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Intermodal Shipping Container Small Steel Buildings explains how to purchase steel cargo containers and modify them for use as buildings under 1000 sq ft in size. Learn how you can save up to 40% over tradition lumber and factory made steel structures with these unique building blocks. New and used steel shipping containers are available nationwide. It's easy to buy containers and modify them for use as workshops, garages, cabins, guest houses, super carports, RV - 5th wheel covers, and much more (the book shows how). Enjoy a building that's up to fifty times stronger than most structures, built quick and with amazingly little labor. Take part in the shipping container building revolution with the worlds first book on the subject...Intermodal Shipping Container Small Steel Buildings! Includes photos, diagrams, plans, and charts. 103 pages, soft cover.

Recipient of a 2007 IPPY Silver Medal, INTERVENTION challenges two of the most sacred tenets of modern society, innovation and technology, from the perspective of the unique risks they present. Using genetic engineering as its model, it paints a vivid picture of the scientific uncertainties that biotech risk evaluations dismiss or ignore, and lays bare the power and money conflicts between academia, industry and regulators that have sped these risky innovations to the market. Intervention champions an alternative method for assessing the risks of technology, developed by the world's top risk experts, that can eliminate such conflicts, help regain public trust in science and government, and drive research and development toward more useful, safer products. "Perhaps the most balanced and readable look yet at assessing the risks of genetic engineering." Michael Rogers, MSNBC.com "I learned more about biotechnology from this book than any other I've read ..." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging.com

These course slides introduce and discuss the emergence of high-performance power-management circuits (e.g., linear and switching voltage regulators, adaptive supplies, references, etc.) into the marketplace and state-of-the-art design considerations and constraints as well as practical issues behind their implementation, from the system down to their solid-state realizations, adopting a top-down design approach, much like in an industry setting but mixed with an educational component.

The Habitat for Humanity Charlotte Construction Manual has been formally adopted by the Board of Directors as its Approved Building Methods. It includes more than 450 pages, over 570 photographs, 115 detailed construction drawings, and step by step instructions on tasks that HFH Charlotte regularly asks its volunteers to complete. The manual is very specific for how HFH Charlotte builds its homes (both Standard and Historic styles). Even if your affiliate doesn't build exactly like we do in Charlotte, we hope that you find portions of the manual helpful. It is designed to encourage leadership as well as a high level of productivity, efficiency, and quality. Chapters include: Floor Framing, Layout, Framing, Vinyl Siding, Exterior Trim, Insulation, Drywall, Painting, Interior Trim, Storage Shed & Appendix. Preview is in color. Book can be purchased in color or black and white. Lulu sends all of the author's proceeds directly to Habitat for Humanity Charlotte

The Signage Planning Manual is designed to be a planning aid for the concept of pedestrian signage systems. Based on thorough scientific research this manual contains ready-to-use information for the building owner as well as for the signage planner. The manual does not focus on the graphical or aesthetical aspects of signage but rather on a consequent and logical overall-conception of a signage system with special attention to the underlying system of connecting paths given by the building functions and its architecture. This Signage Planning Manual summarizes renowned international regulations and planning recommendations in a comprehensive way, which makes planning of user-friendly wayfinding systems easier. The planning criteria become more objective and transparent, thus creating the basis for an unbiased assessment of the planning results in terms of logic and overall quality.

Save $39.00. Order this compilation of all seven reports in one handy spiral-bound volume. Includes: Save Your Wood Windows, Wood-Epoxy Repair, Wooden Columns, Exterior Woodwork Details, Wood Gutters, Mouldings and Managing Maintenance. 206 pages, 259 illustrations.

The successor to the classic Pile Buck Sheet Piling Design Manual, this Pile Buck exclusive is the definitive reference for the design of sheet pile walls. It covers every aspect of sheet pile design including the soil mechanics and earth pressure theory involved in sheet pile design, structural considerations, design of both cantilever and anchored walls, earthquake design for sheet pile walls, seepage and hydrostatic loads, anchor systems and tiebacks, cofferdams, corrosion and more. Text includes numerous worked examples and step-by-step solutions featuring various methods of design. Examples include use of the software program SPW911 along with "hand" solutions.

A classic 1952 text on the design and construction of large antenna systems for low-, medium-, and high-frequency radio transmission and reception.

The two part book presents a method for calculating three dimensional bevel gear geometry accurately without detailed knowledge of the generating tool and machine settings. In the first part, a set of tools are developed using an engineering approach and special notation which makes complex three dimensional bevel gear geometry easy to follow and visualize. The example in the second part demonstrates the use of the tools to solve not only a complex gearing problem but a practical problem that needed a solution. At the present time bevel gear strength ratings are based on a spur gear approximation. The formulas presented calculate true bevel gear geometry using basic gear parameters as input. They provide a basis for the next generation of strength rating calculations.

Most of the materials in this book originated from the author’s lecture notes for an applied modern physics course. The author made a significant effort to show students the practical applications of modern physics concepts to semiconductors and semiconductor devices and their use in electronics circuits in a single book that is very difficult to find in any other popular text. The material in this book is intended for upper division undergraduate and graduate students majoring in science and engineering.