Smallholdings
"Hobby Farming for Dummies"
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"For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback)" series; Shows you how to handle the basics of small-scale farming, from growing healthy crops to raising livestock and managing your property. This work offers practical advice on which animals would work best for your farm and helps you learn how to acquire them and what you need to know about caring for them properly. With illustrations. Paperback, 384 pages. Size: 233 x 185 mm. Weight: 569g.
Author: Husarik, Theresa A.
ISBN: 0470281723
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Smallholdings
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"Build It!"Diy Projects for Farmers, Smallholders and Gardeners
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Contains step-by-step instructions and plans for over 50 projects for farmers, smallholders or landowners. Using reclaimed materials, wherever possible, and renewable energy, this title shows how to construct beehives, pig arcs, chicken coops, goat sheds, mobile hen units, gates and fences, turbines and much more. With diagrams, plans & colour photographs throughout. Paperback, 160 pages. Size: 210 x 135 mm. Weight: 315g.
Author: Jacobs, Joe
ISBN: 1904871321
Publisher: The Good Life Press
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Smallholdings
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"Farm Safety Handbook"
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"Country Workshop" series; Again and again farming tops the list of the most dangerous occupations. This book is dedicated to keeping farmers safe - to preventing the accidents that beset agriculture by teaching proper farm practices, providing safe rules for operating equipment, and alerting farmers to potential dangers. With 200 colour. Paperback, 128 pages. Size: 266 x 210 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Kubik, Rick
ISBN: 0760323852
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Smallholdings
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"Surviving and Thriving on the Land"How to Use Your Spare Time and Energy to Run a Successful Smallholding
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Looks at ways in which projects can be designed that care for the people involved in them as well as the earth that they are trying to protect. This book offers a framework, backed up by real life examples, of issues to consider when setting up a new project, or for overcoming human-energy-based problems in existing projects. With photos and line drawings. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 545g.
Author: Laughton, Rebecca
ISBN: 1900322285
Publisher: Green Books
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Smallholdings
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"Farm and Smallholder Fencing"A Practical Guide to Permanent and Electric Livestock Fencing on the Farm and Smallholding
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"The Gold Cockerel Series" series; With over 140 colour photos and illus.. Paperback, 126 pages. Weight: 258g.
Author: Roberts, Michael
ISBN: 0947870423
Publisher: Gold Cockerel Books
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Smallholdings
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"Engineering Rock Mechanics Illustrative Worked Examples"
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Hudson, J. A. (ed.) Contains illustrative worked examples of engineering rock mechanics in action as the subject applies to civil, mining, petroleum and environmental engineering. This book covers the necessary understanding and techniques supporting the rock engineering design of structural foundations, dams, rock slopes, wellbores, tunnels, caverns and mines. With tables, index. Hardback, 524 pages. Size: 170 x 250 mm. Weight: 1194g.
Author: (Harrison, John P., ed.)
ISBN: 0080430104
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Date: 2001 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Soil & Rock Mechanics (Pt. 2)
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"Expansive Soils"
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Dealing with expansive soil fundamentals and problems and solutions, this work gives a worldwide perspective of the problems and solutions associated with expansive soils. It serves as a useful reference for engineers, researchers and (graduate) students working on expansive soils, soil improvement and foundation engineering. With 317 black & white illustrations, 110 black & white tables, 47 black & white halftones, 270 black & w. Hardback, 544 pages. Size: 246 x 174 mm. Weight: 1092g.
Author: (Al-Rawas, Amer Ali, ed.)
ISBN: 0415396816
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Soil & Rock Mechanics
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"Geotechnics of Soft Soils"Focus on Ground Improvement
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The motivation of the 2nd International Workshop on Geotechnics of Soft Soils, organised by the AMGISS network (3-5 September 2008, Glasgow, Scotland), was to bring together practitioners and academics to discuss recent developments in soft soil modelling, focussing on ground improvement. This volume is a collection of papers from the workshop. Hardback, 456 pages. Size: 246 x 174 mm. Weight: 989g.
Author: (Karstunen, Minna, ed.)
ISBN: 0415475910
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Soil & Rock Mechanics
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"The Mechanics of Soils and Foundations"
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Suitable for undergraduates of geotechnical engineering for civil engineers, this textbook sets out the basic theories of soil mechanics; combining both classical and critical state theories. It describes soil behaviour by relatively simple equations with clear parameters. It also includes experimental demonstrations to illustrate the principles. With 32 black & white tables. N.e of 2r.e. Paperback, 480 pages. Size: 246 x 174 mm. Weight: 848g.
Author: Atkinson, John H.
ISBN: 0415362563
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Undergraduate Soil & Rock Mechanics
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"Soil Mechanics"
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Written with the university student in mind and packed full of pedagogical features, this book provides an integrated and comprehensive coverage of both introductory and advanced topics in soil mechanics.It includes:worked examples to elucidate the technical content and facilitate self-learning a convenient structure (the book is divided into sections), enabling it to be used throughout two, three and four year undergraduate courses univerally applicable contents through the use of SI units throughout, frequent references to current international codes of practice and refereed research papers new and advanced topics that With illustrations. Paperback, 468 pages. Size: 233 x 158 mm. Weight: 795g.
Author: Aysen, A.
ISBN: 0415383935
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Soil & Rock Mechanics
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"Soil Mechanics"Principles and Practice
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Providing basic principles of soil mechanics for undergraduate students of civil engineering, this new edition has features such as Euro code and key concepts boxes, and case studies. Necessary changes have been made to conform with changing British Standards. With illustrations. 2rev ed. Paperback, 512 pages. Size: 246 x 189 mm. Weight: 953g.
Author: Barnes, G.E.
ISBN: 033377776X
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Date: 2000 (UK)
Readership: Undergraduate Soil & Rock Mechanics
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"Explosives Engineering"
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This graduate text, and Cooper's companion introductory text ('Introduction to the Technology of Explosives'), serve the same markets as the explosives reference by Meyer, now in its 4th edition. With illustrations. Hardback, 480 pages. Size: 242 x 160 mm. Weight: 762g.
Author: Cooper, P.W.
ISBN: 0471186368
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Date: 1996 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Soil & Rock Mechanics
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"Craig's Soil Mechanics"
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Soil Mechanics assembles all the essential elements of an undergraduate course, leading from the properties of soils and basic theory through to practical applications such as retaining structures and foundations. With 243 figures, 44 tables, 1 b&w photo. 7 rev ed. Paperback, 464 pages. Size: 246 x 174 mm. Weight: 816g.
Author: Craig, R.F.
ISBN: 0415327032
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Soil & Rock Mechanics
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"Advanced Soil Mechanics"
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Presenting a guide to various aspects of the soil mechanics, this book is illustrated with mathematical derivations and diagrams. It is intended not only for upper-level undergraduate and graduate level students of civil engineering, engineering mechanics, and soil mechanics, but also as a reference for professionals working in these fields. With 62 black & white tables, 362 black & white line drawings. 3 rev ed. Hardback, 600 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 1059g.
Author: Das, Braja M.
ISBN: 0415420261
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Soil & Rock Mechanics
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"Designers' Guide to En 1997-1 Eurocode 7"Geotechnical Design - General Rules
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Presents a guide to the Geotechnical Design Eurocode. This book gives insight into a code that provides a comprehensive design philosophy that is not only applicable to various forms of geotechnical problems but also shares a common philosophy with the design methodology for structures of commonly encountered construction materials. With illustrations. Hardback, 232 pages. Size: 297 x 210 mm. Weight: 933g.
Author: Frank, R. Bauduin, C. Driscoll, R. Kavvadas, M. Ovesen, N. Krebs Orr, T.L.L. Schuppener, B.
ISBN: 0727731548
Publisher: Thomas Telford Ltd
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Soil & Rock Mechanics
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