Best Practices Guide to Residential Construction: Materials, Finishes, and Details
Best Practices Guide to Residential Construction: Materials, Finishes, and Details
The most comprehensive guide to material selection & installation It takes a wise choice of building materials and details to create durable, attractive, and affordable custom homes and remodeling projects. Best Practices Guide to Residential Construction provides up-to-date, field-tested recommendations that help professionals balance cost and performance when designing and building residential projects. Steven Bliss, former editorial director of The Journal of Light Construction and founding editor of Progressive Builder, draws on his extensive knowledge as a practicing builder, designer, and construction editor to help building professionals select the right materials for every job and install them with confidence. This one-stop resource covers the real-world challenges of material selection and installation so designers, contractors, and building owners can make informed decisions for all major building components. Useful to architects, designers, and specifiers--as well as contractors, builders, and developers--Best Practices Guide to Residential Construction features: * More than 200 photos and illustrations of critical residential construction details * Installation tips and cautions that help prevent costly product failures * Descriptions of the latest composites and synthetics that are changing the way we build * Easy-to-use charts for making quick product comparisons * An authoritative guide to indoor air quality and healthy house construction
- ASIN: 0471648361
- ISBN: 9780471648369
- Manufacturer: Wiley
I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships
I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships
+ 2018 IPA Book Award Winner+ 2018 Readers' Favorite Award WinnerWhat if making one tweak to your day-to-day conversations could immediately improve every relationship in your life?In this 3-hour, conversational read, you’ll discover the whats, whys, and hows of one of the most valuable (yet surprisingly little-known) communication skills—validation. Whether you’re looking to improve your relationship with your spouse, navigate difficult conversations at work, or connect on a deeper level with friends and family, this book delivers simple, practical, proven techniques for improving any relationship in your life.Mastery of this simple skill will enable you to:• Calm (and sometimes even eliminate) the concerns, fears, and uncertainties of others• Increase feelings of love, respect, and appreciation in your romantic relationships• Quickly resolve, or even prevent, arguments• Help others become open to your point of view• Give advice and feedback that sticks• Provide support and encouragement to others, even when you don’t know how to “fix” the problem• And much moreIn short: this skill is powerful. Give the principles and practices in this book a chance and you’ll be amazed at the difference they can make.
- ASIN: B071K4MWMK
- Manufacturer: Autumn Creek Press
The 12-inch Double Sided Practice Pad, Endurance Pad - Fully Rimmed, Low Volume and Heavy Resistance, The Ultimate Workout and Chop Building Pad For Drummers
The 12-inch Double Sided Practice Pad, Endurance Pad - Fully Rimmed, Low Volume and Heavy Resistance, The Ultimate Workout and Chop Building Pad For Drummers
The ultimate workout practice pad for drummers of all type. The top side features a very quiet and soft playing surface that provides minimal rebound and heavy resistance. The practice pad is also fully rimmed and compatible with all aspects of the shock absorbing surface, despite the height of the playing surface. The bottom side is a traditional silicone rubber surface. The pad weighs 4.1 pounds and will help percussionists builds their chops, have cleaner diddles and rudiments, create more uniform single strokes, and increase their muscle development and stamina. Improve your endurance, speed, power, stroke height and fundamentals by using this pad.
- UPC: 758475387965
- ASIN: B07PKCY1ZB
- Brand: Movement Drum Co.
- Size: Workout
- Manufacturer: Movement Drum Co.
Email Marketing Rules: Checklists, Frameworks, and 150 Best Practices for Business Success
Email Marketing Rules: Checklists, Frameworks, and 150 Best Practices for Business Success
Email marketing’s power is matched only by how incredibly misunderstood it is.Email Marketing Rules demystifies this vital channel, taking you step by step through 150 best practices, providing extensive tactical checklists, and giving you strategic frameworks for long-term success.Updated and greatly expanded, the 3rd Edition of Email Marketing Rules will help you…Set the right program goals by understanding “deep metrics” and properly interpreting campaign, channel, and subscriber metricsBuild high-performance lists by identifying valuable subscriber acquisition sources, using appropriate permission practices, and managing inactives wiselyEnsure your emails are delivered by understanding the factors that cause inbox providers to block sendersCraft relevant messaging with effective subject lines, savvy designs, and smart targetingAutomate your messaging so you address moments that matter and create highly engaging subscriber journeysDevelop solid workflows that avoid errors and speed up production
- ASIN: B072C5HGTG
Best Practices in Sustainable Building Design: Includes an interactive DVD
Best Practices in Sustainable Building Design: Includes an interactive DVD
This unique book and DVD is an interactive learning environment composed of seven content areas: building form, envelopes, structures, climate control systems, renewable energy, lighting, and landscape design. Each of these content areas is subdivided into learning modules introducing the subject matter and investigates best practices for climate responsive and ecologically sustainable building design and construction. The DVD will help visualize and engage with concepts that may otherwise be too ambiguous or difficult to comprehend in a book format.
- ASIN: 1604270683
- ISBN: 1604270683
- Brand: J. Ross Publishing
- Manufacturer: J. Ross Publishing
Elenco FM Radio Kit
Elenco FM Radio Kit
- UPC: 885250561859
- ASIN: B004YHZE0G
- Brand: Elenco
- Manufacturer: Elenco Electronics Inc
Elegoo EL-KIT-008 Mega 2560 Project The Most Complete Ultimate Starter Kit w/Tutorial for Arduino UNO Nano
Elegoo EL-KIT-008 Mega 2560 Project The Most Complete Ultimate Starter Kit w/Tutorial for Arduino UNO Nano
Established in 2011, ELEGOO is a thriving technology company dedicated to open-source hardware research & development, production and marketing. Our own Quality Management Team will secure the premium quality of our products and we would like to receive your valuable suggestions for our products and make your idea come true component listing: 1pcs Mega 2560 Controller Board 1pcs USB Cable 1pcs Breadboard 1pcs 65 Jumper Wire 1pcs IC 74HC595 1pcs Active Buzzer 1pcs Tilt Switch 1pcs Photo resistor 5pcs Yellow LED 5pcs Blue LED 5pcs Green LED 5pcs Red LED 1pcs RGB LED 5pcs Button (small) 10pcs Resistor (10R) 10pcs Resistor (100R) 10pcs Resistor (220R) 10pcs Resistor (330R) 10pcs Resistor (1K) 10pcs Resistor (2K) 10pcs Resistor (5K1) 10pcs Resistor (10K) 10pcs Resistor (100K) 10pcs Resistor (1M) 5pcs Female-to-male DuPont Wire.
- UPC: 746591610586
- ASIN: B01EWNUUUA
- Brand: ELEGOO
- Manufacturer: ELEGOO
IncStores White 12" x 12" Practice Dance Tiles
IncStores White 12" x 12" Practice Dance Tiles
Description - Practice Dance Tiles are the perfect dance flooring solution for any young, aspiring dancer. These tiles can easily be setup in the home and you can purchase tile by tile, expanding to create the exact dance floor space that you need. Our Practice Dance Floor Tiles are durable, and can even be used as event flooring where many people will be standing or dance on them at a time. Whether you are setting up a small practice dance area in your basement, or putting together a portable temporary dance floor for events, you are sure to love these durable tiles. Material - Manufactured with high-grade polypropylene and a vinyl top surface. Size - 12" x 12" Thickness - 1/2" Weight - 1 lbs/tile Recommended Uses - These Practice Dance Tiles are perfect for use in the home and are used to practice multiple dance styles, like tap, ballet, flamenco, and more. These modular tiles are easy to setup and take down, making them easily portable and perfect for use as temporary flooring at events such as weddings, parties, and other events where a temporary dance flooring is needed.
- UPC: 840032916999
- ASIN: B07QP8YB4T
- Brand: IncStores
- Size: 52 - 12"x12" Tiles
- Manufacturer: IncStores
Spell & Write, Grade 4 (Skill Sharpeners Spell & Write)
Spell & Write, Grade 4 (Skill Sharpeners Spell & Write)
Each of the 12 units in Spell & Write, Grade 4 is introduced by a story that establishes the unit theme and features some of the twelve spelling words. Students are then presented with eight activity pages that provide meaningful spelling and writing practice centering on the unit theme. Activities may include practice with: - grammar and punctuation rules - vocabulary exercises - creative writing - and much more Each unit ends with a Test Your Skills assessment page. Students take a spelling test, edit a sentence, and answer questions about the skills presented in the unit.
- UPC: 023472045409
- ASIN: 159673048X
- ISBN: 159673048X
- Brand: EVAN-MOOR
- Manufacturer: Evan-Moor Corp
Kubernetes Best Practices: Blueprints for Building Successful Applications on Kubernetes
Kubernetes Best Practices: Blueprints for Building Successful Applications on Kubernetes
You’ve studied the theory and procedures behind Kubernetes and now it’s time to put that knowledge into practice. Whether you’re planning to move existing applications or build new ones with containers and Kubernetes, this practical guide provides best practices for everything from CI/CD and RBAC to application design, deployments, and experiments. You’ll learn exactly what you need to know to build your best app with Kubernetes the first time.Four Kubernetes professionals with deep experience in distributed systems, enterprise application development, and open source, will guide you through the process of building applications with Kubernetes. Based on the experiences of companies successfully running Kubernetes in production, many of the best practices are also backed by concrete code examples. This book is ideal for those already familiar with basic Kubernetes concepts who want to learn common best practices.
- ASIN: 1492056472
- ISBN: 1492056472
- Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media