular culture that is true to who they are. The author acknowledged that by being a student of this Teacher, his life was made infinitely richer. By writing this book, he has passed the torch on to countless others.
The author encourages the reader not just to emulate the Teacher, which is a given, but also to recognize the pitfalls inherent in the educational system ("The content of these exercises mattered not at all. All that mattered was form - repetition and form. You filled in the blanks, conjugated, declined, diagrammed, defined, outlined, summarized, recapitulated, positioned, graphed."), which result in teaching loads of information, perhaps producing higher SAT scores, but achieving very little in the way of impact on the future. Masses of students graduate year after year, but how many are able to think freely for themselves, read to analyze their beliefs, and avidly seek to find their true North? Edmundson reminds us that in order to be a great teacher, it is necessary to have kindness, but also to have an edge, in the spirit of Socrates, Confucius, and Jesus Christ. Teachers must be willing to lead by example, to be antagonistic if necessary, and above all, to tell the truth.
Although the chapters about football and beer-drinking and chasing after girls were, I suppose, necessary to demonstrate the "before" and "after", those portions were geared to the masculine mind and therefore were rather difficult for me to digest. I also thought it was a shame that he and his father did not maintain a good relationship when it was obvious how much his father loved him. It took many years and the author becoming a father himself before he understood the irony of their relationship, with his father taking the back seat as the author's life became more vital; and also of his father realizing what he might have been when he visited Yale, where Edmundson was pursuing a graduate degree. In reporting all of this openly and honestly, Edmundson teaches us yet another lesson. All in all, this author has produced a winner.
Students and Teachers.......2006-04-18
Before reading this book, I assumed it was about an excellent teacher in whom the children connected with. After completing the book, I realized it told of the struggles of a high school senior and his reform with the help of his teacher, Mr. Lears. Told from the first point of view, Mark Edmundson shows how no child has to fail. I do not reccomend this book to college level students, though I do reccomend it to the younger audience. Teachers having difficulty in their own classes may find this book inspirational and helpful.
Teacher The One Who Made The Difference.......2006-04-18
The book that I just finished reading "Teacher The One Who Made The Difference" by Mark Edmundson was an average book. At first when I bought the book I thought that it would be interesting and enjoyable to read but it was not really interesting at all.There were so many ideas that were hard to follow, and it did not talk particulary about the teacher and how he changed his life.I would not recommned it to anyone, but if you like to read for pleasure and you have time you certainly can. There were some chapters that keep you interested but there were some that you just do not want to read. Overall it had a nice ending.
Jay's Wicked Awsome Review ! ! ! : ).......2006-04-18
This book was an enjoyable story, but it had many points that did not hold my attention. I also could not find much interest in the book due to the fact that it was a tedious story. Many points got boring and I would have trouble concentrating. This is just an average book. I would only reccomend it to a middle-school reader.
Not Enough Life.......2006-04-18
I think that this book was fairly interesting. It didn't have enough rivetting thoughts to keep the reader interested. Even though I was unhappy about the book, it's still a good read. I think that this book would be appropriate for a much younger audience, an age group of ten to sixteen.
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This digital document is an article from Phi Delta Kappan, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 3386 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: Books for Summer Reading.(Chronicles, Volume One)(Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference)(One Hundred Years of Solitude)(By the Lake of the Sleeping Children)(The Dante Club)(The Wild Colonial Boy)(Shadow of the Wind)(Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China)(Sightings: The Gray Whales' Mysterious Journey)(With The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism)(The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time)(Common Sense)(Confederates in the Attic)(Man's Search for Meaning)(The Dirty Girls Social Club)(Playing with Boys)(Culturally Responsive Teaching)(The Art of Possibility)(Book Review)
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Muska Mosston: one who made a difference. (physical education teacher) (In Memoriam) (Obituary): An article from: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
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This digital document is an article from JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on October 1, 1994. The length of the article is 1147 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.
From the supplier: Muska Mosston helped to revolutionize the teaching of physical education. Always striving for new possibilities and refusing to be restricted by static rules or resistance, the Israel-born professor continuously presented and offered solutions to redirect and breathe new life into physical education. It took over 30 years for some of Mosston's ideas to become accepted as the norm. The last decade of his life was marked by recognition and more contributions to the field of physical education.
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Title: Muska Mosston: one who made a difference. (physical education teacher) (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
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First-Time Motherhood: Experiences from Teens to Forties
Ramona Thieme Mercer
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The Churchill saw much action in World War II, from the 1942 raid on Dieppe, through the heat of the battles in North Africa, to the bitter fighting in Normandy 1944 and into the Reich in 1945. Despite criticism that it was slow and outmoded in terms of design, it proved itself a rugged and solid vehicle.This title provides a comprehensive guide to modelling the Churchill across a range of skill levels, featuring challenging builds of numerous marks and variants, including brideglayers, flame-throwers (such as the Crocodile) and customised assault vehicles (such as the spigot-mortar armed ARVE).
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Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World
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Presenting a much-needed corrective to the model of the "free market", authoritative contributors make historically-informed, interdisciplinary inquiries into the nature of market involvement in social, cultural and political relations. They examine critical thinkers, social movements and organizations and the ways in which they have influenced market relations from the eighteenth century to the present. The volume recreates those critical traditions and reform movements which sought to negotiate a path between the free market and the Marxist utopia of a society without markets.
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ECAI 1996 - Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence on August 11-16 1996, Budapest, Hungary
Wolfgang Wahlster
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The 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in Budapest, Hungary, in August 1996, attracted 450 submissions from 41 different countries. The International Programme Committee selected 133 papers, which are presented in this volume, organized into 15 sections. With an acceptance rate of 29%, ECAI 96 was one of the most selective general AI conferences of 1996. The aim of the conference is to cover all aspects of AI, and to bring together basic and applied research. Important areas of Automated Reasoning are covered, such as Abductive, Temporal, Causal, Non-monotonic, Constraint-based, Case-based, Model-based, Qualitative, and Spatial Reasoning. Core subjects like Machine Learning, Knowledge Representation, Multi-Agent Systems, Natural Language Processing, Planning, Robotics and Vision are given extensive treatment. The proceedings also contains summaries of the four invited talks.
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- Whitemarsh Hall: The Estate of Edward T. Stotesbury (PA) (Images of America)
- Yin Yu Tang: The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House
- A Richer Heritage: Historic Preservation in the Twenty-First Century
- An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn
- Architecture: Choice or Fate
- Architecture in Communion: Implementing the Second Vatican Council Through Liturgy and Architecture
- Architecture: The World's Greatest Buildings Explored and Explained
- Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture
- Asmara: Africa's Secret Modernist City
- At Home With Japanese Design: Accents, Structure and Spirit
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