Author: Jim Crace
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, distress, signals
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0312424426
ISBN-13: 9780312424428
November, 1836. A fierce gale beaches an American sail ship off the English coast, injuring an African slave below decks and eventually disgorging 300 head of cattle and rowdy American sailors into a hardscrabble fishing village. The same storm drives into port a steamer, bearing one Aymer Smith, the foolish well-intentioned prig who will deprive the town of its livelihood, free the African slave, and set into motion a whole series of unforeseeable, tragicomic events. One of the most seductive and surprising novelist at work today, once again creates a richly strange and believable world, unca
Author: Hans Selye
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: distress, stress
Number of Pages: 171
Published: 1974-06
List price: $11.40
ISBN-10: 0397010265
ISBN-13: 9780397010264
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Publisher: Pc
Keywords: manual, distress, pavement, concrete, interlocking
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1566773164
ISBN-13: 9781566773164
Author: Jon R. Abele
Publisher: Lawyers and Judges Publishing
Keywords: damages, proving, distress, emotional
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2003-10-07
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 1930056508
ISBN-13: 9781930056503
What causes emergency vehicle accidents, especially with sirens and flashing lights in use? Where do they most often occur? What can emergency services personnel do to prevent these accidents? And, finally, what laws govern the use of these vehicles? Stephen Solomon, an optometrist who has studied perceptual issues for over thirty years, has updated Part One of this complete guide to the safety issues surrounding emergency vehicles. You will learn about the problems with flashing lights, sirens, retroreflective tape, and the color of the vehicle. Many of these safety devices ar
Author: M. Sparshott
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: baby, newborn, distress, pain
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 1997-01-15
List price: $72.99
ISBN-10: 0632040777
ISBN-13: 9780632040773
Text on care provision for sick or preterm neonates, for neonatal nurses, midwives, and nursing students. Discusses the effects of environmental stimuli, consoling infants who are distressed or in pain, and helping parents who are coping with stress or preparing to go home. Softcover.
Author: Joachim Schult
Publisher: Sheridan House
Keywords: distress, yachts, mayday
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1997-01-25
List price: $23.50
ISBN-10: 1574090399
ISBN-13: 9781574090390
Here is satisfying adventure reading combined with practical analysis of what put yachts in distress and how it might have been avoided. The book is full of stories and lessons not only about storms, personal terror and aberrant personalities, but about the groundings and simple carelessness that can befall any ordinary boater. Read it for entertainment or for knowledge, you are sure to be pleased either way. The volume also serves as a good introduction to many boats that tell the full story of the sinkings, fires, shipwrecks, and disasters summarzed here. Dockside
Author: Norbert Delatte
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Ltd
Keywords: structures, concrete, repair, distress, failure
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-10-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1845694082
ISBN-13: 9781845694081
Understanding and recognising failure mechanisms in concrete is a fundamental pre-requisite to determining the type of repair, or whether a repair is feasible. This title provides a review of concrete deterioration and damage, as well as looking at the problem of defects in concrete. It also discusses condition assessment and repair techniques. Part one discusses failure mechanisms in concrete and covers topics such as causes and mechanisms of deterioration in reinforced concrete, types of damage in concrete structures, types and causes of cracking and condition assessment of concrete structur
