Separation of Vehicles

Separation of Vehicles
Author: Cambridge Systematics
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2010
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0309154758

NCHRP Report 649/NCFRP Report 3: Separation of Vehicles - CMV-Only Lanes presents an extensive compendium of information about CMV-only lanes and examines major issues and concepts that should be understood in developing new applications of CMV-only lane concepts as a potential method for both easing congestion and reducing the number of traffic accidents on highways. Appendices to this report, including an annotated literature review, performance evaluation criteria, benefits monetization factors and unit costs, and net present value calculations for benefit-cost analysis, are available on the TRB website. This report and the supplemental information can be used by public agencies that may be considering CMV-only lane concepts in corridor studies or other planning applications. The report provides data such agencies can use to support their own evaluations of CMV-only lane projects.

Application of Fracture Mechanics to Composite Materials

Application of Fracture Mechanics to Composite Materials
Author: K. Friedrich
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 686
Release: 2012-12-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0444597212

This multiauthor volume provides a useful summary of current knowledge on the application of fracture mechanics to composite materials. It has been written to fill the gap between the literature on fundamental principles of fracture mechanics and the special publications on the fracture properties of conventional materials, such as metals, polymers and ceramics.The data are represented in the form of about 420 figures (including diagrams, schematics and photographs) and 80 tables. The author index covers more than 500 references, and the subject index more than 1000 key words.

The Double Tongue

The Double Tongue
Author: William Golding
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2013-03-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0571299547

With an introduction by Meg Rosoff William Golding's final novel, left in draft at his death, tells the story of a priestess of Apollo. Arieka is one of the last to prophesy at Delphi, in the shadowy years when the Romans were securing their grip on the tribes and cities of Greece. The plain, unloved daughter of a local grandee, she is rescued from the contempt and neglect of her family by her Delphic role. Her ambiguous attitude to the god and her belief in him seem to move in parallel with the decline of the god himself - but things are more complicated than they appear. 'A remarkable work ... A compelling storyteller as well as a clear-eyed philosopher of the dangerous puzzles of being human.' The Times 'A wonderful central character. The story stretches out as clean and dry and clear as the beach in Lord of the Flies.' Independent 'Feline, deadpan and at moments hilarious.' Observer

Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar

Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar
Author: Christo H. van der Merwe
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 409
Release: 1999-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1850758565

This work is intended to serve as a user-friendly and up-to-date source of information on the morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Biblical Hebrew verbs, nouns and other word classes (prepositions, conjunctions, adverbs, modal words, negatives, focus particles, discourse markers, interrogatives and interjections). It also contains one of the most elaborate treatments of Biblical Hebrew word order yet published in a grammar. This reference grammar will be of service to students who have completed an introductory or intermediate course in Biblical Hebrew, and also to more advanced scholars seeking to take advantage of traditional and recent descriptions of the language that go beyond the basic morphology of Biblical Hebrew.

Edufa

Edufa
Author: Efua Sutherland
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2024-10-27
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9964706383

Edufa had cultivated an image of sophisticated affluence, he had the whole town eating out of his hand and a wife who loved him unconditionally. Was it not too soon to have it all snatched away from him? In desperation, he attempts an unthinkable substitution. Can he reverse his entanglement with the dark forces?

The Expedition to the Baobab Tree

The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
Author: Wilma Stockenstrom
Publisher: Archipelago
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1935744933

Learning to survive in the harsh interior of Southern Africa, a former slave seeks shelter in the hollow of a baobab tree. For the first time since she was a young girl her time is her own, her body is her own, her thoughts are her own. In solitude, she is finally able to reflect on her own existence and its meaning, bringing her a semblance of inner peace. Scenes from her former life shuttle through her mind: how owner after owner assaulted her, and how each of her babies were taken away as soon as they were weaned, their futures left to her imagination. We are the sole witnesses to her history: her capture as a child, her tortured days in a harbor city on the eastern coast as a servant, her journey with her last owner and protector, her flight, and the kaleidoscopic world of her baobab tree. Wilma Stockenström's profound work of narrative fiction, translated by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, is a rare, haunting exploration of enslavement and freedom.

The Smell of Apples

The Smell of Apples
Author: Mark Behr
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1995
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312152093

The story of an affluent white South African family during apartheid. Its narrator is the son of an Afrikaner general and he describes his growing disillusion with the cruelty and arrogance of the whites. Set in the 1970s, the novel follows him from boyhood to soldiering in Angola, fighting the blacks.