Country Builder's Assistant

Country Builder's Assistant
Author: Asher Benjamin
Publisher: Applewood Books
Total Pages: 65
Release: 1989-05
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1557091048

This book revolutionized 19th-century American architecture and changed forever the type of building that was done in our country.

The American Builder's Companion

The American Builder's Companion
Author: Asher Benjamin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1969-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0486222365

The New England architect's work which provides instructions and designs for houses and churches as well as interiors

The Architect

The Architect
Author: Asher Benjamin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1844
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Architect : Or, Practical House Carpenter by Asher Benjamin, first published in 1843, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

The Ship Model Builder's Assistant

The Ship Model Builder's Assistant
Author: Charles G. Davis
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486156206

Invaluable guide offers detailed descriptions, drawings of masting, rigging, and major fittings of American clippers and packets. Also includes wealth of details on deck furniture. 279 line drawings.

How to Build Your Own Country

How to Build Your Own Country
Author: Valerie Wyatt
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2009-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1554533104

This book teaches readers the basics of building a nation and highlights events that have shaped countries throughout history.

The Practical Builder

The Practical Builder
Author: William Pain
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2013-09-26
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0486320618

DIVThis 1774 guidebook was a do-it-yourself manual for those who could not afford an architect's services. Annotated, meticulously rendered engravings depict cross-sections of chimney-pieces, ceilings, cornices, and other architectural details.

Builders of the Vision

Builders of the Vision
Author: Daniel Cardoso Llach
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-06-05
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317755952

Builders of the Vision traces the intellectual history and contemporary practices of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Numerical Control since the years following World War II until today. Drawing from primary archival and ethnographic sources, it identifies and documents the crucial ideas shaping digital design technologies since the first numerical control and CAD systems were developed under US Air Force research contracts at MIT between 1949 and 1970: the cybernetic theorization of design as a human-machine endeavor; the vision of computers as "perfect slaves" taking care of the drudgery of physical labor; the techno-social utopias of computers as vehicles of democracy and social change; the entrepreneurial urge towards design and construction integration; and the managerial ideologies enabling today’s transnational geographies of practice. Examining the contrasting, and often conflicting, sensibilities that converge into CAD and BIM discourses - globalism, utopianism, entrepreneurialism, and architects’ desires for aesthetic liberation - Builders of the Vision shows that software systems and numerically controlled machines are not merely "instruments," or "tools," but rather versatile metaphors reconfiguring conceptions of design, materiality, work, and what it means to be creative. Crucially, by revealing software systems as socio-technical infrastructures that mediate the production of our built environments, author Daniel Cardoso Llach builds a strong case for the fields of architecture, media, and science and technology studies to critically engage with both the politics and the poetics of technology in design. Builders of the Vision will be essential reading for scholars and practitioners across disciplines interested in the increasingly complex socio-technical systems that go into imagining and building of our artifacts, buildings, and cities.

The Rise of the Community Builders

The Rise of the Community Builders
Author: Marc A. Weiss
Publisher: Beard Books
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781587981524

This is a reprint of a 1987 book * It is to be hand scanned, so as not to destroy the text or cover, and returned to Beard Books. The book deals with the evolution of real estate development in the United States, focusing on the rise of planned communities common in the American suburbs since the 1940s.

The President's Book of Secrets

The President's Book of Secrets
Author: David Priess
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1610395964

Every president has had a unique and complicated relationship with the intelligence community. While some have been coolly distant, even adversarial, others have found their intelligence agencies to be among the most valuable instruments of policy and power. Since John F. Kennedy's presidency, this relationship has been distilled into a personalized daily report: a short summary of what the intelligence apparatus considers the most crucial information for the president to know that day about global threats and opportunities. This top-secret document is known as the President's Daily Brief, or, within national security circles, simply "the Book." Presidents have spent anywhere from a few moments (Richard Nixon) to a healthy part of their day (George W. Bush) consumed by its contents; some (Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush) consider it far and away the most important document they saw on a regular basis while commander in chief. The details of most PDBs are highly classified, and will remain so for many years. But the process by which the intelligence community develops and presents the Book is a fascinating look into the operation of power at the highest levels. David Priess, a former intelligence officer and daily briefer, has interviewed every living president and vice president as well as more than one hundred others intimately involved with the production and delivery of the president's book of secrets. He offers an unprecedented window into the decision making of every president from Kennedy to Obama, with many character-rich stories revealed here for the first time.