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  • Book cover of Memoir of Mrs. Julia H. Scott
  • Book cover of Memoir of Mrs. Julia H. Scott
  • Book cover of Secrets of Successful Writing
  • Book cover of I Love You ... I Love You More!

    A happy and successful marriage doesnt just happen. It requires communication and a plan. In I Love You I Love You More!, author Robert H. Scott Jr. presents ten insights that will help couples enjoy a happy and successful marriage and satisfying life. Based on his experiences during his nearly forty-five-year marriage to his wife, Sandra, who died after a battle with cancer, Scott communicates the qualities of a sound marriage. In I Love You I Love You More!, he discusses ten important insights against the backdrop of the issues every marriage faces during the cycle of life, including: Living life day by day Addressing the joys and challenges of children and marriage Understanding how careers affect marriage Growing old Dealing with illness and death Tackling legal issues As Scott reflects on his marriage to the love of his life, he imparts valuable insights to all couples seeking meaningful and satisfying relationships.

  • Book cover of Assessing Crown Fire Potential by Linking Models of Surface and Crown Fire Behavior
    Joe H. Scott

     · 2001

    Fire managers are increasingly concerned about the threat of crown fires, yet only now are quantitative methods for assessing crown fire hazard being developed. Links among existing mathematical models of fire behavior are used to develop two indices of crown fire hazard-the Torching Index and Crowning Index. These indices can be used to ordinate different forest stands by their relative susceptibility to crown fire and to compare the effectiveness of crown fire mitigation treatments. The coupled model was used to simulate the wide range of fire behavior possible in a forest stand, from a low-intensity surface fire to a high-intensity active crown fire, for the purpose of comparing potential fire behavior. The hazard indices and behavior simulations incorporate the effects of surface fuel characteristics, dead and live fuel moistures (surface and crown), slope steepness, canopy base height, canopy bulk density, and wind reduction by the canopy. Example simulations are for western Montana Pinus ponderosa and Pinus contorta stands. Although some of the models presented here have had limited testing or restricted geographic applicability, the concepts will apply to models for other regions and new models with greater geographic applicability.

  • Book cover of The History and Philosophy of Social Science

    Scott Gordon provides a magisterial review of the historical development of the social sciences from their beginnings in renaissance Italy to the present day.

  • Book cover of Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Goods and Services

    Environmental life cycle assessment is often thought of as cradle to grave and therefore as the most complete accounting of the environmental costs and benefits of a product or service. However, as anyone who has done an environmental life cycle assessment knows, existing tools have many problems: data is difficult to assemble and life cycle studies take months of effort. A truly comprehensive analysis is prohibitive, so analysts are often forced to simply ignore many facets of life cycle impacts. But the focus on one aspect of a product or service can result in misleading indications if that aspect is benign while other aspects pollute or are otherwise unsustainable. This book summarizes the EIO-LCA method, explains its use in relation to other life cycle assessment models, and provides sample applications and extensions of the model into novel areas. A final chapter explains the free, easy-to-use software tool available on a companion website. (www.eiolca.net) The software tool provides a wealth of data, summarizing the current U.S. economy in 500 sectors with information on energy and materials use, pollution and greenhouse gas discharges, and other attributes like associated occupational deaths and injuries. The joint project of twelve faculty members and over 20 students working together over the past ten years at the Green Design Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, the EIO-LCA has been applied to a wide range of products and services. It will prove useful for research, industry, and in economics, engineering, or interdisciplinary classes in green design.

  • Book cover of Drunk Driving and Related Vehicular Offenses
  • Book cover of Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering

    Accompanying DVD-ROM contains many realistic, interactive simulations.

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