This book has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect developments since the third edition, with an emphasis on structural mechanics. Coverage is up-to-date without making the treatment highly specialized and mathematically difficult. Basic theory is clearly explained to the reader, while advanced techniques are left to thousands of ...
The book is divided into four sections: deck design and construction; patio construction; overhead structures and lighting, spas, fences and planters. It is illustrated with colour photos.
A self-guided tour of GIS and how it benefits consumers and businesses alike, this volume shows how to create customized maps and monitor environmental hazards.
Toyota will soon displace General Motors as the world's largest automaker. Since 2000, GM's market cap fell from $66 billion to $15 billion. In 1980 GM sold 45 of every 100 cars that rolled out of showrooms in the U.S. It now sells 26. By any yardstick, that is a crisis. The root cause of this financial cataclysm mystifies many of the players in ...
Offers suggestions about how individuals can prepare for chemical, radiological, nuclear, or biological attacks and what actions they can take to protect their own health, safety, and lives.
Diary excerpts, letters, and a straight narrative tell the story of the Argentinian war in the 1970s. The author was, beginning in 1975, a political prisoner for 39 months in Argentina, and she translates her experience into fiction.
The Island of Cundeamor is an invention created by its narrator, Aunt Ula, a native of Cuba living in Miami Beach. She is writing, as well as existing in, a story full of characters living on this imaginary island: a utopian Cuba. "Like a Russian doll, one story opens onto another, and another and another; each one containing pieces of the truth.. ...
Learn how to start a census program for terrestrial vertebrates with this handbook. Whether the information you need is for managing a population, surveying environmental impact, or conducting research on a particular species, this handbook has it all. Principles, methods, and calculations are explained. The following information is given for each ...
The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis gives you the background you need to move into the world of geographic analysis. You'll learn how to narrow down a problem to its essential element, choose one analytical method from among several options, use the software tools accurately, analyse the results, and communicate the result to others.
A beautifully landscaped yard provides pleasure to you and increases the value of your home. Ortho's Guide to Creative Home Landscaping is an easy-to-follow guide that takes you through every step of the landscaping process from helping you to pick an appropriate landscape style and drawing the plans, to selecting plants, installing and ...
David Kruidenier is a publishing magnate and member of one of the most powerful families in media; Elizabeth Kruidenier is an unflappable civil rights attorney and champion of racial equality, women's rights, and access to education. Despite competing interests, betrayal, and unthinkable tragedy, their love affair and marriage endures against the ...
Based upon the months/seasons of the Celtic year, this is a fully-illustrated examination and description of the times, places and purposes of Celtic pilgrimage through Britain, Ireland and Brittany.
The Civil Rights Movement is a collection of the best scholarship on one of America's most important social movements. Editor Jack Davis expands the usual historical boundaries of the Civil Rights Movement as he follows it from pre-World War II activism to the affirmative action initiatives begun in the 1960s. These essays reveal the grassroots ...
In a fluid global security environment such as ours, assessing the costs, risks, and likely consequences of alternative national defense strategies is as hard as it is essential. The authors show how, even in the face of uncertainty, the costs and other implications of any strategy can be assessed by examining the capabilities needed by U.S. ...
Historians have long agreed that women--black and white--were instrumental in shaping the civil rights movement. Until recently, though, such claims have not been supported by easily accessed texts of speeches and addresses. With this first-of-its-kind anthology, Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon present thirty-nine full-text addresses by women ...
Reduced spectacle dependence for distance, intermediate, and near vision is increasingly becoming a postoperative goal for both cataract and lens exchange patients. "Presbyopic Lens Surgery: A Clinical Guide to Current Technology" offers a refreshing look at this advancing topic and delivers expert information for achieving target refractive ...
Early in the nineteenth century, as wagon trains streamed into the lowlands of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, settlers came upon vast numbers of abandoned mounds and earth- works that they attributed to a sophisticated race of moundbuilders who long ago had disappeared. Giving rise to often loaded questions about human origins, the mounds and ...
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