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A Definitive Up-to-Date Reference Wind forces from various types of extreme wind events continue to generate ever-increasing damage to buildings and other structures. Wind Loading of Structures, Third Edition fills an important gap as an information source for practicing and academic engineers alike, explaining the principles of wind loads on structures, including the relevant aspects of meteorology, bluff-body aerodynamics, probability and statistics, and structural dynamics. Written in Line with International Standards Among the unique features of the book are its broad view of the major international codes and standards, and information on the extreme wind climates of a large number of co...
Bridging the gap between wind and structural engineering, Wind Loading of Structures is essential reading for practising civil, structural and mechanical engineers, and graduate students of wind engineering, presenting the principles of wind engineering and providing guidance on the successful design of structures for wind loading by gales, hurricanes, typhoons, thunderstorm downdrafts and tornados.
April 1940, a bus ride from Toronto, Canada to Kansas City, Missouri by a man named Rene, sets in motion events destined to become a fiasco involving the Holmes Detective Agency and a Frenchman of Samantha Webb's acquaintance. April 1942, the agency is hired to unravel the threads of the mysterious events plaguing the Frenchman. The retired French policeman is invigorated with a surge of new life when he is invited to join the agency staff. Before it can become a reality, death interferes. A web of entanglement sweeps across the path of John Holmes and Samantha like a wild fire in a forest. Even the stable of their friends, the Solomons, is nearly destroyed by a crazed man seeking revenge on a dead woman. The death count rises slowly.
(This is the second, expanded edition.) Most people might, understandably, predict that the world's first porn star was a woman, but they would be wrong. John Curtis Holmes was just a simple country boy from Ohio when he moved to California in 1964. It was the infancy of hardcore, so in Holmes' wildest dreams, he could not have predicted the turbulent ride on which he had embarked by publicizing his private parts. With the fame he achieved by playing his most famous character - a gun toting detective named Johnny Wadd - came money. Holmes was pleased to spend it on his wife and mistresses, but soon was in over his head after he became addicted to cocaine. Unfortunately for Holmes, in the yea...
At the request of Queen Victoria and aided by Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes uses his expertise as a chemist to explain a mysterious gap in Robert Louis Stevenson's account of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Painstakingly honest, this chilling memoir reveals how a teenager became immersed in the bizarre life of legendary porn star John Holmes. Starting with a childhood that molded her perfectly to fall for the seduction of “the king of porn,” this autobiography recounts the perilous road that Dawn Schiller traveled—from drugs and addiction to beatings, arrests, forced prostitution, and being sold to the drug underworld. After living through the horrific Wonderland murders of 1981, she entered protective custody, ran from the FBI, and turned in John Holmes to the police. This is the true story of a young girl’s harrowing escape from one of the most infamous public figures, her struggle to survive, and her recovery from unthinkable abuse.
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