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Castle : A Novel

Attribution
J. Robert Lennon
Publication Details
Book, Graywolf Press, 2009
Description
A mesmerizing novel about memory, guilt, power, and violence In the late winter of 2006, I returned to my home town and bought 612 acres of land on the far western edge of the county.? The answer to what?and who?might lie at the heart of Loesch?s property stands at the center of this daring and riveting novel from the author whose writing, according to Ann Patchett, ?contains enough electricity to light up the country.?? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Buildings · Repair and reconstruction · Fiction · Land titles · Brothers and sisters · New York (State) · Lennon, J. Robert, 1970-
Availability
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BROWSING (MAIN) PS3562.E489 C37 2009 AVAILABLE

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BROWSING (MAIN)	PS3562.E489 C37 2009	AVAILABLE

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Palladio

Attribution
edited by Guido Beltramini and Howard Burns
Publication Details
Book, Royal Academy of Arts, 2008
Description
Although the sixteenth-century Italian architect Andrea Palladio (1508?1580) designed many classically inspired buildings, he is best known for his landmark treatise on architecture, I Quattro Libri dell?Architettura (1570). (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Palladio, Andrea, · 1508-1580 · Exhibitions · Architecture · Buildings · Beltramini, Guido · Burns, Howard · Centro internazionale di studi di architettura "Andrea Palladio" di Vicenza · Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
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OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA2707.P3 P355 2008 AVAILABLE

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OVERSIZE (UPPER)	NA2707.P3 P355 2008	AVAILABLE

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Super Structures

Attribution
[author, Samone Bos ; consultant, Philip Wilkinson]
Publication Details
Book, DK, 2008
Description
Readers can explore old favorites like the Empire State Building and new wonders like Taipei 101 and the Burj Dubai (now the world’s tallest building). (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Buildings · Juvenile literature · Architecture · Bos, Samone · Wilkinson, Phil
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OVER CHILD LIT (LOWER) 720 B74s 2008 AVAILABLE

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OVER CHILD LIT (LOWER)	720 B74s 2008	AVAILABLE

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The English Buildings Book

Attribution
Philip Wilkinson and Peter Ashley
Publication Details
Book, English Heritage, 2006
Description
The English Buildings Book is the most comprehensive single volume on English architecture for the general reader and architectural historian alike. Over 700 buildings are described and illustrated, and they range from the architectural icons - such as castles, cathedrals, and country houses - to the less noticeable but equally fascinating buildings of England’s towns and villages - parish churches and meeting houses, shops and hotels, town halls and market halls, windmills and lighthouses, barns and bars. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Architecture · England · Buildings · Wilkinson, Philip, 1955- · Ashley, Peter, 1948- · English Heritage
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OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA961 .W55 2006 AVAILABLE

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OVERSIZE (UPPER)	NA961 .W55 2006	AVAILABLE

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Building A Century Of Progress : The Architecture Of Chicago’s 1933-34 World’s Fair

Attribution
Lisa D. Schrenk
Publication Details
Book, University of Minnesota Press, 2007
Links
- Table of contents only
Description
Many of the designs provoked intense responses from critics and other prominent architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Adams Cram, fueling heated debates over the appropriate direction for architecture in the United States. Demonstrating the rich diversity of progressive American building design seen at the fair, Building a Century of Progress captures a crucial moment in American modernism. Schrenk is assistant professor of architecture and art history at Norwich University and former education director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Century of Progress International Exposition · (1933-1934 : · Chicago, Ill.) · Buildings · Exhibition buildings · Illinois · Chicago · History · 20th century · Chicago (Ill.) · Buildings, structures, etc · Schrenk, Lisa Diane
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(LOWER LEVEL) NA6750.C45 C467 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	NA6750.C45 C467 2007	AVAILABLE

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Capital Budget Request For … & Physical Facilities Development Schedule For .

Attribution
Publication Details
Book, University System of New Hampshire, 1900
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University System of New Hampshire · Appropriations and expenditures · Finance · Buildings · University System of New Hampshire

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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS	LD3779.N395 C3 1993/95 Draft	ASK REF DESK
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS	LD3779.N395 C3 1991/93	ASK REF DESK
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS	LD3779.N395 C3 1991/93 c.2	ASK REF DESK
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS	LD3779.N395 C3 1987/89	ASK REF DESK
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS	LD3779.N395 C3 1985/87	ASK REF DESK
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS	LD3779.N395 C3 1979	ASK REF DESK
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS	LD3779.N395 C3 1977	ASK REF DESK
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS	LD3779.N395 C3 1975	ASK REF DESK

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Ecological Design Inventing The Future

Attribution
director, Brian Danitz ; produced by Brian Danitz and Tzelovanikov ; writer, Phil Cousineau
Publication Details
Video, Filmwest Associates, 2006
Tags
Ecological engineering · Sustainable architecture · Architecture · Environmental aspects · Buildings · Environmental engineering · Architecture and energy conservation · Ecological landscape design · LAMSON LIBRARY DVD · Danitz, Brian · Tzelovanikov · Cousineau, Phil · Hunt, Linda, 1945- · Filmwest Associates
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MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN) GE350 .E242 2006 AVAILABLE

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MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN)	GE350 .E242 2006	AVAILABLE

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Walt Disney Imagineering : A Behind The Dreams Look At Making The Magic Real

Attribution
by the Imagineers ; foreword by Michael D. Eisner
Publication Details
Book, 1st pbk. ed, Disney Editions, 1996
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Walt Disney Company · Buildings · History · Imagineers (Group) · Amusement parks · United States · Design · Imagineers (Group) · Walt Disney Company
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OVERSIZE (UPPER) GV1851 .W35 1996b AVAILABLE

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OVERSIZE (UPPER)	GV1851 .W35 1996b	AVAILABLE

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Plymouth State University North Campus Housing : Project Summary : Plymouth Planning Board

Attribution
Publication Details
Book, Plymouth State University, 2005
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Plymouth State University · Buildings · Student housing · College buildings · New Hampshire · Plymouth · Plymouth (N.H.). Planning Board
Availability
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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LD4561.P922 P584 2005 ASK REF DESK

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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS	LD4561.P922 P584 2005	ASK REF DESK

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The Destruction Of Memory : Architecture At War

Attribution
Robert Bevan
Publication Details
Book, Reaktion, 2006
Description
In The Destruction of Memory, Robert Bevan examines the effects of conflict on architecture through a wide range of examples. These include the razing of Aztec cities by Cortez, the clashes between Islam and Hinduism in India, the Holocaust, the Chinese destruction of Tibetan Lhasa and the attack on the World Trade Center in New York. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Buildings · War damage · War and society · Culture conflict · Historic buildings · Lost architecture · Bevan, Robert
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(LOWER LEVEL) HM554 .B48 2006 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HM554 .B48 2006	AVAILABLE

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Design On The Edge : The Making Of A High-performance Building

Attribution
David W. Orr
Publication Details
Book, MIT Press, 2006
Links
- Table of contents only
Description
The story of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College–the first substantially green building to be built on a college campus–encompasses more than the particulars of one building. In Design on the Edge, David Orr writes about the planning and design of Oberlin’s environmental studies building as part of a larger story about the art and science of ecological design and the ability of institutions of higher learning themselves to learn. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Adam Joseph Lewis Center (Oberlin, Ohio) · Oberlin College · Buildings · Ohio · Oberlin · History · Orr, David W., 1944-
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(LOWER LEVEL) LD4170.A32 O77 2006 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	LD4170.A32 O77 2006	AVAILABLE

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Green Schools : Attributes For Health And Learning

Attribution
Committee to Review and Assess the Health and Productivity Benefits of Green Schools, Board on Infrastructure and Constructed Environment, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies
Publication Details
Book, National Academies Press, 2007
Links
- READ FULL-TEXT ONLINE
Description
Evidence has accumulated that shows that the quality of indoor environments can affect the health and productivity of adults and children. and an assessment of the potential human health and performance benefits of improvements in the building envelope, indoor air quality, lighting, and acoustical quality. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Tags
School buildings · Design and construction · Environmental aspects · Sustainable buildings · Buildings · Environmental engineering · Electronic information resource · Electronic information resource · LAMSON LIBRARY LINKS TO ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RESOURCES · National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Review and Assess the Health and Productivity Benefits of Green Schools
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(LOWER LEVEL) LB3209 .N38 2007 DUE 02-09-10

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(LOWER LEVEL)	LB3209 .N38 2007	DUE 02-09-10

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The Architecture Of Additions : Design And Regulation

Attribution
Paul Spencer Byard
Publication Details
Book, Norton, 2005
Description
The Architecture of Additions examines the impact of new building on important existing architecture and suggests answers to the questions of how one building affects the meaning of another and how they should affect each other when one of them is protected in the public interest. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Buildings · Additions · Architecture · Aesthetics · Decision making · Byard, Paul Spencer
Availability
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(UPPER LEVEL) NA2500 .B93 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	NA2500 .B93 2005	AVAILABLE

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Insulating, Sealing & Ventilating Your House

Attribution
William P. Spence
Publication Details
Book, Sterling Pub. Co, 2006
Links
- Table of contents only
- Publisher description
Description
He shows how to determine the amount of insulation needed, locate air leaks, regulate air quality, and determine the costs versus benefits of any job. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Tags
Dwellings · Insulation · Buildings · Airtightness · Sealing (Technology) · Heating and ventilation · Spence, William Perkins, 1925-
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(UPPER LEVEL) TH1715 .S6554 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	TH1715 .S6554 2006	AVAILABLE

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Field Guide To Emergency Response

Attribution
produced by Heritage Preservation in support of the Heritage Emergency National Task Force
Publication Details
Book, Heritage Preservation, 2006
Tags
Emergency management · Handbooks, manuals, etc · Assistance in emergencies · Planning · Handbooks, manuals, etc · Museums · Management · Library materials · Conservation and restoration · Archival materials · Cultural property · Protection · Buildings · Evacuation · Employees · Health and hygiene · Heritage Preservation (Organization) · Heritage Emergency National Task Force (U.S.) · National Endowment for the Humanities
Availability
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ARCHIVES OFFICE AM121 .F545 2006 ASK REF DESK

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ARCHIVES OFFICE	AM121 .F545 2006	ASK REF DESK

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