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  • You and Your Lodger

    by Rosy Border ...
    This book provides lodger agreement in a 'what you see is what you get' document format. It sets out the duties and responsibilities and embodies them in an agreement that is fair to both public and their lodger. It shows you the terms or 'buzzwords', that are important, and explains what they mean. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Wives and Daughters

    Wives and Daughters is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood. The story revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Watts Pocket Handbook

    Edited by Trevor Rushton ...
    Back in print for the first time in years, the Watts Pocket Handbook renews its commitment to share industry knowledge by providing technical and legal information across a comprehensive spread of property and construction topics.Compiled by the Watts Technical Director, the Handbook provides specialist information and guidance on a vast selection of construction related subjects including ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Using Commercial Contracts

    A Practical Guide for Engineers and Project Managers

    by David Wright ...
    Using Commercial Contracts: a practical guide for engineers and project managers examines how the law of contract operates, and the way in which the legal system interprets what a contract actually means. By giving clear, readable and expert advice on key legal issues, this guide provides the manager and engineer with an easily understandable and practical approach to the laws of contract. ... Read more

    $49.00 USD

  • Understanding the NEC4 Professional Service Contract

    A Practical Handbook

    by Kelvin Hughes ...
    Series series Understanding Construction
    As usage of the NEC (formerly the New Engineering Contract) family of contracts continues to grow worldwide, so does the importance of understanding its clauses and nuances to everyone working in the built environment.Currently in its fourth edition (NEC4), this set of contracts is different to others in concept as well as format, so users may well find themselves needing a helping hand along the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Understanding the NEC4 ECC Contract

    A Practical Handbook

    by Kelvin Hughes ...
    Series series Understanding Construction
    As usage of the NEC family of contracts continues to grow worldwide, so does the importance of understanding its clauses and nuances to everyone working in the built environment. Understanding the NEC4 ECC Contract uses plain English to lead the reader through the NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract’s key features. Chapters cover:The Contractor’s main responsibilities the use of early ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Understanding the NEC3 ECC Contract

    A Practical Handbook

    by Kelvin Hughes ...
    Series series Understanding Construction
    As usage of the NEC (formerly the New Engineering Contract) family of contracts continues to grow worldwide, so does the importance of understanding its clauses and nuances to everyone working in the built environment. Currently in its third edition, this set of contracts is different to others in concept as well as format, so users may well find themselves needing a helping hand along the way ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Understanding the Impacts of Deregulation in Planning

    Turning Offices into Homes?

    In England, it has been possible since 2013 to convert an office building into residential use without needing planning permission (as has been required since 1948). This book explores the consequences of this central government driven deregulation on local communities. The policy decision was primarily about boosting the supply of housing, but reflects a broader neoliberal ideology which seeks to ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Understanding JCT Standard Building Contracts

    Series series Understanding Construction
    This tenth edition of David Chappell’s bestselling guide has been revised to take into account changes made in 2016 to payment provisions, loss and/or expense, insurance and many other smaller but significant changes, and includes a section on performance bonds and guarantees. This remains the most concise guide available to the most commonly used JCT building contracts: Standard Building Contract ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Understanding FIDIC

    The Rainbow Suite

    by Kelvin Hughes ...
    Series series Understanding Construction
    Understanding FIDIC explains in simple and practical terms what is often seen as a very complex range of international engineering and construction contracts.Covering the FIDIC 2017 Red, Yellow and Silver Books (referred to as "The Rainbow Suite"), the book gives an overview of all three contracts, including coverage of changes between the 1999 contracts and the present 2017 suite. FIDIC contracts ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Understanding Construction Contracts

    Canadian and International Conventions

    This book provides an overall understanding of construction contracts, explaining a range of topics with in-depth examples, allowing engineers, site managers, architects, contractors, and other construction professionals in search of information on construction contracts to find it in one place. The volume further serves as a learning tool and a reference guide for students and instructors. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Understanding and Negotiating EPC Contracts, Volume 2

    Annotated Sample Contract Forms

    Any project which involves an EPC contract is also likely to involve a number of other complicated contracts. The challenge of the parties to an EPC contract is not to try to eliminate risk but rather put into place a narrative structure that enables the parties to predict the contractual result that would obtain if a risk materializes. If the EPC contract does not allow the parties to determine ... Read more

    $300.99 USD

  • Understanding and Negotiating EPC Contracts, Volume 1

    The Project Sponsor's Perspective

    In Understanding and Negotiating EPC Contracts, Volume 1, Howard M. Steinberg presents a practical and comprehensive guide to understanding virtually every aspect of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for infrastructure projects.The 25 chapters in Volume 1 are supplemented with real-life examples and court decisions, and offer tactical advice for anyone who must negotiate or ... Read more

    $230.99 USD

  • Understanding and Negotiating Construction Contracts

    A Contractor's and Subcontractor's Guide to Protecting Company Assets

    Understanding and Negotiating Construction ContractsThe complexities of construction contracts are made easy with this thorough and readable guideConstruction contracts can be complex for both owners and contractors. For contractors, negotiating fair and balanced commercial terms in contracts is just as important as properly managing projects; a properly negotiated contract can mitigate ... Read more

    $71.00 USD

  • Two On A Tower

    by Thomas Hardy ...
    Two On A Tower is a tale of star-crossed love in which Hardy sets the emotional lives of his two lovers against the background of the stellar universe. The unhappily married Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with Swithin St. Cleeve, an astronomer who is eight years her junior. Her husband's death leaves the lovers free to marry, but the discovery of a ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transnational Construction Arbitration

    Key Themes in the Resolution of Construction Disputes

    Series series Lloyd's Arbitration Law Library
    Transnational Construction Arbitration addresses topical issues in the field of dispute resolution in construction contracts from an international perspective. The book covers the role of arbitral institutions, arbitration and dispute resolution clauses, expert evidence, dispute adjudication boards and emergency arbitrator procedures, investment arbitration and the enforcement of arbitral awards. ... Read more

    $325.99 USD

  • Total Construction Project Management, Second Edition

    The most comprehensive, up-to-date construction project management systemFully revised for the latest technologies and standards, Total Construction Project Management, Second Edition provides a proven framework for completing construction jobs as specified, on schedule, and within budget. You’ll learn how to plan, organize, and control each stage of a project—from initiation to close-out.This ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Tom Sawyer: Collection

    by Mark Twain ...
    This book contains the Tom Sawyer complete collection. - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer Abroad - Tom Sawyer, Detective The Adventures of Tom Sawyer remains a coming of age classic that needs no introduction and its first sequel Huckleberry Finn has been called the greatest of great American novels. Few have heard of Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To the Queen

    "To the Queen" (or "To The Queen by the players") is a short poem attributed to William Shakespeare. It was included in 2007 by Jonathan Bate in his complete Shakespeare edition for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The poem, written on the back of an envelope, is thought to have been written as an epilogue for a performance of As You Like It given at court on Shrove Tuesday in February 1599. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thomas Hardy: Complete Novels

    by Thomas Hardy ...
    Here you will find the complete novels of Thomas Hardy in the chronological order of their original publication. - Desperate Remedies - Under the Greenwood Tree - A Pair of Blue Eyes - Far from the Madding Crowd - The Hand of Ethelberta - The Return of the Native - The Trumpet-Major - A Laodicean: a Story of To-day - Two on a Tower - The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid - The Mayor of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Three Musketeers: Collection

    This carefully crafted ebook: "THE THREE MUSKETEERS - Complete Collection: The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise da la Valliere & The Man in the Iron Mask" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Set in 1625, "The Three Musketeers" recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Selfless Constitution

    Experimentalism and flourishing as foundations of South Africa's basic law

    by Stu Woolman ...
    Do you possess 'freedom'-the will to do as you choose-as an individual, as a participant in social affairs or as a citizen in the political realm? Well, no. Not really. At least not as most of us understand a term loaded down with metaphysical baggage. Don't worry. You've got something better: a neurological system capable of carrying out the most complex analytical and computational tasks; ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Richard Hannay Collection: The 39 Steps, Greenmantle, Mr. Standfast

    by John Buchan ...
    Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The strong and silent type, combining the dour temperament of the Scot with the stiff upper lip of the Englishman, Hannay is pre-eminent among early spy-thriller heroes. Caught up in the first of these five gripping ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Presentation and Settlement of Contractors' Claims - E2

    Contractual disputes, often involving large sums of money, occur with increasing frequency in the construction industry. This book presents - in non-legal language - sound professional advice from a recognized expert in the field on the practical aspects of claims. This edition has been brought right up to date by taking into account legal decisions promulgated over the last 17 years, as well as ... Read more

    $56.99 USD