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  • Basic Structures

    by Philip Garrison ...
    Basic Structures provides the student with a clear explanation of structural concepts, using many analogies and examples. Real examples and case studies show the concepts in use, and the book is well illustrated with full colour photographs and many line illustrations, giving the student a thorough grounding in the fundamentals and a 'feel' for the way buildings behave structurally. With many ... Read more

    $54.00 USD

  • What That Pig Said to Jesus

    On the Uneasy Permanence of Immigrant Life

    by Philip Garrison ...
    Philip Garrison says his book of essays is “in praise of mixed feelings,” particularly the mixed feelings he and his neighbors have toward the places they came from. His neighborhood is the Columbia Plateau, one of many North American nodes of immigration. Following a meandering, though purposeful trail, Garrison catches hillbillies and newer Mexican arrivals in ambiguous, wary encounters on a set ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Augury

    by Philip Garrison ...
    Series series
    Set primarily in Mexico and the American Northwest, yet equally at home with Achilleus on the Trojan plains or with Walt Whitman in his New Jersey home, these fifteen essays pass back and forth across international boundaries as easily as they cross the more fluid lines separating past and present. Part biography, part history, Augury is also something of a writer’s journal, a guide to Garrison’s ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Pipeline Planning and Construction Field Manual

    by E. Shashi Menon ...
    The objective of this book is to provide engineers with the necessary tools and techniques for formulating plans, designs, cost estimates and specifications for pipeline construction and field maintenance and modernization programs. Packed with easy to read and understand tables, pipeline schematics, bullet lists and "what to do next" checklists. This easy to use book covers the design, ... Read more

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  • Hybrid Cultures

    Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity

    by Nestor Garcia Canclini ...
    Translated by Christopher L. Chiappari, Silvia L. Lopez ...
    When it was originally published, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies. This now-classic work features a new introduction in which Nestor Garcia Canclini calls for a cultural politics to contain the damaging effects of globalization and responds to relevant theoretical developments over the past decade.Garcia Canclini questions whether Latin America can compete in a ... Read more

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  • Introduction To Coastal Engineering And Management (2nd Edition)

    by J William Kamphuis ...
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  • Bracero Railroaders

    The Forgotten World War II Story of Mexican Workers in the U.S. West

    by Erasmo Gamboa ...
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  • Grace For The Moment Daily Bible, NCV

    Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado

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    Spend a year reading the Bible with Max Lucado! In this Bible, Max Lucado will guide you through the Scripture day-by-day, with daily readings from the Old and New Testaments, Psalms, and Proverbs, plus a devotional insight. ... Read more

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  • Black Spokane

    The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest

    by Dwayne A. Mack ...
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    In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington, with the overwhelming support of a majority-white electorate. Chase’s win failed to capture the attention of historians—as had the century-long evolution of the black community in Spokane. In Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest, ... Read more

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