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Mazes For Kids Ages 8-12: Maze Activity Book 8-10, 9-12, 10-12 year olds Workbook for Children with Games, Puzzles, and Problem-Solving (Maze Le - Paperback

$11.81

by Kc Press (Author), Jennifer L. Trace (Author)Keep Your Child Busy With Hours of Super FUN Mazes! A complete maze experience with: - Mazes with colorable characters and illustrations- Fun themes make solving mazes exciting- Increasing difficulty levels- With real world logic: Bring the chicken home, help the family get to the bus, help the dog get to the bone and more.- Improve hand eye coordination, dexterity and muscle memory- With certificate at back of the book! The amazingly fun mazes ...

$14.33

by Creative Coloring (Author)This fantastic cities coloring book features inspiring illustrations from countries around the world including London, Paris, New York, San Francisco, and Rome. Color the Eiffel Tower, London Bridge, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Vatican, the Empire State Building, the Taj Mahal, city skylines, cathedrals, and more. Contains 40 full-page designs. Printed single side for ease of removal and no bleed through Large 8 1/2 x 11 inch pages Pure white, 50 lb paper ...

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by Kevin Taylor (Author), H. R. H. the Prince Philip (Foreword by)The fully revised and updated second edition of this best-selling guidebook is intended for all visitors to Cambridge, and for anyone with an interest in the University. Combining an accessible style with accuracy of fact and a wealth of historical detail, it can be used to accompany a walking tour or read at leisure as an authoritative introduction. The second edition is packed with newly commissioned colour photographs by Jap...

Acoustic Echo and Noise Control: A Practical Approach - Hardcover

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by Eberhard Hänsler (Author), Gerhard Schmidt (Author)Authors are well known and highly recognized by the "acoustic echo and noise community." Presents a detailed description of practical methods to control echo and noise Develops a statistical theory for optimal control parameters and presents practical estimation and approximation methodsBack JacketEssential theory and proven techniques for acoustic echo and noise suppression Today's voice communication systems, with their increasing demand...

The Wiley Dictionary of Civil Engineering and Construction: English-Spanish/Spanish-English - Hardcover

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by Felicitas Kennedy (Author)The Wiley Dictionary of Civil Engineering and Construction: English-Spanish/Spanish-English offers the first bilingual updateof civil engineering terminology in forty years. With more than50,000 entries in each language, it provides comprehensive coverageof a broad range of industrial disciplines, including architecture, engineering, surveying, building, heavy construction, and municipalengineering. Entries include technical terms and phrases not found in anygene...

Echos: University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Interior Design - Hardcover

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by Mara Marcu (Editor), Edward Mitchell (Editor)The publication captures the work done at the University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Interior Design while showcasing student work, faculty research, co-op stories, study abroad programs, and snapshots from the many events happening at our school. ECHOS is a platform for simultaneous conversations with shared ethos at UC SAID. Various constellations begin to surface and map our diverse milieu of academic and social interactions that...

Lighthouses of the Carolinas: A Short History and Guide - Paperback

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by Terrance Zepke (Author)Eighteen lighthouses still stand in the Carolinas, from Currituck Lighthouse near the Virginia border down to Haig Point Lighthouse near the border with Georgia. Author Zepke tells how they were built and how they have weathered hurricanes, erosion, and neglect. Some are open to visitors; others can be seen from the coast or on a passing boat. In this second edition, all the travel guide information is updated, along with new sections on light keepers, the U.S. Light...

Bird's Eye Perspective Drawing: Mini Guides 2016 - Paperback

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by Brian Rider (Author)Welcome to our New Mini Guides series. The purpose of these guides is to provide a simple training guide in a variety of KBB and Interior Designer or even Exterior Designer titles which extract the highly focussed information from our giant tomes that ran about 1000 pages and which would cost a lot more than you would wish to pay or we would wish to charge, With our compact mini guides you can acquire any of the titles at an extremely modest targeted sum.This is our fif...

Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey - Hardcover

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by Katie Yamasaki (Author)Minoru Yamasaki described the feeling he sought to create in his buildings as "serenity, surprise, and delight." Here, Katie Yamasaki charts his life and work: his childhood in Seattle's Japanese immigrant community, paying his way through college working in Alaska's notorious salmon canneries, his success in architectural school, and the transformative structures he imagined and built. A Japanese American man who faced brutal anti-Asian racism in post-World War II A...

Long-Range Interpretive Plan: Independence National Historical Park - Paperback

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by National Park Service (Author)The Long-Range Interpretive Plan assesses where we are and where we hope to be in the near future. It describes new park themes, desired visitor experience, issues and challenges and lists action items for the park to take for the future. Number of Pages: 54 Dimensions: 0.11 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: May 10, 2013

Life Indoors: How Our Homes Are Shaping Our Bodies and Our Planet - Paperback

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by Rachael Wakefield-Rann (Author)In this timely and expansive book, Wakefield-Rann investigates how emerging disease ecologies are undermining definitions of health and immunity that have persisted since the 19th century, and had a formative influence over the design of not only homes, but entire cities. This wide-ranging account traces the links between the history of medicine, modernist design and architecture, the rise of inflammatory disease, the microbiomes of buildings and humans, anti...

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by Paul Lavanway (Author)Brockway Mountain Stories brings back to print in one revised volume two popular publications, The Brockway Mountain Drive Story and The Keweenaw Mountain Lodge Story. Filled with photos and other historical documents, this book is essential for anyone interested in the history of Michigan, the Copper Country, and especially our beloved Brockway Mountain. Number of Pages: 92 Dimensions: 0.24 x 8.5 x 11 IN Publication Date: August 16,...

Designing Our Future: GIS for Architecture, Engineering & Construction - Paperback

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by Kathleen Kewley (Editor), Micah Callough (Editor), Keith Mann (Editor)Learn how architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms work to improve sustainability objectives and advance new ideas about creating more livable cities, workplaces, and campuses as they create greater operational efficiency. Location intelligence is changing how land development and large infrastructure projects take shape. From new residential construction to planning a modern urban experience to building a...

Atlas of Amazing Architecture: The Most Incredible Buildings You've (Probably) Never Heard of - Hardcover

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by Peter Allen (Author)This fact-filled guide for kids 7 to 17 explores the world of architecture as you've never seen it before, from tiny shacks to vast palaces - and everything in between!Praise for Atlas of Amazing Architecture''Given the global spread of coverage and the unusual buildings chosen, this is a must for children's history, art, and architecture collections''.-- Booklist Starred Review''A delightful and informative trip around the globe''. -- School Library Journal''Such great...

Uncertainty in Acoustics: Measurement, Prediction and Assessment - Paperback

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by Robert Peters (Editor)This guide to estimating uncertainties in the measurement, prediction and assessment of noise and vibration applies across environmental noise and vibration, occupational noise and vibration exposure, and building and architectural acoustics.The book collates information from the various Standards and from research, with explanation, examples and case studies. It enables estimation of uncertainty in the measurement and prediction of acoustic quantities, suitable for u...

Life Indoors: How Our Homes Are Shaping Our Bodies and Our Planet - Hardcover

$145.78

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by Sunny Scribens (Author), Hui Skipp (Illustrator)A STEM singalong that young makers will love, now in Spanish! Join a diverse group of budding minds and their friend Robot as they work together to build a treehouse! Designed to ignite interest in STEM -- the integration of science, technology, engineering and math -- this fact-packed singalong introduces kids to simple machines, social-emotional concepts like empathy and teamwork, and the basics of robotics and programming with 6 pages of e...

101 Things I Learned in Architecture School - Hardcover

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by Matthew Frederick (Author)Concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation, from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory.This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language things that tend to be murky and abstruse in the classroom. These 101 concise lessons in design,...

Cozy Places St. Patrick's Day Adults Coloring Book: House Interior Design for Relaxation and Stress Relief - Paperback

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by Jhonas Alintro (Author)Do you love Interior designs? Is so, this coloring book was made specifically for you. St. Patricks Day Homes Coloring Book features: 45 High-Quality designs. Variety of interiors from bedrooms/living rooms / Kitchens / Working offices and more - you won't be bored while coloring. Single side printed to prevent page bleeding. Thick white paper. What are you waiting for, grab yourself a copy and celebrate this St Patrick's day with style Number of Pages: ...

Leadership for Green Schools: Sustainability for Our Children, Our Communities, and Our Planet - Paperback

$89.08

by Lisa A. W. Kensler (Author), Cynthia L. Uline (Author)Leadership for Green Schools provides aspiring and practicing leaders with the tools they need to facilitate the design, leadership, and management of greener, more sustainable schools. Framed by theory and research, this text draws from the fields of sustainability science, built learning environment, and educational leadership to explain what green schools look like, what role school buildings play in advancing sustainable organizatio...

Zaha Hadid's Paintings: Imagining Architecture - Hardcover

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by Desley Luscombe (Author)Zaha Hadid is widely regarded as a visionary and influential architect, who became globally acclaimed by the time of her untimely death in 2016. This book is the first to focus on how painting was fundamental to her practice. During the first 20 years of her career, she earned her reputation through 'paper architecture' projects which were widely published in architecture journals and exhibited, but which remained largely unbuilt. Influenced by the Suprematists, she...

The Architecture of Happiness - Paperback

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by Alain de Botton (Author)The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet a concern for architecture is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulge...

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by Andrew Herscher (Editor), Anooradha Siddiqi (Editor)This book poses spatial violence as a constitutive dimension of architecture and its epistemologies, as well as a method for theoretical and historical inquiry intrinsic to architecture; and thereby offers an alternative to predominant readings of spatial violence as a topic, event, fact, or other empirical form that may be illustrated by architecture. Exploring histories of and through architecture at sites across the globe, the chapters...

Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment - Hardcover

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by Grady Hillhouse (Author)Engineering in Plain Sight is a beautifully illustrated field guide with accessible explanations to nearly every part of the constructed world around us. Author Grady Hillhouse is the creator behind the popular YouTube channel Practical Engineering (over 3 million subscribers!) and this book is essentially 50 new episodes crammed between two covers. Engineering in Plain Sight extends the field guide genre from natural phenomena to human-made structures, making them ...

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by Josh Young (Author), Kirsten Francis (Photographer)Artist, designer, and tastemaker Young's first book celebrating his homes and showcasing his distinct design aesthetic, with its emphasis on serene and modern classicism. Young has built a strong following both for his fine art and his beautiful homes. In his first book, he invites readers into his world, answering their most-asked questions: "How do I create a uniquely beautiful home?" and "How can I be creative in the approach to my home...

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by Peter Post (Author)From New York Times bestselling author, etiquette expert, and golf enthusiast Peter Post comes a field guide to social intelligence for golfers--both new and seasoned--that will help you play your best game Golf is the only sport where how you treat the other people in the game is as important as the actual game itself. The rules for playing golf are clearly defined, but how golfers expect other golfers to comport themselves before, during, and after a round is less codi...

Sacred Architecture of London - Paperback

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by Nigel Pennick (Author)An exploration into the sacred geometry, spiritual symbols, and emblems that make the churches of London some of the most notable buildings in the city. London has a unique series of churches built after the Great Fire of 1666, when most of the City of London was destroyed. Among these iconic churches are St Paul's, St Mary-le-Bow, St Bride's, St Clement Danes, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St Mary-le-Strand, St George Bloomsbury and Christ Church Spitalfields. They remain...

Secrets of King's College Chapel - Paperback

$43.72

by Nigel Pennick (Author)A historic overview of King's College Chapel and a summary of its construction. Number of Pages: 152 Dimensions: 0.38 x 7.96 x 5.06 IN Publication Date: December 31, 2012

Design For Identity: How to Design Authentically for a Diverse World - Paperback

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by Jessica Bantom (Author)Design is expression, a service, an act of creativity. But if designers design for everyone, how can there be so little diversity in the profession? In this book, Jessica Bantom examines the implications of design in everyday life, from spaces and products to images and the fashion industry. Too often design concepts are based on assumptions and stereotypes that don't necessarily reflect customers' lives and values. Certain company symbols and brands, such as the ima...

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by Hajo Düchting (Author)Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a spiritual, emotive, rhythmic use of color and line and is today credited with creating the first purely abstract work. As much a teacher and theorist as he was a practicing artist, Kandinsky's interests in music, theater, poetry, philosophy, ethnology, myth, and th...

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by Tatiana Bilboa (Author)Source Books in Architecture No. 16: Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO focuses on the work of a Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO and is meant to expose the foundations and implications of the work in question. The practice is documented through conversations, studies, models, renderings, working drawings, and photographs at a level of detail that allows for a nuanced understanding of the disciplinary agenda from conception to completion. This content is accompanied by contributions from...

Colorful Cities: Fun and Fanciful Buildings and Urban Designs - Paperback

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by Alisa Calder (Author)The Colorful Cities: Fun and Fanciful Buildings and Urban Designs adult coloring book contains 36 creative city designs for a fun and relaxing way to unwind and relieve stress. Each full-page illustration contains intricate and creative designs, ranging from simple to complex, that together will provide hours of stress-free entertainment. The Coloring Pages for Grown-Ups series is designed for adults, teens, older children, and artists of all ages. Coloring books for a...