Metric Handbook by David Adler

Metric Handbook by David Adler

A handbook of planning and design data, this work contains nearly 50 chapters dealing with the principal building types from airports, factories and warehouses, offices shops and hospitals, to schools, religious buildings and libraries. For each building type, it gives the basic design requirements and all the principal dimensional data.

Customer Comments An excellent architectural handbook that fulfils its promiseThis is a brilliant book! After discovering this handbook, through a colleague at work, I felt I just had to have my own copy. As a design manager for a large construction company, it is invaluable to have a ready source of all those data that allow me to check for a complete and workable design - the devil is in the detail - and the details are almost sure to be here. Just about every type of public and private building or facility is dealt with, from farms to factories and from law courts to laboratories. There are also sections on generic aspects such as HVAC, lighting, sound and structural materials. All the data is fully referenced back to source and relevant codes and standards. For any design office I would think the corresponding CD-ROM, from which symbol drawings can be copied into CAD files, would be a must. Customer Comments from Amazon.co.uk mike_griffiths@compuserve.com from South West London, UK , 4 December, 1999

I've always been a dreamer. A few years ago, I was at my middle son's Open School Night. His fourth-grade teacher was the same one who taught my eldest kid seven years before and who taught me in the 1950s. The teacher smiled and said to the parents in the room, A long time ago, when I first started teaching, David was in my class. I went to the principal and asked, 'What should I do with Adler?' she grinned again. 'Maybe he'll be a writer one day.' That is her story, not mine.

But I know I dreamed for most of my early school years, and I did become a writer.Dreamers become writers, and becoming a published writer is a dream come true for me.I write both fiction and non-fiction, and I start with the main character in my fiction. The plot will be revealed later. Of course, since I'll be spending so much time with each primary character, why not choose someone I enjoy? He's a lot of fun to write about, and the boy who inspired him is much more so.

Cam Jansen is modeled even more loosely on a first-grade friend of mine who we all admired for having a photographic memory. I now admire Cam's incredible memory, especially when my children remind me of a promise they claim I made. I had a lot of fun writing about Cam Jansen and her numerous adventures. For my non-fiction books, I choose topics that interest me. Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir was my first biography.

I purchased a 1905 set of encyclopedias to conduct research for that book. I've written many other biographies in my Picture Book Biography series, including books about Martin Luther King, Jr., George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Harriet Tubman, Anne Frank, and many more. I've been a Yankee and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades, so I published Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man. It's more about his incredible bravery than it is about his baseball skills. Youngsters encounter a variety of problems, and I hope that some of them will be inspired by Lou Gehrig's bravery.

I'm currently writing on another book about a brave man named Janusz Korczak. It's fiction, but it's based on hundreds of interviews I had with Holocaust survivors for my books We Remember the Holocaust, Child of the Warsaw Ghetto, The Number on My Grandfather's Arm, and Hiding from the Nazis. I was captivated by the stories I heard. One Yellow Daffodil is a glance back and a look forward, and it conveys my faith in our children's tremendous spirit and strength.I enjoy math and was a math teacher for many years, so writing multiple math books like Fraction Fun, Calculator Riddles, and Shape Up! was a lot of fun for me. Simply put, write!

I try not to be concerned with each individual word, sentence, or paragraph. For me, stories develop over time. Writing is a method. Each sentence, each text, is rewritten several times.

I also collaborate with my editors. I eagerly await their feedback and assistance in the seemingly endless revision process.Well, it's time to get back to dreaming and writing, my dream job.David A. Adler has written over 175 stories for children, including the YoungCam Jansen series. He currently resides in Woodmere, New York.

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ISBN 13	9780750608992
ISBN 10	0750608994
Title	Metric Handbook
Author	David Adler
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	1999-04-22
Number of pages	512
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.