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Lovers of writing, here is a new kind of book for anyone who enjoys putting words to paper or display ... In 1971 when this author was a "cub inkslinger" living in Aspen for the summer, Saul Bellow, also living there, read some of his writing, and advised him "to learn the writer's trade." The cub took the future Nobel Prize winner's advice to heart. So much so that now you too can reap the benefits of his advice, in the form of this entertaining book, a "literary tool box" that contains the tools of the writer's trade. Each of its fifty short chapters describes one of these literary tools,...

Written by an architect of fifty years' experience who has authored six previously acclaimed books on architecture, Architecture Laid Bare steers you past all the promotional hype that confuses so much architectural thinking today, strips away the skin of current styles and questionable construction techniques, and gets to the very bones of what architecture is about: those unchangeable anatomical elements that make a building function -to give you a fundamental, practical, everyday knowledge of these shells that enclose us nearly waking and sleeping hour of our lives. When it comes to...

* Provides instant access to more than 1100 architectural equations
* No math menus and shortcuts allow any building element to be sized quickly and accurately