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Hardcover: 2394 pages
Publisher: Society for Mining Metallurgy & Exploration; 2 Revised edition (April 20, 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0873351002
ISBN-13: 978-0873351003
Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 9 x 3.5 inches
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Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #352,428 in Books

he SME all-time bestseller 2-volume set is a classic. This comprehensive reference work distills the entire body of knowledge that characterizes mining engineering as a disciplinary field. While it may serve as a textbook for advanced students, its primary function is to provide professional practitioners with an authoritative reference and design source. To a lesser extent, the book also serves mining nonprofessionals who seek technical knowledge of the industry.

The books devote attention to all branches of mining–metal, coal, and nonmetal–and to all locales of mining–surface, underground, and hybrid. Although the main emphasis is US mining, numerous references are made to international practice.
More than 250 experts contributed to this text. The books contain 25 sections followed by a complete index.

This highly regarded reference is relied on by a considerable part of the accounting profession in their day-to-day work. This handbook is the first place many accountants look to find answers to practice questions. Its comprehensive scope is widely recognized and relied on. It is designed as a single reference source that provides answers to all reasonable questions on accounting and financial reporting asked by accountants, auditors, bankers, lawyers, financial analysts, and other preparers and users of accounting information.

About the Authors

Ray Whittington, PhD, CPA, CMA, CIA, is the Dean of the College of Commerce at DePaul University. Prior to joining the faculty at DePaul, Professor Whittington was the Director of Accountancy at San Diego State University. From 1989 through 1991, he was the Director of Auditing Research for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and he previously was on the audit staff of KPMG. He was a member of the Auditing Standards Board of the AICPA and has previously served as a member of the Accounting and Review Services Committee and the Board of Regents of the Institute of International Auditors. Professor Whittington has published numerous textbooks, articles, monographs, and continuing education courses.

Lynford Graham, CPA, PhD, CFE is a Certified Public Accountant with more than 25 years of public accounting experience in audit practice and national policy development groups. He was a Partner and the Director of Audit Policy for BDO Seidman, LLP, and was a National Accounting & SEC Consulting Partner for Coopers & Lybrand, responsible for the technical issues research function and database, auditing research, audit automation and audit sampling techniques. Prior to joining BDO Seidman LLP, Dr. Graham was an Associate Professor of Accounting and Information Systems and a Graduate Faculty Fellow at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, where he taught primarily financial accounting courses. Dr. Graham is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and a recent past member of the AICPA Auditing Standards Board. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner and a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Throughout his career he has maintained an active profile in the academic as well as the business community. In 2002 he received the Distinguished Service Award of the Auditing Section of the AAA. His numerous academic and business publications span a variety of topical areas including information systems, internal controls, expert systems, audit risk, audit planning, fraud, sampling, analytical procedures, audit judgment, and international accounting and auditing. Dr. Graham holds an MBA in Industrial Management and PhD in Business and Applied Economics from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School).

For Any Climate, in Any Situation

Newly updated to reflect the latest in survival knowledge and technology, the internationally bestselling SAS Survival Handbook is the definitive resource for all campers, hikers, and outdoor adventurers. From basic campcraft and navigation to fear management and strategies for coping with any type of disaster, this complete course includes:

Being prepared: Understanding basic survival needs and preparing essentials, such as a pocket survival kit.
Making camp: Finding the best location, constructing the appropriate shelter, organizing camp, and creating tools.
Food: What to eat, what to avoid, where to find it, and how to prepare it.
First aid: A comprehensive course in emergency/wilderness medicine, including how to maximize survival in any climate or when injured.
Disaster survival: How to react in the face of increasingly frequent natural disasters and hostile situations—and how to survive at home if all services and supplies are cut off.
Understand that this book is exactly what the cover says it is. It’s for surviving any climate in any situation.
If you’re looking to figure out how to survive a 7-day black-out at your house, this book would cover that. HOWEVER, understand that’s not the intent here. This book is directed toward people who are trying to stay alive and stay reasonably healthy in the wilderness until a rescue team arrives. It’s really for people who are trying to survive the most extreme situations.
In contrast, most folks who experience “survival situations” in suburbia are trying to figure out how to keep the hot showers running, etc. The concept of this Survival Handbook is much more raw than that, and may not be useful to you if you’re looking for how to stay fat and comfy with your DirecTV running.

Mirroring the growth and direction of science for a century, the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, now in its 91st edition, continues to be the most accessed and respected scientific reference in the world, used by students and Nobel Laureates. Available in its traditional print format, the Handbook is also available as an innovative interactive product on CD-ROM and online. This year’s edition adds many new tables and major revisions …
For the electronic version of the Handbook, go to the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, CD-ROM 2010
NEW AND UPDATED TABLES FOR THIS EDITION
Section 6: Fluid Properties
– New tables on thermophysical properties of selected fluids at saturation and on the dependence of liquid density on temperature and pressure
– Major updates for tables on the density of water and properties of ice and D2O
– Major update and expansion of the table on critical constants of organic compounds
Section 8: Analytical Chemistry
– Major updates for tables on the ionization constants of water and heavy water
Section 9: Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy
– Updates for tables on atomic radii of the elements, bond dissociation energies, and spectroscopic constants of diatomic molecules
Section 10: Atomic, Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy
– Major update for the table on atomic transition probabilities (added new elements) and updates for tables on electron affinities and atomic and molecular polarizabilities
Section 12: Properties of Solids
– New table on electron stopping powers of elements
Section 13: Polymer Properties
– New tables on abbreviations in polymer science and on physical properties of polymers
The benchmark of scientific reference since the days of Einstein, Eddington, and Planck, no book is held to a higher standard than the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Perpetually vetted for misspellings, miscalculations, misperceptions, and misnomers, it is republished every year, so no mistake needs to be long abided, no enhancement long awaited.

The job of editing the Handbook requires not only one who is relentless, driven to perpetually push the level of accuracy one more decimal point, but also one who is humble enough and smart enough to understand that the Handbook, like science itself, is a living, changing thing, and that it is both a record of achievement and a foundation for further improvement of that record. Until this year, the Handbook has been guided through 90 editions by just four editors. The last, David Lide, guided the book through 20 editions. Perhaps most importantly, Dr. Lide guided the Handbook into the electronic age, overseeing the creation and the continual improvement of interactive web and CD versions that have now become staples in every research library of note.

Get Deep into the Field of Excavation-Planning, Practice, and Safety
Excavation Systems Planning, Design, and Safety is a thorough guide to ensuring your projects are completed correctly, safely, and cost effectively. Concisely written and presented in an easy-to-navigate format, this comprehensive guide arms you with the most current information available. New developments and trends, along with numerous design examples, illustrations, and important OSHA requirements and other legal issues, provide everything you’ll need to excel in your field. Ideal for anyone involved in the trade, this indispensable resource brings you up to date on all the critical aspects of your job.

Includes:

• Shoring Designs Standards
• Best Practices in Safety Planning
• Techniques for Protecting Subsurface Utilities
• Soil Classification
• Soil Loading on Shoring Systems
• OSHA Standards
• Information on Equipment

From the forward of this book:
“….This book is intended to serve as a first introduction to excavation work for any person at any level of education, age, and experience who is new to excavation issues in his or her work.
For those engineers and construction managers interested in focusing their practice around excavation-related construction engineering, I would like to offer some encouragement. The exciting thing about this work is that engineering design, start to finish, usually takes days to weeks, not months and years. The design process is much different than for permanent projects. The concept is originated by contractors, and the approval process is many times limited to the project design engineer, again taking a very short time. In most cases the project is funded and already under construction, with the overall project cost being in the millions while the shoring design cost is insignificant in comparison to the project cost and the shoring cost. This means that the shoring design engineer’s experience and ability to make things happen fast is far more important than the design fee. Construction of the design is usually started within weeks and sometimes completed and removed within weeks. There is a shortage of e gineering firms specializing in construction engineering….”

Excavation Systems Planning, Design, and Safety covers:

• Overview of Excavation Safety
• Excavation Work Planning
• Subsurface Installations and Outside Force Damage Protection
• Soil Dynamics from an Excavation Perspective
• Soil Loading for Protective System Designo Open Cut Protective Systems
• Excavation Safety Systems Equipment Design and Use
• Legal Issues
• Understanding OSHA Excavation Safety Standardso Full Commentary on OSHA Subpart P Excavations
• • Glossary of Terms

For seventeen years and through two editions, this Handbook has been the indispensable “bible” for every serious student of leadership. This third edition reflects the growth and changes in the study of leadership since the 1981 edition. There have been shifts in both content and method. Senior managers, for example, have become an increasing subject of inquiry. Distinctly separate fields of inquiry, such as political science and psychology, have been joined in this edition to build a broader appreciation of the phenomenon of leadership. Throughout the Handbook, the contributions from cognitive social psychology and the social, political, communications, and administrative sciences have been expanded.
As in the second edition, Bernard Bass begins with a consideration of the definitions and concepts used, and a brief review of some of the better-known theories. Professor Bass then focuses on the personal traits, tendencies, attributes, and values of leaders and the knowledge, intellectual competence, and technical skills required for leadership. Next, he looks at leaders’ socioemotional talents, interpersonal competencies, and the differences in these characteristics in leaders who are imbued with ideologies, especially authoritarianism, Machiavellianism, and self-aggrandizement. A fuller examination of the values, needs, and satisfactions of leaders follows, and singled out for special attention are competitiveness and the preferences for taking risks. In his chapters on personal characteristics, Bass examines the esteem that others generally accord to leaders as a consequence of the leaders’ personalities. The more general examination of the personal factors associated with leadership has been extensively reorganized and expanded, and increased attention has been paid to knowledge, information, and intellectual ability, as well as to power and political tactics.
The many developments in theory and research about charisma since 1974 have now made possible an entire chapter devoted to charismatic and inspirational leadership. Bass argues that a new paradigm of leadership — transformational leadership — has arisen that makes possible the inclusion of a much wider range of phenomena than when theory and modeling are limited to reinforcement strategies.
Studies of women increased dramatically during the 1980s. Accordingly, Chapter 32 on women and leadership has been considerably expanded over the chapter in the second edition. Completely new to this edition are studies by European and Japanese investigators on the accelerating internationalization of management.
Finally, a glossary has been included in this edition to assist specialists in a particular academic discipline who may be unfamiliar with terms used in other fields.

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A good overview on knowledge needed in the construction industry.
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