Challenges is the new course for teenagers which gives them everything they need to be successful in learning English. Challenges provides Coursebooks that can be completed in one year, giving students a clear sense of progress Informative and engaging topics that involve teenagers in their learning Unique features include word building, text building and sentence patterns Characters that promote positive values and use real spoken language. Activities for building learner strategies for independent learning Magazine at the back of the Students Book to support mixed ability classes Strong grammar and skills sections give students confidence in using the language
Financial modeling is essential for determining a company's current value and projecting its future performance, yet few books explain how to build models for accurately interpreting financial statements. Building Financial Models is the first book to correct this oversight, unveiling a step-by-step process for creating a core model and then customizing it for companies in virtually any industry. Covering every aspect of building a financial model, it provides a broad understanding of the actual mechanics of models, as well as their foundational accounting and finance concepts.
Building a Straw Bale House: The Red Feather Construction Handbook
For more than a decade the Red Feather Development Group, a volunteer-based organization, has built and repaired straw bale houses for Native Americans. Somewhere along the wayand this was certainly not the planthey created an architectural phenomenon: This inexpensive, environmentally sound, easily constructed, and downright beautiful form of building has, for good reason,caught the public's imagination. Here, Red Feather provides a step-by-step, easy-to-follow manual for would-be strawbale buildersindeed, they supply everything you'll need but time, energy, and lots and lots of straw
A practical how-to book which not only covers the construction of straw bale walls, but has comprehensive sections on regulations, site selection and preparation, flooring, window and door installation, electrical and plumbing installation, ceilings, roofs, rendering, etc. Not a book for those wanting pretty pictures, but it has detailed information that allows the novice owner-builder to understand the process of building their straw bale home. Note: This book follows Australian building practices.
Building with straw bales is being embraced by amateurs and professionals for its versatility, comfort, environmental friendliness and high insulation. New methods should expand its growing worldwide popularity. Practical Straw Bale Building describes the best of current practices and introduces new ideas in a practical step-by-step approach, supported by technical data and analysis. Starting from how straw bales are made, it describes the building of both in-fill and load-bearing walls, discusses the properties of materials used to plaster the walls, and details how particular features are incorporated, such as windows, doors, arches, plumbing and electrical
