Written for students taking courses in building and surveying, 'Estimating for Builders and Surveyors' describes and explains the method used by the estimator to build up prices or rates for items described in the SMM7 format. Each chapter is a self-contained unit related to a particular element in the building. Worked examples throughout reflect both traditional and up-to-date technology. Written by an author team of academics and professional surveyors, this book continues to be an inval...

Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond their freedom, a new relation to the land they worked on, to the men they worked for, and to the government they lived under. Taking a comparative approach, Eric Foner examines Reconstruction in the southern states against the experience of Haiti, where a violent slave revolt was followed by the establishment of an undemocratic government and th...

Super-spy Eric Swan is back! This time he must face not only his most cunning enemy yet, but also stare down his most crippling fears.The brilliant scientist known as God Maker, the mother of the Q2 program, has been kidnapped.She's held by a psychotic former Q2 operative who went dark, but has now resurfaced with a sinister plan.Swan must track down God Maker and her captor, while fighting back the fear that he, too, is damaged beyond hope...

Eric Swan can be killed - but he can never die.For a government agent hunting the most dangerous domestic terrorists, that comes in handy.But Swan is beginning to question his own humanity. Is technology turning this secret agent into a monster himself?Now villainous brother-sister twins, fueled by a lust for power and revenge, have set their sights on taking down the nation’s power grid. And they’ve hired a swarm of mercenaries to protect ...

For fans of Balto and other real-life dog stories, here's a heavily illustrated middle-grade novel about a canine movie star of the 1920s, dramatically told in both words and pictures by an acclaimed author and a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator.When movie director Larry Trimble travels to Berlin searching for his next big star--a dog!--he finds Etzel, a fierce, highly trained three-year-old German shepherd police dog. Larry sees past the snarls and gro...

Robert F. Sibert Medal WinnerTake to the sky with Apis, one honeybee, as she embarks on her journey through life!An Orbis Pictus Honor BookSelected for the Texas Bluebonnnet Master ListFinalist for the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science BooksA tiny honeybee emerges through the wax cap of her cell. Driven to protect and take care of her hive, she cleans th...

The Final Call to BattleThis first book of White Wolf's exciting new Tribe Novel series shows the Garou—the werewolves of the World of Darkness—at their best and at the worst. In Shadow Lords, we see how the fractious Garou struggle for dominance over one another, and in Get of Fenris, at a Concolation—the largest gathering of Garou—we see them standing together in their endless war against the Wyrm. But how long can the Garou continue to fight this war?The...

This companion book to the authors’ Sibert award-winning Honeybee explores the life and habitat of a majestic endangered species through dramatic text and sumptuous illustration.April in the Arctic . . .Cold winds send snow clouds scuttling across the sky.Temperatures barely nudge above freezing.But every now and again,The cloud cover parts,

Young children will delight in repeating the refrain "OH, NO!" as one animal after another falls into a deep, deep hole in this lively read-aloud with audio narration. This simple and irresistible picture book by hugely popular picture book creators—Candace Fleming and Caldecott medalist Eric Rohmann—feels like a classic-in-the-making. Fans of Rohmann's Caldecott Medal-winning My Friend Rabbit, will be thrilled to see a new book created in the same expressive and comical style....

The Final Call to BattleThis first book of White Wolf's exciting new Tribe Novel series shows the Garou—the werewolves of the World of Darkness—at their best and at the worst. In Shadow Lords, we see how the fractious Garou struggle for dominance over one another, and in Get of Fenris, at a Concolation—the largest gathering of Garou—we see them standing together in their endless war against the Wyrm. But how long can the Garou continue to fight this war?The...

Everyone knows the name Buffalo Bill, but few these days know what he did or, in some cases, didn't do. Was he a Pony Express rider? Did he serve Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn? Did he scalp countless Native Americans, or did he defend their rights? This, the first significant biography of Buffalo Bill Cody for younger readers in many years, explains it all. With copious archival illustrations and a handsome design, Presenting Buffalo Bill makes the great showman come alive for ne...

A tiny honeybee emerges through the wax cap of her cell. Driven to protect and take care of her hive, she cleans the nursery and feeds the larvae and the queen. But is she strong enough to fly? Not yet! Apis builds wax comb to store honey and transfers pollen from other bees into the storage. She defends the hive from invaders. And finally, she begins her new life as an adventurer. The confining walls of the hive fall away as Apis takes to the air, finally free, into a clear blue sky full ...