Green Building: Guidebook for Sustainable Architecture
An important consideration for energy-efficient buildings is their primary energy requirements over the entire life cycle. How to determine this? What integrative factors influence the performance of a healthy and sustainable building? This, while it may be important for clients and architects to know, is frequently not very transparent.
The nervous system and the musculature are affected in almost all diseases; accurately diagnosing neurologic disease is an ongoing challenge in daily practice. This exquisitely illustrated atlas tackles neurology's most difficult concepts and clarifies them using 200 beautiful and meticulously labeled drawings. Succinct yet thorough, this up-to-date guidebook is an easy-to-understand aid for the clinical recognition and diagnosis of neurologic diseases.
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It's impossible for a single guidebook to completely cover a country as massive and diverse as America, but Frommer's USA comes close. Sure, some will quibble with destination choices (for example, the editors mention Martha's Vineyard, but not Nantucket) but overall, this 1,000-plus-page tome hits the mark. Chapters focus on both major cities and larger regions (New England, Southern California, etc.), covering such basics as activities, lodging, and affordable restaurants, and doing so in excruciating detail (admission prices, hours of operation, directions, whether or not a hotel has valet parking). You'll also find plenty of full-page maps and quirky little sidebars (gourmet food stores in Napa, best Chicago blues bars). As if that weren't enough, there's an online travel directory with Web addresses for everything from Ticketmaster to Zagat's to Amtrak. If you plan on seeing even a sliver of what this country has to offer, take this guidebook with you.
