Bridge Design is one-of-a-kind book that helps for preparing bridge design questions on the engineering licensing exams. It provides a concise summary of bridge design principles for different types of loads, using five examples to illustrate the concepts tested on the PE and SE exams

Public budgets are essentially a repetitive game, played every year by some of the most important people in every country

The TOEFL iBT is designed to assess English proficiency in non-native speakers who want to achieve academic success as well as effective communication. The purpose of the speaking section is to evaluate student's ability to speak coherently on their opinions and experiences as well as on information that they have read or heard

The texts provide a comprehensive overview of biofuels in Brazil, its research and development processes, as well as its main economic, environmental and social advantages

The fiction book aims to tell a macabre story of the most notorious criminal revealing the truth of killing his victim to a journalist - Irene Kelly.

After one triumph and one flop, Mafia loanshark-turned Hollywood producer Chili Palmer (last seen in Get shorty) is desperate for another hit ... of the celluloid sort. And when a similary relocated former mob associate takes a hit of the bullet-in-the brain variety while they

A biography of the noted statesman and inventor, featuring excerpts from his letters, pamphlets, essays, scientific papers, and autobiography.

The life of ten-year-old Jess in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with newcomer Leslie, and they create the imaginary land of Terabithia where they rule as king and queen, until a terrible tragedy occurs. Includes a reader’s guide with discussion questions.

Taking its title from that jokingly chosen by her father for his unwritten autobiography, Boys Will Be Boys dips in and out of Suleri Goodyear's upbringing in Pakistan and her life in the United States, moving between public and private history and addressing questions of loss and cultural displacement through a resolutely comic lens

A unsolved thirty-year old murder draws the victim