"Construction Site Management and Labor Productivity Improvement: How to Improve the Bottom Line and Shorten the Project Schedule provides common-sense management practices that are easy to implement to avoid events leading to productivity and schedule degradation. With more than 70 years of combined experience, Thomas and Ellis have monitored more than 200 active construction projects measuring labor productivity, calculating losses of ..."
"Every day, engineers and managers are called upon to understand and execute the terms of construction contracts. Often times these professionals have little or no legal training and find themselves relying upon intuition, common sense or hearsay - with possibly unfortunate and expensive results.In ""Interpreting Construction Contracts"", Thomas and Ellis seek to rescue these contractors, project managers, and contract administrators str ..."
5th ICEG - Environmental Geotechnics Opportunities, Challenges and Responsibilities for Environmental Geotechnics (2 volume set) by H.RandolphThomas, Hywel R. Thomas Hardcover, 1,658 Pages, Published 2006 by Thomas Telford Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-7277-3474-7, ISBN: 0-7277-3474-1
"This set of books presents the proceedings of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering's (ISSMGE) 5th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, held in Wales, UK in June 2006. The congress brings together practitioners, academics and the public sector to highlight the latest ideas and developments in environmental geotechnics and related fields.The congress was organised by the Geoenvironmental ..."
"Geoenvironmental engineering issues are of increasing importance around the world. This international trend is apparent in the UK government's active encouragement of the use of brownfield sites for urban development to ease the pressure on the countryside. This book contains the collected papers from the 2nd Geoenvironmental Engineering Conference, organised by the British Geotechnical Society and Cardiff University's Geoenvironmental ..."
"Thomas and Ellis provide detailed, straightforward management practices to improve construction site activity and reduce losses in labor productivity from the most common site challenges."
"What are some advantages of using satellite imagery, relative to the use of aerial photography? Can you identify disadvantages ... Landsat's Enduring Legacy: Pioneering Global Land Observations from Space. Bethesda, MD: American Society ..."
"This exclusive anthology, Bold Thinking on Investment Management, provides the collective wisdom of the most penetrating minds in the investment industry. Nobel Laureates Harry M. Markowitz and Clive W.J. Granger, and towering figures in finance such as John C. Bogle, Dean LeBaron, Martin L. Leibowitz, and Peter L. Bernstein use their decades of successful market experience to identify turning points in the industry's past, present, ..."
"This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work ..."
""Essentials of Corporate Finance, 7th Edition" by Ross, Westerfield, and Jordan is written to convey the most important concepts and principles of corporate finance at a level that is approachable for a wide audience. The authors retain their modern approach to finance, but have distilled the subject down to the essential topics in 18 chapters. They believe that understanding the 'why' is just as important, if not more so, than understa ..."
" Traces the sources of power and large-scale organization of prehistoric peoples among Archaic societies. By focusing on the first instances of mound building, pottery making, fancy polished stone and bone, as well as specialized chipped stone, artifacts, and their widespread exchange, this book explores the sources of power and organization among Archaic societies. It investigates the origins of these technologies and their effects on ..."
Dispensations (Many Voices Project) by RandolphThomas Paperback, 174 Pages, Published 2014 by New Rivers Press ISBN-13: 978-0-89823-304-9, ISBN: 0-89823-304-6
"Dispensations pitches teens and adults with drug and alcohol problems against aging and ill-prepared parents. Thomas's characters test the boundaries of family responsibility. Blind to each other's needs and feelings, they are haunted by visions of what their lives might have been and might still be."Without the slightest hint of sentimentality [Thomas evokes] a great, unspoken compassion for all who are broken, lost, or forgotten."--J ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts:Gregory J. Wolos Boy Strangling Goose But the terrifying, breathtaking span of those spread wings had stopped Reilly dead--he couldn't even raise his cane against the wild thing's attack. Andra Nicolescu The Dead Romanians have this weird thing about the dead, you see. Until the twenty-first century, we kept them in our living rooms. We couldn't let them go. Who wants t ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts:Ingrid HillPavilionA tent maker has just completed a job for the army, the construction of several officers' tents for field maneuvers. He is carrying brown canvas, a color just a little too rich, a little too beautiful, for the army. But dye lots are irregular. What can one do? Jennifer Anne MosesDuty FreeHe remembered a time when he was maybe eleven or twelve when he' ..."
"An anthology of new short fiction by award-winning and emerging authors, this intimate collection celebrates writing and honors the writer. The editors-two sisters from Oregon-choose stories that are beautifully written, readable, and emotionally affecting. Each collection is also visually satisfying with handsome cover art and story illustrations, and unusual author profiles. Excerpts can be found at glimmertrain.com, but please ..."
The Deepest Rooms (The Gerald Cable Book Award Series) by RandolphThomas Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2015 by Silverfish Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-878851-65-9, ISBN: 1-878851-65-9
"Poetry. This accomplished first collection of poems by Randolph Thomas announces itself in rich poetic narrative and character invention, well-wed in the art of the persona, which has too often been rendered as unmasked autobiography in much of the poetry of the second decade of the twenty-first century. We can happily detect a sweet new sound in the work of Randolph Thomas, a young master in full career. -- Michael Heffernan"