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Architectural Graphic Standards for Residential Construction is an all-new visual guide devoted exclusively to construction standards of residential structures. Created exclusively for professionals working in residential design and construction, this guide combines key information culled from the tenth edition of Architectural Graphic Standards with all-new material on residential design. This special volume provides thousands of standard architectural details and guidelines and is an easy reference for anyone designing or constructing a residential project.
From detailing foundations to designing home theaters, home offices, and other specialty rooms, Architectural Graphic Standards for Residential Construction is a resource that's as efficient as it is comprehensive. You'll find design details that incorporate best construction practices as well as guidelines for state-of-the-art wiring, heating, and cooling systems. In step with current practices, this volume includes the latest guidelines for:
- Energy efficiency
- Accessibility
- HVAC and indoor air quality
- Green construction
An essential guide for designing in today's fast-paced and competitive building environment, Architectural Graphic Standards for Residential Construction is a critical resource if you're an architect, contractor, engineer, developer, home-builder, or other professional involved in designing residential buildings.
Customer Reviews:
A Must Own Book for Serious Residential Do-It-Yourselfers.......2006-06-17
This book is an excellent reference book for use in designing, planning, and building a new house or remodeling an existing one. Whenever I plan on doing something on the house, I double check with this reference before finishing my designs and plans. It's a must own book for serious do-it-yourselfers.
Readers' Digest Version of AGS.......2005-04-15
Although these editions change little, this review is based upon AGS 10th Ed. & AGSRC 2003.
Negative:
This is bascially a regurgitation of the more complete Architectural Graphics Standards, distilled to a "residential" focus but appears as volumous because some details have been photo-enlarged (in poor-average quality). Few, if any new residential details/information has been provided.
Positive:
Those ONLY interested in residential construction and NOT requiring a full brace of ALL details will find this quite a good value - compare its price to Architectural Graphics Standards.
Recommendation:
Anyone in construction should have one, but not both of these books as a prime resource. The content does improve every year, although some years it's like watching grass grow.
Challenge:
IF there are numerous portions of the Residential version that are unique and new to it, exclusive of passages in the larger AGS version - I would really appreciate a review that contains how to locate these passages, as I've spent enough time trying to find them. If enough of these exist, it would give thought of updating this resource once in awhile.
One volume encyclopedia.......2003-11-25
Experienced readers will benefit from its brief summaries and drawings covering the broadest range of topics imaginable. Some economizing is evident in the paper and printing quality, some of the drawings look 50 years old, but there is lots of reference information, like span tables, solar position data, etc. Probably not the last word on every topic, but still worth consulting.
A wonderful resource.......2003-03-27
Following in the terrific legacy of the benchmark Architectural Graphic Standards book, this edition clearly makes building for residences an easier task. I've found innumerable details that I've used in my residential practice on a daily basis, details not found in other reference books. Of particular help are the pages that give an overview of how parts of a house interconnect with each other, such as foundation-to-framing. Also, there is a wealth of info on HVAC, new window technology and other things I've found very, very helpful.
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The new student edition of the definitive reference on urban planning and design
Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition is the authoritative and reliable volume designed to teach students best practices and guidelines for urban planning and design.
Edited from the main volume to meet the serious student's needs, this Student Edition is packed with more than 1,400 informative illustrations and includes the latest rules of thumb for designing and evaluating any land-use scheme--from street plantings to new subdivisions. Students find real help understanding all the practical information on the physical aspects of planning and urban design they are required to know, including:
* Plans and plan making
* Environmental planning and management
* Building types
* Transportation
* Utilities
* Parks and open space, farming, and forestry
* Places and districts
* Design considerations
* Projections and demand analysis
* Impact assessment
* Mapping
* Legal foundations
* Growth management preservation, conservation, and reuse
* Economic and real estate development
Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition provides essential specification and detailing information for various types of plans, environmental factors and hazards, building types, transportation planning, and mapping and GIS. In addition, expert advice guides readers on practical and graphical skills, such as mapping, plan types, and transportation planning.
Customer Reviews:
A public sector must-have resource.......2007-04-07
An excellent resource for anyone involved in public sector land-use planning. Contains great detail on many different subjects. Good illustrations throughout. Not the best resource for site planning, though.
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The architect's standard reference for over 60 years is now available as a book/CD-ROM set. Use the book for ideas and inspiration. Then use one of five powerful search methods on the CD-ROM to quickly find all the information you need for a design project.
Customer Reviews:
Achitectual Graphic Standards.......2007-08-27
The reprsentation was not clear this is a reproduction of a 1935 published book. This is not usefull in todays building enviroment.
I find it indispensable........2007-07-05
A must have for anyone working or having an interest in architecture. As a companion to the current edition, it provides guidelines for laying out domestic serving pantries and other forgotten features. Should one wish, it also provides superior graphics as models for fixture symbols.
excellent book.......2007-05-13
I am a Civil Engineer ( 25 years of design ) and I have found this book excellent. I have worked with the previous edition and the new one is more complete. Is a a book rich of details useful for the profession.
Great Guide for Construction Designs........2007-05-13
This book has a great deal of information about anything you would need to know for designing.
Very Pleased.......2007-03-12
We received the book in a timely fashion, and in excellent condition.
We are always satisfied with everything we have ever gotten from Amazon!!
Thanks guys!
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Prepared by the American Institute of Architects
Bruce Bassler, Student Edition Editor, and John Ray Hoke, Jr., FAIA,
Editor in Chief, Architectural Graphic Standards
Architectural Graphic Standards has been the bedrock design reference for architects, builders, and engineers for almost seventy years. This book gives students their own new edition of this classic resource, skillfully abridged to include the information they need most.
Organized according to the CSI MasterFormatâ¢, it covers building standards and practices, materials and systems, and details and specifications for every basic type of project. The book provides important guidelines for major design topics that can help students save time and avoid common pitfalls right from the start of their career. More than 5,000 illustrations—all fully indexed for easy reference—offer easy access to virtually any element, instantly. Data is presented graphically in plan/section/elevation, projected and perspective views.
No other source offers so much useful data in such a convenient, accessible format. Whether it's an up-to-date glossary of construction terms or information on environmental issues, ADA standards, and other contemporary topics, Architectural Graphic Standards, Student Edition has more to offer than ever to anyone preparing for professional practice today.
Customer Reviews:
Great Resource for Design Students.......2007-05-24
I am a fourth year architecture student and I use this book every semester. I keep it with me at all times. It is the perfect design handbook. If you don't have it, You need it!
good product, delivery during expected time.......2007-05-22
The book was in great condition as expected. It was delivered during the expected time frame, but it was later rather than sooner. I purchase frequently from amazon and I recieve consistently good service from them.
Tons of Needed Info for Architects.......2006-11-05
Loaded with tons of reference data all good for Architects.
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An Architect's Best Friend.......2000-08-17
This book is one of the best reference books an architect will ever use. It contains the necessary information for the beginning and advanced architect. Inside the 568 pages in this book one will find from the most basic to the highly complex architectural graphics. The book provides reference for the various arcchitectural plans such as the floor plan, elevation and perspective drawings. No other reference material can surpass the amount of information provided in this excellent book.
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Celebrating its 75th Anniversary, Architectural Graphic Standards continues to be the bible for architects, builders, and engineers. Architectural Graphic Standards 4.0 has been completely redesigned for easier navigation and contains the entire contents of the book, including all 8,500 illustrations in digital and CAD-compatible format. Among other useful features, this new CD-ROM version:
Presents a new user interface that makes searching and downloading details easier
Provides easier search methods—Topic Search, Index Search, Key Word Search, and CSI Code Search.
Features content reorganized according to Uniformat, which more closely follows an architect's workflow.
The graphic standard details are available in a CAD-compatible format so users can view, print, or download from the CD-ROM into their own drawings, and the text and tables can be used in word processing or presentation software.
Is now compatible with the Mac!
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The worlds preeminent nature photographer creates magical images of wildlife in camouflage. In this astonishing new book, legendary wildlife photographer Art Wolfe turns to one of natures most fundamental survival techniques: the vanishing act. His portraits show animals and insects relying on deception, disguises, lures, and decoys to disappear into their surroundings and so confuse the eye of the predator. In a world where nothing is as it appears to be, a lion blends into the tall grass in the late afternoon sun, a harp seal disappears against his snowy backdrop. Pastel orchids can suddenly morph into predatory praying mantises; lizard heads become tails. What at first appears to be a torn and decomposing leaf on a forest floor in Peru suddenly sprouts legs and starts walking: it is a leaf-mimic katydid. Spotting each hidden animal amid Wolfes clever compositions is both a fun and informative game. At a time when many species are performing permanent vanishing acts due to habitat loss and human encroachment, this book showcases the beauty and evolutionary brilliance of animal behavior and artfully illustrates the tenacious will to stay alive in an eat-or-be-eaten world.
Customer Reviews:
The Best!.......2007-06-05
This is such an amazing and wonderful book of photos taken by Art Wolfe. "Vanishing Act" refers to the natural camouflage of living beings as they blend into their environment, as a means of self-preservation.
Honestly, I have had to look at some of the pictures 3 or 4 times before I could locate the animal, insect, bird, etc. that was lurking there. There is a "cheat sheet" in the back of the book, but I am determined to locate these creatures without resorting to outside help.
It is so amazing that I could look at a large picture 3 or 4 times and not see what I was looking at; however, once you see it clearly you can't understand how you could have missed it in the first place. Isn't nature grand? I have two of Art Wolfe's works hanging on my walls and they are the first things commented on by any visitor to my home.
Buy this book!
Fantastic nature photographs..........2007-03-09
A mezmerizing coffee table book. It's almost a puzzle to find the incredible creatures in the photos that have natural camouflage. Large format views with lots of detail. A nature lover's must-have.
Astonishing Vanishing Act.......2007-01-27
This photography/nature/evolution/puzzle book was simply astonishing. Everyone I've shown it to, from 8-80, has been both amazed by the photographs and thoroughly enjoyed reviewing it. When I brought it to work, a common response was, "Very cool ... Can I borrow this book overnight to show my husband/wife?" I need to e-mail Art Wolfe to ask him if I could represent him on his next creative effort. That way his work will achieve wider distribution and recognition.
Beautiful Book.......2007-01-22
I saw this book at a store and had to sit down in the store and look at it page by page and since it was a $50.00 book, had to race home and buy it on Amazon. It is a BEAUTIFUL book. If you love animals and nature in general, this book is awe inspiring. I bought it for my family. It shows the miraculous strategy of camaflage in nature. It is fun to see if you can find the animals in their natural settings. There are descriptive text and fingernail pictures in the back of the book to tell you where the animal is in the picture if you weren't able to spot it and a paragraph or two about the animal in general. It is a great coffee table book for guests to look through while they are waiting.
Vanishing Act - an entirely natural puzzle.......2007-01-09
This is a coffee table book with a twist - as you peruse the photographs the animals gradually or quickly appear out of their natural background - exactly the way they are sighted in the wild and giving you exactly the same thrill of discovery. Anyone curious about the natural world from young kids to expert biologists can enjoy it because, while it's a game, it's a very primal game.
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Sleeper provides six sigma practitioners with the tools which will allow them to stand out from your competitors by using advanced statistical and modeling tools for more in-depth analysis. Understanding and properly utilizing statistical data distributions is one of the most important and difficult skills for a six sigma practitioner to possess. Sleeper provides six sigma practitioners with a road map for selecting and using distributions for more precise outcomes. With the added value of Crystal Ball Modeling software, this book becomes a powerful tool for analyzing and modeling difficult data quickly and efficiently.
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Very useful reference.......2007-05-21
Excellent introduction regarding need for non-normal distributions for certain sets of data. Good examples make point easy to understand. Nice section on limitations of Excel statistics.
One of the best compilations of descriptive and mathematical details for distributions that could be useful in certain situations.
My only complaint is some missing details and calculation inconsistency in a Crystal Ball example based on a DOE analysis.
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- good, but not as brutal as it is made out to be
- Shades of Frey
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- Sleepers
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"Undeniably powerful, an enormously affecting and intensely human story."
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"In his controversial memoir SLEEPERS, Carcaterra remembers harrowing months in the Wilkinson Home for Boys and the elaborate vengeance he and his friends exacted against the guards. He tells it all in spare, stylish prose . . . [with] relentless momentum and sheer drama. . . . SLEEPERS is a thriller, to be sure, but it is equally a wistful hymn to another age."
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"A TERRIFYING ACCOUNT OF BRUTALITY AND RETRIBUTION, searing in its emotional truth, peopled with murderers, sadists, and thugs, but biblical in its passion and scope."
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Customer Reviews:
good, but not as brutal as it is made out to be.......2006-07-07
THis book is pretty mild...the scenes in which the boys are abused by the guards are mostly cut off and non descriptive. one of the spotlight reviews points out the last part of this book is probably fantasy, and I tend to agree. I would think that it would be next to impossible to pull off what they did to those guys, and even if they did try to switch it like they did, then i would think the way they did it would have nothing to do with their trial results. I think that this was a good attempt and a great story, but would have worked better as a fictional piece...read it and see for yourself.
Shades of Frey.......2006-05-18
I agree with M. Cormier's review and believe this is partly true. It was an interesting book, well written but does not seem to be entirely true. It could be, but after James Frey's "memoir" all the non-fiction books I read are suspect. Non-fiction will never be the same.
Meat, Potatoes, and Salad.......2006-03-08
Sleepers is one of those books that the reader can get through very quickly. It is difficult not to become involved with the characters and with the plot. The book is well-written, and incredibly powerful. I give it four stars, not to take anything away from the book, but because I don't consider it to be a perfect book. It was quite an enjoyable read, and I definitely recommend it.
I think that the question of whether or not it's an autobiographical story or not is irrelevant. I think that rather the statement it intends to make and the story it tells should be the focus. The story itself, rather than the way it was marketed. But if the controversy is going to kill you, don't bother.
Sleepers.......2006-03-07
Sleepers ia a haungint, disturbing coming-of-age tale of four young boys who have to go to a juvenile prison after accidentally nearly killing a man. The controversy over whether the book is fact or fiction clouds the significance of the novel, however. As an autobiography, the book is a powerful story that both shocks the reader and causes the reader to question how such atrocities could happen. As a work of fiction, on the other hand, which is what it is generally believed to be, Sleepers loses some credibility; the author states at the beginning that the events really did happen. Nonetheless, Sleepers is a fairly suspenseful story for mature adults with strong stomachs.
wASNT THIS MADE INTO A MOVIE?.......2006-03-07
WASNT THIS BOOK MADE INTO A MOVIE STARRING KEVIN BACON,, MAYBE?
WHERE HE WAS MAYBE THE GUARD THEY RAN INTO OUTSIDE AND KILLED?
SOUNDS SIMILIAR STORY..
FROM BACK-COVER:
AN UNFORGETTABLE TRUE STORY OF FRIENDSHIP, LOYALTY AND REVENGE.
LORENZO, MICHAEL, HOHN, AND TOMMY SHAED EVERYTHING-THE LAUGHTER AND THE BRUISES OF AN IMPOVERISHED CHILDHOOD ON NEW YORK'S VIOLENT WEST-SIDE UNTIL ONE OF THEIR PRANKS MISFIRED, AND THEY WERE ALL SENT TO REFORM SCHOOL.
TWELVE MONTHS OF SYSTEMATIC MENTAL, PHYSICAL, AND SEXUAL ABUSE LEFT THE BOYS TRANSFORMED FOR EVER.
ELEVEN YEARS LATER, ONE OF THEM HAD BECOME A JOURNALIST, ONE A LAWYER, AND THE OTHER TWO KILLERS FOR THE MOB.
IN A CHANCE ENCOUNTER THEY CAME FACE TO FACE WITH ONE OF THEIR TORTURERS AND SHOT HIM DEAD IN FRONT OF SEVERAL WITNESSES. THE TRIAL THAT FOLLOWED BROUGHT THE FOUR FRIENDS TOGETHER AGAIN IN ONE LAST AUDACIOUS STAND-AND A COURTROOM CLIMAX AS GRIPPING AS ANY JOHN GRISHAM NOVEL.
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Art Wolfe's stunning full-color photographs and Barbara Sleeper's informative text pay tribute to each of the world's 37 species of wild cats. Shown here in all their fearful symmetry and lithe grace are not only the famous big cats of the wild, but also the many medium-size and small cats.
191 4-color photographs.
Customer Reviews:
Wild Cats of the World. by Barbara Sleeper.......2000-01-12
A *coffee table* book with beautiful photos by Art Wolfe, one of the best US nature/wildlife photographers. It gives basic descriptions of different wildcat species , commenting on general conservation issues in the last two chapters. It's worth buying just for the photos alone.
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This spellbinding epic novel is first volume of the tetralogy in which Samuel Sagan presents the wonders of the Atlantean World, predictions regarding the future of humanity, and initiation secrets - past, present and future. A magnificent story of heart and of a struggle for awakening, with multiple references to mythology and cosmology. It tells of the end of one world, and the birth of a new one. Expect surprises!
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A remarkable journey of awakening.......2007-10-10
The first book of an amazing series. You must read all of the Atlatean Secrets series. If you are ready, they will trigger awakenings within you.
Much more than a story.......2007-06-22
A fabulous book that seems to have the means to 'move'you and wake you up! I found myself using phrases and thoughts from this book in my daily life without consciously choosing to, and always finding myself helped by it. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
Fiction???.......2004-09-04
My work is in engineering. By preference, I seldom or never read fiction. If it isn't true, why would I care about it anyway? No, I prefer graduate texts, thank you. Further, I've always been wary of robust claims that sound like "new age." Therefore, I've avoided reading this book for a long time. As it happens, I was wrong. The other reviewers, especially Ms. Oneida, are quite right. Just as wonderful music (Chopin, Bach, Mozart, Simon and Garfunkel) may put you into a robust, refreshed, expansive frame of mind, so can this book. It has a "reality" in the same internal sense that music does. I consider most fiction to be pure rubbish, although I consider this to be a noteworthy exception. To be fair, though, you'd have to see for yourself---know for yourself.
A Marvellous Book!.......2002-06-20
I found myself travelling into faraway places and other dimentions when I first read it! I have scince re-read it about 4 times. A most wonderful book! I highly recomend it for anyone ubove 15.
Sleeper Awaken (Atlantean Secrets).......2000-04-25
Reading this book was a total experience which took me into massive spaces. I could really feel the presence of the Flying Dragons, the White Eagle and the Masters of Thunder. When I finished reading the book it was hard to wait for the others in the series as I really missed the spaces. I ended up re-reading Sleeper Awaken while I waited! More than a book, an awesome experience!
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