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Timber is a timeless construction material and there is a growing movement to use modern methods to repair and maintain heritage structures. What is the best approach in refurbishing timber-framed buildings and how can a modern engineer understand the approaches needed to undertake these processes?

Piano Music of the Czech Romantics is an anthology of forty compositionsfor piano by eighteen composers representing two centuries of Czech musical history.Drawing upon well-known composers -- Smetana, Dvor k, Jan cek, and Martinu -- toones lesser known -- Benda, Fibich, and Suk -- these examples, many of them out ofprint, are accompanied by biographical information, analyses, interpretivesuggestions for each piece, as well as listings of reco...

Woodworking has been one of the most important technologies from the earliest times, and this text provides a collection of papers which explore the history of the subject from a variety of perspectives. The text also provides a review of work in the field.

Structural engineering is central to the design of a building. How the building behaves when subjected to various forces - the weight of the materials used to build it, the weight of the occupants or the traffic it carries, the force of the wind etc - is fundamental to its stability. The alliance between architecture and structural engineering is therefore critical to the successful design and completion of the buildings and infrastructure tha...

A chronological treatment of more than 400 separate pieces and movements presents essential information about each: the year of publication, the various editions in which it has been published, its timing, the level of technical and interpretive difficulty, and bibliographical references to it. To this basic treatment Yeomans has added pertinent quotations from Bartok and other authorities, a discussion of the original folk material when appli...

Wie funktionieren Gebäude? Yeomans gibt darauf eine Antwort und erläutert Konstruktionskonzepte auf verständliche Weise, ohne sich dabei komplexer mathematischer Berechnungen zu bedienen. Am Beispiel unzähliger historischer und zeitgenössischer Gebäude werden allgemeine Konstruktionsprinzipien und mathematische Berechnungsgrundlagen erklärt, die dem Leser die konstruktionstechnischen Merkmale von Bauwerken eingängig und verständlich näher brin...

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