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• Hardcover: 1689 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 2nd edition (June 13, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071346163
• ISBN-13: 978-0071346160
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 2.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.4 pounds

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The “Silver Bible” — thoroughly revised, updated and redesigned

Interior designers, architects, and other design professionals can still turn to the field’s beloved “Silver Bible” for a wealth of information related to the design and planning of residential and commercial interiors. But now, Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning, Second Edition goes even further to truly make the classic interior design reference the standard in its field.

From standard furniture dimensions to architectural woodwork details, you’ll find a vast array of time-saving data and details. Editors Joseph DeChiara, Julius Panero, and Martin Zelnik have brought together contributions from well-known architectural and interior design firms to give you details derived from actual designs and working drawings, showing various solutions for typical design problems encountered in interior architecture.

You get a wide range of typical layouts and residential spaces, offices, conference rooms, and reception areas, in addition to details of bars, restaurants, and public toilets. This exciting new edition includes new international examples and metrification – and provides you with full coverage of healthcare spaces, educational spaces; home offices; videoconferencing spaces; green design; project forms and schedules. Two outstanding sections cover historic styles and woodworking.

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• Paperback: 720 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (October 27, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470088699
• ISBN-13: 978-0470088692
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds

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Written by The American Institute of Architects, this is the definitive textbook on practice issues written specifically for architecture students. Specifically written for emerging architects, this is the first unabbreviated guide specifically for architecture students about to begin their careers. It is required reading in a professional practice course that architecture students must take within their final two years of school.

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• Hardcover: 784 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 4 edition (November 2, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471760862
• ISBN-13: 978-0471760863
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.7 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds

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The text of choice for professional interior design practice — now with companion CD-ROM!

Since publication of the first edition in 1990, Professional Practice for Interior Designers has remained the leading choice for educators for teaching interior design business practice as well as for professionals seeking to advance in their own practices. This ASID/Polsky Prize winner is recommended by the NCIDQ for exam preparation and covers the gamut of legal, financial, management, marketing, administrative, and ethical issues. You gain all the essential skills needed for planning and maintaining a thriving interior design business, presented in the clear, easy-to-follow style that is the hallmark of this text.

This edition is completely current with the latest business practices and features a host of new practice aids:

* Companion CD-ROM includes a trial version of professional practice software, business forms, numerous short articles, plus additional information and resources.

* New examples help you manage the latest challenges and implement the latest business practices.

* A new chapter devoted to strategic planning explains this important business concept in easy-to-understand language for students and professionals.

* Brief “what would you do” case studies in each chapter challenge you to respond to ethical issues faced by today’s interior designers.

From creating a business plan to launching a promotional campaign to setting up a computerized accounting system, everything you need to launch and sustain a successful interior design practice is here.

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• Paperback: 566 pages
• Publisher: Schroff Development Corporation; Pap/Dvdr edition (June 9, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585035076
• ISBN-13: 978-1585035076
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds

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Residential Design Using Revit Architecture 2010 is designed for the architectural student new to Revit Architecture 2010. This text takes a project based approach to learning Revit Architecture in which the student develops a single family residence all the way to photo-realistic renderings like the one on the cover. Each book comes with a DVD containing numerous video presentations of the written material.

This book starts with a optional basic introduction to hand sketching techniques and concepts intended to increase your ability to sketch design ideas by hand and to think three-dimensionally. The lessons then begin with an introduction to Revit Architecture 2010. The first four chapters are intended to get the reader familiar with the user interface and many of the common menus and tools.

Throughout the rest of the book a residential building is created and the many tools and features of Revit Architecture 2010 are covered in greater detail. Using step-by-step tutorial lessons, the residential project is followed through to create elevations, sections, floor plans, renderings, construction sets, etc.

The videos contained on the included DVD make it easy to see the menu selections and will make learning Revit Architecture straightforward and simple. Throughout the book the reader is presented with icons indicating that a video file is available on the DVD for viewing. Each video is a short presentation on that particular subject.

Table of Contents
Introduction – Sketching Exercises
1. Getting Started with Revit Architecture 2010
2. Lake Cabin: Floor Plan (The Basics)
3. Overview of Linework and Modify Tools
4. Drawing 2D Architectural Objects
5. Residence: Floor Plan (First Floor)
6. Residence: Floor Plans (Second Floor & Basement Plans)
7. Residence: Roof
8. Residence: Floor systems & Reflected Ceiling Plans
9. Residence: Elevations
10. Residence: Sections
11. Residence: Floor Plan Features
12. Residence: Schedules
13. Residence: Photo-Realistic Rendering
14. Residence: Construction Document Set
Appendix A – Engineering Graphics.

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• Paperback: 984 pages
• Publisher: Sybex (May 11, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470447222
• ISBN-13: 978-0470447222
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds

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Author and Revit Architecture expert Eric Wing walks you through designing, documenting, and presenting a four-story office building. The continuous tutorial begins with the Revit interface and standard conventions for placing walls, doors, and windows, then progresses through the building?s design as would happen in the real world. You?ll learn how to work with structural grids, beams, and foundations; add text and dimensions; build floors layer by layer; join exterior and interior walls; and create roofs and ceilings as well as stairs, ramps, and railings. You?ll also be introduced to using embedded families and formulas, crucial site considerations, and importing and exporting to various formats.

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• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company; 3 edition (January 13, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9812818618
• ISBN-13: 978-9812818614
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds

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This book introduces the latest construction practices and processes for tall buildings from foundation to roof. It attempts to acquaint readers with the methods, materials, equipment and systems used for the construction of tall buildings.

The text progresses through the stages of site investigation, excavation and foundations, basement construction, structural systems for the superstructure, site and material handling, wall and floor construction, cladding and roof construction. The construction sequence, merits and limitations of the various proprietary systems commonly used in these respective stages are discussed. This third edition also includes several new topics not covered in the previous edition.

The target readers are practitioners and students in the related professions including architecture, engineering, building, real estate, construction, project and facilities management, and quantity and land surveying.

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EBook Details

Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press (September 30, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0262062666
ISBN-13: 978-0262062664.

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Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 4 edition (March 3, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470087811
ISBN-13: 978-0470087817.

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Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Candlewick; First Edition edition (August 19, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 076362344X
ISBN-13: 978-0763623449.

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Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press; 1 edition (September 9, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1568984480
ISBN-13: 978-1568984483.

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: North Light Books (August 15, 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0891343377
ISBN-13: 978-0891343370.

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Paperback: 204 pages
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. (April 17, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596156367
ISBN-13: 978-0596156367.

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Spiral-bound: 144 pages
Publisher: Chronicle Books; Spi edition (December 3, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0811863948
ISBN-13: 978-0811863940.

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Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1st Simon & Schuster Hardcover Ed edition (October 14, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416575464
ISBN-13: 978-1416575467.

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Domino: The Book of Decorating cracks the code to creating a beautiful home, bringing together inspiring rooms, how-to advice and insiders’ secrets from today’s premier tastemakers in an indispensable style manual. The editors take readers room by room, tapping the best ideas from domino magazine and culling insights from their own experiences. With an eye to making design accessible and exciting, this book demystifies the decorating process and provides the tools for making spaces that are personal, functional and fabulous.

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Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback: 168 pages
Publisher: Aladdin (April 1, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0689711816
ISBN-13: 978-0689711817.

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Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away…so she decided not to run FROM somewhere, but TO somewhere. And so, after some careful planning, she and her younger brother, Jamie, escaped — right into a mystery that made headlines!

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