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Intelligent Building Systems
ISBN: 9780792384915 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Intelligent building is the future of our building industry; all commercial, residential, industrial and institutional buildings will be designed towards the goal of intelligent buildings'. The most important aspect of an intelligent building is the building systems, such as electrical services, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems, vertical transportation systems, and life safety systems, which must operate intelligently and efficiently to enhance the activities of the occupants. Intelligent Building Systems explains what already exists in a modern intelligent building...
Intelligent building is the future of our building industry; all commercial, residential, industrial and institutional buildings will be designed towa...
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1108,88 |
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Organizing for Life: Declutter Your Mind to Declutter Your World
ISBN: 9780800731854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Somehow, no matter how hard some people try to change their messy habits, they just can't seem to keep their homes in any kind of order. Magazines and books and television shows offer all kinds of advice and tactics for keeping a house organized and neat and livable. But what some people need is not more advice but a change in their mindsets.
Organizing for Life helps readers understand why they seem to be inherently messy people, exposing the lies they tell themselves and introducing the truth about how they really can have a clean, inviting home. Felton helps readers focus on overcoming... Somehow, no matter how hard some people try to change their messy habits, they just can't seem to keep their homes in any kind of order. Magazines and...
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80,65 |
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Guns on the Early Frontiers: A History of Firearms from Colonial Times through the Years of the Western Fur Trade
ISBN: 9780803289031 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 395 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Here is a book for the historian, the student, the gun collector or aficionado. . . . It approaches understatement to call Guns on the Early Frontiers an outstanding contribution to firearms literature. It sets its own standard."--New York Times. "A Glossary of Gun Terms, ample footnotes most skillfully arranged and illustrations beyond the dreams of avarice complement the text, which achieves the miracle of scholarship without tedium."--W.H. Hutchinson, San Francisco Chronicle. "Not the least interesting portions of the book are the notes and glossary and the excellent bibliography. Here ...
"Here is a book for the historian, the student, the gun collector or aficionado. . . . It approaches understatement to call Guns on the Early Frontier...
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cena:
119,82 |
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Build With Adobe
ISBN: 9780804006347 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This practical guide to building adobe homes was written from the author's many years of experience with adobe, and it is refreshingly no-nonsense: "What can you spend?" "Where will you put it?" "Who is going to build it?" This new updated and enlarged edition includes hundreds of photographs, drawings and house plans as well as new information about passive solar heating and cooling, and specific details on construction.
This practical guide to building adobe homes was written from the author's many years of experience with adobe, and it is refreshingly no-nonsense: "W...
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cena:
89,55 |
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Woodwright's Shop: A Practical Guide to Traditional Woodcraft
ISBN: 9780807840825 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Roy Underhill brings to woodworking the intimate relationship with wood that craftsmen enjoyed in the days before power tools. Combining historical background, folklore, alternative technololgy, and humor, he provides both a source of general information and a detailed introduction to traditional woodworking. Beginning with a guide to trees and tools, The Woodwright's Shop includes chapters on gluts and mauls, shaving horses, rakes, chairs, weaving wood, hay forks, dough bowls, lathes, blacksmithing, dovetails, panel-frame construction, log houses, and timber-frame construction. More...
Roy Underhill brings to woodworking the intimate relationship with wood that craftsmen enjoyed in the days before power tools. Combining historical ba...
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126,45 |
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Woodwright's Companion: Exploring Traditional Woodcraft
ISBN: 9780807840955 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. With The Woodwright's Companinon, Roy Underhill continues to demonstrate "how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it." This volume features chapters on helves and handles, saws, the search for the whetstone quarry, crow chasers and turkey calls, hurdles, whimmy diddles, snaplines and marking gauges, candle stands, planes, window sash, riven shingles, and pit sawing. The final chapter offers a glimpse of traditional woodworking techniques still used by the Colonial Williamsburg housewrights. More than 260 photographs...
With The Woodwright's Companinon, Roy Underhill continues to demonstrate "how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another ...
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cena:
126,45 |
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American Family Home, 1800-1960
ISBN: 9780807841518 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the nineteenth century, architects and family reformers launched promotional campaigns portraying houses no longer as simply physical structures in which families lived but as emblems for family cohesiveness and identity. Clark explains why, despite the fear of standardization and homogenization, the middle class has persisted in viewing the single-family home as the main symbol of independence as as the distinguishing sign of having achieved middle-class status.
In the nineteenth century, architects and family reformers launched promotional campaigns portraying houses no longer as simply physical structures in...
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221,38 |
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Woodwright's Workbook: Further Explorations in Traditional Woodcraft
ISBN: 9780807841570 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Roy Underhill is America's best-known master of traditional woodcraft. Creator of the popular PBS series The Woodwright's Shop, Roy has inspired millions--from professional craftsman to armchair woodworker--with his talent, knowledge, and enthusiasm.
Roy returns here with his third book. The Woodwright's Workbook features step-by-step instructions for a selection of projects from his television series. All projects are illustrated with photographs and measured drawings. Included here are plans for tool chests, workbenches, lathes, and historical reproductions of items... Roy Underhill is America's best-known master of traditional woodcraft. Creator of the popular PBS series The Woodwright's Shop, Roy has inspire...
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126,45 |
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Turners and Burners: The Folk Potters of North Carolina
ISBN: 9780807842768 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 473 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This richly illustrated portrait of North Carolina's pottery traditions tells the story of the generations of "turners and burners" whose creations are much admired for their strength and beauty. Perhaps no other state possesses such an active and extensive ceramic heritage, and one that is entirely continuous. This book is an attempt to understand both the past and the present, the now largely vanished world of the folk potter and the continuing achievements of his descendants. It is a tribute that is long overdue.
From the middle of the eighteenth century through the second quarter... This richly illustrated portrait of North Carolina's pottery traditions tells the story of the generations of "turners and burners" whose creations ar...
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248,03 |
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Woodwright's Eclectic Workshop
ISBN: 9780807843475 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For more than ten years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft, or 'how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it.' Through his popular PBS series, The Woodwright's Shop, ' and his previous books, Roy has inspired millions--from professional craftspeople to armchair woodworkers--with his talent, knowledge, and enthusiasm.
Roy returns now with his fourth book, The Woodwright's Eclectic Workshop. It features step-by-step instructions for many projects featured on the television... For more than ten years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft, or 'how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing ...
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140,02 |
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Raised in Clay: The Southern Pottery Tradition
ISBN: 9780807844816 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Raised in Clay is a remarkable portrait of pottery making in the South, one of the oldest and richest craft traditions in America. Focusing on more than thirty potters in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, and Kentucky, Nancy Sweezy tells how families preserve and practice the traditional art of pottery making today.
First published in 1984, Sweezy's book documents the last generation of potters to have direct contact with preindustrial pottery traditions. It portrays the personalities of the potters, treating this aspect as carefully as the traditions... Raised in Clay is a remarkable portrait of pottery making in the South, one of the oldest and richest craft traditions in America. Focusing on ...
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198,03 |
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The Woodwright's Apprentice: Twenty Favorite Projects from the Woodwright's Shop
ISBN: 9780807846124 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For more than twenty years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft with muscle-powered tools. With his four previous books and his popular PBS series, The Woodwright's Shop, now in its sixteenth season, Roy has inspired millions to take up chisel and plane. The master woodwright returns here with instructions for handcrafting an appealing selection of projects from the American woodworking tradition.
The Woodwright's Apprentice begins with directions for building a workbench. Each successive project builds new skills for the apprentice... For more than twenty years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft with muscle-powered tools. With his four previous books a...
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136,99 |
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Building Doors & Gates: Instructions, Techniques and Over 100 Designs
ISBN: 9780811726788 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. All about building entrances to the home. Detailed charts for identification of parts and joints, steps for constructing and hanging, exercises for perfecting building skills, and dozens of designs.
All about building entrances to the home. Detailed charts for identification of parts and joints, steps for constructing and hanging, exercises for pe...
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cena:
87,81 |
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Slipcasting
ISBN: 9780812219982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Best known as one of the most widely used industrial ceramic techniques, slipcasting has become increasingly attractive to individual artists and craftspersons. Slip, a water and clay solution, is poured into porous molds. As the mold absorbs water from the slip, a layer of clay forms a cast. The excess slip is removed from the mold and the cast is stiffened, removed, dried, and fired in a kiln. Since the molds can be based on anything from delicate sculpture to found objects, slipcasting frees artists from the constraints of other ceramic techniques while allowing them to create multiples... Best known as one of the most widely used industrial ceramic techniques, slipcasting has become increasingly attractive to individual artists and c... |
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126,45 |
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The Potter's Book of Glaze Recipes
ISBN: 9780812237719 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Emmanuel Cooper's classic guide to making glazes is now available in a thoroughly revised new edition. Cooper provides potters with an introductory section on glaze materials, coloring, mixing, and the application of glazes, as well as information on health and safety issues. This essential guide also features over 400 recipes ranging from opaque, matte, and transparent glazes to crystalline and black iron glazes, organized according to their varying temperature ranges. Emmanuel Cooper's classic guide to making glazes is now available in a thoroughly revised new edition. Cooper provides potters with an introductory... |
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233,27 |
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Adobe: Build It Yourself
ISBN: 9780816509485 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book explores the depths of adobe and enables the reader to build their own home intelligently and realistically. With an emphasis on adobe construction, McHenry discusses the planning of every aspect of one's home from the financing to the foundation, the floors to the fireplaces. The prospective builder must be prepared for a long period of frustration, doubt, worry, and plain hard work, but the helpful ideas found on the pages of this book will encourage readers to build despite the challenges. McHenry describes this process as a tremendous puzzle, for which one must create and...
This book explores the depths of adobe and enables the reader to build their own home intelligently and realistically. With an emphasis on adobe const...
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105,37 |
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Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person
ISBN: 9780819562005 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A flowing collection of poetry that is also a guide for life.
A flowing collection of poetry that is also a guide for life.
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91,81 |
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Tribology in Chemical-Mechanical Planarization
ISBN: 9780824725679 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The role that friction and contact play in the processes of wear and planarization on material surfaces is central to the understanding of Chemical-Mechanical planarization (CMP) technology, particularly when applied to nanosurfaces. Tribology in Chemical-Mechanical Planarization presents a detailed account of the CMP process in a language that is suitable for tribology professionals as well as chemists, materials scientists, physicists, and other applied scientists and engineers in fields of semiconductors and microelectronics. The first half of the book is devoted to CMP, while the other...
The role that friction and contact play in the processes of wear and planarization on material surfaces is central to the understanding of Chemical-Me...
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1176,76 |
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Home Machinists Handbook
ISBN: 9780830615735 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Here's everything the do-it-yourselfer needs to set up, and operate a handy-man's machine shop. Areas covered range from shop requirements and proper lighting to buying, using, and storing tools.
Here's everything the do-it-yourselfer needs to set up, and operate a handy-man's machine shop. Areas covered range from shop requirements and proper ...
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cena:
128,02 |
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Be Your Own Architect
ISBN: 9780830633364 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This illustrated guide shows prospective home buyers just how easy it is to design homes to fit their exact needs and wants, while saving thousands of dollars in architectural fees. Covers choosing and using drafting tools, selecting energy-efficient materials, laying out rooms to maximize space, and more
This illustrated guide shows prospective home buyers just how easy it is to design homes to fit their exact needs and wants, while saving thousands of...
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cena:
120,02 |