Author : Adam W. Sweeting
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 1996
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780874517507
Portrays an author, architect, and landscape architect who greatly influenced antebellum American culture.
Author : John Mittendorf
Publisher : Fire Engineering Books
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 2015-01-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1593703422
The Art of Reading Buildings focuses on the practical art of reading a building and applying its positive and negative attributes in developing a size-up for fireground operations that center on structure fires. First-due company officers, incident commanders, and safety officers will appreciate the practical “street-wise” lessons captured in the book. Chief officers, training officers, engineers, firefighters, and fire science degree candidates will benefit from the wide range of building construction topics covered in this text. Features include: • Understand the technical and practical aspects of building construction • Learn on-the-spot building construction assessment using the authors’ custom Rapid Street-Read Guides • Develop a quick construction size-up for immediate application to fireground operations • Recognize firefighter traps in newer and alternative construction methods • This text covers objectives for the National Fire Academy’s Fire and Emergency Services in Higher Education (FESHE) Building Construction for Fire Protection course
Author : Jonathan Bean
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0374380236
A family of four builds a house, back, away from the road, down a dirt lane, in the middle of an old, weedy field.
Author : The Reading House
Publisher : Reading House
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 16,46 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0525571930
READY, SET, READ! Introduce your child to the letters of the alphabet with this fun and colorful box set from the experts at Random House! Inside you’ll find 12 leveled storybooks featuring friendly animal characters, an activity sheet, and a helpful parent guide. Perfect for early readers just getting started! Kids will learn to: • Recognize lower and uppercase letters A-L •Identify beginning word sounds • Connect beginning sounds and words THE READING HOUSE is a step-by-step learn-to-read program that takes kids aged 4-7 from letter recognition all the way up to independent reading. With four distinct stages, choosing the box set that’s just right for your child is simple. The sets in Stage One: Getting Started introduce children to the 26 upper- and lower-case letter pairs in the alphabet. The simple stories, decodable words, picture cues, and bright, colorful artwork make it easy to raise a confident, happy reader!
Author : TJ Klune
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250217326
A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER! A 2021 Alex Award winner! The 2021 RUSA Reading List: Fantasy Winner! An Indie Next Pick! One of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2020" One of Book Riot’s “20 Must-Read Feel-Good Fantasies” Lambda Literary Award-winning author TJ Klune’s bestselling, breakout contemporary fantasy that's "1984 meets The Umbrella Academy with a pinch of Douglas Adams thrown in." (Gail Carriger) Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world. Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe, even if it means the world will burn. And his secrets will come to light. The House in the Cerulean Sea is an enchanting love story, masterfully told, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours. "1984 meets The Umbrella Academy with a pinch of Douglas Adams thrown in." —Gail Carriger, New York Times bestselling author of Soulless At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Charles R. Smith
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781484445785
Coretta Scott King Award-winners Charles R. Smith Jr. and Floyd Cooper deliver the compelling story behind the building of the White House, a powerful part of history rarely taught. The home of our president was built by many hands, several of them s
Author : The Reading House
Publisher : Reading House
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 24,45 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0525571973
READY, SET, READ! Introduce your child to short vowel sounds with this fun and colorful box set! Inside you’ll find 12 leveled storybooks featuring friendly animal characters, an activity sheet, and a helpful parent guide. Perfect for emerging readers! Kids will learn to: • Decode short vowel clusters, rhyming words, and sight words • Begin to recognize story elements like setting, plot, and character • Build the confidence to read simple stories independently THE READING HOUSE is a step-by-step learn-to-read program that takes kids aged 4-7 from letter recognition all the way up to independent reading. With four distinct stages, choosing the box set that’s just right for your reader is simple. The sets in Stage Two: Emerging Reader get children comfortable with short vowel sounds and words. The simple stories, decodable words, picture cues, and bright, colorful artwork make it easy to raise a confident, happy reader!
Author : The Reading House
Publisher : Reading House
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0525571957
READY, SET, READ! Introduce your child to short vowel sounds with this fun and colorful box set! Inside you’ll find 12 leveled storybooks featuring friendly animal characters, an activity sheet, and a helpful parent guide. Perfect for emerging readers! Kids will learn to: • Recognize consistent short vowel sounds and word families • Blend consistent short vowel word families with initial consonants and diagraphs • Read sentences with simple short vowel sight words THE READING HOUSE is a step-by-step learn-to-read program that takes kids aged 4-7 from letter recognition all the way up to independent reading. With four distinct stages, choosing the box set that’s just right for your reader is simple. The sets in Stage Two: Emerging Reader get children comfortable with short vowel sounds and words. The simple stories, decodable words, picture cues, and bright, colorful artwork make it easy to raise a confident, happy reader!
Author : Adam Sharr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415601428
Introducing the notion of appreciating buildings as cultural artefacts, this book presents insightful readings by eminent writers which show the power of this approach. Reading architecture in this way can help architects to appreciate the contexts in which they operate when they design. This book introduces, outlines and elaborates on this and opens-up powerful insights for historians, critics and students.
Author : George Nash
Publisher : Taunton
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Dwellings
ISBN : 9781561581283
"Plain talk for restorers, from soup to nuts (and bolts). Here's thorough, practical advice that's sensitive to both history and budget".--The Old House Journal.
