Construction Materials Reference Book

Doran, David

Cather, Bob

Routledge

Travel the globe with 32 typographic prints inspired by the world’s greatest cities, all the way from Amsterdam to Zurich, with stops in Paris, Rio and Tokyo along the way. Perfect to pull out and frame. Also features quirky trivia on each city and a large double-sided poster.

Alphabet Cities: Around the World in 32 Pull-out Prints

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

Virgin Books

During the week, London is the bustlingly center of big business, with millions of people working all around the capital, but it’s at the weekend that the city really comes alive. With London, The Weekends Start Here, explore the unrivaled range of cultural, artistic, historical, and outdoor experiences this dynamic capital has to offer, with plenty of time to achieve the unexpected before another Monday morning rolls round. Perfect for Londoners and visitors alike, discover 52 themed weekends, organized by season, with over 250 interesting and quirky entries for unusual and surprising attractions. Including all you need to know about location, transport and the best places to eat and drink. From Wild London in the spring to Nordic London in the winter and Tea Drinker’s London, Quiet London, Japanese London, and more in between. Multicultural and historical, urban and wild, peaceful and vibrant—there’s plenty to do in London to suit your mood and interests, as well as the time of year. Why not try drinking in pubs once frequented by pirates and smugglers in Wapping, taking a Scandinavian sauna at the Finnish Church, eating grapes from a royal grape vine, spotting London's peregrine falcons, finding literary treasures in the British Library, soaking up the sun on a Japanese roof garden, walking the route of a Victorian sewer, and exploring the chalk downland valleys of south London. Get inspired and enjoy all the fun, diverting, and imaginative things to do in this great city, one weekend at a time.

London, The Weekends Start Here: Fifty-two Weekends of Things to See and Do

Travel

Jones, Tom

Europe

Accounting is the score keeping system in the 'game' of business - you can't do well in any 'game' if you don't understand how the score is kept. This book is intended to benefit MBA students and upper division non-accounting business majors. It should also serve as an excellent desk reference for practicing managers. The book emphasizes how management's choice of accounting methods and their required estimates in reporting transactions and events impact financial statements, both immediately and in the future. This book takes an exclusive user's decision making perspective by utilizing the accounting equation format to directly illustrate financial statement effects. Readers should make better decisions based upon financial statement information through an enhanced understanding of its usefulness and limitations. United States financial reporting standards are compared and contrasted with international financial reporting standards where appropriate. Most of the topics addressed in this book are typically studied by accounting majors in the two course 'intermediate' accounting sequence, but the text also includes discussion of consolidations - a topic generally covered in the 'advanced' accounting course. Unlike typical accounting books, journal entries are not used to illustrate topical coverage. By exclusively applying a user's decision making emphasis, and limiting topical content to areas relevant to financial analysis, this book allows non-accounting majors to acquire the underlying knowledge in a concise and easy to understand text. The book assumes the reader has a basic understanding of financial statements (through previous study in accounting principles) and a familiarity with time value of money concepts.

Financial Reporting Standards: A Decision-Making Perspective for Non-Accountants (Financial Accounting and Auditing Collection)

Business & Money

Finance

Business Expert Press

Principles and Practice of Testing in Construction: Vol 1 Testing in Construction Series

Engineering & Transportation

Cockerton, Clive

Engineering

Whittles Publishing

Refurbishment and repair accounts for approximately 50 per cent of annual construction turnover. It is therefore essential that practitioners and those students who aspire to work in this sector are equipped with the best tools to do the job. This book has been produced to fill that gap in construction literature. The nature of refurbishment and repair is markedly different from new-build work since it is necessary to work within the restraints of a pre-determind situation. Those who do so are faced with an existing building or structure that may be many years old. It may have been built to standards hardly recognisable when compared to those of today.It is therefore necessary to build safely and to match as closely as possible comtemporary standards on sustainability and energy conservation. It is also apparent that existing buildings may not conform to 21st century standards of structural analysis or stability - and yet have stood without distress for many years. Guidence is provided to deal with such situations together with ideas on how to assess the residual life of a refurbished or repaired building.First and foremost it is essential for those involved in this type of work to gain an intimate knowledge of the structure under consideration. This book suggests ways of seeking this knowledge. Failure to investigate the history of existing develpoments may add considerably to the cost of construction and, in the extreme, to structural collapse involving injury or loss of life. This book proceeds logically through the reasons to consider refurbishment and repair and offers advice on risks, discovery, contracts, materials, learning from the past and legal restraints. Best practice is illustrated by a series of case studies. Extensive bibliographies have been provided to assist those with the need for further research. "Refurbishment and Repair in Construction" provides a companion volume to "Site Engineers Manual" which will be available as a second edition.

Refurbishment and Repair in Construction

Pratley, Richard

Architecture

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