Author: Commission of the European Communities. Joint Research CentrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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JRC 93
Author: Commission of the European Communities. Joint Research CentrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill
Author: Anne SebbaPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393079686
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
A frank account of the tempestuous life of the American mother of Britain’s most important twentieth-century politician. Brooklyn-born Jennie Jerome married into the British aristocracy in 1874, after a three-day romance. She became Lady Randolph Churchill, wife of a maverick politician and mother of the most famous British statesman of the century. Jennie Churchill was not merely the most talked about and controversial American woman in London society, she was a dynamic behind-the-scenes political force and a woman of sexual fearlessness at a time when women were not supposed to be sexually liberated. A concert pianist, magazine founder and editor, and playwright, she was also, above all, a devoted mother to Winston. In American Jennie, Anne Sebba draws on newly discovered personal correspondences and archives to examine the unusually powerful mutual infatuation between Jennie and her son and to relate the passionate and ultimately tragic career of the woman whom Winston described as having “the wine of life in her veins.”
Social Register, Baltimore
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Includes "Dilatory domiciles"; for some volumes, some of these updates are issued separately as supplements.
Writing in the Real World
Author: Anne BeaufortPublisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 9780807739006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
How can we prepare the work-force of tomorrow for the increasing writing demands of the Information Age? Anne Beaufort provides a multidimensional response to this critical question. Offering a vital view of the developmental process entailed in attaining writing fluency in school and beyond, and the conditions that contribute to acquiring such expertise, Beaufort illuminates what it takes to foster the versatility writers must possess in the workplace of the twenty-first century.
Engineered Coasts
Author: Jiyu ChenPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401700990
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Increasing population, expanding industry and commerce, and tourism are placing added pressures on an already highly-utilized coastal zone. This book, through a series of case studies, illustrates the variety of changes already made along the coastlines of the world. The examples used are mainly from China, Japan, The Netherlands, and the United States, all countries with extensively engineered shorelines. Modifications emphasized include those associated with protection against coastal erosion, building of artificial beaches and islands, reclamation for aquaculture and agriculture, and the construction of harbors. The information in this book should be useful for all planners and engineers involved in the construction of coastal engineering works and for students interested in coastal modification.
Coastal and Marine Geo-Information Systems
Author: David R. GreenPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0306480026
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
The emphasis now placed on the concept of sediment cells as boundaries for coastal defence groups, and the development of SMPs, should help CPAs realise the importance of natural processes at the coast when designing defence and protection schemes. However, this will only be the case where defence groups exist, and where CPAs take up the challenge of developing SMPs. Coastal landscapes have been produced by the natural forces of wind, waves and tides, and many are nationally or internationally important for their habitats and natural features. Past practices at the coast, such as the construction of harbours, jetties and traditional defence systems may have contributed to the deterioration of the coast. English Nature (1992) have argued that if practices and methods of coastal defence are allowed to continue, then coastlines would be faced with worsening consequences, including: The loss of mudflats and the birds which live on them Damage to geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) and scenic heritage by erosion, due to the stabilisation of the coast elsewhere Cutting of sediment supplies to beaches resulting in the loss of coastal wildlife Cessation through isolation from coastal processes, of the natural operation of spits, with serious deterioration of rare plants, animals and geomorphological and scenic qualities (English Nature, 1992) A number of designations, provided by national and international legislation do exist to aid conservation.
JRC 93 Annual Report. (European Commission Joint Research Centre).
Author: Scale Effects in Rock Masses 93
Author: A. Pinto da CunhaPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000099792
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The proceedings of the 2nd International Scale Effects in Rock Masses, held in Lisbon, June 25, 1993. The text includes coverage of scale effects in the determination of the deformability and strength of rock masses and scale effects in the determination of internal rock masses.
Woodworkers, Painters & Buildingworkers Journal
Author: Block Copolymers in Solution
Author: Ian W. HamleyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470016973
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This unique text discusses the solution self-assembly of block copolymers and covers all aspects from basic physical chemistry to applications in soft nanotechnology. Recent advances have enabled the preparation of new materials with novel self-assembling structures, functionality and responsiveness and there have also been concomitant advances in theory and modelling. The present text covers the principles of self-assembly in both dilute and concentrated solution, for example micellization and mesophase formation, etc., in chapters 2 and 3 respectively. Chapter 4 covers polyelectrolyte block copolymers - these materials are attracting significant attention from researchers and a solid basis for understanding their physical chemistry is emerging, and this is discussed. The next chapter discusses adsorption of block copolymers from solution at liquid and solid interfaces. The concluding chapter presents a discussion of selected applications, focussing on several important new concepts. The book is aimed at researchers in polymer science as well as industrial scientists involved in the polymer and coatings industries. It will also be of interest to scientists working in soft matter self-assembly and self-organizing polymers.