If you find yourself doing the quick pocket pat-down known as the Engineer's Check...

If you use a MathCAD analogy to explain the birds and the bees to your teenager...

If you are so steeped in structural parameters that you chortle over inappropriate variables...

If you watched The Sopranos just for the bridges pictured in the opening montage...

... you are a candidate for Brian Brenner's latest collection of humorous essays that celebrate life as a practicing civil engineer. In this book you'll learn valuable skills, like egosurfing and how to use...