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A Comprehensive Guide to Facility Piping Systems

Fully up-to-date with the latest codes and standards, this practical resource contains everything you need to plan, select, design, specify, and test piping systems for industry, commercial, and institutional applications. The book includes complete coverage of pipes, fittings, valves, jointing methods, hangers, supports, pumps, tanks, and other required equipment.

Facility Piping Systems Handbook, Third Edition, progresses from fundamentals of systems operation to a design procedure that allows quick and...

In celebration of the founding of the Russian fleet by Peter the Great, The Dutch Coastal Cruising Association undertook a 4,800 European odyssey in 1994 that culminated in sailing the Russian inland waters between Archangel and the Baltic Sea. Fifteen sailboats hosted by the Archangel Yacht Club, became the first Western-flagged pleasure boats allowed on this militarily strategic waterway. The author crewed aboard Tiota and proudly flew the Stars and Stripes from her port spreader, heralding an American aboard. Whereas emerging "New Russians" viewed our fleet as a vanguard for future boat...

In celebration of the approaching 21st century, the author joined the 46-foot ketch Hornblower II in a 'round-the-world rally. The British-sponsored Millennium Odyssey started in 1998 with a flame-lighting ceremony in the Old City of Jerusalem and ended on Easter Day 2000 at the Vatican. There, rally organizer Jimmy Cornell presented Pope John Paul II a lantern with the flame carried around the world from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The author recounts his east-west voyage along the "coconut milk run" through the Panama Canal, across the Pacific, Indian, and South Atlantic oceans, then...

Ace the Journeyman and Master Plumbing Exams

Featuring more than 400 practice questions and answers, Plumber's Licensing Study Guide, Third Edition, provides everything you need to prepare for and pass the Journeyman and Master Plumber's licensing exams on the first try. This practical, up-to-date resource is filled with study tips, detailed illustrations, calculations, conversion tables, and troubleshooting points. Both metric and U.S. units are included throughout. Fully revised for the 2012 International Plumbing Code and 2012 Uniform Plumbing Code, this careerbuilding guide...

Mit dem Lonely Planet Provence & Côte d'Azur auf eigene Faust durch eine  Region voller Farbe, Genuss und Inspiration!

Etliche Monate Recherche stecken im Kultreiseführer für Individualreisende. Die Autoren geben sachkundige Hintergrundinfos zum Reiseland, liefern Tipps und Infos für die Planung der Reise, beschreiben alle interessanten Sehenswürdigkeiten und präsentieren ihre persönlichen Entdeckungen und Tipps. Auch Globetrotter, die abseits der ausgetretenen Touristenpfade unterwegs sein möchten, kommen...

A behind-the-scenes look at the underlying roles of each player in a mergers and acquisitions transaction
Mergers and Acquisitions Dealmaker explores the roles of the buyers and sellers involved in mergers and acquisitions as well as executive management, line management, and the corporate development team. Now in a second edition, this book provides readers with a "behind the scenes" look into the roles, approaches, and motivations of each key player in a strategic transaction, and provides strategies on building a successful team. Providing a unique insight into the various...

The wicked pen of John D. Frankel strikes again. The long-awaited sequel to The Heretofore Un-Tolled History of the Independent Republic of Harvey Markson has finally arrived.

Readers who enjoyed Frankel's first novel, a witty existential tour of life inside the brokerage houses and investment banks of Toronto's Bay Street, will revel in this clever sequel with its familiar layers of tongue-in-cheek narrative, droll humor, and incisive portraits of The Street's by now famous denizens, including one Zygmunt Adams. "Zyg," Harvey Markson's closest friend and...

The concept of identity has gained increasing currency in international relations scholarship, but it offers too many vague and imprecise definitions of the concepts that stand at its very core. Most of this scholarship does not go beyond the mere assertion that identity is important and that somehow, in one way or another, it plays a role in how many states define and pursue their national interests. As a consequence many scholars have argued that the identity school had little to offer, and that norms and institutions offered explanations similar to those drawn from identity. This text...

The concept of identity has gained increasing currency in international relations scholarship, but it offers too many vague and mimprecise definitions of the concepts that stand at its very core. Most of this scholarship does not go beyond the mere assertion that identity is important and that somehow, in one way or another, it plays a role in how many states define and pursue their national interests. As a consequence many scholars have argued that the identity school had little to offer, and that norms and institutions offered explanations similar to those drawn from identity. This text...