4 comments about California Real Estate Practice.

1. It's a very practical book that teach you how to get yourself ready to become a successful agent through practical examples.



2. The book is poorly written, which makes it difficult to read and understand. There are very few examples. The end of each chapter has a 10 question quiz, but there are no answers included. The practices they teach in the Prospecting section are questionable.



3. This is an excellent book that covers all the basics of getting started in real estate. It goes into the systems you need to be successful, such as developing your listing presentation, servicing your listings, and advertising. Everything is here. I recommend this book highly!! (It also helped me pass the CA broker exam.)



4. This is an excellent introduction to the basics of California real estate practice. I passed the broker's exam on the first try with the help of this book, even though I had no experience as a real estate salesperson and I did not take a test-preparation course.

No comments about Principles of Home Inspection: Air Conditioning & Heat Pumps (Principles of Home Inspection).

No comments about Design of Enclosed Spaces.

No comments about How to Know Architecture.

1 comments about Creative Perspective.

1. Buy Basic Perspective from this author along with this and really spend some time with these books. You'll thank yourself for the rest of your career. These books lay out perspective drawing in a fairly easy to understand format with lots of step-by-step diagrams. I own, and have read, 12 books on perspective drawing and these are the books I go back to again and again. I'm buying another copy of each, because mine are worn out. Fair warning: These books definitely teach the technical stuff. You may not feel that you need to know the craft of perspective drawing at this level. That's your call, but I find that most artists who lack this knowledge... well, it shows in their work.
   
   The only real drawback to this book is that the language is a bit overly dry and academic for my taste. But then It was written by an English architect in the 70's, so what do you want? The easy to follow diagrams make it worth the read. I don't think this is still in print, which is sad, so buy it while you still can.

No comments about Office Design.

No comments about Architecture as Experience: Radical Change in Spatial Practice.

2 comments about Architecture: Residential Drafting And Design (Instructor's Manual).

1. I purchased a "like new" copy of this book for cheap. I've been volunteering for Habitat, and this text introduces the terminology that describes many of the new (to me) architectural concepts that I've confronted in our new construction, and illustrates alternative designs that may be used in more formidable projects. This book predates the newer 10th edition (revised for ADA), which is required material at our community college for an architecture course. I'm an experienced 2D CAD draftsman, and the numerous elaborate drawings in the book are of huge benefit. This text represents a wealth of knowledge for a residential neo-builder like me. An absolute bargain in the used book marketplace.



2. This item is also a workbook that is useless without the textbook it coralates with.

No comments about Building the Wooden House: Technique and Design.

1 comments about Why Architects Draw.

1. I'm not an anthropologist/ethnographer or an architect, though I've been very interested in both fields (Latour, Le Corbusier, etc.). I found this book, mostly of interviews with architects about how they use drawing in their practice, very accessible for the non-architect, and also, I suspect, very interesting for the architect as well. The architects interviewed have different styles for how they use drawings and these differences are reflected in the structure and process of their practices (the intervews are exclusively with principals or very senior designers). The style of drawings (and models) they like to present in various situations (to junior designers, draftsmen, clients, engineers) forms an interesting picture of the social structure of architectural practice.