Are you an Architect and don't know the parts of a traditional double hung window? Forgot how stone was detailed? Could not draw a lug window sill to save your life? Then this book is for you and your staff. Great drawings (real drawings, not CADD), all hand lettered and illustrated. I use this book to size masonry fireplaces. It is the ultimate resource on all types of wood burning fireplaces and masonry dimensioning! Although there are some things that are out of date (plumbing & electrical)this book tells a story about buildings in the emerging market of historic rehab and historic tax credit project.

Found this book to be a valuable resource when recently challenged to write a company Strategic Training Plan. A wealth of information with sample forms, checklists, and guides that are easily adaptable. Applies good training philosophy and helps one tie in the training plan with the overall business objectives. A great resource and reference book to be found on all trainers book shelves.

'Transit Lounge' collects together in one volume the meat of essays from the much lamented and sadly missed publications 21.C and World Art.

Featured are insightful essays by Greil Marcus, Darren Tofts, McKenzie Wark, Mark Dery, Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling, R.U. Sirius, and many others. 'Transit Lounge' also features commentary from J.G. Ballard and an introduction by cyberpunk author William Gibson.

Unlike other publications of the 'Information Age', 21.C under the strong editorship of Ashley Crawford and Ray Edgar managed to steer clear of the excesses and frequent hyperbole that has accompanied the explosive growth of the Internet and 'Third Wave' corporations. The articles in 'Transit Lounge' read like mini research reports from the future, critical in tone, well-crafted, and notably have conscience, and sometimes even dissent.

Some of the many highlights include Bruce Sterling on 'Industrial Memory'; Mark Dery's insightful interviews with Mark Davis and Andrew Ross and distillation of the film 'Crash'; McKenzie Wark on the rise of N.W.O. culture and its paranoid Black Helicopter emblems; analysis of the 'military-entertainment' complex (Wark); and profiles of the late Kathy Acker, Noam Chomsky, Sadie Plant, Survival Research Laboratories, Stelarc, Hans Moravec, Nicholas Negroponte, Philip K. Dick, David Cronenberg, the Extropians, J.G. Ballard, and Frank Tippler, amongst others.

'Transit Lounge' stands apart from the wealth of by now trendy cyber-crit anthologies by drawing upon the critical voices of diverse specialists and analysts, painting a broad but detailed mosaic of 21st Century culture.

This is the only one book that can give a complete tour in the mainstream culture of the imagination and its relationship with the power. Even if you hadn't read the theories of Benda, you can enjoy the reading of this one, because is a resume of the position between the power and the intelectuals.

The oscilloscope is one of your most valuable tools. In order to realize its full value, however, you must thoroughly understand its capabilities. This means that you
must know not only the correct procedures for using a scope, but also what probes to employ, which test signals are needed, and the types of waveforms to expect and
how to interpret them. The author has covered all of these points quite extensively in this new, revised edition.

As you progress through the text, you will learn not only the proper procedure for operating a scope, but also how to determine defective circuit stages or components
through waveform analysis. Numerous incorrect waveforms associated with various defective components are shown and discussed.

The opening chapters are devoted to the fundamentals of waveform analysis and basic scope operating procedures, including the selection and use of various types of
probes. The remainder of the book covers the use of the scope in troubleshooting television and radio receivers, and audio amplifiers. Because of the rapid growth of
f-m stereo multiplex reception since the first edition was published, additional material covering the basics of stereo testing and troubleshooting has now been included.
Other new material includes information on laboratory-type triggered-sweep scopes with calibrated time bases, and discussions of troubleshooting techniques in
transistor circuits.

Although I cannot recommend all of Mr. Buckland's books, this and "Doors to Other Worlds" are two of his very best. This book serves to dispel some common myths about spirit communication (i.e. Ouija, seances, automatic writing etc.) and teaches you the reality of the art. It begins with an outline of the 5 levels of the spirit world and a thorough discussion of each, then moves on to discuss the history of the Spiritualist movement and religion. Buckland offers definitions of many common terms, such as clairaudience and channeling, and offers advice for doing each. At the end there is a FAQ covering such topics as life after death, angels, and possessions. I would suggest buying both this and "Doors to Other Worlds" (an expanded version) if you are interested in the truth and methods of spirit communication.

This compilation of recitations from the Wisdom-Teaching of Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj is a truly ecstatic and profound work! I have been listening to it repeatedly for many months, yet each time, the words and music never fail to envelope me in this ocean of Love that is the Divine. This heart-breaking prose is an open invitation for anyone who dares to go beyond their their minds.

This is one of the best books my five year old daughter and I have ever read. We first got it out of the library, but I just ordered it because it's a book I know we'll re-read hundreds of times. Everybody knows the Grimm's story: twelve princesses escape every night to go dancing. Their father, the king, doesn't know where they go, only that that in the morning their dancing shoes are in tatters. He offers the hand of one of his daughers in marriage to any suitor who can discover their secrets.Many try, and finally one succeeds. There are two wonderful things about this version. One is that it's clear at the end of the book that the daughter who is chosen doesn't marry the man who figured out their secret. She chooses him „ and plans to keep right on dancing after she gets married! The second great thing about this book is the illustrations, which are so beautiful, you just want to look at them again and again. More important, the princesses are all beautiful, but in exotic and interesting ways. No one size fits all Disneyesque beauties here. Each face is unique. One even wears glasses! Terrific book.

Twice 22 is a book club edition containing the entire texts of "Golden Apples of the Sun" and "A Medicine for Melancholy". Fourty Four of Ray Bradbury's short stories in one volume, including The Fog Horn, The Pedestrian, A Sound of Thunder, Icarus Montgolfier Wright, The Smile and the title stories. You can't go wrong...

This book was written by the french author,Ray, who like the many soldiers she interviewed, was killed by enemy forces in the Vietnam War. Of the many units she reported on the most interesting is the story of the American Commandos. The Green Berets were the elite American force in the country. This book gives a vivid and real dipiction of what war was to them. One character was Captain William Maples who intrigued the author took her where many reporters had never been.After time spent with Maples she realized that war was not what people have thought over the years. she writes that it takes a certain man ,like Maples, who can stand the acts of war and still seem like a knight in armor loyal to his men and no other. This is one of the best books made during the war that I have ever read and I recommend it to anyone who wants to read the truth of what war is like.