Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Government Reports Announcements
Author: Government Reports Announcements & Index
Author: Landslides
Author: A. Keith TurnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780309062084
Category : Asphalt
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A guide to using the Public Record Office (PRO) in England for English or Welsh genealogical research, providing an introduction to PRO record classes of interest to North American researchers and identifying PRO records available in North American institutions. Includes advice for finding sources of emigration and immigration records, with appendices on local record offices in England and Wales and useful addresses. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Landslides, Analysis and Control
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This volume brings together, from a wide range of experience, such information as may be useful in recognizing, avoiding, controlling, designing for, and correcting movement. Current geologic concepts and engineering principles and techniques are introduced, and both the analysis and control of soil and rock-slopes are addressed. New methods of stability analysis and the use of computer techniques in implementing these methods are included. Rock slope engineering and the selecting of shear-strength parameters for slope-stability analyses are covered in separate chapters.
World Terraced Landscapes: History, Environment, Quality of Life
Author: Mauro VarottoPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319968157
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
This volume collects the best scientific contribution presented in the 3rd World Conference on Terraced Landscapes held in Italy from 6th to 15th October 2016, offering a deep and multifaceted insight into the remarkable heritage of terraced landscapes in Italy, in Europe and in the World (America, Asia, Australia). It consists of 2 parts: a geographical overview on some of the most important terraced systems in the world (1st part), and a multidisciplinary approach that aims to promote a multifunctional vision of terraces, underlining how these landscapes meet different needs: cultural and historical values, environmental and hydrogeological functions, quality and variety of food, community empowerment and sustainable development (2nd part). The volume offers a great overview on strengths, weaknesses, functions and strategies for terraced landscapes all over the world, summarizing in a final manifest the guidelines to provide a future for these landscapes as natural and cultural heritage.
Dmso
Author: Morton Walker D.P.M.Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101662344
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
An easy-to-understand, up-to-date guide on the highly publicized drug, DMSO DMSO—dimethyl sulfoxide—is a simple by-product of wood and has been called a “miracle” drug, capable of relieving pain, diminishing swelling, reducing inflammation, encouraging healing, and restoring normal function. In this groundbreaking work, award-winning health science writer Dr. Morton Walker examines the powerful and compelling case for the use of DMSO in the treatment of many debilitating disease and health-related problems. In DMSO: Nature’s Healer, Dr. Walker cites documented cases of its astounding use in healing and prevention of a host of health disorders, including arthritis, stroke, cancer, mental retardation, and sports and auto injuries. He also recounts the dramatic story of the long struggle to gain FDA approval of DMSO.
The Perfect Business
Author: Michael LeboeufPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 068483345X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Covers such topics as choosing the right business, marketing oneself, and using information technology.
Riparian Ecosystems and Their Management
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecosystem management
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Jacksonville's Architectural Heritage
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813009537
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Managing for Enhancement of Riparian and Wetland Areas of the Western United States
Author: David A. KoehlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This annotated bibliography contains 1,905 citations from professional journals, symposia, workshops, proceedings, technical reports, and other sources. The intent of this compilation was to: (1) assemble, to the extent possible, all available and accessible publications relating to riparian management within a single source or document; (2) provide managers, field biologists, researchers, and others, a point of access for locating scientific literature relevent to their specific interest; and (3) provide, under one cover, a comprehensive collection of annotated publications that could dessiminate basic information relative to the status of our knowledge.