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Chasing Molecules by Elizabeth Grossman
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Elizabeth Grossman

“Why weren’t we asking the right questions? Why didn’t we have the knowledge of why something is toxic?” Paul Anastas asks rhetorically when I speak to him in his office ...
( Category: Environmental September 21,2015 )
Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath by John L. Esposito
epub |eng | 2014-02-15 | Author:John L. Esposito [Esposito, John L.]

[Barney was there] every night.... His word was everything.... He was the owner, the actual owner and manager.... His word was the say at the Cocoanut Grove. Mickey Alpert 0 ...
( Category: England September 4,2015 )
Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World by Christian Wolmar
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Christian Wolmar [Wolmar, Christian]

EIGHT THE INVASION OF THE RAILWAY By the final quarter of the nineteenth century, railways were well established throughout the world, and the sight of a steam locomotive puffing across ...
( Category: History July 24,2015 )
Temporary Structure Design by Souder Christopher
epub |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:Souder, Christopher

Figure 9.4 shows typical wall forms using and plywood construction. Figure 9.4 Typical 2 × 4 and plywood formwork. The following formulas will be used when checking bending, shear, and ...
( Category: Structural July 14,2015 )
The Big Roads by Earl Swift
epub |eng | | Author:Earl Swift [Swift, Earl]

It didn't take long for the states to jump on the program. Barely a month after the president signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, they had more than $800 ...
( Category: State & Local June 17,2015 )
Fluid Mechanics by White Frank M
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:White, Frank M. [White, Frank M.]

P6.65 In Prob. P6.63 the initial flow is turbulent. As the water drains out of the tank, will the flow revert to laminar motion as the tank becomes nearly empty? ...
( Category: Fluid Dynamics June 13,2015 )
Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
epub |eng | | Author:Marc Reisner

Like the westbound wagons that had to jettison furniture, food, even water in order to plow through the desert sands, the Central Arizona Project was finally light enough to move. ...
( Category: Environmental June 13,2015 )
The World Is Blue by Sylvia A. Earle
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-06-11 | Author:Sylvia A. Earle

Perversely spilled oil blackens Saudi Arabian marshes in 1991. Worldwide, more than 4,000 rigs are now working in depths up to 1,830 meters (6,000 feet). The deepest offshore rig, Shell ...
( Category: Oceanography June 12,2015 )
Ecotourists Save the World by Pamela K. Brodowsky
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-11 | Author:Pamela K. Brodowsky

CONTACT: A Broader View, 1001 Dell Ln, Suite B, Wyncote, PA 19095; Tel: 2157801845; Fax: 2158870915; Web: www.abroaderview.org/caribbean.php; Email: [email protected]. LOCATION: Cartago and Limón Provinces, Costa Rica. CATEGORY: Conservation. COST: ...
( Category: Environmental June 12,2015 )
On the Burning Edge by Kyle Dickman
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Kyle Dickman [Dickman, Kyle]

But for many hours, the hotshots droned through the flat, windswept high desert that lies between Jemez Springs and Prescott. The crew didn’t pull into the base until after seven ...
( Category: Fire Science June 11,2015 )
High Steel by Jim Rasenberger
mobi | | 2004-06-10 | Author:Jim Rasenberger

A few weeks after the McNamaras’ arrest, a tall, stooped, unkempt figure walked into their prison cells and introduced himself. The man did not look much like a beacon of ...
( Category: State & Local June 11,2015 )
The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One by Sylvia A. Earle
mobi |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Sylvia A. Earle

Perversely spilled oil blackens Saudi Arabian marshes in 1991. Worldwide, more than 4,000 rigs are now working in depths up to 1,830 meters (6,000 feet). The deepest offshore rig, Shell ...
( Category: Oceanography June 11,2015 )
Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles by Standiford Les
epub, azw |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Standiford, Les [Standiford, Les]

FITS AND STARTS IN THE END, THE FUNDING SLOWDOWN ACTUALLY WORKED in Mulholland’s favor. With much of the hardest tasks behind him, any walkouts simply meant fewer men to pay, ...
( Category: Environmental June 10,2015 )
The Mechanics of Engineering Structures by David W A Rees
epub |eng | 2015-11-19 | Author:David W A Rees [Rees, David W A]

Substituting Eq. 8.35b into Eq. 8.34 enables σ to be found from: Applying Considére’s tensile instability condition to Eq. 8.35a: shows that, at the inception of necking, the ultimate stress ...
( Category: Structural June 3,2015 )
Building With Straw Bales by Jones Barbara
epub |eng | 2015-05-28 | Author:Jones, Barbara

Preparing for plastering This sounds like a fairly innocuous job but can be one of the hardest and most frustrating, depending on the aesthetic finish you require and the quality ...
( Category: Design & Construction June 1,2015 )

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