Author: Marcelo H. Garcia (Editor)
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Keywords: practice, modeling, engineering, asce, manual, reports, management, sedimentation, theories, measurements, processes
Number of Pages: 1150
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 0784408149
ISBN-13: 9780784408148

Sedimentation Engineering: Processes, Measurements, Modeling, and Practice (ASCE Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice No. 110) is intended to supplement Sedimentation Engineering: Classic Edition (ASCE Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice No. 54), an seminal text on the nature and scope of sedimentation problems, methods for their investigation, and practical approaches to their solution. Sedimentation Engineering: Theories, Measurements, Modeling, and Practice updates selected topics in the original manual and addresses new topics, such as the hydraulic action of flowing wate

Authors:Marcelo Garcia, Glen Cordoza, Erich Krauss,
Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing
Keywords: mixed, martial, arts, grappling, jitsu, brazilian, jiu, guard
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2008-04-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0977731502
ISBN-13: 9780977731503

Author: Andrew Wilson (Editor); Dawn Archer (Editor); Paul
Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
Keywords: computers, language, linguistics, practical, studies, world, corpus
Number of Pages: 241
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $71.50
ISBN-10: 9042018364
ISBN-13: 9789042018365

This volume contains a selection of the papers delivered at the Corpus Linguistics 2003 conference, held at Lancaster University in April 2003. The papers selected address a wide range of world languages - Basque, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Maltese, Russian, Spanish, and Slovene. Both synchronic and diachronic studies are included, as well as studies of learner language. In addition to mainstream linguistic analyses of phonetics, vocabulary, syntax, semantics, and rhetoric, application areas covered in the volume include financial forecasting, cross-cultural research, c

Author: Guest Editor Nick HornbySeries Editor Benjamin Sc
Publisher: Da Capo
Keywords: writing, pop, jazz, rock, country, finest, music, year, capo
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2001-10
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0306810662
ISBN-13: 9780306810664

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2001 The Year’s Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country, and More Welcome to the latest volume in the series that celebrates the year’s best writing about music and its culture, as edited by Nick Hornby, the creator of the most famously music-obsessed hero in contemporary fiction. Hornby has selected pieces on a dazzling array of topics from more than a hundred sources--remarkable essays by journalists and authors who are as serious about writing as they are about music. Featuring the smartest, edgiest, richest, funniest, and just plain best

Author: Katy Gray Brown (Editor) David Boersema (Editor)
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV
Keywords: value, inquiry, book, peace, nonviolence, political, dimensions, spiritual
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 2006-07-31
List price: $71.50
ISBN-10: 904202061X
ISBN-13: 9789042020610

This book is a collection of philosophical papers that explores theoretical and practical aspects and implications of nonviolence as a means of establishing peace. The papers range from spiritual and political dimensions of nonviolence to issues of justice and values and proposals for action and change. Contents: Acknowledgments Katy GRAY BROWN: Introduction: Beyond Safe Ground Part One: Spiritual Dimensions Jerald RICHARDS: Spirituality, Religion, Violence, and Nonviolence Joseph KUNKEL: The Spiritual Side of Peacemaking William C. GAY: Apocalyptic Thinking versus Nonviolent Action

Authors:Marysa, editor Navarro, Gwendolyn, editor Mink, Wilm
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: history, women, companion, reader
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 1999-10
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0618001824
ISBN-13: 9780618001828

The most inclusive book to date on U.S. women’s collective history! A landmark work, The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History, gathers together more than 400 articles to offer a diverse, rich, and often neglected panorama of the nation’s past. Written by more than 300 contributors, drawn from various areas of expertise, these narrative and interpretive entries "effectively cover five centuries of women’s experiences" (Bloomsbury Review). Here are articles on cowgirls and child care, on the daily lives of single women and the changing notions of motherhood, o

Authors:Guillermo Garcia-Oropeza, Cristobal Garcia Sanchez,
Publisher: Rizzoli
Keywords: small, towns, one, beautiful, mexico, hundred, amp
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-03-25
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0847830284
ISBN-13: 9780847830282

One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Mexico broadens the successful One Hundred & One Towns series with a tour through the virgin coastal hamlets, sun-kissed terra-cotta villages, and lush green hilltop towns that abound in Mexico. This is the armchair traveler’s escape and the serious tourist’s companion, featuring exceptional photography referencing a rich cultural background steeped in ancient Mayan folklore and religious tradition. This book ventures through the countryside providing in-depth histories of the smaller, less trodden towns that speckle Mexico’s varied terr