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_Smart_Materials and_Technologies-_For the_Architecture and_Design_Professions
[ebook_store ebook_id=”6938″]Today, architects and designers are beginning to look toward developments in new“smart” or “intelligent” materials and technologies for solutions to long-standing problemsin building design. However, these new materials have so far been applied in a diversebut largely idiosyncratic nature, because relatively few architects have access toinformation about the types or properties of these new…
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_Understanding_Wood_A_Craftsman’s_Guide to_Wood_Technology
[ebook_store ebook_id=”6631″] This is the definitive book on characteristics of wood. The first edition of Understanding Wood was published in 1980 and has since sold more than 130,000 copies. It is widely held as a definitive reference work and the cornerstone of every woodworker’s library. Now, Bruce Hoadley’s comprehensive guide to wood technology has been revised and updated in…
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_Civil_Engineer’s_Reference_Book_4th Ed
[ebook_store ebook_id=”6528″] After an examination of fundamental theories as applied to civil engineering, authoritative coverage is included on design practice for certain materials and specific structures and applications. A particular feature is the incorporation of chapters on construction and site practice, including contract management and control.
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_Technology_A_World_History
[ebook_store ebook_id=”6458″] Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment–a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to…