Household CEO: Home Economics for Everyone is both a common sense manual and a pep talk on the importance and value of assuming responsibility for your household, no matter what stage of life you are in. The book covers a broad range of topics, beginning with how to approach the housing market, a topic especially important as many potential homebuyers face a high price of entry, high interest rates, and low inventory. The book then pivots to more everyday issues such as understanding how a...

The definitive guide to distribution and transmission line technology--fully updatedCompletely revised to reflect the 2012 National Electrical Safety Code (NESC), The Lineman's and Cableman's Handbook, 12th Edition, provides in-depth information on overhead and underground distribution and transmission lines. The latest OSHA, ANSI, and ASTM standards are emphasized throughout.This authoritative resource presents basic principles, equipment, standards, and safety ...

Tybee Island is a tiny piece of land, only-two-and-a-half miles long and two-thirds of a mile wide; however, its strategic location near the mouth of the Savannah River assigned to it an important role in the birth and history of the state of Georgia. Over this coastal community five flags have flown, representing Spain, France, England, the Confederate States of America, and the United States of America. Using numerous vintage photographs from the archives of the Tybee Island Historical S...

The definitive guide to distribution and transmission line technology―fully revised for the latest standardsThoroughly updated to reflect the 2023 National Electrical Safety Code® (NESC®), this classic resource explains the principles and practices of electric transmission and distribution line construction, operation, and maintenance. You will get comprehensive coverage of the newest equipment, techniques, and procedures along with current OSHA, ANSI, and ASTM reg...

The definitive guide to distribution and transmission line technology―fully revised for the latest standardsThoroughly updated to reflect the 2017 National Electrical Safety Code® (NESC®), this authoritative resource explains the principles and practices of electric transmission and distribution line construction, operation, and maintenance. You will get comprehensive coverage of the newest equipment, techniques, and procedures along with current OSHA, ANSI, and AS...

A Compact, On-the-Job Reference for Linemen and CablemenFully updated with the latest NEC and OSHA standards, this one-stop portable guide contains the crucial electrical data, formulas, calculations, and safety information essential at any jobsite. The Lineman's and Cableman's Field Manual, Second Edition, provides easy-to-follow details on constructing, operating, and maintaining both overhead and underground electric distribution and transmission lines....

Ten Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1950sThe Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick -Ed had always been a practical man, when he saw something was wrong he tried to correct it. Then one day he saw it hanging in the town square.The Water Eater by Winston Marks -Most experiments were dropped because they failed, some because they worked too well!Death Star by James McKimmy Jr. -

German Home Towns is a social biography of the hometown Bürger from the end of the seventeenth to the beginning of the twentieth centuries. After his opening chapters on the political, social, and economic basis of town life, Mack Walker traces a painful process of decline that, while occasionally slowed or diverted, leads inexorably toward death and, in the twentieth century, transfiguration. Along the way, he addresses such topics as local government, corporate economies, and co...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 1 thru 5 marks the beginning of an extraordinary journey into the Golden Age of science fiction. These five unforgettable stories introduced readers to the imagination, suspense, and bold ideas that would become the foundation of the Lost Sci-Fi collection.Philip K. Dick opens with The Hanging Stranger, a gripping tale of paranoia and quiet terror where one ordinary man notices something horrifying that everyone e...

This anthology brings together 20 texts which were vital in forging the United States and its constitution as we know it.Since the founding of the republic, great thinkers and politicians have set out their visions for America through formal documents, impassioned speeches and momentous treaties. This collection includes some of the most important works that helped define the country that America was to become.Politicians like George Washington, Benjamin Fr...

An approach to reinvigorating economic competition that doesn’t break up corporate giants, but compels them to share their technology, data, and knowledge“Bessen is a master of unpacking the nuances of a complex array of interrelated trends to build a coherent story of how the promise of the democratized Internet ended up under the control of just a few. Read The New Goliaths to see how the forest came to have only room for a few tall trees with th...

With a new chapter in the history of baseball currently being written in Washington, DC, every fan ought to know about history of baseball in the nation's capital. This book examines the unique relationship between presidents and baseball, the long and intense rivalry of the congressional baseball, and the Washington Senators.