Over 70 percent of Americans cannot afford to own a code-enforced, contractor-built home. This has led to widespread interest in using natural materials, straw, cob, and earth-for building homes and other buildings that are inexpensive, and that rely largely on labor rather than expensive and often environmentally-damaging outsourced materials.

This unique book discusses programming, design and building evaluation providing a joined up approach to building design. By linking the functional and architectonic qualities of a building, the authors show the practical implications of the utility value of buildings. Starting by looking at how the relationship between form and function has been dealt with by different approaches to architecture from a historical perspective, it goes on to discuss how the desired functional quality and utility value of a building can be expressed in a brief and given a physical form by the architect. Finally, it advises on how to carry out post-occupancy evaluation and provides the architect with methods and techniques for testing whether the intended utility value of a building has been achieved.

Книга расскажет об основных и важнейших правилах эксплуатации, ремонта и профилактики сантехнического оборудования. Как правильно установить ванну, унитаз, раковину, мойку, фильтр для воды, подключить стиральную и посудомоечную машину. Как отремонтировать вышедший из строя смеситель, кран. Методы борьбы с коррозией, с образованием конденсата и замерзанием труб, устранение засоров и запахов - все это есть в данной книге.

В книге рассмотрены инструменты и материалы, необходимые для сборки масштабных пластиковых моделей, а также на примере разных самолетов представлены различные этапы сборки и придания модели окончательного вида для ее представления.

Building XNA 2.0 Games: A Practical Guide for Independent Game Development is written by James Silva, who recently won the prestigious Microsoft Dream Build Play game competition with his award–winning title, The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai.

Building XNA 2.0 Games: A Practical Guide for Independent Game Development is an in–depth and exclusive look into the entire XNA game development process and includes the creation of a software game masterpiece. James Silva guides you through the process he took to build his award–winning title from concept to reality. He reveals tips and techniques for creating a polished, high–quality game with very few resources, while bridging the gap between coding and art.

Written by an authoritative team of experts, this book gives guidance as to the types of building stock offering greatest potential for conversion that are likely to be viable and sustainable. The team of authors includes historians, researchers, conservationists, designers and entrepreneurs. The book covers a wide range of issues from analysis of different types of industrial building and conservation policy to a useful illustrated case study section presenting successful initiatives in different environments and countries.

The grand narrative of The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building is that of the essential continuity of the late Ottoman Empire with the Republic of Turkey that was founded in 1923. Erik Jan Zurcher shows that Kemal's "ideological toolkit," which included positivism, militarism, nationalism and a state-centred world view, was shared by many other Young Turks.

Building Chairs -  цветное иллюстрированное специализированное пособие по изготовлению стульев.

Practical PHP and MySQL reflects Jono’s commitment to the spirit of making open source subjects accessible to everyone. The book carefully walks you through the code for eight useful, dynamic Web applications. Projects are presented in a playful way, like the forum project that touts horror movies that make you ‘hide behind the couch.’”
–From the Foreword by Christopher Negus, Series Editor, Negus Live Linux Series Build Dynamic Web Sites Fast, with PHP and MySQL… Learn from Eight Ready-to-Run Applications! Suddenly, it’s easy to build commercial-quality Web applications using free and open source software. With this book, you’ll learn from eight ready-to-run, real-world applications–all backed by clear diagrams and screenshots, well-documented code, and simple, practical explanations. Leading open source author Jono Bacon teaches the core skills you’ll need to build virtually any application. You’ll discover how to connect with databases, upload content, perform cascading deletes, edit records, validate registrations, specify user security, create reusable components, use PEAR extensions, and even build Ajax applications.

These projects are fun to build and fun to use.
Make lights dance to music, play with radio remote control, or build your own metal detector
Who says the Science Fair has to end? If you love building gadgets, this book belongs on your radar. Here are complete directions for building ten cool creations that involve light, sound, or vibrations -- a weird microphone, remote control gizmos, talking toys, and more, with full parts and tools lists, safety guidelines, and wiring schematics.
Check out ten cool electronics projects, including
* Chapter 8 - Surfing the Radio Waves (how to make your own radio)
* Chapter 9 - Scary Pumpkins (crazy Halloween decorations that have sound, light, and movement)

Практичная, понятная, книга о том, нужно делать, которая поможет самому неопытному в Сетевом Маркетинге построить бизнес своей мечты. После чтения этой книги любой может добиться успеха в Сетевом Маркетинге. Она понятна, разбита на шаги и ведет прямо к цели.
Эта книга о том, что такое сетевой бизнес и как много он дает для развития деловых качеств человека. Автор, известный эксперт по многоуровневому маркетингу, предлагает вам подробный план - с чего начинать и как действовать, чтобы добиться успеха. Вы узнаете, как привлечь дистрибьюторов, мотивировать их, как управлять большой сетью, одновременно продолжая наращивать ее, как рационально тратить свое время и обходить препоны, как готовить новых лидеров и добиться эффективной работы всей системы, как создать свой высокодоходный бизнес.

This book is a complete step by step reference for building, tuning, and repairing black powder rifles, pistols, and revolvers. It also has a great historical introduction on the frontier gunsmith, with sections on tools and safety.

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A step-by-step guide to building PHP web sites and applications using the Smarty templating engine /В данной книге шаг за шагом описывается процесс создания сайтов и приложений с применением шаблонизатора Smarty/

Тема, которой посвящена данная книга, всегда вызывает интерес у читателей. Постоянно совершенствуются технологии строительства бань и саун, на рынок поступают новые материалы, приборы и оборудование, защитные и изолирующие покрытия. Должное внимание в книге уделено теме оборудования бассейнов при банях и саунах.

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Well before Ajax and Windows Presentation Foundation, Macromedia Flash provided the first method for building rich web pages. Now, Adobe is making Flash a full-fledged development environment, and learning ActionScript 3.0 is key. That s a challenge for even the most experienced Flash developer. This Cookbook offers more than 300 solutions to solve a wide range of coding dilemmas, so you can learn to work with the new version right away.

What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense. 4th Edition.

Joel Comm best-selling AdSense ebook is the definitive guide to making money with Google AdSense. With 220 pages of content, this guide is ideal for beginners and intermediate level users, providing strategies for building profitable websites, monetizing with AdSense, as well as a number of other avenues for generating revenue.

В книге Мартина Коха поэтапно рассказан и показан весь процесс производства электрогитар различных типов, от начальной до финальной стадии.

Вы узнаете, какое дерево лучше подходит для разных гитар, как дерево лучше высушивать, какие звукосниматели и активную электронику применять и т.д. и т.п.
В последней главе иллюстрированный репортаж о посещении мастерских таких известных брэндов, как "Steve Jarman Guitars" (Великобритания), "Sadowsky Guitars" (США) и "PRS-Guitars" (США).