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An Age of Barnsby Eric SloaneISBN 0345349679 (0-345-34967-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environmentby Reyner BanhamISBN 0226036987 (0-226-03698-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Asterix and Cleopatraby R. Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 0340172207 (0-340-17220-7)
Softcover, Charles River Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asterix and Cleopatra'Book summary:To impress Julius Caesar, Queen Cleopatra promises to build the Roman Emperor a magnificent palace in just three months. Of course, Asterix has to get involved. By the time his feisty group from Gaul have finished, theyve outwitted the Roman army, too.[via] ![[???]: Basic Carpentry](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0376015802.01._SL160_SCLZZZZZZZ__.jpg "[???]: Basic Carpentry")
Basic Carpentry Illustratedby Sunset EditorsISBN 0376010150 (0-376-01015-0)
Softcover, Leisure Arts
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Basic Home Wiring Illustratedby Linda J. SeldenISBN 0376010940 (0-376-01094-0)
Hardcover, Lane Pub Co
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Basic Home Wiring Illustratedby Sunset Books, Linda J. SeldenISBN 0376010959 (0-376-01095-9)
Softcover, Lane Pub Co
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Basic MasonryISBN 0376015829 (0-376-01582-9)
Softcover, Leisure Arts
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Basic Masonry Illustratedby Sunset EditorsISBN 0376013605 (0-376-01360-5)
Softcover, Leisure Arts
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The Bodyby Not AvailableISBN 0333765346 (0-333-76534-6)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architectureby Ross KingISBN 0142000159 (0-14-200015-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture'Book summary:Filippo Brunelleschi's design for the dome of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence remains one of the most towering achievements of Renaissance architecture. Completed in 1436, the dome remains a remarkable feat of design and engineering. Its span of more than 140 feet exceeds St Paul's in London and St Peter's in Rome, and even outdoes the Capitol in Washington, D.C., making it the largest dome ever constructed using bricks and mortar. The story of its creation and its brilliant but "hot-tempered" creator is told in Ross King's delightful Brunelleschi's Dome.
Both dome and architect offer King plenty of rich material. The story of the dome goes back to 1296, when work began on the cathedral, but it was only in 1420, when Brunelleschi won a competition over his bitter rival Lorenzo Ghiberti to design the daunting cupola, that work began in earnest. King weaves an engrossing tale from the political intrigue, personal jealousies, dramatic setbacks, and sheer inventive brilliance that led to the paranoid Filippo, "who was so proud of his inventions and so fearful of plagiarism," finally seeing his dome completed only months before his death. King argues that it was Brunelleschi's improvised brilliance in solving the problem of suspending the enormous cupola in bricks and mortar (painstakingly detailed with precise illustrations) that led him to "succeed in performing an engineering feat whose structural daring was without parallel." He tells a compelling, informed story, ranging from discussions of the construction of the bricks, mortar, and marble that made up the dome, to its subsequent use as a scientific instrument by the Florentine astronomer Paolo Toscanelli. --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Building Construction Before Mechanizationby John FitchenISBN 026256047X (0-262-56047-X)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Building the Georgian Cityby James AyresISBN 0300075480 (0-300-07548-0)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Children's Play AreasISBN 0376010584 (0-376-01058-4)
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The Civilized Engineerby Samuel C. FlormanISBN 0312025599 (0-312-02559-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Complete Home Storageby Southern LivingISBN 0376090588 (0-376-09058-8)
Softcover, Leisure Arts
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Complete Home Storageby Sunset BooksISBN 0376017651 (0-376-01765-1)
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The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals: A Study of Medieval Vault Erectionby John FitchenISBN 0226252035 (0-226-25203-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Creating Storage: Hidden Storage & Rescued Space in the Garage, Attic, or BasementISBN 0376017686 (0-376-01768-6)
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Crsi Manual of Standard PracticeISBN 0318204657 (0-318-20465-7)
Softcover, Concrete Reinforcing Steel Inst
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Death At A Premium: A Josie Pigeon Mysteryby Valerie WolzienISBN 0345468090 (0-345-46809-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Deck the Halls with Murderby Valerie WolzienISBN 0345466217 (0-345-46621-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Details of Modern Architectureby Edward R. FordISBN 0262562014 (0-262-56201-4)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed Americaby Erik LarsonISBN 0375725601 (0-375-72560-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America'Book summary:Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that The Devil in the White City is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor. Burnham's challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he was forced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. His efforts to complete the project, and the fair's incredible success, are skillfully related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims. Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson's skillful writing. --John Moe [via]
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Dwelling Construction Under the Uniform Building CodeISBN 0318355361 (0-318-35536-1)
Softcover, Intl Code Council
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The Engineer in America: A Historical Anthology from Technology and Cultureby Terry S. ReynoldsISBN 0226710327 (0-226-71032-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Engineering and the Mind's Eyeby Eugene S. FergusonISBN 026256078X (0-262-56078-X)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Engineering and the Mind's Eye'Book summary:The things that engineers design are everywhere, and the influence that engineers have on daily life is far out of proportion to their numbers. In this expanded version of a remarkable essay published in Science more than a decade ago, Eugene Ferguson takes a probing look at the process of engineering design, arguing that despite modern technical advances, good engineering is still as much a matter of intuition and nonverbal thinking as of equations and computation.
Ferguson, who has been successively a mechanical engineer, a technical museum curator, and a teacher of the history of technology, uses examples ranging from the development of the American axe to the collapse of the Hartford Coliseum and the performance of the Hubble space telescope to illustrate the ways in which visual thinking enriches engineering and the ways in which engineering that relies solely on technical sophistication can go wrong. He argues that a system of engineering education that ignores this heritage of nonverbal thinking will produce engineers who are dangerously ignorant of the many ways in which the real world differs from the mathematical models constructed in academic minds.
In Engineering and the Mind's Eye, Ferguson discusses the nature of engineering design and traces the development of visual and other nonverbal thinking, offering examples of how engineers and other technologists have used such strategies since the Renaissance. Accompanying these examples, and demonstrating the ways in which engineers have shared their knowledge, is a parallel text of illustrations showing how visual thinking has been expressed over the past five centuries. Ferguson concludes his provocative account by arguing that engineering education since 1945 has been skewed toward analytical techniques - which are easiest to teach and evaluate - and away from the art of engineering design as taught by experienced engineers.
Eugene Ferguson is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Delaware. [via]More editions of Engineering and the Mind's Eye:
English Country Styleby Mary GilliattISBN 0316313823 (0-316-31382-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Explore the World of Man-Made Wondersby Simon Adams, Stephen BiestyISBN 0307156036 (0-307-15603-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Foucault's Pendulumby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 015603297X (0-15-603297-X)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foucault's Pendulum'Book summary:as brilliant and quirky as the name of the rose, as mischievous and wide-raning....a virtuoso performance."the san francisco chroniclethree clever book editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe, decide to have a little fun. Randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entires, they think they are creating a long lazy game--until the game starts taking over....here is an incredible journey of thought and history, memory and fantasy, a tour de force as enthralling as anything umberto eco--or indeed anyone--has ever devised [via]
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The Four Books on Architectureby Andrea PalladioISBN 0262661330 (0-262-66133-0)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Fundamental Accounting Principlesby Michael Zin, Pyle, William W. and Larson, Kermit D., John Arch WhiteISBN 0256017867 (0-256-01786-7)
Hardcover, Irwin-Dorsey
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Fundamental Accounting Principlesby Kermit D. Larson, Pyle, William W. and Larson, Kermit D., John Arch WhiteISBN 0256019940 (0-256-01994-0)
Hardcover, R. D. Irwin
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Fundamental Accounting Principlesby Pyle, William W. and Larson, Kermit D., John Arch WhiteISBN 0256016224 (0-256-01622-4)
Hardcover, R. D. Irwin
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Garden and Patio Building Bookby Sunset EditorsISBN 0376012161 (0-376-01216-1)
Softcover, Leisure Arts
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Granta 39: The Bodyby Bill BufordISBN 0140140492 (0-14-014049-2)
Softcover, Granta Books
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Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, And Build a Competitive Advantageby Daniel C. Esty, Andrew S. WinstonISBN 0300119976 (0-300-11997-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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A Handbook of Costumeby Janet ArnoldISBN 0333124812 (0-333-12481-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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The House That Biff Builtby Jim Henson, Janet Campbell, Tom CookeISBN 0307231194 (0-307-23119-4)
Hardcover, Western Pub Co
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Builtby Stewart BrandISBN 0140139966 (0-14-013996-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built'Book summary:Buildings have often been studies whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time. How Buildings Learn is a masterful new synthesis that proposes that buildings adapt best when constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and that architects can mature from being artists of space to becoming artists of time.[via]From the connected farmhouses of New England to I.M. Pei's Media Lab, from "satisficing" to "form follows funding," from the evolution of bungalows to the invention of Santa Fe Style, from Low Road military surplus buildings to a High Road English classic like Chatsworththis is a far-ranging survey of unexplored essential territory.
More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with timeif they're allowed to. How Buildings Learn shows how to work with time rather than against it.
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How Buildings Work: The Natural Order of Architectureby Edward Allen, David Swoboda, Arouni, Jesse JacksonISBN 0195091000 (0-19-509100-0)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companiesby Thomas J. PetersISBN 0317176536 (0-317-17653-6)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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In the Skin of a Lionby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0140113096 (0-14-011309-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Skin of a Lion'Book summary:Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion uses its Toronto setting in the way that Martin Amis's London Fields uses London or Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz uses Montreal. In Skin, Toronto is a main character, although it's a character few of us have seen before. Set in the 1920s and '30s, the novel replaces the official history of Toronto's industrial adolescence, a history of commissioned architecture and suited politicians with ceremonial shovels, with an immigrant's history of crushing labour, repressive laws, a new language gleaned from matinee plays, and crowded apartment buildings where "a bottle of fruit whiskey" could often be found on summer nights dangling on "a long piece of twine" from fire escape to fire escape for all to share.
A quartet of vibrant characters animates Ondaatje's reclaimed Toronto. Farm-boy Patrick Lewis relocates to Toronto with a dual inheritance: a habit of solitude and a marketable skill with dynamite. Nicholas Temelcoff is a daredevil builder on the Bloor St. Viaduct eager for the most dangerous and acrobatic jobs. Alice Gull transforms the dedication of an early vocation into the passions of an actress and a political revolutionary. Italian thief David Caravaggio robs "the mean rich, the soft rich" and (literally) paints his way out of prison.
Virtuosos in isolation, the characters are beset by forces beyond their control. Ondaatje's tale ends up questioning the very abilities that it so delights in depicting: might the "solitary" strength of a hero be a curse rather than a blessing? Rewriting as it does the history of a growing, multicultural metropolis, In the Skin of a Lion plays with public history and private passion to examine the very fabric of community. --Darryl Whetter [via]
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The Introspective Engineerby Samuel C. FlormanISBN 0312151527 (0-312-15152-7)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Italian Baroque and Rococo Architectureby John VarrianoISBN 0195035488 (0-19-503548-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Kitchens: Planning and RemodelingISBN 0376013478 (0-376-01347-8)
Softcover, Leisure Arts
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Knitting in Plain Englishby Maggie RighettiISBN 0312353537 (0-312-35353-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Knitting in Plain English'Book summary:[via]The first edition of this indispensable classic gave knitters easy-to-follow (and fun-to-read) advice on producing the knits of their dreams. Drawing on decades of experience as a knitting instructor and designer, Maggie Righetti offered step-by-step directions on avoiding common mistakes and getting out of tricky spots.
Now, in this completely updated and revised version, Righetti gives readers what they've asked for: advice on making all different garments, working with new patterns and different kinds of yarn, and even an introduction to her own legendary history. Neither aggressively hip nor bafflingly encyclopedic, Knitting in Plain English offers basic principles that will make any project---from a basic blanket to an intricate sweater---rewarding.
Having Knitting in Plain English on the shelf is like having your own knitting teacher available to help at all times with any thorny problem.More editions of Knitting in Plain English:
Lowes Complete Tile And Flooringby Barbara Finwall, Nancy JavierISBN 0376009217 (0-376-00921-7)
Hardcover, Sunset Pub Co
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The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Formsby Mark Strand, Eavan BolandISBN 0393321789 (0-393-32178-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms'Book summary:The Making of a Poem is among the best how-to-read-poetry titles. Edited by two of our greatest living poets, one Irish and female, the other American and male, it is both an exploration of poetic forms and an anthology. Eavan Boland and Mark Strand each offer an introduction and then give us a series of chapters devoted to particular verse forms--the sonnet, the ballad, the sestina, the villanelle, blank verse, the stanza--as well as a long section devoted to what they somewhat vaguely call shaping forms. This refers to poetic structures established not by a specific rhyme and/or metrical pattern but by content: the elegy, for example, or the pastoral or ode. The book then concludes with a section on open forms. Each chapter is conveniently subdivided, each topic simply defined: a single page gives "The Ballad at a Glance" (or, for that matter, the pantoum) as a quick overview of the form's structure. A page or two on the history of the form follows, along with a brief comment on "the contemporary context." Then a chronological anthology of poems demonstrates the particular form. In the sonnet's case, for instance, we are treated to 23 brilliantly chosen examples--everything from Shakespeare's "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" to Seamus Heaney's "The Haw Lantern" to Mary Jo Salter's playful "Half a Double Sonnet." The section then concludes with another brief analysis of one example. In this spot, the villanelle features Elizabeth Bishop's classic heartbreaker, "One Art," and blank verse gives us far too brief a take on Robert Frost's tantalizing "Directive." Itself worth the price of admission, the poem begins:
Back out of all this now too much for us,
One can readily see both the advantages and the limitations of such a format: definitions are kept lean, at times approaching the sound bite, and the short sentences and brief paragraphs often seem designed for a readership more accustomed to journalism than to the complexities of Dante (see, for example, the one-page history of the sestina). All of this looks like an attempt to reach an audience of both college students and general readers. While more information might help (brief comments on why certain poems in the anthology are defined as odes, pastorals, or elegies, for example), the bottom line is that The Making of a Poem does an excellent job of taking the inexperienced reader inside the mystery of poetic form. In these terms the volume succeeds, giving us a way into the history of poetry, along with an excellent anthology as a starting point for a deeper exploration of the glories of the genre. --Doug Thorpe [via]
Back in a time made simply by the loss
of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off
Like graveyard marble sculpture in the weather,
There is a house that is no more than a house
Upon a farm that is no more than a farm
And in a town that is no more than a town.
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Management Planning and Control Systems: Advanced Concepts and Casesby Jerry DermerISBN 025601874X (0-256-01874-X)
Hardcover, R. D. Irwin
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The Mansion of the Godsby Rene De GoscinnyISBN 0340192690 (0-340-19269-0)
Softcover, Intl Learning Systems
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mansion of the Gods'Book summary:Caesar has plans to build a luxury holiday complex, the Mansion of the Gods, for Roman holidaymakers, just next to the Gaulish village. However, through the cunning plans of Asterix, things do not turn out quite as the Romans had hoped.
The Adventures of Asterix (French: Asterix or Asterix le Gaulois) is a series of French comic books written by Rene Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo (Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series after the death of Goscinny in 1977). The series first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959. As of 2008, 33 comic books in the series have been released.
The series follows the exploits of a village of ancient Gauls as they resist Roman occupation. They do so by means of a magic potion, brewed by their druid, which gives the recipient superhuman strength. The protagonist, the titular character, Asterix, along with his friend Obelix have various adventures. In many cases, this leads them to travel to various countries around the world, though other books are set in and around their village. For much of the history of the series (Volumes 4 through 29), settings in Gaul and abroad alternated, with even-numbered volumes set abroad and odd-numbered volumes set in Gaul, mostly in the village.
The Asterix series is one of the most popular Franco-Belgian comics in the world, with the series being translated into over 100 languages, and it is popular in most European countries.
The success of the series has led to the adaptation of several books into 11 films; eight animated, and three with live actors. There have also been a number of games based on the characters, and a theme park near Paris, Parc Asterix, is themed around the series. To date, 325 million copies of 33 Asterix books have been sold around the world making co-creators Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo France's bestselling authors abroad. [via]More editions of The Mansion of the Gods:
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Manufacturing Engineering and Technologyby Serope KalpakjianISBN 0201538466 (0-201-53846-6)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manufacturing Engineering and Technology'Book summary:The new edition of this text provides up-to-date coverage and focuses on manufacturing in the real world. It features a thorough updating of material, particularly automation and other computer-oriented topics, modern materials and non-traditional manufacturing methods, especially rapid prototyping. New categories of homework problems are also included, namely, review questions, quantitative problems, qualitative problems and synthesis and design questions. [via]
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The Medieval Castle: Life in a Fortress in Peace and Warby Philip WarnerISBN 0141390700 (0-14-139070-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Medieval Castle:Life in a Fortress in Peace and War: Life in a Fortress in Peace and Warby Philip WarnerISBN 0213764458 (0-213-76445-8)
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The Medieval Fortress: Castles, Forts and Walled Cities of the Middle Agesby J. E. Kaufmann, H. W. Kaufmann, Robert M. JurgaISBN 0306813580 (0-306-81358-0)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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The Medieval Machineby Jean GimpelISBN 0140045147 (0-14-004514-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Manby Michael FlockerISBN 0306813432 (0-306-81343-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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My Little Red Toolboxby Stephen T. JohnsonISBN 015202154X (0-15-202154-X)
Hardcover, Silver Whistle
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The Mysteries of Stonehengeby Fernand NielISBN 0380004739 (0-380-00473-9)
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National Electrical Code 1984ISBN 0317376446 (0-317-37644-6)
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A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builderby Michael PollanISBN 0385319908 (0-385-31990-8)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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In Pollan's bestselling book Second Nature: A Gardener's Education, he illustrated his facility with both hoe and pen. In A Place of My Own he hefts the hammer and again records with great intelligence how thoroughly thought and reflection can be woven into our common lives and the patterns of a day's work. His book's subtitle, "An Education of an Amateur Builder," captures much of what this book contains: the lessons learned by a diligent student of architecture, design, and construction. The writing contains no gaps or unsightly seams, and it's full of clues to readers who share a similar desire to build something tangible in a world that prizes the evanescent. [via]
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The Practice of Managementby Peter F. DruckerISBN 0330020315 (0-330-02031-5)
Hardcover, Pan
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The Production of Housesby Christopher AlexanderISBN 0195032233 (0-19-503223-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Buildingby Deborah Hopkinson, Ransome, James, E.ISBN 0375836101 (0-375-83610-1)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Skyscraper Dreams: The Great Real Estate Dynasties of New Yorkby Tom ShachtmanISBN 0316782130 (0-316-78213-0)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledgeby Peter L. BergerISBN 0385058985 (0-385-05898-5)
Softcover, Doubleday
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Southern Living Roofing and SidingISBN 0376090790 (0-376-09079-0)
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Sunset Garden & Patio Building BookISBN 0376012110 (0-376-01211-0)
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This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older Houseby Bob VilaISBN 0316177024 (0-316-17702-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Tilt: A Skewed History of the Tower of Pisaby Nicholas ShradyISBN 0143034502 (0-14-303450-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Timeless Way of Buildingby Christopher AlexanderISBN 0195024028 (0-19-502402-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Now, at last, there is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms an architecture as ancient as human society itself.
The Timeless Way of Building is the introductory volume in the Center for Environmental Structure series, Christopher Alexander presents in it a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from their own being.
Alexander writes, "There is one timeless way of building. It is thousands of years old, and the same today as it has always been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. And as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form as the trees and hills, and as our faces are." [via]More editions of Timeless Way of Building:
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Designby Henry PetroskiISBN 0312806809 (0-312-80680-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigsby Jon Scieszka, Lane SmithISBN 0140544518 (0-14-054451-8)
Softcover, Puffin
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As with The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, (another stellar collaboration by Scieszka and illustrator Lane Smith), children who know all the old stories by heart will delight in reading impudent new versions. Here, Scieszka's text is clever, savvy, and tabloid-quick, and Smith's stretchy-strange illustrations complete this funny, irreverent, thoroughly original tale. (Ages 4 to 8) [via]
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Vehicle and Engine Technologyby Heinz HeislerISBN 0340691867 (0-340-69186-7)
Softcover, Hodder Arnold
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Woman: An Intimate Geographyby Natalie AngierISBN 0385498411 (0-385-49841-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The mysteries of evolution are not a new subject for Angier, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biology writer for the New York Times whose previous books include The Beauty of the Beastly and Natural Obsessions. The strengths of Woman begin with Angier's witty and evocative prose style, but its real contribution is the way it expands the definition of female "geography" beyond womb, breasts, and estrogen, down as far as the bimolecular substructure of DNA and up as high as the transcendent infrastructure of the human brain. --Patrizia DiLucchio [via]
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LA Verdadera Historia De Los Tres Cerditos!/the True Story of the 3 Little Pigsby Jon Scieszka, S. Lobo, Lane SmithISBN 014055758X (0-14-055758-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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