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459 pages | 2005 | PDF | 25 Mb

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In an industry that involves the skills, expertise, and labor of a wide-range of professionals and workers, good communications become crucial, and a common vocabulary is key to successful projects. Many of the terms used in landscape architecture, land planning, environmental planning, and landscape construction are unavailable, or so new, or industry-specific that they can?t be found in conventional dictionaries.

This unique resource delivers definitions as well as how-to information via details and photos, going above and beyond the scope of a typical professional dictionary. With straightforward definitions and clear illustrations on each page, everyone... (Read More)

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Revit Architecture has revolutionized how architects design, develop,
and deliver projects-and now you can join the revolution with this
expert guide. Authored by a team of Revit aficionados and experts, this
in-depth book uses clear explanations, detailed tutorials, and practical
examples to show you how to best implement Revit in the real world.
Starting with a focused look at the basics of Revit and Building
Information Modeling (BIM), you’ll move quickly into setting up and
customizing your Revit tools, preparing your office/project templates
and settings, creating your library of components, and much more.
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So… You Want To Build a House: A Complete Workbook for Building Your Own Home

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Build your dream house without getting a headache!

From selecting the property and meeting with an architect through resale considerations and construction, So You Want to Build a House walks you through every step of the building process painlessly, on-time, and on-budget.

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Filed Under: Architecture, Science And Engineering

Gordon R. Willey and American Archaeology: contemporary perspectives

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press (May 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 080613805X
• ISBN-13: 978-0806138053

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For an appreciation of the growth of American archaeology over the second half of the twentieth century, one need look no further than the career of Gordon R. Willey. A preeminent archaeologist and New World theorist, Willey made innumerable contributions to the prehistory of the Americas and helped establish the leading methodological and theoretical paradigm used in American archaeology.

This... (Read More)

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There’s an ethereal magic to standing beneath a dome, neck craned, looking up at a vision of the heavens created by some long-ago figure of genius. From the Pantheon to the Hagia Sophia, the power of the dome seems transcendent. Photographer David Stephenson’s magnificently kaleidoscopic images of dome interiors capture this evanescent drama, and make Visions of Heaven one of the most spectacularly beautiful books we’ve ever produced.
Traveling from Italy to Spain, Turkey, England, Germany, and Russia, among other countries, and photographing churches, palaces, mosques, and synagogues from the second to the early twentieth... (Read More)

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Learn how the CIA agent gets behind locked doors. This revised reprint of the classic CIA Key Casting Instruction Manual will teach you how to make a duplicate key when you can keep the original for only a short time.

50 pages | May 21, 2007 | PDF | 2 Mb

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Filed Under: Architecture

This book shows how to determine quality requirements of services, it discusses and considers the various means of allocating network resources and of supervising the service quality. Furthermore, it explores strategies for allocating network resources and their relation to revenue or operator utility as well as service allocation optimization. The book concludes with a Nokia case study that illustrates the previously mentioned concepts.

Essential reading for networking professionals wishing to understand service quality management in IP networks, as well as students needing to understand principles and basic techniques of service quality management.

The challenge to present-day IP networks comes from advanced realtime... (Read More)

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Even film diehards have a tough time resisting the instant gratification of the digital camera. Today?s digital cameras are more affordable then ever before, and they deliver high quality images that are a snap to share. Plus, you can take risks with a digital camera you never would with a film camera. You waste nothing; there?s no film required, and because you only print the pictures you need, digital photography is cost effective and environmentally friendly.
But to take full advantage of a digital camera, you need to be an experienced photographer and an expert at digital photography too. With more than 15 years of experience as a photojournalist, author Derrick Story brings you Digital Photography... (Read More)

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GIS (geographic information system) is a totally cool technology that has been called ?geography on steroids.? GIS is what lets you see the schools in your neighborhood or tells you where the nearest McDonald?s is. GIS For Dummies tells you all about mapping terminology and digital mapping, how to locate geographic features and analyze patterns such as streets and waterways, and how to generate travel directions, customer location lists, and much more with GIS.

• Whether you?re in charge of creating GIS applications for your business or you simply love maps, you?ll find GIS For Dummies is packed with information. For example, you can:
• Learn all the hardware and software necessary to collect, analyze, and manipulate... (Read More)

Filed Under: Architecture, Miscellaneous eBooks, Multimedia and Design, Others IT eBooks, Software Development

Modern Control Technology: Components and Systems, 2nd Edition provides an introduction to automatic control systems and components that is both comprehensive and up-to-date. Logically organized, this book takes the reader on a journey through a control system. Each chapter examines a different functional part, followed by discussion of control units and control strategies that serves to put these parts together in a full-function control system. The text emphasizes not only on how things work, but also how they work together. Thoroughly updated, this edition features new material on (Read More)

Filed Under: Architecture