Slippage

Slippage
Author: Harlan Ellison
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 406
Release: 1998-08-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780395924822

With this, his best-selling and most critically acclaimed collection ever, Ellison celebrates four decades of brilliant, outrageous writing. The award-winning novella "Mefisto in Onyx" is the centerpiece of an irreverent and wildly imaginative book that the San Diego Union-Tribune called "electrifying...Ellison is back, as unsettling as ever."

The Slippage

The Slippage
Author: Ben Greenman
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2013-04-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062100661

The Slippage is a wry, wistful tale of marriage, lust, and disconnection from Ben Greenman, the critically acclaimed author of What He’s Poised to Do. William Day must confront some uncomfortable truths about his life and his future when his wife Louisa asks him to build her house. The take-it-or-leave-it demand becomes all the more difficult to swallow when he finds himself grappling with a past recklessness, an ex-girlfirend’s son he considers his own, and his own wants for what lies ahead. Sure to appeal to everyone who has ever been in love and had their heart broken, The Slippage shares uncanny truths about intimacy and modern relationships.

Power

Power
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1100
Release: 1912
Genre: Machinery
ISBN:

Asphalt Science and Technology

Asphalt Science and Technology
Author: Arthur Usmani
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 548
Release: 1997-08-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780824799984

"Offers comprehensive, authoritative coverage of the chemistry, technology, and engineering of asphaltic products for paving, road construction, roofing, coatings, adhesives, and batteries. Analyzes microcracking and elucidates the mechanisms of degradation to aid the development of hot melt asphalt and increase longevity."

Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 17

Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 17
Author: James D. Westwood
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2009
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1586039644

The 17th annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR17) was held January 19-22, 2009, in Long Beach, CA, USA. The conference is well established as a forum for emerging data-centered technologies for medical care and education. This proceedings volume is of interest to physicians, surgeons and other medical professionals.

Seismic Rehabilitation Methods for Existing Buildings

Seismic Rehabilitation Methods for Existing Buildings
Author: Reza Mokarram Aydenlou
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2020-08-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128203846

Seismic Rehabilitation Methods for Existing Buildings covers various structures, effective parameters in seismic improvement, and other factors in seismic loading in eight applied chapters with descriptive classification. The book offers guidance for a seismic rehabilitation project based on the interpretation of publications FEMA and Iranian seismic rehabilitation regulations no.360 . It includes real examples of completed and approved projects to stabilize the seismic improvement issues of existing buildings. Six perfectly executed examples, with complete refinement details, such as modeling, step-by-step improvement studies, and executive plans and seismic enhancement images are included. The book also explains the classification of non-structural element and how to carry out it's seismic reconstruction studies and in one of the chapters, construction and soil improvement methods are discussed along with a practical example.The concepts of seismic rehabilitation in this book are presented with an Info-graphic structure that better fixes the concepts in the minds of readers so that when they face a new project, they have a more practical use of the content - Provides a fully functional way to evaluate, model and present details of a seismic rehabilitation plan for a building - Presents real seismic refurbishment models and step-by-step methods for providing examples (including images, tables and charts)