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Easy-to-learn techniques, arranged in order of difficulty, range from relatively simple models to complicated square-riggers. Starting with the construction of a half-hull ship model, the book advances to a whole-hull model and replicas of twelve vessels, with separate chapters on rigging, gear and furniture, and tools and materials.

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While Nazi Germany has been the subject of countless scholarly works, gender studies, as a category of analysis, has largely been neglected in interpretative surveys of Nazi Germany. This book examines the female half of the German population during the years of the Third Reich and asks why such a sizeable portion of the population was ready to rally around a movement both blatantly anti-feminist and determined to exclude women from public lif...

Explores the transformation of the nobility in the late 16th and 17th centuries in Europe, examining political and social changes, the impact princely courts had on noblemen and women and their way of life and analyzes issues such as the 'refeudalization' of state and society in southern Europe or the increasing urbanization of noble elites in this time period.

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Examining what is happening to work, organizations and unions in the age of the Internet, this fascinating book reveals both the opportunities and dangers for workers in the digital age.

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This book provides a complete overview of the of parties in France. The social and ideological profiles of all the major parties are analysed chapter by chapter, highlighting their principal functions and dynamics within the system. These are complemented by analyses of bloc and system features, including the pluralist left, Europe, and the ideological space in which the parties operate. In particular, the book addresses the impressive capacit...

Adopting a distinctive legal and political analysis, this book argues that the EU is receptive to the sports sectors claims for special treatment before the law. The book investigates the birth of EU sports law and policy by examining significant court decisions, the possibility of exempting sport from EU law, sport and the EU treaty, and more.

The Cursive Writing Program is a 140-lesson program that not only teaches students to write in cursive, but how to write faster and more accurately. Easy to teach lessons include concise instructional plans, and simplified manuscripts make cursive writing easy and almost effortless to learn. The Cursive Writing Program's model and practice strategies emphasize showing rather than telling, and the program's teacher-directed lessons and teaching...

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Presents a compendium of 10 papers addressing the advances in Coastal Structure Design. These papers focus on the tools and techniques used to analyze coastal processes and design engineering solutions to them. Contents include: coastal structure debate: public and policy aspects, international perspectives on coastal structure uses, and more.

Provides a three-tiered process for seismic evaluation of existing buildings in any level of seismicity. This standard is intended to serve as a nationally applicable tool for design professionals, code officials, and building owners looking to seismically evaluate existing buildings. It considers various aspects of building performance.

Dealing with the hydraulic design of labyrinth spillways, this book presents a method for the design of labyrinth weirs. It provides a fundamental understanding of the theory of labyrinth weirs, and includes sections on factors that affect the discharge characteristics of labyrinth weirs such as crest shape, weir height, and sidewall angle.

Karst terrain presents unique engineering and environmental problems. The top rock is highly irregular and the rock itself is often riddled with voids, creating unreliable foundation conditions. This work contains the proceedings of the Ninth Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst.

Contains 27 papers by the leading practitioners, educators, and researchers of civil engineering. Each paper explores the development of a particular civil engineering specialty, including milestones and future barriers, constraints, and opportunities. Together these papers address the complexity facing civil engineering.

Focusing on contracting for construction and related goods and services, this book provides a different look at management of supply chains. Containing cartoons, icons, and case studies, it explores issues, such as games played, solutions to common problems, the importance of business relationships, trust, and other issues.

Provides guidelines for filling of voids for soft ground and rock tunnels and shafts. This title aims to minimize misunderstandings related to backfilling and contact grouting, improve the quality of contract documents in backfilling and contact grouting and the in-place material, reduce costs and schedule time, and minimize potential claims.

Offers the consensus requirements for dead, live, soil, flood, wind, snow, rain, ice, and earthquake loads, and their combinations for inclusion in building codes and other documents. This title includes sections on: general provisions, load combinations, live loads, flood loads, wind loads, snow loads, earthquake loads, and atmospheric ice loads.

How do we make sure children's first introduction to the world of non-fiction is enjoyable and life enhancing? What criteria do we use to ensure a collection of quality books for pleasure? Mallett sets out to answer these questions in this book.