Materials and Components of Interior Architecture (6th Edition)

Book Description

/*0-13-048399-0, 4839J-7, Riggs, J. Rosemary, Materials and Components of Interior Architecture, 6/E*/ Taking into account the dramatic advances being made in materials and technologies, this innovative book on interior architecture offers a refreshing, synergistic approach to the field while exposing readers to many exciting nonstructural materials available to today's designers. With an eye on the environment, it provides a firm understanding of the products, properties, and uses of all materials, covering everything from floors, walls and ceiling to installation, and recycling. Progressing from the ground up—literally—it looks beyond the more decorative aspects of design to study the properties and uses of both finishing materials in the design field and structural materials in the architectural field. For interior designers and specifiers.

Customer Reviews:

Very Poorly Written.......2006-08-22

This book is very poorly written. It also does not adequately discuss estimating materials.

Broad Outlook on Interior Products.......2000-06-21

This book is a good reference for anyone who is currently designing or building a luxury home, but for a general education on construction interiors, this is not the book. There are many references to the latest products, which include both color and feature description that will be quickly outdated. Most of the discussion centers around materials that would be used in an affluent home rather than your typical family residence, and product descriptions focus on the unique product, not the typical. Dimensions for comfortable clearance and layout hints are useful for residential layout, but the commercial references are very limited.

Biggest Book of Bread Machine Recipes (Better Homes & Gardens)

Average customer rating:

good book
A Let Down
Big disappointment
Well designed, but slightly complex recipes
So-So

Biggest Book of Bread Machine Recipes (Better Homes & Gardens)
Better Homes and Gardens
Manufacturer: Better Homes and Gardens
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Plastic Comb

Bread | Baking | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books

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Betty Crocker's Best Bread Machine Cookbook: The Goodness of Homemade Bread the Easy Way
Breadman TR8752-Pound Breadmaker, Stainless Steel
Bread Machine Magic, Revised Edition: 138 Exciting Recipes Created Especially for Use in All Types of Bread Machines
Breadman TR2500BC Ultimate Plus 2-Pound Stainless-Steel Convection Breadmaker
Progressive International Clearly Fresh Bread Keeper

ASIN: 0696218534
Release Date: 2003-09-15

Book Description

More than 375 recipes keep fresh loaves of scrumptious bread in the pantry.

By varying seasonings and ingredients, custom bread making is easy and fun.

Two bonus chapters on Soups & Stews and Sandwiches offer more recipes and suggestions for enjoying delicious homemade breads.

Recipes, from sweet to classic, suit all tastes.

Basics chapter answers frequently asked questions.

Customer Reviews:

good book.......2007-09-15

Has a lot of no noncence recipies .It is not flsahy but the recipies work .

A Let Down.......2007-08-29

i was hoping to expand on bread machine recipes from the booklet that came with my mahine. This book has tons of recipes, but they're all pretty much the same, just switches flavors. Imagine any kind of fruit and nut combo bread, and they put it in there.I was hoping for more variety as far as type o fbreads and dough. Plus they have alot of sourdough recipes, which takes three days to make sourdough, somethinig I'm not inclined to do. It was kind of a disappoinment. i did try the banana bread recipe, but it came out like reguar white bread with a banana flavor-not very good.

Big disappointment.......2007-08-16

So sorry I wasted my money on this book. The recipes are too large for my machine. Some of them sound good, but since I have a 1 pound machine and all the recipes are for 1 1/2 & 2 pound machines, they did not do me much good. I was not expecting the soup and sandwiches portion of the book, either. If I had wanted soup recipes, I would NOT have bought a cookbook about making bread. It is a very nice looking book, however and lays flat for easy reading. The recipes are easy to read, also. Format is good.

Well designed, but slightly complex recipes.......2007-07-11

I have no complaints about this recipe book except that many of the recipes are very complicated and not basic. For instance, there is no basic honey wheat bread recipe. Every recipe has on average about 15 different ingredients, which is not very basic and makes utilizing the recipes a bit tedious when you have to hunt down ingredients, like gluten, rye flour, etc.

So-So.......2007-06-09

The first time I tried a recipe from this book, I thought it had too much salt and not enough yeast. I was right! Since then, I have increased the yeast by about 1/3 and decreased the salt by about 1/3, and they are about right.

The alternating orange & blue type is supposed to make it easier to read, but it makes it harder. For some reason, you tend to skip the orange lines. Be careful not to leave out ingredients!

I do like that there are separate lists of ingredients for medium and large loaves of bread, and the recipes tell you which cycle is recommended for each recipe.

I wish there were some pictures of some of the recipes. No pictures makes it feel like a cheap, fund-raising textbook or something. It doesn't feel like a professional recipe book.

New Fix-It-Yourself Manual: How to Repair, Clean, and Maintain Anything and Everything in and Around Your Home

Average customer rating:

Good repair book
Outdated manual
Out-of-date
Good reference to have.
New Fix-It-Yourself Manual: How to Repair, Clean, and Maintain Anything and Everything in and Around Your Home

New Fix-It-Yourself Manual: How to Repair, Clean, and Maintain Anything and Everything in and Around Your Home
Reader's Digest Editors
Manufacturer: Readers Digest
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books

Do-It-Yourself | How-to & Home Improvements | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

Home Repair | How-to & Home Improvements | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

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Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual: Completely Revised and Updated
The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair: With 350 Projects and 2300 Photos (Black & Decker)
New Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual
The Family Handyman: Helpful Hints : Quick & Easy Solutions / Time-Saving Tips / Tricks of the Trade (Family Handyman)
1001 Do-It-Yourself Hints & Tips : Tricks, Shortcuts, How-Tos, and Other Great Ideas for Inside, Outside, and All Around Your House

ASIN: 0895778718

Book Description

The indispensable bible for keeping a home in tip-top shape, it is the time- and money-saver every homeowner needs. It functions as a repair manual, an evaluation guide, a compendium of household hints, an emergency reference, and a homeowner's encyclopedia. Over 3,000 illustrations.

Customer Reviews:

Good repair book.......2007-07-22

Good book for the first time home buyer or anyone that is interested in doing some basic fix-it-up or simple repairs. There are good illustrations and explanations. Some of the book is outdated, but there is plenty here to recommend it.

Outdated manual.......2007-04-12

I was somewhat disappointed in this book. I was expecting some good how-to pointers on fixing things around the house. I received a book that is very outdated. It gave instructions on fixing cassette decks and turntables. And who fixes broken toasters? I did find a few good pointers, but not like I expected.

Out-of-date.......2007-03-23

The book is definitely out-of-date, having been published in 1996. I bought this one, looked at it a bit and returned it. Ended up buying the Black and Decker book instead (published 2004).

Good reference to have........2007-03-05

I have ahd this book for several years and I have found it to be a handy book to have. It covers a large variety of items with pretty clear instructions. Take care!

New Fix-It-Yourself Manual: How to Repair, Clean, and Maintain Anything and Everything in and Around Your Home.......2007-02-18

Good book

Electronics Technology Fundamentals - Electron Flow (2nd Edition)

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Electronics Technology Fundamentals - Electron Flow (2nd Edition)
Robert T. Paynter , and Toby Boydell
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Electrical | How-to & Home Improvements | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 0131145428

Electronics Technology Fundamentals - Conventional Flow (2nd Edition)

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Electronics Technology Fundamentals - Conventional Flow (2nd Edition)
Robert T. Paynter , and Toby Boydell
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Essentials of Materials for Science and Engineering
Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions
Introduction to Information Systems: Supporting and Transforming Business
Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles (5th Edition)
Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics

ASIN: 0131190849

Book Description

Developed to address the fundamentals in reduced time, this unique book provides complete and concise coverage of the fundamentals of electronics without redundant examples and the equation derivations that take up so much space in traditional books. With an emphasis on component and circuit operation, analysis, applications, and testing, this book thoroughly explores the foundation of DC circuits, AC circuits, discrete electronic devices and op-amps in a narrative that readers can understand. Revamped with a new four-color illustration and photo design, the Second Edition offers an updated pedagogical package that includes chapter opening vignettes, new margin notes, and component testing and applications discussions. For electrical engineers.

Sprinklers & Watering Systems (Garden Maintenance)

Average customer rating:

Great product!
Most complete book I've seen!
Sprinkler Book
A complete guide to planning and installing landscape irrigation for the home

Sprinklers & Watering Systems (Garden Maintenance)
Scotts
Manufacturer: Scotts
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

Lawns | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

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Sprinklers & Drip Systems
Ortho's All About Sprinklers and Drip Systems (Ortho's All About Gardening)

ASIN: 0696221497
Release Date: 2005-01-11

Book Description

Practical advice to plan watering zones appropriate to climates and landscape varieties.

Tips for successful installation or for planning a system with a professional.

Complete how-to for installing sprinkler equipment from a variety of manufacturers.

Illustrated step-by-step instructions, troubleshooting tips, and do-it-yourself hints.

Customer Reviews:

Great product!.......2007-08-31

I couldn't be happier with this sprinkler.
It's very nice to be able to point the heads in separate directions.
The quality is top rate.
Be sure to get more than one though as it's not practical to try to move it to different spots in you yard or garden.
You don't want to be resetting the directions of you sprinkler heads all the time.
It does take a little bit of time to begin with to get them adjusted to where you want them to go.
I'm going to be buying more of these and my daugher is going to buy some for her yard as well.

Most complete book I've seen!.......2007-07-13

This book has a detailed description of just about anything you can think of when it comes to installing your own sprinkler system. From planning bluelines to selecting sprinkler head types, it covered all bases. I was a totally new to the world of sprinkler installation when I read this, and now I feel like a pro!

Sprinkler Book.......2007-01-29

A very good book for the homeowner with a sprinkler system. Lots of good info on how systems work, and how they can be modified. Worth the money.

A complete guide to planning and installing landscape irrigation for the home.......2005-08-05

Scotts Sprinklers & Watering Systems is a complete and thoroughly "user friendly" guide to planning and installing landscape irrigation for the home. Profusely illustrated, this "how to manual covers every aspect of planning out a sprinkling system to be as cost efficient to install as it would be to operate. Included in the planning process are detailed materials and equipment comparisons as this superbly organized "how to" manual takes the homeowner and do-it-yourselfer through the planning and design process from beginning to end. Then the reader is taken step-by-step through the installing process with clear instructions and illustrative photography which will eliminate any operational problems later one. Also included is the maintenance, care and upkeep of the installed watering system including occasional repairs and replacement of parts. Finally there is an invaluable section on using the installed water system, getting the right amount of water in the right place at the right time. If you are wanting to include a sprinkler or other kind of watering system as part of your landscaping, then give a close and careful reading to Scotts Sprinklers & Watering Systems -- it will save you not only time and money, but help you to avoid aggravation and error!

Installing and Hanging Doors (For Pros by Pros)

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Installing and Hanging Doors (For Pros by Pros)
Gary Katz
Manufacturer: Taunton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Design & Construction | Home Design | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

Carpentry | How-to & Home Improvements | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

Electrical | How-to & Home Improvements | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

Windows and Doors (Build Like A Pro)
Trim Carpentry Techniques: Installing Doors, Windows, Base and Crown
Finish Carpentry: Custom Techniques
Trim Carpentry and Built-Ins (Build Like A Pro)
Drywall: Professional Techniques for Great Results

ASIN: 1561586358
Release Date: 2002-07-01

Book Description

Installing and Hanging Doors gives carpenters and do-it-yourselfers of all levels all the information they need to get a perfect fit every time. This book covers how to select the best doors, and how to choose hardware and jambs for any installation--from a grand front entrance to simple bi-fold closet doors. It also provides professional techniques for installing all kinds of doors, including simple hinged doors to French doors, arched doors and double-acting doors. A final chapter explains several professional techniques for making doors weather-tight.

Handy Farm Devices: And How to Make Them

Average customer rating:

Fantastic book that can save you time and money
Great!
Historical and functional
Great Ideas...don't expect to build them.
Depends on what you're looking for...

Handy Farm Devices: And How to Make Them
Rolfe Cobleigh
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

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Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables
Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance
The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
The Encyclopedia of Country Living: An Old Fashioned Recipe Book

ASIN: 1558214321

Amazon.com

Originally published in 1909, "Handy Farm Devices" is more than an engaging trip down memory lane. For any small farmer or homesteader, the techniques and devices described in detail are just as useful, durable, and fully functional today as they were 75 years ago. You will learn to build a portable chicken coop, a stone boat (for moving stone), a lightweight orchard ladder, gates that don't sag, and a handy wood splitter, as well as rudimentary farm structures, well houses, bee hives, a baby's cradle, a cheese press and much more. The charming, turn-of-the-century language and useful and inspirational quotes from Shakespeare, the Bible, Bacon, Longfellow and many others make this book a delight to read. --Mark A. Hetts

Book Description

Practical projects as useful today as when first published 75 years ago.

Customer Reviews:

Fantastic book that can save you time and money.......2007-09-25

"Success comes to the man who so works that his efforts will bring the most and the best results-not to the man who simply works hard." Very elequently stated by the author from page three in the introduction of this gem of a little book.

Call me a survivalist, but I feel books such as these are going to become imperative in the future of america for both the suburbanite and country boy alike. Handy Farm Devices by Rolfe Cobleigh is a must own to anyone who owns or is even thinking about owning their own homestead. This book allows you to make just about anything you could possibly need around a private farm/homestead. Just to name a few things that are tucked away in the pages of this litte gem are How To: use a carpenters square, build stairs, temporary animal housing, a cellar, make your own dresser drawers, feeders for your animals, make a chicken coop from a barrel (and other chicken, pig, horse, and cattle housing designs as well), laying cement foundations, simple housing plans, how to build a concrete stone house for $400 dollars, build your own wheelbarrel, plus various orchard and planting ideas as well as other ideas that are so numerous I can't possibly mention them all.

The only thing this book will not do is give you a step by step guide on how to go about doing X,Y, and Z. It gives you pointers and a general push in the right direction, but it doesn't give you in depth direction. I only see this becoming problematic if you were to take on the task of building one of the houses described in this book. However, I don't see in depth directions being an issue for most of the devices mentioned. Even a modest amount of ingenuity should be sufficient in most cases. In the end this book delievers all that it reasonably can in less than 300 pages. A must have for those interested in homesteading, and those who believe that true self-sufficiency will become a necessary skill in the future of this country.

Great!.......2007-09-06

This book is a "must have" because of all the great ideas.
Today you can just buy all the stuff but this would be very costly.
This little book shows how to build everything you need by yourself.
I'm starting a very small farm for selfsuffiency and was desparate about the costs of all the needy things.
This book will spare me hundreds of $, it's really great.

Historical and functional.......2007-08-13

This book is full of historical information about devices, buildings and just useful things. This guide would be useful in areas or farms trying to live without elecrical equipment and in cases of disasters to make do until some assistance with more modern means arrives. I enjoyed the writing and would recommend the book to those looking to do things more "natural".

Great Ideas...don't expect to build them........2007-05-12

This is a great and fun little book full of old fashion devices. Treat it as an idea book, but don't expect explanations of how-to here. For at least half of the devices you won't need any explanation, the others look the info up somewhere else.

Depends on what you're looking for..........2007-01-10

This was a nice, fun book to read... but it was essentially useless for actually helping you build any of the things it talks about (and gives interesting history and info about). So for a practical DIY book, it's useless, but for a book just to learn a bit about this stuff and it's history and get a frame of reference, it's not bad at all.

The Easy Guide to Solar Electric Part II, Installation Manual

Average customer rating:

Great Solar Guide
Seriously flawed
The Easy Guide To Solar Electric Part 2
Finally a solar book I like
Thinly Disguised Demagoguery

The Easy Guide to Solar Electric Part II, Installation Manual
Pieper Adi
Manufacturer: ADI Solar
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Photovoltaics Design And Installation Manual: Renewable Energy Education for a Sustainable Future
The Easy Guide to Solar Electric, second edition
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Solar Power for Your Home
The Solar Electric House: Energy for the Environmentally-Responsive, Energy-Independent Home
Practical Photovoltaics: Electricity from Solar Cells

ASIN: 0967189128

Book Description

The author's second book is a hands-on book on how to install a solar electrical system. It covers, every aspect of a solar installation in great detail, including: electrical theory with emphasis on DC wiring, system design, electrical code, as well as components of a solar system down to quirks, nuts, and bolts. In its humorous language the book also looks at alternative energy politics, policies, and the industry through a critical eye.

Customer Reviews:

Great Solar Guide.......2007-01-06

This book is great. It covers the bases and gives the information one needs. It's a core book for this subject.

Seriously flawed.......2006-09-27

Pieper has a lot of practical knowledge but some things he writes are plain wrong. On page 17 he writes: "The frequency of the sine wave is measured as Hz per second" (should be cycles per second which is Hz). On page 18 he says: "the sine wave [is] 220 volts between two peaks" (should be 311 v; 220 is the RMS voltage). On page 23 he says: "amp hours [are] also refered to as amps per hour or amp/hours" (not true). In page 27 he writes: "At some point, the resistance gets so high that it creates heat inside the conductor" (there is always resistance and heat, the problem is the temperature rises too high). He also is convinced the minerals in petroleum jelly help conductivity on the battery terminals (pp. 123&159) and says "search current" when he means "surge current" (pp. 120&125). Whole pages are such confusing technical nonsense that it is impossible to to give a short account. He self published - he should have had a technically competent person help him with theory and a good how-to book editor help with the practical stuff. I'm sure he is a very competent electrician and there is some good practical information in the book, but it is nowhere near as advertised.

The Easy Guide To Solar Electric Part 2.......2006-05-24

I found this book at the public library in my search for a good guide to solar electric systems. I found a small amount of the information useful but, most was a waste of my time. The writer does not explain ideas in a very coherent manner. He uses a great deal of book space attempting to be funny and expressing his political views. If you are interested in a good solar electric book this is not it. I am still looking.

Finally a solar book I like.......2005-11-27

Reading both of Adi Pieper's books on solar I was pleasantly surprised. Being an analyst in the aviation industry, I come across many very boring and conformistic writings. This book is like a fresh breeze. You cannot describe the alternative form of energy generation without critically viewing the conventional forms available. Readers who do not understand this are sad examples of the energy problem we are presently facing. Compared to several other solar books available this book is inspiring, informative, technically precise (although their are two small mistakes with his math), and has helped me install my own solar system. I also reviewed two other books (refusing to name these, which is a cheap shot under the belt) which are boring and very confusing.

Thinly Disguised Demagoguery.......2005-09-21

By title, this book claims to be a "how to" guide. The first section, however, belies this by explaining that you should leave it to professionals. Having thus disposed of the technical aspects, the author fills the remainder of the product with self-righteous, ultra-greenie, anti-capitalist claptrap, unsupported by fact or even verifiable cites. Not even well written propaganda, and most certainly not useful to anyone wishing to learn anything useful about installing a PV system.

Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Choosing and Installing Hardware

Average customer rating:

Good book. Lacking some details
Making Things Work
Must have
Outstanding Photos!

Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Choosing and Installing Hardware
Robert Settich
Manufacturer: Taunton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Working with Wood (Complete Illustrated Guide)

ASIN: 1561585610
Release Date: 2003-11-01

Book Description

Choosing hardware can be fun and creative, but selecting the right hardware for a job can be difficult, even for the most experienced woodworker. Installing it is something else again. This comprehensive book covers the entire range of hardware, including common household pieces such as locks, pulls, and handles, all presented in a straightforward style. Over 700 step-by-step photos and drawings accompanied by exacting instructions ease the installation process. Tips and quick access guides help readers find the exact information they need right away.

Customer Reviews:

Good book. Lacking some details.......2007-01-27

As usual, books in this collection are well done. The text is clear and concise. The book is full of color pictures illustrating the text.

This book covers all kind of hardware from simple nail to complex hinges.
The "catalog" part of the book is well done. If covers a lot without getting too boring.

I would have given it a 5 stars rating if the information on how to install the hardware was more detailed. If you already know how to install something, reading the text makes complete sense. If you don't it is sometimes difficult with the text alone to get a good idea of the process.

Making Things Work.......2005-04-02

For the most part hardware is an unromantic subject. Frequently your options are plain and hidden away, and, unless you make your own, the fun stops as soon as you make your choices. Yet a mistake in the use or installation of hardware is often the mistake that is spotted first, easily becoming the ruin if hours of painstaking work.

Hinges happen to be my low water. I've measured, chiseled, shed blood, and excruciated more times than I want to talk about, only to find that it wasn't quite right and I had to make some devious adjustment. Settich's book may not be poetic, but it is eminently practical, and I discovered several tricks that eased the way as I read it. There are twelve sections that cover everything from the simplest nail or screw to the more arcane worlds of locks, slides, and hinges.

Lots of illustration and accompanying text reduce things into easily digestible advice that will improve your work and open new possibilities. My copy is already showing wear from numerous consultations. This really should be one of your earlier purchases in this series.

Must have.......2003-12-09

This book has far exceeded my expectations. The photos and instructions are clear, concise, and of professional quality. R. Settich presents the material in a knowledgeable and fun way. A must have resource for any workshop!

Outstanding Photos!.......2003-12-05

This book has been an excellent resource in my workshop. The photos are many and of excellent quality. The instructions are surprisingly clear... a great guide for anyone!

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