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Language
English
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The first guide to timber framing written specifically for beginners! Expert Will Beemer takes you through the entire process from start to finish, beginning with timber sourcing and ending with a finished building. Using full-color photos, detailed drawings, and clear step-by-step instructions, Beemer shows you exactly how to build one small (12ʹ x 16ʹ) timber-frame structure, suitable for use as a cabin, workshop, or studio. He also explains how...
Author
Series
Questioneers volume 1
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ever since he was a baby, Iggy Peck has built towers, bridges, and buildings, which comes in handy when his second grade class is stranded on an island during a picnic.
Author
Series
Carpenters and builders library volume 3
Publisher
Bobbs-Merrill Co
Pub. Date
c1982
Edition
5th ed.
Physical Desc
261 p. : ill., plans ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages [large print] ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Longing for an escape from her extended Filipino family, Lou plans to build a tiny house on land she inherited from her father, but difficulties quickly arise.
10) Ellie, engineer
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
166 pages cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ellie, who loves to invent and build things, decides to build a doghouse as a gift, she needs to get past the boys-against-the-girls neighborhood feud and ask for help.
13) Unbuilding
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1980
Physical Desc
78 p. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
This fictional account of the dismantling and removal of the Empire State Building describes the structure of a skyscraper and explains how such an edifice would be demolished.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Filmed in the spring of 2011 at the 4th Columbia conference on materials in architecture and engineering. Plastics have become the most ubiquitous and increasingly permanent materials in construction. The material capabilities of plastics both as a generic material nomenclature and as specific polymers and the processes that underlie them suggest a potential to reshape design and the roles of architects and engineers in construction. While plastics...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the rhyming style of 'The House That Jack Built', this poem about the care and specificity that Carolina wrens put into building a nest is at once tender and true to life. Papa and Mama Wren gather treasures of the forest, from soft moss for a lining to snakeskin for warding off predators."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
165 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Ellie and her friends help elderly Mrs. Curran around the house, Ellie cannot resist using her engineering prowess but it is no fun for the girls when Toby gets the credit.
19) House mouse
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
A resourceful mouse builds different shelters and learns that home is wherever you make it.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
160 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2011 PROSE Award in Popular Science & Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers" Peter Goodfellow is a retired English teacher and lifelong birdwatcher. His books include Birds as Builders and A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Britain and Northern Europe.
An illustrated guide to how birds design and build their nests
Birds are the most consistently inventive builders, and their nests set the bar for functional design...
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