David Chappell: 15 books
Construction Contracts
Questions and Answers
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Construction professionals of all kinds frequently need legal advice that is straightforward as well as authoritative and legally rigorous. Building on the success of two previous editions, David Chappell returns to provide answers to 225 FAQs from his experience as Specialist Advisor to the RIBA....
by David Chappell
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
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...
by David Chappell
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
The revised and updated edition of this classic book on the JCT Minor Works Building Contracts
The JCT Minor Works Building Contracts 2016 offers a concise overview of this agreement, which continues to be the most popular JCT contract, as it used on the sorts of small works that most architects...
The JCT Standard Building Contract 2011
An Explanation and Guide for Busy Practitioners and Students
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Books about construction contracts tend to be dense and wordy, but what most architects, quantity surveyors, project managers, builders and employers are looking for is an easily navigable, simple guide to using a contract, written in plain language.
The JCT Standard Building Contract 2011...
by David Chappell, Michael H. Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Throughout its many editions, The Architect in Practice has remained a leading textbook used in the education of architects. While the content of the book has developed, the message and philosophy has remained constant: to provide students of architecture and young practitioners with a readable guide...
by David Chappell
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Many building projects are the subject of claims – the assertion of a right, usually by the contractor, to an extension of the contract period or an additional payment under the terms of the building contract. Many of these claims are unsound or ill-founded, often because the basic principles are...
Waking from the Dream
The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The author of A Stone of Hope, called “one of the three or four most important books on the civil rights movement” by The Atlantic Monthly, turns his attention to the years after Martin Luther King’s assassination—and provides a sweeping history of the struggle to keep the civil rights movement...
A Stone of Hope
Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history. In a provocative new assessment of its success, David Chappell argues that the story of civil rights is not a story of the ultimate triumph of liberal ideas after decades of gradual progress. Rather, it...
by Nathan J.D.L. Rowark, David F. Daumit, Gavin Chappell
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2013
Tales of the Undead - Suffer Eternal contains some of the best names in modern horror. Together, we will discover the works of over twenty new and established authors. Steady yourselves, and prepare for unholy terror. It's time to meet the masters of the macabre.
Author list:
Nathan...
Enterprise Service Bus
Theory in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Large IT organizations increasingly face the challenge of integrating various web services, applications, and other technologies into a single network. The solution to finding a meaningful large-scale architecture that is capable of spanning a global enterprise appears to have been met in ESB, or...
The Strong Gray Line
War-time Reflections from the West Point Class of 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
To preserve the memory of their service during the tumultuous decade since their commissioning as Army officers, members of the West Point class of 2004 have written The Strong Gray Line. This class suffered the highest casualty rate since those that graduated during the Vietnam War. In this book,...
by Dorothy F. Chappell, E. David Cook, Zondervan
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
This book argues that it is possible for our study of the natural world to enhance our understanding of God and for our faith to inform and influence our study and application of science. Whether you are a student, someone employed in the sciences, or simply an interested layperson, Not Just Science...
Java Message Service
Creating Distributed Enterprise Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Java Message Service, Second Edition, is a thorough introduction to the standard API that supports "messaging" -- the software-to-software exchange of crucial data among network computers. You'll learn how JMS can help you solve many architectural challenges, such as integrating dissimilar...
Double Ghosts: Oceanian Voyagers on Euroamerican Ships
Oceanian Voyagers on Euroamerican Ships
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This narrative recounts the 18th and 19th century shipping out of Pacific islanders aboard European and American vessels, a kind of counter-exploring, that echoed the ancient voyages of settlement of their island ancestors.
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