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PlumbingEstimating Methods Joseph J. Galeno and Sheldon T. Greene Answers Your Questions About Plumbing Estimating &Installation, for Residential & Commercial Projects Comprehensive coverage of plumbing materials and methods, subsystemsand components -- fully illustrated Estimating tools and materials Specifications and drawings: how to interpret information and perform a takeoff Pricing quantities for the estimate and calculating markup Prepa...

The link between watching televised wrestling matches and developing a culture of bullies in the United States is explored here. Increases in verbal aggression, rebellion and propensity toward violence and retaliation are measured against the media consumption of professional wrestling. This book begins with a brief history of professional wrestling, a summary of the criticisms of the sport, and a discussion of the author's research methods. O...

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Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Bible concerns the earliest period down to Jerome.

A valuable reference in life data analysis research Your practical guide to statistical methods for predicting product life and reliability and comparing improvements in product manufacturing, design, and application. Describes the use of graphical methods, the method of maximum likelihood, censored data analysis, linear estimation, prediction methods, and methods for complete, singly censored, multiply censored, interval, and quantalresponse ...

This publication compares key aspects of statistical methodologies used by OECD member countries in the compilation of wage related statistics. Such statistics comprise: wages and earnings, minimum wages, costs and prices, unit labour costs, and ...

Kaler examines how "modern" contraceptive technologies, such as the pill and the Deop-Provera injection, were embroiled in gender and generation conflicts in Zimbabwe during the 1960s and 1970s.

Kaler examines how "modern" contraceptive technologies, such as the pill and the Deop-Provera injection, were embroiled in gender and generation conflicts in Zimbabwe during the 1960s and 1970s.

Reflections on Samuel Beckett by renowned director and theorist Herbert Blau

This posthumous work brings together texts that bear witness to the many political causes and groups with which Genet felt an affinity, including May '68 and the treatment of immigrants in France, but especially the Black Panthers and the Palestinians. Genet speaks for a politics of protest, with an uncompromising outrage that, today, might seem on the verge of being forgotten.

Thinking and writing about the past has always been of critical importance to the way that any culture or civilization views itself and its role in the world. In a work which surveys an entire tradition of historical thought and writing across a span of eight hundred years, Tarif Khalidi examines how Arabic-Islamic culture of the pre-modern period viewed the past, how it recorded it, and how it sought to answer the many complex questions assoc...

Praise for The Davis Dynasty "Equally relevant to the uninitiated and to those of us who have many years' experience with the Davis dynasty, Rothchild's book takes a close look at the family's remarkable success and endurance. I know that many will find it interesting to learn how, even today, Davis endeavors remain focused on the long view, guided by the strong investment philosophy and business principles that Shelby himself lived by in one...

. . . Buy it, read it on the plane and then start asking your top team some hard questions-before your shareholders do." -- Financial Times PRAISE FOR THE EVA CHALLENGE "The EVA Challenge provides helpful insights for both the beginner and the advanced EVA practitioner. Its real-life examples illustrate how the practical application of shareholder value orientation can align the goals of all organizational levels, motivate management by link...

This volume offers broad reflections on the Scientific Revolution by leading scholars on 1500 1600 science.

A fresh look at the neglected topic of the battle narrative of the "Aeneid

Over the last two years, wavelet methods have shown themselves to be of considerable use to harmonic analysts and, in particular, advances have been made concerning their applications. The strength of wavelet methods lies in their ability to describe local phenomena more accurately than a traditional expansion in sines and cosines can. Thus, wavelets are ideal in many fields where an approach to transient behaviour is needed, for example, in c...

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On Blue Water gives an account of a voyage from Genoa to Buenos Aires in the Galileo, a steamer carrying emigrants - this and nothing more. The narrative begins at the wharf at Genoa, and ends when the tug leaves the ship's side in the harbor of Montevideo. The ship does not even touch at Gibraltar. The interest in the story, and it is not small, lies entirely in the study of the types of humanity on board. The writer's observant eye has singl...

This selection was specially compiled by the author shortly before his death for publication in English. The reader will also find an introduction entitled "Some Random Reflexions" written by Paustovsky, which appeared in the second collection of his works published in Russian (1967-69) in eight volumes. Konstantin Paustovky's life (1892-1968) was a long and highly productive one. Over a period of some fifty years passionately devoted to liter...