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Soils and Geotechnology in Construction

Soils and Geotechnology in Construction

This book covers the field of applied geotechnology related to all aspects of construction in ground including compacted fill excavations ground improvement foundations earth retaining systems and geotechnical site characterization. It suits the first year of a graduate course on ground improvement and geoconstruction and will suit practicing engineers both consultants and contractors. Distinctively it covers the identification of problematic soils and appropriate mitigation measures and the inspection of ground construction work. It combines the technical and the practical in applied geotechnology. | Soils and Geotechnology in Construction

GBP 99.99
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Evolutionary Process of a Steep Rocky Reservoir Bank in a Dynamic Mechanical Environment

Evolutionary Process of a Steep Rocky Reservoir Bank in a Dynamic Mechanical Environment

To prevent the collapse of dangerous rock masses on steep rocky reservoir banks which can cause casualties and property loss it is essential to design and conduct practical experiments to quantify the evolution processes of the reservoir banks and control such dangerous rock masses. Using the Jianchuandong Dangerous Rock Mass project as a case study this book generalizes the mechanical model of the project to show how improved equipment can be used to measure the mechanical state transition under the continuous action of axial pressure. It details a series of experiments to study the evolution of a severely steep rocky reservoir bank which comprehensively consider the influence of hydraulic coupling dry-wet cycles axial pressure and time-dependent effects. The results support a new method for determining the stability of dangerous rock masses on reservoir banks. Combines engineering principles real data experimental methods and results Provides a complete research method for investigating hydrogeology failure processes The book suits practitioners in hydropower engineering engineering geology and disaster protection. | Evolutionary Process of a Steep Rocky Reservoir Bank in a Dynamic Mechanical Environment

GBP 150.00
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Extraordinary Performance from Ordinary People

Extraordinary Performance from Ordinary People

Extraordinary performance from ordinary people is a must read for the high performing manager with the ambition to reach corporate leadership status. The book is as practical as it is exciting. How to succeed and which personal qualities are required from those who display the capability for great responsibility are the themes that run throughout. The book focuses on both the key value adding activities and disciplines for driving through change and the styles of corporate leaders that attract successExtraordinary performance from ordinary people highlights how the leaders of the company as a corporate team can adopt and adapt the four value creating styles. It emphasises how to recognise which leadership framework suits the challenges of particular competitive environments. This insight nurtures a confidence to act decisively adopting an approach to communication which harnesses the energies of the organisation to achieve stretching performance targets. It concentrates on how leaders make a difference by what they do. Diagnostic models that show what really works and under which circumstances are core to this book.

GBP 175.00
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Engineering Surveying

Engineering Surveying

Engineering surveying involves determining the position of natural and man-made features on or beneath the Earth’s surface and utilizing these features in the planning design and construction of works. It is a critical part of any engineering project. Without an accurate understanding of the size shape and nature of the site the project risks expensive and time-consuming errors or even catastrophic failure. This fully updated sixth edition of Engineering Surveying covers all the basic principles and practice of the fundamentals such as vertical control distance angles and position right through to the most modern technologies. It includes:* An introduction to geodesy to facilitate greater understanding of satellite systems* A fully updated chapter on GPS GLONASS and GALILEO for satellite positioning in surveying* All new chapter on the important subject of rigorous estimation of control coordinates* Detailed material on mass data methods of photogrammetry and laser scanning and the role of inertial technology in themWith many worked examples and illustrations of tools and techniques it suits students and professionals alike involved in surveying civil structural and mining engineering and related areas such as geography and mapping.

GBP 130.00
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Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine Policy Responses to Drug Crops in the Global South

Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine Policy Responses to Drug Crops in the Global South

This book investigates the cross-border trade in illicit drug crops in the global south. It exposes an important paradox: despite all the dangers and negative consequences of these criminal networks in many cases they also provide marginalised and excluded communities with important private sources of protection investment and employment. This book reconstructs and compares socioeconomic contexts criminal careers and changes in farmgate prices of illicit coca and opium poppy crops in Afghanistan Myanmar Colombia and Bolivia. It investigates the politics of strange bedfellows; informal bankers-without-suits providing cross-border financial services to the undocumented and the unbanked; the criminals without borders; and the mystery of illicit crop prices. The book challenges commonly held assumptions and casts new light on how relationships of conflict and accommodation are arranged and re-arranged in fluid everchanging contexts producing often paradoxical outcomes. It then suggests policy reforms and alternative approaches to drug policy development aid and peacebuilding work. Researchers and students across development peacebuilding illicit economies and conflict studies will find this book an important source of original research and analysis. It will also be useful for politicians commentators and public officials considering what to do differently in tackling illicit drug economies. | Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine Policy Responses to Drug Crops in the Global South

GBP 130.00
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Practical Experience

Practical Experience

The year out or internship in a professional practice can be the most rewarding experience in an architectural student's education. It can also be a shock to the system to find that architectural working practices are very different to architectural study. This book provides a beginner's guide to professional practice and a step-by-step guide on how to find the placement that best suits your goals. It is the fourth title in the successful 'Seriously Useful Guides. ' series. In order to give you a real insight into professional experience this guide includes reallife case studies from students who have been through the experience and from practices that have taken them on. It guides you through the steps of finding a placement outlines the norms and expectations for internship in different countries and discusses codes of office behavior and professional ethics. Contemporary architecturalpractices are becoming increasingly diverse and this guide outlines some Practical experience/Internship choices providing cases studies of award wining firms that offer practical experience. These case studies range from conventional practices based on the art of building to practices based on digital media or contemporary urbanism. Finally the term 'critical practice' is becoming increasingly important and the book provides some definitions and examples of critically based architectural practices. Also in the Seriously Useful Guides Series:* The Crit* The The Portfolio* The Dissertation

GBP 130.00
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Narratives against Enslavement from the Court Rooms of Nineteenth-Century Brazil Fighting for Freedom

Narratives against Enslavement from the Court Rooms of Nineteenth-Century Brazil Fighting for Freedom

This book examines the enslavement system in nineteenth-century Brazil demonstrating the strategies that lawyers and plaintiffs used to fight for freedom in court. In nineteenth-century Brazil countless enslaved and freed women and men appealed to court to claim their right to freedom or that of family members. Taken as a whole these legal suits create a narrative against the institution of slavery. By analyzing 30 individual cases (1810–1881) from various parts of imperial Brazil this book demonstrates the intricate strategies of argumentation that lawyers and plaintiffs conceived to prove the right to freedom of the parties involved and to convince the authorities of it. Enslaved persons did not only protest their enslavement through rebellion flight refusal to work and in everyday life but also produced a statement in the legal sphere against enslavement. This intellectual achievement was realized through the cooperation of lawyers and enslaved plaintiffs alike functioning through stories of injustices not through theoretical treatises on the right to liberty. While research on abolition in Brazil has concentrated mainly on public discourse legislative decrees and protest actions this book focuses on the discursive space of courts. It gives both an overview of the enslavement system and intricately analyzes the fight for freedom in court. Narratives of Enslavement is the perfect volume for both students and nonspecialist readers and also provides new insights for specialists in this field. | Narratives against Enslavement from the Court Rooms of Nineteenth-Century Brazil Fighting for Freedom

GBP 120.00
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Structural and Stress Analysis Theories Tutorials and Examples Second Edition

Structural and Stress Analysis Theories Tutorials and Examples Second Edition

New Edition Now Covers Thin Plates Plastic Deformation Dynamics and Vibration Structural and stress analysis is a core topic in a range of engineering disciplines – from structural engineering through to mechanical and aeronautical engineering and materials science. Structural and Stress Analysis: Theories Tutorials and Examples Second Edition provides and supports a conceptual understanding of the theories and formulae and focuses on the basic principles rather than on the formulae and the solution procedures. It emphasizes problem solving through a structured series of tutorials and problems which build up students’ understanding and encourage both numerical and conceptual approaches. It stands apart from other texts which set out rigorous mathematic derivations of formulae followed by worked examples and questions for practice. Students need to be capable of not only solving a structural problem using formulas but also of understanding their solutions in practical and physical terms. Notwithstanding the book covers a good range of topics: tension and compression; shear; torsion; bending properties of cross-sections; shear force and bending moment diagrams; stresses in beams; deflection of beams; complex stresses and theories of elastic failure; energy methods; statically indeterminate systems; and structural instability. The new edition includes more topics such as plastic deformation dynamics and introduction to the thin plate theory which are essential when students start their design courses. Structural and Stress Analysis: Theories Tutorials and Examples Second Edition not only suits undergraduates but is useful for professional engineers who want to get a good grasp of the basic concepts of stress analysis. | Structural and Stress Analysis Theories Tutorials and Examples Second Edition

GBP 130.00
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Philosophy of Science Volume 1 From Problem to Theory

Philosophy of Science Volume 1 From Problem to Theory

Originally published as Scientific Research this pair of volumes constitutes a fundamental treatise on the strategy of science. Mario Bunge one of the major figures of the century in the development of a scientific epistemology describes and analyzes scientific philosophy as well as discloses its philosophical presuppositions. This work may be used as a map to identify the various stages in the road to scientific knowledge. Philosophy of Science is divided into two volumes each with two parts. Part 1 offers a preview of the scheme of science and the logical and semantical took that will be used throughout the work. The account of scientific research begins with part 2 where Bunge discusses formulating the problem to be solved hypothesis scientific law and theory. The second volume opens with part 3 which deals with the application of theories to explanation prediction and action. This section is graced by an outstanding discussion of the philosophy of technology. Part 4 begins with measurement and experiment. It then examines risks in jumping to conclusions from data to hypotheses as well as the converse procedure. Bunge begins this mammoth work with a section entitled How to Use This Book. He writes that it is intended for both independent reading and reference as well as for use in courses on scientific method and the philosophy of science. It suits a variety of purposes from introductory to advanced levels. Philosophy of Science is a versatile informative and useful text that will benefit professors researchers and students in a variety of disciplines ranging from the behavioral and biological sciences to the physical sciences. | Philosophy of Science Volume 1 From Problem to Theory

GBP 145.00
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Design of Prestressed Concrete to AS3600-2009

Design of Prestressed Concrete to AS3600-2009

The design of structures in general and prestressed concrete structures in particular requires considerably more information than is contained in building codes. A sound understanding of structural behaviour at all stages of loading is essential. This textbook presents a detailed description and explanation of the behaviour of prestressed concrete members and structures both at service loads and at ultimate loads and in doing so provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to structural design. Much of the text is based on first principles and relies only on the principles of mechanics and the properties of concrete and steel with numerous worked examples. However where the design requirements are code specific this book refers to the provisions of the Australian Standard for Concrete Structures (AS3600-2009) and where possible the notation is the same as in AS3600-2009. A parallel volume is written to Eurocode 2 the European Standard for the Design of Concrete Structures. The text runs from an introduction to the fundamentals to in-depth treatments of more advanced topics in modern prestressed concrete structures. It suits senior undergraduate and graduate students and also practising engineers who want a comprehensive guide to the design of prestressed concrete structures. It retains the clear and concise explanations and the easy-to-read style of the first edition but the content has been extensively reorganised and considerably expanded and updated. New chapters cover design procedures actions and loads; prestressing systems and construction requirements; and connections and detailing. The topic of serviceability is developed extensively throughout. The authors have been researching and teaching the behaviour and design of prestressed concrete structures for more than 35 years and this updated edition of the book reflects this wealth of experience. The work has also gained much from Ian Gilbe. | Design of Prestressed Concrete to AS3600-2009

GBP 175.00
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