Subjects:  1. Construction industry    2. Management & management techniques    3. Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building   

Subjects:  1. Building    2. Building Construction    3. Construction - General    4. Quality control    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology & Industrial Arts    7. Architecture / Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings    8. Construction industry    9. Production & quality control management   

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suitable to engineering design
every part of this book is written clearly and i think it is a good assistant for us in designning a high level sanitray landfill engineering. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Design and construction    2. Environmental Engineering & Technology    3. Environmental Science    4. Environmental Studies    5. Sanitary landfills    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Waste Disposal And Treatment    9. Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building    10. Sewage treatment & disposal    11. Technology / Environmental    12. Waste management   

Subjects:  1. Building Construction    2. Construction - General    3. Construction industry    4. Engineering - Civil    5. Engineering Construction Management    6. Management    7. Project Management    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building    12. Technology / Construction & Construction Trades   

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The best
First, I am not a lawyer, but a praticing design/ contruction professional.I have used this book for years.I find it very well written and easy to use.I have loaned it to so many lawyers when thing get tight that I don't remember all of them.I highly recommend this book for anyone who has to deal with contracts and construction.When things start to go sour, its a great resource for all parties involved.

Great for a Law Student
This is probably the most comprehensive construction law book I have ever read.It is an absolute must for a law student taking construction law.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAY too complicated
If you happen to be studying construction law IN LAW SCHOOL, then this is your book. Read more

Subjects:  1. Architectural contracts    2. Architecture (Specific Aspects)    3. Construction    4. Construction - General    5. Construction contracts    6. Engineering - General    7. Engineering Construction Management    8. Engineering contracts    9. General    10. Law    11. Legal Reference / Law Profession    12. Reference    13. United States    14. Architecture    15. Building construction & materials    16. Engineering: general    17. Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law    18. Structural engineering   

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Just came accross your name from 20 years ago
Have not read it yet.....is this the Vima Barr from Chicago ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Architectural Practice    2. Architecture    3. Business/Economics    4. Commercial - Advertising    5. Construction Management    6. Engineering - Civil    7. Reference    8. Building construction & materials    9. Sales & marketing    10. Structural engineering   

Subjects:  1. Building Construction Costs    2. Construction - General    3. Construction Management    4. Construction contracts    5. Engineering - Civil    6. Great Britain    7. Legal status, laws, etc    8. Legal status, laws, etc.    9. Quantity surveyors    10. Reference    11. Science/Mathematics    12. Surveying    13. Technology    14. Technology & Industrial Arts    15. Building construction & materials    16. English law: contract law    17. Quantity surveying    18. Technology / Surveying   

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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Construction industry    5. Project Management    6. Real Estate - General    7. Risk management    8. Value analysis (Cost control)    9. Building construction & materials    10. Business & Economics / Management    11. Management & management techniques   

Subjects:  1. Civil engineering    2. Construction - General    3. Engineering    4. Engineering - Civil    5. Engineering Construction Management    6. Environmental aspects    7. General    8. Management    9. Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.    10. Social aspects    11. Sociology    12. Technology    13. Technology & Industrial Arts    14. Technology And Society    15. Building construction & materials    16. Impact of science & technology on society    17. Structural engineering    18. Technology / Engineering / Civil   

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Construction Industry Formbook
If your looking for a forms book for construction contracts this is the one.The book is filled with standard AIA documents and includes the typical verbage explaining each section.The cool, unexpected item is the alternative contract language.For example, indemnification terms has thestandard AIA verbage and then has 3-5 alternate versions of the samesection.Pretty slick. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Construction Management    2. Construction contracts    3. Construction industry    4. Forms    5. Law and legislation    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Reference    8. Taxation    9. United States   

Editorial Review

In a new take on sustainable living and building, John Taylor presents a stunning array of traditional building techniques and housing solutions from around the world and from history. Most are motivated by available materials, economic necessity, and local climate and terrain. In this time of growing interest in earth-friendly building techniques, Taylor shows us that we need to relearn many practical aspects of constructing shelter and must blend the technologies of the present with the traditions of the past, with those of other cultures, and even with those of our own grandparents. Taylor, an architectural designer, has filled this delightful book with remarkable drawings and sketches of building techniques gleaned from his travels; it is a feast for the eyes as well as the brain. ... Read more

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A little bit of every other book.
This book seems to have sketches of just about everything to do with Shelter. I have seen most of these pictures in full colour Ideas and ideas that have worked
The book was recommended to me as a sourse for a shade problem I have with my house.I live on the West Coast in California's Central Valley. Our house is in the middle of a large pasture. We have NO shade. The trees we have planted will not have any shade value for many years. The West side of the house bakes in the summer. What I wanted was a solution to my problem. An aesthetic design and technical information on shading our house with structures, vegetative, and orfabric (pictures, line drawing, Etc. A Shelter Sketchbook
I came across this book while assembling reference material for planning a treehouse at the cottage.While most of the books I was looking at were hands-on/how-to type, I found this book interesting, and there are a few ideas in the book I can definitely use.At first glance, the book has, asthe title implies, just a bunch of sketches - each page has four or fivearchitectual details and hand-written notes explaining or referencing thedrawing.Despite the rough-draft appearance, though, there is a lot oforganizing of the 600+ drawings, and they obviously draw on a wealth ofstructure details.Examples range from villas in ancient Greece, Japanesehouses, African huts, Aztec dwellings, to the current UNESCO headquartersin Paris and modern Frank Lloyd Wright homes.The book is arranged inthree sections: protection (from sun, wind, cold, water); accomodatinghuman needs (sleeping, cooking, eating, sitting, etc.); and structuralelements themselves (roofs, doors, windows).Each section draws onexamples from all parts of the world, and much of history, to show how, inmany cases, simple solutions from 'simple' people, and even animals, solvebasic living problems, and I found it quite interesting how differentcultures at different times came up with similar solutions to such thingsas drainage, ventilation, etc.I found the ideas in this book useful formy treehouse project because I wanted simple construction, low cost, andflexibility, and the concepts in the book, being drawn as they were frombasic construction principles, quite practical. This book wouldlikely be of interest to several groups of readers: those studyingarchitecture (there is an extensive bibliography), those building ordesigning energy-efficient homes (it is somewhat humbling to see so manyconcepts that we may think are new and radical, that natives somewhere havebeen doing for centuries!), or just for general interest (the book explainssuch things as roof angles on saltbox houses, cupolas, etc.) ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Architecture    2. Domestic    3. Environmental Engineering & Technology    4. Methods & Materials    5. Planning    6. Vernacular Architecture    7. Architectural structure & design    8. Building construction & materials    9. History of specific subjects    10. Management of land & natural resources    11. Sustainability   

Subjects:  1. Architectural Design    2. Architecture    3. Building    4. Business/Economics    5. Commercial Building Construction    6. Commercial buildings    7. Construction - General    8. Construction industry    9. Design & Drafting    10. Design and construction    11. Engineering - Civil    12. General    13. Management    14. Planning    15. Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings    16. Technology    17. Architectural structure & design    18. Architecture / Project Management    19. Building construction & materials    20. Project management   

Subjects:  1. Construction - Contracting    2. Construction - General    3. Engineering - Civil    4. Engineering Construction Management    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Study Guides    7. Technology    8. Vocational    9. Technology / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades   

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Good but not necessarily great
I enjoyed the original E-Myth very much, though it was painful too as I recognised all my own mistakes in business over the years. I found this particular volume just a tad too new-age in places for my own liking. It is also, like so many small (the book, that is) business-help books, a little on the glib side, making the issues out to be rather easy to solve whereas entrepreneurship is somewhat more challenging in reality, and not quite as formulaic as the author might have us believe. But there's still a lot of truth in it too, and it is easily read, with some good lessons to take from it. Certainly worth both the purchase price and the time it takes to read.

the E-Myth Contractor
Good book with good "back to the basic" information which we all need to be reminded of from time to time.

Good job.
The book arrived in a timely manner and was just what I wanted. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Cash flow    5. Construction - Contracting    6. Construction industry    7. Contractors    8. Entrepreneurship    9. Management    10. Management - General    11. Small Business - General    12. Strategic Planning    13. Business & Economics / Management    14. Small businesses & self-employed   

Subjects:  1. Buildings    2. Construction Management    3. Construction industry    4. Management    5. Specifications   

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Very good for understanding hotel properties construction
First a few words for the reader of Austin: is not so difficult to convert British pounds to $, or meters to foots....... For the European Audience
This book is not appropriate for anyone seeking knowledge of hotel development in the United States. The authors are British and the book is written for the European audience. The U.S. reader is not even extended the courtesy of dual imperial and metric measures; room dimensions are in meters and financial figures are presented in pounds. In addition, many of the cited references are dated, the graphics are hard to read, and the book is cheaply printed.

For the European Audience
This book is not appropriate for anyone seeking knowledge of hotel development in the United States. The authors are British and the book is written for the European audience. The U.S. reader is not even extended the courtesy of dual imperial and metric measures; room dimensions are in meters and financial figures are presented in pounds. In addition, many of the cited references are dated, the graphics are hard to read, and the book is cheaply printed. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Case studies    5. Design and construction    6. Entrepreneurship    7. Hotel management    8. Hotels    9. Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism    10. Planning    11. Hotel & catering trades   

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The Missing Link to TCP/IP
I believe this is the book that fills in the gap between
Relies on outdated Windows NT 4
I am truly mystified as to the reason why a book published for teaching networking to beginners in 2003 would use Windows NT 4 Server as thenetwork operating software and where Win 2000 and Win XP are mentioned only in passing and relegated mostly to the book's incomplete website (which I had to find through a search engine since the publisher's website for this book does not even make reference to the book's website). So forget about using the trial editions of Windows 2000 or 2003 Server (the latter can be downloaded freely from MS) that comes with most of Microsoft's MCSE books (and some other publishers) available from Amazon.Put off buying this book until the author updates (in a 2nd edition, perhaps) to using the latest software.

Plain & Simple but VERY POWERFUL
This book provides a great base knowledge, in the practical understanding of TCP/IP structure.It quickly builds on basic IP addressing concepts, and ties in Subnets, and DNS information very, very well.Thank you for a GREAT book and lifetime reference.One of the books core points that 90 to 95% of networking issues are caused by IP problems, will allow you to solve many of your issues, through focusing on this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Bks - Communications / Networking    2. Computer Books: General    3. Computer networks    4. Computers    5. Computers - Communications / Networking    6. Data Transmission Standards And Protocols    7. Design and construction    8. Management    9. Networking - Network Protocols    10. Operating Systems - Linux    11. TCP/IP (Computer network proto    12. TCP/IP (Computer network protocol)    13. Computers / Networking / Network Protocols    14. Networking standards & protocols   

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Subjects:  1. Building    2. Construction - General    3. Construction industry    4. Management    5. Safety measures    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Superintendence    8. Technology    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. BUILDING_SAFETY MEASURES    11. BUILDING_SUPERINTENDENCE    12. Building construction & materials    13. CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY_MANAGEMENT    14. RISK ASSESSMENT    15. Risk assessment & analysis for business    16. Technology / Construction & Construction Trades   

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Smith, Currie & Hancock's LLP Common Sense Construction Law
A great introduction to Construction Law for any aspiring Project Manager or Construction Professional.

Great overview, but lacks some depth in places
This book was used as the text for a Construction Law case I took in law school.Overall I found the book to be very good.It was clear, concise, well written, and easy to understand.It also brought a pretty wide range of topics into the mix, and provided a fair amount of places to go for additional information (by way of case law).If I had to complain, and for the purposes of this review I will, I would make two comments: 1) There are areas where a little more depth would be nice.Frankly, I don't think the scope of this book really includes in-depth analysis on anything so this might be a non-issue for many folks.I just found that there were a few times (a very few) when I was looking for more information.2. This book does a really nice job incorporating definitions for new terms into the text.However, there are a LOT of new terms and a glossary would have beeen a nice addition to the text.

Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP's Common Sense Construction Law
An outstanding work -- easy to follow, yet powerful.It delivers in-depth coverage of current law on hot construction topics.As a General Contractor, I found the book very helpful.I strongly recommend it. The industry has become so litigious that you cannot afford to not know. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Building Laws And Regulations    2. Construction    3. Construction - General    4. Construction contracts    5. Construction industry    6. Engineering Construction Management    7. Law    8. Law and legislation    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. Practical Guides    11. United States    12. Commercial law    13. Environment law    14. Property, real estate, land & tenancy law    15. Technology / Engineering / Civil    16. USA   

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Business/Economics    3. Civil engineering contracts    4. Construction industry    5. Engineering    6. Management    7. Management - General    8. Project management    9. Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building