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1.		Building Construction Illustrated from Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. Customer Review: Excellent condition for a used item and for the price too. The books from Francis Ching are always very pleasent to read and to have.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Civil Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam from Professional Publications Customer Review: Neither have i received my shipment nor my money back even after 45 days of order placement. This seller is worse of all.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Drywall: Professional Techniques for Great Results from Taunton Press Price: $3.99 Customer Review: This book is proving to be very useful. We are renovating at the moment, and the info on repairing holes in drywall is both comprehensive and easy to follow. The information was presented clearly and in a logical order with plenty of photos to illustrate the finer points of using drywall. This... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Practice Problems for the Civil Engineering PE Exam : A Companion to the Civil Engineering Reference Manual from Professional Pubns Inc Price: $39.99 Customer Review: The practice problems coordinate with the Lindeburg reference manual. So there is a lot of stuff in this book that is not tested material on the PE Exam. I also found that the construction area was severly lacking in content. Be careful when using this reference as some of the approaches to... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		The Works: Anatomy of a City from Penguin Press HC, The Price: $5.48 Customer Review: I was at a local book fair and stumbled across this book, flipped through a few pages, and decided to pick it up for $2.50. All I can say is that was an absolute steal! I am an entry level civil engineer with a great interest in urban planning and architecture working for a city. I do have an... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		The Pipe Fitters Blue Book (Spanish and English Edition) from Graves Pub Co Customer Review: Great reference book for pipefitters and pipe welders wanting to learn. Been using mine for a while and there is lots of information here in a pocket size manual.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Reinforced Concrete: Mechanism and Design from Prentice-Hall (Canada) Customer Review: This is probably the best textbook for reinforced concrete design in the market, especially for the two to three semester sequences of reinforced concrete courses that are taught at universities. It provides many in-depth examples and clearly explains all procedures in a very concise manner, making... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		How to build and furnish a log cabin;: The easy-natural way using only hand tools and the woods around you from Macmillan Customer Review: Book is well written with outstanding illustrations on preperation and construction of a basic to complex log cabin. It also includes a section on furnishing a cabin, which is also one of his other books 'Rustic Construction', so its like getting two books in one. If you ever had a desire to build a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design from Princeton University Press Price: $12.00 Customer Review: Fact-based analysis of how we can learn from past failures. A good lesson with good examples but the book is a little slow in places.	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		Carpentry & Building Construction, Student Text from Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Price: $58.74 Customer Review: I purchased Carpentry & Building Construction Student Text for study purposes, in preparation for my Contractor's License exam. I found the book very informative. Because it is not too complicated, I am able to use it on the job site as well.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		HVAC Equations, Data, and Rules of Thumb, 2nd Ed. from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $36.56 Customer Review: This book is a great top-line summary of all four ASHRAE books, approximate ventilation standards, and I am constantly using the first few pages of equations and conversions. The rules of thumb are well thought out and the design standards are excellent thought provokers for design - a great book... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Construction Planning, Equipment and Methods from McGraw Hill Higher Education Price: $207.73 Customer Review: The text book is an excellent resource for my upcoming professional engineer's exam. I would recommend this text book for potential professional engineers getting ready to take the professional engineer's exam	Customer Rating: 2.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Construction Project Management, 3rd Edition from John Wiley & Sons Inc Price: $50.00 Customer Review: I recommend this book for its full coverage on all the aspects of construction management, approaching the real field problems, solutions, tips and the very well explained example that is built chapter by chapter. Theory and practice merge in a very palatable way. Any one who read it carefully,... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		Building a Successful Construction Company from Kaplan Business Price: $18.48 Customer Review: The author did an excellent job presenting the essential information every CEO must know in order to build a successful construction company. The book walks you through the steps of creating a working business plan, organizing marketing campaigns, organizing your business, and building a "core"... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.	[no image]	The Owner-Builder Book: How You Can Save More Than $100,000 in the Construction of Your Custom Home (First Edition) from Consensus Group Inc Customer Review: This is a very thorough book; I would highly recommend it to those who are building their own home or cottage, OR who are contracting someone else to build it for them; it covers many aspects of construction AND contracting out part, or all, of a project that you may not have considered!	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Construction Business Management: What Every Construction Contractor, Builder & Subcontractor Needs to Know from RSMeans Price: $32.87 Customer Review: This book is great for someone just starting a business, I have been in the business for 10 years so most of it I was already doing, let me know I was on the right path. Good book to read before you start a construction business.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.	[no image]	Construction Management from John Wiley & Sons Customer Review: This is the wordiest textbook I have ever read. This book could probably be shortened by 100 pages. When I am reading a textbook I would like to get to the point as simply and quickly as possible.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures from Birkhäuser Architecture Price: $115.00 Customer Review: This great and useful book is printed so badly, that makes wanto to write to the authors and Birkhauser to ask for your money back. It is basically a low def scan. Anything that is not a line drawing is plainly illegible.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		100 Best Log Home Floor Plans (100 Best (Krause Publications)) from Krause Publications Price: $11.99 Customer Review: We're just starting to plan a timber frame home for our retirement. This was just the book I needed to give me lots of different floor plans to browse over. Great book to give you ideas!!!	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		McGraw-Hill's HVAC Licensing Study Guide from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $21.37 Customer Review: I have to agree with the 1rst reviewer of this product...I took the HVAC exam 10/2009 and failed. I decided to purchase some study material to prepare me for the second go and so I purchased this book. One would have to believe that i have an advantage here becuause i've seen the direction which the... more info	Customer Rating: 1.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.		Quick Reference for the Civil Engineering Pe Exam from Professional Pubns Inc Customer Review: Quick Reference only contains equations found within the main reference manual. If studying from the main book, this quick reference is of limited usefulness if you know where everything is in the big book (e.g. use lots of the sticky tabs).	Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		Blueprint Reading for Welders from Delmar Cengage Learning Price: $86.24 Customer Review: I needed this book for a class I am taking. This book has so many errors I stopped counting. There is an average of 3 errors per chapter. Luckily for me my instructor does not grade the work from the book and makes up his own tests. We are assigned work from the book and then go over it class. This... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		MODERN CONSTRUCTION HANDBOOK from SPRINGER VERLAG Customer Review: As an architecture student I couldn't believe how resourceful this book is. For studios that require a competent understanding of how a building works. This book provides an in depth knowledge of contemporary materials and how they work together. MCH is full of annotated details of evocative... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.	[no image]	Construction Project Administration from Prentice Hall Press Customer Review: One would have thought that after so many editions, the thick book would have been far less wordy and better structured. The main problem is not structuring according to project life cycle, resulting in many repetitions and unnecessary topics such as how to use a camera on site! Construction... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


25.		Civil Engineering Survey Review for the California PE Exam (PE Exam Preparation) from Kaplan Publishing Price: $31.45	Click here for more information


26.		Waterfront Homes: 189 Home Plans for River, Lake or Sea from Home Planners Price: $9.46 Customer Review: Not really waterfront homes. Just run of the mill home plans. Save your maoney!	Customer Rating: 1.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		Plumber's licensing Study Guide from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $21.37 Customer Review: Ok so the cost of your exam is not cheap. If you use the info. in this book you will fail. I suggest getting another book. The questions that this book has are helpfull, just dont pay attention to the answers in this book. There are several wrong answers in this book. I mean how do you write a book... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		Managing Engineering and Technology (4th Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $29.45 Customer Review: I purchased this book because it is required for a graduate level Engineering Management course I am taking. In terms of overall quality, I would give it an above-average rating. It does a decent job summarizing some of the work various management science experts throughout history and also... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		Civil and Environmental Systems Engineering (2nd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $57.57 Customer Review: The text is an excellent introduction to the world of civil engineering from a systems perspective. The goal is to introduce the tools and methods of systems analysis for the civil or environmental engineer. Applications are provided to illustrate the concepts. Very well done from start to... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.		The Roads That Built America: The Incredible Story of the U.S. Interstate System from Sterling Price: $9.09 Customer Review: A well written and engaging book. Even if you're familiar with the history of the U.S. Interstate system, you're sure to find interesting tidbits and factoids that will keep you turning the pages. It's a pretty easy read with a lot of great photos. A bunch of sidebar stories helped to break things... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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