Bøger af Robert Brown Butler

Lovers of writing, here is a new kind of book for anyone who enjoys putting words to paper or display ... In 1971 when this author was a "cub ink-slinger" living in Aspen for the summer, Saul Bellow, also living there, read some of his writing, and advised him "to learn the writer's trade." The cub took the future Nobel Prize winner's advice to heart. So much so that now you too can reap the benefits of his advice, in the form of this entertaining book, a "literary tool box" that contains the tools of the writer's trade. Each of its fifty short chapters describes one of these literary tools, exemplifies its use with a passage by a usually famous author, and reveals the "literary script" by which anyone, including you, can create each tool and use it to enrich your own writing -whether you are penning a short article for a local newspaper or a thick book that someday could win you a Pulitzer Prize. This book is also beautifully written and beautifully designed, and its Table of Contents on pages 10-11 lists the tools it contains for your entertainment, use, and profit.

Written by an architect of fifty years' experience who has authored six previously acclaimed books on architecture, Architecture Laid Bare! steers you past all the promotional hype that confuses so much architectural thinking today, strips away the skin of current styles and questionable construction techniques, and gets to the very bones of what architecture is about: those unchangeable anatomical elements that make a building function -to give you a fundamental, practical, everyday knowledge of these shells that enclose us nearly waking and sleeping hour of our lives. When it comes to putting this knowledge to use, this portable reference employs the the "hands-off" approach. This in-volves describing each part of a building's design and construction for those who have neither the time nor ability to do the work, yet need to make sure that any professional who performs such labor does it right -so you will be master of your architectural fate, not its slave. This book also describes what green architecture is all about. Hence its subtitle is In Shades of Green.

Our Nation's Life is at Stake! In this tantalizing tale of ruthless exploitation that could easily be titled The Wolf and The Rabbits, the perpetrator of crimes may be known, but the weapons he will use to shackle millions of people are a mystery the likes of Christie and Simenon would struggle to match. In a chain of events that are perfectly logical but entirely unexpected, Conan Cain, a real estate mogul from New York, will stop at nothing -including betraying his country to its most dangerous global enemy- to use the office of the Presidency to stuff his pockets with millions of dollars while Democracy totters as an innocent bystander. Due to the sleuthing of a retired journalist who limps on a cane whose shaft contains a powerful digital antenna that can detect the President's conversations from outside the White House, our principled but perishable democracy is saved from being ruled by a greedy tyrant and his aquisitive cronies. Anyone with a penchant for politics and a curiosity of what America's future beholds will be mesmerized by this timely exposé that seesaws between chuckling satire and chilling savagery to the last word. Who knows what else this brave book may do? A Flit through the Pages . . . Hod Hawksbill, a retired journalist who uses his cane's antenna to tape President Conan Cain's conversations from outside the Oval Office, exposes how Cain conspired with Russia to rig the 2016 election and how Cain uses the Presidency to enrich himself at the expense of the public. When Cain's popularity plummets the Republicans conspire to impeach him before the mid-term elections. The Democrats, sensing the plot, acquit Cain. Vice President Rufus Shilling poisons the President, permanently disabling him. Shilling, his attorneys obstructing justice at every turn, succeeds President Cain via Amendment 25 -but the public knows! After the mid-terms Shilling is impeached and a woman becomes President (hint: it's not former Secretary of State Shillery Mitten).

Here is an extremely portable reference that offers all you need to know to design buildings that "work" successfully.Small enough to slip into a pocket, this volume's 512 pages are packed with: * 420 architectural engineering design scenarios* 1300 algebraic formulas* 125 ink drawings and graphs* 130 tables and schedules* a pint-sized Bible that enables you to make those spur-of-the-moment decisions in the office, on the site, with a client, or with a contractor that so often divide those who truly know what they are doing from those who think they know.Whether your architectural concerns are STRUCTURAL, CLIMATE CONTROL, PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, ILLUMINATION, ACOUSTICS, or GENERAL DESIGN, this distillation of many larger volumes of architectural engineering science will lay the foundation for the design of any building--from shed to skyscraper anywhere in the world--that will satisfy designer and client alike. The book is a beautiful, entertaining, enjoyable, and practical reference.