Prepared by the American Institute of Architects Bruce Bassler, Student Edition Editor, and John Ray Hoke, Jr., FAIA, Editor in Chief, Architectural Graphic Standards Architectural Graphic Standards has been the bedrock design reference for architects, builders, and engineers for almost seventy years. This book gives students their own new edition ...
Financial Statement Analysis, 10e, emphasizes effective business analysis and decision making by analysts, investors, managers, and other stakeholders of the company. It continues to set the standard in showing students the keys to effective financial statement analysis. The textbook is set up in a three part framework which makes this textbook ...
This book teaches the reader how to write programs using Java. It does so with a unique approach that combines fundamentals first with objects early. The book transitions smoothly through a carefully selected set of procedural programming fundamentals to object-oriented fundamentals. During this early transition and beyond, the book emphasizes ...
The Tiger's Way shows in never-before-available detail how Eastern soldiers fight. As such, it could save many American lives. The Eastern soldier can do the following: (1) suddenly appear out of nowhere; (2) destroy his immediate adversary without generating additional opposition; and then (3) withdraw without a trace. By identifying similarities ...
This volume provides an applications-oriented introduction to the role of management science in decision-making. The text blends problem formulation, managerial interpretation, and math techniques with an emphasis on problem solving. In addition, a problem-scenario approach introduces quantitative procedures through situations that include both ...
Traces the evolution of the horror story by presenting an anthology of works from the past and from current writers, with contributions from Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, Charles L. Grant, and Clive Barker.
This guide to the most popular works of William Shakespeare provides and overview of his life and times which gives an insight into his writings, themes and characters, and how facts were altered to make the historical plays more entertaining. The book includes plot and main character summaries of such plays as "A Midsummer Night's Dream", ...
This text offers a comprehensive presentation of the mathematics required to tackle problems in economic analysis. To give a better understanding of the mathematical concepts, the text follows the logic of the development of mathematics rather than that of an economics course. After a review of the fundamentals of sets, numbers, and functions, the ...
Tactics of the Crescent Moon shows for the first time in any detail how Muslim militants fight at short range. From the vast quantities of intelligence available, its author extracts the small-unit tactical trends. While the enemy's combat method may seem amateurish, they are nonetheless very effective in a 4th-generation-warfare environment. ...
The Usborne Book of Origami shows how to mas ter the art of paper folding, with handy tips and projects f or such things as party hats, jewellery, jumping frogs and a ction models. '
For many years, scholars and non-scholars have debated the ethics of dropping the atomic bomb, but have rarely studied American plans to invade Japan - the alternative to using the bomb to end World War II. Widely held beliefs about Japanese forces and the projected loss of American lives have been invoked to justify the decision to drop the bomb. ...
John Cassavetes is the godfather of American independent cinema, saluted by virtually every US maverick who's followed in his stead, from Martin Scorsese to Sean Penn. Since his death in 1989, Cassavetes has become increasingly renowned as a cinematic hero - a loner who fought against the iniquities of the Hollywood system, steering his own ...
This text, a translation of a gospel lost for 1600 years, offers an alternative view of Jesus and his message, one left untouched by subsequent myth and interpretation. The image of Jesus as a sage is foremost and may pre-date the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
A guide to printing and sewing photograph transfers. The author presents instructions for processes using a colour laser photocopier or a computer printer - no chemicals are involved. The projects described include a pillow, a wall hanging and two quilts.
Once a place sacred to the Iroquois, Niagara Falls over the last 200 years has been exploited by profiteers, protected by preservationists, harnessed for mechanical power, and reincarnated into the honeymoon capital of the world. Paralleling a national PBS program, this book celebrates the Falls and examines human progress--and human folly--on a ...
The remote mountain plateau of Khe Sahn provided a base for U.S. Intelligence, but was heavily surrounded by VC tunnels and fortifications. The isolated camp could only be supplied by dangerous air missions that, over a two-year period, would cost the Army and Marines dearly. "The definitive history of Khe Sanh".--Publishers Weekly.
This unique review workbook for the AP* Calculus Exam is tied directly to two best-selling textbooks: Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic by Finney, Demana, Waits, and Kennedy Precalculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic by Demana, Waits, Foley and Kennedy *AP is a registered trademark of the College Board, which was not involved in the ...
School Business Administration develops a rationale for how school business administration functions and describes that function in current practice. This text contends that the function of school business administration is to contribute to instructional effectiveness by assisting key decision-makers in using financial resources in order to ...
For nearly 40 years, the conviction of James Earl Ray for the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., has been the subject of intense inquiry and debate. The authors offer a startling new look at Ray's life, his encounters with the Feds and the Mob, and the crime that shook the world.
This book gauges America's progress in Iraq and Afghanistan from a unique perspective,that of East-Asian battlefield deception. As both countries were part of the Mongol Empire for over 200 years, they are a perfect breeding ground for every sort of ancient Chinese trick,any one of the famous "36 Strategems." In combination, those stratagems can ...
The Rosetta Stone is one of the world's great wonders, attracting awed pilgrims by the tens of thousands each year. This book tells the stone's story, from its discovery by Napoleon's expedition to Egypt to its current status as the single most visited object on display in the British Museum.
This fall, PBS will celebrate America's rich lighthouse heritage with a much anticipated six-part travel documentary series. This companion volume parallels the TV series by exploring six distinct coastal regions and visiting the extraordinary lighthouses that serve them. 125 color photos & 6 maps.
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