books about: embankments (armourstone stability)

books about: embankments

books:

Another Life and The House on the Embankment (European Classics)

2 reviews
Yuri Trifonov

Northwestern University Press, 1999

Dom na Naberezhnoi (House on the Embankment)
The story "House on the Embankment" begins with a man, Glebov, who is middle aged, balding, fat, and seeking to buy some furniture. It is around 1970, in the Soviet Union. While looking for the furniture, he notices an worker who appears familiar to him. It turns out to be a former friend, Shulepa, from his childhood days, who ignores Glebov after the latter calls out to him. Now Glebov is an ...

The Embankment Dam
British Dam Society

Thomas Telford Ltd, 1991

Riverscapes: Designing Urban Embankments

Birkhäuser Basel, 2008

Derelict areas on riverbanks, often near urban centers, exist in virtually all large and medium-size cities in Europe and America. Today, regional river landscapes like the Rhine in the Cologne/Bonn region, the Seine in Paris, and the Thames in London are increasingly being rediscovered and redesigned as attractive urban living environments. This book offers an in-depth look at the measures involved in revitalizing industrial riverbank areas. It ...

Rachel Whiteread: EMBANKMENT (Unilever)
Catherine Wood

Tate Publishing, 2006

"To make a sculpture in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern is an enormous challenge. The space is like no other-gargantuan and enveloping. I hope to challenge the space by developing a degree of intimacy, which somehow relates to all our lives." -Rachel Whiteread The internationally renowned sculptor Rachel Whiteread is the latest artist to take on the challenge of Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall. Whiteread is an appropriate choice, as some of her ...

Slope Stability and Stabilization Methods

4 reviews
Lee W. Abramson, Thomas S. Lee, ...

Wiley, 2001

Valuable Reference
This book is a valuable reference for slope stability. The second edition is an improvement from the first edition, but dosen't make the first obsolete. Some great information, including example problems, on probabilistic analysis has been added and there is a little more on 3D and finite element analysis. Probably not enough changes from the first edition to make you need this one, unless you ...

Another Life: The House on the Embankment

1 review
Yuri Trifonov

Simon & Schuster (Paper), 1986

A novel that makes you shiver.
Trifonov's novel tells the story of a group of Moscow friends who grow into adulthood against the backdrop of Soviet Russia from Stalin through to Brezhnev's time. Trifonov uses two narrators, and their contrasting viewpoints make the betrayals and the corruptions necessary for individuals to survive in that time, especially poignant. The moral decay of the individual living in Soviet society and ...

River, Coastal and Shoreline Erosion Control Using Riprap and Armourstone

Wiley, 1995

RIPRAP is a widely used engineering method for protecting river banks and coastlines from erosion. This book studies the fundamental issues and problems concerned with various aspects of this method of erosion control.