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 The Hoover Dam (Building America: Then and Now)
The time was the early 1930s, the president was Herbert
Hoover, and the situation in the United States looked bleak.
The stock market had crashed in 1929, and most Americans were
hurt by the Great Depression, which left a majority of them jobless,
homeless, and penniless. But in the West, a beacon of hope
was in the... | | Design Secrets: Products: 50 Real-Life Product Design Projects
The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) had compelling
reasons to partner with Rockport Publishers on this book: It
meets a growing, real, and broad hunger for information and in-
spiration on industrial design.
Recently, industrial design has emerged as a profession that ... | | Courts and Trials: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)
Courts are governmental institutions that serve important functions for society, including dispute processing, policymaking, and the enforcement of rules. Courts have a profound effect on people within their jurisdiction, especially individuals subjected to a civil lawsuit or a criminal prosecution. When legal cases... |
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Accounting Best Practices (Wiley Best Practices)
The accounting department is a cost center. It does not directly generate revenues, but, rather, provides a fi xed set of services to the rest of the company, and is asked to do so at the lowest possible cost. Consequently, the accounting staff is called on to process transactions, write reports, create new processes, or investigate old... | | Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator Residues (Studies in Environmental Science)
The International Ash Working Group (IAWG) was established in 1989 to conduct an
in-depth review of the existing scientific data and develop a state-of-knowledge treatise
on MSW incinerator residue characterisation, disposal, treatment and utilisation. The
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