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Excerpt from How to Build Fireproof and Slow-Burning President of the Continental Insurance Co.. N. Y. Delegate of New York Board of Fire Underwriters to the Board of Examiners of the N. Y. B'ld'g Dep't. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolog...

Excerpt from How to Build a Home: The House Practical, Being Suggestions as to Safety From Fire, Safety to Health, Comfort, Convenience, Durability, and EconomyIt should be remembered that mistakes in the building of houses are not always limited in their consequences to the amount of money which might have been saved by better forms of construction. They are sometimes far reaching and involve not merely the structural strengthor habitable con...

The ideas contained in Karl Popper¿s The Open Society and Its Enemies¿one of the most important tracts in political philosophy in the twentieth century¿are relevant to anyone seeking to understand the recent history of the East Asian economies. Even though Popper wrote his tract to provide an explanation for both the rise and objectionable nature of totalitarian regimes in Europe in the twentieth century, many of the arguments that he advanced...

This book discusses a class of Reduced Constructions which exhibit both mono- and bi-clausal characteristics. In Spanish, as well as other Romance languages, the most salient mono-clausal characteristic is the possibility of clitic climbing, i.e. the possibility of an object clitic attaching to a verb that is higher (in the appropriate sense) than the verb which selects the object to which the clitic corresponds. Reduced constructions come in ...

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Originally published in 1897, How to build a Home is a practical and informative look at House building in the seventeenth century. Contents include, The Land and Grading, The Building, Inside the House, The Comforts of Home, Finishing Work, A Practical Example, Sample Specifications, Some General Forms of Contract for The Entire Work, Recapitulation, and Authorities Consulted... ....Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back t...