Authors:John Eliot Allen, Marjorie Burns, Scott Burns,
Publisher: Ooligan Press
Keywords: columbia, cataclysms
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1932010319
ISBN-13: 9781932010312

Cataclysms on the Columbia tells two stories. One follows geological research that challenged the scientific paradigm of the early 20th century, and the other chronicles the results of that research: the discovery of powerful prehistoric floods that shaped the Pacific Northwest. The cataclysms at the end of the last Ice Age left a scab land of buttes, dry falls, and rocky gorges, but it took the detective work of geologist J. Harlan Bretz to prove it to the world. He did not live to see his theories vindicated, but his lifetime of research and unshakeable belief changed geology forever.

Authors:Ailsa Burns, Cath Scott, Catherine Scott,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: increased, families, headed, mother
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1994-03-01
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 080581440X
ISBN-13: 9780805814408

The last two decades have seen a dramatic growth in the proportion of families headed by women. Most of these families are poor and include dependent children--causing the development of a large underprivileged class across the western world. This book explores the causes and implications of this development. Because the increase in mother-headed families is an international trend, an international perspective has been adopted. The discussion centers on selected countries where certain trends are most visible. Among the western nations particular attention is given to the United States, Sweden

Author: Scott A. Burns
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Keywords: design, structural, optimal, advances, recent
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2002-08-01
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 0784406367
ISBN-13: 9780784406366

The field of structural optimization has experienced dramatic new developments in both computational techniques and applications over the past two decades. Recent Advances in Optimal Structural Design documents these new developments in computational methods and solution algorithms, the role of optimization during the various stages of structural design, and the stochastic nature of design in relation to structural optimization. Topics include: methods for discrete variable structural optimization; decomposition methods in structural optimization; state of the art on the use of genetic algorit

Authors:Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Scott Burns,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: economic, future, america, need, generational, storm, coming
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2005-01-19
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0262612089
ISBN-13: 9780262612081

One of Library Journal’s Best Business Books of 2004, A Forbes.com Top Ten Business Book for 2004, One of Barron’s 25 Best Books of 2004, Winner in the category of Economics in the 2004 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. and CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2004 This paperback edition of The Coming Generational Storm has been revised and updated and includes a new foreword by the authors. In 2030, as 77 million baby boomers hobble into old age, walkers will outnumber strollers; there will be t

Authors:Robert Burns, Andrew Noble, Patrick Scott Hogg,
Publisher: Canongate U.S.
Keywords: burns, canongate
Number of Pages: 1118
Published: 2002-12-11
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1841953806
ISBN-13: 9781841953809

Drawing on extensive scholarship and the poet’s own inimitable letters, this edition offers a wealth of information on Burns’s life, the hardships of his early days, his political beliefs, his hatred of injustice, and his fate as a writer too often sentimentalized by biographers and critics. Through his poetry, and as if for the first time, we see Burns as a radical figure in a British as well as a Scottish context, the peer of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Byron in the revolutionary and repressive world of the 1790s. Containing recently attributed and never-befo

Authors:Deborah Burns, Lisa Hiley, Deb Burns,
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Keywords: western, guide, english, encyclopedia, horse, lover, storey
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2000-02-14
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1580173179
ISBN-13: 9781580173179

The horse world has many different "arenas," and even many professionals don’t know the terms used outside their areas of expertise. Here, finally in one place, is a complete guide to everything horse-related - a guide that will be equally useful to a seasoned professional, a novice equestrian, and someone who just wants to know everything there is to know about horses. This hefty, fully illustrated, A-to-Z compendium is an indispensable answer book addressing every question a reader might have about horses and horse care. Covering breeds, tack, facilities, equine care and management, h

Authors:Tony Burns, June Burns,
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Keywords: holiday, christmas, scrolling, patterns, seasonal, puzzles, scroll
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1565232046
ISBN-13: 9781565232044

The 30 colorful wooden puzzles presented in this collection of scroll saw projects commemorate religious, natural, and civic occasions. Basic scrolling techniques are included, as are veterans’ tips and special instructions for unique painting and staining effects. Each puzzle is constructed by making several interlocking cuts and produces three to four individual pieces of wood that fit together in the completed project. The ready-to-cut patterns include a nativity scene, leprechaun, pumpkin, Menorah candle scene, birthday cake, and Santa Claus.