Author: Ray Clark
Publisher: Craftsman Book Company
ISBN: 9781572180796
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
With this new book you'll quickly learn, step-by-step, the basic methods (and some valuable tricks of the trade) to master high-speed metal stud framing in commercial construction. If you're an experienced wood framer, you already have many of the skills you'll need. This manual, written by a framer who runs work for one of the largest metal stud contractors in the country, tells you just about everything you need to know to transfer those skills to metal stud framing in commercial buildings.
Commercial Metal Stud Framing
Author: Ray Clark
Publisher: Craftsman Book Company
ISBN: 9781572180796
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
With this new book you'll quickly learn, step-by-step, the basic methods (and some valuable tricks of the trade) to master high-speed metal stud framing in commercial construction. If you're an experienced wood framer, you already have many of the skills you'll need. This manual, written by a framer who runs work for one of the largest metal stud contractors in the country, tells you just about everything you need to know to transfer those skills to metal stud framing in commercial buildings.
Publisher: Craftsman Book Company
ISBN: 9781572180796
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
With this new book you'll quickly learn, step-by-step, the basic methods (and some valuable tricks of the trade) to master high-speed metal stud framing in commercial construction. If you're an experienced wood framer, you already have many of the skills you'll need. This manual, written by a framer who runs work for one of the largest metal stud contractors in the country, tells you just about everything you need to know to transfer those skills to metal stud framing in commercial buildings.
The Stud Book
Author: Monica Drake
Publisher: Hogarth Press
ISBN: 0307955524
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Well-versed in the mating habits of captive animals, Sarah, who studies animal behavior at the zoo, longs to have a baby, while her loyal friends, each dealing with their own parenting issues, discover that the families they forge through shared experience are as important as those inherited through birth.
Publisher: Hogarth Press
ISBN: 0307955524
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Well-versed in the mating habits of captive animals, Sarah, who studies animal behavior at the zoo, longs to have a baby, while her loyal friends, each dealing with their own parenting issues, discover that the families they forge through shared experience are as important as those inherited through birth.
Studs Terkel's Chicago
Author: Studs Terkel
Publisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1595587187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The author shares his memories of growing up in Chicago and anecdotes about the city and its inhabitants.
Publisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1595587187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The author shares his memories of growing up in Chicago and anecdotes about the city and its inhabitants.
Studs Terkel
Author: Alan Wieder
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583675930
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Wieder draws from over one hundred interviews of people who knew and worked with Studs to create a multidimensional portrait of a run-of-the-mill guy from Chicago who, in public life, became an acclaimed author and storyteller, while managing, in his private life, to remain a mensch. --From publisher description.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583675930
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Wieder draws from over one hundred interviews of people who knew and worked with Studs to create a multidimensional portrait of a run-of-the-mill guy from Chicago who, in public life, became an acclaimed author and storyteller, while managing, in his private life, to remain a mensch. --From publisher description.
Working
Author: Studs Terkel
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595587667
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 867
Book Description
A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: “Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking.” —The Boston Globe A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller Studs Terkel’s classic oral history Working is a compelling look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with everyone from a gravedigger to a studio head, this book provides a “brilliant” and enduring portrait of people’s feelings about their working lives. This edition includes a new foreword by New York Times journalist Adam Cohen (Forbes). “Splendid . . . Important . . . Rich and fascinating . . . The people we meet are not digits in a poll but real people with real names who share their anecdotes, adventures, and aspirations with us.” —Business Week “The talk in Working is good talk—earthy, passionate, honest, sometimes tender, sometimes crisp, juicy as reality, seasoned with experience.” —The Washington Post
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595587667
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 867
Book Description
A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: “Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking.” —The Boston Globe A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller Studs Terkel’s classic oral history Working is a compelling look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with everyone from a gravedigger to a studio head, this book provides a “brilliant” and enduring portrait of people’s feelings about their working lives. This edition includes a new foreword by New York Times journalist Adam Cohen (Forbes). “Splendid . . . Important . . . Rich and fascinating . . . The people we meet are not digits in a poll but real people with real names who share their anecdotes, adventures, and aspirations with us.” —Business Week “The talk in Working is good talk—earthy, passionate, honest, sometimes tender, sometimes crisp, juicy as reality, seasoned with experience.” —The Washington Post
The Million Dollar Studs
Author: Alice-Leone Moats
Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Stud
Author: Kevin Conley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596917504
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Every year, on Valentine's Day, the great Thoroughbred farms open their breeding sheds and begin their primary business. For the next one hundred and fifty days, the cries of stallions and the vigorous encouragement of their handlers echo through breeding country, from the gentle hills of Kentucky to the rich valleys of California. Stud takes us into this strange and seductive world of horse breeding. We meet the world's leading sire, Storm Cat, the Triple Crown winner, Seattle Slew, and a nearly unmanageable colt, Devil Begone, who has found peace and prosperity on the banks of the Rio Grande servicing desert mares like Patty O'Furniture. Cheap stud, top stud, old stud, wild stud, from the Hall of Fame horse to the harem stallion with his feral herd, Stud looks at intimate acts in idyllic settings and the billion-dollar business behind them.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596917504
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Every year, on Valentine's Day, the great Thoroughbred farms open their breeding sheds and begin their primary business. For the next one hundred and fifty days, the cries of stallions and the vigorous encouragement of their handlers echo through breeding country, from the gentle hills of Kentucky to the rich valleys of California. Stud takes us into this strange and seductive world of horse breeding. We meet the world's leading sire, Storm Cat, the Triple Crown winner, Seattle Slew, and a nearly unmanageable colt, Devil Begone, who has found peace and prosperity on the banks of the Rio Grande servicing desert mares like Patty O'Furniture. Cheap stud, top stud, old stud, wild stud, from the Hall of Fame horse to the harem stallion with his feral herd, Stud looks at intimate acts in idyllic settings and the billion-dollar business behind them.
Studs
Author: Emanuel Xavier
Publisher: Cleis Press
ISBN: 162778070X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Rough and surly, smooth and sultry, or quick and raw -- however you like it, you’ll find it in Studs, 20 of the hottest and best-written man-to-man sex stories to appear in print this year. In "Underground Operator” two men on a nearly empty subway platform indulge in rough, anonymous sex that lets them momentarily forget the stifling summer heat. "Donuts to Demons” finds a self-described "rock-n-roll artfag” searching for a lover "as patient and gifted and generous as he advertised on Craigslist.”
Publisher: Cleis Press
ISBN: 162778070X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Rough and surly, smooth and sultry, or quick and raw -- however you like it, you’ll find it in Studs, 20 of the hottest and best-written man-to-man sex stories to appear in print this year. In "Underground Operator” two men on a nearly empty subway platform indulge in rough, anonymous sex that lets them momentarily forget the stifling summer heat. "Donuts to Demons” finds a self-described "rock-n-roll artfag” searching for a lover "as patient and gifted and generous as he advertised on Craigslist.”
Race
Author: Studs Terkel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781595588104
Category : Oral history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents the feelings of nearly one hundred Americans on such issues as affirmative action, changing neighborhoods, and secret prejudices.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781595588104
Category : Oral history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents the feelings of nearly one hundred Americans on such issues as affirmative action, changing neighborhoods, and secret prejudices.
Studs Terkel's Working
Author: Harvey Pekar
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595583211
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Transforms sixteen short oral histories originally published in "Working" into graphic novel vignettes, including stories from a stock broker, a labor organizer, a proofreader, a gravedigger, a mail carrier, and a jazz musician.
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595583211
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Transforms sixteen short oral histories originally published in "Working" into graphic novel vignettes, including stories from a stock broker, a labor organizer, a proofreader, a gravedigger, a mail carrier, and a jazz musician.