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Construction Planning, Equipment, and Methods (Mcgraw-Hill Series in Civil Engineering)

The Seventh Edition of Construction Planning, Equipment, and Methods, follows in the footsteps of the previous editions by providing the reader with the fundamentals of machine utilization and...

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From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)

Will the emerging global information infrastructure (GII) create a revolution in communication equivalent to that wrought by Gutenberg, or will the result be simply the evolutionary adaptation of...

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Pierre Puvis De Chavannes: A Critical Study of His Life and Art

Understanding Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) is crucial to reading the history of art of the late nineteenth century and the development of modernism. Internationally heralded yet sometimes scorned,...

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Mastering Revit Architecture 2009

Move beyond the basics of Revit and BIM and redefine your designs with this new edition of Mastering Revit Architecture. With updated coverage of Revit Architecture 2009 features, this comprehensive...

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Introducing Revit Architecture 2010: BIM for Beginners

Learn the leading BIM software quickly and easily with this book's detailed discussions and practical exercises Introducing Revit Architecture 2010 presents the core features of this...

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Constructed Wetlands in the Sustainable Landscape

Constructed wetlands are man-made marshes—gravel beds filled with growing plants—that function as natural wastewater treatment plants. Due to their more pleasing aesthetics and their cost...

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Cold-Formed Steel Design, 3rd Edition

The definitive text in the field, thoroughly updated and expanded Hailed by professionals around the world as the definitive text on the subject, Cold-Formed Steel Design is an indispensable...

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Meggs' History of Graphic Design

Now in its Fourth Edition, this unrivaled, seminal work continues its long tradition of providing balanced insight and thorough historical background. Under the new authorial leadership of Alston...

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Manifestoes of Surrealism (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press Author: Andre Breton ISBN: 0472061828 Number Of Pages: 316

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Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Books)

Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525-1569), generally considered the greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century, was described in 1604 by his earliest biographer as a supremely comic artist, few of whose...

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Art in Theory 1648-1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas

Art in Theory (1648-1815) provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French Academy until the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Like its...

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Hogarth: Representing Nature's Machine (The Barber Institutes Critical Perspectives in Art History Series)

The contributors to this book provide a fresh, challenging perspective on the work of the great British painter and printmaker. Applying new studies of 18th-century science and philosophy, the essays...

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Envisioning Information

Review A remarkable range of examples for the idea of visual thinking, with beautifully printed pages. A real treat for all who reason and learn by means of images. -- Rudolf Arnheim Review A...

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Architecture and Design in Europe and America: 1750 - 2000 (Blackwell Anthologies in Art History)

Architecture and Design in Europe and America, 1750-2000 is an unprecedented teaching anthology that surveys the history of European and American architecture and design using both historical and...

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Lost Plantations of the South

The great majority of the South's plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs,...

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Nouns (Learning to Write)

Manufacturer: Weigl Publishers Author: Deborah Lambert ISBN: 1605960470 Number Of Pages: 24

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N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, 2 Volumes, Boxed

First catalogue raisonn, of N.C. Wyeth's work, compiled by the foremost historian on the subject. Manufacturer: Scala Publishers Author: Christine Bauer Podmaniczky ISBN: 1857594789 Number Of Pages:...

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Alberto Giacometti: Works, Writings, Interviews (Essentials Poligrafa)

Alberto Giacometti's early Surrealist and Cubist forms, compact volumes inspired by Africa and the Cyclades, eventually led this seminal twentieth-century Swiss artist to acknowledge a formal void...

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The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs: A Critical Edition of the Greek Text (Pseudepigrapha Veteries Testamenti Graece) (Greek Edition)

Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers Author: M. De Jonge Author: H. W. Hollander Author: H. J. De Jonge Author: Th Korteweg ISBN: 9004058265 Number Of Pages: 251

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Burmese Painting: A Linear and Lateral History

This is the first comprehensive history of Burmese painting, from eleventh-century Pagan to the present, including over 175 painters and more than 300 photographs of work. The book explores the...

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National Electrical Code 2008 Handbook (National Fire Protection Association//National Electrical Code Handbook)

Get the expert support needed to comply efficiently, avoid violations, and keep electrical installations on track with the National Electrical Code® in this exclusive NEC® 2008 Handbook...

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Design of Wood Structures-ASD/LRFD

The leading text and reference on wood design, updated to include the latest codes and data Continued the sterling standard set by earlier editions, this indispensable reference leads you...

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Home: A Short History of an Idea

This immensely popular, witty, and highly provocative book is changing people's attitudes about convenience, decor, and technology in home design and furnishing. 10 black-and-white...

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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol : (From A to B and Back Again)

Warhol talks: about love, sex, beauty, fame, work, money, success; about New York and Americanca; and about himself. "A constant entertainment and enlightenment." -Truman Capote. Manufacturer:...

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Pagemaker for the IBM PC (Computing Fundamentals Series)

Manufacturer: Benjamin-Cummings Pub Co Author: Jacqueline Davies ISBN: 0201546442 Number Of Pages: 196

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Louise Bourgeois' Spider: The Architecture of Art-Writing

The sculptor Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental abstract sculptures, one of the most striking of which is the installation Spider (1997). Too vast in scale to be viewed all at once,...

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Philip Guston's Poor Richard

In 1971, as the race for the presidency heated up, the artist Philip Guston (1913-1980) created a series of caricatures of Richard Nixon titled Philip Guston's Poor Richard. Produced two years before...

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Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914

Empire building and modernity dominate the history of the nineteenth century. The French and Ottoman empires capitalized on modern infrastructure and city building to control diverse social,...

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Urban Land Economics and Public Policy (Building & Surveying)

This revised and reset fifth edition generally follows the structure of the previous edition, although some of the material of the earlier chapters has been rearranged, in addition to being extended...

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Introducing Revit Architecture 2008

Revit Architecture is transforming how architectural models are designed and documented, and this is the perfect guide to quickly become productive with this industry-leading BIM solution. This...

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Mastering Revit Architecture 2008

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...

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Green BIM: Successful Sustainable Design with Building Information Modeling

Meet the challenge of integrating Building Information Modeling and sustainability with this in-depth guide, which pairs these two revolutionary movements to create environmentally friendly design...

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Introducing Revit Architecture 2009: BIM for Beginners

You don't have to be a high-tech wizard to understand the Revit software using Introducing Revit Architecture 2009: BIM for Beginners, the perfect guide for architects of any generation. Start with...

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Mastering Revit Architecture 2010

As Autodesk's fastest-growing software package, Revit Architecture offers a new version that will require Revit users of all areas of expertise—architects, project managers, designers, contractors,...

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One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw

The Best Tool of the Millennium The seeds of Rybczynski's elegant and illuminating new book were sown by The New York Times, whose editors asked him to write an essay identifying "the best tool of...

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Altarpieces and Their Viewers in the Churches of Rome from Caravaggio to Guido Reni (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)

A social history of reception, this study focuses on sacred art and Catholicism in Rome during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The five altarpieces examined here were painted by artists...

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Artists Images and the Self-descriptions of Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orleans (1652-1722), the Second Madame: Representations of a Royal Princess in the Time of Louis XIV and the Regency

Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orleans, (1652-1722), the Palatine princess who became the second wife of Monsieur and the mother of the Regent, is well known for the thousands of letters she wrote...

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Pocket Guide to Digital Prepress

This book provides comprehensive, up-to-the-minute coverage of today's digital tools from scanners to sophisticated software for preparation of artwork to film and plates for printing. A broad...

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Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs

Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs

Customer Review: Am I way off base here or did School Library Media Centres really need another set of guidelines? This thin volume outlines a more current set of standards/guidelines without saying...

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Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs

Constable's Clouds: Paintings and Cloud Studies by John Constable

' Skies must and always shall with me make an effectual part of the composition ,' wrote John Constable in 1821. ' It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key...

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Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs

Imagining Jewish Art: Encounters with the Masters in Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj (Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature)

What does Jewish art look like? Where many scholars, critics, and curators have gone searching for the essence of Jewish art in Biblical illustrations and portraits of rabbis, Rosen sets out to...

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Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs

100 Contemporary Architects (Taschen 25th Anniversary)

Architecture at the dawn of the 21st century: the indispensable compendium This two-volume compilation brings together highlights from TASCHEN's groundbreaking title Building a New Millennium and the...

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La Era de la Discrepancia: Arte y Cultura Visual en Mexico, 1968-1997 / The Age of...

La Era de la Discrepancia: Arte y Cultura Visual en Mexico, 1968-1997 / The Age of Discrepancies: Art and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1968-1997 (Spanish Edition)

This survey of artistic experimentation in late twentieth-century Mexico assesses fields as diverse as painting, photography, poster design, installation, performance, experimental theater, Super-8...

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