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The Shelly Cashman Series
offers the fi nest textbooks in computer education. We are
proud of the fact that our previous HTML books have been so well received. With each
new edition of our HTML books, we have made signifi cant improvements based…

You probably teach very well without recognizing that, often, the more teaching, the less learning. Our job in adult education is not to cover a set of course materials, but to engage adults in effective and significant learning.

The object of this paper is to discuss money-making; to examine its prevalence as an aim among people
generally and the moral standards which obtain among those who consciously seek to make money.
The desire to make money is common to most men.…

I WROTE the first draft of Notre-Dame twenty-six years ago, a circumstance that would mark me as middle-aged
today, were it not for three young children who make
me feeJ otherwise. The book's origin were decidedly
modest, as a Master's thesis in…

Th ere is something that draws people to visit abandoned buildings;
the hulking ruins of the coliseum, the jungle-shrouded pyramids of
Yaxchilan, the shaded courtyards of the Alhambra all attract millions
of visitors willing to trek far, wait…

This manual began as a reader for a sequence of design drawing
courses offered by the Department of Architecture at the
University of Washington. Its subsequent development is
largely the result of the many discussions, suggestions,…

The primary purpose of this book is to familiarize code users with the 2015 International Building
Code
®
(IBC). It is intended as an instructional text on how the Code was developed and how it is
organized, as well as a primer on how to use…

The first edition of this text int roduced students to the ra nge of graphic tools.
techn iques, and conventions designers use to communicate architectural
ideas. The prime objective behind its original formation and subsequent
revisions was to…

I T HAS BECOME a cliché to say that education is in “crisis.” But it is true: A deep sense of crisis pervades discussions of education in the United States. Perhaps most distressingly, the crisis appears to be chronic. Reports in the mass media,…

As far back as we go in our study of the way mankind has
lived, from the earliest reaches of recorded history and even from
the times of the prehistoric monuments studied by archeology,
we find men applying their labor to the resources of Nature…