Intended for geotechnical engineers and engineering geologists responsible for designing and constructing piled foundations for building and civil engineering structures. This title explains the general principles and practice of piling and give a detailed review of the types of pile, piling equipme[...]

Social Sciences: The Big Issues offers an introduction to contemporary debates in the social sciences and to what matters to people in everyday life. In a world which may appears to be changing at a faster rate than at any time in history how can the social sciences help us to understand what is hap[...]

Teaching History with Museums provides an introduction and overview of the rich pedagogical power of museums. In this comprehensive textbook, the authors show how museums offer a sophisticated understanding of the past and develop habits of mind in ways that are not easily duplicated in the classroo[...]

Its a case of mistaken identity when businessman Mike Carrington travels to Brazil on business.

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is the only viable way to extract and transport natural gas from areas not serviceable by a pipeline, but it also poses safety risks. This book examines the safety concerns regarding LNG, and examines the debate between its advocates and its opponents. The text considers [...]

Authoritative guide to TFS 2010 from a dream team of Microsoft insiders and MVPs! Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) has evolved until it is now an essential tool for Microsoft's Application Lifestyle Management suite of productivity tools, enabling collaboration within and among [...]

This fresh and accessible ethnography offers a new vision of how society might cohere, in the face of on-going global displacement, dislocation, and migration. Drawing from intensive fieldwork in a highly diverse North London neighborhood, Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward focus on an everyday item-[...]

After an examination of the legacy of Charles V, the book goes on to analyze the nature and impact of Philip II's rule and government, addressing the question of how absolute was Philip II? Woodward examines changes in royal finance and the economic, social and religious issues of the time.[...]

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Twenty-five years ago, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy. "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," President Ford declared.
But it was not. The Watergate scandal, and the remed[...]

A behind-the-scenes account based on hundreds of interviews with top officials surveys the first eighteen months of the Bush administration to consider how the president and his advisors are responding to unprecedented wartime circumstances and a faltering economy. Reprint.[...]