Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 2013
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers Vol. 178, 2013 contains abstracts for all ASCE journal and periodical papers and technical notes, Civil Engineering - ASCE feature...
A Short History of the Twentieth Century By John Lukacs. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2013
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be: Climate Change and Energy Scarcity By Jorg Friedrichs. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2013
Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination By Joyce Appleby. New York City: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013
Love & Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality By Edward Frenkel. New York City: Basic Books, 2013
Geo-Congress 2014 Technical Papers and Keynote Lectures
Proceedings of the 2014 Geo-Congress, held in Atlanta, Georgia, February 23-26, 2014. Sponsored by the Geo-Institute of ASCE. GSP 234, Geo-Congress...
The Solution Revolution: How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society's Toughest Problems By William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2013
Trapped under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles into the Darkness By Neil Swidey. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2014
A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for Urban America By Vishaan Chakrabarti. New York City: Metropolis Books, 2013
22 Ideas to Fix the World: Conversations with the World's Foremost Thinkers Edited by Piotr Dutkiewicz and Richard Sakwa. New York City: New York University Press, 2013
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway By Doug Most. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2014
Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation By Adam Bryant. New York City: Times Books, 2014
Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever By Maude Barlow. New York City: The New Press, 2014
The Lost Art of Finding Our Way By John Edward Huth. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2014
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality By Max Tegmark. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013
Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences By Jane Hyun and Audrey S. Lee. New York City: Harper Business, 2014
Twilight of Abundance: Why Life in the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish and Short By David Archibald. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2014
Sustainable Development — A Geotechnical Perspective
Sustainability has become a key factor in major construction projects these days, and many geotechnical engineers have started focusing on the concept. Owners, public agencies, and the...
Reliability and Resilience — Essential Ingredients of Sustainable Geotechnics
Sustainability of a system is its ability to survive and retain its functionality over time. In very simple terms, sustainability deals with the capacities (resistances) and demands (loads)...
Strategies for Building and Sustaining a Successful Engineering and Consulting Company
This third article in the Business of Geotechnics series addresses stragegies for building and sustaining an engineering and consulting (E&C) company that employs geoprofessionals....
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