The Works: Anatomy of a City by Penguin (Non-Classics) $22.00
Read Kate Ascher's posts on the Penguin Blog. A fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city Have you ever wondered how the water in your faucet gets there? Where your garbage goes? What the pipes under city streets do? How bananas from Ecuador get to your local market? Why radiators in apartment buildings clang? Using New York City as its point of reference, The...

Drywall: Professional Techniques for Great Results by Taunton Press $19.95
The most thorough and concise guide to hanging drywall available. This revised edition features new material, additional pages and color photographs. With more than 87,000 copies sold, Drywall is a mainstay of any comprehensive home-building library.

The Pipe Fitters Blue Book (Spanish and English Edition) by W. V. Graves $12.00
Commonly referred to as the Pipe Bible, this is the most widely used book in the trade today. It is an easy to understand, pocket sized manual with a durable, water resistant cover. It contains illustrations such as solving rolling offsets, centers of 15o, 22-1/2o and 60o butt weld elbows cut from a 90o elbow. It also contains layouts for a true Y layout, common pipe angles and their...

Reinforced Concrete: Mechanism and Design by Prentice-Hall (Canada)
This text is intended primarily for third- or fourth-year Civil Engineering students at Canadian universities. It can also be used in graduate courses. Thoroughly Canadianized, this text provides accurate, up-to-date, and comprehensive coverage of Canadian engineering design and practice. The First Canadian Edition of Reinforced Concrete has been adapted from the U.S. third edition text to...

Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures by Andrea Deplazes $119.00
This internationally prizewinning volume now appears in its second, revised and expanded edition. Since the first edition was published in 2005, it has been adopted as a textbook at many universities. Organized into chapters on "Raw Materials/Building Materials (Modules)," "Building Components (Elements)," "Building Methods (Structures)," and "Buildings (Examples)," the book now includes a new...

Audel Welding Pocket Reference (Audel Technical Trades Series) by Audel $24.95
Featuring updated charts dealing with the most common situations welding workers face on the job , this comprehensive, pocket-sized reference is based on recommendations from working professionals and covers welding symbols and definitions, types of joints and welds, typical welding station configurations, oxygen cylinders, arc-welding charts, U.S metric measures, and more.

Electrician's Exam Study Guide (McGraw-Hill's Electrician's Exam Study Guide) by McGraw-Hill Professional $39.95
Get 1,500 Exam-Style Questions and Answers to Help You Pass the Journeyman and Master Electrician Exams on the First Try! Turn to the Electrician's Exam Study Guide for the knowledge, practice, and confidence needed to pass the Journeyman and Master Electrician exams with flying colors. This practical resource contains 1,500 questions_presented in the same format used on the actual...

Panama Fever: The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal (Vintage) by Anchor $17.95
The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the “American Century.” Panama Fever draws on contemporary accounts, bringing the experience of those who built the canal vividly to life. Politicians engaged in high-stakes diplomacy in order to influence its construction. Meanwhile, engineers and workers from around the world rushed to...

100 Best Log Home Floor Plans (100 Best (Krause Publications)) by Krause Publications $24.99
Choosing the right floor plan for your new log home, while a fun experience, can also be a daunting one. With so many plans available from so many different sources you might find yourself struggling to make your decision.100 Best Log Home Floor Plans, from the editor of Log Home Illustrated magazine, is your solution. Editor Roland Sweet teamed up with the nation's major log home manufactures to...

Blueprint Reading for Welders, 5th Edition by Thomas J. Robin $61.95
Complete, hands-on practice in reading and interpreting blueprints. Step-by-step, students will develop the necessary skills to interpret all types of working sketches and prints-from the simplest to the most complex. The spiral binding makes it easier than ever before to use this book side-by-side with blueprints! Completely updated to American Welding Society and ANSI standards and now...