A real-world guide to success in construction estimating, the DEWALT Construction Estimating Handbook is loaded with tips, checklists, worksheets, data... tables, and tutorials that will provide readers with the tools they need to effectively navigate through every step of the estimating process. The book focuses on the construction estimating "how-to" essentials and provides on-the-spot answers backed up with graphic examples. With a thorough understanding of the important profit-making factors within the industry, its comprehensive coverage includes marketing, bid planning, scope review, quantity take-off for all trades and divisions, cost analysis, value engineering, Excel spreadsheet estimating, and more. Based on the author's extensive experience in estimating, this valuable resource aims to provide workable solutions to the unprecedented challenges that construction professionals face today, from a weak economy and fierce competition to material price volatilities, skilled labor shortages, and strict regulations. Key Handbook Features All the preprogrammed Excel templates referenced in the book plus more are available for free download at the DEWALT/Cengage website. Addresses steps of the bidding process applicable for residential and industrial/commercial construction projects. Comprehensive format providing theory, how-to and step-by-step instructions, real-world examples, and technical reference data resulting in an all-inclusive resource.

This unique and easy-to-understand pocket guide was developed by a real-world contractor who has perfected the art of construction estimating! The... DEWALT Construction Estimating Professional Reference is the only resource individuals need for learning to successfully bid on a variety of construction projects. Chock-full of practical advice based on the author's real-life experience in bidding countless construction jobs, this essential reference explores such key topics as forms and checklists, subcontractors and suppliers, procedures, trade evaluation, costs, profit, and overheads, and much more! Includes over 200 pages of technical reference material.

The DEWALT Construction Safety & OSHA Handbook is an easy-to-understand reference for the complex safety and OSHA regulations that face construction... professionals every day. The book provides comprehensive coverage on the requirements, standards, and safe work practices that should be adhered to on any jobsite. Because the more complicated topics have been translated into simple, straightforward terms, pros can spend their time focusing on the OSHA-compliant work practices that are emphasized, instead of getting bogged down with complicated regulatory language. In essence, this is a tool that truly makes construction safety clear, and you won't want to be without it. Key Handbook Features Comprehensive reference for small- to mid-size contractors Covers all aspects of jobsite OSHA requirements and general safety management Provides a step-by-step approach to jobsite safety management Contains many illustrations depicting critical concepts and techniques

Transform complex residential electrical installation requirements into practical, simple, easy-to-understand concepts - all with a tool designed to... meet the needs of anyone from the average homeowner to the experienced electrician! The DEWALT Electrical Code Reference, Second Edition: Based on the 2011 National Electrical Code examines all aspects of residential wiring, beginning with the rough-in stages and finishing with the final trim out. It explores each room of the house in detail, including receptacle placement, smoke detector installation, stairwells, and crawl spaces. The book's thorough coverage also expands to address grounding and bonding requirements, HVAC circuits, GFCI and AFCI requirements, and even voltage drop calculations. Enhancing this content are the book's powerful features and important learning tools: worksheets to simplify advanced load calculations, clear, straightforward diagrams for wiring devices, and code references that highlight critical NEC 2011 requirements. The end result is a resource that will set the stage for readers to perform safe, accurate residential wiring installations.

John Dewey was an icon of philosophy and psychology during the first half of the 20th century. Known as the father of Functional Psychology and a... pivotal figure of the Pragmatist movement, he also played a strong hand in the progressive movement in education. This concise and critical look at Dewey's work examines his discourse of right and wrong, as well as political notions such as freedom, rights, liberty, equality, and naturalism.

"We become what we love," states Jim Garrison in Dewey and Eros: Wisdom and Desire in the Art of Teaching. This provocative book represents a major... new interpretation of Dewey's education philosophy. It is also an examination of what motivates us to teach and to learn, and begins with the idea of education of eros (i.e., passionate desire)-"the supreme aim of education" as the author puts it-and how that desire results in a practical philosophy that guides us in recognizing what is essentially good or valuable. Garrison weaves these threads of ancient wisdom into a critical analysis of John Dewey's writings that reveal an implicit theory of eros in reasoning, and the central importance of educating eros to seek "the Good." Chapters: Plato's Symposium: Eros, the Beautiful, and the Good • Care, Sympathy, and Community in Classroom Teaching: Feminist Refl ections on the Expansive Self • Play-Doh, Poetry, and "Ethereal Things" • The Aesthetic Context of Inquiry and the Teachable Moment • The Education of Eros: Critical and Creative Value Appraisal • Teaching and the Logic of Moral Perception This book can be used in graduate courses in foundations, teacher education, philosophy of education, qualitative research, arts and education, language and literacy, and women and education. Jim Garrison is Professor of Philosophy of Education at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA.

“A thought-provoking critique of Einstein’s tantalizing combination of brilliance and blunder.”—Andrew Robinson, New ScientistAlthough Einstein... was the greatest genius of the twentieth century, many of his groundbreaking discoveries were blighted by mistakes, ranging from serious errors in mathematics to bad misconceptions in physics and failures to grasp the subtleties of his own creations. This forensic biography dissects Einstein’s scientific mistakes and places them in the context of his turbulent life and times. In lively, accessible prose, Hans C. Ohanian paints a fresh, insightful portrait of the real Einstein at work, in contrast to the uncritical celebrity worship found in many biographies. Of the approximately 180 original scientific papers that Einstein published in his lifetime, about 40 are infested with mistakes. For instance, Einstein’s first mathematical proof of the famous formula E = mc2 was incomplete and only approximately valid; he struggled with this problem for many years, but he never found a complete proof (better mathematicians did). Einstein was often lured by irrational and mystical inspirations, but his extraordinary intuition about physics permitted him to discover profound truths despite—and sometimes because of—the mistakes he made along the way. He was a sleepwalker: his intuition told him where he needed to go, and he somehow managed to get there without quite knowing how. As this book persuasively argues, the defining hallmark of Einstein’s genius was not any special mathematical ability but an uncanny talent to use his mistakes as stepping stones to formulate his revolutionary theories. 25 illustrations

Dworkin has gathered some of Dewey's clearest and most characteristic statements on education and set them in the stream of American social and... intellectual history. In addition, he has indicated some of the rich literaature available to those who would probe more deeply into Dewey's ideas and the context in which they matured.

Laurel Tanner examines closely the practices and policies of Dewey's Laboratory School from its inception to the current day. There are extensive... excerpts from the school's teachers' reports and other original records, and the volume provides a wealth of practical guidance on how schools today can introduce Deweyan reforms the way they were originally - and successfully - practised.

Dew on the Thorn seeks to recreate the life of Texas Mexicans as Anglo culture was gradually encroaching upon them. González provides us with a... richidly detailed portrait of South Texas, focusing on the cultural traditions of the Texas Mexicans at a time when the divisions of class and race were pressing on the established way of life.

Aunque no es raro escuchar historias de crimenes, vagancia y desenfreno en borracheras, taxis y en los delirios analiticos de colmilludos parroquianos... de oscuros lupanares, si es dificil hallar reproducidas esas cronicas en un periodismo de gran valor literario que rebase lo anecdotico. d.f. confidencial, cuyo titulo es un desfachatado guino a la obra de James Ellroy, representa un momento muy elevado de la literatura urbana y una caida libre hacia las zonas mas oscuras y delirantes de la realidad mexicana. J. M. Servin, en la mejor linea del periodismo gonzo, que prescinde de la supuesta objetividad, explora el azar que da forma a la cotidianidad mexicana y a sus increibles protagonistas: los criadores de perros Pit bull que enfrentan a sus ejemplares en peleas clandestinas; la Mataviejitas que, sin saberlo, cambio su carrera criminal y su libertad por quince minutos de fama; la Madre de todos los Plantones que sumio en el desespero a los habitantes de la ciudad de la esperanza; el foto-reportero de nota roja que ingreso a su oficio a los ocho anos y a los setenta es el unico artista mexicano mundialmente famoso por su tematica macabra; los diferentes momentos cumbre de la cronica delincuencial resguardados en una coleccion de libros populares