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Free Download Marios Soutsos, Peter Domone, "Construction Materials: Their Nature and Behaviour, Fifth Edition"
English | 2017 | pages: 860 | ISBN: 149874110X, 1138500569 | PDF | 14,4 mb
This established textbook provides an understanding of materials’ behaviour through knowledge of their chemical and physical structure. It covers the main classes of construction materials: metals, concrete, other ceramics (including bricks and masonry), polymers, fibre composites, bituminous materials, timber, and glass. It provides a clear and comprehensive perspective on the whole range of materials used in modern construction, to form a must-have for civil and structural engineering students, and those on courses such as architecture, surveying and construction.

Free Download Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus, Stephen Hoye, Tantor Audio
English | May 29, 2008 | ISBN: B001AJ19MI | 6 hours and 33 minutes | M4B 32 Kbps | 88 Mb
Are we "noble in reason"? Perfect, in God’s image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus. In this lucid and revealing book, Marcus argues that the mind is not an elegantly designed organ but a "kluge", a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption. He unveils a fundamentally new way of looking at the human mind – think duct tape, not supercomputer – that sheds light on some of the most mysterious aspects of human nature.
Taking us on a tour of the fundamental areas of human experience – memory, belief, decision making, language, and happiness – Marcus reveals the myriad ways our minds fall short. He examines why people often vote against their own interests, why money can’t buy happiness, why leaders often stick to bad decisions, and why a sentence like "people people left left" ties us into knots even though it’s only four words long.
He also offers surprisingly effective ways to outwit our inner kluge – for example, always consider alternative explanations, make contingency plans, and beware the vivid, personal anecdote. Throughaout, he shows how only evolution – haphazard and undirected – could have produced the minds we humans have, while making a brilliant case for the power and usefulness of imperfection.

Free Download Pramod K. Nayar, "Writing Wrongs: The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1138662550, 0415529085 | EPUB | pages: 216 | 0.8 mb
This book examines the ‘cultural apparatus’ of Human Rights in India today. It unravels discourses of victimhood, oppression, suffering and witnessing through a study of autobiographies, memoirs, reportage and media coverage, and documentaries.

Free Download Construction Cost Estimating And Management
Last updated 9/2024
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Language: English | Size: 2.45 GB | Duration: 4h 3m
Learn how to accurately estimate construction costs. We’ve helped over 20,000 students master the fundamentals.

Free Download Annegret Oehme, "He should have listened to his wife!: The Construction of Women’s Roles in German and Yiddish Pre-modern ‘Wigalois’ Ad"
English | ISBN: 3110621991 | 2020 | 88 pages | PDF | 605 KB
This publication uncovers two previously dismissed pre-modern adaptations of the Middle High German Wigalois (1215) by exploring their different approaches to female agency in comparison with the original Wigalois, the Yiddish Viduvilt (14th ct.) and the German Wigoleis (15th ct.). Traditionally, scholarship often concentrated on the Yiddish text presenting female figures as behaving in a "Jewish manner" or embodying famous Jewish mythical figures such as Lilith (see Achim Jaeger / Robert G. Warnock). Rather than trying to argue for or against a figure’s "Jewishness," I evaluate these interpretations from the perspective of Arthurian Literature by showing that the construction of female agency is at the center of all three adaptations of this important chapter of German-Jewish literature and culture.

Free Download Claire Mercer, "The Suburban Frontier: Middle-Class Construction in Dar es Salaam"
English | ISBN: 0520402383 | 2024 | 220 pages | PDF | 14 MB
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more.

Free Download C. Ceyhun Arslan, "The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures "
English | ISBN: 1399525824 | 2024 | 248 pages | PDF | 11 MB
The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures fleshes out the Ottoman canon’s multilingual character to call for a literary history that can reassess and even move beyond categories that many critics take for granted, such as ‘classical Arabic literature’ and ‘Ottoman literature’. It gives a historically contextualised close reading of works from authors who have been studied as pionneers of Arabic and Turkish literatures, such as Ziya Pasha, Jurjī Zaydān, Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar.

Free Download Hojoon Ahn, "Finding the Synoptic Gospels Construction Process: A Comparative-linguistic Analysis of the Eucharist and Its Co-texts "
English | ISBN: 9004696326 | 2024 | 296 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This study conducts an analysis of the Eucharist within the Synoptic Gospels including their co-texts via a Mode Register Analysis based on Systemic Functional Linguistics to trace the construction process of each designated text.

Free Download Construction Project Organising by Simon Addyman, Hedley Smyth
English | January 4, 2023 | ISBN: 1119807174 | 304 pages | MOBI | 4.77 Mb
Construction Project Organising

Free Download Built to Fail: Why Construction Projects Take So Long, Cost Too Much, And How to Fix It by Todd Zabelle
English | January 16th, 2024 | ISBN: 9798887501598 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 2.22 MB
The construction industry is as big as it is important. Without construction, our society would cease to be. We would have no ports, roads, or bridges. No communications networks, power grids, or water systems. No hospitals. No schools. No homes.