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The Energy of Nature
352 pages | Jan 12 , 2009 |ISBN: 0226668061 | PDF | 8 Mb
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Energy is crucial for events of every kind, in this world or any other. Without energy, nothing would ever happen. Nothing would move and there would be no life. The sun wouldn't shine, winds wouldn't blow, rivers wouldn't flow, trees wouldn't grow, birds wouldn't fly, and fish wouldn't swim; indeed no material object, living or dead, could even exist. In spite of all this, energy is seldom considered a part of what we call "nature."
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Be a Successful Green Builder
231 pages | Dec 21, 2008 |ISBN:007159261X | PDF | 8 Mb
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Increase Profits by Incorporating Sustainable Practices into Your Building Operations
Filled with environmentally friendly methods that reduce the impact of housing on natural areas, Be a Successful Green Builder contains everything needed to get started in the green building business and develop a thriving enterprise.
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Architects and Architecture of London
448 pages | May 2, 2008 |ISBN:0750683376 | PDF | 8 Mb
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The guide explains why London is the way it is. It helps you link the historical and contemporary into a single pattern of significant places, spaces and buildings. It highlights old and new as a lively and vibrant pattern of on-going creative activity rooted in established urban patterns. It names the most famous and creative architects and describes their most notable buildings that you can visit and experience.
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Erotic Adventure of Nikki Nine
The Erotic Adventures of Nikki Nine | 1 CDs | 800MB
Release Date: 7/27/2007
duration : 01:25:52
average bitrate : 1136 kb/s
Audio : mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Video : mpeg4, yuv420p, 576x432, 29.97 fps(r)
Cast: Brittany Andrews, Cayton, Evan Stone, Jasmine Byrne, Jerry, Jerry, Lee Stone, Nikki Nine, TJ Cummings, Tyler Faith
The Erotic Adventures of Nikki Nine is a Halloween tale in which Nikki plays a virgin in search of her first lay. Nikki spends Halloween dressed as little red riding hood and begins by trying to seduce TJ Cummings. But it backfires; Brittany Andrews catches TJ hiding in the house and makes him submit to her.
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The Solar Home: How to Design and Build a House You Heat With the Sun
640 pages | Jan 12, 1994 |ISBN:0811724468 | PDF | 8 Mb
I am a first-time DIY owner-builder, presently in the early planning stages of my house project. I picked this book up at Borders as my first book on homebuilding, and was glad that I did.
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Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Design Methods for Architects
640 pages | Mar 12, 2000 |ISBN:0471241431 | PDF | 38 Mb
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* Qualitative graphic approach to understanding the techniques of heating, cooling, and lighting reflects the decision-making approach of architects and students.
* Useful appendices provide sun path diagrams and solar site evaluation tools. Appendices new to this edition include practical checklists of strategies and issues in evaluating energy use in the building design stage, and an annotated list of helpful sustainability videos to use in class, professional meetings, or with clients.
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The Effects of Air Pollution on the Built Environment
448 pages | May 1, 2003 |ISBN:1860942911 | PDF | 8 Mb
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Air pollution damages materials, but it has changed dramatically in the past century, with a reduction in the concentration of corrosive primary pollutants in urban atmospheres. At the same time, architectural styles and types of materials have changed, as we have moved to more organically rich, photochemically active atmospheres.
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Biological Feedback
134 pages | Mar 21, 2005 |ISBN:0849367662 | PDF | 8 Mb
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Clearly explaining the logical analysis of biological control phenomena, Biological Feedback answers questions concerning everything from regulation to logic. This rare monograph presents a formal methodology for analyzing the dynamic behavior of complex systems. The easy-to-read text describes a simple logical formalization called "kinetic logic". The reader discovers how this method is used to predict all possible patterns of behavior of which a system is capable.
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Logic and Integer Programming
425 pages | Mar 2, 2009 |ISBN:0387922792 | PDF | 8 Mb
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Integer programming (discrete optimization) is best used for solving problems involving discrete, whole elements. Using integer variables, one can model logical requirements, fixed costs, sequencing and scheduling requirements, and many other problem aspects. Whether it’s taught in OR graduate programs or in math or computer science programs; in courses called "Integer Programming," "Combinatorial Optimization," "Combinatorial Optimization and Integer Programming" or simply "Advanced Operations Management," it’s a part of every OR curriculum, and one of its greatest teachers has developed a text that shows how to use logic in integer programming to develop models with much greater precision.
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Advances in Mathematical and Statistical Modeling
208 pages | Mar 21, 2008 |ISBN:0817646256 | PDF | 8 Mb
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Enrique Castillo is a leading figure in several mathematical, statistical, and engineering fields, having contributed seminal work in such areas as statistical modeling, extreme value analysis, multivariate distribution theory, Bayesian networks, neural networks, functional equations, artificial intelligence, linear algebra, optimization methods, numerical methods, reliability engineering, as well as sensitivity analysis and its applications. Organized to honor Castillo's significant contributions, this volume is an outgrowth of the International Conference on Mathematical and Statistical Modeling and covers recent advances in the field.
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Construction Technology: An Illustrated Introduction
425 pages | Jan 12, 2005 |ISBN:1405102101 | PDF | 18 Mb
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This new textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to every aspect of the technology of low-rise construction. It includes sub-structure (site work, setting out and foundations) and superstructure (flooring, roofs, finishes, fittings and fixtures). The material here covers the first year course requirement of all courses on which construction technology is taught - no matter what the ultimate qualification.
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Building Construction Illustrated, 2nd Edition
325 pages | May 15, 1991 |ISBN:0471288853 | PDF | 8 Mb
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The new edition builds upon the classic content of its predecessor by incorporating information on concrete, steel, and glazing technology, energy efficiency in buildings, moisture and thermal protection, natural lighting, masonry, and other topics. Any excess coverage of systems and technology no longer in common use has been streamlined. The organization, which follows the typical design process, has been retained in this edition. This book should be of interest to architects, building contractors.
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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
125 pages | Mar 1, 2001 |ISBN:097063241X | PDF | 8 Mb
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In 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book and the accompanying film were instantly labeled classics, and launched a mini-revolution in the planning and study of public spaces. They have since become standard texts, and appear on syllabi and reading lists in urban planning, sociology, environmental design, and architecture departments around the world.
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The Canadian Home
196 pages | May 1, 1996 |ISBN:1550022024 | PDF | 8 Mb
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Would you want to live in a factory-moulded cube made of plastic, asbestos, and UFFI? With an "H-bomb shelter" and the nuclear furnace underneath? Or a house designed by God to harmonise with the cosmic Muzak? The Canadian Home explains how our housing came to be including the pagan origins of "colonial" homes, why "Tudor" is not Tudor, and where so many predictions went wrong.
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Building Type Basics for Museums
272 pages | Jan 3, 2001 |ISBN:0471349151 | PDF | 8 Mb
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The fastest way to straighten out the learning curve on specialized design projects. Building Type Basics books provide architects with the essentials they need to jump-start the design of a variety of specialized facilities. In each volume, leading national figures in the field address the key questions that shape the early phases of a project commission. The answers to these questions provide instant information in a convenient, easy-to-use format.
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