Authors:Robert Butler, Robert Brown Butler,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: single, engineering, architectural, handbook, standard
Number of Pages: 1
Published: 1999-06-25
List price: $149.95
ISBN-10: 0071347518
ISBN-13: 9780071347518

Now part of McGraw-Hill’s time-saving, state-of-the-art Core Handbook CD-ROM series, this indispensable handbook enables architects, designers, builders, and engineers to design virtually any functional component for any architecture anywhere in the world. Key features: * Contains the complete content of the Standard Handbook in a fully searchable Adobe Acrobat format * Offers a complete collection of structural, mechanical, electrical, lighting, and acoustical data * Includes 450 universal design scenarios, each of which describes the sizing of a different functional part of a building

Author: Robert N. Butler MD
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: america, old, survive
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2002-11-26
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0801874254
ISBN-13: 9780801874253

The author questions the value of long life for its own sake, arguing that modern medicine has ironically created a group for whom survival is possible but satisfaction elusive. He proposed reforms to redefine and restructure the institutions responsible for the elderly in America.

Author: Robert Butler
Publisher: UBC Press
Keywords: heron, blue
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1999-06
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0774806346
ISBN-13: 9780774806343

Author: Robert Brown Butler
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: systems, structural, design, engineering, architectural
Number of Pages: 750
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0071370374
ISBN-13: 9780071370370

Architectural Engineering Design: Mechanical and Structural Systems provide the architectural and design professions a comprehensive, definitive reference to more than 1100 equations essential to all aspects of building design and construction. Calculations books have been successful in all the engineering disciplines, and there is nothing even remotely comparable on the market for architects-until now. It will complement Standard Handbook of Architectural Engineering, Architectural formulas, and the range of engineering calculations and formulas titles. These are the first books on architectu

Author: Robert Olen Butler
Publisher: Chronicle Book
Keywords: stories, severance
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2008-04-30
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0811860981
ISBN-13: 9780811860987

Now available in an elegant paperback, Robert Olen Butler’s acclaimed collection, Severance, depicts the final thoughts of people as they are losing their heads. Celebrated as "glorious" (Los Angeles Times), these fascinating stories reveal "the limitless will of the author’s imagination" (New York Times). Here are the imagined ultimate words of famous and invented figures—Medusa, Sir Walter Raleigh, Anne Boleyn, Jayne Mansfield, and a chicken, beheaded for Sunday dinner.

Author: Robert Brown Butler
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: reference, pocket, formulas, architectural
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2002-09-17
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0071370366
ISBN-13: 9780071370363

* Provides instant access to more than 1100 architectural equations * No math menus and shortcuts allow any building element to be sized quickly and accurately

Author: Robert Olen Butler
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Keywords: stories, intercourse
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2008-05-28
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0811863573
ISBN-13: 9780811863575

A provocative new short-story collection from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler, Intercourse delightfully reveals what goes through a person’s mind at a crucial moment during sex. Smart, provocative, subtle, and erotic, each story is a many faceted gem. Butler dazzles and entertains as he channels the most intimate thoughts of 50 couples, including: Adam & Eve Bonnie & Clyde Pocahontas & John Smith Richard Milhous Nixon & Pat Nixon Walt Whitman & Oscar Wilde Elvis Presley & Holly Singleton (admirer) Princess Diana & Prince Charles William Jefferson Clin