Bridges Books

The author's selection of these thirty bridges offers readers an insight into modern bridge design...many of the bridges are truly unique and stunningly beautiful. The gorgeous photographs and intelligently written text make this the best book of its kind that I have ever read. Must reading for every structural engineer!

The author has put together an elaborate study of 30 unique and interesting modern bridges. The discussion of each is quite detailed and often very technical but nonetheless very informative and well supported by beautiful photographs and elaborate diagrams. For anyone who has an interest in modern bridges this is an eye-opener. For the few of us who travel with bridges as destinations, this is a wonderful guide for future trips.

Wow, Dr David Yonggi Cho
This is an incredible book. This book totally help me go deeper into God and realize how much the church is held back by fear. This book opens you up to the Super natural power of God and his being. Higly recommended!

4TH DIMENSIONAL LIVING IN A 3 DIMENSIONAL WORLD is eye-opening. Dr. Cho, the modest pastor from South Korea gives the keys to exercising and growing your dynamic faith and living victoriously in this powerful book. Cho is known around the world for growing a of more than 1 million members. He is less known for his fresh, revelatory insightful books of faith, wisdom and teaching.

4th Dimensional Living challenges the believer by bringing him face-to-face with the Word of God and the power of God available in daily living. The fullness of the power of God is available to every believer at all times in all places. If the faithful were to REALLY believe Christ when He promises that you can have what you say, their lives would be transformed, their walk turned upward, and faith taken to a higher level.

The "fourth dimension" Cho refers to is not time (Einstein) but a spiritual dimension where God dwells, beyond the three dimensions in which we live. We have access to that dimension by faith. Cho teaches that we can operate in that realm by thinking, faith, dreaming, and words.

All things are really possible with God.

This book is a shockingly accurate description of a friend of
mine. She is "The Troll" that Terry Cooper describes. After
reading this book, I highly recommend it to anyone who knows a
Troll. Trolls are highly secretive and avoid-ann-t. They don't
like non-Trolls knowing much about them. Specific chapters such
as "The Problem with Troll-Killing," "Accepting the Troll" and
"Crossing the Bridge" are excellent therapy. Finally, although
Trolls have bulbous noses and fat ankles...they make the best
friends. Good luck "crossing the bridge" - you'll need it!

I am a therapist in MA who specializes in women's issues, codependency, dissociative disorder, PTSD, all of which involve self-esteem problems. Dr. Cooper's book uses a gentle, humorous, nonjudgemental approach to help people understand their thoughts and reactions and offers solutions to make things better. I've been buying this book in quantities to make it readily available to my patients who are taking in its message and feeling better quicker! This book complements DBT group work and other cognitive behavioral approaches. Please don't ever let it go out of print!

I'm amazed that every single recipe I've tried from The Best of Bridge series has turned out fantastic. The recipes are all relatively easy and the results are always impressive. I can't say that about most of the cookbooks I own!

This entire series is fantastic. The recipes are simple enough that those who are kitchen inept can prepare them and delicious enough to please the most sophisticated palate. I especially like the way the books are laid out: the font simulates handwriting as though someone's mom has passed along a favorite recipe and there are lots of great photos so that the end products can be easily envisioned. These recipes circulate endlessly among my friends and are a favorite with my bookclub. Definitely worth buying, for yourself and others!

The illustrations in this book are just beautiful, and the book is both educational and lots of fun. Kids LOVE the chants/sing-alongs, especially the one where they get to howl like wolves. This book would be great for anyone teaching kids about Alaska animals.

I was very impressed with this book, however it cannot truly be appreciated without seeing the art, so it's too bad the cover isn't displayed on this site. The CD makes it extra fun for kids. A worthwhile investment!
Jane

From back cover:

"Taking you from world championship tournaments to big-money rubber bridge games, this book puts you at the table as thousands of dollars (or a world title) change hands on the turn of a card. In the smoke-filled rooms of London and New York, characters such as Harry the Horse, Moonbeam, Godzilla, and Hannibal the Cannibal play for high stakes. World Championships hang in the balance in Chile, Italy, and Bali. In the jet-set resorts of Europe the top pros play invitational money tournaments with millionaire sponsors. Share the favorite bridge memories of one of the world's best, as Zia Mahmood takes you 'Around the World in 80 Hands.'"

although what else would you expect from Zia, one of bridge's great personalities? A highly entertaining book full of interesting hands and interesting people.

A college 'writer's course' in one little volume. Concise, well written, enjoyable read . . . an indespensible tool for anyone seriously considering professional writing with style. Should be a mandatory text in any competent university's humanities department.

Ever notice that How To Write books don't practice what they preach? More than a few are badly written, boring, pedantic, and mechanical. Not this book. Here's an extremely well written book, a lively, entertaining AND learned presentation. Even better, it's short, witty, and to the point. This is the best writing book around.. It ranges from just what good writing is , to how the masters engage their readers. It showcases beautiful writing. But also gets down to the basics of how to add to your writing skills and details useful tools of the trade such as Anadiplosis (starting a clause with the last word of the proceeding clause), Anaphora (starting a sequence of clauses with the same word), Anastophe (inversion of normal word order for effect), ...(that's just the start of the A's). Beautiful, inspiring and useful.

This book should come with warnings of possible back injury due to improper lifting :) It's a physics library you can carry on your back. A must have for all physics majors!

The AMOP Handbook has been a treasured tool back at the lab. This text is invaluable whether your need results from course work or understanding research. Buy it now!

I hadn't played bridge in 45 years, and I wasn't very good even then. Audrey's book presents a clear and well-organized introduction to bidding and playing, with many good example hands with explanations.

Grant's series goes from beginning bridge players to medium skilled. A wonderful, easy to read and understand series.

I purchased this book for an Advanced Materials Science course I was taking and I found that not only was it extremely useful for my paper but it was also a great read. This book goes through the events and gives quite a bit of detail on what happened and why. The book goes through transcripts from the inquiry after the disaster which I found interesting. The event was photographed pretty extensively and the author goes through the pictures and tells you what to look for and why.

The rail disaster at the Tay bridge shocked the whole world in 1879: it was the longest bridge in the world, and collapsed during a storm, taking a passenger train to its doom. There were no survivors. This new evaluation of the tragedy shows why it occurred, and counters all previous speculation that it was the storm which caused the accident. In fact, the bridge was badly designed, and built on the cheap. Perfectly good bridges had been built of cast iron columns braced with wrought iron by Eiffel in France, and still carry trains to this day. The Tay bridge started to suffer irreparable damage of its joints from the day that it carried trains, and the author shows that metal fatigue played a key role in its deterioration. The final catastrophe occurred when the damaged joints reached criticality, and over half a mile of the bridge fell with the train. The lessons learnt gave birth to the magnificent Forth Bridge, which like the Booklyn bridge, remain ikons of engineering skill to this day.