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A Complete Resource for Residential and Light Commercial Contractors -- based on the latest construction materials and methods.
Learn how to: * read and interpret building plans
* create an accurate takeoff, using a complete set of working drawings.
Each chapter covers a major construction division, such as concrete, masonry and carpentry -- and uses plans, details and tables to illustrate plan reading and takeoff procedures. A checklist for each material division helps ensure that nothing is left out of your takeoff.
Includes a complete set of residential plans from Home Planners, Inc., the nation's leading provider of home plans. With a detailed material takeoff, from site work to electrical.
With over 160 illustrations, including commercial construction details.
Customer Reviews:
great help.......2006-11-10
i did not know anything about building materials before and now i am an expert (well almost)
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Are you preparing your teenager to leave the nest?
It has been said that the ultimate goal of parenting is to work yourself out of a job. But if you are like most parents of teenagers, your ultimate goal is to just make it through the day. You probably aren't thinking that far ahead. Besides, you probably can't imagine your children ever surviving on their own-without you!
Every parent since Adam and Eve has harbored serious doubts about their offsprings' ability to become responsible, self-reliant adults. For many parents today, those doubts have turned to sheer panic. In Cleared for Takeoff!, Wayne Rice offers 50 clear, bite-size nuggets of wisdom to help you navigate the course and instill the four R's-Respect, Responsibility, Resourcefulness, Reverence-into your teenager. They include:
- Be a matchmaker
- Find some common ground
- Influence their influencers
- Provide rites of passage
- Become a mentor
- Discover their passion
- Go ballistic for the right reasons
- Tackle temptation
Cleared for Takeoff! is the handbook that will help you stay calm and confident as a parent while charting your teenager's course to success. And, it will help you enjoy the time you have with your teenager at home a whole lot more!
Customer Reviews:
Let's Be Honest.......2004-08-30
This book has a religious orientation that is not revealed until you open it and start reading. I have no objections to religion for those who choose it, however, I resent the "hidden agenda" aspect of this book. If I had known in advance this was a religion-based book, I would not have bought it. I think that's the idea behind their keeping quiet about it.
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Covering operations at both controlled and uncontrolled airfields, this practical manual provides an in-depth treatment of these critical procedures under all conditions, shedding new light and practical insight on these maneuvers.
Customer Reviews:
Just another book on flying.......2002-07-04
Unfortunately, I was re-reading "Stick and Rudder" at the time this book arrived. What a contrast. OK, BT&L has a lot of modern detail that the classic lacks, but Michael Love has no knack for teaching the art of flying. Just another book.
Better Value for Student Pilots.......2002-05-06
This book serves it's intended purpose well. It covers the established procedures for takeoffs and landings in the differing situations. I believe the book is of more value to a student pilot rather than a private pilot who flys on a regular basis. When a student pilot, what served me well was the solo practice along with the Jeppesen, "Private Pilot Manuevers" book which presents full color illustrations. A book can only go so far as to the process while the true method to improve takeoffs and Landings is by actual practice.
How to do it correctly.......1999-12-31
After reading Mr. Loves book, as a Student Pilot, I find it one of the most practical and well written texts on the art of making a proper landing. Mr. Loves experience as a pilot for a parachute troop has been invaluable and passing on this knowledge to us 'up and coming' is greatly appreciated. I would assume that this text would also be a great review for those of you who are switching from a tail dragger to tricycle or vice versa. Invaluable in my library.
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*Covers lightplane performance flight testing methods, measures, and computer applications
*Includes CD-ROM with sample spreadsheets containing equations to help readers perform their own flight tests
*Describes GPS (Global Positioning System) test method for airspeed calibration and rapid-wind camera method for takeoff performance
Product Description
Multimedia Training System handbook for becoming a private pilot.
Customer Reviews:
Great Handbook for the Beginning Pilot.......2007-05-17
I really enjoyed this book. There is enough humor to keep your interest high when the going gets technical. It is a great adjunct to use in addition to the more traditional flight school textbooks. It really helped the information take hold in my brain, and was a great book to review for the knowledge test.
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Back in print with a new design, this guide includes instruction on the basics of takeoffs and landings, the realities of flying into and out of an airport, and the functions of the throttle, stick, rudder, and trim. A pilot's pilot, Collins provides a complete and coherent account, from takeoff roll to full stop, of a perfect flight and landing; identifying many common errors pilots make along the way. In addition to extracting from his own lengthy career and personal experience, Collins shares tips and secrets he learned by observing airline pilots, reading military manuals, attending manufacturer's flight training programs, and interviewing some of aviation's most famous thinkers and figures.
Customer Reviews:
Valuable Information, Well Written.......2005-12-02
Without exception, every pilot should read Langewiesche's Stick and Rudder. This book should be the next one to read after that. Langewiesche and Collins were friends, and Collins wrote this long after Stick and Rudder had become a classic. He produced an excellent follow-on work that both reinforces the lessons of Stick and Rudder and expands them. This book covers real-world flying and how to do it safely, avoiding common errors that lead to accidents.
The writing is lively, and at many points, you'll feel as if you're sitting next to Collins in the cockpit, getting a demonstration with explanations. The book is such an easy read that you learn almost without realizing you're learning.
If you've already read Stick and Rudder, read this book immediately. If you haven't read Langewiesche's book, get both his and Collins' books together. They make a great team and their insights will make you a better pilot. Humans aren't born with wings; our brains enabled us to fly. Langewiesche and Collins have produced a pair of books that will put your brain in the right gear to understand flying and keep you alive.
Book Description
Meet Martin Bridge -- a most special and ordinary boy whose well-meant plans sometimes go awry. In three illustrated stories, Martin encounters two bus drivers with very different ways of relating, makes a tough decision about a friend's pet and takes on an extremely competitive model rocket project that almost costs him a friendship. The daily rhythms, struggles and triumphs of childhood -- at home, at school and with friends -- are evoked with warmth, understanding, honesty and humor.
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A journey to the center of their hearts
Ever since their father's sudden death eight years ago, Chuck and Lori's mom has spent most of her time on the road as a motivational speaker, leaving them and their younger siblings in the care of their grandparents. But this trip is different; this time, their mother has invited Chuck and Lori along in an attempt to reconnect with her eldest -- and now most distant -- children.
Lori is so angry with her mother for her constant absence she can barely look at her, and Chuck, as usual, tries to make himself invisible. From the start the trip seems doomed. But slowly, walls built up over the years begin to show cracks. Laser-sharp glares are finally and painfully turned inward. And in the end secrets are finally revealed -- secrets that will change all of their lives forever....
Customer Reviews:
An Intense Family Drama.......2007-08-30
Hmmm. Did I like this book? I'm still pondering that question more than 12 hours after completing it. Haddix put a lot of emotions and information into a relatively short book and though it was very compelling and well written, it just seemed a bit....jammed in there.
Takeoffs and Landings by one of my favorite youth writers, Margaret Peterson Haddix, is a book of intense family emotion. It is told by two siblings in alternating chapters. Chuck is the overweight, geeky older brother that we learn loves art, but is afraid to show that love. Lori is the self-obsessed younger sister that is completely into boys, friends, and parties, and definitely not into Chuck and his weirdness.
Their mother, a motivational speaker and very much resented by Lori, decides to take Chuck and Lori along for one of her 3 city tours in order for them to spend time together and possibly fix their straining relationship. Along the way, huge, emotion ridden fights ensue between Lori and her mom, while Chuck begins to find himself in art museums, hiding, yet learning and loving. By the end of the novel, the broken family almost seems fixed, which is a feat to do in only 201 pages.
Haddix has a magic about her that enables her to create real emotions in her characters that then feel real in her readers. She did that again in this book and I loved it, however I felt it was very rushed and somewhat strange that after all the intensity in hurt and anger that was portrayed only a few pages before, all is well at the end of the book. It needed a good 50-100 more pages to work out those family problems and make that part of the novel feel realistic to me.
A Family Heals Itself.......2007-02-03
Lori is fourteen and her brother Chuck is fifteen. When they were little they were best friends, but that was before their father died in a farm accidnet and everything went wrong. Chuck and Lori already had two younger brothers and when their father died their mother was expecting another baby. The whole family had to move in with the children's grandparents. Farming wasn't a bad life and the kids all love their grandparents, but Lori, especially, feels a lot of resentment toward her mother, who works as a motivational speaker to support the family. She is never home and over the years she has grown distant from her children.
Chuck and Lori have also grown apart. Chuck is clumsy and overweight and not good at school. Lori is quite the opposite, and the two of them haven't really spoken in years.
Now Lori and Chuck's mother has decided to bring the two of them with her while she tours some of the major cities in the country, giving motivational speeches. Lori is baffled by the invitation and at first is openly hostile toward her mother. But as they travel with her more and more, Chuck and Lori begin to see a bit of what her life is really like, and they begin to see what they can do to put their family back together again.
I liked to see how the individual characters grew over the course of this story, and how the family was able to start to heal after so many years of unhappiness and resentment.
Reading TAKEOFFS AND LANDINGS will make you feel good........2004-07-29
Takeoffs and landings. I guess they're the best parts of going on a plane. Then again, I've been on so many flights that they all just meld together. This is not the case for Lori and Chuck Lawson, two teens stuck in Pickford County, Ohio. Neither has been on a plane, not once --- they've been living with their grandparents and siblings on the family farm ever since their father passed away. Widowed and without a profession or a degree, their mother Joan had to find a job to support her five children. She becomes a motivational speaker, traveling across the country to speak at conferences, and she is rarely home.
Lori is resentful of her mother's trips, always wishing that her mom was there for her, both physically and emotionally. Clumsy Chuck is busy struggling with teases and taunts from peers and constant nagging from his grandfather. The younger children don't remember a time when their mother was home for more than three weeks at a stretch.
When Joan decides to make up for her absences by taking Lori and Chuck with her on a trip across the country, what will happen? Relationships change and secrets are uncovered as Haddix reveals an aspect of the bond between mother and child that not many people understand. Can Joan Lawson ever make it up to her children?
The book is written from three different points of view: Lori's, Chuck's, and Joan's. Although each provides a different spin on the events in the novel, the constant change in speaker demands a lot of concentration. Haddix's idea is clever, but its execution is less so. The ending is predictable; there is no jolting surprise that makes you want to finish the book right at that very moment. On the positive side, however, the novel shows a family who struggles to overcome, which is very inspiring. Reading TAKEOFFS AND LANDINGS will make you feel good, even if you don't like to fly.
--- Reviewed by Lisa Marx
PRETTY GOOD BOOK.......2003-04-29
Imagine yourself being a perfect person with great grades, being pretty, and having lots of friends. Then, once you reach the big city and you know no one, your life turns around. Everyone gives you funny looks, your scared people will make fun of you, and it doesn't matter who you are or what you look like anymore.
Well, that is how it is like for Lori and her brother Chuck in this fiction novel called Takeoffs and Landings by Margaret Peterson Haddix.
In this story, Lori and Chuck don't see their mother that much ever since their father was killed on the farm. While their mom is out working, they live on a farm in a little place called Pickford County in Ohio. Lori and Chuck's mother invited them on a trip, which changes everyone's lives. As they travel to all of the big cities around the country, Lori finds out that she barely knows her mother. Lori thought she was the perfect girl until the trip, Chuck knew he was the kid everyone picked on and their mother was a mom that never saw her kids. While on the trip, the family fights constantly and they all learn things they never knew before.
Takeoffs and Landings shows many reasons why your whole life can change in a moments time. For instance, when Lori sneaked out in the streets of Atlanta on her own, her life changed instantly. She went from being well known and the prettiest girl in a little city to being alone and not so pretty in the big city. She was bumped every where she went, and no one said anything to her. She felt lost and very lonely. Will she find her way back and learn a different way to live life?
If you want to read an interesting book for teenagers that has great problems and conflicts of teen life's and shows a lot of courage and love, then you should read Takeoffs and Landings by Margaret Peterson Haddix.
A reader.......2003-04-13
This book was inspirational. It was a very enjoyable read. It was a privilage to see the development in each character and the relationships they have with each other. Beautifully composed, with a twist that stays true to the rest of the book.
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This book is filled with easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams for making expertly designed paper flyers. Paper Flight also explores flight through the art of origami to create birds, a butterfly, and even a fly.
Customer Reviews:
The power of flight . . in your hands........2006-11-06
Paper airplanes are probably one of the few children's pasttimes that has lasted thru the 20th century into the 21st century. But one thing surely has changed, the complexity of planes that can be built. As real-life aircraft become more and more innovative in design and appearance, paper aircraft have followed this lead. This book is a great example; 48 different models, many of them based on flying craft that are either real or featured in some movie or TV show. The models described in this book are quite exquisite, and range in difficulty from being easy to make to quite advanced. Some require scissors and other accessories along with the 8"x11" piece of white paper. But all are fun to make. The only drawback is the book tends to overestimate the flying ability of many of its creations. I've built all of the models several times, and some are not fliers in any sense of the word. But they are all nice to look at.
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