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Bioclimatic Housing: Innovative Designs for Warmer Climates

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Bioclimatic Housing: Innovative Designs for Warmer Climates

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• A landmark text from the International Energy Agency on sustainable architecture in warmer climates
• Uses the approach of bioclimatic housing to explore how sustainable architecture interacts with its environment
• Explores a range of global case studies from the Middle East, Asia, Europe and Australasia, forming an overview of strategies and showing how these can be developed into practice

Airport Planning & Management, 5th Edition

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Airport Planning & Management, 5th Edition

Wells (professor emeritus, aviation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) and Rodrigues (applied aviation science, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) have added new material on today’s ground and air security concerns, changes in systems and regulations, and new maintenance and flight technologies to this fourth edition of a text for students, especially those with a limited background in the subject, enrolled in aviation safety and/or management programs and college or university flight programs. With the introduction of coauthor Rodrigues,the book broadens its field of study to include regulatory information on OSHA, EPA, and TSA. (Sci-Tech Book News )

Marketing Green Building Services: Strategies for Success

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Marketing Green Building Services: Strategies for Success

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Marketing Green Building Services: Strategies for Success presents all the information key decision-makers need to respond to the fast-growing market for green buildings, design and construction services and products. Completely updated, revised and expanded from the author’s previous works, this book is the one resource you need to succeed in the green building marketplace.

Homes That Heal (and those that don’t) : How Your Home Could be Harming Your Family’s Health

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Homes That Heal (and those that don't) : How Your Home Could be Harming Your Family's Health

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Media reports focus increasingly on the declining health of children in industrialized countries. Asthma, autism, learning and behavior problems, and cancer are all on the rise. At the same time, there is consistent news about poor indoor air quality, mold and how buildings can make people sick.

Introducing AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009

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Introducing AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009

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Learn the basics of AutoCAD Civil 3D easily and efficiently from the straightforward explanations and realistic exercises in Introducing AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009.  In this helpful introductory guide, you will find an overview of key concepts and in-depth, detailed coverage of special topics like lines and arcs, points, surveying, parcels, surfaces, alignments, profiles, corridors, grading, sections, pipes, and project management.  If you are a civil engineer or civil engineering student, you will understand how to apply AutoCAD Civil 3D to real-world, professional situations after reading this book.