Author: Asphalt Institute
Publisher: Asphalt Institute
Keywords: manual, handbook, asphalt
Number of Pages: 788
Published: 2007-11
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 193415427X
ISBN-13: 9781934154274

Author: Scott Cherney
Publisher: lulu.com
Keywords: asphalt, red
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2010-02-23
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 1435711866
ISBN-13: 9781435711860

Calvin Wheeler is an American dreamer in a triple threat cage match with his two biggest adversaries-everyday life and himself. His marriage to the woman he believed to be his soul mate is rapidly evaporating before his eyes. The book he’s been working on for over a decade is slipping through his fingers as he struggles to complete it. As these pressures grow, Calvin compensates by conjuring up outrageous road rage scenarios in the multiplex of his mind. To make matters even worse, he drives for a living. As his life, job and dreams simultaneously implode, his wild fantasies begin to lit

Author: Carl Hancock Rux
Publisher: Atria
Keywords: novel, asphalt
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-05-18
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0743474007
ISBN-13: 9780743474009

Already a celebrated performance artist, vocalist, poet, playwright, and visionary, Carl Hancock Rux now presents a brilliant debut novel--a profound and lyrical portrait of urban life that will take its place among the classics of American literature. Racine is a reserved young man, but his passion for music lights him up inside. He’s just returned from Paris where he’d been invited by a friend to produce music, make recordings, and earn a living. The plan didn’t quite pan out, and now he’s back in New York, where fate, providence, or just plain chance leads him to a

Author: Clay McShane
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: path, asphalt
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1995-04-15
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0231083912
ISBN-13: 9780231083911

Imagine a world without automobiles, traffic lights, and interstate highways. Or the words and . For a nation that prides itself on the freedom of movement and the long weekend, this seems nearly impossible. In , Clay McShane examines the uniquely American relation between automobility and urbanization. Writing at the cutting edge of urban and technological history, McShane focuses on how new transportation systems -most important, the private automobile -and new concepts of the city redefined each other in modern America. We swiftly motor across the country from Boston to New York to Milwau

Author: J Cliff Nicholls
Publisher: Spon Press
Keywords: surfacings, asphalt
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1998-05-07
List price: $310.00
ISBN-10: 0419231102
ISBN-13: 9780419231103

A guide to asphalt materials used for paving road and airfield surfaces, this book discusses each material type, examining its constituent materials, construction processes and properties, and offering an assessment of the material types appropriate to particular sites and applications.

Author: Orrick Johns
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: poems, asphalt
Number of Pages: 118
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $19.75
ISBN-10: 1110826753
ISBN-13: 9781110826759

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world’s literature.

Author: Arthur Usmani
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: technology, science, asphalt
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1997-08-22
List price: $239.95
ISBN-10: 0824799984
ISBN-13: 9780824799984

Closing the gap between the wide distribution and use of asphalt and knowledge of its chemical characterization for research and development, this one-of-a-kind reference offers comprehensive, authoritative coverage of the chemistry, technology, and engineering of asphaltic products for paving, road construction, roofing, coatings, adhesives, and batteries.